Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was born on June 18, 1989, in Laval, France, to Pierre-Francois Aubameyang, a former professional footballer who captained Gabon’s national team, and Margarita Crespo, who has Spanish heritage. Football ran through the family from the start, and his father later worked as a scout for AC Milan, giving the young Aubameyang an early foothold inside the European game. He grew up moving between countries as his father’s career took the family across Europe and Africa, an upbringing that left him fluent in French and Spanish and comfortable in dressing rooms far from home. He has been in a long-term relationship with Alysha Behague since 2010, and the couple have two sons, Curtys and Pierre.

Aubameyang joined AC Milan’s academy in 2007 but never made a first-team appearance for the Serie A club, instead being sent out on a string of loan spells to Dijon, Lille, and Monaco in France between 2008 and 2011 as he searched for regular football. He found it at Saint-Etienne, initially on loan and then on a permanent deal from December 2011, where he scored 37 goals in 87 league appearances, won the 2012-13 Coupe de la Ligue, and finished as Ligue 1’s second-highest scorer that season. His performances in France, tracked in his Transfermarkt transfer history, caught the attention of Borussia Dortmund, who signed him for a reported 13 million euros in July 2013.

Aubameyang’s move to Borussia Dortmund proved transformative. His searing pace and clinical finishing turned him into one of the most feared strikers in Europe, and he scored 141 goals in 213 appearances across five seasons in the Ruhr valley. The high point came in 2016-17, when he finished as the Bundesliga’s top scorer with 31 goals, edging out Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski on the final day of the season and becoming only the second African player to win the German league’s golden boot. That season he also scored the winning penalty as Dortmund beat Eintracht Frankfurt to lift the DFB-Pokal.

In January 2018, Arsenal paid a club-record fee, reported at around 56 million pounds, to bring Aubameyang to the Premier League from Dortmund. He shared the 2018-19 Premier League Golden Boot with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane after all three finished the season with 22 goals, and he later won the FA Cup and Community Shield with Arsenal in 2020. Internationally, Aubameyang became Gabon’s all-time leading goalscorer and long-serving captain, and in 2015 he was named African Footballer of the Year, the first Gabonese player to win the award, after scoring 43 goals for club and country that year. He later added the Europa League’s top scorer award in 2023-24 while at Marseille and was named the competition’s Player of the Season.

Aubameyang’s combination of raw speed, elaborate goal celebrations, and a well-travelled career across five of Europe’s biggest leagues, Ligue 1, the Bundesliga, the Premier League, La Liga, and Saudi Arabia’s Pro League, has made him one of the most recognisable African footballers of his generation. He was named Arsenal captain in November 2019, taking over the armband from Granit Xhaka, and captained Gabon for over a decade. His profile has continued into the later stages of his career: in July 2026, at age 37, he signed for newly promoted Deportivo de La Coruna after a second spell at Marseille, a move widely covered across European football media as a marquee signing for a club returning to Spain’s top flight after eight years away.

Aubameyang has held boot and apparel sponsorships throughout his career, most notably with Nike, whose branding he wore during his prolific Dortmund years even while playing for the Puma-sponsored club, a mismatch that briefly drew comment from both companies. He also built a presence in football gaming, serving as a brand ambassador for Konami’s PES League and later appearing as a promotional athlete for the eFootball PES series during his Arsenal years. His commercial profile has remained tied closely to his football career rather than expanding into unrelated lifestyle or product categories.

Unlike some of his contemporaries, Aubameyang has not built a widely reported portfolio of business ownership or startup investment. Public reporting on his finances centers almost entirely on football contracts, transfer terms, and endorsement income rather than disclosed equity stakes or founded companies. This is consistent with his career pattern of frequent moves between clubs, which has left less room for the kind of settled off-field business infrastructure that some longer-tenured stars, often based in a single market for a decade or more, have been able to build.

Aubameyang’s most widely reported property is the home he owned in Castelldefels, just outside Barcelona, which was targeted in an armed robbery in August 2022, in which he and his family were assaulted and he suffered a broken jaw. It was the second break-in at the property within two months. The incident, which came shortly after his move from Barcelona to Chelsea, drew wider attention to the security risks facing high-profile footballers and their families at their private residences. Beyond that property, detailed public records of his other real estate holdings across the countries he has played in are not widely available.