Tiago Dantas
Tiago Filipe Oliveira Dantas (born 24 December 2000) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League Greece club PAOK, on loan from Benfica.[1]
 Dantas with Benfica in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tiago Filipe Oliveira Dantas | ||
| Date of birth | 24 December 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | PAOK (on loan from Benfica) | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2010–2020 | Benfica | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2019 | Benfica B | 49 | (5) |
| 2019– | Benfica | 0 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → Bayern Munich II (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2021 | → Bayern Munich (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | → Tondela (loan) | 26 | (1) |
| 2022– | → PAOK (loan) | 32 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2016 | Portugal U16 | 2 | (0) |
| 2016 | Portugal U17 | 2 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Portugal U19 | 8 | (1) |
| 2019 | Portugal U20 | 4 | (1) |
| 2021–2022 | Portugal U21 | 9 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:53, 14 May 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:43, 13 June 2022 (UTC) | |||
Club career
Dantas was born on 24 December 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal. In August 2018, he made his professional debut with the second team of Benfica,[2] while 1.5 years later he reached the first team in a match against Vitória de Setúbal for the Portuguese Cup.[3]
In October 2020 he moved on loan to Bayern Munich. Bayern, however, decided not to pay the buyout and the player returned to Benfica. Dantas was then loaned to Tondela for the 2021-22 Primeira Liga.
In June 2022, PAOK announced the acquisition of Tiago Dantas in the form of a loan from Benfica until the summer of 2023.[4]
Club statistics
- As of match played 3 May 2023
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Benfica B | 2018–19 | LigaPro | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 21 | 2 | ||
| 2019–20 | LigaPro | 23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 23 | 3 | |||
| 2020–21 | Liga Portugal 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| Total | 49 | 5 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 49 | 5 | ||||
| Benfica | 2019–20 | Primeira Liga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020–21 | Primeira Liga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Bayern Munich (loan) | 2020–21 | Bundesliga | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Bayern Munich II (loan) | 2020–21 | 3. Liga | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | |||
| Tondela (loan) | 2021–22 | Primeira Liga | 26 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | 34 | 4 | |
| PAOK (loan) | 2022–23 | Superleague Greece | 30 | 4 | 5 | 0 | — | 2[lower-alpha 1] | 1 | 37 | 5 | |
| Career Total | 114 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 130 | 14 | ||
- Appearances in the UEFA Europa Conference League
Honours
Benfica[5]
- Campeonato Nacional de Juniores: 2017–18
- UEFA Youth League runner-up: 2019–20[6]
Bayern Munich
References
- "Tiago Dantas loaned". S.L. Benfica. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- Tiago Dantas at ForaDeJogo (archived). Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- "Tiago Dantas estreia-se aos 18 anos na equipa principal do Benfica". Record.pt (in Portuguese). 21 December 2019.
- "ΠΑΟΚ: Δικός του ο Ντάντας και με... τη βούλα!". gazzetta.gr. 25 June 2022.
- "Tiago Dantas". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
- "Benfica-Real Madrid". UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- "Bayern é campeão e Pedro Proença dá os parabéns a Tiago Dantas: "Um dia muito especial"". Record. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- "Pavard completes sextuple for dominant Bayern". FIFA.com. 11 February 2021. Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
External links
- Tiago Dantas national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)