N'Golo Kanté

France · Premier League · MF · FRA · age 35

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: France
Position: MF
Squad role: Projected starter · #13
Position rank: #2
Intl caps: 67
Intl goals: 2
Intl assists: 3
: 0.68(model rating, 0–1)
: 1.6%

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Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Euro 2024	6	535	0.2	5	10	69	54	8	7
Euro 2020	4	415	0.0	1	1	49	36	8	11
World Cup 2018	7	621	0.0	1	1	74	74	14	22
All tournaments	17	1,571	0.3	7	12	192	164	30	40

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

1.72

Interceptions / 90

2.29

Ball recoveries / 90

4.81

Blocks / 90

2.18

Clearances / 90

0.63

Pressures / 90

22.63

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

11.00

Key passes / 90

0.69

Prog. carries / 90

9.40

Pass completion %

89.9%

Possession

Carries / 90

45.03

Dribbles / 90

0.69

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

259

Career matches

21,254

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

8.1

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.06

xG / 90

0.03

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
2014-15	Caen	Ligue 1	37	3,183	2	5	—	—
2015-16	Leicester City	Premier League	37	3,022	1	4	—	—
2016-17	Chelsea	Premier League	35	3,138	1	1	—	—
2017-18	Chelsea	Premier League	34	2,994	1	1	0.8	2.9
2018-19	Chelsea	Premier League	36	3,092	4	4	2.9	3.5
2019-20	Chelsea	Premier League	22	1,732	3	0	1.4	1.5
2020-21	Chelsea	Premier League	30	2,146	0	2	0.6	1.3
2021-22	Chelsea	Premier League	26	1,773	2	4	2.3	2.5
2022-23	Chelsea	Premier League	2	174	0	0	0.1	0.3

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.