Lamine Yamal’s 2025/26 La Liga Season in Numbers

28th May 2026

The numbers don’t lie – Lamine Yamal just had one of the greatest teenage seasons European football has ever seen.

La Liga 2025/26 is done. The trophies are handed out, the stats are locked in, and one name keeps jumping off the page. Lamine Yamal. Seventeen years old when the season started. Eighteen by the end. And statistically, the most dangerous creative force in Spain’s top flight.

Let’s break it down.

Goals and assists – the headline numbers

Yamal finished the season with 16 goals and 11 assists for FC Barcelona. That goals tally puts him joint-4th in the La Liga scoring charts, level with Vinicius Junior and Ferran Torres. Kylian Mbappe topped the lot with 25 goals in 31 appearances – no shame in trailing a player like that.

But here’s where it gets interesting. Yamal played just 28 of Barcelona’s 38 league games. That’s 10 matches missed through a combination of injury and rotation. When you factor in availability, his output per game is absurd. He averaged 0.57 goals per appearance – a rate that would have put him on 22 for the season if he’d played every game. That would have had Mbappe looking over his shoulder.

The 11 assists, meanwhile, made him the outright leader in La Liga’s assist rankings. Not second. Not joint-first. Clear at the top. Pedri was the next Barcelona player on the list with 9 in 29 appearances, while nobody else in the squad came close to Yamal’s creative output.

Shot volume – a kid who backs himself

Yamal racked up 117 shots across his 28 games. That’s 4.18 per match – an elite volume that ranked him 2nd in the entire division. Only Mbappe, with 146 shots in 31 games, let fly more often. The difference? Mbappe had three extra matches to accumulate that tally.

Of those 117 efforts, 37 hit the target. That put him joint-5th for shots on target in La Liga. Compare that to Vinicius Junior’s 46 on target from 101 total shots in 36 appearances – Yamal was getting more shots away in fewer games, which tells you everything about how central he was to Barcelona’s attacking play.

Creativity – where Yamal is genuinely world class

This is the section that should frighten every defence in Europe. Yamal created 24 big chances across the season – ranked 1st in La Liga by a distance. The next best was Alvaro Garcia on 15. That’s a nine-chance gap. Nobody else was even in the same postcode.

He also registered 72 key passes, good for 4th in the division, and completed a league-high 128 successful dribbles. That dribbling number is staggering. Vinicius Junior, widely regarded as one of the best dribblers on the planet, managed 86. Yamal beat him by 42. In 8 fewer games.

Read that again. A teenager out-dribbled Vinicius Junior by nearly 50% – while playing 22% fewer matches. The per-game dribble rate isn’t even close.

Barcelona’s title in context

Barca finished the season on top with 94 points from 38 games – 31 wins, the most goals scored in the division with 95, and a dominant campaign that left Real Madrid trailing. This was a team effort, obviously. But Yamal’s direct goal contributions in just 28 appearances – 27 combined goals and assists – meant he was involved in over 28% of Barcelona’s league goals despite missing more than a quarter of the season.

Ferran Torres chipped in with 16 goals of his own in 33 games, providing depth when Yamal wasn’t available. But the quality gap in creation was enormous. Nobody at the club – or in the league – came close to matching Yamal’s ability to manufacture chances from nothing.

The verdict

There’s no way to spin this as anything other than a generational season. 16 goals. 11 assists. 128 dribbles. 24 big chances created. All of it in 28 games. All of it at 17 turning 18. All of it verified on Statz.

The scary part? He’s only getting better. If Yamal stays fit for a full 38-game season, the numbers he could put up don’t bear thinking about. La Liga defences have been warned.