J. Tarkowski

Tarkowski's 2026/27 season, read from the numbers

In 2026/27, J. Tarkowski was used in rotation for Everton in the Premier League: 5 appearances and 450 minutes, averaging 90 minutes per outing. His standout number is match rating — 58th of 905 defenders and inside the top 6%.

Per 90 minutes that is 2.2 tackles per 90, 2.8 interceptions per 90 and 83% of his duels won — the rate profile behind Tarkowski's totals. Tarkowski played 231 passes at 83% accuracy — 46.2 per 90, which is the volume that decides whether a side builds through him or around him.

Set against Tarkowski's own record, 2026/27 reads differently: he is playing far less than he once did — 540 minutes against 3420 at his peak; his average match rating has slipped from 7.16 to 6.97 since 2025/26. Our records cover 11 seasons of Tarkowski's career, 2016/17 to 2026/27, across 2 clubs — Burnley, Everton. In that time he has played 381 matches across 5 competitions, 32,848 minutes in all.

His best season on our records was 2023/24, when he averaged 7.29 across 45 appearances. On our positional score Tarkowski rates 53 out of 100, 28th of 304 qualified players — inside the top 10%. Relative to what each component is worth, his strongest is interceptions.

How these scores are built, and the minutes and rating floors a player must clear to appear on our boards, are set out in our methodology.