Deyver Vega

Deyver Vega
Vega in 2018
Personal information
Full name Deyver Antonio de jesus Vegastro Álvarez
Date of birth (1992-09-19) 19 September 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Winger[1]
Team information
Current team
 Herediano
Number 30
Youth career
–2009 Saprissa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2011 Generación Saprissa 0 (0)
2010–2011 → Grecia (loan) 0 (0)
2012–2016 Deportivo Saprissa 131 (24)
2016–2020 Brann 48 (9)
2020 Vålerenga 29 (3)
2020 Sandefjord 14 (1)
2021 Politehnica Iași 14 (1)
2021–2022 Sandefjord 24 (2)
2023– Herediano 13 (2)
International career‡
2009 Costa Rica U17 3 (0)
2011 Costa Rica U20 10 (1)
2015– Costa Rica 12 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:11, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 November 2020

Deyver Vega (born 19 September 1992) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays for Herediano and the Costa Rica national football team as a forward.

Club career

Vega signed for Tippeligaen side SK Brann on 2 March 2016, on a contract until the summer of 2019.[2]

International career

At the youth level he played in both the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[1]

Vega was called up to the Costa Rica senior team for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup and played in Costa Rica's opening game.[3]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 23 April 2022[4]
Club Season League National Cup Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Deportivo Saprissa 2011–12 Costa Rican Primera División 7 1 – – 7 1
2012–13 29 5 – – 29 5
2013–14 18 1 – – 18 1
2014–15 43 9 – 3 0 46 9
2015–16 16 4 – 3 1 19 5
Total 113 20 0 0 6 1 119 21
Brann 2016 Tippeligaen 18 2 1 0 – 19 2
2017 Eliteserien 18 6 2 1 – 20 7
2018 12 1 4 4 – 16 5
Total 48 9 7 5 0 0 55 14
Vålerenga 2019 Eliteserien 23 2 1 1 – 24 3
2020 6 1 0 0 – 6 1
Total 29 3 1 1 0 0 30 4
Sandefjord 2020 Eliteserien 14 1 0 0 – 14 1
Total 14 1 0 0 0 0 14 1
Politehnica Iași 2020–21 Liga I 14 1 1 0 – 15 1
Total 14 1 1 0 0 0 15 1
Sandefjord 2021 Eliteserien 5 0 0 0 – 5 0
2022 4 1 0 0 – 4 1
Total 9 1 0 0 0 0 9 1
Career total 227 35 9 5 6 1 242 42

International

As of match played 14 November 2020[5]
Costa Rica national team
Year Apps Goals
2015 8 0
2016 0 0
2017 3 0
2018 0 0
2019 0 0
2020 1 0
Total 12 0

Honours

Club

Deportivo Saprissa

References

  1. ^ a b Deyver Vega at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ "Nå er Vega blitt Brann-spiller". www.brann.no (in Norwegian). SK Brann. 2 March 2016. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Costa Rica vs. Jamaica – 9 July 2015 – Soccerway". soccerway.com.
  4. ^ "D.Vega". uk.soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Deyver Vega". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 27 January 2021.


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