Rúben Neves

Rúben Neves
Neves in 2017
Personal information
Full name Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves[1]
Date of birth (1997-03-13) 13 March 1997[2]
Place of birth Mozelos, Portugal
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[3]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder[4]
Team information
Current team
 Al Hilal
Number 8
Youth career
2005–2014 Porto
2012–2013 → Padroense (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Porto 59 (3)
2017–2023 Wolverhampton Wanderers 219 (27)
2023– Al Hilal 38 (3)
International career‡
2012 Portugal U15 2 (0)
2012–2013 Portugal U16 10 (1)
2012–2014 Portugal U17 31 (2)
2013 Portugal U18 2 (0)
2014–2017 Portugal U21 23 (4)
2016 Portugal U23 1 (1)
2015– Portugal 54 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Portugal
UEFA Nations League
Winner 2019 Portugal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:22 18 October 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:14 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves (Portuguese pronunciation: [nɛvɨʃ], born 13 March 1997) is Portuguese professional footballers, He currently plays Al Hilal for the Saudi Professional League and Portugal national football team.

Club Career

Porto

Neves grew up supporting and joined Porto is club youth system at the 8 Years old[5] He played a first club in his senior career

In 2014-15 season, he played his first matches in UEFA Champions League. He became a youngest footballer captain in the world.[6] At age of 17, he made his Primeira Liga debut where he started and scored in a 2–0 home matches beat a Marítimo.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

On 8 July 2017, Neves signed for EFL Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers for an fee, believed to be in the region of £15.8 million – a club and league record fee.[7] In October 16, 2022, Neves scored a penalty kick and results 1-0 and Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Nottingham Forest.[8]

Al Hilal

On 23 June 2023 Neves joined Al Hilal for 47 million euro transfer fee.[9]

International Career

Neves played a 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar but defeat by Morocco in quarter final, portugal was eliminated in semi-final[10][11]

In 2019 UFEA Nations League Finals on home soil, he played semi finals match and beat Switzerland 3-1[12] but was taken out of the starting lineup for the final against the Netherlands and replaced with more defensive Danilo.[13]

Neves played Portugal at the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, helped the team reaching the semi-finals as his captain. Because how well a played matches, he was named the top ten talents of the tournament by UEFA reporters.[14]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 21 October 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Porto 2014–15[15][16] Primeira Liga 24 1 1 0 3 0 9[c] 0 — 37 1
2015–16[15] Primeira Liga 22 1 6 1 2 0 8[d] 0 — 38 2
2016–17[15] Primeira Liga 13 1 0 0 2 0 3[c] 0 — 18 1
Total 59 3 7 1 7 0 20 0 — 93 4
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2017–18[17] Championship 42 6 0 0 0 0 — — 42 6
2018–19[18] Premier League 35 4 5 1 0 0 — — 40 5
2019–20[19] Premier League 38 2 2 0 1 0 13[e] 2 — 54 4
2020–21[20] Premier League 36 5 3 0 1 0 — — 40 5
2021–22[21] Premier League 33 4 2 0 1 0 — — 36 4
2022–23[22] Premier League 35 6 2 0 4 0 — — 41 6
Total 219 27 14 1 7 0 13 2 — 253 30
Al-Hilal 2023–24[15] Saudi Pro League 32 3 5 2 — 9[f] 2 8[g] 1 54 8
2024–25[15] Saudi Pro League 6 0 0 0 — 3[f] 0 2[h] 0 11 0
Total 38 3 5 2 — 12 2 10 1 65 8
Career total 316 33 26 4 14 0 45 4 10 1 411 42
  1. ↑ Includes Taça de Portugal, FA Cup, King Cup
  2. ↑ Includes Taça da Liga, EFL Cup
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  4. ↑ Six appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  5. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Appearances in AFC Champions League
  7. ↑ Six appearances and one goal in Arab Club Champions Cup, two appearances in Saudi Super Cup
  8. ↑ Appearances in Saudi Super Cup

International

As of match played 15 October 2024[23]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Portugal 2015 2 0
2017 2 0
2018 5 0
2019 7 0
2020 2 0
2021 8 0
2022 11 0
2023 8 0
2024 9 0
Total 54 0

Honours

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Al Hilal

Portugal U21

Portugal

Individual

  • UEFA European Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2014
  • Confederação do Desporto de Portugal Young Prospect of the Year: 2015
  • EFL Championship Team of the Season: 2017–18
  • EFL Team of the Season: 2017–18
  • PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 Championship

References

  1. ↑ "Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves Profile - Football Player, | News, Photos, Stats, Ranking, Records - NDTV Sports". NDTVSports.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  2. ↑ "Rúben Neves Al-Hilal Midfielder, Profile & Stats | Premier League". www.premierleague.com. Archived from the original on 2022-11-07. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  3. ↑ "Rúben Neves Al-Hilal Midfielder, Profile & Stats | Premier League". www.premierleague.com. Archived from the original on 2022-11-07. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  4. ↑ "Ruben Neves Profile & Stats | Midfielder". www.goal.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  5. ↑ "Ruben Neves: Wolves sign FC Porto midfielder for Championship record fee". BBC Sport. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  6. ↑ "Neves buoyed by Porto victory after historic Champions League outing". www.besoccer.com. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  7. ↑ "Ruben Neves: Wolves midfielder signs new five-year deal". BBC Sport. 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  8. ↑ "Wolves 1-0 Nottingham Forest: Ruben Neves scores penalty and Brennan Johnson misses penalty". BBC Sport. 2022-10-14. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  9. ↑ "Ruben Neves: Wolves captain joins Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal for club record £47m". BBC Sport. 2023-06-23. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  10. ↑ Staff, The Athletic UK. "Portugal World Cup squad list for quarter-final fixture against Morocco". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  11. ↑ Adler, Nils. "Undefeated Morocco eye history as they face in-form Portugal". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  12. ↑ Glendenning, Barry (2019-06-05). "Portugal 3-1 Switzerland: Nations League semi-final – as it happened". the Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  13. ↑ "Danilo replaces Neves for Portugal in Nations League final". The Star. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  14. ↑ "Ten Under-17 players to keep an eye on | Under-17 | UEFA.com". 2022-01-20. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2024-11-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 "Rúben Neves: Summary". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  16. ↑ "FC Porto–Sporting Portuguese Cup 3rd round". FC Porto. 18 October 2014. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014.
  17. ↑ "Games played by Ruben Neves in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  18. ↑ "Games played by Ruben Neves in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  19. ↑ "Games played by Ruben Neves in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  20. ↑ "Games played by Ruben Neves in 2020/2021". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  21. ↑ "Games played by Ruben Neves in 2021/2022". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  22. ↑ "Games played by Ruben Neves in 2022/2023". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  23. ↑ "Rúben Neves: Internationals". WorldFootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 18 June 2023.

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