Kaan Ayhan

Turkey · Serie A · DF · TUR · age 32

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Turkey
Position: MF
Squad role: Projected starter
Position rank: #3
Intl caps: 72
Intl goals: 5
Intl assists: 4
: 0.30(model rating, 0–1)
: 0.7%

See Kaan Ayhan on the full Turkey scoring list →

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	A	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Euro 2024	5	370	1	0.2	3	3	41	24	6	3
Euro 2020	3	188	0	0.2	3	2	35	17	1	5
All tournaments	8	558	1	0.4	6	5	76	41	7	8

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

1.13

Interceptions / 90

1.29

Ball recoveries / 90

2.26

Blocks / 90

1.61

Clearances / 90

2.90

Pressures / 90

9.35

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

12.26

Key passes / 90

0.81

Prog. carries / 90

6.61

Pass completion %

89.5%

Possession

Carries / 90

38.87

Dribbles / 90

0.32

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

141

Career matches

9,614

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

5.4

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.07

xG / 90

0.05

xAG / 90

0.03

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
2013-14	Schalke 04	Bundesliga	14	879	1	1	—	—
2014-15	Schalke 04	Bundesliga	15	960	0	0	—	—
2015-16	Eint Frankfurt	Bundesliga	2	79	0	0	—	—
2015-16	Schalke 04	Bundesliga	1	1	0	0	—	—
2018-19	Düsseldorf	Bundesliga	28	2,449	4	1	2.3	0.4
2019-20	Düsseldorf	Bundesliga	31	2,731	2	3	2.2	2.3
2020-21	Sassuolo	Serie A	19	796	0	0	0.5	0.0
2021-22	Sassuolo	Serie A	23	1,354	1	0	0.4	0.1
2022-23	Sassuolo	Serie A	8	365	0	0	0.0	0.0

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.