A chance created is a pass that leads directly to a teammate's shot, whether the shot is scored, saved, blocked or misses the target. It is key passes and assists added together, so it counts every opening a player makes, not only the ones that are finished.
That makes it the broadest count of a creator's work. In the 2025/2026 Premier League about three shots in every four came from a chance created, and only one chance in ten became an assist.
The last pass before a shot counts, as long as the player who receives it is the one who shoots. A cross, a cutback, a through ball and a short lay off all count the same, and so does a corner or a free kick that a teammate shoots from.
A pass that never leads to a shot earns nothing, however good it was, and neither does the pass before the last one. A shot from a rebound or a loose ball, or after the shooter won the ball back themselves, credits nobody, because no teammate set it up.
A key pass is a pass that leads to a shot that is not scored. If the shot goes in, the same pass counts as an assist instead, so every chance created is either a key pass or an assist, and the finish decides which.
That puts the split in the shooter's hands. Bruno Fernandes created 138 chances in the 2025/2026 Premier League: 21 were scored and became assists, and the other 117 were key passes.
Not every site uses the words the same way. Some call every pass that leads to a shot a key pass, assists included, which makes their key passes the same as chances created here.
For a creative midfielder or winger, 2.5 chances created per 90 minutes is elite. Only four Premier League players with 1,500 minutes or more reached it in 2025/2026: Bruno Fernandes on 4.05, Rayan Cherki on 3.18, Jérémy Doku on 3.07 and Bukayo Saka on 2.59. Two per 90 is very good, and 13 players managed it.
Across the season Bruno Fernandes created 138, 60 more than Dominik Szoboszlai in second. Defenders create fewer: Pedro Porro of Tottenham led them with 55.
The average Premier League side created about nine chances a game in 2025/2026. Liverpool created the most, 12.1 a game and 458 in all, just ahead of Manchester City on 453 and Manchester United on 449.
Updated 8 November 2026, after the last game
| Rank | Player | Club | Appearances | Chances created | Key passes | Assists | Chances created per 90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pascal Groß | Brighton & Hove Albion | 10 | 29 | 25 | 4 | 2.96 |
| 2 | Alex Iwobi | Fulham | 10 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 2.61 |
| 3 | Morgan Gibbs-White | Nottingham Forest | 9 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 2.67 |
| 4 | Bruno Fernandes | Manchester United | 9 | 23 | 21 | 2 | 2.56 |
| 5 | Maxim De Cuyper | Brighton & Hove Albion | 10 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 2.50 |
| 6 | Florian Wirtz | Liverpool | 10 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 2.60 |
| 7 | Martin Ødegaard | Arsenal | 10 | 22 | 22 | 0 | 2.39 |
| 8 | Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall | Everton | 10 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 2.21 |
| 9 | Cole Palmer | Chelsea | 10 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 2.25 |
| 10 | Granit Xhaka | Sunderland | 10 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 2.21 |
Premier League chances created, all 351 players
The best of a player's chances created. In 2025/2026, 32 of Bruno Fernandes' 138 were big chances. What counts as a big chance
Chances created counts the openings and xA weighs them by the quality of the shot that followed. Rayan Cherki created fewer chances per 90 than Bruno Fernandes in 2025/2026, 3.18 to 4.05, but better ones: 0.45 xA per 90 against 0.36. How xA is calculated
An assist is worth three points in FPL, and chances created per 90 is the quickest way to find the players making enough openings to earn them. A midfielder creating plenty with few assists is usually due a turn, because assists follow chances once the finishing evens out. What counts as an assist in FPL
FPL's own creativity score, part of its ICT index, rates the same thing: how often a player sets up chances for others. Bookmakers settle their create a shot markets on chances created too, and the shots created betting guide shows how.
Yes. A chance created is any pass that leads to a shot, so it counts assists, which lead to goals, as well as key passes, which lead to shots that are not scored. Bruno Fernandes' 138 in the 2025/2026 Premier League included his 21 assists.
Chances created per 90 is a player's chances created for every 90 minutes played, so starters and substitutes can be compared fairly. Bruno Fernandes led the 2025/2026 Premier League on 4.05 per 90, among players with 1,500 minutes or more.
A chance created is any pass that leads to a shot, while a big chance created sets up a chance the shooter would be expected to score. About one in five chances created in the 2025/2026 Premier League was a big chance.
Every player's chances created, in total and per 90, in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1. Premier League clubs are on the team chances created page.