Danilo (footballer, born 1999)

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Danilo
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Danilo playing for Feyenoord in 2022
Personal information
Full name Danilo Pereira da Silva [1]
Date of birth (1999-04-07) 7 April 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth São Paulo, Brazil
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) [2]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Rangers
Number 99
Youth career
São Caetano
Portuguesa
2010–2014 Corinthians
Ponte Preta
Vasco da Gama
–2017 Santos
2017–2018 Ajax
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–2022 Jong Ajax 51 (31)
2020–2022 Ajax 14 (2)
2020–2021 → Twente (loan) 33 (17)
2022–2023 Feyenoord 34 (10)
2023– Rangers 26 (9)
International career
2020 Brazil U23 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:12, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Danilo Pereira da Silva (born 7 April 1999) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish Premiership club Rangers.

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After playing youth football for several clubs in Brazil, Danilo joined Dutch club Ajax in 2017. He scored nine goals in 20 first-team appearances for Ajax, and had a loan spell at Twente. Danilo joined Feyenoord on a free transfer in 2022, winning the Eredivisie title in his only season at the club. Rangers signed him in July 2023.

Danilo played youth international football for Brazil at under-23 level.

Club career

Youth career

Born in São Paulo, [3] Danilo played youth football for São Caetano, Portuguesa, Corinthians, Ponte Preta and Vasco da Gama, before joining the academy of Santos. [4] [5] He scored seven goals and provided seven assists for the Santos under-20 team in the Paulista U-20 Championship in 2017. [6]

Ajax

On 7 September 2017, Danilo signed for Dutch club Ajax after agreeing to a five-year deal. [7] Ajax paid Santos a transfer fee of around €2 million. [8] He was initially assigned to the Ajax under-19 team and the Jong Ajax squad (the club's reserve team). [6] [9]

On 25 March 2018, Danilo made his debut for Jong Ajax in a 1–0 defeat against Jong AZ. [10] He scored his first goal for Jong Ajax on 10 September 2018, in a game in Alkmaar against Jong AZ.

He made his first-team debut for Ajax on 23 February 2020, as a substitute in an Eredivisie game against Heracles Almelo. [11] [12] Four days later, he scored on his first start for the club, in a UEFA Europa League match against Getafe. [13] Danilo apologised to Ajax fans on social media after he was seen swapping shirts with Getafe player Deyverson at half-time. [14]

On 14 August 2020, Danilo joined fellow Eredivisie side Twente on a season-long loan deal. [15] He scored 17 goals in the 2020–21 Eredivisie season, which was the fourth-highest total in the league that season. [16]

On 20 January 2022, he scored four goals for Ajax in a 9–0 win against Excelsior Maassluis in the round of 16 of the KNVB Cup. [17]

Feyenoord

On 19 May 2022, Feyenoord announced that Danilo would sign a four-year contract with the club, joining on a free transfer. [18] He made his debut for the club on 7 August 2022, scoring the club's second and fourth goals in a 5–2 away win against Vitesse. [19] Feyenoord won the Eredivisie title in the 2022–23 season, with Danilo scoring 10 goals and providing three assists in 34 appearances in the league. [20]

Rangers

2023-24

On 28 July 2023, Rangers announced that Danilo had joined the club and signed a five-year contract for an undisclosed transfer fee. [21] He made his debut for the club in a 1–0 defeat away to Kilmarnock on 5 August 2023, as a 62nd minute substitute for Cyriel Dessers. [22] He scored his first goal for Rangers during a league match at home to Livingston on 12 August 2023. [23] Following this match Danilo scored against Greenock Morton in the Scottish League Cup. [24]

On 16 September 2023, Danilo suffered a collision with a St Johnstone defender while scoring a goal and was taken to hospital with a suspected compound fracture in his skull. [25] He scored what turned out to be winning goal against Hearts in the Scottish Premiership in October 2023 and followed this up with a goal in a five nil win over Dundee in November 2023. [26] Danilo scored his first European goal for Rangers in a 2-1 win over Sparta Prague in the Europa League in November 2023. [27] In a season curtailed through injury Danilo scored six goals in 21 appearances from all competitions.

Season 2024-2025

Danilo scored his first goal of the season against Ross County in a 6-0 win in August 2024. [28] On 4 December 2024, Danilo scored Rangers second goal in a 6-0 win against Kilmarnock. Danilo followed this goal up with another strike in a 3-0 win over Ross County. [29] On 15 December 2024, Danilo scored a late equaliser in the League Cup final to take the game to extra-time. Danilo turned provider for team mate Cerny to score the winning goal againts Dundee in December 2024. [30] Another goal came for Danilo in a league match against St Mirren in December 2024 with the assist coming from Niko Raskin. [31] Danilo scored Rangers third goal in a 3-0 win over Celtic in January 2025, the assist for the goal came from team mate Jefte. [32]

International career

Danilo was called up to the Brazil under-23 team in November 2020, for friendly games against South Korea and Egypt. [33] He made his debut, and only appearance at under-23 level, against South Korea on 14 November. [34]

Personal life

Danilo is a Christian and was baptised in a Scottish loch by a pastor from the Temple of Fire church in Brazil. [35]

Career statistics

As of match played 15 January 2025 [36]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [a] League cup [b] EuropeOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Jong Ajax 2017–18 Eerste Divisie 10————10
2018–19 Eerste Divisie3319————3319
2019–20 Eerste Divisie85————85
2021–22 Eerste Divisie97————97
Total5131————5131
Ajax 2019–20 Eredivisie 1010—1 [c] 10031
2021–22 Eredivisie13236—001 [d] 0178
Total14246—1110209
Twente (loan) 2020–21 Eredivisie331710———3417
Feyenoord 2022–23 Eredivisie341042—10 [c] 2—4814
Rangers 2023–24 Scottish Premiership 12400217 [e] 1—216
2024–25 Scottish Premiership145003100—176
Total269005271—3812
Rangers B 2024–25 —————1 [f] 111
Career total1586998521842119284
  1. ↑ Includes KNVB Cup
  2. ↑ Includes Scottish League Cup
  3. 1 2 Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  4. ↑ Appearance in Johan Cruyff Shield
  5. ↑ Four appearances in UEFA Champions League, three appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League
  6. ↑ Appearance in Scottish Challenge Cup

Honours

Jong Ajax

Ajax

Feyenoord

Rangers F.C.

Individual

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