Bruno Fernandes Leads Premier League Assist Record Chase At 19
Bruno Fernandes moved to 19 Premier League assists and pulled within one of the premier league assist record after setting up Benjamin Sesko in Manchester United’s 2-1 win over Brentford on Monday night. He now has four league games left to match or break the mark, and his season has already outpaced every previous English top-flight campaign he has produced.
Fernandes And Sesko Deliver
The decisive touch came from Fernandes, whose pass released Sesko for the goal that helped Manchester United leave Brentford with three points. That assist was his 19th of the Premier League season, and it also took him seven beyond his previous best in an English top-flight campaign.
Thierry Henry set the all-time Premier League seasonal assist record with 20 in 2002-03, and Kevin De Bruyne matched it with 20 in 2019-20. Fernandes is now one away from joining them after a run that has carried him from a slow start to the edge of the mark.
Manchester United’s Run Of Assists
Fernandes did not register an assist in his first seven league appearances of the 2025-26 campaign. Since then, he has produced 19 assists in his last 24 Premier League games, with his first coming against Liverpool on 19 October.
That stretch gives Manchester United a clear final stretch to watch. With four league games left after Brentford, Fernandes has time to equal or pass the seasonal record and finish a campaign that has already become his most productive for assists in English football.
Fernandes In United History
His 70 Premier League assists all came for Manchester United, and that total leaves him 18th in the league’s all-time assist charts. Since his debut for the club on 1 February 2020, he has led the Premier League in assists, while Mohamed Salah is next in that span with 68.
Fernandes has also reached 140 Premier League goal involvements since 1 February 2020, split evenly between 70 goals and 70 assists. He has created 114 chances this season with four matchdays still to play, matching his total from 2023-24 and sitting one short of his personal best of 119 set in 2022-23.
He has created 52 more chances than Declan Rice and Dominik Szoboszlai, who are tied on 61 this season, and 220 more than any other Premier League player since the start of February 2020. The record chase is now simple for Manchester United: Fernandes needs one more assist to stand alone at the top, and four games remain for him to get it.
