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Name
Youri Tielemans

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Born
1997 (27 years old)

Birth Place

Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium

Position
Central Midfield

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Mixed

Team Number
8

Height
1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight
72 kg

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Side
Right

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Market Value
Free

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Sport

Soccer

Team
Aston Villa

2nd Team
Belgium

League
English Premier League

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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.

Season Stats
19 appearances in the current 2024-2025 Season
2 goals scored in the current 2024-2025 Season