Nayef Aguerd

Morocco · Ligue 1 · DF · MAR · age 30

2026 World Cup squad profile

Recovering - Groin injury

Team: Morocco
Position: DF
Squad role: Projected starter
Position rank: #3
Intl caps: 64
Intl goals: 2
Intl assists: 4
: 0.85(model rating, 0–1)
: 0.3%

See Nayef Aguerd on the full Morocco scoring list →

Recent form

Rising

2024/25 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (7.56 vs 6.92).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
AFCON 2023	4	392	0.1	1	1	109	39	5	2
World Cup 2022	4	368	0.3	1	1	48	15	3	4
All tournaments	8	760	0.3	2	2	157	54	8	6

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

Defending

Tackles won / 90

0.95

Interceptions / 90

0.71

Ball recoveries / 90

2.25

Blocks / 90

0.71

Clearances / 90

3.32

Pressures / 90

4.03

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

18.59

Key passes / 90

0.24

Prog. carries / 90

6.39

Pass completion %

90.3%

Possession

Carries / 90

37.42

Dribbles / 90

0.00

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 128 defenders with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better.

Career matches

7,889

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

7.5

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.10

xG / 90

0.09

xAG / 90

0.01

vs 392 DF 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	Dijon	Ligue 1	13	1,050	3	0	1.5	0.1
2019-20	Dijon	Ligue 1	11	957	1	0	0.3	0.0
2020-21	Rennes	Ligue 1	35	3,147	3	1	3.2	0.7
2021-22	Rennes	Ligue 1	31	2,735	2	2	2.5	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.