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The Best Premier League Midfielders (2026-27)

Ratings as of 12 September 2026 · updated with every squad change

All 195 midfielders across the 20 Premier League squads, ranked by overall rating. The top 30 are below.

How the ranking works

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. How our ratings are made.

Top 10 Midfielders in the Premier League (2026)

The full top 30: 11 to 30

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.

How these ratings work

Every player carries one overall rating, editorial rather than fed from a stats API: set player by player and reviewed by hand as squads change. The same numbers drive the draft, the power rankings and how your XI is graded.