Emanuel Emegha

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Emanuel Emegha
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Emegha playing for Sturm Graz in 2022
Personal information
Full name Emanuel Esseh Emegha [1]
Date of birth (2003-02-03) 3 February 2003 (age 21)
Place of birth The Hague, Netherlands
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Strasbourg
Number 10
Youth career
KRSV Vredenburch
–2020 Sparta Rotterdam
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2020 Jong Sparta 5 (1)
2020–2022 Sparta Rotterdam 38 (3)
2022 Antwerp 1 (0)
2022–2023 Sturm Graz 31 (9)
2023– Strasbourg 40 (15)
International career‡
2015 Netherlands U15 1 (0)
2021–2023 Netherlands U19 7 (5)
2023 Netherlands U20 1 (2)
2023– Netherlands U21 6 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:11, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:37, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Emanuel Esseh Emegha (born 3 February 2003) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for French Ligue 1 club Strasbourg.

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Club career

Emegha started his professional career at Sparta Rotterdam in 2020. In his first season he played 16 matches. In the 2021–22 season, he appeared in every match until January. On 31 January 2022, Emegha signed a five-year contract with Royal Antwerp in Belgium. [2] In August 2022, after having played only a few minutes for Antwerp, he moved to Sturm Graz in Austria and signed a contract for 4 years there. [3]

International career

Born in the Netherlands to a Togolese father and Nigerian mother, he is a youth international for the Netherlands. [4]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 19 January 2025 [5]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [a] EuropeOther [b] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Jong Sparta 2019–20 Tweede Divisie 21———21
2020–21 Tweede Divisie30———30
Total51———51
Sparta Rotterdam 2020–21 Eredivisie 17110—00181
2021–22 Eredivisie19220—00212
Total36330—00393
Antwerp 2021–22 Belgian Pro League 10——0010
Sturm Graz 2022–23 Austrian Bundesliga 279405 [c] 1—3610
Strasbourg 2023–24 Ligue 1 28831——319
2024–25 Ligue 112820——147
Total401550——4516
Career total11028121510012730

Honours

Sturm Graz

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References

  1. ↑ "Player profile".
  2. ↑ "THE GREAT OLD VERSTERKT ZICH MET EMANUEL EMEGHA" (Press release) (in Dutch). Antwerp. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "Emanuel Emegha unterschreibt in Graz". SK Sturm (in German). Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Emanuel Emegha, 17, on top of the world after Sparta Rotterdam start". Score Nigeria. 28 August 2020. Archived from the original on 15 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "Emanuel Emegha Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 8 December 2023.


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