David Neres is a wing half in Napoli’s first-team squad for the 2026/27 Serie A season. He was born on 3 March 1997 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Neres’s first senior club was São Paulo, where he broke through in 2016, and he went on to play for Ajax, Shakhtar Donetsk and Benfica. He joined Napoli in 2024.
Neres is a senior international for Brazil, and he played for their youth teams on the way up.
Across 12 seasons of senior club football, beginning in 2016/17, Neres has played 332 matches and scored 76 goals for 5 clubs. His most productive season in front of goal was 2017/18, when he scored 14 times in 37 games for Ajax. His busiest campaign was 2018/19, with 50 appearances. So far in 2026/27 he has made 3 appearances for Napoli. The full season-by-season record is in the Stats section of this profile.