Alireza Jahanbakhsh

Iran · Premier League · FW,MF · IRN · age 33

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Iran
Position: MF
Squad role: Projected starter
Position rank: #1
Intl caps: 98
Intl goals: 17
Intl assists: 10
: 0.83(model rating, 0–1)
: 5.9%

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Recent form

Steady

2022/23 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (7.49 vs 7.57).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
World Cup 2022	2	72	0.2	3	0	3	4	1	1
World Cup 2018	3	173	0.1	2	3	9	12	4	2
All tournaments	5	245	0.2	5	3	12	16	5	3

Event data from StatsBomb open data, covering the World Cup, Euro, Copa América and AFCON finals. Small per-tournament samples. Totals shown, not per-90 rates.

▸How to read this table— 11 columns explained

MP: Matches played in the tournament.
Min: Total minutes on the pitch.
G: Goals scored (penalties in normal play included; shootouts excluded).
A: Assists: passes that directly led to a goal.
xG: Expected goals: summed per-shot quality (StatsBomb's model).
Sh: Shots taken.
KP: Key passes: passes that led to a shot.
PrgP: Progressive passes: completed passes moving the ball ≥10m toward goal.
PrgC: Progressive carries: carries advancing ≥5m toward goal.
Tkl: Tackles won.
Int: Interceptions.

Tournament scouting radar

Limited sample

Defending

Tackles won / 90

1.84

Interceptions / 90

1.10

Ball recoveries / 90

5.14

Blocks / 90

1.47

Clearances / 90

0.37

Pressures / 90

22.78

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

4.41

Key passes / 90

1.10

Prog. carries / 90

5.88

Pass completion %

60.0%

Possession

Carries / 90

20.57

Dribbles / 90

2.20

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 103 midfielders with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better. This player is below the 270-minute bar, so their own rates rest on a small sample: read the percentiles as indicative.

Career matches

1,859

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

2.9

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.10

xG / 90

0.14

xAG / 90

0.18

vs 190 FW players with ≥3,000 career minutes in the dataset. Higher = better.

Career: goals & xG by season

GoalsxG

Season-by-season

Season	Club	League			Goals	Assists
2018-19	Brighton	Premier League	19	1,020	0	0	0.8	0.2
2019-20	Brighton	Premier League	10	311	2	0	0.6	0.6
2020-21	Brighton	Premier League	21	528	0	1	1.5	3.0

FBref data ≤ 2022-23. Rows tagged wiki are top-scorer entries from Wikipedia and only carry goals.

▸How to read this table— 6 columns explained

MP: Matches played in that season (start or sub counts as one).
Mins: Total minutes on the pitch — better signal for workload than MP alone.
Goals: Goals scored (penalties included).
Assists: Passes that directly led to a goal (FBref attribution).
xG: Expected goals — per-shot quality scored 0–1 by distance / angle / pressure, summed across the season.
xAG: Expected assisted goals — the xG of shots created by this player's passes, summed.

FBref data ends 2022-23; current-season rows tagged wiki come from Wikipedia top-scorer tables and carry only goals.