A dynamic forward Diogo Jota won the Premier League and FA Cup with Liverpool and the Nations League with Portugal

He and Liverpool won the FA Cup, the League Cup, and the Premier League from 2019-20 until he passed away in 2019. At the age of 28, Portuguese football player Diogo Jota had been killed in a car accident in Spain. After coming to England the year before, he won a Championship title with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2018 and was a two-time Nations League champion with Portugal.

Jota was a dynamic, versatile player who played both up front and on the left wing. In 300 games for his many teams, including Porto, he scored more than 100 goals thanks to his quickness, dribbling prowess, smooth movement, and poise in front of goal.

He never took his skills for granted and was regarded throughout his career as a dedicated worker who was more than happy to perform the pressing work up front that is so much a part of the current game. He was a superb header of the ball despite his 5′ 9″ size.

He and Liverpool won the Premier League in April 2025, and he and Portugal took up the Nations League winner’s medal in June 2025. He might have counted winning many more victories at Liverpool and with his nation, as he was as well-liked on the terraces as he was in the locker room.

He was born in the Massarelos area of Porto and was the younger brother of Joaquim Silva, a crane operator, and Isabel, who worked for an auto maker. “Jota” for José is the letter J. Diogo decided to set himself apart from other players with similar names.

He started playing for his local Gondomar sports club when he was nine years old. In 2013, he signed with Paços de Ferreira, a larger team situated in Porto, and the following year, at the age of eighteen, he made his senior debut. He made more than 40 appearances for Paços de Ferreira in the Portuguese first division before to signing with Atletico Madrid in the Spanish La Liga in 2016.

Jota spent much of 2016–17 back in Portugal on loan with Porto, where he had two seasons on the team’s books, scored eight goals in the Primeira Liga, and got expertise, scored the goal against Leicester City in the Champions League.

He continued to be unpopular at Atletico and spent the 2017–18 season on loan again, this time with Wolves in the English Championship, where Nuno Espírito Santo, their Portuguese manager, was in charge. He was later hired on a full-time basis for €14 million (£12 million) after his 17 goals helped Wolves win the title ahead of Cardiff City. He was a crucial part of the team’s transition into the Premier League, where they placed eighth in their first two seasons back at the top level.

Liverpool arrived in September 2020 and paid Wolves £41 million for Jota. Despite the fact that the team had just won the Premier League and Champions League, Jota was viewed by manager Jürgen Klopp as a player who could bolster an already strong team.

On his Premier League debut, he scored against Arsenal. Later, in the Champions League, he scored seven goals against Midtjylland of Denmark, which became Liverpool’s 10,000th goal. he scored in his first ten Liverpool games.

He missed three months of action due to a knee injury in the midst of that season, which saw Liverpool finish third, but he came back strong in 2021–22, scoring 21 goals across all competitions. In an incredible denouement to that season’s League Cup final, he scored one of Liverpool’s successful penalty kicks as they defeated Chelsea 11–10 on penalties. Later, in the FA Cup final, he replaced Mohammed Salah in the 33rd minute and scored another penalty kick as Liverpool defeated Chelsea on penalties following a 0-0 draw in extra time. He also entered the game as a substitute in the 65th minute of that season’s Champions League final, which saw Liverpool lose to Real Madrid 1-0.

Despite being sidelined by several ailments, Jota scored 15 goals in the 2023–24 season and signed a new deal at the beginning of the following campaign. He then added a Premier League medal to his two Liverpool accolades in 2024–25, when he scored nine goals in 26 games during Arne Slot’s first season as head coach.

In 2019, he won his first of 49 international matches against Lithuania in a European Championship qualifier. He was also a member of Portugal’s Nations League winning group that year.

He participated in every match for Portugal in the 2020 Euros until they were eliminated after losing to Belgium in the round of 16, however he was injured and missed the 2022 World Cup. He earned another penalty shootout victory, this time over Spain in the final, and was awarded the 2025 Nations League medal. He returned to the Euros in 2024, making three appearances as Portugal advanced to the quarterfinals, where they lost to France. He totaled 14 goals for his nation.

Aside from football, Jota was an avid and skilled gamer.

Diogo Jota (Diogo Jota a football player) , was born on December 4, 1996, and died on July 3, 2025.

His three children, Dinis, Duarte, and Laura, as well as his wife, Rute Cardoso, whom he married two weeks earlier, survive him. He passed along alongside his younger brother, André, who was also a professional football player.