Virgil van Dijk

Club football at Liverpool FC.

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

age
34
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Netherlands
club
Liverpool FC
football-data.org
club tier
1911
ClubElo strength
our board
#93
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
4853′
55 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
15.00
96th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Goals and assists for Netherlands, on the record and counted.

goals
1
assists
1

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad: Netherlands · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Liverpool FCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1975 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1965 full roster Elo (−10 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

at or near his peak, no projected upside from age

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Netherlands's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1953
age curve at 34 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -10
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +32
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1975
form: national-team results, 55 appearances4853 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -10
full roster Elo · with results: 1965

Where the +32 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured: 15.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank: 96th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(95.8th) = 46 × 1.72 × 0.4 (position weight) = +32

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-25. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

standing
#93 of 1424 on our board, top 10% of everyone we rate.
vs his seed
The folded nights have cost him 10 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.
workload
He barely leaves the pitch: 88′ a night across 55 folded appearances.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€2.3m–€9m ≈ €4.6m

Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.

The workingopenclose

reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill: €8m
club tier 1911the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×4.74
ageage 34, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year: ×0.25
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×0.58
individual skillmeasured 29th percentile of peers: ×0.84
our estimate: ≈ €4.6m

fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €85m (2018-01). Our estimate today: ≈ €4.6m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: richly priced , we rate him 95% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

2018-01-01Southampton → Liverpool€85m
2015-09-01Celtic → Southampton€15m
2013-07-01Groningen → Celtic€3m

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Netherlands’s record

v MoroccoSealed
at Tunisia1–3Called it
v Sweden5–1Called it
v Japan2–2Missed it

The newsroom’s calls on Netherlands. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.