With the campaign officially done and dusted, we look back on it by picking our Premier League Team of the Season for 2025-26.
The 2025-26 Premier League season has now finished. A campaign that began on Friday 15 August 2025 contained 380 matches, 1,045 goals, 9.503 shots, 273,956 successful passes, 12,671 tackles and 44 red cards. It ended with Arsenal as champions and West Ham, Burnley and Wolves relegated.
With the season done and dusted, we’ve analysed the performances of every player and picked our Opta Analyst Team of the Season. These 11 players have been selected after performing better than any other player in their respective position according to the data…
GoalkeeperDavid Raya (Arsenal)
The title-winning goalkeeper makes our 2025-26 Premier League team of the season, with William Saliba complements Gabriel Magalhães’ physicality with composure and elegance.
The Frenchman was dribbled past on just seven occasions in the Premier League this season. Of defenders to play as many minutes as Saliba, only Virgil van Dijk (two) and Ezri Konsa (four) were beaten fewer times by an opponent.
In possession, he was equally assured. Saliba completed 92.9% of his passes across the 2025-26 Premier League campaign, the third-best accuracy of any player to attempt at least 2,000 passes.
Alongside Gabriel, he formed the foundation of the league’s strongest defence. Among centre-back pairings to start together more than five times in 2025-26, Saliba and Gabriel recorded comfortably the best clean sheet rate. Arsenal kept 15 clean sheets in their 26 league starts together, averaging one every 1.7 games.
Centre-BackGabriel Magalhães (Arsenal)
One half of the Premier League’s most formidable centre-back partnership, Dominik Szoboszlai’s season may have ended rather disappointingly with reigning champions Liverpool only managing a fifth-place finish – 25 points off winners Arsenal – but his own performances were impressive.
Renowned for his exceptional long-range shooting, the Hungarian scored a joint-high four goals from outside the box in the Premier League this season, with no other player recording as many shots from outside the area as he did (52). All four of those goals came via direct free-kicks – both the most of any player in 2025-26 and the most by a Liverpool player in a single campaign in the competition.
He was also a creative threat for Arne Slot’s side, especially from set plays. Only one player created more chances from set-pieces (37) than Szoboszlai in the Premier League this season, while he also made the most successful crosses (69) across the competition.
Central MidfielderDeclan Rice (Arsenal)
Bruno Fernandes broke the Premier League seasonal assist record in 2025-26, with his 21st coming on the final day versus Brighton & Hove Albion. His 21 assists edged out the 20 goals created by both Thierry Henry (2002-03) and Kevin De Bruyne (2019-20).
His creative excellence wasn’t just restricted to goal assists, though. The Manchester United captain created 136 chances for his teammates this season, 58 more than any other Premier League player. On record since 2003-04, only Mesut Özil in 2015-16 (146) has created more in one season.
The Portuguese also topped the league rankings for open-play chances created (98) and expected assists (12.3).
Fernandes was involved in 30 goals overall in 2025-26 (9 goals, 21 assists), equalling his career-high tally from 2020-21 in the Premier League, while he equalled the record for the most assists from set-pieces in a Premier League campaign (11), tying Steven Gerrard’s effort from 2013-14.
Attacking MidfielderRayan Cherki (Manchester City)
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