Romelu Lukaku
Belgium · FW · age 33
2026 World Cup squad profile
Recovering — muscular problems
- Team
- Belgium
- Position
- FW
- Squad role
- Projected starter
- Position rank
- #1
- Intl caps
- 124
- Intl goals
- 89
- Intl assists
- 18
- Composite rating
- 0.61(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 5.5%
See Romelu Lukaku on the full Belgium scoring list →
Recent form
Cooling
2024/25 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.30 vs 0.34).
Major tournament stats
| Tournament | MP | Min | G | A | xG | Sh | KP | PrgP | PrgC | Tkl | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euro 2024 | 4 | 374 | 0 | 1 | 1.8 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| World Cup 2022 | 2 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Euro 2020 | 5 | 461 | 4 | 0 | 2.7 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| World Cup 2018 | 6 | 488 | 4 | 0 | 2.6 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| All tournaments | 17 | 1,386 | 8 | 1 | 8.7 | 43 | 10 | 15 | 54 | 0 | 1 |
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.
354
Career matches
26,776
Career minutes
196
Goals
50
Assists
73.9
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.66
88
xG / 90
0.25
74
xAG / 90
0.07
63
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | Chelsea | Premier League | 8 | 165 | 0 | 1 | — | — |
| 2012-13 | West Brom | Premier League | 35 | 2,005 | 17 | 4 | — | — |
| 2013-14 | Chelsea | Premier League | 2 | 42 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2013-14 | Everton | Premier League | 31 | 2,556 | 15 | 7 | — | — |
| 2014-15 | Everton | Premier League | 36 | 2,870 | 10 | 5 | — | — |
| 2015-16 | Everton | Premier League | 37 | 3,169 | 18 | 6 | — | — |
| 2016-17 | Everton | Premier League | 37 | 3,266 | 25 | 6 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Manchester Utd | Premier League | 34 | 2,867 | 16 | 7 | 13.2 | 4.7 |
| 2018-19 | Manchester Utd | Premier League | 32 | 2,136 | 12 | 0 | 10.5 | 2.2 |
| 2019-20 | Inter | Serie A | 36 | 2,979 | 23 | 2 | 19.0 | 4.5 |
| 2020-21 | Inter | Serie A | 36 | 2,884 | 24 | 11 | 23.0 | 7.0 |
| 2021-22 | Chelsea | Premier League | 26 | 1,589 | 8 | 0 | 7.0 | 3.4 |
| 2022-23 | Inter | Serie A | 4 | 248 | 1 | 1 | 1.2 | 0.1 |
| 2023-24wiki | Roma | Serie A | — | — | 13 | — | — | — |
| 2024-25wiki | Napoli | Serie A | — | — | 14 | — | — | — |
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.