Dominik Szoboszlai Commits to Liverpool Until 2031
Dominik Szoboszlai has never hidden what he wants from football. He wants everything. Now Liverpool have handed him the stage – and the time – to chase it.
The Hungarian midfielder has signed a new five-year contract that ties him to Anfield until the summer of 2031, ending any doubt over his future and planting a flag in the middle of a turbulent Liverpool rebuild.
A standard-bearer in a summer of change
This is not a routine extension. Not in this Liverpool summer.
Andoni Iraola has just walked through the door as the new manager. Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson and Ibrahima Konate – three pillars of the Jürgen Klopp era – have left as free agents. The squad is being reshaped, the hierarchy rewritten, the dressing room reordered.
In the middle of that churn, Liverpool have chosen their reference point. Szoboszlai stays.
Since arriving from RB Leipzig in 2023, he has grown into one of the Premier League’s standout midfielders. He has already made 147 appearances in red, scored 28 goals and was voted Liverpool’s player of the season by the fans earlier this summer. Those numbers are not the work of a promising prospect. They are the profile of a leader.
He has lifted the Premier League and the Carabao Cup with the club. He has felt the confetti, heard the parade songs, understood what this place demands. And after a 2025/26 campaign that yielded no trophies and ended with a bruising 4-0 aggregate defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League quarter-finals, he is not in the mood to settle.
“There’s always more to come. I’m never happy,” he said after signing. Happy with his progress, yes. Content? Never. That edge has driven him since he was a child and, as he made clear, it still drives him now.
Eyes on Europe
The domestic ambitions remain. He repeated it: he wants to win everything in England. But his gaze has shifted decisively to Europe.
“It stayed the same: I want to win everything that is possible in this country, also let’s say the Champions League. I’m ready to go for it.”
Liverpool’s last Champions League campaign ended under the lights in Paris, badly. Outplayed by PSG over two legs, outscored 4-0, out of the competition before the semi-finals. For a club that measures itself by European nights and silver trophies, that exit stung.
That is the context behind Szoboszlai’s words. This is not just another senior pro talking up ambitions. This is a 23-year-old entering his prime, already central to the team, now locked in for the long term and publicly setting the bar at the highest level.
He wants to be more than a star player. “I want to set the example. I want to be an example also for everyone, as much as I can.” In a dressing room that has lost Salah’s goals, Robertson’s voice and Konate’s presence, that matters.
A cornerstone for Iraola
For Iraola, walking into a club in transition, Szoboszlai’s decision is a gift. The new manager inherits a player who is not just staying, but doubling down on the project.
The squad is already changing shape. Centre-back Jeremy Jacquet has arrived from Rennes. Winger Victor Munoz has joined from Osasuna. Both are intriguing additions, but they are introductions, not institutions. Szoboszlai is different. He is established, trusted, and now committed until 2031.
His experience in Liverpool colours – the trophies, the big nights, the demands – becomes a bridge between eras. He knows what it took to win the Premier League here. He knows what it felt like when they fell short last season. That blend of success and frustration is exactly what fuels a new cycle.
Liverpool still have serious work to do in the market. Replacing Salah’s goals and Robertson’s influence from left-back is not a one-window job, and the club has yet to land definitive successors. The final weeks of the transfer window promise to be busy, maybe frantic.
But amid all that uncertainty, one of the club’s most important questions has been answered.
One of his biggest days
Szoboszlai did not hide what this contract means to him personally. He called it “maybe my biggest day”. Only two moments outrank it in his life: signing for Liverpool the first time and the birth of his child. In his football career, he puts this in his top three.
That is not the language of a player keeping his options open. It is the voice of someone who sees Anfield as the centre of his story.
He arrived as a statement signing from RB Leipzig. He stays as something more: a symbol of what Liverpool want to be in their next chapter – aggressive, ambitious, unapologetically chasing the biggest prizes.
The club has chosen him as one of the faces of that pursuit. He has chosen them as the place to chase his defining ambition.
He has said it plainly now: he wants the Champions League in Liverpool red. The question is no longer what he wants.
It’s whether Liverpool can build a team around him strong enough to go and take it.
