- Born:
- May 15, 1997, Vernon, France (age 29)
Ousmane Dembélé
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Ousmane DembĂ©lĂ© (born May 15, 1997, Vernon, France) is a French football (soccer) player with the Ligue 1 (French topflight football league) club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and operates as an attacking winger and forward. Experts consider him one of the best active players in the world because of his two-footed dribbling technique, acceleration and agility, as well as his clinical goal-scoring ability. DembĂ©lĂ© was a member of the French teams that won the 2018 FIFA World Cup and finished second at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and he has collected major club honors in the Spanish, German, and French football leagues. He helped PSG achieve a rare continental treble in the 2024â25 season, as the club won the Ligue 1 title, French Cup (a topflight knockout tournament in the French league), and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League. In May 2026 DembĂ©lĂ© was included in Franceâs squad for the 2026 World Cup. He scored his first World Cup goal in a group-stage match against Iraq in the 2026 edition of the tournament, following it up with a hat trick against Norway. DembĂ©lĂ© scored his fifth goal of the tournament during Franceâs 2â0 win against Morocco in the quarterfinals. His team was eliminated from title contention following a 2â0 loss against Spain in the semifinals. DembĂ©lĂ© scored a goal during Franceâs 6â4 loss against England in the tournamentâs third-place playoff match.
Club career
Stade Rennais and Borussia Dortmund
Dembélé made his Ligue 1 debut for the French football club Stade Rennais in November 2015. In May 2016 he signed with German football club Borussia Dortmund and was part of the team that lifted the German Cup (German-league equivalent of the French Cup) in 2017.
Barcelona
Spanish football club FC Barcelona signed DembĂ©lĂ© in August 2017 for an initial âŹ105 million (about $125 million at the time), plus about âŹ43 million (about $50 million at the time) in conditional add-ons, in the wake of Brazilian football star Neymarâs departure from Barcelona to PSG. DembĂ©lĂ© was part of FC Barcelonaâs La Liga (Spainâs topflight league) title-winning sides in 2017â18 and 2018â19. He won the Spanish Cup (Spanish-league equivalent to the French and German cups) in 2017â18 and 2020â21 and the Spanish Super Cup, a knockout contest featuring the reigning winners and runners-up of both La Liga and the Spanish Cup, in 2019 and 2023. However, DembĂ©lĂ©âs time with FC Barcelona was plagued by injuries; he suffered some form of ailment in each of his six seasons with the club. In particular, between 2019 and 2023, a recurring hamstring problem, which eventually required surgery to fix, greatly limited DembĂ©lĂ©âs appearances for FC Barcelona.
Paris Saint-Germain
In August 2023 DembĂ©lĂ© signed a five-year deal with the Paris-based PSG. During the 2024â25 season he scored 33 goals and 15 assists in 49 appearances in all competitions and helped PSG become one of the few clubs in Europe to achieve a continental treble. His exceptional performances led to him being named the UEFA Champions League Player of the Season as well as the Ligue 1 Player of the Year. He won the menâs Ballon dâOr (a prestigious annual prize jointly awarded by UEFA and the sports publication France Football) award in September 2025.
DembĂ©lĂ© was part of the PSG team that participated in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup (an international association football tournament organized by the sportâs governing body) in JuneâJuly 2025, with the side losing in the final. In August 2025 DembĂ©lĂ© helped PSG win the UEFA Super Cup, a competition between the reigning winners of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, against English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur FC.
In December 2025 DembĂ©lĂ© won The Best FIFA Menâs Player award for the 2024â25 season following an electoral process in which the coaches and captains of the 211 FIFA Member Associationsâ menâs national teams, select journalists, and fans who had registered to vote on the FIFA website all participated. In the 2025â26 season DembĂ©lĂ© helped PSG retain the Ligue 1 title. During the UEFA Champions League final, with PSG trailing by a goal against English team Arsenal, DembĂ©lĂ© scored from the penalty spot in the 65th minute to level the score at 1â1. The match ended in a tie after extra time, and PSG won the subsequent penalty shoot-out 4â3 to win the Champions League for the second year in a row.
International and World Cup career
In September 2016 DembĂ©lĂ© made his senior international debut in a friendly match against Italy. The following year he scored his first goal for France in a 3â2 international friendly win against England. He was part of the French squad for the 2018 World Cup but did not play in the final, in which France beat Croatia 4â2. At the 2022 World Cup, DembĂ©lĂ© played in all seven of Franceâs matches, including in the 3â3 (4â2) penalty shoot-out loss to Argentina in the final.
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