We take a look at who dey lead di stats for 2026/27 Premier League season so far.
No surprise say Erling Haaland dey out front as early favourite to win Coca-Cola Golden Boot award for 2026/27. Di 26-year-old Norwegian don finish three of di last four seasons as top goalscorer for Premier League.
Even though he no score for opening weekend of dis campaign, he don net for four straight matches for Manchester City.
Liverpool Alexander Isak don start new season well too. He score four times from seven shots on target. Di Swede don already beat di three goals he net for 14 Premier League appearances for 2025/26.
Several players don register three assists each for early part of 2026/27, including Joao Pedro and Pascal Gross wey also score three goals each. All three assists from Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo set up di club top scorer Isak, making their combination di most productive for Premier League after five rounds of matches.
Five different goalkeepers, including Hull City Konstantinos Tzolakis, don shut out opposition three times already dis season. Everton No 1 Jordan Pickford get di best statistical record, conceding only three goals. His impressive 83.3 per cent save ratio na only his fellow England goalkeeper, Leeds United James Trafford, beat am. Meanwhile, Arsenal David Raya — winner of Coca-Cola Golden Glove award for di last three seasons — don start well for him bid to become Premier League clean-sheets king once again.
A couple of players wey enjoy stellar individual seasons for 2025/26 don carry on where dem stop for early weeks of 2026/27. Morgan Gibbs-White and Granit Xhaka dey prove say dem still influential as ever for Nottingham Forest and Sunderland respectively, both creating five big chances for team-mates. Xhaka no get luck say none of those chances converted, while Gibbs-White get two to him name for our assists table above.
Leeds don dey terrific form so far dis season, with their industrious off-the-ball work especially eye-catching. Two of Daniel Farke central midfielders, Ethan Ampadu and Anton Stach, and impressive new centre-back Tarik Muharemovic all rank inside Premier League top five for most interceptions after five rounds of games, with 11 apiece. Brentford all-action midfield man Vitaly Janelt lead di way on 16 interceptions.
Manchester United forwards dey fortunate to get two of Premier League most inventive progressive passers supplying dem ammunition dis season. Bruno Fernandes and Youri Tielemans both love to play line-breaking through-balls for advanced areas, and that show for combined tally of 108 passes of that type after just five games. Despite operating for slightly deeper role right now, Arsenal Declan Rice dey sandwiched between those two creative midfielders with impressive 57 line-breaking passes for final third.
Man City stars Rayan Cherki and Antoine Semenyo don score five goals between dem from combined Expected Goals (xG) of 1.06, which outline di quality of their finishing for early weeks of dis campaign. Brentford pair Kevin Schade and Janelt don also dey particularly potent, with di latter scoring with both of him only two shots on target so far dis season.
Summer signing Lukas Hornicek don make tremendous impact for Newcastle United, producing 19 saves in five appearances; di second-highest tally for di division. Hornicek may don concede nine times but according to Opta, di damage for don worse, with di 24-year-old preventing extra 3.2 goals from finding back of him net. Man City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma don also be difference maker. Stellar performances against Man Utd, AFC Bournemouth and Coventry City mean di Italian don stop additional 2.6 goals from being conceded.
