De Bruyne’s incredible FA Cup stats | OneFootball

Kevin De Bruyne has played a direct role in more FA Cup goals than anyone else since the Belgian arrived in England.

Moving to City in the summer of 2015 from Wolfsburg, De Bruyne is approaching his 10th anniversary at the Etihad Stadium.

In that time, he’s lifted the famous old FA Cup trophy twice as part of his incredible haul of 16 major honours.

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Those successes came in 2018/19 – when De Bruyne was Man of the Match in the final – and 2022/23, as part of our historic Treble-winning campaign.

During that time, he’s scored 10 goals and laid on 18 assists for his team-mates in 32 appearances in the FA Cup.

That places him ahead of Son Heung-min, who is the next most productive player in the FA Cup over that time period with 26 goal contributions.

Phil Foden is one of three players next up on 21, with former City men Raheem Sterling and Kelechi Iheanacho joining him.

De Bruyne’s record in the FA Cup is made all the more exceptional by the fact he hasn’t always played throughout City’s journey in the competition in each season.

He played one game in the competition in 2015/16, scoring in a 3-0 win at Norwich before a knee injury ruled him out in the fourth and fifth rounds.

He played five of the six games City were involved in during the 2016/17 season but surprisingly didn’t score or assist throughout.

2017/18 saw him score once in three appearances before he truly excelled as we won the competition in 2018/19.

Playing just four of our six fixtures that season, he scored twice and laid on five assists – including a goal and assist in the final.

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2017/18 saw him score once in three appearances before he truly excelled as we won the competition in 2018/19.

Playing just four of our six fixtures that season, he scored twice and laid on five assists – including a goal and assist in the final.

2019/20 saw him score in the quarter-final win over Newcastle after missing the first three rounds.

He laid on one assist against Birmingham City in 2020/21 before missing the next two rounds and returning to score in a quarter-final win at Everton.

Three assists came across two rounds early on in 2021/22 as we beat Swindon Town and Fulham. He then scored in the 4-1 quarter-final win at Southampton.

He again had a key impact in our successful 2022/23 camapaign, scoring in the fifth round win at Bristol City before laying on two assists against Burnley and both of Ilkay Gundogan’s unforgettable volleys in the final.

Five assists followed as we reached the final in 2023/24, including four in the 6-2 thrashing of Luton Town in which Erling Haaland scored five times.

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So far this season, he’s contributed the winning goal at Leyton Orient and an assist and goal against Plymouth.

Now he’ll be hoping to add to those tallies in Sunday’s quarter-final trip to Bournemouth.

It only furthers De Bruyne’s incredible impact in the final third across his City career.

He is one of just 19 men to score 100 City goals and the first midfielder since Colin Bell to do so.

Meanwhile, he has the second most Premier League assists of all-time with 118. He reached three figures in record time, needing just 237 games to do so.

It all tells the tale of a modern great of English football.