Mateo Kovačić

Croatia · Premier League · MF · CRO · age 32

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Croatia
Position: MF
Squad role: Projected starter
Position rank: #2
Intl caps: 111
Intl goals: 5
Intl assists: 9
: 0.77(model rating, 0–1)
: 2.3%

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Recent form

Rising

2024/25 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.13 vs 0.10).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	A	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Euro 2024	3	231	0	0.3	6	4	26	40	5	2
World Cup 2022	7	647	0	0.3	3	9	88	87	15	8
Euro 2020	4	342	1	0.1	4	3	44	49	5	6
World Cup 2018	5	209	1	0.4	4	3	22	24	4	1
All tournaments	19	1,429	2	1.1	17	19	180	200	29	17

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

1.83

Interceptions / 90

1.07

Ball recoveries / 90

4.60

Blocks / 90

1.26

Clearances / 90

0.76

Pressures / 90

21.60

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

11.34

Key passes / 90

1.20

Prog. carries / 90

12.60

Pass completion %

91.4%

Possession

Carries / 90

57.38

Dribbles / 90

1.70

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

278

Career matches

16,624

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

7.1

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.05

xG / 90

0.04

xAG / 90

0.05

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
2012-13	Inter	Serie A	13	1,026	0	1	—	—
2013-14	Inter	Serie A	32	1,617	0	4	—	—
2014-15	Inter	Serie A	35	2,461	5	4	—	—
2015-16	Real Madrid	La Liga	25	1,037	0	2	—	—
2016-17	Real Madrid	La Liga	28	1,778	1	3	—	—
2017-18	Real Madrid	La Liga	21	992	0	1	0.4	0.4
2018-19	Chelsea	Premier League	32	1,735	0	2	2.2	1.7
2019-20	Chelsea	Premier League	31	2,073	1	3	0.9	1.8
2020-21	Chelsea	Premier League	27	1,815	0	1	1.0	1.7
2021-22	Chelsea	Premier League	25	1,558	2	5	2.3	3.3
2022-23	Chelsea	Premier League	9	532	0	1	0.3	0.5

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.