Aitor Paredes

Paredes's 2025/26 season, read from the numbers

In 2025/26, Aitor Paredes was a regular for Athletic Club in the La Liga: 19 appearances and 1629 minutes, averaging 86 minutes per outing. Per 90 minutes that is 1.2 tackles per 90, 1.6 interceptions per 90 and 59% of his duels won — the rate profile behind Paredes's totals.

Paredes played 942 passes at 87% accuracy — 52.0 per 90, which is the volume that decides whether a side builds through him or around him. Set against Paredes's own record, 2025/26 reads differently: he is playing far less than he once did — 1629 minutes against 2716 at his peak.

Discipline is part of the picture for Paredes: 4 bookings in 19 appearances, one every 4.8 games. Our records cover 5 seasons of Paredes's career, 2022/23 to 2026/27, all of it at Athletic Club. In that time he has played 168 matches across 6 competitions, 9,969 minutes in all.

His best season on our records was 2026/27, when he averaged 7.33 across 5 appearances.

How these scores are built, and the minutes and rating floors a player must clear to appear on our boards, are set out in our methodology.