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

With 11 assists, he presently has the second-most in the league together with Leroy Sané (FC Bayern München), Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund) and Xavi Simons (RB Leipzig). With 67 shots taken so far, the player with the shirt number 10 has had the third-most attempts on goal of any Bayer 04 Leverkusen player. 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 currently occupies fifth place in the league statistics together with Alejandro Grimaldo. In 26 of the previous 31 games of the season, the 20-year-old 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 has had 2,216 individual ball possessions this season. With this, he occupies ninth place in the Bundesliga statistics for this category. He is credited as being especially assertive on the pitch. Hence, Florian Wirtz has already won 325 tackling duels and in doing so has fought his way to the seventh rank in the league. He is one of the strongest runners in the Bundesliga. His total number of sprints this season is 875 (rank 3). Few players have covered a greater distance in the current season than him. Florian Wirtz is presently the 10th-best runner with 321 km run on the pitch.

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, he has put a total of 25 balls in the net.

International appointments

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