Adriel Ba Loua

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Adriel Ba Loua
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Adriel Ba Loua with Caen in 2025
Personal information
Full name Adriel D'Avila Ba Loua
Date of birth (1996-07-25) 25 July 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Yopougon, Ivory Coast
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
Gabala
Youth career
2001–2013 ASEC Mimosas
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2019 ASEC Mimosas
2015–2016Lille OSC (loan) 0 (0)
2017–2018Vejle Boldklub (loan) 52 (6)
2018–2019MFK Karviná (loan) 27 (2)
2019–2020 MFK Karviná 27 (1)
2020–2021 Viktoria Plzeň 35 (7)
2021–2025 Lech Poznań 77 (5)
2025 Caen 6 (0)
2025 Caen B 1 (1)
2025– Gabala 0 (0)
International career
2015 Ivory Coast U20 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 May 2025

Adriel D'Avila Ba Loua (born 25 July 1996) [1] is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Azerbaijan Premier League club Gabala. [2]

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Career

Early career

Ba Loua began his career in the club ASEC Mimosas in the Abidjan city of Côte d'Ivoire. Ba Loua starred at the youth department as 11 years old and joined the first-team squad as 16-year-old.[ citation needed ] He got two seasons at the club's first team.[ citation needed ]

Lille

In the summer of 2015, Hervé Renard entrusted him to the French club Lille on a lease agreement. Renard was at the forefront of the Ivory Coast national team before he was coached in Lille in the summer of 2015. Renard was fired after thirteen matches for the French club, and the new coach did not see the same potential in Ba Loua.[ citation needed ]

Vejle Boldklub

In the summer of 2016, Ba Loua changed to Vejle Boldklub. The offensive player was one of many new faces in the Jutland tradition club, which this summer was bought by Andrei Zolotko. Ba Loua in his first half season in the club played all matches in 1. Division. After the winter break, he lost his fixed place, but missed only three matches this season. He left the club after two seasons.

Gabala

On 12 July 2025, Azerbaijan Premier League club Gabala announced the signing of Ba Loua from Caen, to a one-year contract. [3]

International career

Ba Loua is quoted for U-20 international championships for the Ivory Coast. He has also been represented in the U-23 national team at the Vejle Boldklub.[ citation needed ]

Career statistics

As of match played 10 May 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [a] ContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Vejle Boldklub (loan) 2016–17 Danish 1st Division 30410314
2017–18 Danish 1st Division22220242
Total52630556
Karviná 2018–19 Czech First League 27231303
2019–20 Czech First League27100271
Total54331574
Viktoria Plzeň 2020–21 Czech First League317503 [b] 1398
2021–22 Czech First League40006 [c] 1101
Total3575092499
Lech Poznań 2021–22 [4] Ekstraklasa 25140291
2022–23 [5] Ekstraklasa200106 [d] 01 [e] 0280
2023–24 [6] Ekstraklasa254101 [c] 1275
2024–25 [7] Ekstraklasa700070
Total775607110916
Lech Poznań II 2022–23 [5] II liga 100010
Caen 2024–25 Ligue 2 6060
Caen B 2024–25 Championnat National 3 1111
Gabala 2025–26 Azerbaijan Premier League 000000
Career total226221711631026026
  1. Includes Danish Cup, Czech Cup, Polish Cup
  2. One appearance in UEFA Champions League, two appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League
  3. 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  4. One appearance in UEFA Champions League, five appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  5. Appearance in Polish Super Cup

Honours

Viktoria Plzeň

Lech Poznań

References

  1. Adriel Ba Loua at Soccerway
  2. Vejle Boldklub ut, http://www.vejle-boldklub.dk/index.php?nyheder&newsId=8566 Archived 18 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine VB writes with young ivorians] , vejle-boldklub.dk, Vejle Boldklub, visited 20. July 2016.
  3. "Adriel Ba Loua "Qəbələ"də". gabalafc.az (in Azerbaijani). Gabala SC Instagram. 12 July 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  4. "Sezon 2021/22". 90minut. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Sezon 2022/23". 90minut. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  6. "Sezon 2023/24". 90minut. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  7. "Sezon 2024/25". 90minut. Retrieved 9 December 2024.