Florian

Wirtz

Florian Wirtz history

Florian Wirtz was born on 3 May 2003 in Pulheim and plays for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Current season 2023/24

In this season, the 21-year-old has already scored 11 goals and, along with Donyell Malen (Borussia Dortmund), Victor Boniface, Omar Marmoush (Eintracht Frankfurt), Tim Kleindienst (1. FC Heidenheim 1846), Andrej Kramarić (TSG Hoffenheim) and Benjamin Šeško (RB Leipzig), has the ninth-most attempts on goal within the league. With 11 assists, Florian Wirtz currently has the second-most in the league together with Leroy Sané (FC Bayern München), Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund) and Xavi Simons (RB Leipzig). Until this point, no one has hit the woodwork as often as he. He leads the league ranking for this category with five hits. With 72 passes to a shot, he presently occupies fifth place in the league statistics together with Alejandro Grimaldo. In 26 of the previous 31 games of the season, Florian Wirtz was in the starting line-up. Of these 31 games, he won 25 with his club. Additionally, he was substituted in for five games.

Florian Wirtz is credited as being especially assertive on the pitch. Hence, he has already won 325 tackling duels and in doing so has fought his way to the seventh rank in the league. The total number of sprints by he amounts to 875. With this amount, he joins Eren Dinkçi (1. FC Heidenheim 1846) as a frontrunner on the Bundesliga leaderboard (Rang 4). Few players have covered a greater distance in the ongoing season than the player with the shirt number 10. He is currently the 10th-best runner with 321 km run on the pitch.

Last game

Florian Wirtz played his last game on the 31st matchday of the 2023/24 season (27 April 2024). Playing for Bayer 04 Leverkusen, he played against VfB Stuttgart and tied with 2-2. He was substituted in and played as a midfielder for a total of 16 minutes in this game. In terms of total touches, Florian Wirtz had 22 individual ball possessions. Furthermore, he had four tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win one. He covered a distance of 3.1 km during his total playing time in this game. In doing so, he had a total of 10 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Florian Wirtz has played 108 matches throughout the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won 60. He has played all the matches of his career in the Bundesliga as a member of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Here, Florian Wirtz has put a total of 25 balls in the net.

International appointments

Up to now, Florian Wirtz has played 16 international matches for Germany. He scored a total of one goal in these games.