Franck Kessié
Ivory Coast · MF · age 30
2026 World Cup squad profile
- Team
- Ivory Coast
- Position
- MF
- Squad role
- Projected starter
- Position rank
- #1
- Intl caps
- 102
- Intl goals
- 15
- Intl assists
- 9
- Composite rating
- 0.50(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 29.6%
See Franck Kessié on the full Ivory Coast scoring list →
Recent form
Cooling
2024/25 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (6.78 vs 7.16).
Major tournament stats
| Tournament | MP | Min | G | A | xG | Sh | KP | PrgP | PrgC | Tkl | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFCON 2023 | 7 | 662 | 2 | 1 | 1.4 | 10 | 6 | 49 | 42 | 10 | 4 |
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.
Full definitions in the glossary.
211
Career matches
17,156
Career minutes
41
Goals
11
Assists
39.3
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.22
77
xG / 90
0.21
95
xAG / 90
0.07
72
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 | MP | Mins | Goals | Assists | xG | xAG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Atalanta | Serie A | 30 | 2,220 | 6 | 3 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Milan | Serie A | 37 | 3,264 | 5 | 1 | 7.5 | 3.8 |
| 2018-19 | Milan | Serie A | 34 | 3,018 | 7 | 2 | 7.5 | 2.3 |
| 2019-20 | Milan | Serie A | 35 | 2,904 | 4 | 1 | 4.6 | 2.6 |
| 2020-21 | Milan | Serie A | 37 | 3,226 | 13 | 4 | 14.0 | 2.9 |
| 2021-22 | Milan | Serie A | 31 | 2,308 | 6 | 0 | 5.0 | 2.2 |
| 2022-23 | Barcelona | La Liga | 7 | 216 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 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.
Full definitions in the glossary.