Brice Samba

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Brice Samba
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Samba with Lens in 2024
Personal information
Full name Brice Lauriche Samba [1]
Date of birth (1994-04-25) 25 April 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth Linzolo, Republic of the Congo
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) [2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Rennes
Number 1
Youth career
2001–2002 Pacy Vallée-d'Eure
2002–2006 Madeleine Evreux
2006–2011 Le Havre
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011–2013 Le Havre B 27 (0)
2011–2013 Le Havre 0 (0)
2013–2017 Marseille B 9 (0)
2013–2017 Marseille 1 (0)
2015–2016 → Nancy B (loan) 2 (0)
2015–2016 → Nancy (loan) 2 (0)
2017–2018 Caen B 3 (0)
2017–2019 Caen 43 (0)
2019–2022 Nottingham Forest 125 (0)
2022–2025 Lens 85 (0)
2025– Rennes 5 (0)
International career‡
2023– France 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 January 2025
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 March 2024

Brice Lauriche Samba (born 25 April 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Rennes. Born in the Republic of Congo, he plays for the France national team.

Contents

Club career

Le Havre

Samba joined Le Havre in 2006, working his way through their youth teams before appearing in the first-team in 2011. [3]

Marseille

Samba in action with Marseille in the 2013 Valais Cup Valais Cup 2013 - OM-FC Porto 13-07-2013 - Brice Samba en extension (cropped2).jpg
Samba in action with Marseille in the 2013 Valais Cup

On 4 January 2013, Samba joined Marseille from Le Havre, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract. He made his professional debut for Marseille on 5 January 2014 in a Coupe de France game against Reims keeping a clean sheet in a 2–0 home win. [4] On 9 July 2015, Samba joined Nancy on a season-long loan. [5]

Caen

Samba joined Caen on a four-year deal from Marseille on 30 June 2017. [6] [7]

Nottingham Forest

On 7 August 2019, Samba joined EFL Championship side Nottingham Forest on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee. [8] [9] [10] He was initially brought in as a backup for on loan goalkeeper Arijanet Muric, but earned his place as Forest's number one after Muric made a number of costly mistakes. [11]

Samba made his debut for Forest on 13 August 2019 in a 1–0 EFL Cup victory over Fleetwood Town. [12] His league debut came on 24 August 2019 in a 2–1 win against Fulham.[ citation needed ] His impressive performances led him being named the Championship Fans' Player of the Month for November 2019. [13] On 8 September 2020, Samba was included in the PFA Championship Team of the Year for the 2019–20 season. [14]

In the 2022 Championship play-off semi-final, Samba saved three penalties to send Forest through to the final against Huddersfield Town. [15] He subsequently started in the 2022 EFL Championship play-off final before being substituted for Ethan Horvath in the 90th minute with a groin injury as Forest held on to a 1–0 lead to confirm their return to the Premier League for first time in 23 years. [16]

Lens

On 5 July 2022, it was announced that Samba had signed a five-year contract with Ligue 1 club Lens for an undisclosed fee. [17] [18] In the first half of the 2022–23 Ligue 1 season, he had 9 clean sheets out of 19 games. [19] He ended the season with 15 clean sheets out of 38 league matches, the highest in the season and was awarded the Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Year whilst being named in the UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year. [20] [21] He conceded the least goals (29 goals) in the league helping Lens to place second with 84 points, one point behind league winners Paris Saint-Germain and secure a champions league spot for the first time in 20 years since 2002–03 season and the third time in the club's history. [22] [23] [24]

International career

Born in the Republic of the Congo, Samba holds both Congolese and French nationalities. [25]

In March 2023, he received his first call-up to the France senior national team for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying matches against the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland. [26] [27]

On 16 June 2023, he made his debut playing the whole game in a UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying match against Gibraltar. [28]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 18 January 2025 [29]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [a] League cup [b] ContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Le Havre B 2010–11 CFA 10————10
2011–12 CFA170————170
2012–13 CFA90————90
Total270————270
Le Havre 2012–13 Ligue 2 001000——10
Marseille B 2012–13 CFA 2 10————10
2013–14 CFA 230————30
2014–15 CFA 240————40
2016–17 CFA10————10
Total90————90
Marseille 2012–13 Ligue 1 0000———00
2013–14 Ligue 110100000—20
2014–15 Ligue 1001010——20
2016–17 Ligue 1000000——00
Total10201000—40
Nancy B (loan) 2015–16 CFA 220————20
Nancy (loan) 2015–16 Ligue 2201020——50
Caen B 2017–18 Championnat National 3 30————30
Caen 2017–18 Ligue 1404020——100
2018–19 Ligue 13800000——380
2019–20 Ligue 210————10
Total4304020——490
Nottingham Forest 2019–20 Championship 4000020——420
2020–21 Championship4500010——460
2021–22 Championship4002010—3 [c] 0460
Total12502040—301340
Lens 2022–23 Ligue 137000———370
2023–24 Ligue 133010—8 [d] 0—420
2024–25 Ligue 115000—2 [e] 0—170
Total85010—100—960
Rennes 2024–25 Ligue 12010———30
Career total298012090100303320

International

As of match played 23 March 2024 [30]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
France 202320
202410
Total30

Honours

Nottingham Forest

Individual

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  12. ↑ "Forest beat Fleetwood to reach round two". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  13. 1 2 "Samba clinches Player of the Month award". Nottingham Forest. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  14. 1 2 Professional Footballers' Association [@PFA] (8 September 2020). "A massive congratulations to these players, for earning a place in the 2020 PFA Championship Team of the Year. #TOTY #PFAawards https://t.co/1DEGUXATbG" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2022– via Twitter.
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