Noa Noëll Lang (born 17 June 1999) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left winger or left midfielder for Süper Lig club Galatasaray, on loan from Serie A club Napoli, and the Netherlands national team.
On 1 December 2019, Lang became the first Ajax player to score a hat-trick on his first league start in 60 years as Ajax came from two goals down to beat Twente 5âÂÂ2. Later that month, Lang scored his first goal in the KNVB Cup for Ajax, netting the opening goal in a 4âÂÂ3 away win over Telstar in the second round.
In January 2020, following Ajax's signing of Ryan Babel in Lang's position, he was loaned out to fellow Eredivisie side Twente for the remainder of the season.
On 5 October 2020, Ajax and Club Brugge reached a transfer agreement for Lang to move to Brugge on an initial loan with an obligation to make the signing permanent by 1 July 2021. Three weeks later, he scored his first goal for the club from the penalty-spot in a losing effort against OH Leuven. Lang scored in Club Brugge's 3âÂÂ0 victory over Zenit Saint Petersburg in their penultimate UEFA Champions League group stage match on 2 December to keep alive Club Brugge's hopes of qualifying for the knock-out round. However, Club Brugge could only manage a 2âÂÂ2 draw in the final match against Italian side Lazio and were parachuted down to the Europa League for the Round of 32.
On 28 January 2021, in his first appearance in a Bruges derby against Cercle, Lang scored the winning goal as Club Brugge came back from 1âÂÂ0 down to win 1âÂÂ2.
On 20 May, Lang scored as Brugge drew 3âÂÂ3 with rivals Anderlecht to win the Belgian First Division A title for the fourth time in six years and 17th time overall. Lang was involved in 28 goal contributions during his first campaign with Club Brugge, scoring 17 goals and adding a further 11 assists.
On 17 July 2021, Lang scored in Club Brugge's 3âÂÂ2 win over Genk in the Belgian Super Cup. On 15 September, he earned the player of the match award in a 1âÂÂ1 draw against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the UEFA Champions League.
On 8 July 2023, Dutch side PSV announced the signing of Lang on a five-year deal for a club record fee of â¬15 million. In his first training session, he suffered an injury. At first, the injury looked serious, but shortly after, Noa Lang was spotted training alone. His first game for the Dutch side was the 2023 Johan Cruyff Shield, which he decided by scoring the only goal.
On 17 July 2025, Lang joined Serie A club Napoli on a five-year contract for a reported fee of â¬25 million. Later that year, on 22 November, he netted his first goal in a 3âÂÂ1 win over Atalanta.
On 23 January 2026, Lang signed on loan for Galatasaray until the end of the 2025âÂÂ26 season, with a non-mandatory purchase option.
He made his debut for Galatasaray in a 4âÂÂ0 Süper Lig win over Kayserispor on 1 February 2026. His first goals for the club came in a 5âÂÂ2 win over Juventus in the Champions League on 17 February. A month later, on 18 March, he suffered a hand injury involving partial severing of his thumb as a result of a collision with an advertisement board during a Champions League match against Liverpool at Anfield.
Born in the Netherlands, Lang is of Surinamese descent through his biological father. He is a youth international for the Netherlands. Lang considers himself Dutch, Surinamese and Moroccan but can't internationally represent the latter due to not having Moroccan citizenship.
Lang represented the Netherlands at youth level. He appeared at both the 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship and the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
On 8 October 2021, he made his debut for the Netherlands national team in a World Cup qualifier against Latvia. His first senior international goal came in a UEFA Nations League fixture against Wales on 14 June 2022.
Lang was named in the final Netherlands squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. His only appearance of the tournament came in the quarter-final loss to Argentina, where he appeared as an 113th-minute substitute for Cody Gakpo.
In June 2023, he represented the Netherlands at the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals, scoring an equaliser in the sixth minute of stoppage time in the eventual 4âÂÂ2 loss to Croatia at the semi-final stage.
Lang was not a member of the Dutch squad for UEFA Euro 2024 due to injury.
Lang was born in the Netherlands. His father is Surinamese, while his mother is Dutch. His stepfather was Moroccan international footballer Nourdin Boukhari. During the spring season of 2025, whilst officiating a match, his father Jeffrey Lang was physically assaulted although he declined to press charges.
During the 2009âÂÂ10 football season, Boukhari and Lang resided in Turkey, playing for Kasñmpaà Âa and Beà Âiktaà  junior team respectively.
In May 2021, a video circulated online showing Lang joining an antisemitic chant of the Club Brugge supporters aimed at rival Anderlecht, who is seen as historically linked to the Jewish community. He was investigated by the Royal Belgian Football Association. While ignoring calls to apologize, Lang justified his chantings with supporters as "a nickname" claiming that "racism and prejudice are well known to me [...] I didnâÂÂt want to offend anyone with that. IâÂÂm done with the subject and wonâÂÂt be revisiting it." Lang, who played with Ajax, before joining Club Brugge, was defended by the team's organisation claiming that "there was no anti-Semitic undertone". The Club Brugge fans have been noticed by the press for racist chants.
The RBFA condemned his behavior, the Belgian Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmès declared: "Unacceptable, unbearable and it has no place in our society. We must fight it as vigorously as all other forms of racism", political parties condemned the chant, while he was obliged by the Federal prosecutor's office to visit the Kazerne Dossin Centre as a disciplinary measure.
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