Leroy Sané

**Leroy Aziz Sané** (; born 11 January 1996) is a German footballer. He plays as a winger or as an attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the German national team. In 2014, he began playing professionally for Schalke 04. He was transferred to Manchester City in 2016 for £37 million.

## Early life and academy football

Sané was born on January 11, 1996 in Essen, Germany. He joined the youth team of SG Wattenscheid 09 at the age of 5. In 2005, he joined the academy of German club Schalke 04. He joined the academy of Bayer Leverkusen in 2008. He rejoined Schalke 04's academy in 2011.

### Sigma 04

Sané signed a 3-year professional contract with Schalke 04 in 2014. He made his Bundesliga debut against VfB Stuttgart on April 20, 2014. He was subbed on in the 77th minute, replacing Max Meyer in a 3-1 loss. He scored his first goal on December 13, 2014 in a 2-1 loss against 1. FC Köln. He scored his first UEFA Champions League goal in a 4-3 win against Real Madrid on March 11, 2015.

### Manchester City

Sané signed a 5-year contract with Premier League club Manchester City on August 2, 2016. The transfer fee was £37 million. It included  add-ons based on performance. The deal could be worth as much as £46.5 million. He made his debut with the club on September 10, 2016. The team played against Manchester United in the Manchester derby. On December 18, 2016, he scored his first goal for the club. It was during the Premier League match against Arsenal. He did not play in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup because he had to have surgery for a nasal congestion problem.

Sané performed well in the 2017–2018 season. He received the Premier League Player of the Month award for October 2017. He was part of the club’s squad during the 2017–2018 FA Cup. The 2018 EFL Cup final was held on February 25, 2018, at Wembley Stadium. In it Manchester City won the trophy with a score of 3–0 against Arsenal. Leroy played 77 minutes in the match before he was substituted off.

He won The "PFA Young Player of the Year" title in the 2017–2018 season. His first Manchester derby goal came on April 24, 2019, in a 2–0 win in a match between Manchester City and Manchester United.  He sustained a torn ACL during the 2019 FA Community Shield match between Manchester City and Liverpool on August 4, 2019. He played for 13 minutes before being substituted off. Manchester City defended the trophy, winning 5–4 on penalties.

### Bayern Munchen

Sané left Manchester City and joined Bayern Munich on July 15, 2020 for €49,000,000.

## International career

Sané holds both German and French citizenships. He can play for either of the two nations. He chose to play for Germany.
He made his junior international debut with the German national under-19 squad in 2014. He played for the team into 2015. During this time. he scored 8 goals in his 11 appearances with the squad. On August 28, 2015, he received a call from coach Horst Hrubesch to play for the German under-21 team for a friendly match against Denmark. He also played against Azerbaijan in a 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier match.

### 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|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=4|Schalke 04|2013–14|Bundesliga|1|0|0|0|—|0|0|—|1|0|||
|2014–15|Bundesliga|13|3|0|0|—|1|1|—|14|4|||||
|2015–16|Bundesliga|33|8|2|0|—|7|1|—|42|9|||||
|rowspan=5|Manchester City|2016–17|Premier League|26|5|5|2|2|0|4|2|—|37|9||
|2017–18|Premier League|32|10|3|1|5|3|9|0|—|49|14||||
|2018–19|Premier League|31|10|4|2|3|0|8|4|1|0|47|16|||
|2019–20|Premier League|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|2|0|||
|rowspan=5|Bayern Munich|2020–21|Bundesliga|32|6|1|1|—|8|3|3|0|44|10||
|2021–22|Bundesliga|32|7|2|1|—|10|6|1|0|45|14||||
|2022–23|Bundesliga|32|8|3|1|—|8|4|1|1|44|14||||
|2023–24|Bundesliga|26|8|1|0|—|10|1|1|0|39|9||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=9|Germany|2015|1|0|
|2016|3|0|||
|2017|5|0|||
|2018|8|2|||
|2019|4|3|||
|2020|4|1|||
|2021|15|5|||
|2022|10|0|||
|2023|9|2|||

- _Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Sané goal._

|No.|Date|Venue|Cap|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|15 November 2018|Red Bull Arena, Leipzig, Germany|16||1–0|3–0|Friendly|
|2|19 November 2018|Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany|17||2–0|2–2|2018–19 UEFA Nations League A|
|3|24 March 2019|Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands|19||1–0|3–2|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|4|8 June 2019|Borisov Arena, Barysaw, Belarus|20||1–0|2–0||
|5|11 June 2019|Opel Arena, Mainz, Germany|21||8–0|8–0||
|6|14 November 2020|Red Bull Arena, Leipzig, Germany|24||1–1|3–1|2020–21 UEFA Nations League A|
|7|7 June 2021|Merkur Spiel-Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany|30||7–1|7–1|Friendly|
|8|2 September 2021|Kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland|35||2–0|2–0|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|9|8 September 2021|Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland|37||3–0|4–0||
|10|11 November 2021|Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg, Germany|39||3–0|9–0||
|11|5–0|||||||
|12|9 September 2023|Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg, Germany|54||1–1|1–4|Friendly|
|13|12 September 2023|Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany|55||2–0|2–1|Friendly|

## Honours

**Manchester City**
- Premier League: 2017–18, 2018–19
- FA Cup: 2018–19
- EFL Cup: 2017–18, 2018–19,2019-20
- FA Community Shield: 2018, 2019

**Bayern Munich**
- Bundesliga: 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
- DFL-Supercup: 2021, 2022
- UEFA Super Cup: 2020
- FIFA Club World Cup: 2020

**Germany**
- FIFA Confederations Cup: 2017

**Individual**
- PFA Young Player of the Year: 2017–18
- Premier League Player of the Month: October 2017
- VDV Newcomer of the Season: 2014–15
- UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football Team of the Season: 2021–22

## Personal life

Sané is the son of former Senegalese footballer Souleyman Sané and former German Olympic gymnast Regina Weber. As of 2018, he had been dating American model, singer, and reality television personality Candice Brook. Their daughter, Rio Stella, was born in September 2018.

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Leroy Sané
- **image**: 20180602 FIFA Friendly Match Austria vs. Germany Leroy Sané 850 0668.jpg
- **caption**: Sané with Germany national football team, Germany in 2018
- **full name**: Leroy Aziz Sané
- **birth place**: Essen, Germany
- **height**: 1.83 m
- **position**: Winger (association football), Winger
- **currentclub**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **clubnumber**: 10
- **youthyears1**: 2001–2005
- **youthclubs1**: SG Wattenscheid 09
- **youthyears2**: 2005–2008
- **youthclubs2**: FC Schalke 04, Schalke 04
- **youthyears3**: 2008–2011
- **youthclubs3**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen
- **youthyears4**: 2011–2014
- **youthclubs4**: FC Schalke 04, Schalke 04
- **years1**: 2014–2016
- **clubs1**: FC Schalke 04, Schalke 04
- **caps1**: 47
- **goals1**: 11
- **years2**: 2016–2020
- **clubs2**: Manchester City F.C., Manchester City
- **caps2**: 90
- **goals2**: 25
- **years3**: 2020–
- **clubs3**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **caps3**: 105
- **goals3**: 29
- **nationalyears1**: 2014–2015
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national youth football team, Germany U19
- **nationalcaps1**: 11
- **nationalgoals1**: 5
- **nationalyears2**: 2015–2016
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national under-21 football team, Germany U21
- **nationalcaps2**: 10
- **nationalgoals2**: 5
- **nationalyears3**: 2015–
- **nationalteam3**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps3**: 57
- **nationalgoals3**: 13
- **club-update**: 15:21, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
- **nationalteam-update**: 15:54, 18 October 2023 (UTC)