Player dossier

Premiership · 2025/2026

Stephen Welsh

Centre backMultiple teams

Teams this season: Motherwell · CelticMultiple teams represented — no single club label applied
Role: Centre back
Nationality: Scotland
Date of birth: 19 Jan 2000 (age 26)
Shirt number: 57
Competition: Premiership (Scotland)
Season: 2025/2026

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01 / Record

Performance summary

28 appearances · 2,290 minutesEstablished sampleAll figures cover completed fixtures in this season only.

Player recordCompleted fixtures

Appearances: 28
Starts: 27
Minutes: 2,290
Average rating: 6.94
Goals: 1
Assists: 1
Yellow cards: 2
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	77.74
Passes per 90	63.12
Accurate passes per 90	57.03
Passes in final third per 90	5.50
Key passes per 90	0.24
Chances created per 90	0.12
Shots per 90	0.20
Shots on target per 90	0.04
Successful dribbles per 90	0.08
Tackles per 90	0.98
Interceptions per 90	1.41
Clearances per 90	7.11
Ball recoveries per 90	3.66
Duels per 90	8.21
Goals per 90	0.04
Assists per 90	0.04
Possession lost per 90	7.00
Saves per 90	Not available
Saves inside box per 90	Not available
Goals conceded per 90	0.79

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	90.3%
Dribble success rate	40.0%
Duel win rate	56.9%
Aerial duel win rate	60.9%
Tackle success rate	48.0%
Shot on target rate	20.0%
Long ball accuracy	58.8%

04 / Role telemetry

Performance profile

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

Role-relative telemetryPercentile 0-100

Compared with Centre back players in this season55 in reference group

Passing72.4pctl
Defensive62.5pctl
Ball retention84.5pctl
Duel25.5pctl
Creation31.4pctl

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

67.6/ 100

Above average

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

Coverage 100%

Opposition Index

46.9/ 100

Balanced schedule

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

28 rated opponents

Momentum Index

28.1/ 100

Falling form

Last 2 scored matches 46.1 vs earlier 57.0 (−10.9).

Breakout Index

36.2/ 100

No upward signal

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

Minutes +3Starts 0pp

Decline Index

63.8/ 100

Downward signal

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

26 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	5.50
Key passes per 90	0.24
Chances created per 90	0.12
Big chances created per 90	0.08
Crosses per 90	0.04
Shots per 90	0.20
Successful dribbles per 90	0.08

Team effect

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

Started27 fixtures1.67pts/match

Did not start45 fixtures2.11pts/match

Difference: −0.44 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%: 90.3%
Duel win rateweight 25%: 56.9%
Aerial duel win rateweight 20%: 60.9%
Tackle success rateweight 20%: 48.0%

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	72.4
Defensive	62.5
Ball retention	84.5
Duel	25.5
Creation	31.4

Dashed ring marks the centre back median (50th percentile) across 55 players in the reference group.

06 / Performance index

Football Performance Lab Impact Score

Performance indexExperimental assessment

59.0/ 100

Assessment

Established-sample estimate

28 appearances · 2,290 minutes

Experimental modelCoverage 100%Established sample

Based on available match data — 28 appearances · 2,290 minutes as centre back.

Component breakdown

Duelweight 25%: 25.5
Passingweight 25%: 72.4
Defensiveweight 35%: 62.5
Ball retentionweight 15%: 84.5

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
16 May 2026	Hibernian1–0	Away	90	7.11	0	0	0	48.4
09 May 2026	Hearts1–1	Home	90	6.71	0	0	0	43.8
02 May 2026	Falkirk0–1	Away	90	6.73	0	0	0	48.7
26 Apr 2026	Rangers3–2	Away	56	6.89	0	0	0	65.9
11 Apr 2026	Hearts1–3	Away	90	5.85	0	0	0	33.6
04 Apr 2026	Falkirk2–3	Home	90	6.53	0	0	0	57.2
21 Mar 2026	Hibernian0–0	Home	90	7.12	0	0	0	56.3
07 Mar 2026	Dundee1–2	Away	90	6.58	0	0	0	59.3
28 Feb 2026	Dundee United2–0	Home	90	7.51	0	0	0	71.8
21 Feb 2026	St. Mirren5–0	Away	90	7.23	0	0	0	61.1
15 Feb 2026	Aberdeen2–0	Home	90	7.89	0	1	0	47.4
11 Feb 2026	Rangers1–1	Home	90	7.28	1	0	0	59.9
01 Feb 2026	Falkirk2–0	Home	7sub	6.46	0	0	0	—
10 Jan 2026	Hibernian1–1	Away	87	6.53	0	0	1	42.5
03 Jan 2026	St. Mirren2–0	Home	90	6.92	0	0	0	52.6
27 Dec 2025	Rangers0–1	Away	90	6.76	0	0	0	40.7
20 Dec 2025	Dundee1–0	Home	90	6.81	0	0	0	63.0
13 Dec 2025	Dundee United0–0	Away	18	6.58	0	0	0	—
03 Dec 2025	Falkirk0–0	Away	90	7.68	0	0	0	75.8
29 Nov 2025	Hearts0–0	Home	90	7.30	0	0	1	71.5
25 Nov 2025	Hibernian2–0	Home	90	7.19	0	0	0	48.4
22 Nov 2025	Kilmarnock3–1	Away	90	7.02	0	0	0	59.5
09 Nov 2025	Aberdeen1–1	Away	90	7.17	0	0	0	58.6
29 Oct 2025	Dundee United2–0	Home	64	6.73	0	0	0	51.2
25 Oct 2025	Livingston2–1	Away	90	7.11	0	0	0	74.7
18 Oct 2025	Falkirk1–2	Home	90	6.59	0	0	0	57.9
27 Sept 2025	Aberdeen2–0	Home	90	7.11	0	0	0	50.7
13 Sept 2025	Dundee1–1	Away	78	6.87	0	0	0	60.7

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
Teams represented: Motherwell · CelticSeason figures combine appearances for more than one club, so no single team label is applied.
Appearances: 28
Minutes: 2,290
Average opponent strength: 46.9Minutes-weighted, 0–100 team strength scale. Contextual only — it does not adjust the scores above.

Recent opponents: Hibernian, Hearts, Falkirk, Rangers, Dundee, Dundee United.

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
John Souttar	Rangers	Centre back	58.9	Compare
Liam Henderson	Falkirk	Centre back	58.9	Compare
Frankie Kent	Hearts	Centre back	58.5	Compare
Mats Knoester	Aberdeen	Centre back	59.7	Compare
Paul McGinn	Motherwell	Centre back	59.7	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