Squad

Derby County squad 2026/2027

Championship · 12 matches played

Derby County's 2026/2027 squad, ranked by minutes played. Compare goals, assists, xG, xA and expected goal involvement across the squad.

Top scorer 3 Sammie Szmodics · from 1.58 xG

Most xG 2.25 Bobby Clark · 3 goals

Most xA 1.58 Joe Ward · 0 assists

Most xGI 3.52 Bobby Clark · 2.25 xG + 1.27 xA

What the squad numbers say

Bobby Clark leads the squad for expected goal involvement, with 3.52: 2.25 expected goals and 1.27 expected assists. The top scorer is Sammie Szmodics, with 3 goals from 1.58 expected goals. Joe Ward leads the squad for expected assists, with 1.58, against 0 assists.

Expected goals

Expected assists

1 Joe Ward 1.58
2 Bobby Clark 1.27
3 Oscar Fraulo 1.00

Expected goal involvement

Goals above xG

Bobby Clark +0.75

3 goals · 2.25 xG

Goals below xG

No player in the sample below is below his xG.

Taken over players with at least 180 minutes and 2.00 expected goals, so the gap is measured against chances actually taken rather than against one afternoon of them.

The squad

Every player with a season at this club: appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists and the chances behind them.
Player	POS	APP	MIN	SH	G	xG	G−xG	CONV	npxG
Bobby Clark	Midfielder	12	1011	30	3	2.25	+0.75	10%	2.23
Dion Sanderson	Defender	11	932	2	0	0.81	−0.81	0%	0.63
Sammie Szmodics	Forward	11	847	27	3	1.58	+1.42	11%	1.61
Sondre Langås	Defender	10	822	2	0	0.15	−0.15	0%	0.11
Ryan Hedges	Defender	11	728	6	0	0.91	−0.91	0%	0.90
Alex Mowatt	Midfielder	9	727	3	0	0.09	−0.09	0%	0.10
Joe Ward	Midfielder	10	725	3	0	0.10	−0.10	0%	0.10
Jacob Widell Zetterström	Goalkeeper	8	720	1	0	0.02	−0.02	0%	0.02
Charlie Taylor	Defender	8	711	2	0	0.04	−0.04	0%	0.05
Carlton Morris	Forward	8	685	13	1	1.29	−0.29	8%	1.43
David Ozoh	Midfielder	8	608	6	0	0.41	−0.41	0%	0.39
Mohammed Fuseini	Forward	7	413	9	1	0.43	+0.57	11%	0.30
Oscar Fraulo	Midfielder	8	387	6	0	0.54	−0.54	0%	0.69
Josh Vickers	Goalkeeper	4	371	0	0	0.00	0.00	—	0.00
Lewis Travis	Midfielder	5	368	2	0	0.06	−0.06	0%	0.05
Ryan Nyambe	Defender	6	358	0	0	0.00	0.00	—	0.00
Rhian Brewster	Forward	9	308	5	0	0.20	−0.20	0%	0.19
Henrik Wendel Meister	Forward	7	307	9	0	0.83	−0.83	0%	0.77
Lars-Jørgen Salvesen	Forward	11	273	16	2	1.16	+0.84	13%	1.14
Max Johnston	Defender	6	195	2	0	0.10	−0.10	0%	0.10
Corey Blackett-Taylor	Forward	8	185	4	0	0.24	−0.24	0%	0.21
Eiran Cashin	Defender	2	169	3	0	0.13	−0.13	0%	0.14
Craig Forsyth	Defender	2	163	0	0	0.00	0.00	—	0.00
Filip Bilbija	Forward	5	72	0	0	0.00	0.00	—	0.00
Jack Robinson	Defender	1	17	0	0	—	—	—	0.00
Owen Eames	Forward	1	12	0	0	0.00	0.00	—	0.00
Isaac Gordon	Defender	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Raymond Offor	Defender	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Richard O'Donnell	Goalkeeper	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
No player matches that

Goals include penalties, and expected goals include penalty chances wherever the provider counts them, so G−xG is taken over both. npxG leaves penalty chances out. The provider publishes it as a figure of its own rather than as expected goals less penalties, so the gap between the two is mostly a player's penalty chances but not only that — for a player who took none, npxG can come out above xG. No column here takes it from goals: nothing this page holds counts a player's non-penalty goals.

Rates per ninety minutes are shown for a player with at least 270 minutes behind him — the control above moves that floor, and it moves nothing else. Minutes share is a player's minutes against the 12 matches this club has played in this competition, at ninety minutes each. Expected goals, non-penalty expected goals and expected assists are summed from this competition's per-match feed, so a player it holds no figures for carries a dash rather than a nought.

About the data

Where these figures come from, and what they leave out

Data source: Where the per-match feed covers Championship, every figure on a row — appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists, shots, and the expected goals, expected assists and non-penalty expected goals beside them — is summed from it over the matches he played for this club. Where it does not, the counts are the provider's season line. Championship only — no figure here adds two competitions together.
Calculated by xgEdge: xGI, the per-90 rates, goals minus expected goals, xGI share and minutes share are worked out here from those figures. Nothing on this page is a model's output.
Missing data: A dash means a figure was not measured; a nought means it was measured and came to nothing. Per-90 figures are hidden below the minimum-minutes setting, which opens at 270 and never removes a row.

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