Dele Alli
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Alli with Tottenham Hotspur in 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Bamidele Jermaine Alli | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 11 April 1996 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Milton Keynes, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2007–2012 | Milton Keynes Dons | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Milton Keynes Dons | 62 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2022 | Tottenham Hotspur | 181 | (51) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | → Milton Keynes Dons (loan) | 12 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Everton | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | → Beşiktaş (loan) | 13 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Como | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | England U17 | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | England U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | England U19 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | England U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2019 | England | 37 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19:17, 15 March 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Bamidele Jermaine "Dele" Alli ⓘ(/ˈdɛli ˈæli/ DEL-ee AL-ee; born 11 April 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder and is currently a free agent.
Born and raised in Milton Keynes, he joined the youth system at Milton Keynes Dons aged 11 and broke into the first team five years later, during the 2012–13 season. Over the next two and a half years, he made 88 official appearances for the team, scoring 24 goals. He signed for Tottenham Hotspur in February 2015 for an initial fee of £5 million, being loaned back to MK Dons for the remainder of the season. In each of his first two campaigns at Tottenham, Dele was voted the PFA Young Player of the Year and made the PFA Team of the Year. Towards the end of his time at Tottenham, Dele struggled with poor form, injury problems and fallouts with multiple managers. This led him to join Everton in January 2022 and later that year he joined Beşiktaş on loan. Dele left Everton after his contract expired in July 2024, but continued to work on his fitness at the club's facilities. He joined Serie A club Como under Cesc Fàbregas in January 2025, but made only one appearance for the club (which ended in him being given a red card for a foul against AC Milan's Ruben Loftus-Cheek), eventually having his contract terminated by mutual agreement in September 2025.
Dele played for the England U17, U18 and U19 teams, before making his senior debut in 2015. He was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, playing a key role in helping England reach the semi-finals.