In an age of freakish intensity and disconcertingly aggressive defensive lines, you simply can’t survive if you’re not fleet of foot.
Dean Saunders will tell you that there’s nothing novel about contemporary principles, which, in his eyes, have merely been jazzed up and renamed to appease faux intellectuals. However, suggesting the sport hasn’t evolved drastically from his playing days is short-sighted, to say the least.
There’s perhaps a reason why he didn’t quite make the grade as a manager.
Anyway, back to speed. The Premier League, perhaps the sharpest and fastest division Europe has to offer, is blessed with an array of roadrunners. Speed, of course, manifests in a variety of ways. There are the quick bursts and the imperious striders, the ball-at-feet rapid and dominant space-eaters. Still, the ultimate goal is getting from A to B as efficiently as possible.
FotMob has recorded the top speeds of every Premier League player in the 2025–26 season, and here are the ten fastest to grace our screens so far.
