Remember Santi Cazorla at Arsenal? What about a young Lionel Messi at Barcelona? Dwight Yorke and Nicolas Pépé, amongst others?
Well, they all have one thing in common — these players and ex-footballers wore the number 19 shirt at one point in their careers.
So who wears jersey number 19 in 2025/26? Here are the popular football players who wear the number 19 jersey.
1. Leandro Trossard (Arsenal FC)
Leandro Trossard took the number 19 at Arsenal from Nicolas Pépé when he joined from Brighton in January 2023 — a neat illustration of a costly flop’s exit creating a bargain signing’s opportunity — and has since become one of the most reliable and versatile attackers in the Premier League under Mikel Arteta.
2. Jadon Sancho (Aston Villa)
Jadon Sancho’s number 19 has followed him across three clubs in two seasons, worn at Chelsea during their 2024/25 Conference League triumph, and taken again at Aston Villa on loan from Manchester United, where Ruben Amorim still had no use for the £73 million winger who was arguably the best player in the Bundesliga in his final Dortmund season.
3. Dominic Solanke (Tottenham Hotspur)
Dominic Solanke joined Spurs for £65 million in 2024, taking the number 19 from Ryan Sessegnon, and answered his critics immediately — he was part of the squad that ended Tottenham’s 17-year trophy drought by winning the 2025 Europa League, and his FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Ball pedigree shows his quality runs deeper than a big price tag.
4. Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid)
Dani Ceballos wore the number 19 at Arsenal during both loan spells and kept it upon returning to Real Madrid permanently, making him one of the rare players in world football to maintain the same shirt number across multiple clubs — confirmed on the official UEFA Champions League squad list for 2025/26, where he remains an unsung but technically excellent figure in Madrid’s midfield under Xabi Alonso.
5. Julián Álvarez (Atletico Madrid)
Julián Álvarez moved to Atletico Madrid in 2024 in a deal worth up to €95 million — Manchester City’s record outgoing transfer — taking the number 19 from Álvaro Morata, and nicknamed “La Araña” for his goal celebration, the World Cup and Copa América winner has been an immediate hit under Diego Simeone.
6. Khéphren Thuram (Juventus FC)
Khéphren Thuram was born in Reggio Emilia while his father Lilian played for Parma, and when he signed for Juventus in 2024 wearing number 19, it felt like a homecoming — his brother Marcus wears number 9 at rivals Inter Milan, making the Thurams the most prominent footballing sibling duo in Serie A.
7. Youssouf Fofana (AC Milan)
Youssouf Fofana joined AC Milan from Monaco in August 2024 but couldn’t take the number 19 straight away — it belonged to Théo Hernández at the time, so Fofana wore 29 instead, only switching to 19 for the 2025/26 season once Hernández departed for Al Hilal.
Where Hernández attacked relentlessly from left-back, Fofana’s game is the opposite — breaking up play, winning the ball, and shielding the defence — two very different players who have each made the same shirt their own in different eras of the Rossoneri.
8. Zeki Çelik (AS Roma)
Zeki Çelik has worn the number 19 at Roma since joining from Lille in 2022, inheriting it from Bryan Reynolds, and has been one of the club’s most consistent performers through multiple managerial regimes — as Turkey’s national team captain, he brings real leadership to the right-back role regardless of who is in the dugout.
9. Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich)
Alphonso Davies has worn the number 19 at Bayern Munich since 2019, inheriting it from Sebastian Rudy, and his journey to that shirt is extraordinary — born in a Ghanaian refugee camp, raised in Canada, now one of the fastest players on the planet, who chose Bayern over Real Madrid despite two transfer windows of intense speculation.
10. Kang-in Lee (Paris Saint-Germain)
Kang-in Lee joined PSG from Real Mallorca in 2023, taking the number 19 from Pablo Sarabia, and has become one of the most important figures in the club’s post-Mbappé reinvention — a Valencia academy product raised in Spain despite his South Korean roots, whose creativity has arguably flourished more without the world’s most expensive player occupying the same spaces.
11. Nicolas Pépé (Villarreal CF)
Nicolas Pépé wears the number 19 at Villarreal — the same number he wore during his world-record £72 million move to Arsenal in 2019, completing a full-circle journey for the player whose Gunners exit created the opportunity Leandro Trossard took at the top of this list.
After loan spells at Nice and a move to Trabzonspor, Pépé signed for Villarreal in 2024 and was named La Liga’s Player of the Month for August 2025 following a string of standout performances, finally rediscovering the form that made him one of Ligue 1’s most exciting wingers before his ill-fated Premier League switch.
12. Kosta Nedeljković (RB Leipzig)
Kosta Nedeljković first joined RB Leipzig on loan from Aston Villa in February 2025 wearing the number 21, and when the loan was extended for a full 2025/26 campaign that summer, he switched to the number 19 — the shirt left vacant by André Silva’s permanent move to Elche.
Born in 2005, the Serbian right-back impressed enough in his first half-season at the Red Bull Arena that Leipzig’s sporting director described his mentality as “an excellent fit” for the club’s style, and he moved from Red Star Belgrade to Villa Park purely on the strength of exceptional raw potential.
13. Théo Hernández (Al Hilal)
Théo Hernández wore the number 19 at AC Milan from 2019, inheriting it from Krzysztof Piatek, and became one of the best left-backs in the world — winning the Serie A title in 2021/22 — before joining Al Hilal in 2025 for a reported €25 million, keeping the same shirt as he took his Champions League pedigree to the Saudi Pro League.
14. Pablo (West Ham United)
Pablo signed for West Ham United from Portuguese side Famalicão in January 2026 for a reported €25 million, taking the number 19 jersey after Edson Álvarez switched to the number 4 he wears for Mexico.
Born in Braga to former Porto and Braga player Pena, the young Brazilian-Portuguese forward made his senior debut for Famalicão at just 17, and his arrival in east London represents one of West Ham’s more significant investments in attacking talent during a turbulent 2025/26 season.
15. Harvey Elliott (Liverpool FC)
Harvey Elliott wore the number 19 at Liverpool from 2022, taking it from Ozan Kabak, and made history as the youngest player ever to appear in Fulham’s senior team — on loan at Aston Villa in 2025/26, the technically gifted young English midfielder is finally getting the consistent first-team opportunity his talent has always deserved.
16. Ernest Poku (Bayer Leverkusen)
Ernest Poku joined Bayer Leverkusen from AZ Alkmaar in August 2025, taking the number 19 jersey previously worn by Nathan Tella, who switched to number 23 for the new season.
The Netherlands Under-21 international was instrumental in the Oranje reaching the semi-finals of the 2025 U21 European Championship, scoring twice in the tournament, and his blistering pace has made him an exciting if still-developing option on the wing during a turbulent season that saw Leverkusen change head coach twice.
17. André Silva (Elche)
André Silva spent four years at RB Leipzig, with loan spells at Real Sociedad and Werder Bremen along the way, before signing for La Liga side Elche in August 2025 and taking the number 19 jersey.
The Portuguese striker has bounced between Porto, Milan, Sevilla, Eintracht Frankfurt, and Germany over an unusually well-travelled career, and his clinical finishing has continued in Spain — he scored twice against Atletico Madrid in April 2026 alone.
18. Geoffrey Kondogbia (Olympique Marseille)
Geoffrey Kondogbia has worn the number 19 and captained Marseille since joining from Atletico Madrid in 2023 — a leadership role that reflects his remarkable rehabilitation after the Inter Milan years when a €31 million price tag created enormous pressure; having switched international allegiance from France to the Central African Republic, he is one of the most distinctive personalities carrying number 19 this season.
19. Batista Mendy (Sevilla FC)
Batista Mendy joined Sevilla on a season-long loan from Trabzonspor in September 2025 and wears the number 19 jersey, bringing physical presence to a Sevilla midfield that has weathered a turbulent campaign — including the March 2026 sacking of head coach Matías Almeyda, with Luis García Plaza brought in to fight off relegation.
The French defensive midfielder began his career at Nantes before moving through Angers and Trabzonspor, and his loan to Spain represents a fresh chance to establish himself in one of Europe’s top five leagues after building a reputation as a reliable ball-winner in Turkey.
20. Roony Bardghji (FC Barcelona)
Roony Bardghji inherited the number 19 directly from Lamine Yamal, who moved to the number 10 in July 2025 — the Swedish winger initially wore number 28 with Barça Atlètic before being promoted to the first team ahead of the January 2026 Supercopa de España final, when he was officially handed the senior squad number.
Born in Kuwait to a Syrian-Assyrian family before moving to Sweden as a child, Bardghji joined Barcelona from FC Copenhagen in 2025 after recovering from a serious injury that had sidelined him for almost a year, and the number 19 carries real weight at the club — having been worn previously by Yamal, Vitor Roque, and Sergio Agüero.
