Xabi Alonso
Xabier Alonso Olano
Spanish football manager and player (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Spain
- Born
- 25 November 1981
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1990–2017
Clubs Antiguoko · SD Eibar · Real Sociedad · Liverpool F.C. · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol · FC Bayern Munich
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
508
Club league goals
33
International caps
119
International goals
16
League goals / match
0.06
International goals / cap
0.13
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real SociedadClub | 2000–2004 | League | 114 | 9 |
| SD EibarClub | 2000–2001 | League | 14 | 0 |
| Basque Country regional football teamNational team | 2001–2012 | Full caps | 5 | 0 |
| Spain men's national football teamNational team | 2003–2014 | Full caps | 114 | 16 |
| Liverpool F.C.Club | 2004–2009 | League | 143 | 15 |
| Real Madrid Club de FútbolClub | 2009–2014 | League | 158 | 4 |
| FC Bayern MunichClub | 2014–2017 | League | 79 | 5 |
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
Bundesliga
Domestic
- 2014–15 · FC Bayern Munich
- 2015–16 · FC Bayern Munich
- 2016–17 · FC Bayern Munich
- ×2
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 2004–05 · Liverpool F.C.
- 2013–14 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- ×2
UEFA European Championship
International
- 2008 · Spain men's national football team
- 2012 · Spain men's national football team
- ×1
FIFA Club World Cup
Continental club
- 2014 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 2010 · Spain men's national football team
- ×1
La Liga
Domestic
- 2011–12 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
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
1990
- Joins Antiguoko — Until 1999
2000
- Joins Real Sociedad — Until 2004
- Joins SD Eibar (loan) — Until 2001
2001
- Senior international debut: Basque Country regional football team — Until 2012
2003
- Senior international debut: Spain men's national football team — Until 2014
2004
- Joins Liverpool F.C. — Until 2009
2005
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2004–05 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
2008
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2008 · Spain men's national football team
2009
- Joins Real Madrid Club de Fútbol — Until 2014
2010
- FIFA World Cup winner — 2010 · Spain men's national football team
2012
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2012 · Spain men's national football team
- La Liga winner — 2011–12 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
2014
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2013–14 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
- FIFA Club World Cup winner — 2014 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
- Joins FC Bayern Munich — Until 2017
2015
- Bundesliga winner — 2014–15 · FC Bayern Munich(provisional)
2016
- Bundesliga winner — 2015–16 · FC Bayern Munich(provisional)
2017
- Bundesliga winner — 2016–17 · FC Bayern Munich(provisional)
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
47.4
Rank #56
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 25% 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
- 2010–2014
- 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 evidence67.5+16.88 points
- League goals per match
- 0.065 → 4.49
- International goals per cap
- 0.134 → 39.17
- International caps per year
- 8.5 → 94
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.926
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence75.3+11.30 points
- Team honor points
- 56.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- FIFA Club World Cup (2014)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2004–05)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2013–14)
- 8
- FIFA World Cup (2010)
- 12
- La Liga (2011–12)
- 3
- Bundesliga (2014–15)
- 3
- Bundesliga (2015–16)
- 3
- Bundesliga (2016–17)
- 3
- UEFA European Championship (2008)
- 7
- UEFA European Championship (2012)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence82.5+8.24 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 28 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 8 → 66
- 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: Xabi Alonso (Q208104)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Los Caminos del fútbol. Xabi Alonso (39666778464) (cropped).jpgCC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026