Who are the best-performing players across Europe’s top five leagues this season? We’ve turned to their WhoScored ratings to find out.
WhoScored‘s comprehensive system of player ratings is based on a whole host of stats, which give an indication of who’s playing well and who’s not.
As the season progresses, we’ll be keeping track of the top 10 highest-rated players in Europe’s top five leagues. Right now, there’s only one from the Premier League…
Just the five goals from three games since the international break for Haaland.
His efforts in the Champions League, where he scored a brace against PSG, don’t count towards his average here, which is just based on league games here.
But they’re still further evidence of how much he’s finding his rhythm. As if he ever lost it. He last failed to score in a City game on the opening day of the season.
Now the joint-top scorer in the Bundesliga along with, erm, Niclas Fullkrug, Schick has gone six from six so far.
Weirdly, he hasn’t been the highest-rated player in any of his games so far this season and yet his average is enough for him to sneak into this top 10.
It’s been a mixed start to the season for Werder Bremen, but Austrian midfielder Grull has stood out.
He both scored and assisted, with a man-of-the-match rating, as they defeated RB Leipzig and Augsburg at the Weser Stadium. Grull even came out of their opening weekend 4-1 tonking at Freiburg with credit, earning an 8.01 match rating in the heavy loss.
He was the highest-rated player against Borussia Dortmund when they got back from the international break.
Toulouse midfielder Casseres returns to the top 10, mainly thanks to his five assists.
Casseres is yet to miss a minute this season for Toulouse, where he’s in his fourth season.
Mbappe’s personal pleas to win the 2026 Ballon d’Or haven’t convinced everyone, but mission 2027 starts now.
A hat-trick against Real Sociedad in Madrid’s second game of the season showed Mbappe means business after a summer in which he became the World Cup’s leading scorer of all time.
The French forward has also scored braces against Rayo Vallecano and Sevilla, the latter helping him creep up on the leaders here.
Quite simply incredible last season and seeing little reason to change that, Kane has four goals and five assists so far in the Bundesliga this season.
He got a goal and two assists against RB Leipzig at the weekend. It was his second consecutive league game with two assists. He really can do it all.
Try saying that name in a hurry.
Stuttgart lost their last two matches before the break, but Mittelstadt received a man-of-the-match rating in both of them. It wouldn’t be a massive shock to see the 29-year-old Germany international move on in the summer if the Swabians regress to the mean and fail to qualify for Europe again.
By last season’s standards, Olise had a bit of a quiet start to 2026-27. Just one goal and zero assists in their first three Bundesliga outings of the campaign, which included a goalless draw at newly-promoted Schalke and a narrow 2-1 victory over minnows Elversberg.
But his 10.0 masterclass in the Champions League against Bodo/Glimt (two goals and an assist) hinted that last term was no flash in the pan. He remains one of Europe’s most devastating, elite forwards. A hat-trick and another 10.0 rating in a 7-0 mauling of Union Berlin catapulted him into the top five, and a goal-and-assist performance against RB Leipzig lifted him higher into the top three.
Back in January, we declared Raphinha the best player in the world, asking the question:
“Is there another player in world football who can claim to elevate their team as much as Raphinha? In a collective sport, isn’t that the most important thing?”
That take didn’t age all that well, as the Brazilian suffered a frustratingly injury-ravaged latter half of the 2025-26 campaign and struggled to make an impact at the World Cup as a result.
But look at him now. After being converted into a striker, Raphinha has been on fire this season. Twelve(!) goals and three assists in La Liga so far, averaging a goal contribution every 38 minutes.
Even when he failed to find the net for the first time this season, Raphinha set up two goals in Barca’s 4-2 win over Levante. And then returned with back-to-back hat-tricks. He is the top scorer across Europe.
Quite simply, Yamal is taking his game to new levels this season. Eight goals and six assists in La Liga from just nine games. Not since August has he played in a Barcelona game without contributing to a goal.
And yep, he’s still only 19. This lad is ridiculous. He has completed the most dribbles across Europe.
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