Ante Budimir

Croatia · La Liga · FW · CRO · age 35

2026 World Cup squad profile

Position
FW
Squad role
Projected starter
Position rank
#3
Intl caps
36
Intl goals
6
Intl assists
6
0.58(model rating, 0–1)
37.9%

See Ante Budimir on the full Croatia scoring list →

Recent form

Cooling

2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.31 vs 0.35).

Major tournament stats

TournamentMPMinGAxGShKPPrgPPrgCTklInt
Euro 20243139010.5411111
World Cup 2022260000.1100010
Euro 2020143000.8203100
All tournaments6242011.4714221
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

Limited sample

Defending

Tackles won / 90
0.74
76
Interceptions / 90
0.37
56
Ball recoveries / 90
2.98
35
Blocks / 90
2.98
98
Clearances / 90
1.49
94
Pressures / 90
24.55
98

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90
1.49
18
Key passes / 90
0.37
14
Prog. carries / 90
0.74
0
Pass completion %
60.7%
2

Possession

Carries / 90
10.04
2
Dribbles / 90
0.37
11

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 66 forwards with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better. This player is below the 270-minute bar, so their own rates rest on a small sample: read the percentiles as indicative.

135
Career matches
8,503
Career minutes
39
Goals
4
Assists
36.3
xG

Career percentiles

Goals / 90
0.41
68
xG / 90
0.38
90
xAG / 90
0.05
50

vs 189 FW players with ≥3,000 career minutes in the dataset. Higher = better.

Career: goals & xG by season

GoalsxG
Career goals and xG by season, 6 seasons from 2016-17 to 2022-23, 39 total goals, 36.3 total xG.Career goals and xG by season, 6 seasons from 2016-17 to 2022-23, 39 total goals, 36.3 total xG.0371013171820212223

Season-by-season

SeasonClubLeagueGoalsAssists
2016-17SampdoriaSerie A1131300——
2017-18CrotoneSerie A221,588605.31.4
2019-20MallorcaLa Liga352,76513211.11.0
2020-21OsasunaLa Liga301,6251109.20.8
2021-22OsasunaLa Liga281,738828.90.9
2022-23OsasunaLa Liga9474101.80.5
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.

Rest of the Croatia squad