Tiago Dantas

Portuguese footballer

Tiago Dantas
Personal information
Dantas with Benfica in 2019
Full name	Tiago Filipe Oliveira Dantas
Date of birth	(2000-12-24) 24 December 2000 (age 23)
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Central midfielder
Team information
Current team	AZ (on loan from Benfica)
Number	6
Youth career
2010–2020	Benfica
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2018–2019	Benfica B	49	(5)
2019–	Benfica	0	(0)
2020–2021	→ Bayern Munich II (loan)	7	(0)
2021	→ Bayern Munich (loan)	2	(0)
2021–2022	→ Tondela (loan)	26	(1)
2022–2023	→ PAOK (loan)	32	(4)
2023–	→ AZ (loan)	6	(1)
International career^‡
2016	Portugal U16	2	(0)
2016	Portugal U17	2	(0)
2018–2019	Portugal U19	8	(1)
2019	Portugal U20	4	(1)
2021–2023	Portugal U21	18	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 December 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 July 2023

Tiago Filipe Oliveira Dantas (born 24 December 2000) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Eredivisie club AZ Alkmaar, on loan from Primeira Liga club Benfica, as a midfielder.^[1]

Club career

Dantas was born on 24 December 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal. In August 2018, he made his professional debut with Benfica B.^[2] Half a year later, he reached the first team in a match against Vitória de Setúbal for the Portuguese Cup.^[3]

In October 2020, he moved to Bayern Munich on loan. Bayern decided not to pay the buyout, and the player returned to Benfica. Dantas was then loaned to Tondela for the 2021–22 Primeira Liga.

In June 2022, PAOK announced the acquisition of Tiago Dantas in the form of a loan from Benfica until the summer of 2023.^[4]

On 24 July 2023, Eredivisie side AZ Alkmaar announced the signing of Dantas from Benfica on a season-long loan with a future option to buy.^[5]

Club statistics

As of match played 14 May 2023^[6]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[7]
Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Benfica B	2018–19	LigaPro	21	2	0	0	—		—		21	2
	2019–20	LigaPro	23	3	0	0	—		—		23	3
	2020–21	Liga Portugal 2	5	0	0	0	—		—		5	0
	Total		49	5	0	0	—		—		49	5
Benfica	2019–20	Primeira Liga	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
	2020–21	Primeira Liga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Bayern Munich (loan)	2020–21	Bundesliga	2	0	0	0	—		0	0	2	0
Bayern Munich II (loan)	2020–21	3. Liga	7	0	—		—		—		7	0
Tondela (loan)	2021–22	Primeira Liga	26	1	7	3	1	0	—		34	4
PAOK (loan)	2022–23	Super League Greece	32	4	5	0	—		2^[a]	1	39	5
Career Total			116	10	12	3	2	0	2	1	132	14

^ Appearances in the UEFA Europa Conference League

Honours

Benfica^[7]

Campeonato Nacional de Juniores: 2017–18
UEFA Youth League runner-up: 2019–20^[8]

Bayern Munich

References

^ "Tiago Dantas loaned out". S.L. Benfica. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
^ Tiago Dantas at ForaDeJogo (archived). Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "Tiago Dantas estreia-se aos 18 anos na equipa principal do Benfica". Record.pt (in Portuguese). 21 December 2019.
^ "ΠΑΟΚ: Δικός του ο Ντάντας και με... τη βούλα!". gazzetta.gr. 25 June 2022.
^ "Dantas joins on loan". www.az.nl. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
^ Tiago Dantas at Soccerway
^ ^a ^b "Tiago Dantas". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
^ "Benfica-Real Madrid". UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
^ "Bayern é campeão e Pedro Proença dá os parabéns a Tiago Dantas: "Um dia muito especial"". Record. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^ "Pavard completes sextuple for dominant Bayern". FIFA.com. 11 February 2021. Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.