Player ratings
Setting the board…
ratings, movement, minutes, one read from the record
Leaderboards
the measures beyond the rating · sourced scorers + our own xG model · a shadow signal, it never moves a live call
The race · sourced
the ratings board →The World Cup’s top scorers and creators, counted from the goals we captured, own goals and missed penalties excluded, the same rule the match timeline uses. Sourced facts, not a model.
TOP SCORERS
- 1L. MessiArgentina60 assists
- 2E. HaalandNorway40 assists
- 3D. UndavGermany32 assists
- 4I. SarrSenegal31 assist
- 5J. ManzambiSwitzerland31 assist
- 6Vinicius JuniorBrazil31 assist
- 7E. JustNew Zealand30 assists
- 8H. KaneEngland30 assists
- 9J. DavidCanada30 assists
- 10K. HavertzGermany30 assists
- 11M. CunhaBrazil30 assists
- 12O. DembeleFrance30 assists
- 13Y. WissaDR Congo30 assists
- 14K. MbappeFrance22 assists
- 15A. UedaJapan21 assist
TOP CREATORS
- 1A. IsakSweden31 goal
- 2Bruno GuimaraesBrazil30 goals
- 3D. UndavGermany23 goals
- 4K. MbappeFrance22 goals
- 5I. NdiayeSenegal21 goal
- 6J. KimmichGermany21 goal
- 7M. SalahEgypt21 goal
- 8N. SalibaCanada21 goal
- 9B. EmboloSwitzerland20 goals
- 10B. SakaEngland20 goals
- 11C. WoodNew Zealand20 goals
- 12D. DumfriesNetherlands20 goals
- 13F. WirtzGermany20 goals
- 14H. AouarAlgeria20 goals
- 15M. OdegaardNorway20 goals
By our xG model · per position
The strongest players by what OUR xG model measures, role by role: chance quality created and taken for forwards, goals prevented for keepers, defensive value for defenders. A percentile among position peers, scored on club and archive football, our own model, never a number we bought. Squads confirmed 2026-06-29.
Goalkeepers
top 6- 1T. CourtoisBelgium · Goalkeeper83rd pct0.05 goals prevented per shot on target faced
- 2Unai SimónSpain · Goalkeeper80th pct0.05 goals prevented per shot on target faced
- 3J. PickfordEngland · Goalkeeper74th pct0.03 goals prevented per shot on target faced
- 4E. MartínezArgentina · Goalkeeper47th pct-0.15 goals prevented per shot on target faced
- 5B. VerbruggenNetherlands · Goalkeeper43rd pct-0.16 goals prevented per shot on target faced
- 6D. LivakovicCroatia · Goalkeeper38th pct-0.01 goals prevented per shot on target faced
Defenders
top 10- 1Hassan TambaktiSaudi Arabia · Defender100th pct6.22 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 2João CanceloPortugal · Defender99th pct6.03 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 3J. KoundéFrance · Defender99th pct5.88 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 4Kim Min-JaeSouth Korea · Defender98th pct5.80 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 5W. PachoEcuador · Defender98th pct5.80 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 6Nawaf BoushalSaudi Arabia · Defender98th pct5.70 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 7M. OliveraUruguay · Defender97th pct5.37 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 8R. JamesEngland · Defender96th pct5.18 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 9S. PoschAustria · Defender95th pct5.06 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- 10Nuno MendesPortugal · Defender94th pct5.04 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
Midfielders
top 10- 1Ferran TorresSpain · Midfielder99th pct0.58 npxG per 90
- 2O. WatkinsEngland · Midfielder98th pct0.47 npxG per 90
- 3K. De BruyneBelgium · Midfielder97th pct0.50 npxG + xA per 90
- 4Dani OlmoSpain · Midfielder96th pct0.49 npxG + xA per 90
- 5L. DíazColombia · Midfielder96th pct0.43 npxG per 90
- 6C. PulisicUSA · Midfielder95th pct0.46 npxG + xA per 90
- 7J. MusialaGermany · Midfielder93rd pct0.42 npxG + xA per 90
- 8João PauloCape Verde · Midfielder91st pct0.40 npxG + xA per 90
- 9O. DembéléFrance · Midfielder90th pct0.40 npxG + xA per 90
- 10M. RashfordEngland · Midfielder90th pct0.32 npxG per 90
Attackers
top 10- 1D. MalenNetherlands · Attacker100th pct0.64 npxG per 90
- 2L. MessiArgentina · Attacker100th pct0.77 npxG + xA per 90
- 3E. HaalandNorway · Attacker100th pct0.58 npxG per 90
- 4A. SørlothNorway · Attacker100th pct0.58 npxG per 90
- 5K. HavertzGermany · Attacker99th pct0.70 npxG + xA per 90
- 6L. SuárezColombia · Attacker99th pct0.68 npxG + xA per 90
- 7Y. WissaDR Congo · Attacker99th pct0.54 npxG per 90
- 8Cristiano RonaldoPortugal · Attacker99th pct0.62 npxG + xA per 90
- 9Lamine YamalSpain · Attacker99th pct0.62 npxG + xA per 90
- 10R. LukakuBelgium · Attacker99th pct0.56 npxG + xA per 90
Measured over club and archive seasons, not this tournament: a player’s World Cup xG joins here once we score his shots through our model after each match. The number never moves a live call.
How this is measured
The race is sourced fact, the captured goals and assists. The per-position board is our own expected-goals model: we score every shot ourselves and rank a player among his position’s peers, then show the percentile and the rate behind it. Our model, the working shown, never a figure we republished.
Expected goals trained on StatsBomb Open Data (non-commercial research use, with attribution).