Souleymane Camara
Camara playing for Montpellier in 2013
Personal information
Full name Souleymane Camara
Date of birth (1982-12-22) 22 December 1982
Place of birth Dakar, Senegal
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
2000–2001 Monaco
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2005 Monaco 59 (7)
2004 → Guingamp (loan) 13 (2)
2005–2008 Nice 31 (1)
2007–2008 → Montpellier (loan) 37 (11)
2008–2020 Montpellier 347 (59)
Total 487 (80)
International career
2002–2012 Senegal 35 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Souleymane Camara (born 22 December 1982) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is a former Senegal international and has represented his nation at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments in 2002, 2006, and 2012.[1] As of 2021, he holds the record of the most appearances for French club Montpellier, with 433, and is the club's second-highest goalscorer, with 76 goals.[2]

Club career

Camara was influential in Montpellier winning their first ever Ligue 1 title in 2012, scoring 9 goals, including one goal in a crucial 2–0 victory over Rennes with two matches left in the season.[3][4][1]

On 5 August 2017, Camara scored the only goal in Montpellier's 1–0 win against Caen on matchday 1 of the 2017–18 season. It was his 48th Ligue 1 goal for Montpellier and made him Montpellier's record scorer in Ligue 1, breaking Laurent Blanc's 26-year-old record of 47 Division 1 goals scored for Montpellier in four seasons.[5]

In March 2019 he became the first player to score in 15 different seasons in France's Ligue 1 in the 21st century.[6] In May 2019 he extended his contract with Montpellier for a further season.[7]

In May 2020, it was announced that Camara would not extend his contract with Montpellier, and would retire at the end of the season.[8] By the end of his Montpellier career, Camara played a club-record 433 games in all competitions during his 13-year stay with 76 goals scored – a record bettered only by France legend Laurent Blanc.[1]

Honours

Monaco

Montpellier

Senegal

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Souleymane Camara: Senegal striker ends 13-year spell at Montpellier". Goal. 19 May 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Statistique des Pailladins | MHSC Foot , billetterie Montpellier Hérault, mhsc match, match Montpellier, led publicitaire, panneau publicitaire led". www.mhscfoot.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "Rennes vs. Montpellier 0 - 2". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "How Montpellier beat PSG to win the French title". BBC. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Montpellier win it for Nicollin". www.ligue1.com. 5 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Okeleji, Oluwashina (18 March 2019). "Senegal's Camara first player to score in 15 Ligue 1 seasons". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  7. ↑ Okeleji, Oluwashina (7 May 2019). "Senegal's Souleymane Camara extends Montpellier deal again". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Montpellier : Souleymane Camara va arrêter sa carrière". L’équipe (in French). Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Monaco, tête couronnée". eurosport.fr. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  10. ↑ Copnall, James (11 February 2002). "Cameroon 0 - 0 Senegal (aet: Cameroon won 3 - 2 on penalties)". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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