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Every player across all 20 Premier League squads, ranked by overall rating. 558 players were considered; the top 50 are below.
Perfect Eleven is a free browser game: a wheel spins to a random Premier League club and you pick one player from it, building a starting XI from all 20 squads. Chemistry rewards a side that fits together — so the best players don't always make the best team.
▶ Build your XI freeThe single overall rating decides the order — no per-position curves, no separate attacking and defending scores. Ratings are editorial: a base computed from 2025-26 league finish and the player's role, then hand-adjusted per player and maintained through the transfer window. Players who share a rating are listed together; the cut at 50 is presentation — the full pool lives on the position pages below.
| # | Player | Pos | Club | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erling Haaland | FWD | Man City | 96 |
| 2 | Bruno Fernandes | MID | Man United | 95 |
| 3 | Alisson | GK | Liverpool | 94 |
| 4 | Florian Wirtz | MID | Liverpool | 94 |
| 5 | Declan Rice | MID | Arsenal | 93 |
| 6 | Bukayo Saka | FWD | Arsenal | 93 |
| 7 | Virgil van Dijk | DEF | Liverpool | 93 |
| 8 | Rodri | MID | Man City | 93 |
| 9 | William Saliba | DEF | Arsenal | 92 |
| 10 | Martin Ødegaard | MID | Arsenal | 92 |
| 11 | Viktor Gyökeres | FWD | Arsenal | 92 |
| 12 | Emiliano Martínez | GK | Aston Villa | 92 |
| 13 | Alexander Isak | FWD | Liverpool | 92 |
| 14 | Rúben Dias | DEF | Man City | 92 |
| 15 | Gabriel Magalhães | DEF | Arsenal | 91 |
| 16 | Cole Palmer | MID | Chelsea | 90 |
| 17 | Gianluigi Donnarumma | GK | Man City | 90 |
| 18 | Joško Gvardiol | DEF | Man City | 90 |
| 19 | David Raya | GK | Arsenal | 89 |
| 20 | Kai Havertz | FWD | Arsenal | 89 |
| 21 | Jurriën Timber | DEF | Arsenal | 88 |
| 22 | Martín Zubimendi | MID | Arsenal | 88 |
| 23 | Gabriel Martinelli | FWD | Arsenal | 88 |
| 24 | Tijjani Reijnders | MID | Man City | 88 |
| 25 | Phil Foden | MID | Man City | 88 |
| 26 | Sandro Tonali | MID | Tottenham | 88 |
| 27 | Piero Hincapié | DEF | Arsenal | 87 |
| 28 | Mikel Merino | MID | Arsenal | 87 |
| 29 | Eberechi Eze | MID | Arsenal | 87 |
| 30 | Ryan Gravenberch | MID | Liverpool | 87 |
| 31 | Alexis Mac Allister | MID | Liverpool | 87 |
| 32 | Dominik Szoboszlai | MID | Liverpool | 87 |
| 33 | Cody Gakpo | FWD | Liverpool | 87 |
| 34 | Omar Marmoush | FWD | Man City | 87 |
| 35 | Elliot Anderson | MID | Man City | 87 |
| 36 | Moisés Caicedo | MID | Chelsea | 86 |
| 37 | Morgan Rogers | MID | Chelsea | 86 |
| 38 | Mateo Kovačić | MID | Man City | 86 |
| 39 | Jérémy Doku | FWD | Man City | 86 |
| 40 | Lisandro Martínez | DEF | Man United | 86 |
| 41 | Bryan Mbeumo | FWD | Man United | 86 |
| 42 | Bruno Guimarães | MID | Newcastle | 86 |
| 43 | Riccardo Calafiori | DEF | Arsenal | 85 |
| 44 | Amadou Onana | MID | Aston Villa | 85 |
| 45 | Ollie Watkins | FWD | Aston Villa | 85 |
| 46 | Enzo Fernández | MID | Chelsea | 85 |
| 47 | Hugo Ekitiké | FWD | Liverpool | 85 |
| 48 | Abdukodir Khusanov | DEF | Man City | 85 |
| 49 | Rayan Cherki | FWD | Man City | 85 |
| 50 | Antoine Semenyo | FWD | Man City | 85 |
Three clubs supply 38 of the 50 highest-rated players in the league. Arsenal have 15, Manchester City 14, Liverpool 9. Chelsea have four, Manchester United three, Aston Villa three, Tottenham and Newcastle one each — and twelve of the twenty Premier League clubs have nobody here at all.
That concentration is the single most important fact about this season's ratings, and it holds across every position. Arsenal place players in the top 30 at goalkeeper, defence, midfield and forward. So does Manchester City. No other club manages it.
The top of the list is more evenly spread than the body of it. Haaland leads at 96, Bruno Fernandes follows at 95, and Alisson at 94 is the highest-rated goalkeeper by some distance — three players from three clubs before the pattern reasserts itself.
A wheel that lands on Arsenal or Manchester City is worth roughly three times what a wheel landing on a mid-table club is worth, measured in top-50 players available. But raw rating is not the whole game: an XI drawn from fifteen different clubs scores badly on chemistry no matter how high the individual numbers are, so the highest-rated player available is regularly the wrong pick.
Use this list to know what the ceiling looks like, then read how scoring actually works before you chase it.
Who is the highest rated player? Erling Haaland at 96.
How many players were considered? 558 across all 20 squads; the top 50 are shown.
Which club has the most top-50 players? Arsenal, with 15, narrowly ahead of Manchester City on 14.
Every player carries one overall rating, editorial rather than fed from a stats API: formula-based on 2025-26 league finishes and role, then hand-adjusted and maintained against club announcements through the transfer window. The same numbers drive the draft, the Club Power Rankings and how your XI is graded.