Wataru Endo

Japan · Bundesliga · MF · JPN · age 33

2026 World Cup squad profile

Recovering - Foot injury

Team: Japan
Position: MF
Squad role: Bench · #6
Position rank: #6
Intl caps: 72
Intl goals: 4
Intl assists: 4
: 0.37(model rating, 0–1)
: 0.4%

See Wataru Endo on the full Japan scoring list →

Recent form

Steady

2024/25 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (7.44 vs 7.43).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	G	A	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
World Cup 2022	4	329	0	0	0.2	6	4	37	26	2	4

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

0.55

Interceptions / 90

1.09

Ball recoveries / 90

6.84

Blocks / 90

2.74

Clearances / 90

3.01

Pressures / 90

19.15

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

10.12

Key passes / 90

1.09

Prog. carries / 90

7.11

Pass completion %

81.8%

Possession

Carries / 90

41.03

Dribbles / 90

0.27

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

Career matches

6,895

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

10.0

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.12

xG / 90

0.13

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
2020-21	Stuttgart	Bundesliga	33	2,955	3	3	2.6	1.8
2021-22	Stuttgart	Bundesliga	33	2,899	4	2	5.8	1.8
2022-23	Stuttgart	Bundesliga	12	1,041	2	0	1.6	0.8

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.