Granit Xhaka

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Midfielderage 336' 1" Switzerlandcurrently Sunderland

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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.

Granit Xhaka is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for and captains both Premier League club Sunderland and the Switzerland national team. — Wikipedia's own summary; its figures are theirs

International goals in our archive

14 goals across 14 scoring matches · 3 tournaments · 2012–2026

14 of 18 — the remainder (mostly friendlies) is not yet in the archive.

All (14)FIFA World Cup qualification (6)UEFA Euro qualification (5)FIFA World Cup (3)

Date	Opponent	Result	Minutes	Competition	Venue
2026-06-18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	W4–1(n)	90' (pen)	FIFA World Cup	Inglewood
2025-11-15	Sweden	W4–1(h)	60' (pen)	FIFA World Cup qualification	Geneva
2025-10-10	Sweden	W2–0(a)	65' (pen)	FIFA World Cup qualification	Solna
2023-09-12	Andorra	W3–0(h)	84'	UEFA Euro qualification	Sion
2023-03-25	Belarus	W5–0(n)	62'	UEFA Euro qualification	Novi Sad
2019-11-18	Gibraltar	W6–1(a)	86'	UEFA Euro qualification	Gibraltar
2019-03-26	Denmark	D3–3(h)	66'	UEFA Euro qualification	Basel
2018-06-22	Serbia	W2–1(n)	52'	FIFA World Cup	Kaliningrad
2017-10-07	Hungary	W5–2(h)	18'	FIFA World Cup qualification	Basel
2017-06-09	Faroe Islands	W2–0(a)	36'	FIFA World Cup qualification	Tórshavn
2015-03-27	Estonia	W3–0(h)	27'	UEFA Euro qualification	Lucerne
2014-06-20	France	L2–5(n)	87'	FIFA World Cup	Salvador
2013-10-15	Slovenia	W1–0(h)	74'	FIFA World Cup qualification	Bern
2012-09-07	Slovenia	W2–0(a)	20'	FIFA World Cup qualification	Ljubljana