Dominik Szoboszlai

**Dominik Szoboszlai** (; (born 25 October 2000) is a Hungarian footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Hungary national team.

## Club career

He played for the youth  youth of Videoton, Főnix-GOLD,  Újpest Dosza and MTK Budapest. 2016 he went to Austria and played for the Red Bull Academy.

### Liefering

Szoboszlai made his professional debut in the 2017–18 season with the Liefering in the second division against Kapfenberg on 21 July 2017. He scored his first professional goal against FC Blau-Weiß Linz on 4 August 2017.

### Red Bull Salzburg

He made his debut for FC Red Bull Salzburg against Austria Wien on 27 May 2018. He substituted Enock Mwepu  in the 57th minute. He scored his first goal for the club in 6–0 Austrian Cup win against SC Eglo Schwarz His first league goal he scored against Wacker Innsbruck on 17 March 2019. On 17 September 2019 he made his Champions League debut and scored his first goal in this competition against Genk in a 6–2 victory.

### RB Leipzig

On 17 December 2020 he signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with RB Leipzig. With a price of €20 million, Szoboszlai became the most expensive Hungarian player in history. Due to an injury he could not play in the 2020–21 season.  He debuted on 7 August 2021 in a German Cup game against SV Sandhausen, where he entered the pitch in the 78th minute and scored three minutes later. On 20 August, he scored his first two goals in Bundesliga in a 4–0 win over VfB Stuttgart.

### Liverpool FC

In July 2023, Szoboszlai moved to Liverpool FC in the Premier League. The Premier League club paid 70 million euros. This made Szoboszlai to the most expensive departure from RB Leipzig

## International career

Szoboszlai was the captain of Hungary U17 team during the 2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in Croatia. There he scored two goals and his team finished 6th in this tournament. He also was the captain of Hungary U19 team during the 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship campaign. He made his debut for U-21 team against Germany U21 on 1 September 2017. He made his debut for the senior squad on 21 March 2019 in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovakia as a 54th-minute substitute for László Kleinheisler. He scored his first international goal against the same opponent, Slovakia, in the same UEFA Euro 2020 run in a free kick at home.

He scored in yet another free kick in the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League B against Turkey, where Hungary emerged victoriously 1–0 away against Turkey in Sivas.

### 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="3"|Liefering|2017–18|2. Liga|33|10|—|—|—|—|33|10|||||
|2018–19|2. Liga|9|6|—|—|—|—|9|6|||||||
|rowspan="5"|Red Bull Salzburg|2017–18|Austrian Bundesliga|1|0|0|0|—|—|—|1|0||||
|2018–19|Austrian Bundesliga|16|3|3|2|—|1|0|—|20|5|||||
|2019–20|Austrian Bundesliga|27|9|6|2|—|7|1|—|40|12|||||
|2020–21|Austrian Bundesliga|12|4|2|1|—|8|4|—|22|9|||||
|rowspan="4"|RB Leipzig|2020–21|Bundesliga|0|0|0|0|—|0|0|—|0|0|||
|2021–22|Bundesliga|31|6|5|2|—|9|2|—|45|10|||||
|2022–23|Bundesliga|31|6|6|3|—|8|1|1|0|46|10||||
|Liverpool|2023–24|Premier League|10|1|0|0|1|1|2|0|—|13|2|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Hungary|2019|8|1|
|2020|4|2|||
|2021|6|2|||
|2022|10|1|||
|2023|10|4|||
|2024|13|5|||
|2025|10|2|||

## Honours

**Red Bull Salzburg**
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2017–18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
- Austrian Cup: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21

**RB Leipzig**
- DFB-Pokal: 2021–22, 2022–23
**Individual**
- Austrian Second League Team of the Season: 2017–18
- Austrian Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2019–20
- Hungarian Sportsman of The Year: 2020
- Bundesliga Rookie of The Month: August 2021, October 2021, April 2022

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Dominik Szoboszlai
- **image**: 2021 Dominik Szoboszlai (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Szoboszlai with RB Leipzig in 2021
- **birth place**: Székesfehérvár, Hungary
- **height**: 1.86 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **currentclub**: Liverpool F.C., Liverpool
- **clubnumber**: 8
- **youthyears1**: 2006–2007
- **youthclubs1**: Fehérvár FC
- **youthyears2**: 2007–2015
- **youthclubs2**: Főnix Gold
- **youthyears3**: 2015–2016
- **youthclubs3**: MTK Budapest FC, MTK Budapest
- **youthyears4**: 2016–2017
- **youthclubs4**: Főnix Gold
- **years1**: 2017–2018
- **clubs1**: FC Liefering, Liefering
- **caps1**: 42
- **goals1**: 16
- **years2**: 2018–2021
- **clubs2**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **caps2**: 56
- **goals2**: 16
- **years3**: 2021–2023
- **clubs3**: RB Leipzig
- **caps3**: 62
- **goals3**: 12
- **years4**: 2023–
- **clubs4**: Liverpool F.C., Liverpool
- **caps4**: 33
- **goals4**: 3
- **nationalyears1**: 2016–2017
- **nationalteam1**: Hungary national under-17 football team, Hungary U17
- **nationalcaps1**: 10
- **nationalgoals1**: 3
- **nationalyears2**: 2016–2018
- **nationalteam2**: Hungary national under-19 football team, Hungary U19
- **nationalcaps2**: 5
- **nationalgoals2**: 2
- **nationalyears3**: 2017–2018
- **nationalteam3**: Hungary national under-21 football team, Hungary U21
- **nationalcaps3**: 8
- **nationalgoals3**: 2
- **nationalyears4**: 2019–
- **nationalteam4**: Hungary national football team, Hungary
- **nationalcaps4**: 47
- **nationalgoals4**: 12
- **pcupdate**: 16 October 2024
- **ntupdate**: 16 October 2024