Jefferson Lerma

Colombia · Premier League · MF,DF · COL · age 32

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Colombia
Position: MF
Squad role: Projected starter
Position rank: #2
Intl caps: 64
Intl goals: 5
Intl assists: 3
: 0.51(model rating, 0–1)
: 2.8%

See Jefferson Lerma on the full Colombia scoring list →

Recent form

Rising

2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.10 vs 0.05).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	G	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Copa América 2024	5	435	2	0.3	8	2	45	33	7	8
World Cup 2018	4	190	0	0.1	2	2	17	14	1	3
All tournaments	9	625	2	0.4	10	4	62	47	8	11

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

1.15

Interceptions / 90

1.58

Ball recoveries / 90

3.60

Blocks / 90

2.16

Clearances / 90

1.01

Pressures / 90

13.54

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

8.93

Key passes / 90

0.58

Prog. carries / 90

6.77

Pass completion %

82.4%

Possession

Carries / 90

33.26

Dribbles / 90

0.14

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 102 midfielders with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better.

135

Career matches

11,196

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

4.7

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.05

xG / 90

0.04

xAG / 90

0.03

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
2015-16	Levante	La Liga	33	2,682	1	2	—	—
2017-18	Levante	La Liga	26	2,135	0	1	1.2	1.5
2018-19	Bournemouth	Premier League	30	2,506	2	0	1.3	1.1
2019-20	Bournemouth	Premier League	33	2,703	1	2	1.2	1.4
2022-23	Bournemouth	Premier League	13	1,170	2	0	1.0	0.2

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.