What do you think of this Newcastle United team of the season?

Written on Wednesday, 13 May 2026
Joe Dixon

What do you make of this Newcastle United team of the season below?

With 36 of the 38 Premier League matches played so far, which eleven players do you think have performed the best across this 2025/26 league season?

Interesting to look at which is the best 2025/26 Newcastle United team according to the Whoscored automated ratings.

‘The whoscored ratings use data from every single Premier League match, over 200 raw statistics included in the automated calculation of a player’s rating, weighted according to their influence within the game.

Every event of importance is taken into account, with a positive or negative effect on ratings weighted in relation to its area on the pitch and its outcome.’

So this is the best 2025/26 Newcastle United team across the 36 league matches, according to the Whoscored average ratings per Premier League match:

7.17 Bruno
6.91 Thiaw
6.85 Botman
6.81 Hall
6.81 Joelinton
6.80 Schar
6.76 Miley
6.70 Burn
6.68 Livramento
6.68 Gordon
6.66 Pope

The top rated 11 gives us a bit of a ‘different’ style best Newcastle United team. With six defenders, including four centre-backs!

As for the other Whoscored average ratings for Newcastle United players across this 2025/26 Premier League season:

6.58 Woltemade
6.58 Tonali
6.55 Trippier
6.47 Jacob Murphy
6.45 Ramsdale
6.44 Barnes
6.39 Ramsey
6.28 Willock
6.27 Osula
6.26 Elanga
6.14 Wissa
6.10 Lascelles
5.95 Alex Murphy
5.72 Krafth

So what do you make of the automated ratings over the course of this 2025/26 Premier League campaign?

Who would make your Newcastle United team of the season?

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