Xavi Hernández
Xavier Hernández Creus
Spanish footballer and manager (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Spain
- Born
- 25 January 1980
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1998–2019
Clubs FC Barcelona · Al Sadd Sports Club
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
587
Club league goals
79
International caps
145
International goals
15
League goals / match
0.13
International goals / cap
0.10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalonia national football teamNational team | 1998–2014 | Full caps | 12 | 2 |
| FC BarcelonaClub | 1998–2015 | League | 505 | 58 |
| Spain men's national football teamNational team | 2000–2014 | Full caps | 133 | 13 |
| Al Sadd Sports ClubClub | 2015–2019 | League | 82 | 21 |
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
- ×8
La Liga
Domestic
- 1998–99 · FC Barcelona
- 2004–05 · FC Barcelona
- 2005–06 · FC Barcelona
- 2008–09 · FC Barcelona
- 2009–10 · FC Barcelona
- 2010–11 · FC Barcelona
- 2012–13 · FC Barcelona
- 2014–15 · FC Barcelona
- ×4
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 2005–06 · FC Barcelona
- 2008–09 · FC Barcelona
- 2010–11 · FC Barcelona
- 2014–15 · FC Barcelona
- ×3
FIFA Club World Cup
Continental club
- 2009 · FC Barcelona
- 2011 · FC Barcelona
- 2015 · FC Barcelona
- ×2
UEFA European Championship
International
- 2008 · Spain men's national football team
- 2012 · Spain men's national football team
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 2010 · 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
1998
- Senior international debut: Catalonia national football team — Until 2014
- Joins FC Barcelona — Until 2015
1999
- La Liga winner — 1998–99 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
2000
- Senior international debut: Spain men's national football team — Until 2014
2005
- La Liga winner — 2004–05 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
2006
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2005–06 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- La Liga winner — 2005–06 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
2008
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2008 · Spain men's national football team
2009
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2008–09 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- FIFA Club World Cup winner — 2009 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- La Liga winner — 2008–09 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
2010
- FIFA World Cup winner — 2010 · Spain men's national football team
- La Liga winner — 2009–10 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
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)
2012
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2012 · Spain men's national football team
2013
- La Liga winner — 2012–13 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
2015
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2014–15 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- FIFA Club World Cup winner — 2015 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- La Liga winner — 2014–15 · FC Barcelona(provisional)
- Joins Al Sadd Sports Club — Until 2019
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
55.9
Rank #30
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 15% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence50.6+15.18 points
- Best window
- 2008–2012
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 1
- Team honor points in window
- 56
- Peak index
- 28
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 evidence70.4+17.60 points
- League goals per match
- 0.135 → 25.37
- International goals per cap
- 0.103 → 27.54
- International caps per year
- 8.53 → 94.18
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.981
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence93.2+13.97 points
- Team honor points
- 89.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.818
- FIFA Club World Cup (2009)
- 2.5
- FIFA Club World Cup (2011)
- 2.5
- FIFA Club World Cup (2015)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2005–06)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2008–09)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2010–11)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2014–15)
- 8
- FIFA World Cup (2010)
- 12
- La Liga (1998–99)
- 3
- La Liga (2004–05)
- 3
- La Liga (2005–06)
- 3
- La Liga (2008–09)
- 3
- La Liga (2009–10)
- 3
- La Liga (2010–11)
- 3
- La Liga (2012–13)
- 3
- La Liga (2014–15)
- 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 evidence91.0+9.10 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 22 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 10 → 80
- International career length (years)
- 17 → 100
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: Xavi Hernández (Q17500)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Xavi 13981129001173637176666027076571.jpgCC BY 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026