Mohamed Salah is closing in fast on the record for most assists in a single Premier League season. Here’s a list of the current best individual campaigns in the competition for assists.
Who Has the Most Premier League Assists in a Single Season?
20 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2019-20 20 – Thierry Henry in 2002-03 19 – Mesut Özil in 2015-16 18 – Frank Lampard in 2004-05 18 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2016-17 18 – Cesc Fàbregas in 2014-15 17 – Cesc Fàbregas in 2007-08 17 – Mohamed Salah in 2024-25 (ongoing) 16 – Eric Cantona in 1992-93 16 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2017-18 16 – Kevin De Bruyne in 2022-23Goalscorers get so much of the glory, but in recent years it feels as though those who assist them have been getting more and more appreciation.
Yes, sometimes an assist can be as simple as rolling the ball two yards to someone on the halfway line who beats five men and bends one in from distance, but most of the time, it is a well-placed ball that provides a teammate with a golden opportunity to find the net.
We’ve already listed those who have racked up the most assists overall in Premier League history, but we also wanted to look at players who have done so the most in a single campaign.
Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne share the record with 20 assists, but perhaps not for too much longer.
With 10 games remaining, Mohamed Salah is already on 17 assists for Liverpool in the 2024-25 season, but will the Egyptian overtake De Bruyne and Henry? We’ll have to wait and see. For now, these are the men with the most assists in a Premier League season.
20 – Kevin De Bruyne (2019-20)
In 2019-20, Kevin De Bruyne finally ended a 17-year wait for someone to equal Thierry Henry’s phenomenal tally of 20 Premier League assists in 2002-03.
De Bruyne reached his total from 35 games, two fewer than Henry, and recorded at least seven more assists than any other player in the division that season, ahead of Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold (13) in second.
The Manchester City maestro was in tremendous form that season, despite the fact Pep Guardiola’s men fell well short in the Premier League title race, finishing 18 points behind champions Liverpool. De Bruyne boasts four of the 11 best Premier League campaigns for assists, also managing 18 in 2016-17, and 16 in both the 2017-18 and 2022-23 seasons. He sits in second place in the competition’s all-time assist list, behind only Ryan Giggs.
Pep Guardiola (L) and Kevin De Bruyne (R), with the latter holding the Premier League Playmaker Award for 2019-20 (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)20 – Thierry Henry (2002-03)
While De Bruyne’s overall output in 2019-20 was excellent, with 13 goals to add to his 20 assists, it wasn’t as impressive as Henry’s 2002-03 campaign, when the French forward added 24 goals to his 20 assists.
His 44 goal involvements for Arsenal that season is the joint most ever by a player in a 38-game Premier League campaign.
Henry’s total included a hat-trick of assists in Arsenal’s 4-0 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light in May 2003, while he recorded two assists in four other matches.
19 – Mesut Özil (2015-16)
Another Arsenal player, Mesut Özil, led the way for assists in 2015-16, with 19 in 35 top-flight appearances.
Sixteen of these came in his first 18 games of that season, with the German international midfielder set to absolutely smash Henry’s previous record of 20. But the final 17 appearances that campaign only yielded three more assists, including one on the final day in a 4-0 win over Aston Villa.
Özil’s 2015-16 tally was two more than he ever managed in a season at La Liga club Real Madrid, with his 17 passes leading to goals in 2010-11 and 2011-12 the best he managed in Spain.
18 – Cesc Fàbregas (2014-15)
While at Arsenal in 2007-08, Cesc Fàbregas recorded an impressive 17 assists. It will have been difficult for Gunners fans to see their former midfielder end up at Chelsea via Barcelona after that, but even more so when he thrived at Stamford Bridge.
In the 2014-15 season, Fàbregas – who ranks third for all-time assists in the Premier League with 111 – went one better than that previous best campaign at Arsenal and notched 18 assists for the Blues, and from just 34 league games too.
Chelsea cruised to the title that season, and the Spain international eased to the top of the charts for most assists, finishing seven ahead of the player with the next most, another Spanish Arsenal midfielder in Santi Cazorla (11).
18 – Kevin De Bruyne (2016-17)
As with the 2019-20 season, the De Bruyne thrived despite the team around him not doing so well.
In Guardiola’s first campaign in England, Man City didn’t come close to challenging for the title, won by De Bruyne’s former club Chelsea by a distance, but the player himself still managed 18 assists in total for his teammates in 36 appearances.
That was three more than Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen, but as we’ve already seen, De Bruyne would go two better three seasons later.
18 – Frank Lampard (2004-05)
Where there are Premier League records, Frank Lampard’s name is not usually far away.
The former West Ham, Chelsea and Man City midfielder is fifth in the all-time list for Premier League assists, and the 2004-05 campaign was his most productive.
Chelsea eased to the title under José Mourinho in his first season at Stamford Bridge, and Lampard was a big part of that, notching 13 goals to go with his 18 assists.
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