Dayot Upamecano
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Personal information
Full name
Dayotchanculle Oswald Upamecano
Date of birth
27 October 1998
Place of birth
Évreux, Eure, France
Height
1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position
Centre-back
Team information
Current team
Bayern Munich
Number
2
Youth career
Vaillante S. Angers
2004-2007
FC De Prey
2008-2009
Évreux
2009-2013
Valenciennes
2013-2015
Senior career*
FC Liefering
2015-2016
16x apps 0x goal
Red Bull Salzburg
2016-2017
17x apps 0x goal
RB Leipzig
2017-2021
112x apps 4x goals
Bayern Munich
2021-
124x apps 5x goals
International career‡
France U16
2014
3x apps 0x goal
France U17
2014-2015
12x apps 0x goal
France U18
2015-2016
10x apps 1x goals
France U19
2016-2017
6x apps 0x goal
France U21
2018-2021
16x apps 1x goals
France
2020-
36x apps 2x goals
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16:22, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:34, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
Dayot Upamecano is a French professional footballer.
He plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team.
Early life
Dayotchanculle Oswald Upamecano was born on 27 October 1998 in Évreux, Eure, and is of Bissau-Guinean descent.
He was raised in La Madeleine, a neighbourhood with many African immigrants.
He was named after his great-grandfather, who was king of the village on the island of Jeta in Guinea-Bissau, where his parents are from, and his mother is Senegalese.
Club career
Early career
Upamecano began playing football with local club Évreux, alongside the likes of Ousmane Dembélé, Rafik Guitane, and Samuel Grandsir.
He covered a variety of positions in his youth, before being fixed on the centre-back position.
He joined the youth academy of Valenciennes in 2013.
Described during the time as a youth in an adult body, Upamecano shaped his play after Sergio Ramos, and developed into a physically imposing defender.
Red Bull Salzburg
After attracting the attention of several major European clubs, Upamecano joined Red Bull Salzburg in July 2015 for a reported fee of €2.2 million.
He was an unused substitute in Red Bull's UEFA Champions League game against Malmö FF on 29 July 2015.
He made his professional debut for Red Bull's farm team, FC Liefering, two days later, in a 2:1 league win against St. Pölten.
On 19 March 2016, he made his league debut with Red Bull Salzburg in a 2:1 win over SV Mattersburg.
In the first half of the 2016-17 season, Upamecano earned a regular place with the first team in both league and Europa League matches.
RB Leipzig
On 13 January 2017, Upamecano joined RB Leipzig on a 4,5-year deal, for a reported €10 million fee.
On 4 February 2017, he made his Bundesliga debut under coach Ralph Hasenhüttl in a 1:0 defeat against Borussia Dortmund.
On 13 September 2017, he made his Champions League debut in a 1:1 draw against Monaco.
On 9 February 2018, he scored his first goal in a 2:0 win over Augsburg.
On 2 July 2018, he was shortlisted for the 2018 Golden Boy award.
On 31 July 2020, Upamecano signed a new deal until 2023.
In the 2019-20 season, he reached the Champions League semi-finals with RB Leipzig under coach Julian Nagelsmann.
Bayern Munich
On 14 February 2021, Bayern Munich announced an agreement for the signing of Upamecano on a five-year deal, to be effective as of 1 July 2021.
The club reportedly met Leipzig's release clause of €42.5 million.
Upamecano's first game as a Bayern player came in a pre-season friendly on 16 July 2021 against fellow Bundesliga side 1. FC Köln, which saw Bayern lose 3:2 after fielding a largely reserve and youth player lineup.
He made his competitive debut on the opening day of the 2021-22 Bundesliga season, starting at centre-back alongside Niklas Süle in a 1:1 away draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach.
He scored his first goal for the club in a 4:0 win over VfL Wolfsburg on 17 December, heading in a cross from Thomas Müller.
During the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League, Bayern defeated Upamecano's France compatriot Kylian Mbappé's Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16, only for them to be eliminated by a 4:1 defeat on aggregate to Manchester City in the quarter-finals.
On 4 November 2023, he scored his first goal of the 2023-24 season in the fourth minute of a 4:0 away win over Borussia Dortmund.
Under new manager Vincent Kompany's coaching, Upamecano's performances improved drastically, as he helped Bayern reclaim the 2024-25 Bundesliga title.
On 13 February 2026, he extended his contract with the club until 2030.
Two months later, on 28 April, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 5:4 away defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the competition's semi-final first leg.
International career
Upamecano played for the France under-16 team that finished third in the 2014 Aegean Cup.
He played in three of his country's four games and was named the competition's best defender.
He subsequently moved up to the France under-17 squad, making his debut in a European Championship qualifier against Cyprus on 27 October 2014.
France won the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, with Upamecano playing in all six of his country's matches and being named in the team of the tournament.
He debuted for France under-18 in a 0:0 friendly draw with United States under-18 on 4 September 2015.
On 5 September 2020, Upamecano debuted for the French senior squad, starting in a UEFA Nations League group stage match against Sweden.
Three days later, on 8 September, he scored his first international goal in a 4:2 victory against Croatia.
Upamecano played a pivotal role in France's 2022 FIFA World Cup, starting five of France's seven matches.
This included playing the entire 120 minutes in the final in an eventual 3:3 loss in penalties to Argentina.