Kalidou Koulibaly
Senegal · DF · age 35
2026 World Cup squad profile
Recovering — Leg injury
- Team
- Senegal
- Position
- DF
- Squad role
- Projected starter
- Position rank
- #2
- Intl caps
- 102
- Intl goals
- 2
- Intl assists
- 6
- Composite rating
- 0.65(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 0.2%
See Kalidou Koulibaly on the full Senegal scoring list →
Recent form
Cooling
2024/25 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (7.02 vs 7.24).
Major tournament stats
| Tournament | MP | Min | G | A | xG | Sh | KP | PrgP | PrgC | Tkl | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFCON 2023 | 4 | 419 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 3 | 3 | 80 | 38 | 4 | 2 |
| World Cup 2022 | 4 | 386 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 26 | 7 | 6 |
| World Cup 2018 | 3 | 281 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 21 | 1 | 5 |
| All tournaments | 11 | 1,086 | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | 4 | 4 | 188 | 85 | 12 | 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.
Full definitions in the glossary.
244
Career matches
21,353
Career minutes
14
Goals
4
Assists
8.5
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.06
69
xG / 90
0.04
76
xAG / 90
0.01
54
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 | MP | Mins | Goals | Assists | xG | xAG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | Napoli | Serie A | 27 | 2,425 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015-16 | Napoli | Serie A | 33 | 2,888 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016-17 | Napoli | Serie A | 28 | 2,471 | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Napoli | Serie A | 35 | 3,066 | 5 | 1 | 2.6 | 0.3 |
| 2018-19 | Napoli | Serie A | 35 | 3,132 | 2 | 2 | 2.4 | 0.3 |
| 2019-20 | Napoli | Serie A | 25 | 2,105 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
| 2020-21 | Napoli | Serie A | 26 | 2,209 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.2 |
| 2021-22 | Napoli | Serie A | 27 | 2,405 | 3 | 1 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| 2022-23 | Chelsea | Premier League | 8 | 652 | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
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.