Chris Wood
New Zealand · FW · age 35
2026 World Cup squad profile
- Team
- New Zealand
- Position
- FW
- Squad role
- Projected starter · #9
- Position rank
- #1
- Intl caps
- 88
- Intl goals
- 45
- Intl assists
- 7
- Composite rating
- 0.69(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 39.2%
See Chris Wood on the full New Zealand scoring list →
Recent form
Steady
2024/25 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.37 vs 0.38).
181
Career matches
12,359
Career minutes
72
Goals
7
Assists
53.2
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.52
79
xG / 90
0.39
91
xAG / 90
0.07
62
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 | MP | Mins | Goals | Assists | xG | xAG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | West Brom | Premier League | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014-15 | Leicester City | Premier League | 7 | 114 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Burnley | Premier League | 24 | 1,624 | 10 | 1 | 7.0 | 0.6 |
| 2018-19 | Burnley | Premier League | 38 | 2,588 | 10 | 2 | 8.8 | 3.8 |
| 2019-20 | Burnley | Premier League | 32 | 2,437 | 14 | 1 | 15.7 | 1.8 |
| 2020-21 | Burnley | Premier League | 33 | 2,741 | 12 | 3 | 13.0 | 1.9 |
| 2021-22 | Burnley | Premier League | 17 | 1,367 | 3 | 0 | 4.7 | 0.6 |
| 2021-22 | Newcastle Utd | Premier League | 17 | 1,327 | 2 | 0 | 3.4 | 1.2 |
| 2022-23 | Newcastle Utd | Premier League | 12 | 152 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| 2024-25wiki | Nottingham Forest | Premier League | — | — | 20 | — | — | — |
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.
Full definitions in the glossary.