Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | May 10, 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Kpomassè, Benin | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Annecy (on loan from Cavalry FC) | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
Grasslands SA | |||
Eastside Memorial FC | |||
Pacific Elite Soccer Institute | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019 | Victoria Highlanders | 8 | (4) |
2020–2022 | Lokomotive Leipzig | 2 | (0) |
2022 | FC Grimma | 12 | (0) |
2022– | Cavalry FC | 18 | (2) |
2023– | → Annecy II (loan) | ||
2023– | → Annecy (loan) | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 22, 2023 |
Goteh Ntignee (born May 10, 2002) is a Beninese professional footballer who currently plays as a forward for Ligue 2 side Annecy, on loan from Cavalry FC of the Canadian Premier League.
Born in Kpomassè, Benin, Ntignee moved to Canada at age four, [1] first settling in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, before later moving to Brooks, Alberta and then Coaldale, Alberta, at ages nine and ten respectively. [2] Ntignee began playing youth soccer with Grasslands SA at age nine. [2] Afterwards, he played with Eastside Memorial FC, [3] later joining the Pacific Elite Soccer Institute. [4] [5] In 2018/19, he played at the senior amateur level with Westcatle United in the Vancouver Island Soccer League winning the league title, while winning the finals MVP and finishing as a finalist for Rookie of the Year. [6]
In April 2019, Ntignee joined the Victoria Highlanders in USL League Two. [6] He scored four goals in eight games during the 2019 season. [7]
In August 2020, he signed with German Regionalliga Nordost club FC Lokomotive Leipzig. [8]
On January 31, 2022, he moved to NOFV-Oberliga Süd club FC Grimma. [9] [10]
On August 10, 2022, Ntignee signed a multi-year contract with Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC. [11] [12] On October 8, he made his debut in the final game of the season against Pacific FC, helping set up the winning goal by Ben Fisk. [13] On June 24, he scored his first goal for the club against York United FC. [14]
On August 31, 2023, Ntignee joined French Ligue 2 side Annecy on an initial loan for the remainder of the 2023–24 season, with the deal set to become permanent at the end of the 2023-24 season. [15] [16] [17] The transfer will be for a reported fee of $500,000 with additional add-ons, setting a new Canadian Premier League record for the league's highest transfer fee. [18] [19] After nursing an injury upon his arrival, he initially made a bench appearance as an unused substitute against Amiens on October 21, before appearing for the Annecy second team on October 22 against FC Échirolles in the sixth-tier Régional 1, in his club debut. [20]
Ntingee was born in Benin and raised in Canada, and is of Nigerian descent. [21] [22] In 2017, Ntingee attended a development camp with the Canada U15 team. [23]
In 2019, he attended a camp with the Nigeria U17 team ahead of the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup. [24]
Club | Season | League | Playoffs | National cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Victoria Highlanders FC | 2019 [26] | USL League Two | 8 | 4 | — | — | — | 8 | 4 | |||
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 2020–21 [27] | Regionalliga Nordost | 2 | 0 | — | — | 0 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
2021–22 [27] [28] | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
FC Grimma | 2021–22 [27] | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 12 | 0 | — | — | 0 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
Cavalry FC | 2022 | Canadian Premier League | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
2023 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 18 | 2 | |||
Total | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | ||
Career total | 39 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 6 |
1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club was previously known as VfB Leipzig and was the first national champion of Germany. It has also been known as SC Leipzig. The club won four titles in the FDGB-Pokal and the 1965–66 Intertoto Cup during the East German era. It also finished runner-up in the 1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was renamed VfB Leipzig after German re-unification and managed to qualify for the Bundesliga in 1993. However, like many clubs of the former DDR-Oberliga, VfB Leipzig faced hard times in reunified Germany and a steady decline soon followed. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was refounded in 2003 and has climbed through divisions since then. The team competes in the fourth-tier Regionalliga Nordost as of 2021. The 1. in front of the club's name indicates that it was the first to be founded in the city.
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