Y. Ayari

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

In 2026/27, Y. Ayari was used in rotation for Brighton in the Premier League: 4 appearances and 334 minutes, averaging 84 minutes per outing. The number that flatters him most is match rating — 464th of 978 midfielders and inside the top 47%.

Per 90 minutes that is 0.8 key passes per 90, 0.0 assists per 90 and 1.1 ball recoveries per 90 — the rate profile behind Ayari's totals. The profile is lopsided rather than complete: measured against midfielders, Ayari sits in the top 16% for tackling volume but only the top 58% for shot conversion.

Set against Ayari's own record, 2026/27 reads differently: his 4 goals beats anything in the 5 earlier seasons we hold for him (best before: 3); his average match rating has risen from 6.76 to 7.13 since 2025/26. Our records cover 5 seasons of Ayari's career, 2022/23 to 2026/27, across 4 clubs — AIK Stockholm, Brighton, Coventry, Blackburn. In that time he has played 139 matches across 7 competitions, 7,717 minutes in all.

His best return on our records was 3 assists in 2025/26, from 32 appearances. He is 7 appearances into the current one. Away from his club, Ayari has 17 appearances for Sweden on our records, scoring 4 — across World Cup - Qualification Europe, UEFA Nations League and World Cup.

Treat these rates carefully. At 334 minutes — roughly 4 full matches — Ayari is 566 short of our 900-minute qualifying floor, so he does not appear on the ranking boards: on a sample this size two good afternoons move a per-90 number further than a month of steady form.

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.