Neymar is a Brazilian forward who plays for Santos and is Brazil’s all-time top scorer. This KlinPredict Neymar profile covers his biography, Neymar stats, goals, career record, transfers, trophies, awards and playing style.

Neymar at a Glance

Neymar, born on 5 February 1992 in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, plays for Santos, the club where he started his senior career, and wears No. 10. He is Brazil’s all-time top scorer with 80 goals and its assist leader, won the 2015 UEFA Champions League with Barcelona and Olympic gold in 2016, and has been part of a world-record €222 million transfer. He retired from international football on 5 July 2026 after Brazil lost 2–1 to Norway in the 2026 World Cup round of 16.

Neymar Player Bio

Market value is estimated at €3.2 million by FotMob, far below his peak of €194.1 million in December 2017.

2026 Season Stats

Brasileirão figures are from FotMob (1,091 minutes, average rating 7.83). At the World Cup he played only two of Brazil’s five matches because of a calf injury, including 15 minutes against Scotland, and scored a late penalty against Norway. In early October 2026 he returned from a five-week thigh injury and was in Santos’ squad for the match against Flamengo.

Career Goals Totals

Club totals are all-competition figures from FotMob, which add up to 379 club goals; with 80 for Brazil that makes about 459 senior goals (a KlinPredict sum). Wikipedia’s career table lists league games only, so its figures are lower (for example 68 league goals for Barcelona against 105 in all competitions).

Club Career Record

Brazil National Team

Neymar debuted for Brazil on 10 August 2010 in a friendly against the United States. He played at four straight World Cups (2014 to 2026) and scored 9 goals in 15 matches there. He led Brazil to the 2021 Copa América final and to Olympic gold in 2016, the country’s first. He is second on Brazil’s all-time appearance list.

Neymar Honours & Trophies

Individual Awards & Records

• Brazil’s all-time top scorer (80 goals) and assist leader (59)
• Brazil’s all-time Champions League top scorer (31 goals as of 2018)
• World-record transfer: €222 million from Barcelona to PSG in 2017
• Fastest player this century to 50 Ligue 1 goals (58 matches)
• Joint top scorer of the 2014–15 Copa del Rey with 7 goals
• One of few players with 100+ goals for three clubs (Santos, Barcelona and PSG)

Records are stated as of the dates given in Wikipedia and may have been surpassed since.

Transfers

Early Life & Youth Career

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior was born on 5 February 1992 in Mogi das Cruzes, in the state of São Paulo, to Neymar Santos Sr. and Nadine da Silva. His father was a former footballer who later became his adviser and manages his finances, and the family raised him in a Christian household. His name comes from his father, which is why the “Júnior” is part of his full name. In 2003 the family moved to São Vicente and then to the city of Santos, where they bought a house next to the Vila Belmiro, the stadium of Santos FC.

His youth career began at Portuguesa Santista, where he played from 1999 to 2003, and continued at Santos from 2003. At 14 he had a trial with Real Madrid but stayed in Brazil. Wikipedia reports that he earned 10,000 reais a month at 15 and 125,000 reais a month at 16, and he signed his first full professional contract at 17. At Brazil youth level he played for the under-17 team in 2009 (3 caps, 1 goal), and in 2011 he helped the under-20 side win the South American U-20 Championship in Peru.

Santos, First Spell (2009–2013)

Neymar made his professional debut on 7 March 2009 in a 2–1 win over Oeste. A month later, on 11 April, he scored the decisive goal in a 2–1 win over Palmeiras. Santos lost the 2009 Campeonato Paulista final 4–2 on aggregate to Corinthians, but the young forward had announced himself.

2010. He scored 42 goals in 60 matches across all competitions. Santos won their first Copa do Brasil, and Neymar was the competition’s top scorer with 11 goals. Chelsea (a reported fee of about £20 million) and West Ham made approaches, but he stayed at Santos.

2011. This was the year that made him a global name. He scored the winning goal in the second leg of the state final against Corinthians, and in the Copa Libertadores he scored six goals, including the opener in a 2–1 second-leg win over Peñarol in the final. He was named the tournament’s Best Player.

On 27 July he scored a solo goal in a 5–4 loss to Flamengo that won the FIFA Puskás Award. He then extended his contract, reportedly with a 50 percent wage rise. At the FIFA Club World Cup he scored from 20 metres in a 3–1 semi-final win over Kashiwa Reysol on 14 December, but Santos lost the final 4–0 to Barcelona on 18 December, a game that placed him in front of his future club. On 31 December he won the South American Footballer of the Year award.

2012. He scored his 100th professional goal on 5 February. He scored two goals in a 6–1 win over Ponte Preta on 25 February and hat-tricks against Internacional (3–1, 7 March), São Paulo (3–1, 29 April) and Cruzeiro (4–0 away, 3 November). Santos won the Paulista final 7–2 on aggregate over Guarani, with Neymar finishing on 20 Paulista goals, and he was joint top scorer in the Libertadores with eight. He ended 2012 with 43 goals in 47 matches and kept the South American Footballer of the Year award.

2013. He scored twice in a 3–1 Paulista win over São Bernardo on 19 January and four in a 4–0 win over União Barbarense on 13 April. In February he appeared on the cover of Time under the headline “The Next Pelé”. Santos received two offers for him on 24 May, he played his last match for the club on 26 May in a draw with Flamengo, and he then signed a five-year deal with Barcelona. His first Santos spell ended with 134 goals in 220 appearances in all competitions, according to FotMob.

Barcelona (2013–2017)

The move. Barcelona first presented the transfer as €57.1 million with a €190 million release clause, and he was unveiled in front of 56,500 fans at Camp Nou. The club later disclosed that the true fee was €86.2 million (£71.5 million), and his parents were confirmed to have received €40 million. The transfer led to a tax-fraud case against Barcelona and its then president Sandro Rosell, who resigned on 23 January 2014. Neymar himself was not the one charged.

2013–14. He debuted as a substitute in a 7–0 win over Levante, scored the only goal in the Supercopa de España win over Atlético Madrid, and made an assist on his Champions League debut in a 4–0 win over Ajax on 18 September. He scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 win over Celtic on 11 December and two in a 2–1 win over Villarreal on 14 December. He finished the season with 15 goals in 41 appearances, and Barcelona lost the Copa del Rey final to Real Madrid on 16 April 2014.

2014–15 and the MSN. With Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, Neymar formed the front three known as MSN. He scored twice in a 2–0 win over Athletic Bilbao on 13 September, a hat-trick in a 6–0 win over Granada on 27 September, and two goals and an assist in a 6–0 win at Elche on 24 January. He scored twice in each of the Copa del Rey round of 16, quarter-final and semi-final, then scored in the 3–1 final win over Athletic on 30 May to finish as joint top scorer with seven.

In the Champions League he scored six knockout-stage goals against PSG and Bayern Munich, and he scored the third goal in the 3–1 final win over Juventus on 6 June 2015. He finished the season with 39 goals in all competitions, including 10 in the Champions League, which made him joint top scorer. The trio scored 122 goals between them.

2015–16. While Messi was injured, Neymar scored 13 goals and provided nine assists in eight games, including four goals in a 5–2 win over Rayo Vallecano and braces against BATE, Villarreal and Real Sociedad. He made two assists in the Club World Cup final, a 3–0 win over River Plate on 20 December. In La Liga he finished with 24 goals and 16 assists as Barcelona won the title by a point over Real Madrid, and he scored in the 2–0 Copa del Rey final win over Sevilla on 22 May.

He finished third in the 2015 Ballon d’Or vote with 7.86 percent. In 2015–16 the trio scored 131 goals together, and Neymar ended with 31 goals and 27 assists.

2016–17. He signed a new contract on 1 July 2016, running to 2021, with a buy-out clause of €200 million that rose to €222 million and then €250 million. He scored and made four assists in a 7–0 win over Celtic on 12 September, and scored twice in a 5–0 win at Sporting Gijón on 24 September.

His best-remembered night came on 8 March 2017: after a 4–0 first-leg defeat in Paris, Barcelona won the return 6–1, and with the aggregate score at 5–3 to PSG in the 88th minute, Neymar scored and assisted in the closing minutes to complete the comeback. He scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 win at Las Palmas on 15 May and his 105th and final Barcelona goal in the 3–1 Copa del Rey final win over Alavés on 27 May 2017.

The exit. On 2 August 2017 Neymar asked to leave. The following day the €222 million release clause was paid, but La Liga initially refused to accept it, citing financial fair play concerns about PSG. Barcelona sued him in August 2017 over a contract-renewal bonus, claiming €8.5 million in damages plus 10 percent arrears, and on 19 June 2020 a Spanish court ordered him to return $7.5 million (€6.7 million). The parties reached an out-of-court settlement in 2021.

Paris Saint-Germain (2017–2023)

The transfer. Neymar joined PSG on 3 August 2017 for a world-record €222 million, on a salary of roughly €36 million a year, about €12 million more than at Barcelona. FotMob counts 173 appearances and 118 goals for him in Paris across all competitions.

2017–18. He debuted on 13 August with a goal and an assist in a 3–0 win at Guingamp and scored twice, with two assists, in a 6–2 win over Toulouse on 20 August. He scored six goals in six Champions League group games as PSG set a club record of 25 group-stage goals, and four goals plus two assists in an 8–0 win over Dijon on 17 January. A metatarsal injury in late February ended his season, with 28 goals in 30 matches. PSG won the domestic treble, and he was voted Ligue 1 Player of the Year.

2018–19. He scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 Champions League win over Red Star Belgrade, including two free kicks, and his second goal in a 2–1 win over Liverpool took him to 31 Champions League goals, the most by a Brazilian. He injured the same metatarsal on 23 January 2019 and missed the Manchester United tie. UEFA banned him for three matches after he insulted video-review officials. PSG lost the Coupe de France final to Rennes on penalties on 27 April, where he assisted and scored. He finished with 23 goals in 28 matches.

2019–20. After being booed on his return, he scored a 92nd-minute bicycle kick in a 1–0 win over Strasbourg on 14 September. He scored the only goal of the Coupe de France final, a 1–0 win that completed another domestic treble. PSG then reached the Champions League final but lost 1–0 to Bayern Munich.

2020–21. He scored twice and made an assist in a 6–1 win over Angers on 3 October, and reached 50 Ligue 1 goals in 58 matches, the fastest of the 21st century. In the Champions League he scored twice in a 3–1 win at Manchester United and a hat-trick in a 5–1 win over Başakşehir. PSG were knocked out by Manchester City in the semi-final, and Lille beat them to the league title by a point. He won the Coupe de France, his third and last cup with the club.

2021–22. On 6 November 2021 he scored twice in a 3–2 win over Bordeaux for his 400th career goal. He scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 win over Clermont on 9 April 2022 and reached 100 PSG goals in a 5–0 win over Metz on 21 May. PSG won the league, but his 13 goals and eight assists were his lowest output in Europe up to that point, and he scored no Champions League goals that season.

2022–23. He scored twice in the Trophée des Champions on 31 July and was named Ligue 1 Player of the Month for August. His 110th PSG goal, in a 1–0 win over Brest on 10 September, put him past Pauleta into fourth place on the club’s all-time scorers list. A season-ending ankle injury against Lille on 19 February 2023, in which he scored in a 4–3 comeback win, kept him out of the second leg against Bayern.

He finished with 13 goals and 11 assists in 20 league matches as PSG won a fifth Ligue 1 title of his stay by one point over Lens. Across his six seasons Wikipedia counts 188 goal contributions and about 119 matches missed through roughly 20 injuries.

Al-Hilal (2023–2025)

Al-Hilal announced his signing on 15 August 2023 on a two-year contract. The fee was reported at €90 million, the most expensive purchase in Saudi Pro League history, with reported wages of about €150 million a year. He debuted on 15 September 2023 as a substitute in a 6–1 win over Al-Riyadh, assisting Malcom, and scored his first goal on 3 October 2023 in a 3–0 win away to Nassaji Mazandaran in the AFC Champions League.

After about five games he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament on international duty in October 2023 and missed the rest of the season, though Al-Hilal won the 2023–24 Saudi Pro League. He returned on 21 October 2024 against Al Ain in the AFC Champions League Elite, then a hamstring injury sidelined him for the rest of 2024. Coach Jorge Jesus said he could “no longer perform at the level we are used to”. On 27 January 2025 the club announced a mutual termination. He finished with one goal and two assists in seven appearances, according to Wikipedia and FotMob.

Return to Santos (2025–Present)

Neymar announced his return to Santos on 30 January 2025, and the club confirmed it the next day. He took the No. 10 shirt that Pelé wore from 1956 to 1974. On 6 February 2025 he came on at half-time in a 1–1 Campeonato Paulista draw with Botafogo-SP and was named Man of the Match, while Reuters described fans lighting up their phones for a hero’s welcome. He scored his first goal of the spell ten days later in a 3–1 win over Água Santa. Wikipedia says the move was partly to regain top form before the 2026 World Cup.

According to FotMob he has 21 goals in 53 appearances for Santos since returning, and in the 2026 Brasileirão he has 8 goals and 3 assists in 13 matches (12 starts, 1,091 minutes, average rating 7.83). In early October 2026 he recovered from a right thigh injury that kept him out for five weeks and was named in Santos’ squad for the match against Flamengo, expected to start on the bench. Santos were eighth with 41 points after five straight league wins, their first such run since 2019. His contract runs to 31 December 2026.

Neymar for Brazil: The Full Story

Neymar made his Brazil debut on 10 August 2010 in a friendly against the United States. He finished with 130 caps, the second-most in the country’s history, and 80 goals and 59 assists, both Brazilian records.

Olympics and Confederations Cup. He won silver with Brazil at London 2012, then led the team to the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, where he won the Golden Ball. At Rio 2016 Brazil won the first Olympic football gold in their history.

The pursuit of Pelé. On 8 September 2023, in a 5–1 win over Bolivia in a World Cup qualifier in Belém, he scored twice, the 78th in the 61st minute and the 79th in injury time, to pass Pelé’s total of 77. He had also missed a penalty in the 17th minute. Brazil’s federation credits Pelé with 95 goals in 114 matches, including friendlies against club sides that FIFA does not count. Neymar said: “I never thought I would reach this record.” He had drawn level with Pelé at 77 in the 2022 World Cup quarter-final against Croatia.

The World Cups. He played in four straight World Cups and scored nine goals in 15 matches, and never won the tournament.

• 2014: four goals, including two against Croatia and two against Cameroon. In the quarter-final against Colombia on 4 July he fractured a vertebra after being kneed in the back in the 88th minute and missed the rest of the tournament. Brazil then lost 7–1 to Germany in the semi-final.
• 2018: two goals, which with four in 2014, two in 2022 and one in 2026 make the career total of nine.
• 2022: he sprained an ankle against Serbia, missed two matches, returned to score a penalty in a 4–1 win over South Korea and scored in extra time against Croatia. Croatia equalised in the 117th minute and won the shoot-out 4–2.
• 2026: he played only two of Brazil’s five matches because of a calf injury, including 15 minutes against Scotland, and scored a late penalty after coming on against Norway in a 2–1 defeat in the round of 16.

Copa América. He missed the 2019 triumph through injury, and in 2021 he led Brazil to the final, finishing as runner-up and sharing the tournament’s Golden Ball.

Retirement. After the Norway defeat on 5 July 2026 Neymar announced his retirement from international football, saying “It is now over”. He added: “It started here, at MetLife Stadium, and I finished here.” Captain Marquinhos asked fans to be patient with the new generation of players.

Playing Style, Strengths and Reception

Neymar is an attacking midfielder or forward who is both a goalscorer and a playmaker. Wikipedia cites his dribbling, technical ability, agility, passing and finishing, and his ability to play on the wing, behind a striker or through the middle. Opta-based performance data named him Europe’s best player for three consecutive seasons (2016–17 to 2018–19) and ranked him second in 2015–16, 2019–20 and 2020–21.

Early in his career he was called the “new Pelé”, and the February 2013 Time cover read “The Next Pelé”. Diego Maradona said Neymar could be the best player “only if you say that Messi is from a different planet”. Critics, particularly early on, accused him of diving, and Mundo Deportivo called him “the most hunted player in La Liga” in 2017. He was booed on his PSG return in 2019, and after he left Europe for Al-Hilal he was dubbed the “Prince who never became King”. Injuries are a recurring theme: about 119 PSG matches missed, a metatarsal problem twice, a calf injury at the 2026 World Cup and the ACL rupture at Al-Hilal.

Business, Earnings and Public Image

SportsPro named Neymar the world’s most marketable athlete, he appears regularly on Forbes’ list of the highest-paid athletes, and he was named to the Time 100 in 2017. Wikipedia reports about €36 million a year in wages at PSG and a reported €150 million a year at Al-Hilal. His father manages his finances and business affairs. His career was also marked by legal disputes, including the tax-fraud case brought against Barcelona and its president over his 2013 transfer and the lawsuit settled in 2021 over his 2017 departure. Details of his children, charity work and net worth are not covered in the sources used here, so KlinPredict leaves them out until they can be confirmed.

Neymar Career Timeline

Neymar Honours Explained

Santos. Neymar’s first major trophy was the 2010 Copa do Brasil, the club’s first. In 2011 Santos won the Copa Libertadores, South America’s Champions League equivalent, and he was named the tournament’s best player. In 2012 he added the Campeonato Paulista and the Recopa Sudamericana. In 2011 he also helped Santos reach the Club World Cup final, where they lost 4–0 to Barcelona, and he took the Bronze Ball.

Barcelona. His Barcelona years brought the 2013 Supercopa de España, the La Liga titles of 2014–15 and 2015–16, the Copa del Rey in 2014–15 and 2015–16, the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2014–15 Champions League. That season Barcelona completed a treble, and Neymar scored in the final against Juventus. He also scored in the 3–1 Copa del Rey final win over Alavés on 27 May 2017, which gave Barcelona a third consecutive Copa del Rey.

Paris Saint-Germain. At PSG he won Ligue 1 in 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22 and 2022–23, the Coupe de France in 2018, 2020 and 2021, the Coupe de la Ligue in 2018 and the Trophée des Champions in 2021 and 2022. The 2019–20 team won the domestic treble but lost the Champions League final 1–0 to Bayern Munich, and he never won the competition in Paris.

Al-Hilal. He won the 2023–24 Saudi Pro League with Al-Hilal despite playing only three league games, which Wikipedia counts as his eighth career league title.

Brazil. Neymar’s international honours are the 2013 Confederations Cup, the 2016 Olympic gold medal (Brazil’s first), the 2012 Olympic silver, the 2011 South American U-20 Championship and the 2021 Copa América runner-up place. He has never won a senior World Cup or the Copa América.

Neymar by the Numbers

The Barcelona line uses Wikipedia’s text, which agrees with FotMob’s 105 goals in 186 appearances. The “second in club history” note is Wikipedia’s wording for his six PSG seasons, behind Kylian Mbappé.

Neymar Compared With Messi and Mbappé

Neymar played alongside Lionel Messi at Barcelona and again at the 2021 Copa América, where Messi’s Argentina beat Brazil in the final and the pair shared the tournament’s Golden Ball. Their MSN trio with Luis Suárez scored 122 goals in 2014–15 and 131 in 2015–16, according to Wikipedia. At PSG he was later joined by Kylian Mbappé, who ended up with more goal contributions at the club than Neymar and is PSG’s all-time top scorer with 256 goals to Neymar’s 118.

Club totals are all-competition counts from each player’s KlinPredict profile. Messi’s 808 is the sum of his Barcelona, PSG and Inter Miami goals.

Neymar Strengths and Weaknesses

• Dribbling and close control: Wikipedia lists dribbling, technique and agility among his defining qualities.
• Creativity and assists: 59 assists for Brazil, a national record, and 76 assists in 186 games at Barcelona.
• Finishing: 379 club goals and 80 for Brazil, including 105 at Barcelona and 118 at PSG.
• Big-game scoring: a goal in the 2015 Champions League final and in the 2017 Copa del Rey final, and the only goal of the 2020 Coupe de France final.
• Versatility: he has played as a left winger, second striker and attacking midfielder.
• Weakness — injuries: roughly 20 injuries cost him 119 matches at PSG, and calf, thigh, ankle, metatarsal and ACL problems have followed him.
• Weakness — reputation: critics accused him of diving, and he served a three-match UEFA ban in 2019.

What Next for Neymar?

Neymar is 34, his Santos contract runs until 31 December 2026 and FotMob values him at €3.2 million. He has retired from Brazil, so his remaining story is a club one. Santos are in eighth place in the 2026 Série A, and he is working his way back from a five-week thigh injury. KlinPredict will update this page with new figures when his contract situation is confirmed.

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Sources & Data Notes

This profile uses Wikipedia for biography, honours and transfers, FotMob for all-competition and current-season figures, and Al Jazeera and Khel Now for 2026 news. Career narrative details follow Wikipedia’s Neymar, Brazil at the 2014 and 2022 World Cup articles and AP coverage.

• Wikipedia — Neymar
• FotMob — Neymar

Data on this page is current to 15 October 2026 and is updated as new matches and official records become available. Always check the latest figures before using statistics for time-sensitive analysis.