In July 2015, Guirassy joined Lille from Laval, signing a four-year contract. The transfer fee was reported to be around €1 million.[6][7]
1. FC Köln
Guirassy joined 1. FC Köln in July 2016, signing a five-year contract.[8][9] Soon after arriving at Köln, he underwent meniscus surgery. Later in the first half of the 2016–17 season, muscular problems kept him out of action.[10] He made his Bundesliga debut on matchday 26 on 1 April 2017, in a 2–1 defeat against Hamburger SV.[10][11] Days later, he was again kept from playing by muscular issues. Towards the end of the season, Guirassy nursed an inflammation of the pubic bone joint.[10]
In his second season, he scored his first goal in a 2–1 away defeat against Bayer Levekusen on 28 October 2017.[12] Five days later, he scored his first goal in the Europa League in a 5–2 victory over BATE Borisov.[13] Later that month, he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win against Arsenal in the same tournament.[14] Eventually, 1. FC Köln finished last in the league to be relegated, with Guirassy being their top scorer in all competitions.[12]
Amiens
In January 2019, he was loaned to Amiens until the end of the season.[15] Amiens exercised an option and bought the rights for Guirassy for the upcoming season. Transfer fees were reported to be about 5 to 6 million Euros.[16] Amiens later took advantage of the option and turned the deal permanent.[17]
On 15 February 2020, he scored a brace in a 4–4 draw against Paris Saint-Germain, with his second goal equalized the match in the stoppage time.[18] However, Amiens were relegated while being at 19th position, when the league was suspended prematurely following the outbreak of COVID-19 in France.[19]
Rennes
On 27 August 2020, Guirassy joined Ligue 1 side Rennes on a five-year deal.[20] He scored his first two goals for the club in the same match, a 4–2 league win against Nîmes.[21] On 20 October 2020, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 1–1 draw against Krasnodar in the 2020–21 season,[22] which was also his club's first ever goal in the competition.[12] On 20 March 2022, he scored his first career hat-trick in a 6–1 thrashing of FC Metz.[23]
On 1 September 2022, Guirassy joined Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart on loan for the 2022–23 season.[24] On 31 May 2023, the club announced that they had activated the option to make the move permanent, signing a three-year contract.[25]
In the 2023–24 season, Guirassy scored ten goals in the first five matches, including his first Bundesliga hat-trick which came against Mainz, to equal a previous record set by Robert Lewandowski in 2020–21.[12] He also set the Bundesliga record for most goals by a player in the first seven matches of a season by scoring a hat-trick within 15 minutes in a 3–1 win against Wolfsburg. This set the record at 13 goals, overtaking Robert Lewandowski's record of 11 in both 2019–20 and 2020–21.[26] After scoring his 14th goal of the season in an away match against Union Berlin, he was substituted after 30 minutes of play due to a hamstring injury.[27] He later missed two league matches,[28] before he managed to score a penalty to secure a 2–1 victory over Borussia Dortmund, and to reach 15 goals in his first nine matches of the season.[29]
On 13 April 2024, he scored his 25th Bundesliga goal in a 3–0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt, breaking the record of most goals by a Stuttgart player in a single campaign set by Mario Gómez in the 2008–09 season.[30] A few days later, he was named Player of the Month for March, achieving the prize for the second time in the season after September 2023.[31] On the final matchday of the 2023–24 season, he netted a brace in a 4–0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach, finishing the season with 28 goals in 28 matches, only behind Harry Kane.[32] Additionally, he scored the opening goal for the 12th time that season during the match, tying a Bundesliga record set by Gerd Müller in 1969–70, Ailton in 2003–04 and Stefan Kießling in 2012–13.[33] Guirassy was ranked the highest African goal scorer in the 2023–24 Bundesliga season by African Folder.[34]
Borussia Dortmund
On 18 July 2024, Guirassy signed a four-year contract with Borussia Dortmund for a reported transfer fee of €18 million.[35][36] Later that year, on 18 September, he scored his first goal from a penalty in a 3–0 away win over Club Brugge in the Champions League group stage.[37]
On 11 February 2025, Guirassy scored his tenth goal in the Champions League in a 3–0 away victory over Sporting Lisbon,[38] becoming topscorer of the competition as well as the third player ever in Dortmund history, after Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland, to score ten goals in a single Champions League campaign.[39] On 22 February, for the first time in his career, Guirassy scored four goals out of the play in a 6–0 home victory over Union Berlin, becoming the third Dortmund player in the 21st century alongside Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Erling Haaland to score four goals in a Bundesliga match. It was also the first time that Guirassy scored more than two goals in a match for Dortmund.[40] Later that year, on 15 April, he netted his first Champions League hat-trick in a 3–1 win over Barcelona - against whom he also scored a brace months prior - during the quarter-finals of the competition, becoming Africa's and Dortmund's all-time top goalscorer in a single campaign with 13 goals.[41] With his hat-trick, he also became one of only four players next to Robert Lewandowski, Marco Reus and Karim Adeyemi to ever score a hat-trick for Dortmund in the Champions League.[42][43][44] He is also the first African player to score a hat-trick against Barcelona in the Champions League, and the player with the most goals scored against Barcelona in a single edition of the competition, with five in total.[45] Guirassy ended his first Champions League season with Dortmund with fourteen matches played, thirteen goals scored and four assists provided, securing the top scorer spot in the competition alongside Raphinha.[46][47] Hence, he became the second African player to achieve this feat, only after George Weah in 1994–95.[48] In the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, he netted a brace in a 2–1 victory over Monterrey, qualifying his club to the quarter-finals.[49]
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