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For other uses, see Neymar (disambiguation).

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is da Silva and the second or paternal family name is Santos. \"J\u00fanior\" is a generational suffix used for someone whose name is the same as their father, like \"Jr.\" in English.

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Neymar Jr.

Neymar playing for Al-Hilal in 2023

Personal information

Full name

\nNeymar da Silva Santos J\u00fanior^[1]

Date of birth

\n5 February 1992 (age 33)^[1]

Place of birth

\nMogi das Cruzes, Brazil^[2]

Height

\n1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)^[1]

Position(s)

\nLeft winger, attacking midfielder, forward

Team information

Current team

\nSantos

Number

\n10

Youth career

1999\u20132003

\nPortuguesa Santista

2003\u20132009

\nSantos

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

2009\u20132013

\nSantos

\n177

\n(107)

2013\u20132017

\nBarcelona

\n123

\n(68)

2017\u20132023

\nParis Saint-Germain

\n112

\n(82)

2023\u20132025

\nAl-Hilal

\n3

\n(0)

2025\u2013

\nSantos

\n0

\n(0)

International career^\u2021

2009

\nBrazil U17

\n3

\n(1)

2011

\nBrazil U20

\n7

\n(9)

2012\u20132016

\nBrazil U23

\n14

\n(8)

2010\u2013

\nBrazil

\n128

\n(79)

Medal record

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Men's Football\n
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Representing $\"\"$ Brazil\n
FIFA Confederations Cup\n
Winner	2013 Brazil	\n
Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
Runner-up	2021 Brazil	\n
Summer Olympics\n
$\"Gold$	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Team\n
$\"Silver$	2012 London	Team\n
South American U-20 Championship\n
Winner	2011 Peru	\n

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:15, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
\u2021 National team caps and goals, correct as of 04:10, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Neymar da Silva Santos J\u00fanior (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [nej\u02c8ma\u0281 d\u0250 \u02c8siwv\u0250 \u02c8s\u0250\u0303tus \u02c8\u0292\u0169\u0272o\u0281] ^\u24d8; born 5 February 1992), also known as Neymar J\u00fanior or simply Neymar, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left winger, attacking midfielder or forward for Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A team Santos and the Brazil national team.^[3]^[4] Widely regarded as one of the best players of all time, he is known for his skills, dribbling, playmaking, and finishing.^[10] Neymar is one of the few players to have scored at least 100 goals for three different clubs. He is the highest-scoring Brazilian in the UEFA Champions League and is also Brazil's all-time top goalscorer.\n

Neymar made his professional debut with Santos in 2009. In 2011, he helped them win their first Copa Libertadores in nearly 50 years.^[11] In 2013, he joined Barcelona and became part of an attacking trio with Lionel Messi and Luis Su\u00e1rez, dubbed MSN. Winning the continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the Champions League in the trio's first season, Neymar was the joint-top goalscorer of the Champions League campaign and top goalscorer of the Copa del Rey. In his final season, Neymar reached 100 goals for Barcelona and set the record for most assists in a Champions League campaign. Motivated to assume focal responsibility, Neymar joined Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in 2017 for a transfer worth \u20ac222 million, making him the most expensive player ever.^{[note 1]} He largely contributed to PSG's continuation of Ligue 1 title dominance and PSG reaching its first Champions League final, whilst establishing himself as one of the club's highest ever scorers. Continuing injuries caused PSG to sell him in 2023 to Al Hilal for \u20ac90 million, a Saudi Pro League record transfer.\n

At 18, Neymar debuted for Brazil. He is the nation's all-time top goalscorer, with 79 goals in 128 matches. He won the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, winning the Golden Ball. In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, he was named in the Dream Team. He captained Brazil to their first Olympic gold medal in men's football in the 2016 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal at the 2012 edition. He helped Brazil finish runner-up to Argentina in the 2021 Copa Am\u00e9rica and was jointly awarded Best Player. In the 2022 World Cup, he became the third Brazilian player to score in three World Cups after Pel\u00e9 and Ronaldo. Neymar has won a record six Samba Gold awards.\n

Neymar was named in the FIFA FIFPro World11 twice, the UEFA Team of the Year twice, and the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season three times. He finished third for the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2015 and 2017 and won the FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award in 2011. SportsPro named Neymar the world's most marketable athlete in 2012 and 2013. In 2017, Time included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.^[14] France Football ranked Neymar the world's third-highest-paid footballer of 2018. Forbes ranked him the world's third-highest-paid athlete of 2019,^[15] and dropped him to fourth in 2020.^[16]\n

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Year\n	Title\n	Role\n	Note(s)\n	Type\n
2010\n	Malha\u00e7\u00e3o\n	Himself\n	TV Globo\n	TV\n
2012\n	(fdp)\n	Encanador\n	\u2014\n	TV series (TV)\n
2013\n	Carrossel\n	Himself\n	SBT\n	TV\n
2017\n	Os Par\u00e7as\n	Himself\n	\u2014\n	Full-length film (FL)\n
2017\n	XXX: Return of Xander Cage\n	Himself\n	\u2014\n	FL\n
2019\n	Money Heist\n	Monje Joao\n	\u2014\n	TV\n
2019\n	The Making of\n	Himself\n	DAZN presents\n	TV\n
2021\n	Neymar Jr. and the line of kings\n	Himself\n	DAZN presents\n	TV\n
2022\n	Neymar: The Perfect Chaos\n	Himself\n	Netflix\n	Docuseries\n

Club\n	Season\n	League\n	State league^[a]\n	National cup^[b]\n	League cup^[c]\n	Continental\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Santos\n	2009\n	S\u00e9rie A\n	33	10	12	3	3	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	48	14\n
2010\n	S\u00e9rie A\n	31	17	19	14	8	11	\u2014	2^[d]	0	\u2014	60	42\n
2011\n	S\u00e9rie A\n	21	13	11	4	\u2014	\u2014	13^[e]	6	2^[f]	1	47	24\n
2012\n	S\u00e9rie A\n	17	14	16	20	\u2014	\u2014	12^[e]	8	2^[g]	1	47	43\n
2013\n	S\u00e9rie A\n	1	0	18	12	4	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	23	13\n
Total\n	102	54	75	53	15	13	\u2014	27	14	4	2	225	136\n
Barcelona\n	2013\u201314\n	La Liga\n	26	9	\u2014	3	1	\u2014	10^[h]	4	2^[i]	1	41	15\n
2014\u201315\n	La Liga\n	33	22	\u2014	6	7	\u2014	12^[h]	10	\u2014	51	39\n
2015\u201316\n	La Liga\n	34	24	\u2014	5	4	\u2014	9^[h]	3	1^[f]	0	49	31\n
2016\u201317\n	La Liga\n	30	13	\u2014	6	3	\u2014	9^[h]	4	0	0	45	20\n
Total\n	123	68	\u2014	20	15	\u2014	40	21	3	1	186	105\n
Paris Saint-Germain\n	2017\u201318\n	Ligue 1\n	20	19	\u2014	1	2	2	1	7^[h]	6	\u2014	30	28\n
2018\u201319\n	Ligue 1\n	17	15	\u2014	3	2	1	1	6^[h]	5	1^[j]	0	28	23\n
2019\u201320\n	Ligue 1\n	15	13	\u2014	2	2	3	1	7^[h]	3	\u2014	27	19\n
2020\u201321\n	Ligue 1\n	18	9	\u2014	3	1	\u2014	9^[h]	6	1^[j]	1	31	17\n
2021\u201322\n	Ligue 1\n	22	13	\u2014	0	0	\u2014	6^[h]	0	0	0	28	13\n
2022\u201323\n	Ligue 1\n	20	13	\u2014	2	1	\u2014	6^[h]	2	1^[j]	2	29	18\n
Total\n	112	82	\u2014	11	8	6	3	41	22	3	3	173	118\n
Al-Hilal\n	2023\u201324\n	Saudi Pro League\n	3	0	\u2014	0	0	\u2014	2^[k]	1	0	0	5	1\n
2024\u201325\n	Saudi Pro League\n	0	0	\u2014	0	0	\u2014	2^[k]	0	0	0	2	0\n
Total\n	3	0	\u2014	0	0	\u2014	4	1	0	0	7	1\n
Santos\n	2025\n	S\u00e9rie A\n	0	0	0	0	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	0	0\n
Career total\n	340	204	76	54	46	36	6	3	111	58	10	6	591	360\n

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National team	Year	Competitive	Friendly	Total\n
Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Brazil\n	2010	0	0	2	1	2	1\n
2011	4^[a]	2	9	5	13	7\n
2012	0	0	12	9	12	9\n
2013	5^[b]	4	14	6	19	10\n
2014	5^[c]	4	9	11	14	15\n
2015	4^[d]	1	5	3	9	4\n
2016	6^[e]	4	0	0	6	4\n
2017	6^[e]	2	2	1	8	3\n
2018	5^[f]	2	8	5	13	7\n
2019	0	0	5	1	5	1\n
2020	2^[g]	3	0	0	2	3\n
2021	13^[h]	6	0	0	13	6\n
2022	4^[i]	3	4	4	8	7\n
2023	4^[j]	2	0	0	4	2\n
Total\n	58	33	70	46	128	79\n

Early life

Club career

Santos

Youth

2009: Debut season

2010: Campeonato Paulista success

2011: Pusk\u00e1s Award

2012: South America's best player

2013: Final season

Barcelona

Transfer investigation

2013\u201314: Adapting to Spain

2014\u201315: The treble and individual success

2015\u201316: Domestic double

2016\u201317: Final season

Paris Saint-Germain

Contract breach lawsuit

2017\u201318: Debut season and domestic treble

2018\u201319: Injury and league title

Potential return to Barcelona

2019\u201320: PSG's first Champions League final

2020\u201321: Contract extension

2021\u201322: Record-tying Ligue 1 title and injuries

2022\u201323: Final season at PSG

August 2023: Departure

Al Hilal

Return to Santos

International career

2010\u20132012: Senior debut and first major tournaments

2013\u20132014: Confederations Cup triumph and World Cup breakthorugh

2015\u20132016: Assuming the captaincy and Olympic gold

2018: World Cup

2019\u20132021: Copa Am\u00e9rica runner-up

2022\u2013present: World Cup and all-time Brazil top scorer

Player profile

Style of play and reception

Expectations

Comparisons

Image

Personal life

Outside football

Wealth and sponsorships

Media

Political views

Music

Television and films

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

See also

Notes

References

External links

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