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Daniel Ballard

Sunderland · Defender · 2026-27 · status: injured · selected by 1.3% of FPL managers
Born 22 September 1999 (27) · Stevenage, England · nationality Northern Ireland
Hamstring injury - Unknown return date
Minutes
450
Starts
5
FPL points
14
Price
£4.8m
Goals
0
Assists
0
xG
0.31
xA
0.16

Ballard has no goals or assists yet this season, in 450 minutes, far behind last season's pace.

Season by season

2026-27 against his past seasons · per 90 minutes

How this season compares with the ones before it. 2026-27 is drawn dashed — it is only 5 appearances old.

SeasonClubMinMin/matchStartsGAxGxADefCon/90CSFPL ptsFPL pts/90
2025-26Sunderland214456.424222.460.6311.0861164.87
2026-27Sunderland45064.35000.310.169.801142.80

Elsewhere

league seasons outside this league · API-Football
SeasonClubCompetitionAppsMinGA
2019-20Swindon TownLeague Two1200
2020-21BlackpoolLeague One28245821
2021-22MillwallChampionship31263910
2022-23SunderlandChampionship19161501
2023-24SunderlandChampionship43383630
2024-25SunderlandChampionship23142131

Playing time

minutes per club match · 2025-26 → 2026-27
Min / club match, 2026-27
64.3 of 90 · 450 min in 7 matches
Min / club match, 2025-26 (any club)
56.4 2144 min over 38
Min / club match trend
▲ +7.9 trend

Ball-winning

defensive contribution per 90 · 2026-27 vs 2025-26
DefCon / 90, 2026-27
9.80 49 in 450 min
DefCon / 90, 2025-26
11.08
DefCon / 90 trend
▼ -1.28 trend
Tackles
10 this season only
Recoveries
12 this season only
Clearances, blocks, interceptions
39 this season only

The trend

2026-27 vs 2025-26 · per 90 minutes
Rate2026-272025-26Trend
xGI/900.090.13-0.04
Goals/900.000.08-0.08
Assists/900.000.08-0.08
xG/900.060.10-0.04
xA/900.030.030.00
DefCon/909.8011.08-1.28
FPL pts/902.804.87-2.07
xGC/901.731.39+0.34
Goals conceded/902.001.47+0.53

Gameweek by gameweek

2026-27 · 5 appearances logged
GWOppResultMinGAxGxABonusPts
GW1A IPSL 1–290000.000.0100
GW2H FULW 1–090000.030.0008
GW3A BRED 1–190000.060.1404
GW4H ARSL 0–290000.080.0100
GW5A MCIL 3–590000.230.0002
About these numbers

Where the numbers come from. Every figure on this page is read from the official Fantasy Premier League API; a blank reads "—". Per-90 rates are the total × 90 ÷ minutes. "Points" are FPL fantasy points, the game's own scoring. xG, xA and xGC are the expected goals, assists and goals conceded the FPL API publishes.

Past seasons are the totals the FPL API records for him league-wide, and a season spent outside the league leaves a gap rather than a bridged line. The club column does not come from the API, which does not record it: it is read off his Wikipedia career table, and is blank where Wikipedia has no entry for that season. Expected goals and assists begin in 2022-23, and ball-winning actions in 2024-25; before those the API published none, so the seasons are blank rather than zero. A per-90 rate needs 90 minutes behind it, so a shorter season shows no rate at all. Minutes per club match is minutes over 38 for a past season.

Playing time = minutes ÷ the club's matches played, so a starter reads near 90 and a substitute reads his true share. 2026-27: 7 club matches so far. 2025-26: minutes over 38 matches for any Premier League club — the FPL API does not attribute a past season to a club, so a player who moved is measured at his previous club. The trend needs 450+ minutes last season and 90+ this season.

Defensive contribution is the Fantasy Premier League's composite of ball-winning actions: for defenders, clearances + blocks + interceptions + tackles; for midfielders and forwards, the same plus ball recoveries. Tackles, recoveries and clearances-blocks-interceptions are this-season counts only: the API's past-season totals carry just the composite, so no trend is available for those three.

Trend = this season's rate minus last season's (2026-27: 450 min; 2025-26: 2144 min).