_28_(cropped).jpg) Danilo playing forFeyenoord in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Danilo Pereira da Silva[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1999-04-07)7 April 1999 (age 26) | ||
| Place of birth | São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | NEC Nijmegen (on loan fromRangers) | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| São Caetano | |||
| Portuguesa | |||
| 2010–2014 | Corinthians | ||
| Ponte Preta | |||
| Vasco da Gama | |||
| Santos | |||
| 2017–2018 | Ajax | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2022 | Jong Ajax | 51 | (31) |
| 2020–2022 | Ajax | 14 | (2) |
| 2020–2021 | →Twente (loan) | 33 | (17) |
| 2022–2023 | Feyenoord | 34 | (10) |
| 2023– | Rangers | 49 | (12) |
| 2026– | →NEC Nijmegen (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2020 | Brazil U23 | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 1 February 2026 | |||
Danilo Pereira da Silva (born 7 April 1999) is a Brazilian professionalfootballer who plays as aforward for DutchEredivisie clubNEC Nijmegen on loan from Scottish clubRangers.
After playing youth football for several clubs in Brazil, Danilo joined Dutch clubAjax in 2017. He scored nine goals in 20 first-team appearances for Ajax, and had a loan spell atTwente. Danilo joinedFeyenoord on a free transfer in 2022, winning theEredivisie title in his only season at the club. Rangers signed him in July 2023.
Danilo played youth international football for Brazil atunder-23 level.
Born inSão Paulo,[3] Danilo played youth football forSão Caetano,Portuguesa,Corinthians,Ponte Preta andVasco da Gama, before joining the academy ofSantos.[4][5] He scored seven goals and provided seven assists for the Santos under-20 team in the Paulista U-20 Championship in 2017.[6]
On 7 September 2017, Danilo signed for Dutch clubAjax after agreeing to a five-year deal.[7] Ajax paid Santos a transfer fee of around €2 million.[8] He was initially assigned to the Ajax under-19 team and theJong Ajax squad (the club's reserve team).[6][9]
On 25 March 2018, Danilo made his debut for Jong Ajax in a 1–0 defeat againstJong AZ.[10] He scored his first goal for Jong Ajax on 10 September 2018, in a game in Alkmaar against Jong AZ.
He made his first-team debut for Ajax on 23 February 2020, as a substitute in anEredivisie game againstHeracles Almelo.[11][12] Four days later, he scored on his first start for the club, in aUEFA Europa League match againstGetafe.[13] Danilo apologised to Ajax fans on social media after he was seen swapping shirts with Getafe playerDeyverson at half-time.[14]
On 14 August 2020, Danilo joined fellow Eredivisie sideTwente on a season-long loan deal.[15] He scored 17 goals in the 2020–21 Eredivisie season, which was the fourth-highest total in the league that season.[16]
On 20 January 2022, he scored four goals for Ajax in a 9–0 win againstExcelsior Maassluis in the round of 16 of theKNVB Cup.[17]
On 19 May 2022,Feyenoord announced that Danilo would sign a four-year contract with the club, joining on afree transfer.[18] He made his debut for the club on 7 August 2022, scoring the club's second and fourth goals in a 5–2 away win againstVitesse.[19] Feyenoord won the Eredivisie title in the 2022–23 season, with Danilo scoring 10 goals and providing three assists in 34 appearances in the league.[20]
On 28 July 2023,Rangers announced that Danilo had joined the club and signed a five-year contract for an undisclosed transfer fee.[21] He made his debut for the club in a 1–0 defeat away toKilmarnock on 5 August 2023, as a 62nd minute substitute forCyriel Dessers.[22] He scored his first goal for Rangers during a league match at home toLivingston on 12 August 2023.[23] Following this match Danilo scored against Greenock Morton in the Scottish League Cup.[24]
On 16 September 2023, Danilo suffered a collision with aSt Johnstone defender while scoring a goal and was taken to hospital with a suspected compound fracture in his skull.[25] He scored what turned out to be winning goal against Hearts in the Scottish Premiership in October 2023 and followed this up with a goal in a five nil win over Dundee in November 2023.[26] Danilo scored his first European goal for Rangers in a 2-1 win over Sparta Prague in the Europa League in November 2023.[27] In a season curtailed through injury Danilo scored six goals in 21 appearances from all competitions.
Danilo scored his first goal of the season againstRoss County in a 6-0 win in August 2024.[28] On 4 December 2024, Danilo scored Rangers second goal in a 6-0 win againstKilmarnock. Danilo followed this goal up with another strike in a 3-0 win over Ross County.[29] On 15 December 2024, Danilo scored a late equaliser in theLeague Cup final to take the game to extra-time. Danilo turned provider for team mate Cerny to score the winning goal against Dundee in December 2024.[30] Another goal came for Danilo in a league match against St Mirren in December 2024 with the assist coming from Niko Raskin.[31] Danilo scored Rangers third goal in a 3-0 win over Celtic in January 2025, the assist for the goal came from team mate Jefte.[32]
On 3 February 2026,NEC Nijmegen announced Danilo joined them on loan with an option to buy until the end of the season.[33]
Danilo was called up to theBrazil under-23 team in November 2020, for friendly games againstSouth Korea andEgypt.[34] He made his debut, and only appearance at under-23 level, against South Korea on 14 November.[35]
Danilo is a Christian and was baptised in a Scottish loch by a pastor from the Temple of Fire church in Brazil.[36] Danilo is known to speak five languages including his native Portuguese and English.[37]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Jong Ajax | 2017–18 | Eerste Divisie | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2018–19 | Eerste Divisie | 33 | 19 | — | — | — | — | 33 | 19 | |||||
| 2019–20 | Eerste Divisie | 8 | 5 | — | — | — | — | 8 | 5 | |||||
| 2021–22 | Eerste Divisie | 9 | 7 | — | — | — | — | 9 | 7 | |||||
| Total | 51 | 31 | — | — | — | — | 51 | 31 | ||||||
| Ajax | 2019–20 | Eredivisie | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1[c] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2021–22 | Eredivisie | 13 | 2 | 3 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | 1[d] | 0 | 17 | 8 | ||
| Total | 14 | 2 | 4 | 6 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 9 | |||
| Twente (loan) | 2020–21 | Eredivisie | 33 | 17 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 34 | 17 | |||
| Feyenoord | 2022–23 | Eredivisie | 34 | 10 | 4 | 2 | — | 10[c] | 2 | — | 48 | 14 | ||
| Rangers | 2023–24 | Scottish Premiership | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7[e] | 1 | — | 21 | 6 | |
| 2024–25 | Scottish Premiership | 23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1[f] | 0 | — | 27 | 6 | ||
| 2025–26 | Scottish Premiership | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8[g] | 1 | — | 14 | 3 | ||
| Total | 40 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 2 | — | 62 | 15 | |||
| Rangers B | 2024–25 | — | — | — | — | — | 1[h] | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Career total | 172 | 71 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 216 | 87 | ||
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