Most Premier League assists in a single season: Bruno Fernandes chasing EPL record

While strikers traditionally command the spotlight, the architects of their chances are enjoying overdue acclaim in the Premier League’s data-driven era. Enter Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United’s captain, who enters the final weeks of 2025-26 with a realistic shot at rewriting the competition’s creative record books.

Fernandes, 30, has supplied 14 assists in 26 league outings as of 4 March, six clear of nearest pursuer Rayan Cherki. His most recent came from an inswinging corner that Casemiro nodded home against Newcastle, underlining the Portuguese’s gift for delivering in dead-ball situations and open play alike. Maintain his present rhythm and Opta projections place him on course to finish the campaign with 20-21 assists—enough to seize the outright single-season benchmark.

That mark currently stands at 20, jointly held by Arsenal icon Thierry Henry (2002-03) and Manchester City maestro Kevin De Bruyne (2019-20). De Bruyne, who also logged 18 in 2016-17 and 16 in 2017-18, became only the fifth player to reach 100 Premier League assists during 2022-23, joining Ryan Giggs, Cesc Fabregas, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard in the century club.

Mesut Ozil’s 19 assists for Arsenal in 2015-16 places him third in the seasonal charts, while Lampard and Fabregas each tallied 18 in solitary campaigns to share fourth spot.

The individual-match record offers further encouragement to Fernandes: seven players have registered four assists in a single Premier League fixture, proving a hot streak can catapult any creator into the history books. Dennis Bergkamp first achieved the feat in Arsenal’s 5-0 rout of Leicester in February 1999; Jose Antonio Reyes, Fabregas, Santi Cazorla and Emmanuel Adebayor followed, with Harry Kane and Paul Pogba the most recent to join the quartet club.

United’s remaining schedule will determine whether Fernandes can eclipse Henry and De Bruyne, yet the numbers already frame a compelling narrative: a player often scrutinised for his team’s broader struggles is crafting one of the most prolific creative seasons English football has witnessed.