| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (2004-02-10)10 February 2004 (age 21) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AZ Alkmaar | ||
| Number | 27 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2015 | DVC Buiksloot | ||
| 2015– | AZ Alkmaar | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022– | Jong AZ | 77 | (23) |
| 2024– | AZ | 10 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | Netherlands U18 | 3 | (2) |
| 2025– | Netherlands U21 | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 28 September 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 September 2025 | |||
Ro-Zangelo Daal (born 10 February 2004) is a Dutchfootballer who plays as awinger forJong AZ andAZ Alkmaar, making his debut for the senior team during the 2024-25 season in theEredivisie and also playing for the club in theUEFA Europa League.
He was born inAmsterdam.[1] He played as youngster at DVC Buiksloot, before moving across in 2015 to theAZ Alkmaar academy, Daal signed a contract with AZ in the summer of 2021. His form for the AZ youth sides saw him being offered a new and extended contract in March 2022 to keep him in Alzmaar until 2025.[2] Daal has been tipped as a "wonderkid" in the football management computer gameFootball Manager in both 2021 and 2022.[3][4]
Daal made his debut forJong AZ againstJong PSV in a home 2–0 win in theEerste Divisie on 1 April 2022.[5][6] Daal scored his first senior league goal on 3 February 2023 in a 4–3 win againstVVV Venlo.[7]
On 21 April 2023 Daal scored as AZ won through against Sporting Lisbon to reach the final of the2022–23 UEFA Youth League.[8] He also played in the UEFA Youth League final against Hajduk Split as AZ ran out 5–0 winners.[9] On 1 January 2024, he signed a new 4 and-a-half year contract with the club.[10]
On 7 November 2024, he opened the scoring for AZ in a 3-1 win overFenerbache in theUEFA Europa League.[11] He also featured for the club in theEredivisie in a 2-1 home defeat toWillem II Tilburg on 10 November 2024.[12] In January 2025, AZ officially announced that Ro-Zangelo Daal had been moved up from Jong AZ team to the AZ first team squad.[1]
Born in the Netherlands, Daal is of Surinamese descent.[13] He scored for the Dutch under-18 national side in a 5–0 win over Italy under-18s in September 2021.[14]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Jong AZ | 2021–22 | Eerste Divisie | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Eerste Divisie | 12 | 2 | — | — | 12 | 2 | |||
| 2023–24 | Eerste Divisie | 32 | 6 | — | — | 32 | 6 | |||
| 2024–25 | Eerste Divisie | 31 | 3 | — | — | 31 | 3 | |||
| Total | 77 | 23 | — | — | 77 | 23 | ||||
| AZ | 2024–25 | Eredivisie | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[a] | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025–26 | Eredivisie | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7[b] | 0 | 14 | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 21 | 2 | ||
| Career total | 87 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 98 | 25 | ||
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