Nico Elvedi

Switzerland · Bundesliga · DF · SUI · age 30

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Switzerland
Position: DF
Squad role: Projected starter · #4
Position rank: #2
Intl caps: 65
Intl goals: 3
Intl assists: 2
: 0.87(model rating, 0–1)
: 0.2%

See Nico Elvedi on the full Switzerland scoring list →

Recent form

Rising

2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (4.81 vs 4.67).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	xG	Sh	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
World Cup 2022	2	191	0.2	1	31	31	0	3
Euro 2020	5	536	0.3	3	76	51	6	15
All tournaments	7	727	0.5	4	107	82	6	18

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

0.74

Interceptions / 90

2.23

Ball recoveries / 90

2.60

Blocks / 90

0.99

Clearances / 90

5.69

Pressures / 90

8.91

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

13.25

Key passes / 90

0.00

Prog. carries / 90

10.15

Pass completion %

91.4%

Possession

Carries / 90

37.14

Dribbles / 90

0.12

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

209

Career matches

17,720

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

7.8

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.06

xG / 90

0.04

xAG / 90

0.02

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
2015-16	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	21	1,548	0	2	—	—
2016-17	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	25	2,106	0	0	—	—
2017-18	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	33	2,914	2	2	1.6	1.8
2018-19	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	30	2,623	2	1	1.4	0.7
2019-20	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	32	2,618	1	0	0.8	0.1
2020-21	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	29	2,536	3	1	1.7	0.1
2021-22	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	28	2,430	1	0	1.4	0.1
2022-23	M'Gladbach	Bundesliga	11	945	2	0	0.9	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.