Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 6 November 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Sunyani, Ghana | ||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward, winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Doxa Katokopias | ||
Number | 88 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2009 | Feyenoord Academy | ||
2009–2010 | Beveren | 26 | (3) |
2011–2014 | Start | 109 | (25) |
2015–2016 | Stabæk | 50 | (12) |
2016–2018 | FC Nordsjælland | 66 | (21) |
2018–2019 | Al Jazira | 24 | (8) |
2019–2020 | Al-Hazem | 9 | (0) |
2020 | Al-Fujairah | 7 | (1) |
2020–2022 | Omonia | 39 | (10) |
2022– | Doxa Katokopias | 63 | (11) |
2022–2023 | AEK Larnaca (loan) | 11 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2019 | Ghana | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 March 2019 (UTC) |
Ernest Asante (born 6 November 1988) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Cypriot club Doxa Katokopias.
Asante played for the Brong Ahafo U12 side in the National Milo Games hosted in Sunyani, B/A while attending middle school at Ridge.[ citation needed ]
On 23 January 2011, Asante signed a three-year contract with Norwegian Tippeligaen side IK Start after impressing on trial. [1] On 3 April 2011, he made his debut for Start in a 5–1 win against Strømsgodset, coming on as a substitute in the 60th minute and setting up a goal.
On 7 March 2015, Asante signed a three-year contract with league rivals Stabæk Fotball. [2]
In August 2016 he signed a contract with Danish Superliga club FC Nordsjælland. [3]
On 24 August 2020, Asante signed a two-year contract with Cypriot First Division club Omonia. In his first season at the club, Asante helped Omonia win the league championship for the 21st time in club history. [4] In April 2021, he suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus injury, which kept him out of action for the rest of the season, and for a large portion of the following season. [5] His team went on to win that year's Cypriot Cup. [6]
On 27 August 2022, Asante joined Cypriot First Division club Doxa Katokopias. [7] In September, he joined AEK Larnaca on a year-long loan. [8]
Asante played in the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the eleventh edition of the tournament, which was held in the cities of Lima, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Piura and Iquitos in Peru between 16 September and 2 October 2005. Ghana placed third after drawing in all of their three group matches, scoring three and conceding three in the process.[ citation needed ]
He made his debut for the Ghana national football team on 23 March 2019 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya, as a 76th-minute substitute for Jordan Ayew. [9]
Club | Season | Division | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Start | 2011 | Tippeligaen | 23 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | 27 | 1 | |
2012 | Adeccoligaen | 29 | 11 | 4 | 1 | – | 33 | 12 | ||
2013 | Tippeligaen | 28 | 6 | 4 | 0 | – | 32 | 6 | ||
2014 | 29 | 8 | 4 | 0 | – | 33 | 8 | |||
Total | 109 | 25 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 27 | ||
Stabæk | 2015 | Tippeligaen | 30 | 10 | 6 | 2 | – | 36 | 12 | |
2016 | 20 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 2 | ||
Total | 50 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 14 | ||
Nordsjælland | 2016–17 | Superliga | 30 | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | 32 | 5 | |
2017–18 | 36 | 16 | 0 | 0 | – | 36 | 16 | |||
Total | 66 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 21 | ||
Al Jazira | 2018–19 | UAE Pro-League | 26 | 8 | 1 | 0 | – | 27 | 8 | |
Al-Hazem | 2019–20 | Saudi Pro League | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | 0 | |
Fujairah | 2019–20 | UAE Pro League | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 7 | 1 | |
Omonia | 2020–21 | Cypriot First Division | 30 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 41 | 9 |
Career total | 297 | 75 | 31 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 339 | 80 |
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