{"id":1398978,"date":"2025-09-15T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1398978"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:33:07","slug":"premier-league-most-touches","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/premier-league-most-touches\/","title":{"rendered":"The most touches in the Premier League 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out which players have taken the most touches, along with the most inside the opposing penalty area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-touch-leaders-2026-27\">Touch leaders 2026-27<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which Premier League players have taken the most touches and touches in the opposition box this season?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vcsw-sports-widgets shortcode vcsw-stats-cards\" id=\"stats_cards-1\"><script 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Jan Paul van Hecke has 465 for <a href=\"\/en\/stats\/clubs\/tottenham-hotspur\/\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> and Marc Gu\u00e9hi 463 for City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pattern is the same one the all-time list shows below: touches accrue to defenders and deep midfielders, not forwards. Seven of the top eight play in those positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exception is Bruno Fernandes, eighth on 418 for <a href=\"\/en\/stats\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\">Manchester United<\/a>. He is also the only man in the leading group with a meaningful presence in the opposition box, with 14 touches there against Dias&#8217;s five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-is-a-touch\">What is a touch?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Opta definition tells us a touch is awarded &#8220;when the ball bounces off a player and there is no intentional pass, we award a touch. When a player mis-controls the ball with a poor touch, we award an unsuccessful touch. Also used for mishit shots which go backwards towards a player\u2019s own goal&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, touches are defines as &#8220;a sum of all events where a player touches the ball, so excludes things like Aerial lost or Challenge lost&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-do-touch-numbers-tell-us-about-a-player\">What do touch numbers tell us about a player?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It generally means a player is involved in area of the pitch in which most of the action occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is normally in the first two thirds of the field and, therefore, you will tend to find defenders and midfielders boasting the higher figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of the defenders, it is because most of the build-up play starts with them. Meanwhile, higher numbers can point to a central midfielder&#8217;s impact on the game, and sometimes means they are dictating play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a striker proves that it does not matter how many times you touch the ball, but what you do with it. Indeed, they may not record many during a match, but those that they do tend to have the biggest impact on matches, i.e. goals and assists. They, therefore, tend to be judged by a different category of &#8216;touches in opposition box&#8217; in order to provide a fairer reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-has-the-most-touches-in-premier-league-history\">Who has the most touches in Premier League history?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Touch stats only go back to the 2006-07 season in the Premier League, when Opta&#8217;s records began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a staggering 32,747 recorded since his Premier League debut in March 2010, Kyle Walker can boast the highest tally in the competition&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second to him on the list is Jordan Henderson with just under 4,000 fewer, while a select group of players to have surpassed the 25,000 mark also includes the likes of James Milner, Gareth Barry and Virgil van Dijk, with Cesc Fabregas just below on 24,440.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just behind him on 24,318 is Andrew Robertson, who you would expect to easily climb into the 25,000 bracket this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you notice about those players? They are all midfielders and defenders. 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