Jérôme Boateng

**Jérôme Agyenim Boateng** (born 3 September 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

## Career

Boateng's mother is German, his father was from Ghana. He began to play football at Tennis Borussia Berlin and came to the youth teams of Hertha BSC Berlin in 2002. On 31 January 2007 he had his first Bundesliga match against Hannover 96. His half-brother, Kevin-Prince Boateng, played also for Hertha BSC at that time.

In 2007, Boateng came to Hamburger SV. In season 2008-09, he played with them in the semi-finals of DFB-Pokal and UEFA Cup, but lost both times against SV Werder Bremen.

Boateng was a member of the German Under-21 team who won the UEFA Under-21 European Championship in June 2009. On 10 October 2009, he had his first match in Germany's senior football team against Russia. There he had to leave the football field when he saw his second yellow card after 69 minutes.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|Hertha BSC II|2005–06|Regionalliga Nord|9|1|—|—|—|9|1||||
|2006–07|Regionalliga Nord|15|0|—|—|—|15|0||||||
|Hertha BSC|2006–07|Bundesliga|10|0|1|0|0|0|—|11|0|||
|rowspan="4"|Hamburger SV|2007–08|Bundesliga|27|0|3|0|7|0|—|37|0||
|2008–09|Bundesliga|21|0|5|0|9|0|—|35|0||||
|2009–10|Bundesliga|27|0|1|0|13|1|—|41|1||||
|Manchester City|2010–11|Premier League|16|0|3|0|5|0|—|24|0|||
|rowspan="11"|Bayern Munich|2011–12|Bundesliga|27|0|6|0|15|0|—|48|0||
|2012–13|Bundesliga|26|2|4|0|9|0|1|0|40|2|||
|2013–14|Bundesliga|25|1|5|0|9|0|4|0|43|1|||
|2014–15|Bundesliga|27|0|5|0|11|3|1|0|44|3|||
|2015–16|Bundesliga|19|0|4|0|7|0|1|0|31|0|||
|2016–17|Bundesliga|13|0|2|0|6|0|0|0|21|0|||
|2017–18|Bundesliga|19|1|3|1|9|0|0|0|31|2|||
|2018–19|Bundesliga|20|0|3|0|5|0|0|0|28|0|||
|2019–20|Bundesliga|24|0|4|0|9|0|1|0|38|0|||
|2020–21|Bundesliga|29|1|1|0|7|1|2|0|39|2|||
|rowspan="3"|Lyon|2021–22|Ligue 1|24|0|0|0|3|0|—|27|0||
|2022–23|Ligue 1|8|0|0|0|—|—|8|0|||||
|Salernitana|2023–24|Serie A|7|0|—|—|—|7|0|||||
|LASK|2024–25|Austrian Bundesliga|3|0|0|0|2|0|—|5|0|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="10"|Germany|2009|2|0|
|2010|10|0|||
|2011|7|0|||
|2012|9|0|||
|2013|8|0|||
|2014|14|0|||
|2015|7|0|||
|2016|10|1|||
|2017|1|0|||
|2018|8|0|||

- _Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Boateng 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|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|26 June 2016|Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France|63||1–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 2016|||||||||

## Honours

**Manchester City**
- FA Cup: 2010–11

**Bayern Munich**
- Bundesliga: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
- DFB-Pokal: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2019–20
- DFL-Supercup: 2012, 2020
- UEFA Champions League: 2012–13, 2019–20
- UEFA Super Cup: 2013, 2020
- FIFA Club World Cup: 2013, 2020

**Germany U21**
- UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 2009

**Germany**
- FIFA World Cup: 2014; third place: 2010

**Individual**
- Fritz Walter Medal U19 Bronze: 2007
- Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2010, 2014
- Classification as _world class_ in the _kicker_ Ranking of German Football: Winter 2014/15, Winter 2015/16, Summer 2016
- Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2014–15, 2015–16
    - 2014–15, 2015–16
- UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 2016
- Germany Footballer of the year: 2015–16
    - 2016
- UEFA Team of the Year: 2016

## Other websites

- Jérôme Boateng on fussballdaten.de (in German)

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Jérôme Boateng
- **image**: Jerome Boateng Training 2019-04-10 FC Bayern Muenchen-2 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Boateng training with FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich in 2019
- **full name**: Jérôme Agyenim Boateng
- **birth place**: West Berlin, West Germany
- **height**: 1.92 m
- **position**: Centre-back
- **youthyears1**: 1994–2002
- **youthclubs1**: Tennis Borussia Berlin
- **youthyears2**: 2002–2006
- **youthclubs2**: Hertha BSC
- **years1**: 2006–2007
- **clubs1**: Hertha BSC II
- **caps1**: 24
- **goals1**: 1
- **years2**: 2007
- **clubs2**: Hertha BSC
- **caps2**: 10
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 2007–2010
- **clubs3**: Hamburger SV
- **caps3**: 75
- **goals3**: 0
- **years4**: 2010–2011
- **clubs4**: Manchester City F.C., Manchester City
- **caps4**: 16
- **goals4**: 0
- **years5**: 2011–2021
- **clubs5**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **caps5**: 229
- **goals5**: 5
- **years6**: 2021–2023
- **clubs6**: Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon
- **caps6**: 32
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 2024
- **clubs7**: US Salernitana 1919, Salernitana
- **caps7**: 7
- **goals7**: 0
- **years8**: 2024–2025
- **clubs8**: LASK
- **caps8**: 10
- **goals8**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 403
- **totalgoals**: 6
- **nationalyears1**: 2004–2005
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national under-17 football team, Germany U17
- **nationalcaps1**: 4
- **nationalgoals1**: 1
- **nationalyears2**: 2005–2007
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national under-19 football team, Germany U19
- **nationalcaps2**: 17
- **nationalgoals2**: 2
- **nationalyears3**: 2007–2009
- **nationalteam3**: Germany national under-21 football team, Germany U21
- **nationalcaps3**: 15
- **nationalgoals3**: 1
- **nationalyears4**: 2009–2018
- **nationalteam4**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps4**: 76
- **nationalgoals4**: 1