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Top 20 Best Premier League Midfielders 2026

Updated 7 October 2026 · ratings change when a squad does, form arrows daily

Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) is the best Premier League midfielder in our 2026-27 ratings: 95, the highest of the 195 midfielders we rate and one point clear of Florian Wirtz. Top five: Bruno Fernandes 95, Florian Wirtz 94, Declan Rice 93, Martin Ødegaard 92, Cole Palmer 90.

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How we rank

Every midfield profile, from holding players to No.10s, sits on one scale and one list, ordered by overall rating. The number is an editorial judgement of the player, not a count of goals or chances created, which is why a holding midfielder can sit above a more eye-catching attacker.

The number changes only when we update the squad data: moves come from the official Fantasy Premier League data, and a new signing carries a provisional rating, estimated from his FPL price, until it is reviewed by hand. Players on the same rating are level; the list shows them club by club, A to Z. The same base numbers drive the draft, the power rankings and how your XI is graded.

The ▲ or ▼ beside a rating, when one shows, is something else: his in-game form today, worked out once a day from his club’s last four Premier League matches (goals, assists, clean sheets, FPL’s match score and more) and capped at eight points either way. It moves his rating inside the game, never the number or the order on this page (how form works). How our ratings are made.

The tiers

Midfield has five players rated 90 or above, against five defenders, four forwards and three goalkeepers. Bruno Fernandes at 95 tops it — the ratings judge a player’s whole game rather than his goal tally.

Florian Wirtz at 94, Declan Rice at 93 and Martin Ødegaard at 92 come next: different kinds of midfielder on nearly the same number. One scale covers every midfield role, so compare players within the role as well as by the rating.

The 85–88 band is where the league’s midfield depth lives: eighteen players, four each from Arsenal and Manchester City and three from Liverpool.

What this means for your draft

There are 195 rated midfielders, and this top thirty comes from nine of the twenty clubs. Below it the drop is gradual — the thirtieth-best midfielder is rated 83 and the sixtieth 79 — so a weaker midfield pick costs you a few points, while a mistake at goalkeeper, where you pick only one, is harder to recover from.

Granit Xhaka at 85 is the outlier worth knowing: the only Sunderland player in this top thirty, so a spin on Sunderland still offers a top-thirty midfielder.

Common questions

Who is the highest rated midfielder? Bruno Fernandes at 95, the second-highest rating of any player in the league.

Why can a holding midfielder out-rate an attacking one? The rating is a judgement of a player’s overall quality, not a count of goals or assists, so a midfielder who does everything well can sit above one whose output is easier to see.

How many midfielders are rated? All 195 across the 20 squads.