Career record
Xavi Hernández is a midfielder, born 25 January 1980, listed at 170 cm, and holds Spain citizenship. The club record here runs 1997–2019 across 3 clubs, 648 appearances and 82 goals.
The longest stay was FC Barcelona, 17 years from 1998 to 2015 and 505 appearances. FC Barcelona accounts for the most football: 505 appearances of the 648 on record. The best scoring rate came at Al Sadd Sports Club — 21 in 82, a goal every 3.9 games. Across 22 years there were 2 moves, roughly one every 11.0 seasons. At senior international level the record is 145 caps and 15 goals.
| Club | Years | Appearances | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| FC Barcelona Atlètic | 1997–2000 | 61 | 3 |
| FC Barcelona | 1998–2015 | 505 | 58 |
| Al Sadd Sports Club | 2015–2019 | 82 | 21 |
International record
| Team | Years | Caps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain national under-18 football team | 1997–1998 | 10 | 0 |
| Spain national under-17 association football team | 1997–1997 | 10 | 2 |
| Catalonia national football team | 1998–2014 | 12 | 2 |
| Spain national under-21 association football team | 1998–2001 | 25 | 7 |
| Spain national under-20 football team | 1999–1999 | 6 | 2 |
| Spain men's national football team | 2000–2014 | 133 | 13 |
| Spain national under-23 football team | 2000–2000 | 6 | 2 |
His clubs, in this archive
The archive covers 15 of the seasons Xavi Hernández spent at FC Barcelona, 2000/01 to 2014/15. FC Barcelona won the La Liga eight times in that span and finished in the top four 14 times, averaging 81 points a season. Those placings are recalculated from the individual results rather than copied from a table, so they can be read against any other club on this site.
| Season | Competition | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| FC Barcelona, 2000/01–2014/15 | |||
| 2000/01 | La Liga | 4th of 20 | 63 |
| 2001/02 | La Liga | 4th of 20 | 64 |
| 2002/03 | La Liga | 6th of 20 | 56 |
| 2003/04 | La Liga | 2nd of 20 | 72 |
| 2004/05 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 84 |
| 2005/06 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 82 |
| 2006/07 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 76 |
| 2007/08 | La Liga | 3rd of 20 | 67 |
| 2008/09 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 87 |
| 2009/10 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 99 |
| 2010/11 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 96 |
| 2011/12 | La Liga | 2nd of 20 | 91 |
| 2012/13 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 100 |
| 2013/14 | La Liga | 2nd of 20 | 87 |
| 2014/15 | La Liga | 1st of 20 | 94 |
Only the seasons this archive holds are listed — it begins in 2000/01 and covers league matches in the five competitions named above, so a career that started earlier or ran through other leagues shows a gap here rather than a blank.
How this page is put together
The career table above is the structured record held on Wikidata under a public-domain licence, read once and cached, not queried while you are reading. The player is bound to that record by date of birth rather than by name: a name search returns the wrong Klose and three different Robinhos, and a page carrying somebody else’s links cannot afford that.
Compare any two clubs he played for with the head-to-head tool, or read the records these seasons feed into.
Frequently asked
When and where was Xavi Hernández born?
25 January 1980, and holds Spain citizenship.
Which clubs did Xavi Hernández play for?
3 on record: FC Barcelona Atlètic, FC Barcelona, Al Sadd Sports Club.
How many of those seasons are in this archive?
15 of them, at 1 club. The archive runs from 2000/01 and covers the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, so seasons outside that window or in other leagues are not counted.
How long did the career last?
From 1997 to 2019 on the club record here, 22 years across 3 clubs in 1 of the five leagues this archive covers.
Which competitions can this site say anything about?
La Liga. Those are the ones his clubs played in during the seasons the archive holds; the rest of the career is listed above but has no placings beside it.
Where do these figures come from?
The career record is the structured data held for this player on Wikidata, which is public-domain. The league placings and points beside it are not: those are recalculated here from every individual result in the archive, which is why they can be compared with any other club or season on this site.