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Lazaros Rota

Lazaros Rota

Defender · AEK Athens · 29 · Greece

475 on the breakout watchlist Compare with others

Season score
46.1
UEFA Champions League 26/27, 5 matches
Last 5 weeks
46.1
average of weeks with 60+ minutes
Market value
€4.5M
+€500k (+13%) since 12 Dec 2025
Transfermarkt, 4 Jun 2026

Photo: @8Dodo8, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Born
23 Aug 1997
Height
180 cm
Foot
R
Contract until
30 Jun 2030
Wikipedia views
1,508 4 weeks

Wikipedia Wikidata Transfermarkt

Every week

1–7 Jul 2025 to 20–26 Oct 2026

19 of 69 weeks with 60+ minutes, averaging 52.5 (minutes-weighted); 1 of them 70 or better.

no matchunder 60′under 4545–5555–7070+

Every week as a table
WeekMatchesMinutesScoreExpectedUnderlying
20–26 Oct 202619041.751.241.6
13–19 Oct 202619043.751.843.6
8–14 Sep 202619052.751.852.7
25–31 Aug 202619056.751.556.4
18–24 Aug 202619035.752.836.4
14–20 Apr 202619067.151.867.1
7–13 Apr 202619055.251.655.2
17–23 Mar 202619042.452.443.3
10–16 Mar 202619056.452.256.4
16–22 Dec 202519043.253.143.4
9–15 Dec 202519052.453.352.4
25 Nov – 1 Dec 202519062.552.563.0
18–24 Nov 202519049.752.949.7
4–10 Nov 202519042.154.342.0
21–27 Oct 202517652.554.753.3
7–13 Oct 202519098.849.596.6
30 Sep – 6 Oct 202519055.048.755.0
26 Aug – 1 Sep 202519038.750.139.2
19–25 Aug 202519051.050.050.9

Against expectation

How it's expected

Each week's score beside what the player's earlier matches led to expect. Over the last 10 weeks with 60+ minutes: −2.6 a week below expectation.

20.040.060.080.0100.019 Aug7 Oct18 Nov16 Dec7 Apr25 Aug20 OctExpected 51.2Score 41.7
475

On the breakout watchlist

A 11% chance of breaking out within a year, on how players like them went before. Underlying 50.2 over 1,260 minutes in the last year, down 4.1 over the last 10 weeks. Valued €4.5M against €4.9M expected. See the list

Market value

Where these come from
Transfermarkt €4.5M +€500k (+13%) since 12 Dec 2025 4 Jun 2026 · its own valuation, revised a few times a year
Current estimate €4.1M no change recorded 22 Oct 2026 · BSD, seen when squads refresh
Next summer, if it goes like similar cases €2.3M–€4.5M −29% median of 40 similar past cases; players the same age −28% Closest cases, what their Transfermarkt value then did in a year: Ulisses Garcia at 29 (€4.0M, scoring 46.5) −25%; Timon Wellenreuther at 29 (€6.0M, scoring 45.6) +0%; Umar Sadiq at 28 (€5.0M, scoring 47.2) −30%.
0€2.0M€4.0M€6.0M20192020202120222023202420252026€4.5M€4.1M
Every value as a table
DateSourceValue
22 Oct 2026Current estimate (BSD)€4.1M
4 Jun 2026Transfermarkt€4.5M
12 Dec 2025Transfermarkt€4.0M
23 May 2025Transfermarkt€3.0M
18 Dec 2024Transfermarkt€3.0M
30 May 2024Transfermarkt€2.0M
20 Dec 2023Transfermarkt€2.0M
22 May 2023Transfermarkt€1.8M
27 Feb 2023Transfermarkt€1.8M
7 Nov 2022Transfermarkt€1.2M
9 Jun 2022Transfermarkt€1.0M
1 Nov 2021Transfermarkt€700k
19 May 2021Transfermarkt€550k
6 Jan 2021Transfermarkt€550k
14 Oct 2020Transfermarkt€300k
15 Dec 2019Transfermarkt€300k
25 Jun 2019Transfermarkt€300k
30 Dec 2018Transfermarkt€175k

Two different estimates, so each is its own line and each change is measured within its own line.

Moves

All transfers
DateMoveFee
2 Sep 2021Fortuna Sittard AEK AthensFree or loan

What the score is made of

UEFA Champions League 26/27, 450 minutes. Each part as a percentile against 546 top-five-league defender seasons of 900+ minutes since 2025/26: 50 is the middle of them (the dashed ring).

Shooting1Creating88Progressing56Keeping the ball49Defending46Aerial3Finishing63
As a table
PartPercentilePer 90 vs average
Shooting1−0.41
Creating88+0.56
Progressing56−0.08
Keeping the ball49+0.03
Defending46−0.07
Aerial3−0.75
Finishing63+0.03

Attention

English Wikipedia views per week, the article and its redirects, last 52 weeks.

05001.0K1.5K28 Oct16 Dec3 Feb24 Mar12 May30 Jun18 Aug6 Oct

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Recent score: the last six months. Cheaper: valued at less than 60% of Lazaros Rota.

Seasons

SeasonCompetitionTeamMatchesMinutesScoreUnderlying
UEFA Champions League 26/27Champions LeagueAEK Athens545046.146.1
World Cup Qualification, UEFA 2026World Cup Qualification UEFAGreece218074.373.2
UEFA Conference League 25/26Conference LeagueAEK Athens121,06651.551.7

Latest matches

19 since July 2025
DateCompetitionOpponentResultMinGoalsAssistsxGxAScore
20 Oct 2026Champions Leagueat Manchester CityL 1–59000–0.0341.7
14 Oct 2026Champions Leagueat Shakhtar DonetskL 1–39000–0.0843.7
8 Sep 2026Champions LeagueLASKW 1–090000.000.0852.7
26 Aug 2026Champions LeagueLevski SofiaW 4–09001––56.7
18 Aug 2026Champions Leagueat Levski SofiaD 0–09000––35.7
16 Apr 2026Conference LeagueRayo VallecanoW 3–19000–0.8667.1
9 Apr 2026Conference Leagueat Rayo VallecanoL 0–39000–0.0555.2
19 Mar 2026Conference LeagueNK CeljeL 0–290000.130.1242.4
12 Mar 2026Conference Leagueat NK CeljeW 4–09000–0.0456.4
18 Dec 2025Conference LeagueUniversitatea CraiovaW 3–290000.030.0343.2
All 19 matches
DateCompetitionOpponentResultMinGoalsAssistsxGxAScore
20 Oct 2026Champions Leagueat Manchester CityL 1–59000–0.0341.7
14 Oct 2026Champions Leagueat Shakhtar DonetskL 1–39000–0.0843.7
8 Sep 2026Champions LeagueLASKW 1–090000.000.0852.7
26 Aug 2026Champions LeagueLevski SofiaW 4–09001––56.7
18 Aug 2026Champions Leagueat Levski SofiaD 0–09000––35.7
16 Apr 2026Conference LeagueRayo VallecanoW 3–19000–0.8667.1
9 Apr 2026Conference Leagueat Rayo VallecanoL 0–39000–0.0555.2
19 Mar 2026Conference LeagueNK CeljeL 0–290000.130.1242.4
12 Mar 2026Conference Leagueat NK CeljeW 4–09000–0.0456.4
18 Dec 2025Conference LeagueUniversitatea CraiovaW 3–290000.030.0343.2
11 Dec 2025Conference Leagueat SamsunsporW 2–19001–0.0352.4
27 Nov 2025Conference Leagueat FiorentinaW 1–090000.060.6962.5
18 Nov 2025World Cup Qualification UEFAat BelarusD 0–09000––49.7
6 Nov 2025Conference LeagueShamrock RoversD 1–19000–0.2342.1
23 Oct 2025Conference LeagueAberdeenW 6–076010.090.5352.5
12 Oct 2025World Cup Qualification UEFAat DenmarkL 1–39000––98.8
2 Oct 2025Conference Leagueat NK CeljeL 1–39000–0.0155.0
28 Aug 2025Conference LeagueRSC AnderlechtW 2–09000––38.7
21 Aug 2025Conference Leagueat RSC AnderlechtD 1–19000––51.0