Colley in 2024 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (2000-02-01) 1 February 2000 (age 24) | ||
Place of birth | Serekunda, The Gambia | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Young Boys | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
2017–2019 | Atalanta | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019–2024 | Atalanta | 5 | (0) |
2020–2021 | → Hellas Verona (loan) | 23 | (1) |
2021–2022 | → Spezia (loan) | 11 | (0) |
2022–2023 | → Fatih Karagümrük (loan) | 24 | (1) |
2023–2024 | → Young Boys (loan) | 24 | (3) |
2024– | Young Boys | 12 | (0) |
International career | |||
2019– | Gambia | 28 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 September 2024 |
Ebrima Colley (born 1 February 2000) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Swiss Super League club Young Boys and the Gambia national team.
Club career
Colley started playing for Atalanta's under-19 squad in the 2017–18 season. He made his professional debut for the senior team in a 1–2 Serie A loss to Bologna on 15 December 2019.
On 23 September 2020, Colley joined Serie A side Hellas Verona on loan for the remainder of the season.
On 7 August 2021, Colley joined fellow top-tier club Spezia on loan until the end of the campaign. On 13 August 2022, Colley was loaned to Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük for the rest of the season.
On 1 September 2023, Colley joined Swiss Super League club Young Boys on loan for the remainder of the season, with the deal including an option-to-buy. Later that year, on 13 December, he became the first Gambian to score in the UEFA Champions League, by netting a goal in a 2–1 away defeat against RB Leipzig.
International career
Colley made his debut for the Gambia national football team on 22 March 2019 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Algeria, as a 81st-minute substitute for Ebrima Sohna.
He played in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, his national team's first continental tournament, where they made a sensational quarter-final.
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 11 December 2024
Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Atalanta | 2019–20 | Serie A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Hellas Verona (loan) | 2020–21 | Serie A | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 25 | 2 | |
Spezia (loan) | 2021–22 | Serie A | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 12 | 1 | |
Fatih Karagümrük (loan) | 2022–23 | Süper Lig | 27 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 30 | 2 | |
Young Boys (loan) | 2023–24 | Swiss Super League | 24 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 1 |
Young Boys | 2024–25 | Swiss Super League | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
Career total | 102 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 124 | 6 |
- Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, one appearance in UEFA Europa League
- Appearances in UEFA Champions League
International
- As of match played 8 September 2024
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Gambia | 2019 | 7 | 0 |
2020 | 2 | 0 | |
2021 | 1 | 0 | |
2022 | 6 | 0 | |
2023 | 6 | 1 | |
2024 | 6 | 1 | |
Total | 28 | 2 |
- Scores and results list Gambia's goal tally first.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 16 November 2023 | Benjamini Mkapa National Stadium, Miburani, Tanzania | Burundi | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying |
2. | 23 January 2024 | Stade de la Paix, Bouaké, Ivory Coast | Cameroon | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations |
References
- ^ Ebrima Colley at Soccerway
- "Profile by TuttoCalciatori" (in Italian). TuttoCalciatori. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- "Bologna vs. Atalanta - 15 December 2019". Soccerway.
- "Ufficiale: Ebrima Colley è gialloblu" (Press release) (in Italian). Hellas Verona F.C. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- "Ufficiale | Ebrima Colley è un nuovo calciatore dello Spezia" (Press release) (in Italian). Spezia Calcio. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- "Ebrima Colley Karagümrük'te" (in Turkish). Fatih Karagümrük. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- "YB VERPFLICHTET EBRIMA COLLEY" [YB SIGNS EBRIMA COLLEY] (in Swiss High German). Young Boys. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- "L'YB rinforza l'attacco con Ebrima Colley". RSI (in Italian). 1 September 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- "UEFA Champions League: 2023/24 group stage in numbers". UEFA. 18 December 2023.
- "Algeria v The Gambia game report". Confederation of African Football. 22 March 2019.
- https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa -cup-of-nations/matches/2021/2243295/lineups
- "The Gambia name squad for first Nations Cup finals". BBC Sport.
- "Colley, Ebrima". National Football Teams. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
External links
- Ebrima Colley at National-Football-Teams.com
- Ebrima Colley at Soccerway
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- 2000 births
- People from Serekunda
- Living people
- Gambian men's footballers
- The Gambia men's international footballers
- Serie A players
- Süper Lig players
- Swiss Super League players
- Atalanta BC players
- Hellas Verona FC players
- Spezia Calcio players
- Fatih Karagümrük S.K. footballers
- BSC Young Boys players
- Men's association football midfielders
- 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Gambian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
- Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland