Personal information | |||
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Full name | Daniel-Kofi Kyereh | ||
Date of birth | (1996-03-08) 8 March 1996 (age 28) | ||
Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | SC Freiburg | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
Eintracht Braunschweig | |||
0000–2014 | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
2014–2015 | TSV Havelse | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2018 | TSV Havelse | 61 | (16) |
2018–2020 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 62 | (21) |
2020–2022 | FC St. Pauli | 63 | (21) |
2022– | SC Freiburg | 12 | (2) |
International career | |||
2021– | Ghana | 18 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 July 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:15, 10 December 2022 (UTC) |
Daniel-Kofi Kyereh (born 8 March 1996) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg and the Ghana national team.
Club career
Wehen Wiesbaden
On 6 June 2018, Kyereh signed with 3. Liga club, Wehen Wiesbaden. He helped Wehen secure promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with a goal in a 3–1 victory over Ingolstadt in a relegation match in May 2019. Following the club's relegation in the 2019–20 season, Kyereh was released on 30 June 2020.
FC St. Pauli
In July 2020, Kyereh signed a three-year contract with FC St. Pauli. In his first game in 2020 he scored two late goals to secure a point.
SC Freiburg
On 27 June 2022, Kyereh signed with Bundesliga side SC Freiburg. He scored his first competitive goal for Freiburg in a league match against Mainz on 1 October 2022. Five days later, he scored his first goal in European football in a 2–0 win over FC Nantes in the group stage of the Europa League.
International career
Kyereh was born in Ghana to a German mother and Ghanaian father, and moved to Germany at the age of 1. He debuted for the Ghana national team in a 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification win over Ethiopia on 3 September 2021.
On 14 November 2022, Ghana manager Otto Addo selected Kyereh as part of the final squad to represent the nation at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He featured as a second-half substitute in all three matches as the Black Stars were eliminated in the group stage.
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 13 November 2022
Club | Season | League | DFB-Pokal | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
TSV Havelse | 2014–15 | Regionalliga Nord | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 2 | ||
2015–16 | Regionalliga Nord | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
2016–17 | Regionalliga Nord | 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 3 | |||
2017–18 | Regionalliga Nord | 29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 11 | |||
Total | 61 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 16 | ||
Wehen Wiesbaden | 2018–19 | 3. Liga | 34 | 15 | 2 | 0 | – | 2 | 2 | 38 | 17 | |
2019–20 | 2. Bundesliga | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 29 | 7 | ||
Total | 62 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 67 | 24 | ||
FC St. Pauli | 2020–21 | 2. Bundesliga | 34 | 9 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 35 | 9 | ||
2021–22 | 2. Bundesliga | 29 | 12 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 32 | 13 | |||
Total | 63 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 22 | ||
SC Freiburg | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | 15 | 3 | |
Career total | 195 | 60 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 190 | 65 |
- Appearances in 2. Bundesliga relegation play-offs
- Appearances in UEFA Europa League
Honours
Wehen Wiesbaden
References
- "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Ghana (GHA)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 14. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- "Black Stars player admits poor performance after early AFCON exit". Adomonline.com. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- "Daniel-Kofi Kyereh". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- "HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN, DANIEL-KOFI KYEREH!n". svwehen-wiesbaden.de. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018.
- "Daniel Kofi Kyereh released by SV Wehen Wiesbaden". footballghana.com.
- ""Dynamik und Tempo": St. Pauli verpflichtet Kyereh". kicker (in German). 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- "Herzlich Willkommen, Kofi!". www.scfreiburg.com (in German). 27 June 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "Kyereh scores for the second straight game in Freiburg 2-0 Nantes". Footy Ghana. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- "SV Wehen Wiesbaden: Youngster Kyereh hat sich vor Spiel in Rostock an Startelf herangetastet". 29 July 2020. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020.
- "FIFA". fifa.com.
- "Otto Addo announces squad for World Cup finals". Ghana Football Association. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- "Ghana midfielder Daniel-Kofi Kyereh presented with Hearts of Oak jersey". Ghana Soccer Net. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- Daniel-Kofi Kyereh at Soccerway
- Kopp, Manuel (25 June 2019). "Hessenpokal-Finale: Wiesbaden viel zu stark für Baunatal". HNA. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
External links
- Daniel-Kofi Kyereh at kicker (in German)
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Ghanaian people of German descent
- German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent
- Footballers from Accra
- Ghanaian men's footballers
- German men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Ghana men's international footballers
- 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Bundesliga players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- 3. Liga players
- Regionalliga players
- TSV Havelse players
- SV Wehen Wiesbaden players
- FC St. Pauli players
- SC Freiburg players
- 2022 FIFA World Cup players
- 21st-century German sportsmen
- 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen