Lamine Yamal

Spain · FW

Lamine Yamal in Spain's red home kit, head-and-shoulders portrait.
Photo Biso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

The last dance

The teenager who already won a continental title

Lamine Yamal became the youngest player in European Championship history at 16 years and 338 days, then scored a goal against France in the semi-final that made the record feel like a footnote. Spain won Euro 2024 in large part because a teenager from the La Masia academy did things that seasoned internationals could not. He finished the tournament with the Young Player award and an air of inevitability.

At Barcelona he has been just as disruptive: 25 caps and 6 goals for Spain before his 19th birthday, a first-team regular at one of the biggest clubs in the world, and a composite rating (0.934) that puts him among the highest-rated players at this tournament. The numbers say he is already elite. The eye test says he might be generational.

His first World Cup comes with Spain as one of the favourites, a squad built around Pedri, Dani Olmo, and a defensive structure that concedes very little. For most players, a debut World Cup at 19 would be about learning. For Yamal, it is about whether he can do at 19 what he did at 16: win a major tournament and make it look like he belongs there more than anyone else on the pitch.

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team
Spain
Position
FW
Squad role
Projected starter
Position rank
#3
Intl caps
25
Intl goals
6
Intl assists
12
0.93(model rating, 0–1)
25.3%

See Lamine Yamal on the full Spain scoring list →

Recent form

Rising

2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.49 vs 0.32).

Major tournament stats

TournamentMPMinGAxGShKPPrgPPrgCTklInt
Euro 20247514141.61814247763
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
1.05
92
Interceptions / 90
0.53
69
Ball recoveries / 90
4.03
72
Blocks / 90
1.23
51
Clearances / 90
0.35
37
Pressures / 90
19.61
94

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90
4.20
88
Key passes / 90
2.45
97
Prog. carries / 90
13.48
94
Pass completion %
78.9%
71

Possession

Carries / 90
41.67
91
Dribbles / 90
2.10
77

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 65 forwards with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better.

International profile

Lamine Yamal has 25 caps and 6 international goals for Spain, a FW projected to start. Big-5 European league career stats aren't available for this player, but the model still rates their 2026 outlook.

Scoring outlook: Spain →Spain squad & model →

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