Nicolas Pépé
Ivory Coast · FW · age 31
2026 World Cup squad profile
- Team
- Ivory Coast
- Position
- FW
- Squad role
- Projected starter
- Position rank
- #1
- Intl caps
- 54
- Intl goals
- 12
- Intl assists
- 4
- Composite rating
- 0.57(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 9.5%
See Nicolas Pépé on the full Ivory Coast scoring list →
Recent form
Steady
2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.30 vs 0.28).
Major tournament stats
| Tournament | MP | Min | G | A | xG | Sh | KP | PrgP | PrgC | Tkl | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFCON 2023 | 5 | 241 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 2 |
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.
196
Career matches
12,523
Career minutes
57
Goals
25
Assists
47.4
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.41
63
xG / 90
0.34
85
xAG / 90
0.16
92
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Angers | Ligue 1 | 33 | 1,321 | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Lille | Ligue 1 | 36 | 2,841 | 13 | 4 | 8.2 | 3.9 |
| 2018-19 | Lille | Ligue 1 | 38 | 3,324 | 22 | 11 | 21.1 | 9.6 |
| 2019-20 | Arsenal | Premier League | 31 | 2,010 | 5 | 6 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| 2020-21 | Arsenal | Premier League | 29 | 1,616 | 10 | 1 | 5.8 | 1.0 |
| 2021-22 | Arsenal | Premier League | 20 | 696 | 1 | 2 | 2.7 | 1.9 |
| 2022-23 | Nice | Ligue 1 | 9 | 715 | 3 | 0 | 4.7 | 1.2 |
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.