Diogo Jota

**Diogo José Teixeira da Silva** (4 December 1996 – 3 July 2025), commonly known as **Diogo Jota**, was a Portuguese footballer. He played as a winger for Premier League team Liverpool.

Jota was 28 years old when he and his brother, André Silva, were killed in a car crash in Cernadilla, Spain, on 3 July 2025. Their funeral took place in Gondomar on 5 July 2025. Many people from the world of football attended, including Andrew Robertson and Virgil van Dijk, who carried floral tributes into the church. A book of condolences was opened for others to write private messages which would go to the family.

### Club

Jota played for F.C. Paços de Ferreira from 2014 until 2016, when he joined Atlético Madrid. He went on loan to FC Porto for the 2016–17 season,  and to Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves) for 2017–18. He signed a contract with Wolves after the loan ended, and played for them until 2020. Liverpool signed him before the 2020–21 season, and he was part of their team which won the FA Premier League title in 2024–25.
|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|Paços de Ferreira|2014–15|Primeira Liga|10|2|1|1|0|0|—|11|3||
|2015–16|Primeira Liga|31|12|1|0|2|0|—|34|12||||
|Atlético Madrid|2016–17|La Liga|0|0|—|—|—|0|0|||||
|Porto (loan)|2016–17|Primeira Liga|27|8|1|0|1|0|8|1|37|9||
|Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan)|2017–18|Championship|44|17|1|1|1|0|—|46|18|||
|rowspan="3"|Wolverhampton Wanderers|2018–19|Premier League|33|9|3|1|1|0|—|37|10||
|2019–20|Premier League|34|7|0|0|0|0|14|9|48|16|||
|rowspan="6"|Liverpool|2020–21|Premier League|19|9|0|0|2|0|9|4|30|13|
|2021–22|Premier League|35|15|5|2|4|3|11|1|55|21|||
|2022–23|Premier League|22|7|0|0|0|0|6|0|28|7|||
|2023–24|Premier League|21|10|2|1|4|1|5|3|32|15|||
|2024–25|Premier League|26|6|2|1|5|2|4|0|37|9|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Portugal|2019|2|0|
|2020|8|3|||
|2021|12|5|||
|2022|7|2|||
|2023|7|2|||
|2024|10|2|||
|2025|3|0|||

- _Scores and results list Portugal's number of goals first, score column shows score after each Jota 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|5 September 2020|Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal|3||2–0|4–1|2020–21 UEFA Nations League A|||||||||||
|2|14 October 2020|Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal|7|rowspan="2"|style="text-align: center;"|2–0|3–0|2020–21 UEFA Nations League A|||||||||||
|3|3–0|||||||||||||||||
|4|27 March 2021|Red Star Stadium, Belgrade, Serbia|11|rowspan="2"|style="text-align: center;"|1–0|2–2|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||||
|5|2–0|||||||||||||||||
|6|30 March 2021|Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg|12||1–1|3–1|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||||
|7|19 June 2021|Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany|16||2–4|2–4|UEFA Euro 2020|||||||||||
|8|7 September 2021|Baku Olympic Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan|21||3–0|3–0|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||||
|9|24 March 2022|Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal|23||2–0|3–1|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||||
|10|24 September 2022|Fortuna Arena, Prague, Czech Republic|28||4–0|4–0|2022–23 UEFA Nations League A|||||||||||
|11|11 September 2023|Estádio Algarve, Algarve, Portugal|33|rowspan="2"|style="text-align: center;"|5–0|9–0|UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying|||||||||||
|12|7–0|||||||||||||||||
|13|4 June 2024|Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal|37||2–0|4–2|Friendly|||||||||||
|14|8 June 2024|Estádio Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal|38||1–1|1–2|Friendly|||||||||||

## Honours

**Wolverhampton Wanderers**
- EFL Championship: 2017–18

**Liverpool**
- Premier League: 2024–25
- FA Cup: 2021–22
- EFL Cup: 2021–22
- UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2021–22

**Portugal**
- UEFA Nations League: 2018–19

**Individual**
- Premier League Player of the Month: January 2024
- SJPF Young Player of the Month: October/November 2015
- Primeira Liga Goal of the Month: February 2016
- UEFA Champions League Breakthrough XI: 2020

## References

**International appearances**

**General**

## Other websites

- Portuguese League profile

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Diogo Jota
- **image**: Diogo Jota 2025.jpg
- **caption**: Jota with Liverpool F.C., Liverpool in April 2025
- **full name**: Diogo José Teixeira da Silva
- **birth place**: Porto, Portugal
- **death place**: Cernadilla, Spain
- **height**: 1.78 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward, left winger
- **youthyears1**: 2005–2013
- **youthclubs1**: Gondomar S.C., Gondomar
- **youthyears2**: 2013–2015
- **youthclubs2**: F.C. Paços de Ferreira, Paços de Ferreira
- **years1**: 2014–2016
- **clubs1**: F.C. Paços de Ferreira, Paços de Ferreira
- **caps1**: 41
- **goals1**: 14
- **years2**: 2016–2018
- **clubs2**: Atlético Madrid
- **caps2**: 0
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 2016–2017
- **clubs3**: → FC Porto, Porto (loan)
- **caps3**: 27
- **goals3**: 8
- **years4**: 2017–2018
- **clubs4**: → Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan)
- **caps4**: 44
- **goals4**: 17
- **years5**: 2018–2020
- **clubs5**: Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers
- **caps5**: 67
- **goals5**: 16
- **years6**: 2020–2025
- **clubs6**: Liverpool F.C., Liverpool
- **caps6**: 123
- **goals6**: 47
- **totalcaps**: 302
- **totalgoals**: 102
- **nationalyears1**: 2014–2015
- **nationalteam1**: Portugal national under-19 football team, Portugal U19
- **nationalcaps1**: 9
- **nationalgoals1**: 5
- **nationalyears2**: 2015–2018
- **nationalteam2**: Portugal national under-21 football team, Portugal U21
- **nationalcaps2**: 20
- **nationalgoals2**: 8
- **nationalyears3**: 2016
- **nationalteam3**: Portugal Olympic football team, Portugal U23
- **nationalcaps3**: 1
- **nationalgoals3**: 1
- **nationalyears4**: 2019–2025
- **nationalteam4**: Portugal national football team, Portugal
- **nationalcaps4**: 49
- **nationalgoals4**: 14