Daniele Ghilardi

Daniele Ghilardi
Ghilardi warming up with Roma in 2025
Personal information
Date of birth (2003-01-06) 6 January 2003
Place of birth Lucca, Italy
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Roma
Number 87
Youth career
2008–2012 Lucchese
2012–2022 Fiorentina
2022 → Hellas Verona (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022–2026 Hellas Verona 24 (0)
2022–2023 → Mantova (loan) 21 (1)
2023–2024 → Sampdoria (loan) 38 (2)
2025–2026 → Roma (loan) 23 (0)
2026– Roma 0 (0)
International career‡
2019–2020 Italy U17 4 (0)
2021 Italy U18 1 (0)
2021–2022 Italy U19 12 (0)
2022–2023 Italy U20 10 (0)
2023–2025 Italy U21 16 (1)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Italy
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Runner-up2023 Argentina
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 24 May 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 22 June 2025

Daniele Ghilardi (born 6 January 2003) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Roma.

Club career

Ghilardi is a youth product of Lucchese from the age of 5 to 9 and played as a goalkeeper and striker as a youth.[2] He moved to Fiorentina's youth academy at 9, worked his way up their youth categories, and signed his first professional contract with the club on 22 September 2021 until 2024.[3]

He joined Hellas Verona on loan with the option to buy in January 2022. Hellas Verona exercised the option for €500,000 on 16 July 2022.[4] He spent the 2022–23 season on loan with Mantova 1911 in the Serie C.[5]

On 13 August 2023, he joined Sampdoria on loan in the Serie B for the 2023–24 season with the option to buy.[6]

On 2 August 2025, Ghilardi joined Roma on loan for the 2025–26 season, for an estimated €2.5 million fee with a conditional obligation to make the move permanent at the end of the season. He signed a contract with Roma until 2030 that would be in effect if the conditions are triggered.[7]

International career

Ghilardi is a youth international for Italy, having played for the Italy U20s at the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup where they came in second.[8]

He was called up to the Italy U21s for a set of 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches in September 2023,[9] and he made his debut with the U21 side on 8 September in the match against Latvia.

Career statistics

As of match played 24 May 2026[10]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Mantova (loan) 2022–23 Serie C 21120—2[b]0251
Sampdoria (loan) 2023–24 Serie B 38220——402
Hellas Verona 2024–25 Serie A 24000——240
Roma (loan) 2025–26 Serie A 230104[c]0—280
Career total 9635040201073
  1. ↑ Includes Coppa Italia Serie C, Coppa Italia
  2. ↑ Appearances in Serie C relegation play-offs
  3. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

Honours

Italy U20

References

  1. ↑ "Daniele Ghilardi". UC Sampdoria. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "Ghilardi, dalla Lucchese Junior alla maglia azzurra con l'under 20". Il Tirreno.
  3. ↑ "GHILARDI, Il giocatore della Primavera ha rinnovato". Firenze Viola.
  4. ↑ "Ufficiale: Ghilardi passa dalla Fiorentina al Verona a titolo definitivo". 16 July 2022.
  5. ↑ Chiacchio, Nicola (16 July 2022). "UFFICIALE - Hellas Verona, ceduto Daniele Ghilardi al Mantova | Football Scouting".
  6. ↑ "Hellas, prestito per i giovani Ghilardi e Bosilj". VeronaSera.
  7. ↑ "DANIELE GHILARDI JOINS FROM HELLAS VERONA". AS Roma. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "Italia in semifinale ai mondiali under 20, c'è un lucchese come pilastro della difesa". Luccaindiretta. 4 June 2023.
  9. ↑ "Convocazioni Italia U21: il CT Nunziata chiama anche i blucerchiati Ghilardi e Panada". Telenord. 1 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "Daniele Ghilardi". Soccerway.
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