Virgil van Dijk
Dutch association football player (born 1991) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Born
- 8 July 1991
- Position
- Defender
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 2011–present
Clubs FC Groningen · Celtic F.C. · Southampton F.C. · Liverpool F.C.
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
483
Club league goals
47
International caps
100
International goals
14
League goals / match
0.10
International goals / cap
0.14
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC GroningenClub | 2011–2013 | League | 62 | 7 |
| Celtic F.C.Club | 2013–2015 | League | 76 | 9 |
| Netherlands national association football teamNational team | 2015–2026 | Full caps | 100 | 14 |
| Southampton F.C.Club | 2015–2018 | League | 67 | 4 |
| Liverpool F.C.Club | 2018–2026 | League | 278 | 27 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×2
Premier League
Domestic
- 2019–20 · Liverpool F.C.
- 2024–25 · Liverpool F.C.
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 2018–19 · Liverpool F.C.
- ×1
FIFA Club World Cup
Continental club
- 2019 · Liverpool F.C.
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
- ×1
UEFA Men's Player of the Year
Individual award · UEFA
- 2019
Career timeline
2011
- Joins FC Groningen — Until 2013
2013
- Joins Celtic F.C. — Until 2015
2015
- Senior international debut: Netherlands national association football team — Ongoing or end date unrecorded
- Joins Southampton F.C. — Until 2018
2018
- Joins Liverpool F.C. — Ongoing or end date unrecorded
2019
- UEFA Men's Player of the Year — 2019(provisional)
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2018–19 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
- FIFA Club World Cup winner — 2019 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
2020
- Premier League winner — 2019–20 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
2025
- Premier League winner — 2024–25 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v3, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
43.8
Rank #87
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence26.5+7.95 points
- Best window
- 2016–2020
- Individual award points in window
- 4.6
- Award availability in window
- 1
- Team honor points in window
- 13.5
- Peak index
- 11.35
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence93.0+23.25 points
- International caps per year
- 8.33 → 93
Scoring production is not used for defenders. Position-specific defensive and goalkeeping metrics are not recorded consistently across eras, so v1 relies on international selection rate.
Individual accoladesFull evidence8.1+1.61 points
- Contemporary award points
- 4.6
- Award availability coverage
- 1
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 4.6
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- UEFA Men's Player of the Year (2019)
- 4.6
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence36.8+5.52 points
- Team honor points
- 16.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- FIFA Club World Cup (2019)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2018–19)
- 8
- Premier League (2019–20)
- 3
- Premier League (2024–25)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence55.0+5.50 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 16 → 78
- Documented elite seasons
- 3 → 27
- International career length (years)
- 12 → 78
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Virgil van Dijk (Q133903)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: 20160604 AUT NED 8876 (cropped).jpgCC BY-SA 3.0 at · retrieved 27 October 2026