Silvan Widmer

Switzerland · Bundesliga · DF · SUI · age 33

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Switzerland
Position: DF
Squad role: Projected starter · #3
Position rank: #3
Intl caps: 58
Intl goals: 5
Intl assists: 5
: 0.36(model rating, 0–1)
: 1.5%

See Silvan Widmer on the full Switzerland scoring list →

Recent form

Cooling

2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (4.55 vs 4.69).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	A	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Euro 2024	4	310	0	0.2	2	1	17	10	2	2
World Cup 2022	3	281	1	0.1	1	1	38	23	8	4
Euro 2020	4	299	0	0.1	1	0	31	16	3	7
All tournaments	11	890	1	0.3	4	2	86	49	13	13

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

1.31

Interceptions / 90

1.31

Ball recoveries / 90

3.24

Blocks / 90

2.12

Clearances / 90

2.63

Pressures / 90

14.76

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

8.70

Key passes / 90

0.20

Prog. carries / 90

4.96

Pass completion %

78.8%

Possession

Carries / 90

30.13

Dribbles / 90

0.10

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 128 defenders with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better.

174

Career matches

13,804

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

6.0

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.07

xG / 90

0.04

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	Udinese	Serie A	16	1,083	0	0	—	—
2014-15	Udinese	Serie A	36	3,007	2	4	—	—
2015-16	Udinese	Serie A	27	1,908	0	2	—	—
2016-17	Udinese	Serie A	28	2,490	0	4	—	—
2017-18	Udinese	Serie A	24	1,625	3	2	1.4	2.0
2021-22	Mainz 05	Bundesliga	33	2,920	4	5	2.7	2.7
2022-23	Mainz 05	Bundesliga	10	771	1	0	1.9	0.4

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.