Kovačić
Man City · MID · £5.5m
World Cup Croatia 285 mins
1420.6, down 8.1 after 1 point against Crystal Palace (A)
Z-Score: MID points per game are compared against a 2.59 average , spread 0.86. Measured against 2025-26, 48 players, because too few players have cleared the minutes bar this season.
Upcoming fixtures
2026/27 gameweek by gameweek
- GW2 Crystal Palace, away 1 pts 1420.6 Elo -8.1 rating change 9 BPS
- GW1 Bournemouth, home 1 pts 1428.7 Elo -8.5 rating change 2 defensive actions 3 BPS
Season stats
Ownership
Percentage of FPL squads that have picked Kovačić right now.
Elo Glicko-style skill rating. It updates match by match and carries across seasons rather than resetting, so it is not a count of points scored.
It is built on 0.47 games, so most of this rating is still the starting assumption every player begins from, with about 5 per cent of it measured. Expect it to move a long way once matches are played.
FAPR Fixture-Adjusted Performance Rating. Adjusts PPG based on opponent difficulty faced.
2026 World Cup load
Kovačić played 285 minutes for Croatia, short of the 450 minute line, so this rating is held a little less firmly than a player who had the whole summer off.
Every rating carries a second number for how firmly it is held, called the rating deviation. A bigger deviation means the rating is less settled, so it moves further and faster once matches are played. It is not a mark against the player.
None of this is scored into the Elo rating. A World Cup is played against different opposition under different conditions, so counting it as Premier League evidence would make the number harder to defend. What a summer changes is how settled a rating is, not what it says.