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Full name | Youri Marion A. Tielemans [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [2] | 7 May 1997||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [3] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Aston Villa | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
2002–2013 | Anderlecht | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2013–2017 | Anderlecht | 139 | (26) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Monaco | 47 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
2019 | → Leicester City (loan) | 13 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2019–2023 | Leicester City | 138 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
2023– | Aston Villa | 43 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Belgium U15 | 4 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Belgium U16 | 10 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
2013–2016 | Belgium U21 | 14 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
2016– | Belgium | 74 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:11, 9 November 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:34, 14 October 2024 (UTC) |
Youri Marion A. Tielemans (born 7 May 1997) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Belgium national team.
Tielemans began his career at Anderlecht, where he made 185 official appearances and scored 35 goals across four seasons. He won the league title twice and in 2017 was chosen as the Belgian Professional Footballer of the Year. He is the youngest Belgian to play in the UEFA Champions League, making his debut in the competition at the age of 16 years and 148 days. After two years at Monaco in Ligue 1, he joined Leicester City in 2019, initially on loan and then for an estimated fee of £32 million. He played 195 total games and scored 28 goals, including the only goal of the 2021 FA Cup final. In 2023, when his contract expired, he joined Aston Villa.
Tielemans represented Belgium at several youth levels and before gaining his first cap for the national team in November 2016, aged 19. He was part of the squad that came third at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, also featuring at UEFA Euro 2020, the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024.
Tielemans is a youth product of Anderlecht and signed his first professional contract with the club at the age of 16. [4]
On 21 July 2013, he was included in the senior squad for the first time, remaining an unused substitute in the 1–0 win over Genk in the 2013 Belgian Super Cup. On 28 July 2013, he made his first-team debut in the opening round of the Belgian Pro League season against Lokeren, replacing injured Sacha Kljestan after 25 minutes of a 2–3 home loss. [5] [6] This made him the fourth-youngest player in the league's history. [7]
On 2 October 2013, he became the youngest Belgian player to play in the UEFA Champions League, starting in a match against Olympiacos at the age of 16 years and 148 days. [8] He played 29 games – of which 21 starts – as Anderlecht won the 2013–14 Belgian Pro League, scoring to open a 3–0 win over Club Brugge at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium on 6 April 2014, a game in which he also assisted Cyriac. [9] Tielemans won the Belgian Young Player of the Year award in each of his first two seasons. [7]
Tielemans scored 13 times in 37 Belgian First Division A matches as Anderlecht won the 2016–17 Belgian First Division A. He won the 2017 Ebony Shoe Award for best player of African origin, [10] and was named 2016–17 Belgian Professional Footballer of the Year. [11] He scored 5 goals in 15 2016–17 UEFA Europa League matches, with his club reaching the quarter-finals, and was selected in its Squad of the Season. [12]
On 24 May 2017, Tielemans joined 2016–17 Ligue 1 champions Monaco on a five-year deal for a fee of around €25 million. [13] He made his competitive debut on 29 July in the Trophée des Champions at the Grand Stade de Tanger, playing the full 90 minutes in the 2–1 loss to Paris Saint-Germain and assisting Djibril Sidibé's opening goal. [14] On 4 August, Tielemans made his Ligue 1 debut in the 3–2 home win over Toulouse, coming on as a substitute for Radamel Falcao in the 87th minute. He made his UEFA club competition debut for Monaco on 13 September in the UEFA Champions League group match away to RB Leipzig, playing the full 90 minutes and registering his first competitive goal for Monaco by equalizing in a 1–1 draw. On 16 September, Tielemans made his first Ligue 1 start and played the entire match in the 3–0 home win over Strasbourg, after having played a total of 56 minutes as a substitute in his first four Ligue 1 matches. [15] [16]
France Football named Tielemans in their lists of the biggest flops of the first half of the season and the season overall. [17] [18] He scored his first Ligue 1 goal in his 31st game on 2 September 2018, in a 3–2 home loss to Marseille. [19]
On 31 January 2019, Tielemans joined Premier League club Leicester City on loan until the end of the season, with Adrien Silva going the other way in a swap deal. [20] [21] On 9 March, Tielemans scored his first goal for the club in a 3–1 win over Fulham. [22]
Tielemans completed a permanent move to Leicester City on 8 July 2019, on a four-year deal for an estimated fee of £32 million. [23] He scored in a 3–1 home win over Bournemouth on 31 August, but courted controversy with a high challenge on Callum Wilson that escaped punishment even after consultation with the video assistant referee; [24] referees' chief Mike Riley ruled that this was an incorrect decision and Tielemans should have been sent off. [25]
On 15 May 2021, Tielemans scored the only goal of the 2021 FA Cup Final with a long-range strike against Chelsea in the 63rd minute, sealing Leicester's first ever FA Cup title. [26] He was named the man of the match. [27]
On 10 June 2023, Premier League club Aston Villa announced that they had reached an agreement to sign Tielemans on a free transfer, upon the expiry of his Leicester City contract on 1 July. [28] He made his debut on 12 August in the season opener, a 5–1 loss at Newcastle United, in which he replaced the injured Leon Bailey at half time. [29]
On 26 October 2023, Tielemans scored his first goal for Aston Villa in a 4–1 away UEFA Europa Conference League victory over AZ Alkmaar. [30]
In June 2015, Tielemans was called up to the senior Belgium squad for a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier against Wales. [31] He finally made his senior international debut on 9 November 2016, in a 1–1 friendly away draw to rival Netherlands, replacing Steven Defour in the 82nd minute. [32]
Tielemans was included in manager Roberto Martínez's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [33] He played four matches in the tournament, including the 2–0 win over England in the third-place match. [34]
Tielemans scored his first senior goal for Belgium on 21 March 2019, in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying match against Russia. [35] He was called up for the delayed final tournament in May 2021, [36] and for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. [37] At the latter tournament, he was substituted at half time for Amadou Onana as the team struggled to a 1–0 win over Canada in their opening match. [38] He was a substitute in the two other games of the group stage elimination, in which Onana and then Leander Dendoncker started alongside Axel Witsel. [39] [40]
Tielemans began as a holding midfielder, but was moved by Anderlecht manager Besnik Hasi to a more attacking role, where he scored long-range goals and was compared to Frank Lampard and Axel Witsel. [7] A 2015 profile by Sky Sports noted his versatility as a defensive or attacking midfielder, concluding that his pace, passing and shot power suited the latter role better. [7] Paul Van Himst, a former Anderlecht and Belgium player, noted at the same time that Tielemans had good skills with long passes. [7]
Tielemans was born in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Flemish Brabant. [41] His father is of Flemish descent and his mother is of Congolese descent. [42] He continued education until the age of 18, combining studies with his professional career. [7] As of 2020, he lived in the Leicestershire village of Quorn with his wife, Mendy, and their three daughters. [43] [44]
Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup [b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Anderlecht | 2013–14 | Belgian Pro League | 29 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 4 [c] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2 | |
2014–15 | Belgian Pro League | 39 | 6 | 4 | 2 | — | 8 [d] | 0 | 1 [e] | 0 | 52 | 8 | ||
2015–16 | Belgian Pro League | 34 | 6 | 2 | 1 | — | 9 [f] | 0 | — | 45 | 7 | |||
2016–17 | Belgian Pro League | 37 | 13 | 1 | 0 | — | 15 [g] | 5 | — | 53 | 18 | |||
Total | 139 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 185 | 35 | ||
Monaco | 2017–18 | Ligue 1 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 [c] | 1 | 1 [h] | 0 | 35 | 1 |
2018–19 | Ligue 1 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 [c] | 0 | 1 [h] | 0 | 30 | 5 | |
Total | 47 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 65 | 6 | ||
Leicester City (loan) | 2018–19 | Premier League | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 13 | 3 | |||
Leicester City | 2019–20 | Premier League | 37 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | — | — | 44 | 5 | ||
2020–21 | Premier League | 38 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 [f] | 0 | — | 51 | 9 | ||
2021–22 | Premier League | 32 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 13 [i] | 0 | 1 [j] | 0 | 50 | 7 | |
2022–23 | Premier League | 31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 37 | 4 | |||
Total | 151 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 195 | 28 | ||
Aston Villa | 2023–24 | Premier League | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 [k] | 1 | — | 46 | 3 | |
2024–25 | Premier League | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 [c] | 1 | — | 15 | 1 | ||
Total | 43 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 2 | — | 61 | 4 | |||
Career total | 378 | 54 | 26 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 81 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 506 | 73 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Belgium | |||
2016 | 2 | 0 | |
2017 | 6 | 0 | |
2018 | 11 | 0 | |
2019 | 9 | 2 | |
2020 | 6 | 2 | |
2021 | 13 | 0 | |
2022 | 11 | 1 | |
2023 | 7 | 0 | |
2024 | 9 | 4 | |
Total | 74 | 9 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 21 March 2019 | King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium | Russia | 1–0 | 3–1 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying |
2 | 10 October 2019 | King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium | San Marino | 6–0 | 9–0 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying |
3 | 15 November 2020 | Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium | England | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2020–21 UEFA Nations League A |
4 | 18 November 2020 | Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium | Denmark | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2020–21 UEFA Nations League A |
5 | 11 June 2022 | Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, Wales | Wales | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2022–23 UEFA Nations League A |
6 | 26 March 2024 | Wembley Stadium, London, England | England | 1–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
7 | 2–1 | |||||
8 | 22 June 2024 | RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne, Germany | Romania | 1–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 2024 |
9 | 6 September 2024 | Nagyerdei Stadion, Debrecen, Hungary | Israel | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2024–25 UEFA Nations League A |
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