Ebrima Colley

Ebrima Colley

Colley in 2024
Personal information
Date of birth	(2000-02-01) 1 February 2000 (age 25)
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	26	(3)
International career‡
2019–	Gambia	28	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:33, 18 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct 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 18 May 2025 ^[1]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

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
Career total			116	6	12	4	12	1	140	10

1. Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, one appearance in UEFA Europa League
2. Appearances in UEFA Champions League

International

As of match played 8 September 2024

Appearances and goals by national team and year

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]

List of international goals scored by Ebrima Colley

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

1. Ebrima Colley at Soccerway
2. "Profile by TuttoCalciatori" (in Italian). TuttoCalciatori. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
3. "Bologna vs. Atalanta - 15 December 2019". Soccerway.
4. "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.
5. "Ufficiale | Ebrima Colley è un nuovo calciatore dello Spezia" (Press release) (in Italian). Spezia Calcio. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
6. "Ebrima Colley Karagümrük'te" (in Turkish). Fatih Karagümrük. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
7. "YB VERPFLICHTET EBRIMA COLLEY" [YB SIGNS EBRIMA COLLEY] (in Swiss High German). Young Boys. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
8. "L'YB rinforza l'attacco con Ebrima Colley". RSI (in Italian). 1 September 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
9. "UEFA Champions League: 2023/24 group stage in numbers". UEFA. 18 December 2023.
10. "Algeria v The Gambia game report". Confederation of African Football. 22 March 2019.
11. https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa -cup-of-nations/matches/2021/2243295/lineups
12. "The Gambia name squad for first Nations Cup finals". BBC Sport.
13. "Colley, Ebrima". National Football Teams. Retrieved 6 September 2021.

External links

• Ebrima Colley at National-Football-Teams.com
• Ebrima Colley at Soccerway