Lyanco Evangelista Silveira Neves Vojnovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Лијанко Еванжелиста Силвеира Невеш Војновић, born 1 February 1997), known as Lyanco, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Southampton.
![]() Lyanco with Brazil U20 in 2017 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Lyanco Evangelista Silveira Neves Vojnovic[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1997-02-01) 1 February 1997 (age 25) | ||
Place of birth | Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Southampton | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Youth career | |||
2011–2014 | Botafogo | ||
2015–2016 | São Paulo | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015–2017 | São Paulo | 21 | (1) |
2017–2021 | Torino | 46 | (0) |
2019 | → Bologna (loan) | 13 | (1) |
2021– | Southampton | 22 | (0) |
National team | |||
2016 | Serbia U19 | 4 | (0) |
2016–2017 | Brazil U20 | 9 | (0) |
2019–2020 | Brazil U23 | 11 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:48, 12 November 2022 (UTC) |
Born in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Lyanco started his youth career at Botafogo.[2]
In January 2015, he signed a four-year deal with São Paulo. Lyanco made his professional debut as a substitute in a 2–1 win against Atlético Paranaense.[3] He started and played the 90 minutes in his third professional match, a 0–0 draw against Joinville.[4]
On 29 March 2017, it was announced that Lyanco had signed a five-year contract with Serie A club Torino, for a reported fee of €6 million plus bonuses.[2][5][6] He immediately moved to Turin to begin training with the team, and facilitate his acclimatisation to the club, at the orders of Siniša Mihajlović.[5] His league debut came on 20 September 2017 in a 3–2 victory over Udinese Calcio.[7]
On 31 January 2019, Lyanco joined Bologna on loan until 30 June 2019.[8]
On 25 August 2021, Lyanco joined Southampton on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee.[2][9] On 21 September 2021, Lyanco made his first appearance for Southampton in the EFL Cup against Sheffield United which ended 2–2, with Southampton advancing 4–2 on penalties.[10] On 30 October 2021, Lyanco made his first Premier League appearance, replacing Oriol Romeu in Southampton's 1–0 win against Watford at Vicarage Road.[11]
On 28 January 2016, Lyanco announced on his official Twitter account that he had agreed with officials from the Football Association of Serbia, to represent Serbian youth teams at international level.[12] He featured for Serbia U19 in the qualifiers for the U19 European Championship.[12] Subsequently, he accepted a call up by Brazil U20 boss Rogério Micale and switched his allegiance back to Brazil.[12]
Lyanco is of Portuguese and Serbian descent. His maternal family has Portuguese roots.[13] Lyanco's paternal grandfather, Jovan Vojnović, was an ethnic Serb born in the part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that is now in present-day Serbia and moved to Brazil at the age of seven, during World War II.[12]
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
São Paulo | 2015 | Série A | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 11 | 0 | |||
2016 | Série A | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | |||
2017 | Série A | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 21 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 1 | ||
Torino | 2017–18 | Serie A | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | |||
2018–19 | Serie A | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | ||||
2019–20 | Serie A | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 18 | 0 | |||
2020–21[16] | Serie A | 23 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 25 | 1 | ||||
Total | 46 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 1 | ||
Bologna (loan) | 2018–19 | Serie A | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 13 | 1 | |||
Southampton | 2021–22[17] | Premier League | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 18 | 0 | ||
2022–23[18] | Premier League | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
Total | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | ||
Career total | 102 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 3 |
São Paulo U20
Brazil U23
Individual
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