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Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107
Personal information
\n Ibrahimovi\u0107 in 2018
Full name	\nZlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107^[1]
Date of birth	\n (1981-10-03) 3 October 1981 (age 43)^[1]
Place of birth	\nMalm\u00f6, Sweden
Height	\n1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)^[2]
Position(s)	\nStriker
Youth career
1989\u20131991	\nMalm\u00f6 BI
1991\u20131995	\nFBK Balkan
1995\u20131999	\nMalm\u00f6 FF
Senior career\"
Years	\nTeam	\nApps	\n(Gls)
1999\u20132001	\nMalm\u00f6 FF	\n40	\n(16)
2001\u20132004	\nAjax	\n74	\n(35)
2004\u20132006	\nJuventus	\n70	\n(23)
2006\u20132009	\nInter Milan	\n88	\n(57)
2009\u20132011	\nBarcelona	\n29	\n(16)
2010\u20132011	\n\u2192 AC Milan (loan)	\n29	\n(14)
2011\u20132012	\nAC Milan	\n32	\n(28)
2012\u20132016	\nParis Saint-Germain	\n122	\n(113)
2016\u20132018	\nManchester United	\n33	\n(17)
2018\u20132019	\nLA Galaxy	\n56	\n(52)
2020\u20132023	\nAC Milan	\n64	\n(34)
Total	\n	\n637	\n(405)
International career
1999	\nSweden U18	\n4	\n(1)
2001	\nSweden U21	\n7	\n(6)
2001\u20132023^[a]	\nSweden	\n122	\n(62)
\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 (born 3 October 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Ibrahimovi\u0107 is known for his acrobatic strikes and volleys, technique, ball control, and physical dominance. He is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and is one of the most decorated footballers in the world, having won 34 trophies in his career.^[b] He scored over 570 career goals, including more than 500 club goals, and scored in four consecutive decades between the 1990s and the 2020s.\n

Ibrahimovi\u0107 began his career at Malm\u00f6 FF in 1999, and signed for Ajax two years later, where he won two Eredivisie titles and gained a reputation as one of the most promising forwards in Europe. He departed three years later to sign for Juventus before joining domestic rivals Inter Milan in 2006. At Inter Milan, he won three consecutive Serie A titles and his popularity experienced a significant increase. In the summer of 2009, he moved to Barcelona in one of the world's most expensive transfers. After just one season, he returned to Italy, signing for Inter's rival AC Milan. With them, he won the Serie A title in his debut season. In 2012, Ibrahimovi\u0107 joined Paris Saint-Germain, leading them to their first Ligue 1 title in 19 years and soon establishing himself as a leading figure in their dominance of French football. During his four-season stay in France, he won four consecutive Ligue 1 titles, numerous domestic cups, was the top scorer in Ligue 1 for three seasons and became PSG's all-time leading goalscorer at the time. In 2016, he joined Manchester United on a free transfer, winning several trophies in his only full season with the club. Ibrahimovi\u0107 joined American club LA Galaxy in 2018 and rejoined Milan in 2020, winning his fifth Serie A title in 2022.\n

Ibrahimovi\u0107 is one of eleven players to have made 100 or more appearances for the Swedish national team, over a 20-year international career. He is the country's all-time leading goalscorer with 62 goals. He represented Sweden at the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 UEFA European Championships. He has been awarded Guldbollen (the Golden Ball), given to the Swedish player of the year, a record 12 times, including 10 consecutive from 2007 to 2016. Ibrahimovi\u0107's 35-yard bicycle kick goal for Sweden against England won the 2013 FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award and is considered one of the best goals of all time. He has scored other memorable goals, most notably in the European Championships.^[5]^[6]^[7]\n

Ibrahimovi\u0107 was named in the FIFA FIFPro World XI in 2013 and the UEFA Team of the Year in 2007, 2009, 2013, and 2014. He finished at a peak of fourth for the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2013.^[8] In 2015, UEFA included him as one of the best players that have not won the UEFA Champions League,^[9] while in 2019, FourFourTwo magazine named him the third-greatest player never to win the competition.^[10] In December 2014, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter ranked him the second-greatest Swedish sportsperson ever, after tennis player Bj\u00f6rn Borg.^[11] Off the field, Ibrahimovi\u0107 is known for his brash persona and outspoken comments, in addition to referring to himself in the third person.\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup^[c]\n	League cup^[d]\n	Continental\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Malm\u00f6 FF\n	1999\n	Allsvenskan\n	6	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	6	1\n
2000\n	Superettan\n	26	12	3	2	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	29	14\n
2001\n	Allsvenskan\n	8	3	4	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	12	3\n
Total\n	40	16	7	2	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	47	18\n
Ajax\n	2001\u201302\n	Eredivisie\n	24	6	3	1	\u2014	6^[e]	2	\u2014	33	9\n
2002\u201303\n	Eredivisie\n	25	13	3	3	\u2014	13^[f]	5	1^[g]	0	42	21\n
2003\u201304\n	Eredivisie\n	22	13	1	0	\u2014	8^[f]	2	\u2014	31	15\n
2004\u201305\n	Eredivisie\n	3	3	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	1^[g]	0	4	3\n
Total\n	74	35	7	4	\u2014	27	9	2	0	110	48\n
Juventus\n	2004\u201305\n	Serie A\n	35	16	0	0	\u2014	10^[f]	0	\u2014	45	16\n
2005\u201306\n	Serie A\n	35	7	2	0	\u2014	9^[f]	3	1^[h]	0	47	10\n
Total\n	70	23	2	0	\u2014	19	3	1	0	92	26\n
Inter Milan\n	2006\u201307\n	Serie A\n	27	15	1	0	\u2014	7^[f]	0	1^[h]	0	36	15\n
2007\u201308\n	Serie A\n	26	17	0	0	\u2014	7^[f]	5	1^[h]	0	34	22\n
2008\u201309\n	Serie A\n	35	25	3	3	\u2014	8^[f]	1	1^[h]	0	47	29\n
Total\n	88	57	4	3	\u2014	22	6	3	0	117	66\n
Barcelona\n	2009\u201310\n	La Liga\n	29	16	2	1	\u2014	10^[f]	4	4^[i]	0	45	21\n
2010\u201311\n	La Liga\n	0\n	0	0\n	0	\u2014	0\n	0	1^[j]	1	1	1\n
Total\n	29	16	2	1	\u2014	10	4	5	1	46	22\n
AC Milan (loan)\n	2010\u201311\n	Serie A\n	29	14	4	3	\u2014	8^[f]	4	\u2014	41	21\n
AC Milan\n	2011\u201312\n	Serie A\n	32	28	3	1	\u2014	8^[f]	5	1^[h]	1	44	35\n
Total\n	61	42	7	4	\u2014	16	9	1	1	85	56\n
Paris Saint-Germain\n	2012\u201313\n	Ligue 1\n	34	30	2	2	1	0	9^[f]	3	\u2014	46	35\n
2013\u201314\n	Ligue 1\n	33	26	2	3	2	2	8^[f]	10	1^[k]	0	46	41\n
2014\u201315\n	Ligue 1\n	24	19	3	4	3	3	6^[f]	2	1^[k]	2	37	30\n
2015\u201316\n	Ligue 1\n	31	38	6	7	3	0	10^[f]	5	1^[k]	0	51	50\n
Total\n	122	113	13	16	9	5	33	20	3	2	180	156\n
Manchester United\n	2016\u201317\n	Premier League\n	28	17	1	1	5	4	11^[l]	5	1^[m]	1	46	28\n
2017\u201318\n	Premier League\n	5	0	0	0	1	1	1^[f]	0	\u2014	7	1\n
Total\n	33	17	1	1	6	5	12	5	1	1	53	29\n
LA Galaxy\n	2018\n	Major League Soccer\n	27	22	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	27	22\n
2019\n	Major League Soccer\n	29	30	0	0	2	1	\u2014	\u2014	31	31\n
Total\n	56	52	0	0	2	1	\u2014	\u2014	58	53\n
AC Milan\n	2019\u201320\n	Serie A\n	18	10	2	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	20	11\n
2020\u201321\n	Serie A\n	19	15	2	1	\u2014	6^[l]	1	\u2014	27	17\n
2021\u201322\n	Serie A\n	23	8	0	0	\u2014	4^[f]	0	\u2014	27	8\n
2022\u201323\n	Serie A\n	4	1	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	4	1\n
Total\n	64	34	4	2	\u2014	10	1	\u2014	78	37\n
Career total\n	637	405	47	33	17	11	149	57	16	5	866	511\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
Sweden\n	2001	5	1\n
2002	10	2\n
2003	4	3\n
2004	12	8\n
2005	5	4\n
2006	6	0\n
2007	7	0\n
2008	7	2\n
2009	6	2\n
2010	4	3\n
2011	8	3\n
2012	11	11\n
2013	11	9\n
2014	5	3\n
2015	10	11\n
2016	5	0\n
2017	0	0\n
2018	0	0\n
2019	0	0\n
2020	0	0\n
2021	4	0\n
2022	1	0\n
2023	1	0\n
Total	122	62\n

Year\n	Album\n	Peak positions\n
SWE\n
2014\n	\"Du gamla, Du fria\" (Zlatan featuring Day) (produced by Max Martin)^[562]\n	13\n

Year\n	Title\n	Role\n	Notes\n	Ref.\n
2022\n	The Soccer Football Movie\n	Himself\n	\n	^[563]\n
2023\n	Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom\n	Caius Antivirus\n	\n	^[564]\n

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Early life

Club career

Malm\u00f6 FF

Ajax

Juventus

Inter Milan

Barcelona

2009\u201310: La Liga title and relationship with Pep Guardiola

2010\u201311: Loan to Milan

AC Milan

Paris Saint-Germain

2012\u201313: First Ligue 1 title in 19 years

2013\u201314: Back-to-back league top goalscorer and second Ligue 1 title

2014\u201315: Domestic quadruple and all-time second top scorer

2015\u201316: Departure and all-time PSG top goalscorer

Manchester United

2016\u201317: Europa League and League Cup double

2017\u201318: Final season in Manchester

LA Galaxy

2018 season

2019 season

Return to AC Milan

2019\u201320: Return season

2020\u201321: Serie A runner-up and return to Champions League

2021\u20132023: Serie A title and retirement

International career

Youth

Senior

Early career and 2002 FIFA World Cup

UEFA Euro 2004

2006 FIFA World Cup

UEFA Euro 2008

2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying

UEFA Euro 2012

2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying

Sweden's top scorer, UEFA Euro 2016 and initial retirement

Talks of comeback and return to the national team

Style of play

Post-playing career

Football-related business activities

Hammarby IF

Controversies

Violence

Abuse

Falling out with Pep Guardiola

Controversial remarks

Hammarby investment

Involvement in betting

Qatar Visit

Personal life

Religious and social background

Tattoos

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Books

Discography

Singles

Filmography

See also

Notes

References

External links

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Talks

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