Liga Portugal

Liga Portugal xA leaders 2026/2027

Every Liga Portugal player ranked on the expected assists of the chances he made for somebody else — what a team-mate was handed, whether or not it was scored.

Gianluca Prestianni has made the best chances for others, 2.78 expected assists from 572 minutes. That is 0.73 clear of Gabri Veiga.

Showing 1–50 of 429 players

Liga Portugal xA leaders 2026/2027
#	Player	Club	Min	KP	xA	A	A − xA	xA/90
1	Gianluca Prestianni	Benfica	572	17	2.78	3	+0.22	0.44
2	Gabri Veiga	FC Porto	493	12	2.05	3	+0.95	0.37
3	William Gomes	FC Porto	466	8	1.87	2	+0.13	0.36
4	Abraham Marcus	CF Estrela Amadora	623	12	1.85	1	−0.85	0.27
5	Vangelis Pavlidis	Benfica	557	11	1.75	2	+0.25	0.28
6	Cihan Kahraman	Académico Viseu FC	501	12	1.74	4	+2.26	0.31
7	Andreas Schjelderup	Benfica	290	13	1.51	2	+0.49	0.47
8	Pablo Gozálbez	FC Arouca	243	6	1.49	1	−0.49	0.55
9	Diogo Spencer	FC Alverca	249	5	1.47	2	+0.53	0.53
10	Hwang In-beom	FC Porto	216	9	1.43	1	−0.43	0.60
11	Pepê	FC Porto	594	11	1.35	4	+2.65	0.20
12	Pablo Rosario	FC Porto	572	4	1.34	1	−0.34	0.21
13	Rafa Soares	CF Estrela Amadora	629	14	1.33	1	−0.33	0.19
14	Geny Catamo	Sporting	509	6	1.27	3	+1.73	0.22
15	Rodrigo Zalazar	Sporting	508	10	1.21	1	−0.21	0.21
16	Samu	Vitória SC	562	9	1.17	0	−1.17	0.19
17	João Carvalho	Estoril Praia	620	11	1.14	0	−1.14	0.17
18	Alberto Costa	FC Porto	451	14	1.11	0	−1.11	0.22
19	Sorriso	Famalicão	576	6	1.10	1	−0.10	0.17
20	Naïs Djouahra	FC Arouca	605	8	1.08	4	+2.92	0.16
21	Chiquinho	FC Alverca	393	12	1.06	2	+0.94	0.24
22	Vinícius Lopes	Santa Clara	526	13	1.01	1	−0.01	0.17
23	Georgiy Sudakov	Benfica	331	11	1.00	0	−1.00	0.27
23	Clément Lenglet	Benfica	575	6	1.00	0	−1.00	0.16
25	Jalen Blesa	Rio Ave	618	7	0.98	1	+0.02	0.14
26	Soufiane Messeguem	Académico Viseu FC	619	6	0.96	0	−0.96	0.14
27	Tiago Esgaio	FC Arouca	628	7	0.95	0	−0.95	0.14
28	Tony Strata	Vitória SC	516	14	0.93	1	+0.07	0.16
29	Martín Tejón	Marítimo	588	8	0.92	1	+0.08	0.14
30	Oumar Camara	Vitória SC	340	8	0.87	0	−0.87	0.23
31	Ianis Stoica	CF Estrela Amadora	491	9	0.85	2	+1.15	0.16
31	Gustavo Silva	Vitória SC	525	18	0.85	0	−0.85	0.15
31	Victor Froholdt	FC Porto	539	7	0.85	0	−0.85	0.14
34	Isaac James	FC Alverca	604	6	0.84	2	+1.16	0.13
35	Ricardo Esgaio	Gil Vicente	513	6	0.77	0	−0.77	0.14
36	Santi García	Gil Vicente	304	6	0.76	0	−0.76	0.23
36	João Mendes	Vitória SC	630	8	0.76	0	−0.76	0.11
38	Ricardo Horta	Sporting Braga	174	7	0.75	0	−0.75	0.39
38	Gonçalo Paciência	Santa Clara	518	5	0.75	1	+0.25	0.13
40	João Veloso	Moreirense	225	3	0.73	1	+0.27	0.29
41	Léo Santos	CD Nacional	405	5	0.71	1	+0.29	0.16
41	Yanis Begraoui	Estoril Praia	630	7	0.71	0	−0.71	0.10
43	Gil Dias	Famalicão	376	6	0.69	1	+0.31	0.17
44	Matchoi Djaló	CD Nacional	183	3	0.68	0	−0.68	0.33
44	Liziero	CD Nacional	338	3	0.68	1	+0.32	0.18
44	Samuel Dahl	Benfica	613	8	0.68	0	−0.68	0.10
47	Paulo Henrique	Marítimo	630	3	0.66	0	−0.66	0.09
48	Figueiredo	FC Alverca	554	12	0.65	0	−0.65	0.11
48	Diogo Bezerra	Rio Ave	554	8	0.65	3	+2.35	0.11
50	Issa Doumbia	Sporting	578	9	0.63	1	+0.37	0.10

under 90 minutes

About these figures What each column counts, and which feed it was counted from. Show

Min: Minutes played.
KP: Key passes: passes that led directly to a team-mate's shot.
xA: Expected assists: the quality of the chances he created for others, summed.
A: Assists.
A − xA: Assists less expected assists, over the matches with both.
xA/90: Expected assists per 90 minutes played.

Appearances, minutes, goals, assists and shots on this page are summed over the Liga Portugal matches we hold per-player figures for — the same matches the expected figures are summed over, so the two can be read against each other.

Learn how xgEdge calculates these figures →