Rúben Neves

**Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves** (, born 13 March 1997) is Portuguese professional footballers, He currently play Al Hilal for the Saudi Professional League and Portugal national football team.

### Porto

Neves grew up supporting and joined Porto is club youth system at the 8 years old He played a first club in his senior career.

In 2014-15 season, he played his first matches in UEFA Champions League. He became a youngest footballer captain in the world. At age of 17, he made his Primeira Liga debut where he started and scored in a 2–0 home matches beat a Marítimo.

### Wolverhampton Wanderers

On 8 July 2017, Neves signed for EFL Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers for an fee, believed to be in the region of £15.8 million, a club and league record fee. On October 16, 2022, Neves scored a penalty kick and results 1-0 and Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Nottingham Forest.

### Al Hilal

On 23 June 2023 Neves joined Al Hilal for 47 million euro transfer fee.

## International Career

Neves played a 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar but defeat by Morocco in quarter final, Portugal was eliminated in semi-final

In 2019 UFEA Nations League Finals on home soil, he played semi finals match and beat Switzerland 3-1 but was taken out of the starting lineup for the final against the Netherlands and replaced with more defensive Danilo.

Neves played Portugal at the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, helped the team reaching the semi-finals as his captain. Because how well a played matches, he was named the top ten talents of the tournament by UEFA reporters.

### Club

|rowspan=2|Club|rowspan=2|Season|colspan=3|League|colspan=2|National cup|colspan=2|League cup|colspan=2|Continental|colspan=2|Other|colspan=2|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=4|Porto|2014–15|Primeira Liga|24|1|1|0|3|0|9|0|—|37|1||
|2015–16|Primeira Liga|22|1|6|1|2|0|8|0|—|38|2||||
|2016–17|Primeira Liga|13|1|0|0|2|0|3|0|—|18|1||||
|rowspan=7|Wolverhampton Wanderers|2017–18|Championship|42|6|0|0|0|0|—|—|42|6|||
|2018–19|Premier League|35|4|5|1|0|0|—|—|40|5|||||
|2019–20|Premier League|38|2|2|0|1|0|13|2|—|54|4||||
|2020–21|Premier League|36|5|3|0|1|0|—|—|40|5|||||
|2021–22|Premier League|33|4|2|0|1|0|—|—|36|4|||||
|2022–23|Premier League|35|6|2|0|4|0|—|—|41|6|||||
|rowspan=3|Al-Hilal|2023–24|Saudi Pro League|32|3|5|2|—|9|2|8|1|54|8||
|2024–25|Saudi Pro League|6|0|0|0|—|3|0|2|0|11|0||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="9"|Portugal|2015|2|0|
|2017|2|0|||
|2018|5|0|||
|2019|7|0|||
|2020|2|0|||
|2021|8|0|||
|2022|11|0|||
|2023|8|0|||
|2024|9|0|||

### Wolverhampton Wanderers

- EFL Championship: 2017–18

### Al Hilal

- Saudi Pro League: 2023-24
- King Cup: 2023-24
- Saudi Super Cup: 2023, 2024

### Portugal U21

- UEFA European Under-21 Championship Runner Up: 2015

### Portugal

- UEFA Nations League: 2018-19

### Individual

- UEFA European Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2014
- Confederação do Desporto de Portugal Young Prospect of the Year: 2015
- EFL Championship Team of the Season: 2017–18
- EFL Team of the Season: 2017–18
- PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 Championship

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Rúben Neves
- **image**: Rúben Neves.png
- **caption**: Neves in 2017
- **full name**: Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves
- **birth place**: Mozelos, Portugal
- **height**: 1.80 m
- **position**: Midfielder (association football), Defensive midfielder
- **currentclub**: Al Hilal SFC, Al Hilal
- **clubnumber**: 8
- **youthyears1**: 2005–2014
- **youthclubs1**: FC Porto, Porto
- **youthyears2**: 2012–2013
- **youthclubs2**: → Padroense (loan)
- **years1**: 2014–2017
- **clubs1**: FC Porto, Porto
- **caps1**: 59
- **goals1**: 3
- **years2**: 2017–2023
- **clubs2**: Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers
- **caps2**: 219
- **goals2**: 27
- **years3**: 2023–
- **clubs3**: Al Hilal SFC, Al Hilal
- **caps3**: 38
- **goals3**: 3
- **nationalyears1**: 2012
- **nationalteam1**: Portugal national under-15 football team, Portugal U15
- **nationalcaps1**: 2
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2012–2013
- **nationalteam2**: Portugal national under-16 football team, Portugal U16
- **nationalcaps2**: 10
- **nationalgoals2**: 1
- **nationalyears3**: 2012–2014
- **nationalteam3**: Portugal national under-17 football team, Portugal U17
- **nationalcaps3**: 31
- **nationalgoals3**: 2
- **nationalyears4**: 2013
- **nationalteam4**: Portugal national under-18 football team, Portugal U18
- **nationalcaps4**: 2
- **nationalgoals4**: 0
- **nationalyears5**: 2014–2017
- **nationalteam5**: Portugal national under-21 football team, Portugal U21
- **nationalcaps5**: 23
- **nationalgoals5**: 4
- **nationalyears6**: 2016
- **nationalteam6**: Portugal national under-23 football team, Portugal U23
- **nationalcaps6**: 1
- **nationalgoals6**: 1
- **nationalyears7**: 2015–
- **nationalteam7**: Portugal national football team, Portugal
- **nationalcaps7**: 54
- **nationalgoals7**: 0
- **club-update**: 20:22 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- **nationalteam-update**: 23:14 15 October 2024 (UTC)