Karim Adeyemi

Karim David Adeyemi (born 18 January 2002) is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team.

Karim Adeyemi

Adeyemi with Red Bull Salzburg in 2022
Personal information
Full name	Karim David Adeyemi[1]
Date of birth	(2002-01-18) 18 January 2002 (age 23)
Place of birth	Munich, Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Position(s)	Winger, forward
Team information
Current team	Borussia Dortmund
Number	27
Youth career
2008–2010	TSV Forstenried
2010–2012	Bayern Munich
2012–2018	SpVgg Unterhaching
2018–2020	Red Bull Salzburg
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2018–2022	Red Bull Salzburg	68	(27)
2018–2020	→ FC Liefering (loan)	35	(15)
2022–	Borussia Dortmund	69	(16)
International career‡
2018	Germany U16	6	(2)
2018–2019	Germany U17	7	(3)
2021–2024	Germany U21	5	(6)
2021–	Germany	8	(1)
Medal record Men's football Representing  Germany UEFA European Under-21 Championship Winner 2021 Hungary—Slovenia
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17:28, 17 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 15:36, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Club career

Red Bull Salzburg

Adeyemi played as a youth for TSV Forstenried, and at the age of eight he joined local Bundesliga side Bayern Munich youth academy in 2010. Due to an impasse in negotiating his continued stay at the club, there was a dispute and Adeyemi eventually had to leave the club, which meant that he joined SpVgg Unterhaching in 2012.^[3] After progressing through the youth departments, he made his debut in March 2018 for the U19 team in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga (Under 19 Bundesliga). He scored his first goal in this league in April 2018 in a 2–3 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt U19. With Unterhaching, he suffered relegation to the A-Jugend Bayernliga (Under 19 Bayernliga) at the end of the season.

Prior to the 2018–19 season, Adeyemi was signed by Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg where he signed a three-year contract.^[4] He was subsequently loaned out to their feeder club FC Liefering for the season. Adeyemi made his 2. Liga debut on 1 September 2018 against Austria Lustenau, where he played the full game as Liefering lost 1–0.^[5] On 1 December 2020, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 3–1 away win over Lokomotiv Moscow during the 2020–21 season.^[6]

Borussia Dortmund

On 10 May 2022, Adeyemi was announced to have joined Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund on a deal until the summer of 2027.^[7] On 5 October, he scored his first Champions League goal with Borussia Dortmund in a 4–1 away win over Sevilla.^[8] On 4 February 2023, he was recorded as the Bundesliga's fastest-ever player at 36.65 kilometres per hour (22.77 mph) during a match against Freiburg.^[9] Later that month, on 15 February, he scored the only goal from a solo strike in a 1–0 victory over Chelsea in the Champions League round of 16 first leg.^[10] On 30 March 2024, he scored the opening goal in a 2–0 away win over Bayern Munich, to be his club's first victory in Der Klassiker since 2019 and the first win at Allianz Arena in 10 years.^[11]

On 1 October 2024, he scored his first hat-trick in the Champions League in a 7–1 home win over Celtic, becoming the third player in Dortmund history next to Robert Lewandowski and Marco Reus to score a hat-trick for Dortmund in the Champions League.^[12][13][14]

International career

Adeyemi was born in Munich, Germany, to a Nigerian father and Romanian mother.^[15] He is a youth international for Germany, having represented the Germany under-16s, under-17s and under-21s. He made his debut for the Germany senior team in a 6–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification win over Armenia on 5 September 2021, coming on as a late substitute and scoring his side's sixth goal in the first minute of second-half injury time.^[16] As Adeyemi was a Red Bull Salzburg player on his debut, this marked the first time in the post-war period that a player from an Austrian club played a match for the German senior national team.^[17]

In November 2022, he was named in the German squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.^[18] However, he did not feature in any match, as Germany were knocked out at the group stage.^[19]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 5 July 2025^[20]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup[a]		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
FC Liefering (loan)	2018–19	Austrian 2. Liga	20	6	—		—		—		20	6
	2019–20	Austrian 2. Liga	14	9	—		—		—		14	9
	2020–21	Austrian 2. Liga	1	0	—		—		—		1	0
	Total		35	15	—		—		—		35	15
Red Bull Salzburg	2019–20	Austrian Bundesliga	10	1	1	0	1[b]	0	—		12	1
	2020–21	Austrian Bundesliga	29	7	4	1	5[c]	1	—		38	9
	2021–22	Austrian Bundesliga	29	19	5	0	10[d]	4	—		44	23
	Total		68	27	10	1	16	5	—		94	33
Borussia Dortmund	2022–23	Bundesliga	24	6	2	1	6[d]	2	—		32	9
	2023–24	Bundesliga	21	3	1	0	12[d]	2	—		34	5
	2024–25	Bundesliga	25	7	1	0	10[d]	5	5[e]	0	41	12
	Total		70	16	4	1	28	9	5	0	107	26
Career total			173	58	14	2	44	14	5	0	236	74

1. Includes Austrian Cup, DFB-Pokal
2. Appearance in UEFA Europa League
3. Three appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
4. Appearances in UEFA Champions League
5. Appearances in FIFA Club World Cup

International

As of match played 8 June 2025^[21]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Germany
	2021	4	1
	2025	4	0
Total		8	1

As of match played 23 March 2025. Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Adeyemi goal.^[21]

List of international goals scored by Karim Adeyemi

No.	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	5 September 2021	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart, Germany	1	Armenia	6–0	6–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Borussia Dortmund

• UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2023–24^{[citation needed]}

Red Bull Salzburg

• Austrian Bundesliga: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22^{[citation needed]}
• Austrian Cup: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22^{[citation needed]}

Germany U21

• UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 2021^[22]

Individual

• Fritz Walter Medal U19 Gold: 2021^[23]
• Fritz Walter Medal U17 Gold: 2019^[24]
• Austrian Bundesliga Top scorer: 2021–22
• Austrian Bundesliga Team of the Year: 2021–22^[25]
• Bundesliga Rookie of the Month: January 2023^[26]
• Bundesliga Rookie of the Season: 2022–23^[27]
• IFFHS Men's World Youth (U20) Team: 2022^[28]