Vincent Kompany

Kompany managing Bayern Munich in 2025
Personal information
Full name	Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany[1]
Date of birth	(1986-04-10) 10 April 1986 (age 39)[2]
Place of birth	Uccle, Brussels, Belgium
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[3]
Position	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 Men's football Representing  Belgium FIFA World Cup 2018
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany (born 10 April 1986) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. As a player, he is best known for his eleven seasons at Manchester City, eight of which he served as captain. Kompany also represented the Belgium national team for fifteen years and served as its captain. He has been cited as one of the best defenders in Premier League history.^[5][6]

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.^[7]

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 following the departure of Thomas Tuchel and won the 2024–25 Bundesliga in his first season at the club.