Diogo Jota

This is a Portuguese name; the first family name is Teixeira and the second is da Silva.
Diogo Jota
Diogo Jota in 2021
Personal information
Full name Diogo José Teixeira da Silva[1]
Date of birth (1996-12-04) 4 December 1996 (age 27)[2]
Place of birth Porto, Portugal
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Liverpool
Number 20
Youth career
2005–2013 Gondomar
2013–2015 Paços de Ferreira
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Paços de Ferreira 41 (14)
2016–2018 Atlético Madrid 0 (0)
2016–2017 → Porto (loan) 27 (8)
2017–2018 → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) 44 (17)
2018–2020 Wolverhampton Wanderers 67 (16)
2020– Liverpool 58 (24)
National team‡
2014–2015 Portugal U19 9 (5)
2015–2018 Portugal U21 20 (8)
2016 Portugal U23 1 (1)
2019– Portugal 29 (10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:23, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:50, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Diogo José Teixeira da Silva (born 4 December 1996), commonly known as Diogo Jota, is a Portuguese footballer. He plays as a winger for Premier League team Liverpool.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 9 December 2020[3]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[a] League Cup[b] Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Paços de Ferreira 2014–15 Primeira Liga 10 2 1 1 0 0 — 11 3
2015–16 Primeira Liga 31 12 1 0 2 0 — 34 12
Total 41 14 2 1 2 0 0 0 45 15
Atlético Madrid 2016–17 La Liga 0 0 — — — 0 0
Porto (loan) 2016–17 Primeira Liga 27 8 1 0 1 0 8[c] 1 37 9
Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) 2017–18 Championship 44 17 1 1 1 0 — 46 18
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2018–19 Premier League 33 9 3 1 1 0 — 37 10
2019–20[4] Premier League 34 7 0 0 0 0 14[d] 9 48 16
Total 111 33 4 2 2 0 14 9 131 44
Liverpool 2020–21 Premier League 9 5 0 0 2 0 6[c] 4 17 9
Career total 188 60 7 3 7 0 28 14 230 77
  1. ↑ Includes Taça de Portugal, FA Cup
  2. ↑ Includes Taça da Liga, EFL Cup
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  4. ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League

International

As of match played 17 November 2020[5]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Portugal 2019 2 0
2020 8 3
Total 10 3

International goals

As of 14 October 2020. Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Jota goal.
List of international goals scored by Diogo Jota
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 5 September 2020 Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal  Croatia 2–0 4–1 2020–21 UEFA Nations League A
2 14 October 2020 Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal  Sweden 2–0 3–0
3 3–0

Honours

Club

Wolverhampton Wanderers

International

Portugal

Individual

  • Liverpool Player of the Month: October 2020, November 2020
  • PFA Fan’s Player of the Month: November 2020[8]

References

Notes

International appearances

General

  1. ↑ "2018/19 Premier League squads confirmed". Premier League. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. ↑ UEFA.com. "Diogo Jota - Portugal - UEFA Nations League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  3. ↑ "Diogo Jota". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Games played by Diogo Jota in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Diogo Jota". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Anderson, John, ed. (2018). Football Yearbook 2018–2019. London: Headline Publishing Group. pp. 386–387. ISBN 978-1-4722-6106-9.
  7. ↑ "Portugal regressa ao topo da Europa. Liga das Nações fica em casa" [Portugal returns to the top of Europe. Nations League stays home]. Sapo. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  8. ↑ "Diogo Jota wins PFA Fans' Player of the Month award". 11 December 2020.

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