Ruben Vargas

Rubén Vargas
Vargas (2019)
Personal information
Full name Rubén Estephan Vargas Martínez
Date of birth (1998-08-05) 5 August 1998 (age 28)
Place of birth Adligenswil, Switzerland
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger, attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Sevilla
Number 11
Youth career
2007–2008 FC Adligenswil
2008–2014 Luzern
2014–2015 Kriens
2015–2017 Luzern
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Luzern II 25 (17)
2017–2019 Luzern 50 (9)
2019–2025 FC Augsburg 154 (20)
2025– Sevilla 18 (3)
International career‡
2018–2019 Switzerland U20 4 (2)
2018–2019 Switzerland U21 6 (2)
2019– Switzerland 55 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:41, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:31, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Ruben Estephan Vargas Martinez (born 5 August 1998) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a winger for superleague club panathinaikos fc

Club career

Vargas made his professional debut for FC Luzern in a 1–1 draw with FC Zürich on 27 August 2017.

He signed a 5 year contract with Augsburg in the summer of 2019, becoming the first Bundesliga player of Dominican descent. He scored his first goal in his second match, against Union Berlin.

International career

Vargas made his Switzerland senior team debut on 8 September 2019, in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Gibraltar. He replaced Granit Xhaka in the 74th minute.

Euro 2020

Vargas scored an important penalty for Switzerland, during UEFA Euro 2020, in a penalty shootout against France on 28 June in the Round of 16 knockout stage, qualifying Switzerland for the quarter-final. Vargas, however, later missed a penalty for Switzerland, during the penalty shootout against Spain on 2 July in the quarter-final. Switzerland would later lose on penalties.

Personal life

Vargas was born in Adligenswil, Switzerland, to a Dominican father and a Swiss mother, and holds citizenship of both nations. Vargas shares a hometown with his previous Augsburg teammate and previous Switzerland captain Stephan Lichtsteiner.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 5 October 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Luzern II 2015–16 Swiss 1. Liga 63——63
2016–17 Swiss 1. Liga 109——109
2017–18 Swiss 1. Liga 95——95
Total 2517——2517
Luzern 2017–18 Swiss Super League 1911100202
2018–19 Swiss Super League 3184120379
Total 50952205711
FC Augsburg 2019–20 Bundesliga 33600—336
2020–21 Bundesliga 30621—327
2021–22 Bundesliga 29111—302
2022–23 Bundesliga 23310—243
2023–24 Bundesliga 31410—324
2024–25 Bundesliga 8020—100
Total 1542072—16122
Sevilla 2024–25 La Liga 112——112
2025–26 La Liga 7100—71
Total 18300—183
Career total 247491242026153
  1. ↑ Includes Swiss Cup, DFB-Pokal
  2. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

International

As of match played 10 October 2025
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Switzerland 201931
202050
2021143
202290
202393
2024101
202552
Total5510
Scores and results list Switzerland's goal tally first.
List of international goals scored by Rubén Vargas
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
118 November 2019Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar Gibraltar2–06–1UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
231 March 2021Kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland Finland2–23–2Friendly
31 September 2021St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland Greece2–12–1
415 November 2021Swissporarena, Lucerne, Switzerland Bulgaria2–04–02022 FIFA World Cup qualification
528 March 2023Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland Israel1–03–0UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
615 November 2023Pancho Arena, Felcsút, Hungary Israel1–01–1
718 November 2023St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland Kosovo1–01–1
829 June 2024Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany Italy2–02–0UEFA Euro 2024
925 March 2025Kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland Luxembourg1–03–1Friendly
103–0

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rubén Vargas". Bundesliga. Archived from the original on 1 October 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "Home". Archived from the original on 2022-03-05. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  3. 1 2 "Ruben Vargas joins FC Augsburg". FC Augsburg. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  4. ↑ "Ruben Vargas: Lichtsteiner's protege, the Bundesliga's top-scoring new player and Augsburg's answer to Shaqiri". bundesliga.com - the official Bundesliga website. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  5. ↑ "Switzerland v Gibraltar game report". UEFA. 8 September 2019.
  6. ↑ Murray, Scott (28 June 2021). "France 3-3 Switzerland (Aet; pens 4-5): Euro 2020 last 16 – as it happened". The Guardian.
  7. ↑ "Switzerland v Spain game report". UEFA. 2 July 2021. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  8. ↑ Luzern, Luzerner Zeitung AG 6006. "FCL-Talent Ruben Vargas: "Ich will einen Stammplatz"". Archived from the original on 2023-12-15. Retrieved 2022-03-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "VARGAS: "I WANT TO TAKE IT STEP BY STEP HERE"". Augsburg. 27 August 2019. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  10. ↑ Ruben Vargas at Soccerway. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  11. 1 2 Ruben Vargas at National-Football-Teams.com

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