Ruben Vargas

**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.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Luzern II|2015–16|Swiss 1. Liga|6|3|—|—|6|3|||
|2016–17|Swiss 1. Liga|10|9|—|—|10|9|||||
|2017–18|Swiss 1. Liga|9|5|—|—|9|5|||||
|rowspan="3"|Luzern|2017–18|Swiss Super League|19|1|1|1|0|0|20|2|
|2018–19|Swiss Super League|31|8|4|1|2|0|37|9|||
|rowspan="7"|FC Augsburg|2019–20|Bundesliga|33|6|0|0|—|33|6||
|2020–21|Bundesliga|30|6|2|1|—|32|7||||
|2021–22|Bundesliga|29|1|1|1|—|30|2||||
|2022–23|Bundesliga|23|3|1|0|—|24|3||||
|2023–24|Bundesliga|31|4|1|0|—|32|4||||
|2024–25|Bundesliga|8|0|2|0|—|10|0||||
|rowspan="3"|Sevilla|2024–25|La Liga|11|2|—|—|11|2|||
|2025–26|La Liga|7|1|0|0|—|7|1||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Switzerland|2019|3|1|
|2020|5|0|||
|2021|14|3|||
|2022|9|0|||
|2023|9|3|||
|2024|10|1|||
|2025|5|2|||

- _Scores and results list Switzerland's goal tally first._

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|18 November 2019|Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar||2–0|6–1|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|2|31 March 2021|Kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland||2–2|3–2|Friendly|
|3|1 September 2021|St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland||2–1|2–1||
|4|15 November 2021|Swissporarena, Lucerne, Switzerland||2–0|4–0|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|5|28 March 2023|Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland||1–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying|
|6|15 November 2023|Pancho Arena, Felcsút, Hungary||1–0|1–1||
|7|18 November 2023|St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland||1–0|1–1||
|8|29 June 2024|Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany||2–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 2024|
|9|25 March 2025|Kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland||1–0|3–1|Friendly|
|10|3–0||||||

## Other websites

- Ruben Vargas en Fútbol Dominicano. Net
- SFL Profile
- Swiss U20 Profile

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Rubén Vargas
- **fullname**: Rubén Estephan Vargas Martínez
- **birth place**: Adligenswil, Switzerland
- **height**: 1.77 m
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Winger, Winger, attacking midfielder
- **currentclub**: Sevilla FC, Sevilla
- **clubnumber**: 11
- **youthyears1**: 2007–2008
- **youthclubs1**: FC Adligenswil
- **youthyears2**: 2008–2014
- **youthclubs2**: FC Luzern, Luzern
- **youthyears3**: 2014–2015
- **youthclubs3**: SC Kriens, Kriens
- **youthyears4**: 2015–2017
- **youthclubs4**: FC Luzern, Luzern
- **years1**: 2016–2017
- **clubs1**: FC Luzern, Luzern II
- **caps1**: 25
- **goals1**: 17
- **years2**: 2017–2019
- **clubs2**: FC Luzern, Luzern
- **caps2**: 50
- **goals2**: 9
- **years3**: 2019–2025
- **clubs3**: FC Augsburg
- **caps3**: 154
- **goals3**: 20
- **years4**: 2025–
- **clubs4**: Sevilla FC, Sevilla
- **caps4**: 18
- **goals4**: 3
- **nationalyears1**: 2018–2019
- **nationalteam1**: Switzerland national under-20 football team, Switzerland U20
- **nationalcaps1**: 4
- **nationalgoals1**: 2
- **nationalyears2**: 2018–2019
- **nationalteam2**: Switzerland national under-21 football team, Switzerland U21
- **nationalcaps2**: 6
- **nationalgoals2**: 2
- **nationalyears3**: 2019–
- **nationalteam3**: Switzerland national football team, Switzerland
- **nationalcaps3**: 55
- **nationalgoals3**: 10
- **pcupdate**: 23:41, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
- **ntupdate**: 23:31, 10 October 2025 (UTC)