Nasser Djiga

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Nasser Djiga
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Djiga with Nîmes in 2022
Personal information
Full name Yacouba Nasser Djiga [1]
Date of birth (2002-11-15) 15 November 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) [2]
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Rangers
(on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers)
Number 24
Youth career
Vitesse
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–2021 Vitesse 40 (1)
2021–2024 Basel 11 (0)
2022–2023 → Nîmes (loan) 21 (0)
2023–2024 → Red Star Belgrade (loan) 22 (1)
2024–2025 Red Star Belgrade 17 (2)
2025– Wolverhampton Wanderers 5 (0)
2025– → Rangers (loan) 1 (0)
International career‡
2021 Burkina Faso U20 4 (0)
2022– Burkina Faso 8 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23 February 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 18 November 2024

Yacouba Nasser Djiga (born 15 November 2002) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Scottish Premiership club Rangers, on loan from Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers, and the Burkina Faso national team. [3] [4]

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Club career

Early career

Djiga played his youth football with Vitesse FC in Burkina Faso. [5] After having received various call-ups to their first team and having made his team debut during the last games of the 2018–19 season, he advanced to their squad in the 2019–20 season. Djiga played 14 games for them, scoring one goal, in the Deuxième Division the second tier of football in Burkina Faso. Despite the season remaining uncompleted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, because the team were league leaders, they won promotion to the Burkinabé Premier League. In the following season Djiga was regular starter in the team. He received a calls-up to the Burkina Faso U20 team and played four games for them in the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.[ citation needed ]

FC Basel

During the transfer window in the summer of 2021, Djiga signed for Swiss top flight side FC Basel after receiving interest from Lille OSC in the French Ligue 1 and Belgian and Spanish clubs. [6] Basel announced his signing on 19 June. [7]

Djiga joined Basel's first team for their 2021–22 season under head coach Patrick Rahmen. After having played in five test games, on 29 July 2021 Djiga debuted for them during a 2–0 away win over Partizani in the second qualifying round of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League. [8] Unfortunately Djiga injured himself during the game and was forced out for six weeks with a capsular ligament injury in the left ankle. [9] He returned to the team on 19 September to play the Swiss Cup match against armature team FC Rorschach-Goldach. [10] On 24 October Djiga then played his Swiss Super League debut for his new club in the home game at St. Jakob-Park as Basel won 2–0 against Lugano and he played the entire game. [11] During that season Djiga played just six domestic league matches, three in the Conference League and two in the Swiss Cup, but he also had six appearances in their U-21 team who played in the 2021–22 Promotion League, the third tier of Swiss football.

Loan to Nîmes and return to Basel

On 28 August 2022, Djiga joined Nîmes in France on a season-long loan. [12]

Following his loan, Djiga returned to Basel and played, under their new head coach Timo Schultz mainly as substitute, in the first four domestic league games of the season as well as both games in the Conference League games. On 20 August 2023 he played in their starting eleven as the team played their first round Cup match against lower-level opponents FC Saint-Blaise. He scored his first goal for his club in this game, it was the team's fourth goal, as they went on to win 8–1. [13]

Red Star Belgrade

On 4 September, FC Basel announced that Djiga was loaned out to Red Star Belgrade. [14]

In his first season with them, Red Star became 2023–24 Serbian SuperLiga champions and won the 2023–24 Serbian Cup. On 17 May 2024 it was announced that the club pulled their option and took the player over on a permanent deal. [15]

Wolverhampton Wanderers

On 3 February 2025, Djiga joined Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers by signing a contract until 2030. [16]

Loan to Rangers

On 9 July 2025, Wolves announced that Djiga had been loaned to Rangers for the duration of the 2025–26 season. [17] On 22 July 2025, he made his debut for Rangers in a UEFA Champions League qualifier against Panathinaikos at Ibrox Stadium. [18]

International career

Djiga debuted for the Burkina Faso national team in a 5–0 friendly loss to Kosovo on 24 March 2022. [19]

On 20 December 2023 he was selected from the list of 27 Burkinabé players selected by Hubert Velud to compete in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 29 January 2025 [20]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [a] EuropeTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Basel U21 2021–22 Swiss Promotion League 60——60
Basel 2021–22 Swiss Super League 60203 [b] 0110
2022–23 10102 [b] 040
2023–24 40112 [b] 071
Total1104170221
Nîmes (loan) 2022–23 Ligue 2 21000—210
Red Star Belgrade 2023–24 Serbian SuperLiga 221106 [c] 0291
2024–25 1720010 [c] 1273
Total39310161564
Career total773512311055

Honours

Red Star Belgrade

References

  1. ↑ "2024/25 Updated Premier League squad lists". Premier League. 7 February 2025. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "Nasser Djiga". crvenazvezdafk.com. Archived from the original on 2 December 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "l'invraisemblable imbroglio autour de Nasser Djiga, bloqué par son club". Ouest-France.
  4. ↑ "Commentaire: il faut sauver les sélections avant leur disparition". lematin.ch. 31 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Neue Welt für Djiga beim FC Basel". srf.ch.
  6. ↑ "Yacouba Nasser Djiga, la pépite qui fait craquer de grands clubs". burkina24.com. April 2021.
  7. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (19 June 2021). "Der FCB verpflichtet Yacouba Nasser Djiga". FCB signed Yacouba Nasser Djiga. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 19 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ uefa.com (29 July 2021). "FK Partizani – FC Basel 0:2 (0:1) – Overview". UEFA . Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  9. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (31 July 2021). "Nasser Djiga verletzt". Nasser Djiga injured. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 31 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" (19 September 2021). "FC Rorschach-Goldach 17 – FC Basel 0:3 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  11. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (24 October 2021). "Wieder ein Dreier – der FCB Schlägt Lugano 2:0". Another three pointer – FCB beat Lugano 2–0. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 24 October 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ "NASSER DJIGA PRÊTÉ POUR LA SAISON" (in French). Nîmes. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  13. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (20 August 2023). "FC Saint-Blaise – FC Basel 1:8". FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 16 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (4 September 2023). "Nasser Djiga leihweise nach Serbien" [Nasser Djiga on loan in Serbia] (in Swiss High German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 4 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (17 May 2024). "Nasser Djiga verlässt den FCB" [Nasser Djiga is leaving FCB] (in Swiss High German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 16 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ "Wolves sign Djiga on deadline day". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. 4 February 2025.
  17. ↑ "Djiga joins Rangers on loan". Wolverhampton Wanderers. 9 July 2025. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  18. ↑ "Rangers 2-0 Panathinaikos". BBC Sport. 22 July 2025.
  19. ↑ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Kosovo vs. Burkina Faso". national-football-teams.com.
  20. ↑ Nasser Djiga at Soccerway
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