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Dominic Ayodele Solanke-Mitchell (born 14 September 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team.
Solanke started his career with Chelsea, making his first-team debut in October 2014. He spent the 2015–16 season on loan with SBV Vitesse in the Eredivisie. He signed for Liverpool in July 2017, making 27 appearances before joining AFC Bournemouth in January 2019. He signed for Tottenham Hotspur in August 2024. In 2025, Solanke was part of the Tottenham Hotspur team who won the Europa League, their first trophy in 17 years.
Solanke has represented England at all youth, under-21 and senior levels. He has won the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup with his country and received the Golden Ball award for best player in the latter tournament.
He finished as top scorer in the group stages of the UEFA Youth League after scoring a hat-trick in the final group stage match against Sporting CP. On 10 April 2015, Solanke scored two goals in the semi-final of the 2014–15 UEFA Youth League against Roma to send Chelsea into the final. He scored in the 3–2 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Youth League final, ending the tournament with 12 goals in nine appearances as Chelsea won the title. On 20 April 2015, Solanke scored a late goal to give the team side a 3–1 win in the first leg of the FA Youth Cup final against Manchester City. He played in the 2–1 win in the second leg, as Chelsea won the final 5–2 on aggregate. On 7 May 2015, Solanke reached 41 goals for the season after scoring a hat-trick in a 4–3 victory over Liverpool U21. He was awarded the inaugural Chelsea Academy Player of the Year award for the 2014–15 season.
Solanke scored his first and second Premier League goals for Bournemouth on his 39th league appearance on 12 July 2020, a 4–1 win over Leicester City. He then scored in Bournemouth's 3–1 victory at Everton on the final day of the 2019–20 Premier League season but it was not enough to save the club from relegation to the EFL Championship.
Solanke scored fifteen goals during the 2020–21 season, finishing as the club's joint top goal scorer in the Championship along with Arnaut Danjuma. The following season, Solanke scored 29 goals as Bournemouth were promoted back to the Premier League, finishing as runner-up in the Championship.
On Bournemouth's return to the Premier League during the 2022–23 season, Solanke scored six goals and finished as the club's top assister in the league with seven assists. On 14 September 2023, he signed a new contract until 2027.
On 23 December 2023, Solanke scored his first senior hat-trick in a 3–2 win over Nottingham Forest. On 12 January 2024, after Solanke scored six goals in seven matches in December, he won the Premier League Player of the Month award for that month. Solanke thus became the first Bournemouth player to win the award. In the 2023–24 season, he set a new personal record in the Premier League with 19 goals.
On 8 May 2025, Solanke scored his 100th career goal in Spurs' 2–0 away win against Bodø/Glimt in the second leg of the Europa League semi-final.
In January 2015, Solanke was named the England Men's Youth Player of the Year for 2014. In March 2015, Solanke collected his trophy and was invited to train with the senior England squad. He was named in the under-19 squad for the 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship.
Solanke was named in the under-20 squad for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He scored four goals in the tournament; in the quarter-final, he scored the only goal against Mexico as England advanced into the semi-final, and scored twice in the semi-final as England beat Italy 3–1 to reach the final. Solanke started as England beat Venezuela 1–0 in the final. Solanke was awarded the Golden Ball as the player of the tournament.
Solanke was called up by the senior team for the first time in November 2017 for a friendly against Brazil at Wembley Stadium. He came on as a 75th-minute substitute in a 0–0 draw.
On 27 May 2019, Solanke was included in England's 23-man squad for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
Due to his impressive form in the 2023–24 season, there were calls for Solanke to be included in England's squad for UEFA Euro 2024, but Gareth Southgate did not include him in the final 26-man squad. Solanke later said: "The Euros were definitely something I was pushing for, but there are so many players that can represent England - we're probably one of the strongest in the world, so it's not easy to get picked."
In October 2024, Solanke was recalled after a seven-year absence from the international stage and made his second appearance for the senior team when he came on as a 72nd-minute substitute in a 2–1 loss against Greece.
Shortly after signing a contract with Bournemouth in 2023, Solanke revealed that he had become a first time father. Solanke got engaged to Erica Raimondi in November 2022, with the couple getting married on 17 June 2025. Solanke is a born again practicing Christian; he was baptised a week before turning 28 years old.
| + Appearances and goals by club, season and competition !rowspan="2" | Club !rowspan="2" | Season !colspan="3" | League !colspan="2" | National cup !colspan="2" | League cup !colspan="2" | Europe !colspan="2" | Other !colspan="2" | Total |
| Chelsea | 2014–15 | Premier League | 0 | |||||
| 2016–17 | 0 | |||||||
| SBV Vitesse (loan) | 2015–16 | Eredivisie | 7 | |||||
| Liverpool | 2017–18 | Premier League | 1 | |||||
| 2018–19 | 0 | |||||||
| AFC Bournemouth | 2018–19 | Premier League | 0 | |||||
| 2019–20 | 4 | |||||||
| 2020–21 | EFL Championship | 15 | ||||||
| 2021–22 | 30 | |||||||
| 2022–23 | Premier League | 7 | ||||||
| 2023–24 | 21 | |||||||
| Tottenham Hotspur | 2024–25 | Premier League | 16 | |||||
| 2025–26 | 0 | |||||||
| + Appearances and goals by national team and year | |
| England | 0 |
| 0 | |
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