Youri Tielemans
(Youri Marion Achiel Tielemans)
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Born
1997 (29 years old)
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, BelgiumPosition
Central Midfield
Status
Active
Ethnicity
Mixed
Team Number
18
Height
1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight
159 lbs
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Side
Right
Market Value
£35m
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Manchester United
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Belgium
League
English Premier League
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Youri Marion Achiel Tielemans (born 7 May 1997) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United and captains the Belgium national team.
Tielemans began his career at Anderlecht, where he made 184 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 £33 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 made 134 appearances over three seasons at Villa, winning the UEFA Europa League in the 2025–26 season. He joined Manchester United in July 2026.
Tielemans represented Belgium at several youth levels before gaining his first cap for the senior 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, Euro 2024 and the 2026 World Cup.
0 goals scored in the current 2026-2027 Season
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 UEFA Europa League |  Aston Villa | 2025-2026 | |
 English FA Community Shield |  Leicester | 2021 | |
 English FA Cup | Leicester | 2020-2021 | |
 Belgian Pro League |  Anderlecht | 2016-2017 | |
| Belgian Pro League | Anderlecht | 2013-2014 |
Milestones
 FIFA World Cup Player Of The Match | Belgium | 2026-07-01 | |
 UEFA Champions League Player Of The Match | Aston Villa | 2024-12-10 | |
| UEFA Champions League Player Of The Match | Aston Villa | 2024-09-17 |
Former Youth Teams
 Anderlecht | 2002-2013 | Youth | - | - |
Former Senior Teams
| Anderlecht | 2013-2017 | Permanent | 139 app | 26 gls | |
 Belgium U21 | 2013-2016 | International | - | - | |
 Monaco | 2017-2019 | Permanent | 47 app | 5 gls | |
| Leicester | 2019-2023 | Permanent | 138 app | 18 gls | |
| Leicester | 2019 | Loan | 13 app | 3 gls | |
| Aston Villa | 2023-2026 | Permanent | 93 app | 5 gls | |
 Manchester United | 2026- | Permanent | 0 app | 0 gls |
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Contracts
| Leicester | 2019-2023 | - |
 Aston Villa | 2023-2027 | - |
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