Alphonso Davies
#19 · Defender · age 25 · (VC)
Recovering from a Grade 2 hamstring tear; expected at tournament but likely misses opener vs Bosnia.
94
WC26 rating
- Recent form
- 75
- Career peak
- 100
- League level
- 89
- Competition pedigree
- 98
- International pedigree
- 89
- Longevity
- 72
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Career by season
Source: transfermarkt · fetched 2026-05-29
Davies’s story doubles as Canada’s coming-of-age tale — he was eleven when he arrived in Edmonton and seventeen when he made his Whitecaps debut, and his trajectory more or less mapped onto the national team’s rise from regional irrelevance to a top-30 FIFA side. Even at limited fitness he changes how opponents defend Canada, dragging full-backs deep and creating space for Jonathan David. Jesse Marsch has confirmed he will travel even if not available for the opener vs Bosnia, and the medical staff are managing his loading carefully after a year disrupted by two separate lower-body injuries.
Strengths
- Top-end speed (frequently clocked >36 km/h)
- Ball-carrying from deep
- Crossing from the overlap
- Recovery defending
Recent form
Recovering from a Grade 2 hamstring tear; targeting a return for matchday 2 or 3.
Holds the Bundesliga record for the fastest player ever tracked by official GPS data — 36.51 km/h vs Werder Bremen in 2020.