Salih Özcan

Turkey · Bundesliga · MF · TUR · age 28

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Turkey
Position: MF
Squad role: Bench
Position rank: #5
Intl caps: 28
Intl goals: 1
Intl assists: 1
: 0.36(model rating, 0–1)
: 1.4%

See Salih Özcan on the full Turkey scoring list →

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	G	A	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Euro 2024	4	166	0	0	0.0	1	0	10	7	2	5

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

1.08

Interceptions / 90

2.71

Ball recoveries / 90

2.17

Blocks / 90

2.71

Clearances / 90

1.63

Pressures / 90

23.86

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

5.42

Key passes / 90

0.00

Prog. carries / 90

3.80

Pass completion %

83.3%

Possession

Carries / 90

28.19

Dribbles / 90

0.00

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.

104

Career matches

6,409

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

3.7

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.03

xG / 90

0.05

xAG / 90

0.06

vs 355 MF 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
2016-17	Köln	Bundesliga	13	372	0	1	—	—
2017-18	Köln	Bundesliga	23	1,670	0	1	0.8	1.7
2020-21	Köln	Bundesliga	28	1,371	0	1	0.5	1.3
2021-22	Köln	Bundesliga	31	2,312	2	0	2.3	1.3
2022-23	Dortmund	Bundesliga	9	684	0	1	0.1	0.3

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.