Ebrima Colley
.jpg) Colley in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 February 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Serekunda, The Gambia | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| 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 | 30 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019– | Gambia | 28 | (2) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16:14, 10 August 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals 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.[2] He made his professional debut for the senior team in a 1–2 Serie A loss to Bologna on 15 December 2019.[3]
On 23 September 2020, Colley joined Serie A side Hellas Verona on loan for the remainder of the season.[4]
On 7 August 2021, Colley joined fellow top-tier club Spezia on loan until the end of the campaign.[5] On 13 August 2022, Colley was loaned to Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük for the rest of the season.[6]
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.[7][8] 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.[9]
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.[10]
He played in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, his national team's first continental tournament, where they made a sensational quarter-final.[11][12]
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 10 August 2025[1]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[a] | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| Young Boys | 2024–25 | Swiss Super League | 26 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9[b] | 0 | 39 | 4 |
| 2025-26 | Swiss Super League | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Total | 30 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 43 | 4 | ||
| Career total | 120 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 144 | 10 | ||
- ^ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.[13]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- ^ a b 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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