 Kompany with Belgium at the 2018 FIFA World Cup | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 April 1986[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Uccle, Brussels, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre-back[4] | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Bayern Munich (head coach) | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Anderlecht | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Anderlecht | 73 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Hamburger SV | 29 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2019 | Manchester City | 265 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Anderlecht | 15 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 382 | (25) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Belgium U16 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Belgium U17 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2019 | Belgium | 89 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Anderlecht | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Anderlecht | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Burnley | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Bayern Munich | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany (born 10 April 1986) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. A centre-back during his playing career, Kompany spent eleven seasons at Manchester City, eight of which he served as captain. Kompany also represented the Belgium national team for fifteen years, and seven as captain.
Kompany began his professional career at Anderlecht; having graduated from their youth system, he was with the club for three seasons as a first-team player before moving to Bundesliga club Hamburg in 2006. In the summer of 2008, he completed a transfer to Premier League club Manchester City, where he was an integral part of the squad and regarded as one of the bargain buys of the revolutionised City era, blossoming into one of the league's best centre-backs. In the 2011–12 season, he was awarded the captaincy of City, leading his club to win the Premier League that season, their first league title in 44 years. Kompany was included in the Premier League Team of the Year in 2011, 2012, and 2014, and won the Premier League Player of the Season in 2012. Kompany won eleven more trophies at City and made 360 total appearances.[5]
Kompany earned 89 caps for Belgium in a 15-year international career, having made his debut in 2004 at age 17. He was part of their squad that came fourth at the 2008 Olympics and went to the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and 2018, coming a best-ever third at the latter. He served as captain from 2010.
In 2019, when his contract expired after eleven years at City, Kompany returned to Anderlecht as player-manager. A year later, he announced his retirement from professional football and became the first-team manager. In 2022, he was hired by Burnley, winning the EFL Championship in his first season, before being relegated from the Premier League the following season. He was appointed by Bayern Munich in 2024.
- ^ "Kompany Vincent". Manchester City F.C. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Russia 2018: List of players: Belgium" (PDF). FIFA. 15 July 2018. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ "Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany | FC Bayern München | Player Profile | Bundesliga". bundesliga.com. DFL. Archived from the original on 30 September 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ "Vincent Kompany". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Hansen, Alan (27 June 2014). "World Cup 2014: Vincent Kompany stands alone in a tournament seriously short on top-class defenders". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2014.