Personal information | |||
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Full name | Malamine Efekele [1] | ||
Date of birth | 19 July 2004 | ||
Place of birth | Livry-Gargan, France | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | St. Gallen | ||
Number | 21 | ||
Youth career | |||
2012–2019 | AS Bondy | ||
2019–2023 | Monaco | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2023–2025 | Monaco | 0 | (0) |
2024–2025 | → Cercle Brugge (loan) | 23 | (1) |
2025– | St. Gallen | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2023 | France U19 | 3 | (1) |
2023–2024 | France U20 | 7 | (0) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 31 August 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 March 2024 |
Malamine Efekele (born 19 July 2004) is a French professional footballer who plays for Swiss Super League club St. Gallen.
Born in Livry-Gargan, Malamine Efekele joined the AS Monaco academy in 2019, from the Bondy football club, after also spending some time in the INF Clairefontaine. [2] [3] [4] [5]
During the 2021–22 season, despite being sidelined for several months because of injury, he was among the top goalscorer of Monaco under-19s. [4] [6] [7]
Efekele signed his first professional contract with the club on the summer 2022, then making headlines for his striking resemblance to Kylian Mbappé, both in term of profile—a Bondy-grown paced striker playing in the Monaco academy—and physical appearance. [4] [6] [8] [9]
The following season, he played both the Championnat U19 and the Premier League International Cup, [10] [11] emerging as one of the standouts of the academy by March 2023, having proven to be decisive against the likes of West Ham, as he scored a brace in a 2–1 away International Cup win against them. [12]
On 24 January 2024, Efekele moved on loan to Cercle Brugge in Belgium. [13]
On 28 August 2025, Efekele signed a two-season contract with Swiss club St. Gallen. [14]
Efekele was born in France and is of DR Congolese descent. He was called up to a training camp for the DR Congo U20s in December 2021. [15] He is a youth international for France, first receiving a call with the under-19 in March 2023, along the likes of Warren Zaïre-Emery and Mathys Tel. [16] [17]
In May 2023, he was selected with France under-20s for the FIFA World Cup. [10] [11]
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