- He played 20 matches for the Dutch national soccer team. (May 2008)
- Son of Marja Woldberg.
- Puma SE have a four-year partnership with De Jong, that commenced in January 2012.
- In December 2013, Spanish football website El Gol Digital ranked De Jong tenth in its list of the world's dirtiest footballers.
- Nigel played 81 international matches for Nederlands team and scored 1 goal.
- The only red card De Jong has been shown in his professional career was a sending off for two bookable offenses in a match for Hamburg against Rapid Bucharest in the 2005-06 edition of the UEFA Cup.
- De Jong is of Surinamese-Indonesian descent; Surinamese parentage from his father and Ambonese from his mother.
- De Jong had the highest passing completion percentage in the Premier League in the 2010-11 season out of the top 50 players (90%).
- He owns a specialist car dealership operating in Europe and the Middle East.
- His style of play earned him a title as the most violent footballer in the world, according to French newspaper L'Équipe.
- His father is former Dutch international player Jerry de Jong.
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