Youssef El Kachati

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Youssef El Kachati
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-11-09) 9 November 1999 (age 24)
Place of birth Leiden, Netherlands
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) [1]
Position(s) Forward, winger
Team information
Current team
Telstar
Number 9
Youth career
0000–2016 Noordwijk
2016–2018 Sparta Rotterdam
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2016–2020 Jong Sparta Rotterdam 34 (13)
2018–2020 Sparta Rotterdam 11 (0)
2020–2021 Noordwijk 1 (0)
2021 Westerlo 0 (0)
2022–2023 Quick Boys 52 (30)
2023– Telstar 15 (6)
International career
2019 Morocco U23 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:19, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Youssef El Kachati (born 30 November 1999) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Eerste Divisie club Telstar. [1]

Contents

Club career

After originally joining Sparta Rotterdam's academy in 2016 from youth club Noordwijk, he signed a one-and-a-half-year professional contract with the club on 16 December 2018. [2] [3] He made his debut in Sparta's first team on 14 October 2018 in a 3–0 Eerste Divisie victory against Cambuur. He came on as a substitute for Ilias Alhaft in the 66th minute and received his first yellow card a minute later for diving. [4] [5] In 2020, El Kachati returned to Noordwijk to gain playing time in the Tweede Divisie. [3] From in 2021, he moved to Belgium where he represented the under-21 team of Westerlo before joining Quick Boys in the Dutch Tweede Divisie in February 2022. [6]

In the 2022–23 season, El Kachati emerged as a prolific striker and was the top goalscorer of the Tweede Divisie halfway through the season. This sparked interest from clubs in both professional and amateur football. In December 2022, Quick Boys announced that El Kachati, his management, and the club had failed to reach an agreement on a contract extension. [7] [8]

In January 2023, it was announced that El Kachati would be joining IJsselmeervogels for the upcoming season. He signed a contract until mid-2024. [9] [10] However, it later became known that due to an agreement between IJsselmeervogels and Telstar, he would instead be playing for professional Eerste Divisie club Telstar from the 2023–24 season onwards. [11] [12] He made his debut for the club on 14 August, starting in a 1–0 league loss on the opening day of the season to Jong PSV. [13] On 2 February 2024, El Kachati scored his first goal for Telstar in a 6–1 loss to MVV. [14] The following week, he scored a brace to help Telstar to a 3–2 victory over Helmond Sport. [15]

International career

El Kachati debuted for the Morocco U23s in a 2–0 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification loss to the DR Congo U23s on 20 March 2019. [16] [17]

Career statistics

As of match played 15 March 2024 [1]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeague KNVB Cup OtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Jong Sparta Rotterdam 2017–18 Tweede Divisie 8282
2018–19 Tweede Divisie207207
2019–20 Tweede Divisie6464
Total34133413
Sparta Rotterdam 2018–19 Eerste Divisie 10000100
2019–20 Eredivisie 100020
Total11000110
Noordwijk 2020–21 Tweede Divisie101020
Quick Boys 2021–22 Tweede Divisie18600186
2022–23 Tweede Divisie3424103524
Total5230105330
Telstar 2023–24 Eerste Divisie15600156
Career total11349200011549

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