Wout Weghorst
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Weghorst with Ajax in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Wout François Maria Weghorst | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 August 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Borne, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Ajax | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
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| NEO | |||||||||||||||||
| –2011 | DETO | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Willem II | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Emmen | 62 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Heracles | 64 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | AZ | 60 | (31) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2022 | VfL Wolfsburg | 124 | (69) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Burnley | 22 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | → Beşiktaş (loan) | 18 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | → Manchester United (loan) | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | → TSG Hoffenheim (loan) | 30 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Ajax | 44 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Netherlands U21 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Netherlands | 49 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14:13, 1 March 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:30, 12 October 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Wout François Maria Weghorst (born 7 August 1992) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Netherlands national team.
Weghorst began his professional career in the second tier of Dutch football with Emmen. He then played in the Eredivisie with Heracles and AZ, before joining VfL Wolfsburg in 2018. After scoring 70 goals in 144 games for Wolfsburg, he was signed by Burnley in January 2022 for a fee of £12 million. After the club were relegated from the Premier League, Weghorst had loan spells at Turkish Süper Lig club Beşiktaş, fellow English club Manchester United and German club TSG Hoffenheim, before returning to the Netherlands with Ajax in mid-2024.
Weghorst made one appearance for the Netherlands under-21 team in 2014, before making his senior international debut in March 2018. He represented the Netherlands at UEFA Euro 2020, the 2022 FIFA World Cup (where he notably scored two goals in his side's quarter-final match against Argentina), and Euro 2024.