player · data as of 2026-08-24 11:25 UTC
Dion Cools
Be the first in the standsDefenderage 306' 1"
Malaysiacurrently Cerezo Osaka
Malaysiacurrently Cerezo OsakaCareer goals
10
all competitions, from the season archive · club 7 · country 3 — season by season in The Record below
Career appearances
198
all competitions, from the season archive — the same total The Record shows
World Cup 2026
no goals yet
goals and assists land here the moment they happen
Team trophies
16
team silverware — the cabinet below
Career totals from the ESPN season archive — all competitions, the same numbers The Record below shows (Wikidata's senior spells fill in when the archive is thin — never the youth years, which stay listed on their own below); live World Cup stats from our own match timelines. Individual awards are counted separately from team trophies, so the headline count can't inflate.
Dion-Johan Chai Cools is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays either as a full-back or centre-back for J.League club Cerezo Osaka and captains the Malaysia national team. — Wikipedia's own summary; its figures are theirs
Honours
16 team trophies · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updated| Team honours16 | ||||
| Thai League 1 | ×3 | 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25 | Buriram United | |
| Belgian First Division A | ×2 | 2015–16, 2017–18 | Club Brugge | |
| Belgian Super Cup | ×2 | 2016, 2018 | Club Brugge | |
| Pestabola Merdeka | ×2 | 2023, 2024 | Malaysia | |
| Thai FA Cup | ×2 | 2022–23, 2024–25 | Buriram United | |
| Thai League Cup | ×2 | 2022–23, 2024–25 | Buriram United | |
| ASEAN Club Championship | ×1 | 2024–25 | Buriram United | |
| Belgian Second Division play-offs | ×1 | 2015 | OH Leuven | |
| Danish Superliga | ×1 | 2019–20 | Midtjylland | |
| Individual honours2 | ||||
| More honours · 2 | ||||
| Thai League Best XI | 2023–24 | |||
| Thai League Dream ASEAN XI | ||||
The Record
season by season · 29 competition-seasons · ESPN archive| Season | Competition | Team | Apps | Goals | Assists | Shots | YC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | all competitions | all teams | 198 | 10 | 7 | 50 | 25 |
| 2026 | Jpn 1 | Cerezo Osaka | 22 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 |
| 2025 | Jpn 1 | Cerezo Osaka | 14 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | AFC Champions League | Buriram United | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| 2023 | AFC Asian Cup | Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | AFC Champions League | Buriram United | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | Friendlies | Malaysia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | World Cup qualifiers | Malaysia | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | Friendlies | Malaysia | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | Belgian Pro League | Zulte-Waregem | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | Den 1 | FC Midtjylland | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Career
league apps & goals · Wikidata, community-updated (national-team rows can lag a match or two)| Years | Team | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–2015 | Oud-Heverlee Leuven | — | — |
| 2015–now | Club Brugge KV | — | — |
Youth & development spells — 3 more
| 2014–2014 | Belgium U18 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014–2015 | Belgium U19 | 8 | 2 |
| ?–now | Belgium U21 | — | — |
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