Player dossier

Premiership · 2025/2026

Liam Polworth

Defensive midfielder

Team: Kilmarnock
Role: Defensive midfielder
Nationality: Scotland
Date of birth: 12 Oct 1994 (age 31)
Shirt number: 31
Competition: Premiership (Scotland)
Season: 2025/2026

All players

01 / Record

Performance summary

29 appearances · 1,649 minutesEstablished sampleAll figures cover completed fixtures in this season only.

Player recordCompleted fixtures

Appearances: 29
Starts: 20
Minutes: 1,649
Average rating: 6.78
Goals: 1
Assists: 1
Yellow cards: 3
Red cards: Not available

02 / Telemetry

Per-90 statistics

Season totals scaled to 90 minutes played. Metrics the provider did not record are marked as not available rather than zero.

Per-90 data sheetSeason to date

Per-90 statistics
Metric	Per 90
Touches per 90	61.78
Passes per 90	45.52
Accurate passes per 90	36.79
Passes in final third per 90	8.41
Key passes per 90	1.15
Chances created per 90	0.98
Shots per 90	0.65
Shots on target per 90	0.16
Successful dribbles per 90	0.65
Tackles per 90	2.24
Interceptions per 90	0.93
Clearances per 90	1.47
Ball recoveries per 90	5.68
Duels per 90	9.44
Goals per 90	0.11
Assists per 90	0.05
Possession lost per 90	14.14
Saves per 90	Not available
Saves inside box per 90	Not available
Goals conceded per 90	1.58

03 / Telemetry

Efficiency

Success rates computed only where both the numerator and the denominator exist.

Efficiency data sheetSuccess rates

Efficiency rates
Metric	Rate
Pass accuracy	80.8%
Dribble success rate	52.2%
Duel win rate	48.5%
Aerial duel win rate	100.0%
Tackle success rate	63.4%
Shot on target rate	25.0%
Long ball accuracy	47.1%

04 / Role telemetry

Performance profile

Percentiles compare this player with others in the same role and season. Only families relevant to defensive midfielder are shown.

Role-relative telemetryPercentile 0-100

Compared with Defensive midfielder players in this season47 in reference group

Passing61.4pctl
Ball retention44.3pctl
Defensive50.0pctl
Duel53.9pctl
Creation50.0pctl
Dribbling55.7pctl
Shooting38.2pctl

05 / Intelligence

Player Intelligence

Experimental in-house signals derived from completed fixtures only. They describe what the data shows — they are not official ratings, and they are not predictions.

Performance telemetryExperimental signals

Efficiency Index

71.3/ 100

Highly efficient

Useful output divided by relevant attempted actions, weighted for the player's role.

Coverage 100%

Opposition Index

47.2/ 100

Balanced schedule

Minutes-weighted strength of the opponents actually faced. Context only — it does not adjust the Impact Score.

29 rated opponents

Momentum Index

91.5/ 100

Rising form

Last 2 scored matches 75.8 vs earlier 55.0 (+20.8).

Breakout Index

80.6/ 100

Strong upward signal

Signal, not a prediction: recent impact, minutes and starting involvement, read against role-relative standing and opponent strength.

Minutes −9Starts +5pp

Decline Index

19.4/ 100

No decline signal

The same development axis read downwards. A signal of sustained negative movement, not a prediction.

21 scored matches

Final-third profile

Per-90 attacking output from fields the provider actually records. Expected goals, expected assists and spatial metrics are not available in this data and are not estimated.

Final-third profile per 90
Metric	Per 90
Passes in final third per 90	8.41
Key passes per 90	1.15
Chances created per 90	0.98
Big chances created per 90	0.16
Crosses per 90	3.06
Shots per 90	0.65
Successful dribbles per 90	0.65

Team effect

Observational, not causal: team points per completed fixture with and without this player in the starting eleven.

Started20 fixtures1.10pts/match

Did not start18 fixtures1.00pts/match

Difference: +0.10 points per match. This is a description of results only and does not establish that the player caused them.

Efficiency Index components

Pass accuracyweight 35%: 80.8%
Duel win rateweight 25%: 48.5%
Tackle success rateweight 25%: 63.4%
Aerial duel win rateweight 15%: 100.0%

05.1 / Player telemetry · ProfilePercentile 0-100

Role-relative percentiles from the 2025/2026 season. Only metrics relevant to this player's role are shown.

Role-relative percentile values plotted in the profile chart for 2025/2026
Family	Percentile
Passing	61.4
Ball retention	44.3
Defensive	50.0
Duel	53.9
Creation	50.0
Dribbling	55.7
Shooting	38.2

Dashed ring marks the defensive midfielder median (50th percentile) across 47 players in the reference group.

06 / Performance index

Football Performance Lab Impact Score

Performance indexExperimental assessment

52.8/ 100

Assessment

Established-sample estimate

29 appearances · 1,649 minutes

Experimental modelCoverage 100%Established sample

Based on available match data — 29 appearances · 1,649 minutes as defensive midfielder.

Component breakdown

Duelweight 20%: 53.9
Passingweight 25%: 61.4
Creationweight 10%: 50.0
Defensiveweight 30%: 50.0
Ball retentionweight 15%: 44.3

An experimental in-house model based on available match data. It weights role-relative percentile families and is not an official rating, a definitive measure of player quality, or a prediction.

07 / Match record

Match history

Completed fixtures with recorded minutes, most recent first.

Match recordMost recent first

Recent completed matches with minutes and output
Date	Opponent	Venue	Min	Rating	G	A	YC	Impact
02 May 2026	Dundee United3–0	Home	27sub	6.76	0	0	0	—
04 Apr 2026	Hibernian0–3	Away	62	6.61	0	0	0	63.8
21 Mar 2026	Livingston2–0	Home	67	6.38	0	0	0	87.7
14 Mar 2026	Hearts1–0	Home	90	6.80	0	0	1	45.1
28 Feb 2026	Falkirk1–5	Away	32sub	6.94	0	0	0	83.9
21 Feb 2026	Dundee United1–1	Away	11sub	6.73	0	0	0	—
15 Feb 2026	Celtic2–3	Home	11sub	6.46	0	0	0	—
11 Feb 2026	St. Mirren4–3	Home	84	6.85	0	0	0	66.4
04 Feb 2026	Rangers1–5	Away	60	6.59	0	0	0	43.9
31 Jan 2026	Aberdeen3–0	Home	79	6.89	0	0	0	60.3
24 Jan 2026	Motherwell0–4	Away	46	7.31	0	0	0	45.8
10 Jan 2026	Livingston1–1	Away	22sub	6.53	0	0	0	—
03 Jan 2026	Hibernian1–3	Home	85	6.51	0	0	0	44.4
30 Dec 2025	Dundee1–2	Away	17sub	6.66	0	0	0	—
27 Dec 2025	St. Mirren0–0	Away	10sub	6.49	0	0	0	—
20 Dec 2025	Falkirk0–1	Home	64	6.50	0	0	1	40.5
14 Dec 2025	Aberdeen1–2	Away	90	7.13	0	0	1	64.7
06 Dec 2025	Rangers0–3	Home	90	6.78	0	0	0	48.9
03 Dec 2025	Hearts1–1	Away	9sub	6.85	0	0	0	—
09 Nov 2025	Celtic0–4	Away	11sub	6.32	0	0	0	—
29 Oct 2025	Aberdeen0–1	Home	63	6.85	0	0	0	45.0
18 Oct 2025	Hearts0–3	Home	59	6.17	0	0	0	67.1
04 Oct 2025	St. Mirren2–0	Home	65	6.87	0	0	0	40.5
27 Sept 2025	Dundee United2–0	Away	84	6.59	0	0	0	52.4
14 Sept 2025	Celtic1–2	Home	71	6.51	0	0	0	45.9
30 Aug 2025	Motherwell2–2	Away	70	6.77	0	0	0	53.7
23 Aug 2025	Dundee0–0	Home	90	7.16	0	0	0	62.3
10 Aug 2025	Hibernian2–2	Away	90	7.88	1	0	0	67.2
02 Aug 2025	Livingston2–2	Home	90	7.81	0	1	0	67.1

Goals, assists and yellow cards are counted from recorded match events, so a 0 means the event did not occur. A dash means the provider sent no value — it never means zero. Match impact is only shown for appearances of at least 30 minutes with sufficient metric coverage.

08 / Season archive

Season context

Competition: Premiership
Season: 2025/2026
Team: Kilmarnock
Appearances: 29
Minutes: 1,649
Average opponent strength: 47.2Minutes-weighted, 0–100 team strength scale. Contextual only — it does not adjust the scores above.

Recent opponents: Dundee United, Hibernian, Livingston, Hearts, Falkirk, Celtic.

09 / Season on season

Season on season

Stored season figures for this season next to the previous season of the same competition. Presentation only — no new score is calculated.

No comparable previous season is recorded for this player in this competition.

A comparison is shown only when this player has a published season record in both this season and the previous season of the same competition.

10 / Cross-reference

Compare similar players

Players with a comparable Impact Score profile
Player	Team	Role	Impact	Compare
Emmanuel Agyei	Dundee United	Defensive midfielder	52.3	Compare
Ante Palaversa	Aberdeen	Defensive midfielder	51.9	Compare
Leighton Clarkson	Aberdeen	Defensive midfielder	53.7	Compare
Josh Mulligan	Hibernian	Defensive midfielder	51.3	Compare
Mohamed Diomandé	Rangers	Defensive midfielder	54.3	Compare

Comparable players share the same season and, where possible, the same role, ranked by how close their existing Impact Score is. No new metric is calculated here.

11 / Method

Methodology

Data source

Match, lineup, event and player statistics come from Sportmonks and are stored per fixture. Only completed fixtures with recorded minutes are aggregated — announced lineups and future fixtures are excluded.

Per 90 minutes

A per-90 value scales a season total to a full match: total × 90 ÷ minutes played. It is not calculated when minutes are missing or zero.

Missing data

The provider omits some statistics instead of sending a zero. A missing value is shown as "not available" and never converted to 0, so rates and percentiles are only produced where the underlying fields genuinely exist.

Impact Score

The Football Performance Lab Impact Score is an experimental in-house model that combines role-relative percentile families with explicit weights. It is not an official rating and not a measure of transfer value.

Minimum samples

Values are calculated internally from 180 minutes, but a player is only shown publicly with a ranked Impact Score from 360 minutes and 5 appearances, with at least 90% metric coverage and an established role. A single appearance contributes a match impact observation from 30 minutes.

Full methodology