Nicolás_Domínguez
Nicolás Domínguez
Argentine footballer
Nicolás Martín Domínguez (Spanish pronunciation: [nikoˈlas ðoˈmiŋɡes]; born 28 June 1998) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Nottingham Forest.
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| Full name | Nicolás Martín Domínguez[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1998-06-28) 28 June 1998 (age 25) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Haedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Nottingham Forest | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 16 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Vélez Sarsfield | 65 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2023 | Bologna | 104 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | → Vélez Sarsfield (loan) | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Nottingham Forest | 24 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Argentina | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:54, 21 April 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 November 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
Velez Sarfield
Domínguez played his first professional game for Vélez Sarsfield in a 3–2 victory against Estudiantes de La Plata for the 15th fixture of the 2016–17 Argentine Primera División, under Omar De Felippe's coaching.[3] He scored his first goal in a 3–0 victory against Tigre for the 28th fixture of that season.
Bologna
On 30 August 2019, he signed a contract with Italian club Bologna and was loaned back to Vélez Sarsfield for the rest of 2019.[4] Domínguez made his debut for Bologna as a sub on 12 January in a 1–0 loss away at Torino. He would make his first start for the club on 19 January in a 1–1 home draw against Hellas Verona.
Nottingham Forest
On 1 September 2023, Domínguez signed with Premier League side Nottingham Forest on a five-year deal in swap deal for Remo Freuler.[5] He made his debut away at Manchester City later that month. On 1 October, Domínguez scored his first goal for Nottingham Forest in a 1–1 draw against Brentford.[6]
Domínguez made his debut for Argentina national team on 5 September 2019 in a friendly against Chile, as a 67th-minute substitute for Rodrigo De Paul.[7]
Club
| Club | Season | League | National cup[lower-alpha 1] | League cup | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Vélez Sarsfield | 2016–17 | Argentine Primera División | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 12 | 1 | |
| 2017–18 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 28 | 0 | |||
| 2018–19 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | 26 | 3 | |||
| 2019–20 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | — | 18 | 5 | |||
| Total | 75 | 9 | 9 | 0 | — | 84 | 9 | |||
| Bologna | 2019–20 | Serie A | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16 | 0 | |
| 2020–21 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 30 | 1 | |||
| 2021–22 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 29 | 1 | |||
| 2022–23 | 31 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | 34 | 3 | |||
| Total | 103 | 4 | 6 | 1 | — | 109 | 5 | |||
| Nottingham Forest | 2023–24[10] | Premier League | 24 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3 |
| Career total | 202 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 220 | 17 | ||
- Includes Copa Argentina, Copa de la Superliga, Coppa Italia, FA Cup
International
- As of match played 16 November 2021[11]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Argentina | 2019 | 5 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 11 | 1 | |
- Scores and results list Argentina's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Domínguez goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 13 October 2019 | Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero, Alicante, Spain |  Ecuador | 5–1 | 6–1 | Friendly |
- Argentina
Individual
- Argentine Primera División Best Midfielder: 2018–19[15]
- Argentine Primera División Team of the Year: 2018–19[16]
- "2023/24 Premier League squad lists". Premier League. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- "Nicolás Domínguez". Bologna F.C. 1909. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- "2016/17 Tournament statistics". Argentine Soccer. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- "Domínguez joins Bologna" (Press release). Bologna. 30 August 2019.
- Club, Nottingham Forest Football (1 September 2023). "Forest complete signing of Nicolás Domínguez". Nottingham Forest Football Club.
- Emons, Michael (1 October 2023). "Nottingham Forest 1–1 Brentford". BBC Sport.
- "Chile v Argentina game report". ESPN. 5 September 2019.
- "N. Domínguez". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- "Nicolás Domínguez". SofaScore. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- "Nicolas Dominguez 2023-24 Football Stats". Soccerbase. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- Nicolás Domínguez at National-Football-Teams.com
- Graham, Bryan Armen (11 July 2021). "Argentina 1-0 Brazil: Copa América final – live!". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- "Messi scores as Argentina beat Brazil". BBC Sport.
- Lazzaro, Ariel (16 July 2019). "Premios SAF 2018-2019 : Néstor Gorosito mejor DT, Walter Montillo mejor jugador". zonanortevision.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- Lazzaro, Ariel (16 July 2019). "Premios SAF 2018-2019 : Néstor Gorosito mejor DT, Walter Montillo mejor jugador". zonanortevision.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- Profile at the Nottingham Forest F.C. website
- Profile at Vélez Sarsfield's official website (in Spanish)
- Nicolás Domínguez at BDFA (in Spanish)
- Nicolás Domínguez at Soccerway
- Nicolás Domínguez at National-Football-Teams.com