Son Heung-min
South Korea · FW · age 34
2026 World Cup squad profile
- Team
- South Korea
- Position
- FW
- Squad role
- Projected starter
- Position rank
- #1
- Intl caps
- 142
- Intl goals
- 54
- Intl assists
- 24
- Composite rating
- 0.71(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 42.0%
See Son Heung-min on the full South Korea scoring list →
Recent form
Cooling
2024/25 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.33 vs 0.39).
Major tournament stats
| Tournament | MP | Min | G | A | xG | Sh | KP | PrgP | PrgC | Tkl | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Cup 2022 | 4 | 386 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 35 | 2 | 1 |
| World Cup 2018 | 3 | 288 | 2 | 0 | 1.6 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 0 | 1 |
| All tournaments | 7 | 674 | 2 | 1 | 2.0 | 23 | 12 | 23 | 63 | 2 | 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.
380
Career matches
26,493
Career minutes
154
Goals
56
Assists
55.4
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.52
98
xG / 90
0.19
93
xAG / 90
0.12
88
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | Hamburger SV | Bundesliga | 13 | 720 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2011-12 | Hamburger SV | Bundesliga | 27 | 1,223 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2012-13 | Hamburger SV | Bundesliga | 33 | 2,689 | 12 | 2 | — | — |
| 2013-14 | Leverkusen | Bundesliga | 31 | 2,367 | 10 | 4 | — | — |
| 2014-15 | Leverkusen | Bundesliga | 30 | 2,280 | 11 | 2 | — | — |
| 2015-16 | Leverkusen | Bundesliga | 1 | 63 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015-16 | Tottenham | Premier League | 28 | 1,107 | 4 | 1 | — | — |
| 2016-17 | Tottenham | Premier League | 34 | 2,062 | 14 | 6 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Tottenham | Premier League | 37 | 2,317 | 12 | 6 | 10.2 | 6.2 |
| 2018-19 | Tottenham | Premier League | 31 | 2,039 | 12 | 6 | 7.5 | 3.6 |
| 2019-20 | Tottenham | Premier League | 30 | 2,476 | 11 | 10 | 8.9 | 6.4 |
| 2020-21 | Tottenham | Premier League | 37 | 3,114 | 17 | 10 | 9.7 | 8.4 |
| 2021-22 | Tottenham | Premier League | 35 | 3,006 | 23 | 7 | 15.6 | 8.5 |
| 2022-23 | Tottenham | Premier League | 13 | 1,030 | 3 | 2 | 3.5 | 2.7 |
| 2023-24wiki | Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League | — | — | 17 | — | — | — |
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.