![]() Fai with Cameroon in 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Collins Ngoran Suiru Fai | |||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 13 August 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Bamenda, Cameroon | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Right back, left back | |||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2011 | PWD Bamenda | |||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | Union Douala [2] | 18 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
2013 | → NQSA (loan) [2] | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
2013–2016 | Dinamo București | 56 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
2016–2022 | Standard Liège | 125 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | Al-Tai | 34 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
2024 | Radnički Niš | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
International career‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Cameroon U21 [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Cameroon U23 [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
2012– | Cameroon [4] | 56 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 June 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 April 2024 |
Collins Ngoran Fai (born 13 August 1992) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for the Cameroon national team. Mainly a right back, [5] he can also operate as a left back.
Collins Fai was born and raised in Bamenda, a city of the English-speaking part of Cameroon. He spent his entire youth career at local PWD Bamenda.
Aged 19, Fai joined the Cameroonian top team of Union Douala.
In 2013, Fai joined European football for the first time as he signed with the Romanian team of FC Dinamo București.
In January 2016, Fai joined Standard Liège in Belgium. On 17 March 2018, Fai played as Standard Liège beat Genk 1–0 in extra time to win the 2018 Belgian Cup Final and qualify for the UEFA Europa League. [6] On 29 January 2022, Fai joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Tai. [7]
Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Dinamo București | 2013–14 | Liga I | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 12 | 0 | |||
2014–15 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | ||||
2015–16 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 26 | 0 | ||||
Total | 56 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 66 | 0 | ||||
Standard Liège | 2015–16 | Belgian Pro League | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 8 | 0 | |||
2016–17 | Belgian First Division A | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 0 | ||
2017–18 | 32 | 1 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | 38 | 1 | |||||
2018–19 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 1 | |||
2019–20 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | — | 13 | 1 | ||||
2020–21 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | — | 28 | 0 | ||||
2021–22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||||
Total | 116 | 2 | 10 | 1 | — | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 151 | 3 | |||
Career total | 172 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 217 | 3 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Cameroon | 2012 | 1 | 0 |
2013 | 0 | 0 | |
2014 | 0 | 0 | |
2015 | 1 | 0 | |
2016 | 1 | 0 | |
2017 | 15 | 0 | |
2018 | 6 | 0 | |
2019 | 9 | 0 | |
2020 | 1 | 0 | |
2021 | 6 | 0 | |
2022 | 15 | 0 | |
2023 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 56 | 0 |
Union Douala
Standard Liège
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