Lamine Yamal

Spain · FW

Lamine Yamal in Spain's red home kit, head-and-shoulders portrait.
Photo Biso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

The last dance

The teenager who already won a continental title

Lamine Yamal became the youngest player in European Championship history at 16 years and 338 days, then scored a goal against France in the semi-final that made the record feel like a footnote. Spain won Euro 2024 in large part because a teenager from the La Masia academy did things that seasoned internationals could not. He finished the tournament with the Young Player award and an air of inevitability.

At Barcelona he has been just as disruptive: 25 caps and 6 goals for Spain before his 19th birthday, a first-team regular at one of the biggest clubs in the world, and a composite rating (0.934) that puts him among the highest-rated players at this tournament. The numbers say he is already elite. The eye test says he might be generational.

His first World Cup comes with Spain as one of the favourites, a squad built around Pedri, Dani Olmo, and a defensive structure that concedes very little. For most players, a debut World Cup at 19 would be about learning. For Yamal, it is about whether he can do at 19 what he did at 16: win a major tournament and make it look like he belongs there more than anyone else on the pitch.

Profil Coupe du Monde 2026

Équipe
Spain
Poste
FW
Rôle dans l'effectif
Titulaire projeté
Classement au poste
#3
Sélections
25
Buts en sélection
6
Passes décisives en sélection
12
0.93(note du modèle, 0-1)
25.3%

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Forme récente

Rising

2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.49 vs 0.32).

Major tournament stats

TournamentMPMinGAxGShKPPrgPPrgCTklInt
Euro 20247514141.61814247763
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.

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Defending

Tackles won / 90
1.05
92
Interceptions / 90
0.53
69
Ball recoveries / 90
4.03
72
Blocks / 90
1.23
51
Clearances / 90
0.35
37
Pressures / 90
19.61
94

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90
4.20
88
Key passes / 90
2.45
97
Prog. carries / 90
13.48
94
Pass completion %
78.9%
71

Possession

Carries / 90
41.67
91
Dribbles / 90
2.10
77

Statistiques par 90 minutes issues des données de tournois majeurs (StatsBomb), classées parmi 65 forwards ayant joué 270 minutes ou plus dans les mêmes compétitions. Plus c'est haut, mieux c'est.

Profil international

Lamine Yamal has 25 caps and 6 international goals for Spain, a FW projeté titulaire. Les statistiques de carrière en championnats européens du Big-5 ne sont pas disponibles pour ce joueur, mais le modèle évalue tout de même ses perspectives pour 2026.

Perspectives de scoring : Spain →Effectif et modèle de Spain →

Rest of the Spain squad