Wayne Rooney (lahir di Croxteth, Liverpool, Inggris, 24 Oktober 1985; umur 25 tahun) merupakan seorang pemain sepak bola Inggris yang berposisi sebagai penyerang. Ia saat ini bermain di Manchester United dan menggunakan nomor punggung 10.Ia juga bermain untuk tim nasional Inggris, dan menggunakan nomor punggung 9.
Sebelum bermain untuk Manchester United, Wayne Rooney bermain di Everton
Ia telah bermain selama 65 kali di Everton dan mencetak 15 gol selama 2 tahun kariernya di Everton.
[sunting] Internasional
Wayne Rooney telah bermain 61 kali untuk tim nasional Inggris dan telah mencetak 25 gol.
Wayne Rooney burst onto the Old Trafford stage in September 2004, netting an unforgettable hat-trick against Fenerbahce on his debut.
He'd arrived from Everton, his boyhood club, a few weeks earlier, becoming the world's most expensive teenager in the process.
But it wasn't his performances for the Toffees that had sparked United's interest, mind you. Staff at Carrington knew about Wayne from a much, much earlier age."Our U-9 side played Everton's boys one day and they absolutely hammered us," now-Academy manager Paul McGuinness remembers. "Rooney scored a few
[six, actually], but there was one that stood out. It was basically the classic overhead kick, the perfect bicycle kick, which for a kid of eight or nine years old was really something special."
Given that, perhaps his performance on his United debut wasn't that surprising! Indeed, it merely hinted at what was to follow. By the end of the 2004/05 campaign Rooney had amassed 17 goals in 43 appearances and was rightly named PFA Young Player of the Year.
Rooney’s second season at Old Trafford again saw him take huge strides. He ended the season with 19 goals in 48 matches and was voted both Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year by fans and PFA Young Player of the year (again) by his fellow professionals.
The young striker openly aims to better his goal tally each season and, despite a difficult World Cup with England in 2006, Rooney went on to net 23 times for United as the Reds lifted the Carling Cup and a first English title in three years.
Cristiano Ronaldo stole all the headlines in 2007/08, but Rooney chipped in with another 18 goals, a tally that included three league braces and four goals in Europe. His exciting strike partnership with 19-goal Carlos Tevez was one of the key
factors in the Reds' Premier League and Champions League double triumph and cemented his iconic status at Old Trafford