Alphonso Davies was born on 2 November 2000 in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana to Liberian parents who had fled the Second Liberian Civil War. The family resettled in Edmonton, Canada in 2005, and Davies became a Canadian citizen in June 2017.
In 2016, at 15, he signed with Vancouver Whitecaps FC, becoming the youngest active MLS player. In July 2018 Bayern Munich signed him for a then-record MLS transfer fee of $13.5 million plus performance bonuses, and he joined the club in January 2019. He won Bundesliga Rookie of the Year in 2019-20 and was a key part of Bayern's continental treble that season, with stand-out performances in the Champions League — including being praised by Gary Lineker as "world class" for his display against Chelsea. He has finished third in the 2020 Golden Boy Award (the best ever for a defender) and was named CONCACAF Men's Player of the Year in 2021 and 2022.
For Canada he made his senior debut at age 16 in June 2017, captained the side at the 2024 Copa América and scored Canada's first ever World Cup goal at the 2022 tournament against Croatia.
Off the pitch, Davies became the first soccer player and first Canadian to serve as a UN Refugee Agency Goodwill Ambassador, drawing on his own journey from a refugee camp.
A 1.83 m left-footed left-back / left winger, Davies combines elite pace, dribbling and attacking instincts with the willingness to defend in deep blocks — and is widely regarded as one of the world's best left-backs of his generation.