European Assists King 19/20: De Bruyne leads Sancho and Muller

1:00pm on Wednesday 29th April 2020
By Team FC

This is the European Assist Kings list for 2019/20. For European Assist Kings 2020/21, follow this link.

The European Assist Kings is unfortunately an award that doesn't exist, so here at FootballCritic we have decided to pull it together.

Similarly to the European Golden Shoe, we have assigned a weighting system to each competition, so elite leagues - the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 - have a weighting of 2, meaning that a player will be awarded two points for every assist they provide.

For the leagues ranked sixth to 30 in Uefa's coefficients rankings goals assisted are given a weighting of 1.5, and goals assisted in a league outwith the top 30, goals are given a rating of 1.

2019/20 EUROPEAN ASSIST KINGS

The 2019/20 European Assist Kings

#	Player	Competition	Assists	Rating
1	Kevin De Bruyne	Man City	17	34
2	Thomas Muller	Bayern Munich	16	32
3	Jadon Sancho	Dortmund	15	30
4	Angel Di Maria	PSG	14	28
5	Christopher Nkunku	RB Leipzig	12	24
6	Luis Alberto	Lazio	12	24
7	Trent Alexander-Arnold	Liverpool	12	24
8	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	12	24
9	Michael Liendl	Wolfsberg	16	24
10	Dusan Tadic	Ajax	15	22.5
11	James Forrest	Celtic	15	22.5
12	Ruud Vormer	Club Brugge	14	21
13	Achraf Hakimi	Dortmund	10	20
14	Thorgan Hazard	Dortmund	10	20
15	Alejandro Gomez	Atalanta	10	20
16	Hakim Ziyech	Ajax	13	19.5
17	Edin Visca	Basaksehir	12	18
18	Serge Gnabry	Bayern	9	18
19	Bruno Fernandes	Sporting/Man Utd	10	16.5
20	Riyad Mahrez	Man City	8	16

Kevin De Bruyne of Man City currently leads the way, with 17 assists in the Premier League for Pep Guardiola's side in 2019/20. Two Bundesliga stars are next, with Thomas Muller of Bayern on 16 and Jadon Sancho of Dortmund on 15.

The top assist-maker outwith the elite leagues is James Forrest of Celtic, who has 15 in the Scottish Premiership.

The most successful league on the list is the German Bundesliga which features no less than five top assist-makers. Joining Sancho and Muller are Thorgan Hazard and Achraf Hakimi of Dortmund, plus Christopher Nkunku of RB Leipzig.

The Premier League is represented by De Bruyne, Riyad Mahrez, and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

La Liga and Ligue 1 have a sole representative each in the form of two Argentines, Lionel Messi of Barcelona and Angel Di Maria of PSG. Serie A are represented by Luis Alberto of Lazio and Alejandro Gomez of Atalanta.