which defender has the most interceptions

Virgil van Dijk has the most career interceptions by a defender in the Premier League, with 451 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	451	339	338	30,164	31	8	329	215	9	58	1,980	172	29	2
2	César Azpilicueta C. Azpilicueta	444	293	278	24,854	10	31	703	477	2	33	757	275	29	2
3	Jonny Evans J. Evans	439	254	231	20,555	10	9	340	218	1	13	1,117	208	44	1
4	James Tarkowski J. Tarkowski	432	340	325	29,290	12	11	561	343	10	39	1,995	327	72	0
5	Michael Keane M. Keane	424	285	259	23,633	19	11	292	186	4	36	1,636	150	29	2
6	Aaron Wan-Bissaka A. Wan-Bissaka	420	233	224	20,137	4	20	607	399	4	23	622	169	29	1
7	Jan Bednarek J. Bednarek	414	184	180	15,668	9	3	241	145	3	14	1,007	164	39	1
8	Harry Maguire H. Maguire	410	291	258	23,230	15	12	343	224	4	48	1,231	239	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	11,513	14	0	191	123	1	8	786	92	17	1
11	Joel Ward J. Ward	387	270	257	23,040	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	27,405	4	28	476	328	3	53	614	248	49	1
14	Nacho Monreal N. Monreal	369	154	147	13,085	6	10	324	215	1	13	476	122	17	0
15	Patrick van Aanholt P. van Aanholt	350	208	197	17,444	22	14	379	257	3	53	463	102	21	0
16	Lewis Dunk L. Dunk	334	299	295	26,336	17	6	297	176	6	51	1,225	170	57	5
17	Aaron Cresswell A. Cresswell	334	312	288	25,634	10	29	306	186	1	46	749	130	38	1
18	Kurt Zouma K. Zouma	328	247	219	19,586	15	3	220	147	5	26	1,237	152	19	1
19	Fabian Schär F. Schär	325	211	193	17,376	18	7	270	152	3	54	888	210	47	2
20	Federico Fernández F. Fernández	324	199	191	17,165	4	6	289	206	0	17	1,243	149	29	0
21	Ryan Bertrand R. Bertrand	324	218	217	19,417	7	15	336	221	2	29	359	200	31	2
22	Erik Pieters E. Pieters	320	189	171	15,404	0	11	475	341	1	14	563	283	32	0
23	Steve Cook S. Cook	319	180	175	15,554	10	3	182	103	3	24	1,343	93	28	1
24	Wes Morgan W. Morgan	314	170	159	14,327	8	2	200	134	3	22	902	129	16	3
25	Trent Alexander-Arnold T. Alexander-Arnold	302	259	235	20,715	18	64	419	271	5	112	382	124	31	0

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