Kevin De Bruyne
#7 · Midfielder · age 34
Generational playmaker; talismanic leader
95
WC26 rating
- Recent form
- 87
- Career peak
- 100
- League level
- 90
- Competition pedigree
- 98
- International pedigree
- 100
- Longevity
- 79
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Career by season
Source: transfermarkt · fetched 2026-05-29
De Bruyne arrives at his fourth and almost certainly final World Cup as Belgium’s last surviving “golden generation” star with anything left in the tank. Hazard, Vertonghen, and Alderweireld are gone; Witsel is a rotation player; Lukaku is the only other 30-cap survivor in the front six. Rudi Garcia’s side is being rebuilt around him in a 4-2-3-1 that gives him license to drift between the lines and ping diagonals to Doku.
The numbers tell the story: at 34 he is still Belgium’s first-choice creator, but the body has demanded a Serie A move and shorter shifts. A deep run in North America would put him above 115 caps and into the top three Belgian scorers of all time. An early exit would close the book on the most decorated midfielder his country has ever produced.
Strengths
- Vision and outside-of-the-foot passing range
- Set-piece delivery — corners and free-kicks both
- Late-arriving runs into the box
Recent form
Adjusting to Serie A's tempo at Napoli; still the focal point of every Belgium build-up phase.
Holds the all-time Premier League assist record for a single season (20, set in 2019-20) — a number nobody has come within three of since.