Which player has the most assists in Premier League history? We look at this record plus many more in our statistical overview of assists in the competition.
Who Has the Most Premier League Assists?
Ryan Giggs – 162 Kevin De Bruyne – 119 Cesc Fàbregas – 111 Wayne Rooney – 103 Frank Lampard – 102 Dennis Bergkamp – 94 David Silva – 93 Steven Gerrard – 92 James Milner – 89 Mohamed Salah – 87 David Beckham – 80 Christian Eriksen – 77 Teddy Sheringham – 75 Thierry Henry – 74 Ashley Young – 74As a creative player who has 632 Premier League appearances under his belt, it’s probably unsurprising that Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs tops the list of leading Premier League assisters.
The Welshman provided 162 assists over his Premier League career, which is 43 more than the next best, Kevin De Bruyne. The Belgian creator leads the charts in terms of non-British players, with his last assist in the competition coming against Crystal Palace on 12 April 2025. De Bruyne left Manchester City at the end of the 2024-25 season to join Napoli, so will not have a chance to threaten Giggs’ all-time record.
De Bruyne became the fifth player to hit 100 assists in the competition on 8 April 2023 with his cross for Erling Haaland away at Southampton.
The only current Premier League player near the 100-assist landmark is James Milner (89). Even 39-year-old Milner would accept that age isn’t on his side to reach the century, though.
Third in the rankings is Cesc Fàbregas, who tallied his 111 Premier League assists across 350 games for Arsenal and Chelsea.
The only other players to reach the century of assists in the Premier League are Wayne Rooney (103) and Frank Lampard (102).
Who Has the Most Premier League Assists for a Single Club?
Ryan Giggs – 162 for Manchester United Kevin De Bruyne – 118 for Manchester City Dennis Bergkamp – 94 for Arsenal David Silva – 93 for Manchester City Wayne Rooney – 93 for Manchester United Steven Gerrard – 92 for Liverpool Frank Lampard – 90 for Chelsea Mohamed Salah – 86 for Liverpool David Beckham – 80 for Manchester United Thierry Henry – 74 for Arsenal Son Heung-Min – 71 for Tottenham Hotspur Cesc Fàbregas – 70 for Arsenal Darren Anderton – 68 for Tottenham Hotspur Trent Alexander-Arnold – 64 for Liverpool Matt Le Tissier – 63 for SouthamptonOf course, as a one-club man during his career, it’s obvious that Ryan Giggs’ 162 Premier League assists also leads this category. He’s joined in the top 10 by former Man Utd teammates Wayne Rooney (93) and David Beckham (80). But there are some interesting differences in the rankings.
Kevin De Bruyne ranks second with his 118 assists for Man City. His reached his century of Premier League assists for City 15 April 2023, when Pep Guardiola’s side defeated Leicester City at the Etihad Stadium – the landmark was reached thanks to creating Haaland’s second goal of the match.
His first assist in the competition came in a Chelsea shirt in their win over Hull City at Stamford Bridge. This assist for Oscar’s goal was the first goal scored in José Mourinho’s second spell as Blues manager.
Dennis Bergkamp has assisted the sixth-most goals in Premier League history overall, but his 94 assists all came for Arsenal in the competition. This means his tally is the third-highest for a single club in the competition.
Cesc Fàbregas has assisted the third-most goals in the Premier League overall (111), but 70 of these came at Arsenal, with the other 41 coming in a Chelsea shirt.
Steven Gerrard’s 92 Premier League assists all came for Liverpool, meaning he’s one of only 10 players to have assisted 70+ goals exclusively for one club.
Who Has the Most Assists in a Single Premier League Season?
20 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2019-2020 – Thierry Henry in 2002-0319 – Mesut Özil in 2015-1618 – Mohamed Salah in 2024-2518 – Frank Lampard in 2004-0518 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2016-1718 – Cesc Fàbregas in 2014-1517 – Cesc Fàbregas in 2007-0816 – Eric Cantona in 1992-9316 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2017-1816 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2022-23
In 2019-20, Kevin De Bruyne finally ended a 17-year wait for someone to equal Thierry Henry’s phenomenal tally of 20 Premier League assists in 2002-03.
While the Belgian’s overall output that season was excellent with 13 goals to add to his 20 assists, it wasn’t as impressive as Henry’s 2002-03 campaign, when the French forward added 24 goals to his 20 assists.
Mesut Özil led the way for assists in 2015-16, with 19 for his Arsenal teammates in 35 top-flight appearances. Sixteen of these came in his first 18 games of that season, with the German international midfielder set to absolutely smash Henry’s previous record of 20. But the final 17 appearances that campaign only yielded three more assists, including one on the final day in a 4-0 win over Aston Villa.
Özil’s 2015-16 tally was two more than he ever managed in a season at La Liga club Real Madrid, with his 17 assists in 2010-11 and 2011-12 the best he managed in Spain.
Mohamed Salah ended 2024-25 as the leading assist-maker with 18 as he helped Liverpool win their second Premier League title. He fell two short of becoming just the third player to tally at least 20 in a Premier League campaign, however.
Who Has the Most Assists in a Premier League Game?
What’s better than a hat-trick of assists? Well, more than three in a game, probably.
We’ve only witnessed eight occasions of a player assisting four goals in a single Premier League match, with Jérémy Doku’s four assists (on top of a goal scored) for Man City in their 6-1 win over Bournemouth on 4 November 2023 being the first since Paul Pogba’s quadruple for Man Utd against Leeds United in 2021-22.
The first six occasions between the inaugural 1992-93 season to 2020-21 all came from either an Arsenal player (four) or from someone playing for Spurs (two).
Players with 4 Assists in a Premier League Game
Dennis Bergkamp – Arsenal vs Leicester City (20 February 1999)José Antonio Reyes – Arsenal vs Middlesbrough (14 January 2006)Cesc Fàbregas – Arsenal vs Blackburn Rovers (4 October 2009)Emmanuel Adebayor – Tottenham Hotspur vs Newcastle United (11 February 2012)Santi Cazorla – Arsenal vs Wigan Athletic (14 May 2013)Harry Kane – Tottenham Hotspur vs Southampton (20 September 2020)Paul Pogba – Manchester United vs Leeds United (14 August 2021)Jérémy Doku – Manchester City vs Bournemouth (4 November 2023)
Of the eight players listed above, Doku, Fàbregas, Adebayor and Kane also scored a goal in this match – meaning they were involved in five goals in total in that performance.
This isn’t a record for goal involvements in a single game, with both Jürgen Klinsmann (Spurs vs. Wimbledon in May 1998) and Alan Shearer (Newcastle vs. Sheffield Wednesday in September 1999) having six goal involvements in those appearances.
Who Has the Most Premier League Assists Without a Goal?
Bet you didn’t open this article and expect to read about Alan Kimble, did you? Well, you’re here and this is happening.
Wikipedia tells us that Kimble “was known to get to the byline and lump the ball upfield to the strikers”. Well, it worked, as he assisted 24 goals in the Premier League for the Dons. And yet he never scored one.
Who is the Youngest Player to Assist a Premier League Goal?
Two 16-year-olds have assisted a Premier League goal since the competition began in 1992.
Wayne Rooney may be one of only four players to have assisted over 100 Premier League goals, but he was beaten to the youngest record by Aaron Lennon by 98 days.
Lennon assisted a goal in Leeds United’s defeat to Arsenal at Elland Road in November 2003 while aged just 16 years and 199 days old. This eclipses Rooney’s assist for Everton against Spurs in August 2002 when he was only 16 years, 297 days old.
Who is the Oldest Player to Assist a Premier League Goal?
We could have given you 100 guesses to correctly get the oldest player to ever assist a goal in the Premier League, and we’re very confident you wouldn’t have picked it right.
Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar assisted a goal for Manchester United in their February 2011 meeting at Old Trafford with Aston Villa when aged 40 years, 95 days old – the oldest assister for a goal in the history of the competition. This was the Dutchman’s only Premier League assist, coming in his last of 10 seasons as a player in the competition.
On the subject of goalkeepers, Ederson has assisted the most goals in the Premier League of all goalkeepers (seven)… but he hasn’t scored one, unlike this list of six goalkeepers to have netted in the Premier League.
Former England international Teddy Sheringham is the oldest outfielder to assist a goal in the Premier League, setting up a teammate in West Ham United’s game with Wigan Athletic back in March 2006 at 39 years, 357 days old – just shy of his 40th birthday.
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