Bas Dost

Bas Dost (born 31 May 1989) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for NEC.

Having begun his career at FC Emmen in the Eerste Divisie, Dost later played in the Eredivisie for Heracles Almelo and SC Heerenveen.

Dost moved to Heracles Almelo in the summer of 2008.

With 14 goals, he was the top scoring native player in the 2009–10 Eredivisie.

On 18 May 2010, 20-year-old Dost was signed by SC Heerenveen for a transfer fee of around €3.2 million, on a five-year-deal.

In his first season, he was the club's top scorer with 13 league goals.

On 10 December 2011, Dost scored all five goals in Heerenveen's 5–0 win away to SBV Excelsior, taking his total to 14 goals in 16 Eredivisie games.

He finished as the topscorer in the Eredivisie with 32 league goals in 34 matches.

In 2012, after being the top scorer in the league with 32 goals in 34 games, he was signed by VfL Wolfsburg.

Four years later, having helped his team win the DFB-Pokal he signed for Primeira Liga side Sporting CP.

He won the Bola de Prata for top scorer in his first Primeira Liga season, with 34 goals in 31 games.

At Sporting, Dost won the Taça de Portugal once and the Taça da Liga twice, totalling 93 goals in 125 games.

Dost played for the Netherlands at under-20 and under-21 level.

He was called up to the senior side for the first time in August 2012, but did not make his debut until March 2015.

Dost joined German club VfL Wolfsburg in June 2012.

He made his Bundesliga debut on 25 August 2012, scoring the winner away against VfB Stuttgart.

Dost started the 2014–15 season as Wolfsburg's third choice striker and made his European debut in a 4–2 win against FC Krasnodar in the Europa League.

In February 2015 Dost scored four goals, away from home against Bayer Leverkusen in a 5–4 win, his first hat-trick for the club in a run of scoring nine goals in 10 Bundesliga matches.

Five days later he scored his first goals in a UEFA competition, scoring both in a 2–0 win against Sporting CP in the first knockout round of the Europa League.

Wolfsburg reached the final of the 2015 DFB-Pokal final.

Dost headed in the final goal from an Ivan Perišić cross as Wolfsburg won 3–1 over Borussia Dortmund at the Olympiastadion.

In August 2016, Portuguese club Sporting CP signed Dost for a club record €10 million, potentially rising to €12 million, and a buyout clause of €60 million.

He made his debut on 10 September at home to Moreirense F.C., concluding a 3–0 win; thirteen days later he scored for the third successive game, netting twice in a 4–2 victory over G.D. Estoril Praia again at the Estádio José Alvalade.

Dost scored all of Sporting's goals on 11 March 2017 as they won 4–1 at C.D. Tondela; two were penalties, of which he later missed another.

The league named him Player of the Month for March, with six goals in three games.

On 9 April, he scored another hat-trick in a 4–0 home win over Boavista FC, and three weeks later another treble won the game 3–2 at S.C. Braga.

He ended the season on 21 May with his fourth hat-trick of the campaign in a 4–1 home win over G.D. Chaves.

With 34 league goals in 31 games, he was awarded the Bola de Prata as top scorer.

Dost scored another hat-trick against Chaves on 22 October 2017, in a 5–1 home win.

On 1 December, he scored the only goal of a win over Lisbon neighbours C.F. Os Belenenses, taking him to 50 goals in 62 games across all competitions for the Lions.

He earned 18 caps and scored once for the Netherlands national team before retiring from them in 2018.

Born in Deventer, Dost's first club was CVV Germanicus in Coevorden, where he spent his youth career.

After a few seasons, FC Emmen took Dost into their youth academy.

He scored a hat-trick in the derby match against BV Veendam, which Emmen won 3–2.

He scored another hat-trick on 7 January 2018 in a 5–0 home win over C.S. Marítimo and added another in a 3–0 win over C.D. Aves a week later.

On 27 January, he scored two penalties – one to equalise in a 1–1 draw and the other in the penalty shootout – as Sporting won the 2018 Taça da Liga Final against Vitória F.C. at the Estádio Municipal de Braga.

In April 2018, Dost ended a run of 45 first time finishes when he took a touch before scoring in a Sporting win against Belenenses.

Later, on 15 May, he and several of his teammates, including coaches, were injured following an attack by around 50 supporters of Sporting at the club's training ground after the team finished third in the league and missed out on the UEFA Champions League qualification.

Despite the attack, he and the rest of the team agreed to play in the Portuguese Cup final scheduled for the following weekend, losing 2–1 to Aves.

Days later, he terminated his contract with Sporting.