With seven matchdays done and dusted in the 2025/26 Premier League season and a natural break in the action for October’s World Cup and European Championship qualifying matches, it’s time to take stock of the season thus far.
The winger position has become just as much of a marquee post as the striker position in the Premier League these days, and while most people are still fixated on goals and assists, more and more fans are going back to the days of respecting the wingers who carry the ball tirelessly and win their one-on-ones to open up the entire team.
In that spirit, let’s rank the top five best wingers of the 2025/26 Premier League season so far, specifically ranking them based only on their displays in the current campaign.
5. Yankuba Minteh, Brighton
Yankuba Minteh was always destined to be a Premier League star with his explosiveness and dynamism on the ball both in one-on-ones and in carrying the ball long distances up the pitch.
Brighton deserve more praise for signing a burgeoning world-class talent at 21 years old from under Newcastle’s noses when he was a teenager, and the former Dutch Eredivisie standout has become an even bigger threat in the Premier League.
Minteh is at three goal contributions in seven games with a whopping 3.8 combined dribbles completed and fouls drawn per game, as the U23 talent is a nightmare for any defense to deal with.
4. Jeremy Doku, Manchester City
A factor from the first day he stepped foot at the Etihad Stadium, Belgian international Jeremy Doku was already statistically the best dribbler in the world in Ligue 1, and he’s quietly become a much more polished creator and refined winger under Pep Guardiola for Manchester City.
If he started more than four games this season, Doku would have threatened leapfrogging two players above him to nestle in second, as Doku has been spellbinding to watch this season and deserves far more praise than he’s getting outside the confines of the Manchester City fanbase.
Doku is averaging 4.2 dribbles completed and 2.8 key passes per 90 minutes, and you can make the case for him being the most efficient and explosive one-on-one wide creator in the game today. He’s that good.
3. Mohammed Kudus, Tottenham
But so is Mohammed Kudus, who is tied with Jack Grealish for the Premier League lead with four assists and has more overall take-ons than anyone. Kudus has immediately stepped in and transformed the Tottenham Hotspur attack.
Without Kudus, Spurs would be nowhere near third place in the Premier League. He was already a deadly winger for West Ham, but now he’s enjoying his football more under Thomas Frank at a better club, averaging over four dribbles completed per game with no shortage of end product.
2. Jack Grealish, Everton
For the way he has lifted up a downtrodden Everton side that was fearing relegation but now has legitimate dreams of European football, Jack Grealish has to get the edge over Mohammed Kudus in what is a neck-and-neck race for No. 2.
Grealish has been every bit the player he was at Aston Villa when he captured the hearts of footballing romantics across England, and with the efficiency ingrained in him from his days of winning major trophies with Pep in Manchester, he’s an even better player at 30 than he was five years ago.
As strong as he is quick off the dribble, Grealish is the ultimate matchup nightmare for fullbacks and the best passer on the wings in the Premier League right now with Mohammed Salah a bit slow – by his lofty standards – to start the 2025/26 Premier League campaign.
1. Antoine Semenyo, Bournemouth
Yet the honor for the best winger and the best overall player in the Premier League right now for the 2025/26 seaosn has to go to versatile Bournemouth superstar Antoine Semenyo.
The 25-year-old demon has picked up where he left off in his breakout 2024/25 campaign and has now become THE most coveted player in the Premier League for all the Big Six clubs, as he’s been both the best left and right winger to start the new season.
Semenyo has six goals and three assists, trailing only Erling Haaland in the goal contributions department, and what he’s doing in leading the entire attack for Bournemouth as a Premier League title sleeper is far more impressive than even Haaland’s goal-scoring greatness in keeping the boys at the Etihad in range.
Joe Soriano is the editor of The Trivela Effect and a FanSided Hall of Famer who has covered world football since 2010. He’s led top digital communities like The Real Champs (Real Madrid) and has run sites covering Tottenham, Liverpool, Juventus, and Schalke. He also helped manage NFL Spin Zone and Daily DDT, covering the NFL and pro wrestling.