{"id":1167,"date":"2026-03-20T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:48:31","slug":"the-most-assists-recorded-in-a-single-premier-league-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"The most assists recorded in a single Premier League season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Bruno Fernandes is chasing down the Premier League\u2019s assist record across the final weeks of the Premier League campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fernandes has created 16 goals in the Premier League for Manchester United this season, a figure that has been bettered on only a handful of occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The Portugal international has already set a new club record for Premier League assists in a campaign for Manchester United, surpassing David Beckham\u2019s 15-assist mark during last weekend\u2019s win over Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes now has eight games to record the five assists needed to take the single-season record outright.<\/p>\n<p>The record currently belongs to former Arsenal forward Thierry Henry, who provided 20 assists in 2002\/03, and ex-Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne, who matched that feat in 2019\/20.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The most assists recorded in a single Premier League season<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>20 \u2013 Thierry Henry \u2013 Arsenal (2002\/03)<br \/>20 \u2013 Kevin De Bruyne \u2013 Manchester City (2019\/20)<br \/>19 \u2013 Mesut Ozil \u2013 Arsenal (2015\/16)<br \/>18 \u2013 Cesc Fabregas \u2013 Chelsea (2014\/15)<br \/>18 \u2013 Frank Lampard \u2013 Chelsea (2004\/05<br \/>18 \u2013 Kevin De Bruyne \u2013 Manchester City (2016\/17)<br \/>18 \u2013 Mohamed Salah \u2013 Liverpool (2024\/25)<br \/>17 \u2013 Cesc Fabregas \u2013 Arsenal (2007\/08)<br \/>16 \u2013 Kevin De Bruyne \u2013 Manchester City (2017\/18 &#038; 2022\/23<br \/>16 \u2013 Eric Cantona \u2013 Leeds United\/Manchester United (1992\/93)<br \/>16 \u2013 Bruno Fernandes \u2013 Manchester United (2025\/26)*<\/p>\n<p><em>*Still has games to play this season<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013 Noughties Nines: Fernando Torres \u2013 El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0&#x1f4c8; Power Rankings: Como climb in, PSG rise<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Fernandes is chasing down the Premier League\u2019s assist record across the final weeks of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}