Dion Lopy
Senegalese footballer (born 2002)
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Dion Lopy (born 2 February 2002) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Segunda División club Almería and the Senegal national team.
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Lopy in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dion Lopy[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 2 February 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Almería | ||
| Number | 17 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2020 | Oslo Football Academy | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2022 | Reims II | 4 | (0) |
| 2021–2023 | Reims | 59 | (0) |
| 2023– | Almería | 77 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019 | Senegal U17 | 4 | (0) |
| 2019 | Senegal U20 | 9 | (2) |
| 2019– | Senegal | 5 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 28 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:30, 26 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
Club career
Reims
Lopy played youth football for the Oslo Football Academy in the 3rd tier of Senegalese football, before being signed for a compensatory fee by French club Stade de Reims in 2020 after Lopy represented Senegal at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[2]
Lopy played briefly for Reims' second team in the Championnat National 2, before making his Ligue 1 debut in a 2–2 draw with Stade Rennais on 4 April 2021.[3] In the 2022–23 season, he became a first-team regular at Reims, benefitting from manager Will Still's preference for a younger age profile to his squad.[4][5]
Almería
On 5 August 2023, Lopy was announced at La Liga side Almería on a six-year contract.[6]
International career
Lopy played for Senegal throughout the youth levels, representing them at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup[2] and the 2019 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations where they were runners-up.[7]
Lopy made his debut for the senior Senegal national team on 3 August 2019, in a 3–0 victory over Liberia.[8] He had to wait until 28 March 2023 for his second first team appearance, a 1–0 away victory over Mozambique.[9]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 7 June 2025[10]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Reims II | 2020–21 | Championnat National 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Reims | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2021–22 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | |||
| 2022–23 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |||
| Total | 59 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 62 | 0 | |||
| Almería | 2023–24 | La Liga | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 32 | 0 | ||
| 2024–25 | Segunda División | 36 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | 2[a] | 0 | 41 | 1 | ||
| Total | 66 | 1 | 5 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | 73 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 129 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 139 | 1 | ||
- Appearances in La Liga play-offs
International
- As of matches played 26 March 2024[11]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 2019 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 5 | 0 | |
