Romelu Lukaku
#9 · Forward · age 33
All-time top scorer despite Napoli struggles this season
90
WC26 rating
- Recent form
- 60
- Career peak
- 100
- League level
- 90
- Competition pedigree
- 98
- International pedigree
- 100
- Longevity
- 77
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Career by season
Source: transfermarkt · fetched 2026-05-29
Lukaku enters a fourth World Cup chasing the one thing that has eluded him: a knockout-round goal that matters. He missed the gilt-edged late chance against Croatia in Qatar that would have sent Belgium through, an image that defined the golden generation’s collapse. At 33, with 89 international goals, he is unambiguously the focal point of the Belgian attack when fit — but Garcia’s system now uses him as a target-man pivot rather than a lone runner, with Doku and De Ketelaere feeding him from wide.
The pairing with De Bruyne at Napoli that briefly excited fans has fizzled at club level, but on international weeks the chemistry remains. If he stays healthy through the group stage, Belgium’s ceiling is the quarter-finals.
Strengths
- Back-to-goal hold-up play under pressure
- Pace in transition for a 6'3" striker
- Penalty-area finishing with either foot
Recent form
Has struggled for minutes at Napoli with De Bruyne now the focal point; international form remains consistent.
Scored on his Belgium debut at 16 years old in 2010 and has scored in every major international tournament he has played in since.