David Villa
Spanish footballer (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Spain
- Born
- 3 December 1981
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 2001–2020
Clubs Sporting de Gijón · Real Zaragoza · Valencia CF · FC Barcelona · Atlético Madrid · New York City FC · Melbourne City FC · Vissel Kobe
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
588
Club league goals
318
International caps
130
International goals
94
League goals / match
0.54
International goals / cap
0.72
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asturias autonomous football teamNational team | 2001–2002 | Full caps | 32 | 27 |
| Sporting de GijónClub | 2001–2003 | League | 80 | 38 |
| Real ZaragozaClub | 2003–2005 | League | 73 | 32 |
| Spain men's national football teamNational team | 2005–2014 | Full caps | 98 | 67 |
| Valencia CFClub | 2005–2010 | League | 166 | 107 |
| FC BarcelonaClub | 2010–2013 | League | 77 | 33 |
| Atlético MadridClub | 2013–2014 | League | 36 | 13 |
| Melbourne City FCClub | 2014 | League | 4 | 2 |
| New York City FCClub | 2014–2018 | League | 124 | 80 |
| Vissel KobeClub | 2019–2020 | League | 28 | 13 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×3
La Liga
Domestic
- 2010–11 · FC Barcelona
- 2012–13 · FC Barcelona
- 2013–14 · Atlético Madrid
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 2010–11 · FC Barcelona
- ×1
FIFA Club World Cup
Continental club
- 2011 · FC Barcelona
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 2010 · Spain men's national football team
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 2008 · Spain men's national football team
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
2001
- Senior international debut: Asturias autonomous football team — Until 2002
- Joins Sporting de Gijón — Until 2003
2003
- Joins Real Zaragoza — Until 2005
2005
- Senior international debut: Spain men's national football team — Until 2014
- Joins Valencia CF — Until 2010
2008
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2008 · Spain men's national football team
2010
- FIFA World Cup winner — 2010 · Spain men's national football team
- Joins FC Barcelona — Until 2013
2011
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2010–11 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- FIFA Club World Cup winner — 2011 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- La Liga winner — 2010–11 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
2013
- La Liga winner — 2012–13 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- Joins Atlético Madrid — Until 2014
2014
- La Liga winner — 2013–14 · Atlético Madrid(provisional)
- Joins Melbourne City FC (loan) — Until 2014
- Joins New York City FC — Until 2018
2019
- Joins Vissel Kobe — Until 2020
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v3, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
47.9
Rank #67
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 22% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence36.5+10.95 points
- Best window
- 2007–2011
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 1
- Team honor points in window
- 32.5
- Peak index
- 16.25
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence81.0+20.25 points
- League goals per match
- 0.541 → 59.53
- International goals per cap
- 0.723 → 89.38
- International caps per year
- 9.29 → 98.71
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.99
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence63.2+9.48 points
- Team honor points
- 38.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.7
- FIFA Club World Cup (2011)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2010–11)
- 8
- FIFA World Cup (2010)
- 12
- La Liga (2010–11)
- 3
- La Liga (2012–13)
- 3
- La Liga (2013–14)
- 3
- UEFA European Championship (2008)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence71.7+7.17 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 20 → 96.25
- Documented elite seasons
- 5 → 45
- International career length (years)
- 14 → 88.75
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: David Villa (Q83006)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Spain-Tahiti, Confederations Cup 2013 (02) (Villa crop).jpgCC BY 3.0 br · retrieved 27 October 2026