Cheikhou Dieng

Cheikhou Dieng

Dieng with SKN St. Pölten in 2017
Personal information
Date of birth	(1993-11-23) 23 November 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth	Pikine, Senegal
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) [1]
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	DSV Leoben
Number	7
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
0000–2012	Ndar Guedj
2012–2016	Sandefjord	103	(12)
2016	SKN St. Pölten	17	(6)
2016–2019	İstanbul Başakşehir	1	(0)
2017	→ SKN St. Pölten (loan)	13	(1)
2017	→ MKE Ankaragücü (loan)	7	(0)
2018	→ Spartak Subotica (loan)	8	(0)
2018–2019	→ Wacker Innsbruck (loan)	26	(4)
2020–2022	Wolfsberger AC	52	(7)
2022–2023	Zagłębie Lubin	17	(0)
2022–2023	Zagłębie Lubin II	18	(5)
2024–	DSV Leoben	0	(0)
International career
2015	Senegal U23	6	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Cheikhou Dieng (born 23 November 1993) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Austrian club DSV Leoben.

Career

Sandefjord

Dieng began his career at Ndar Guedj in Senegal. ^[2] For the 2012 season he moved to Norwegian First Division club Sandefjord. He made his league debut in April 2012, when he came on as a substitute for Martin Torp in the 84th minute on the fourth matchday of that season against Strømmen IF. ^[3] In August 2012, he scored his first goal in Norway's second tier in a 3–0 win over Tromsdalen UIL. ^[4] In the 2012 season, he came to a total of 23 second division appearances, in which he scored four goals. ^[5] The following season, he scored three goals in 26 games. ^[5] In the 2014 season, he won the second-tier title with Sandefjord and thus won promotion to Tippeligaen. ^[6] In the promotion season he scored two goals in 26 appearances. ^[5]

After promotion, Dieng made his Tippeligaen debut in April 2015 against Bodø/Glimt, recording an assist to compatriot Jean Alassane Mendy in a 3–1 win. ^{[7] [8]} In the same month, he scored his first goal in Tippeligaen in a 2–1 defeat against Viking. ^{[9] [10]} By the end of the season, he had made 27 appearances, scoring three goals. ^[5] Sandefjord, however, was relegated to the second tier as bottom of the table after one season. ^[11]

SKN St. Pölten

Dieng then moved to Austria in January 2016 to second division club SKN St. Pölten, signing a contract until June 2018. ^[12] For SKN he made 17 appearances in the second division until the end of the season, scoring six goals. ^[5] As second division champion, he won promotion to the Austrian Football Bundesliga with St. Pölten at the end of the season. ^[13]

İstanbul Başakşehir

After promotion, Dieng moved to Turkey for the 2016–17 season to İstanbul Başakşehir, where he signed a three-year contract. ^[14] In Istanbul, however, he had a difficult time and, also due to injury, he only made 1 appearance in the Süper Lig in his first half year. ^[5] Therefore, he returned to St. Pölten on loan in January 2017. ^[15] For the relegation-threatened Lower Austrians he made 13 Bundesliga appearances and scored 1 goal, as he helped the club avoid relegation at the end of the season. ^[5] After the end of the loan, he first returned to Başakşehir.

In August 2017, he was loaned to TFF First League club MKE Ankaragücü. ^[16] In the Ankara-based club, however, he could not assert himself as a starter, and the loan was terminated prematurely in January 2018 after 8 appearances in the second tier. In February 2018 he joined Serbian SuperLiga club Spartak Subotica on loan. ^[17] Also in Subotica he did not get beyond the role of substitute, and he finished the season with 8 appearances in the SuperLiga, where he only made a start twice. ^[5]

In August 2018, he returned to Austria and joined Bundesliga club Wacker Innsbruck on loan. ^[18] For the Tyroleans, he featured as a winger and appeared in 26 Bundesliga games in the 2018–19 season, scoring 4 goals. ^[5] With Wacker, however, he suffered relegation from the Bundesliga at the end of the season. ^[19] After the end of the loan, his contract with İstanbul Başakşehir was not renewed, and so he left the club after four loans.

Wolfsberger AC

After half a year without a club, Dieng moved to Wolfsberger AC from the Austrian Football Bundesliga in January 2020, where he received a contract running until June 2020. ^[20] For the Carinthians he made 12 appearances in the 2019–20 Bundesliga season in which he scored once. ^[5] With the club he also qualified for the UEFA Europa League after finishing third in the league table. His expiring contract with Wolfsberger AC was extended in July 2020 until June 2022. ^[21]

Zagłebie Lubin

On 28 February 2022, Dieng joined Polish Ekstraklasa side Zagłębie Lubin, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract. ^[22] On 20 July 2023, having spent the first half of the year with Zagłębie's reserve side, Dieng left the club by mutual consent. ^[23]

DSV Leoben

On 12 January 2024, Dieng returned to Austria and signed with DSV Leoben. ^[24]

International career

Dieng played for the Senegal U23 national team. ^[5] He played at the 2015 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations, held in Senegal. ^[25]

He also played with Senegal U23 at the 2015 African Games where they won the gold. ^[26]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 4 June 2023 ^{[27] [28]}

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Sandefjord	2012	1. divisjon	24	4	5	1	1	0	30	5
	2013	1. divisjon	26	3	3	0	—		29	3
	2014	1. divisjon	26	2	1	0	—		27	2
	2015	Tippeligaen	27	3	5	0	—		30	3
	Total		103	12	14	1	1	0	119	13
SKN St. Pölten	2015–16	Erste Liga	17	6	2	0	—		19	6
İstanbul Başakşehir F.K.	2016–17	Süper Lig	1	0	4	1	1	0	6	1
SKN St. Pölten (loan)	2016–17	Bundesliga	13	1	1	0	—		14	1
MKE Ankaragücü (loan)	2017–18	1. Lig	7	0	1	0	—		8	0
Spartak Subotica (loan)	2017–18	SuperLiga	8	0	0	0	—		8	0
Wacker Innsbruck (loan)	2018–19	Bundesliga	26	4	2	0	—		28	4
Wolfsberger AC	2019–20	Bundesliga	12	1	0	0	—		12	1
	2020–21	Bundesliga	23	3	4	2	5	0	32	5
	2021–22	Bundesliga	17	3	3	1	—		20	4
	Total		52	7	7	3	5	0	64	10
Zagłębie Lubin	2021–22	Ekstraklasa	11	0	—		—		11	0
	2022–23	Ekstraklasa	6	0	1	0	—		7	0
	Total		17	0	1	0	—		18	0
Zagłębie Lubin	2022–23	II liga	18	5	0	0	—		18	5
Career total			262	29	30	5	7	0	299	34

Honours

Sandefjord

• 1. divisjon: 2014 ^[5]

SKN St. Pölten

• Austrian Football First League: 2015–16 ^[5]

References

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2. "Cheikhou Dieng, excentré droit des Olympiques : Mon retourné acrobatique m'a mis en lumière". wiwsport.com (in French). 9 January 2017. Archived from the original on 9 January 2017.
3. "Strømmen vs. Sandefjord - 28 April 2012 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
4. "Tromsdalen vs. Sandefjord - 5 August 2012 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
5. Cheikhou Dieng at Soccerway
6. "NIFS - Norsk & Internasjonal Fotballstatistikk". www.nifs.no. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
7. "Mendy-dobbel sikret Sandefjord-seier - VGTV". VG (in Norwegian). 6 April 2015.
8. "Sandefjord vs. Bodø / Glimt - 6 April 2015 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
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12. "U23 Teamspieler verstärkt das Wolfsrudel!". SKN St. Pölten (in German). 7 January 2016. Archived from the original on 9 January 2016.
13. "Bundesliga.at - St. Pölten machte Bundesliga-Aufstieg mit 3:0-Sieg perfekt". bundesliga.at (in German). 20 March 2016.
14. "SKN-Flügelflitzer Dieng wechselt in Türkei". weltfussball.at (in German). 1 June 2016.
15. "Cheikhou Dieng kehrt ins Wolfsrudel zurück!". skn-stpoelten.at (in German). 9 January 2017. Archived from the original on 9 January 2017.
16. "Ankaragücü'nde Dieng'den önce imza sonra lisans". YURTSPOR (in Turkish). 10 August 2017.
17. "Başakşehir Cheikhou'yu, Spartak Subotica'ya kiraladı". Milliyet (in Turkish). 14 February 2018.
18. "FC Wacker Innsbruck - Neuzugang: Variabler Offensivspieler mit Tempo". fc-wacker-innsbruck.at (in German). Retrieved 25 November 2021.
19. Geiler, Christoph (27 May 2019). "Der FC Wacker steht nach dem Abstieg vor dem Nichts". kurier.at (in German).
20. "Willkommen im Lavanttal! | RZ Pellets WAC". Wolfsberger AC (in German). 28 January 2020.
21. "RZ Pellets WAC bindet Senegalesen: Cheikhou Dieng bleibt noch länger in Wolfsberg". kleinezeitung.at (in German). 10 July 2020.
22. "Cheikhou Dieng nowym zawodnikiem KGHM Zagłębia Lubin!" (in Polish). Zagłębie Lubin. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
23. "Cheikhou Dieng odchodzi z Zagłębia Lubin". 90minut.pl (in Polish). 20 July 2023.
24. "Offensiver Neuzugang" [Offensive newcomer] (in German). DSV Leoben. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
25. "Senegal leave Papiss Cisse out of Olympic squad". BBC Sport. 7 July 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
26. CHeikhou Dieng Archived 2018-02-20 at the Wayback Machine at worldfootball.com
27. Cheikhou Dieng at Soccerway
28. "Cheikhou Dieng". Nifs.no/ (in Norwegian). nifs. Retrieved 28 October 2015.

External links

• Cheikhou Dieng at FootballDatabase.eu