which defender has the most interception ever

Virgil van Dijk has the most career interceptions by a defender in the Premier League, with 452 interceptions.

	NAME	INT	M	START	MIN	G	A	TKL	TKL-W	TKL-LM	SH-BLK	CLR	FOUL	YC	RC
1	Virgil van Dijk V. van Dijk	452	341	340	30,344	31	8	331	216	9	59	1,999	172	30	2
2	César Azpilicueta C. Azpilicueta	444	293	278	24,853	10	31	703	477	2	33	757	275	29	2
3	Jonny Evans J. Evans	439	254	231	20,556	10	9	340	218	1	13	1,117	208	44	1
4	James Tarkowski J. Tarkowski	438	342	327	29,476	13	11	563	344	10	39	2,004	328	72	0
5	Michael Keane M. Keane	424	285	259	23,636	19	11	292	186	4	36	1,636	150	29	2
6	Aaron Wan-Bissaka A. Wan-Bissaka	420	234	224	20,148	4	20	609	400	4	23	622	170	29	1
7	Jan Bednarek J. Bednarek	414	184	180	15,669	9	3	241	145	3	14	1,007	164	39	1
8	Harry Maguire H. Maguire	413	293	260	23,410	15	12	344	224	4	48	1,237	241	63	3
9	Benjamin Mee B. Mee	396	277	270	24,069	14	5	374	210	6	24	1,553	169	47	1
10	Laurent Koscielny L. Koscielny	393	135	130	11,514	14	0	191	123	1	8	786	92	17	1
11	Joel Ward J. Ward	387	270	257	23,039	5	5	541	397	1	25	971	277	48	0
12	Craig Dawson C. Dawson	386	282	270	24,117	21	3	339	230	4	44	1,297	267	56	2
13	Kyle Walker K. Walker	374	329	307	27,402	4	28	476	328	3	53	614	248	49	1
14	Nacho Monreal N. Monreal	369	154	147	13,087	6	10	324	215	1	13	476	122	17	0
15	Patrick van Aanholt P. van Aanholt	350	208	197	17,443	22	14	379	257	3	53	463	102	21	0
16	Lewis Dunk L. Dunk	336	301	297	26,515	17	6	299	178	6	51	1,226	173	58	5
17	Aaron Cresswell A. Cresswell	334	312	288	25,660	10	29	306	186	1	46	749	130	38	1
18	Kurt Zouma K. Zouma	328	247	219	19,588	15	3	220	147	5	26	1,237	152	19	1
19	Fabian Schär F. Schär	325	212	193	17,376	18	7	270	152	3	54	888	210	47	2
20	Federico Fernández F. Fernández	324	199	191	17,166	4	6	289	206	0	17	1,243	149	29	0
21	Ryan Bertrand R. Bertrand	324	218	217	19,446	7	15	336	221	2	29	359	200	31	2
22	Erik Pieters E. Pieters	320	189	171	15,403	0	11	475	341	1	14	563	283	32	0
23	Steve Cook S. Cook	319	180	175	15,551	10	3	182	103	3	24	1,343	93	28	1
24	Wes Morgan W. Morgan	314	170	159	14,326	8	2	200	134	3	22	902	129	16	3
25	Trent Alexander-Arnold T. Alexander-Arnold	302	259	235	20,711	18	64	419	271	5	112	382	124	31	0

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