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Forward
Divock Origi
Club
Liverpool
League
Premier League
Region
England
Signed
2014
Highest transfer fee · July 2014
$17.1m / KSh 1.50bn
Transfer fee, Lille to Liverpool — £10m, at $1.71 to the pound and KSh 87.6 to the dollar.
Profile
Belgium and Lille
A forward from a footballing family in Belgium who came through Lille, where 89 appearances brought 16 goals and five assists and a move to Liverpool in 2014.
Liverpool — and the medals
Eight years on Merseyside, either side of a loan season at Wolfsburg that returned seven goals in 36 games, produced 175 appearances, 41 goals and 14 assists. In one 18-month run came the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup, followed by the Premier League title in 2019-20 and the FA Cup and League Cup double of 2022.
Italy and England after it
AC Milan and Nottingham Forest came next, taking his career to roughly 358 appearances and 67 goals.
Belgium
He has 32 caps for Belgium and three international goals.
Cup and continental record
With Liverpool: the UEFA Champions League in 2019, scoring the goal that sealed the final, then the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup in the same year, and the FA Cup and League Cup double in 2022. Coupe de France football with Lille before it.
Managers he played under
Brendan Rodgers signed him for Liverpool and Jürgen Klopp kept him for seven seasons, including the 2019 Champions League final. René Girard managed him at Lille, Dieter Hecking at Wolfsburg, Stefano Pioli at AC Milan and Steve Cooper at Nottingham Forest; Marc Wilmots and Roberto Martínez picked him for Belgium.
After football
Fashion, a football agency, and philanthropy
He announced his retirement in June 2026 at thirty-one, writing that his purpose in the game was fulfilled. He has said he intends to pursue fashion as a craft — studying its history and the industry itself at the highest level — and to build out DLF, the football agency he is developing with his partner Marvin Willem Ofori. He describes the role he wants now as being a bridge for the next generation of players, through the agency and through his philanthropy.
Did you know
Three shots on target in a Champions League campaign. Three goals. One of them won it
In Liverpool's 2018-19 European run, Origi scored three goals from three shots on target: two at Anfield in the 4-0 semi-final comeback against Barcelona, and the 87th-minute goal in Madrid that sealed the final against Tottenham. A player of Kenyan descent finished the Champions League with the sort of conversion rate that does not appear in normal football.
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Goals from shots on target, 2018-19 Champions League
87'
The goal that sealed the 2019 final
4-0
The Anfield comeback he scored twice in
Did you know
A Kenyan football family, three generations deep
His father, Mike Okoth Origi, was a professional striker and a captain of Kenya. His uncle, Austin Oduor, lifted the African Cup of Champions Clubs with Gor Mahia. His cousin, Arnold Origi, kept goal for the Harambee Stars. Divock was born in Ostend and played for Belgium, but the surname on the shirt that scored at Anfield in 2019 came out of Kenyan football — and the family is the single clearest argument on this site that the talent was always here and only the system was missing.
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Generations of Origis in professional football
Gor Mahia
His uncle's continental title
Kenya
The national team his father captained
Did you know
He paid for other people's degrees while he was still playing
In 2021 he established the Divock Origi Scholarship with the University of Liverpool, covering full undergraduate tuition of £9,250 a year plus a £3,000 annual living stipend for students who could not otherwise afford to be there. On retiring in 2026 he set out the same instinct as a business plan: DLF, a football agency built with his partner Marvin Willem Ofori, and a stated role as a bridge for the next generation of players.
£9,250
Annual tuition covered per scholar
£3,000
Annual living stipend on top
2021
The year the scholarship was founded
Career record
371 club appearances and 70 goals across Lille, Liverpool, Wolfsburg, AC Milan and Nottingham Forest, including 41 goals in 175 games for Liverpool. 32 caps and 3 goals for Belgium.
Career appearances and goals reconciled against Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divock_Origi)
Firsts & milestones
- Of Kenyan descent through his father Mike Origi, he won the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool in 2019 and scored in the final in Madrid, adding the UEFA Super Cup, the FIFA Club World Cup and the 2019-20 Premier League title.
Appearances by competition
Career approximations compiled from Transfermarkt and club records
269
Appearances
46
Goals
0
Assists
32
Caps
3
Int'l goals
AI score breakdown
| Criterion | Score | Max |
|---|---|---|
| League Strength | 25 | 25 |
| Club Prestige | 20 | 20 |
| Titles Won (weighted) | 20 | 20 |
| Impact | 15 | 15 |
| Total | 80 | 80 |
Either side of him in the ranking
Ahead of him · Number 1
Behind him · Number 3
