Denis Zakaria

**Denis Lemi Zakaria Lako Lado** (born 20 November 1996) is a Swiss football player. He plays as a defensive midfielder for Monaco and the Switzerland national team.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Servette|2014–15|Swiss Challenge League|6|2|0|0|—|—|—|6|2|||||
|rowspan="3"|Young Boys|2015–16|Swiss Super League|27|1|3|0|—|3|0|—|33|1|||
|2016–17|Swiss Super League|23|1|4|0|—|7|0|—|34|1|||||
|rowspan="6"|Borussia Mönchengladbach|2017–18|Bundesliga|30|2|3|0|—|—|—|33|2||||
|2018–19|Bundesliga|31|4|1|0|—|—|—|32|4||||||
|2019–20|Bundesliga|23|2|2|0|—|6|0|—|31|2|||||
|2020–21|Bundesliga|25|1|2|0|—|5|0|—|32|1|||||
|2021–22|Bundesliga|16|2|2|0|—|—|—|18|2||||||
|rowspan="3"|Juventus|2021–22|Serie A|9|1|3|0|—|1|0|—|13|1|||
|2022–23|Serie A|2|0|—|—|—|—|2|0|||||||
|Chelsea (loan)|2022–23|Premier League|7|0|1|0|1|0|2|1|—|11|1|||
|rowspan="4"|Monaco|2023–24|Ligue 1|25|4|3|0|—|—|—|28|4||||
|2024–25|Ligue 1|26|6|0|0|—|7|1|1|0|34|7||||
|2025–26|Ligue 1|4|0|0|0|—|0|0|—|4|0|||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="10"|Switzerland|2016|3|0|
|2017|6|0|||
|2018|9|1|||
|2019|10|2|||
|2020|0|0|||
|2021|12|0|||
|2022|5|0|||
|2023|7|0|||
|2024|5|0|||
|2025|4|0|||

- _Scores and results list Switzerland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zakaria goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Cap|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|8 September 2018|Kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland|13||2–0|6–0|2018–19 UEFA Nations League A|||||||||||
|2|23 March 2019|Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi, Georgia|19||2–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 2020 qualification|||||||||||
|3|8 September 2019|Stade Tourbillon, Sion, Switzerland|24||1–0|4–0||||||||||||

## Honours

**Juventus**
- Coppa Italia runner-up: 2021–22

**Individual**
- Swiss Super League Young Player of the Year: 2016–17
- Swiss Super League Team of the Year: 2016–17

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Denis Zakaria
- **image**: Zakaria asse asm 2425 (cropped).png
- **caption**: Zakaria with AS Monaco FC, Monaco in 2025
- **full name**: Denis Lemi Zakaria Lako Lado
- **birth place**: Geneva, Switzerland
- **height**: 1.91 m
- **position**: Defensive midfielder
- **currentclub**: AS Monaco FC, Monaco
- **clubnumber**: 6
- **youthyears1**: 2004–2015
- **youthclubs1**: Servette FC, Servette
- **years1**: 2014–2015
- **clubs1**: Servette FC, Servette II
- **caps1**: 13
- **goals1**: 1
- **years2**: 2014–2015
- **clubs2**: Servette FC, Servette
- **caps2**: 6
- **goals2**: 2
- **years3**: 2015–2017
- **clubs3**: BSC Young Boys, Young Boys
- **caps3**: 50
- **goals3**: 2
- **years4**: 2017–2022
- **clubs4**: Borussia Mönchengladbach
- **caps4**: 125
- **goals4**: 11
- **years5**: 2022–2023
- **clubs5**: Juventus FC, Juventus
- **caps5**: 11
- **goals5**: 1
- **years6**: 2022–2023
- **clubs6**: → Chelsea F.C., Chelsea (loan)
- **caps6**: 7
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 2023–
- **clubs7**: AS Monaco FC, Monaco
- **caps7**: 55
- **goals7**: 10
- **nationalyears1**: 2014–2015
- **nationalteam1**: Switzerland national under-19 football team, Switzerland U19
- **nationalcaps1**: 8
- **nationalgoals1**: 2
- **nationalyears2**: 2015–2016
- **nationalteam2**: Switzerland national under-21 football team, Switzerland U21
- **nationalcaps2**: 8
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2016–
- **nationalteam3**: Switzerland national football team, Switzerland
- **nationalcaps3**: 61
- **nationalgoals3**: 3
- **club-update**: 23:01, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- **nationalteam-update**: 23:32, 8 September 2025 (UTC)