player · data as of 2026-08-26 11:04 UTC
Fabián Balbuena
Be the first in the standsDefenderage 356' 2"
Paraguaycurrently Grêmio
Paraguaycurrently GrêmioCareer goals
32
all competitions, from the season archive · club 29 · country 3 — season by season in The Record below
Career appearances
462
all competitions, from the season archive — the same total The Record shows
World Cup 2026
no goals yet
goals and assists land here the moment they happen
Team trophies
6
team silverware — the cabinet below
Career totals from the ESPN season archive — all competitions, the same numbers The Record below shows (Wikidata's senior spells fill in when the archive is thin — never the youth years, which stay listed on their own below); live World Cup stats from our own match timelines. Individual awards are counted separately from team trophies, so the headline count can't inflate.
Fabián Cornelio Balbuena González is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Grêmio and the Paraguay national team. — Wikipedia's own summary; its figures are theirs
Honours
6 team trophies · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updated| Team honours6 | ||||
| Campeonato Paulista | ×2 | 2017, 2018 | Corinthians | |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | ×1 | 2017 | Corinthians | |
| Campeonato Gaúcho | ×1 | 2026 | Grêmio | |
| Paraguayan Second Division | ×1 | 2011 | Cerro Porteño PF | |
| Primera División | ×1 | 2014 | Libertad | |
| Individual honours5 | ||||
| Teams of the season · 2 | ||||
| Campeonato Brasileiro Team of the Year | 2017 | |||
| Campeonato Paulista Team of the Year | 2018 | |||
| More honours · 3 | ||||
| Best Centre-back in Brazil | 2017 | |||
| Bola de Prata | 2017 | |||
| Russian Premier League Centre-back of the Season | 2021–22 | |||
The Record
season by season · 58 competition-seasons · ESPN archive| Season | Competition | Team | Apps | Goals | Assists | Shots | YC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | all competitions | all teams | 462 | 32 | 6 | 208 | 55 |
| 2026 | Bra 1 | Grêmio | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | Bra Camp Gaucho | Grêmio | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | Bra Copa Do Brazil | Grêmio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | CONMEBOL Sudamericana | Grêmio | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | FIFA World Cup | Paraguay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | Friendlies | Paraguay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | Bra 1 | Grêmio | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | Copa América | Paraguay | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | Friendlies | Paraguay | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Olympics | Paraguay U23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Career
league apps & goals · Wikidata, community-updated (national-team rows can lag a match or two)| Years | Team | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–2012 | Club Cerro Porteño | 76 | 5 |
| 2013–2013 | Club Rubio Ñu | 17 | 1 |
| 2013–2014 | Club Nacional | 39 | 1 |
| 2014–2016 | Club Libertad | 46 | 2 |
| 2015–now | Paraguay | — | — |
| 2016–now | SC Corinthians Paulista | — | — |
| ?–now | West Ham United F.C. | — | — |
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