.jpeg) Ghilardi warming up withRoma in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (2003-01-06)6 January 2003 (age 23) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lucca, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Roma (on loan fromHellas Verona) | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 87 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Lucchese | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2022 | Fiorentina | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | →Hellas Verona (loan) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Hellas Verona | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | →Mantova (loan) | 21 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | →Sampdoria (loan) | 38 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | →Roma (loan) | 10 | (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
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 February 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22 June 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Daniele Ghilardi (born 6 January 2003) is an Italian professionalfootballer who plays as acentre-back forSerie A clubRoma.
Ghilardi is a youth product ofLucchese from the age of 5 to 9 and played as agoalkeeper andstriker as a youth.[2] He moved toFiorentina'syouth 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 joinedHellas 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 withMantova 1911 in theSerie C.[5]
On 13 August 2023, he joinedSampdoria on loan in theSerie B for the2023–24 season with the option to buy.[6]
On 2 August 2025, Ghilardi joinedRoma on loan for the2025–26 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]
Ghilardi is a youth international for Italy, having played for theItaly U20s at the2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup where they came in second.[8]
He was called up to theItaly U21s for a set of2025 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 againstLatvia.
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Mantova (loan) | 2022–23 | Serie C | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 2[b] | 0 | 25 | 1 | |
| Sampdoria (loan) | 2023–24 | Serie B | 38 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 40 | 2 | ||
| Hellas Verona | 2024–25 | Serie A | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 24 | 0 | ||
| Roma (loan) | 2025–26 | Serie A | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | — | 14 | 0 | |
| Career total | 83 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 93 | 3 | ||
Italy U20
