Best captains of 2025/26

Each gameweek pairs the crowd's captain with the player who actually top-scored that week, and the two never once met. The armband sat on Haaland or Salah every single week, yet the biggest haul went to someone else all 38 times, often an unheralded defender or differential, from Ballard on opening day to Dorgu twice over. Captaincy is a bet on a dependable ceiling, not on topping the weekly charts. The two blanks, gameweeks 31 and 34, are the weeks City had no fixture and the most-backed player sat out entirely.