Statistical Dominance
The numbers behind the crown
Trophies are won on the pitch, but patterns are proven in the data. This page breaks down the individual and team metrics that separated Paris Saint-Germain from the rest of Europe in 2025–26.
Headline figures
- Kvaratskhelia goals
- 10
- Kvaratskhelia assists
- 6
- Hakimi assists
- 6
- Knockout goals
- 19
- Knockout matches
- 7
- Goals per KO match
- 2.71
Kvaratskhelia's 10 goals: anatomy of a finisher
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia finished the campaign with 10 goals and 6 assists — 16 direct goal involvements, the highest in the squad. What makes the figure remarkable is its distribution. Five goals arrived in the league phase, when Paris were refining their structure, and five more in the knockout rounds against Chelsea, Liverpool and Bayern Munich, when chances are scarcer and defences deeper.
His goals were not the product of a single trick. He scored after cutting inside onto his right foot, after attacking the far post from crosses on the right, and from transitions where he carried the ball 40 metres before shooting. That variety made him almost impossible to plan for: double him and Mendes was free; show him inside and he curled to the far corner.
Kvaratskhelia goals by stage
Goal types
The creators: Hakimi and Kvaratskhelia share the lead
Achraf Hakimi and Kvaratskhelia each finished with six assists, but they reached that number through opposite routes. Hakimi's assists came from the right flank, where he arrived late on overlaps or underlaps and picked out runners with cut-backs. Kvaratskhelia's came from the left, usually after drawing two defenders and slipping a teammate into the space he had vacated.
| Player | Assists | Main assist type | Zone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achraf Hakimi | 6 | Cut-backs (3), crosses (2), through ball (1) | Right channel |
| Khvicha Kvaratskhelia | 6 | Lay-offs and reverse passes | Left half-space |
| Ousmane Dembélé | 5 | Passes between the lines | Central |
| Désiré Doué | 4 | Combination play | Right half-space |
| Nuno Mendes | 3 | Low crosses | Left flank |
| Bradley Barcola | 3 | Transitions | Left flank |
The data confirms that Paris's attack was genuinely collective. Six different players reached at least three assists, and no single source of creativity could be shut down to stop the team.
Team metrics: control and intensity
Across the full campaign Paris combined possession dominance with elite pressing, a rare pairing. High possession usually means a slower tempo; Paris kept the ball and still attacked quickly, because their counter-press recovered it so close to the opposition goal.
| Tie | Scored | Conceded | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea (R16) | 8 | 2 | Won on aggregate |
| Liverpool (QF) | 4 | 0 | Won on aggregate |
| Bayern Munich (SF) | 6 | 5 | Won on aggregate |
| Arsenal (Final) | 1 | 1 | Won 4–3 on penalties |
| Total | 19 | 8 | 4 ties won |
Nineteen goals in seven knockout matches equals 2.71 per game — a scoring rate usually associated with group-stage mismatches, not quarter-finals and semi-finals against Europe's heavyweights. Eight conceded tells a more nuanced story: five came in the Bayern tie alone, while across the other three ties Paris allowed only three goals in five matches.
What the numbers do not show
Statistics capture outcomes; they only hint at mechanisms. Vitinha's 92% pass accuracy understates how often his passes broke lines, and João Neves's 71 ball recoveries do not reveal how many attacks were stopped before a recovery was even necessary. Read the figures alongside the tactical breakdowns on our Squad & Tactics page for the full picture.