Carles Gil Already Has More 2026 Goals Than All of Last Season
With 12 goals through 27 starts, Gil has blown past his 2025 total and is dragging the Revolution toward the playoffs on his back.
Okay I need everyone to sit with this number for a second: 12.
That's how many goals Carles Gil has this season. Not assists — goals. In 2025 he played 34 games and scored 10 all year. We are not even through the full 2026 slate and he's already at 12 in 27 starts. The little magician in the middle of the park is having the best scoring season of his Revolution career and he's doing it at 33 years old, which is the part that makes me want to scream into a towel.
I know Gil is the assist guy. That's the reputation — the vision, the through-ball, the guy who makes the final pass look easy. He's still doing that too, 8 assists on the year. But 2026 Gil is also just... scoring. A lot. And it is lifting this team at exactly the moment it needed lifting.
The Numbers Don't Lie
Let's lay it out:
- 2025 season: 34 games, 10 goals, 9 assists
- 2026 season so far: 27 starts, 12 goals, 8 assists, 57 shots, 29 shots on goal
He's blown past last year's goal total with games still left to play. 29 shots on target out of 57 attempts is a serious conversion rate for a guy who spends half his night setting up everybody else. This isn't a fluke stretch. This is a full season of a guy finding another gear.
Five Goals, Seven Matches, Zero Chill
Here's the stretch that's actually making my group chat insufferable: Gil has 5 goals in his last 7 matches.
Run through it. He scored in the 3-1 win at Columbus Crew (there's highlight footage of that one titled an "OUTRAGEOUS CHIP GOAL," and honestly, yeah, that tracks). He scored in the 2-1 loss at LA Galaxy — a tough night for the team, not for him. He scored again in the 2-1 win at New York City FC. Then in the 4-2 win over Orlando City he didn't just score once, he scored TWICE, and MLS literally put "Spectacular Goal" in the headline for one of them. That's two call-ups to the highlight reel in a single month.
The only games in that stretch where he didn't get on the scoresheet were the 2-1 win at Chicago Fire and the 3-0 loss at Real Salt Lake, and in that RSL match he didn't register a shot on goal at all — which, fine, everybody has an off night, and that one came against a team that clearly had a plan for him. But five goals in seven is a brace-adjacent run of form from a guy who isn't even supposed to be your primary scoring outlet. He's playing like a No. 10 who also wants to be your No. 9.
What It Means for the Push
The Revolution sit at 14-4-9 and 2nd in MLS right now, and I don't think you get there without Gil playing like this. Yes, this team presses well, yes there's quality elsewhere on the pitch, but when your most creative player starts also being your most dangerous finisher, that's a cheat code. Opponents already have to account for his passing range. Now they have to account for him running in behind too. That's an impossible homework assignment for a center back on a Tuesday night.
The worry, if I'm being honest with myself: he's 33. Workload matters. A dip like the Real Salt Lake match — no shots, no goals, no assists, team got run over 3-0 — is a reminder that he's human and this team can look very different when he's quiet. The Revolution can't live and die by one guy's night, no matter how good he's been.
But with Seattle Sounders FC coming to town on Oct 10, I want the version of Gil we've seen the last seven matches, not the RSL version. Give me the chip goals. Give me the ALL-CAPS highlight titles. This team's playoff push runs through him, and right now he's running faster than anybody saw coming at 33.
Badge on. Scarf up. Let's see another one.
