Gareth Bale
Real Madrid · La Liga · FW · WAL · age 37
318
Career matches
23,957
Career minutes
133
Goals
62
Assists
32.0
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.50
79
xG / 90
0.12
48
xAG / 90
0.04
47
vs 189 FW 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | Tottenham | Premier League | 23 | 1,713 | 3 | 5 | — | — |
| 2010-11 | Tottenham | Premier League | 30 | 2,447 | 7 | 1 | — | — |
| 2011-12 | Tottenham | Premier League | 36 | 3,216 | 10 | 10 | — | — |
| 2012-13 | Tottenham | Premier League | 33 | 2,921 | 21 | 4 | — | — |
| 2013-14 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 27 | 2,062 | 15 | 12 | — | — |
| 2014-15 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 31 | 2,573 | 13 | 9 | — | — |
| 2015-16 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 23 | 1,733 | 19 | 10 | — | — |
| 2016-17 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 19 | 1,418 | 7 | 2 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 26 | 1,799 | 16 | 2 | 11.8 | 5.0 |
| 2018-19 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 29 | 1,786 | 8 | 3 | 9.1 | 2.9 |
| 2019-20 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 16 | 1,089 | 2 | 2 | 4.0 | 1.7 |
| 2020-21 | Tottenham | Premier League | 20 | 920 | 11 | 2 | 5.8 | 1.8 |
| 2021-22 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 5 | 280 | 1 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.1 |
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.