Player roles · Premier League

The best strikers in the Premier League

Put the ball in the net. Judged mostly on goals and shots on target, with a little credit for setting others up. Players appear here because they spent most of their minutes in this role, whatever position their club lists them in, and each is compared only with the other strikers.

What a striker is judged on

Average match rating25%
Goals per 9035%
Shots on target per 9020%
Goals per shot10%
Assists per 9010%

For each measure we find the player’s percentile among the strikers on this board, then take the weighted average. A score of 70 means that, on these measures, the player is ahead of about 70% of the league’s strikers. How roles are decided.

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18 strikers with at least 270 minutes after 6 matchweeks of 2026/27. Early in a season the board moves a lot from week to week. The small number beside each figure is the player’s percentile in this role.

#	Player	Mins	Score	Rating25%	G/9035%	SoT/9020%	Conv %10%	Ast/9010%
1	João Pedro Chelsea	432	94	7.83100	1.04100	1.2571	50%100	0.63100
2	E. Haaland Manchester City	530	87	7.6194	1.0294	1.87100	30%76	0.0032
3	A. Isak Liverpool	415	84	7.4088	0.8788	1.5294	33%85	0.0032
4	B. Brobbey Sunderland	401	72	7.0876	0.6782	1.1259	38%94	0.0032
5	T. Barry Everton	505	64	6.8044	0.5376	1.4388	19%53	0.0032
6	N. Jackson Aston Villa	379	62	7.2282	0.4765	0.9547	20%62	0.0032
7	D. Calvert-Lewin Leeds	511	60	6.8044	0.5371	1.2365	33%85	0.0032
8	Emersonn Ipswich	392	57	6.8153	0.4659	0.9241	20%62	0.2382
9	K. Havertz Arsenal	501	56	6.8865	0.3647	1.2676	18%47	0.0032
10	C. Kostoulas Brighton	416	50	6.7835	0.4353	1.0853	14%41	0.2276
11	J. Strand Larsen Crystal Palace	384	41	6.7729	0.2329	1.4182	13%32	0.0032
12	Evanilson Bournemouth	515	38	6.9171	0.1712	0.5218	13%32	0.5294
13	N. Okafor Leeds · 63% here, also AM	374	37	6.8359	0.2435	0.240	25%71	0.0032
14	Matheus Cunha Manchester United · 82% here, also WING	505	32	6.7024	0.1824	0.7135	10%21	0.3688
15	L. Delap Nottingham Forest	349	26	6.6918	0.2641	0.5212	9%12	0.0032
16	Gonzalo García Fulham	514	17	6.350	0.1818	0.7029	10%21	0.0032
17	Thiago Brentford	533	12	6.386	0.176	0.6824	8%6	0.0032
18	O. McBurnie Hull City	532	11	6.6812	0.000	0.516	0%0	0.1771