![]() Guirassy with Guinea in 2024 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Serhou Yadaly Guirassy [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 12 March 1996||
Place of birth | Arles, France | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) [3] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Borussia Dortmund | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
2009–2010 | Montargis | ||
2010–2011 | Amilly | ||
2011–2013 | Laval | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2015 | Laval B | 17 | (14) |
2013–2015 | Laval | 33 | (6) |
2015–2016 | Lille | 8 | (0) |
2015–2016 | → Lille B | 4 | (4) |
2016 | → Auxerre (loan) | 16 | (8) |
2016–2017 | 1. FC Köln II | 5 | (2) |
2016–2019 | 1. FC Köln | 37 | (6) |
2018 | → Amiens (loan) | 13 | (3) |
2019–2020 | Amiens | 24 | (10) |
2020–2023 | Rennes | 65 | (19) |
2022–2023 | → VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 22 | (11) |
2023–2024 | VfB Stuttgart | 28 | (28) |
2024– | Borussia Dortmund | 31 | (22) |
International career‡ | |||
2012 | France U16 | 4 | (1) |
2014–2015 | France U19 | 11 | (6) |
2015–2016 | France U20 | 9 | (4) |
2022– | Guinea | 23 | (9) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:25, 17 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:33, 25 March 2025 (UTC) |
Serhou Yadaly Guirassy (born 12 March 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. Born in France, he plays for the Guinea national team.
Guirassy started his career playing for Montargis, Amilly and Laval. [5]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Guirassy was a youth international for France. [50] However, he decided to represent the home country of his parents, the Republic of Guinea, at senior level. He debuted in the Guinea national team in a 0–0 friendly draw against South Africa on 25 March 2022, held in Kortrijk, Belgium. [51]
In December 2023, he was named in the Guinean squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast. [52]
Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup [b] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Laval B | 2012–13 | Régional 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
2013–14 | CFA 2 | 10 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 6 | |||||
2014–15 | CFA 2 | 6 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 8 | |||||
Total | 17 | 14 | — | — | — | — | 17 | 14 | ||||||
Laval | 2013–14 | Ligue 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | ||
2014–15 | Ligue 2 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 7 | |||
Total | 33 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 7 | ||||
Lille B | 2015–16 | CFA 2 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 4 | ||||
Lille | 2015–16 | Ligue 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 9 | 1 | ||
Auxerre (loan) | 2015–16 | Ligue 2 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 16 | 8 | |||
1. FC Köln II | 2016–17 | Regionalliga West | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | ||||
2017–18 | Regionalliga West | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||||
Total | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 2 | ||||||
1. FC Köln | 2016–17 | Bundesliga | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
2017–18 | Bundesliga | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | 5 [c] | 2 | — | 22 | 7 | |||
2018–19 | 2. Bundesliga | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 17 | 2 | ||||
Total | 37 | 6 | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | 2 | — | 45 | 9 | ||||
Amiens (loan) | 2018–19 | Ligue 1 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 3 | ||
Amiens | 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 24 | 9 | ||
2020–21 | Ligue 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | ||||
Total | 37 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 13 | ||||
Rennes | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | 4 [d] | 2 | — | 32 | 13 | ||
2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 37 | 9 | 2 | 0 | — | 9 [e] | 3 | — | 48 | 12 | |||
2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 65 | 19 | 3 | 1 | — | 13 | 5 | — | 81 | 25 | ||||
VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 22 | 11 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 2 [f] | 1 | 28 | 14 | ||
VfB Stuttgart | 2023–24 | Bundesliga | 28 | 28 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 30 | 30 | |||
Total | 50 | 39 | 6 | 4 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 58 | 44 | ||||
Borussia Dortmund | 2024–25 | Bundesliga | 30 | 21 | 1 | 0 | — | 14 [d] | 13 | 5 [g] | 4 | 50 | 38 | |
2025–26 | Bundesliga | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 4 | |||
Total | 32 | 24 | 2 | 1 | — | 14 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 52 | 42 | |||
Career total | 304 | 135 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 364 | 167 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Guinea | 2022 | 5 | 0 |
2023 | 7 | 3 | |
2024 | 9 | 6 | |
2025 | 2 | 0 | |
Total | 23 | 9 |
No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 14 June 2023 | Marrakesh Stadium, Marrakesh, Morocco | 6 | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
2 | 17 June 2023 | RCDE Stadium, Barcelona, Spain | 7 | ![]() | 1–2 | 1–4 | Friendly |
3 | 17 October 2023 | Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé, Portugal | 10 | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
4 | 12 October 2024 | Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | 19 | ![]() | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
5 | 2–0 | ||||||
6 | 3–0 | ||||||
7 | 15 October 2024 | Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | 20 | ![]() | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
8 | 3–0 | ||||||
9 | 16 November 2024 | Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | 21 | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
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