Virgil van Dijk
Netherlands · DF · age 35
2026 World Cup squad profile
- Team
- Netherlands
- Position
- DF
- Squad role
- Projected starter
- Position rank
- #1
- Intl caps
- 90
- Intl goals
- 12
- Intl assists
- 0
- Composite rating
- 0.97(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 1.1%
See Virgil van Dijk on the full Netherlands scoring list →
Recent form
Steady
2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (4.91 vs 4.86).
Major tournament stats
| Tournament | MP | Min | G | A | xG | Sh | KP | PrgP | PrgC | Tkl | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euro 2024 | 6 | 572 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 5 | 3 | 112 | 29 | 4 | 3 |
| World Cup 2022 | 5 | 515 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 3 | 2 | 116 | 46 | 2 | 5 |
| All tournaments | 11 | 1,087 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 8 | 5 | 228 | 75 | 6 | 8 |
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.
208
Career matches
18,481
Career minutes
18
Goals
4
Assists
11.6
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.09
87
xG / 90
0.06
90
xAG / 90
0.03
75
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | Southampton | Premier League | 34 | 3,060 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016-17 | Southampton | Premier League | 21 | 1,853 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Liverpool | Premier League | 14 | 1,260 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 2017-18 | Southampton | Premier League | 12 | 994 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| 2018-19 | Liverpool | Premier League | 38 | 3,384 | 4 | 2 | 3.1 | 1.4 |
| 2019-20 | Liverpool | Premier League | 38 | 3,420 | 5 | 1 | 2.9 | 1.3 |
| 2020-21 | Liverpool | Premier League | 5 | 370 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| 2021-22 | Liverpool | Premier League | 34 | 3,060 | 3 | 1 | 2.5 | 1.7 |
| 2022-23 | Liverpool | Premier League | 12 | 1,080 | 1 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
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.