Lyon’s Rayan Cherki – Europe’s top passer | OneFootball

If this is Rayan Cherki’s (21) final season at formative club Olympique Lyonnais, then he is making it a special one. The Frenchman registered another two assists in Lyon’s 4-0 win over FCSB on Thursday night, which ensured the club’s progression to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League, where they will face Manchester United.

Cherki now has 11 assists in all competitions since the start of 2025, the highest total of any player playing for a club in Europe’s top five leagues and one more than Paris Saint-Germain’s Bradley Barcola. With three goals and 11 assists since the start of February, he is also level with Ousmane Dembélé and Mohamed Salah with 14 goal contributions, as per Stats Foot.

Cherki, with eight assists in this season’s Europa League, tops the assists charts in the competition whilst the figure is the highest of any player in the competition for the past 20 years.

GFFN | Luke Entwistle