Sekou Sylla (footballer, born 1992)

Sekou Sylla
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-01-01) 1 January 1992[1]
Place of birthConakry, Guinea
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
PositionStriker
Team information
Current team
Deltras
Number 15
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2012–2014Sriracha
2014Chanthaburi
2014–2017Magwe 69 (28)
2017Global Cebu 3 (5)
2018–2019Yangon United 57 (46)
2020Haiphong 0 (0)
2021–2022Churchill Brothers 8 (0)
2023Yangon United 15 (11)
2023Persikab Bandung 10 (6)
2024Sheikh Russel KC 6 (1)
2024–Deltras 8 (2)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12 February 2025

Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga 2 club Deltras.[2][3] He is Yangon United's all-time third-highest goalscorer with 53 Goals.

Club career

Sriracha

Sylla began his professional career at Sriracha of Thai Division 1 League in March 2012 and played until December 2012.[4]

Chanthaburi

In January 2014, he signed with Thai side Chanthaburi, competing in League 3 but did not appear in any league match.[4]

Magwe

In 2014, Sylla moved to the Myanmar National League and signed with Magwe.[5] He represented the club in 2017 AFC Cup, where he made four appearances, notching an equalizer to tie with Malaysian side Johor Darul Ta'zim 1–1,[6] and another goal to salvage a 1–1 draw with Cambodian side Boeung Ket.[7]

With Magwe, he appeared in 88 league matches between 2014 and 2017, scoring 18 goals.[4] He also won the 2016 General Aung San Shield with them, defeating Yangon 2–1.[8]

Global Cebu

Traded to Filipino side Global Cebu in 2017, the Guinean authored a brace for his new club in a 3–1 win over Kaya FC-Makati,[9] and earning the man of the match award.[10] He played only three matches for the Philippines Football League side and scored 5 goals.

Yangon United

In December 2017, he moved to another Burmese side Yangon United and appeared in domestic tournaments such as Myanmar National League,[11]General Aung San Shield,[12] and MPT Charity Cup. With Yangon, he played in the 2018 AFC Cup and scored 10 goals in 7 matches. He was in the squad of United, that won 2018 General Aung San Shield defeating Hanthawaddy United 2–1, where he scored a goal.[13][14]

In 2018,[15] Yangon also won the Myanmar National League title and Sylla emerged as second highest goalscorer with 17 goals, behind Joseph Mpande.[16][17] Between 2017 and 2019, he scored a total of 41 goals in 53 matches.

Haiphong

In 2020, he moved to Vietnamese V.League 1 side Haiphong FC.[18][19]

Churchill Brothers

In July 2021, Sylla signed for I-League outfit Churchill Brothers for their 2021–22 I-League season.[20][21] He is the first foreign recruit of the season for the Goa-based side. He made his debut in their 1–0 defeat to Gokulam Kerala on 26 December.[22]

Club statistics

Appearances and goals by club team and year
Club teamYearAppsGoalsAssists
Sriracha2012 0 0 0
2013 0 0 0
2014 0 0 0
Chanthaburi2014000
Magwe20142180
20152270
201626130
Global Cebu2017350
Yangon United201828296
201926174
Haiphong2020000
Churchill Brothers2022801
Yangon United202315115
Persikab Bandung20231060
Sheikh Russel KC2024610
Deltras2024820
Total1739911

Honours

Magwe

Yangon United

References

  1. ^"The AFC.com – The Asian Football Confederation". the-afc.com. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^"Churchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". FootballExpress. 13 July 2021. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  3. ^"Guinea - S. Sylla - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  4. ^ abc"Sekou Sylla player profile and statistics". globalsportsarchive.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. ^MNL, MFF (4 February 2017). "Magwe FC, three teams drop out". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  6. ^"The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation". The-afc.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  7. ^"Boeung Ket hold Magwe in AFC Cup - Khmer Times". Khmertimeskh.com. 7 April 2017. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  8. ^ခ်န္ပီယံအသစ္ ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ရႈံးထြက္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲArchived 28 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
  9. ^"PFL: Sekou Sylla powers Global Cebu past Kaya Makati". ABS-CBN SPORTS. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  10. ^"Philippines Football League". Facebook.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  11. ^"2018 MPT Myanmar National League ပြဲစဥ္ဇယားမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚ". Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  12. ^ႏွစ္ၿကိမ္ေၿမာက္ ခ်န္ပီယံ ၿဖစ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္Archived 30 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
  13. ^"၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲအတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲျပဳလုပ္". MNL Web. 2018. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  14. ^"၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ အတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္မည္". MNL Web. 2018. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  15. ^"MNL ႏွင့္ MPT တို႔၏ Partnership Signing Ceremony စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၅ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမည္". Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  16. ^"ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုး ဆုမ်ားကို ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ အသင္းမွ ရရွိ". 2018. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  17. ^"ဇူလိုင္လ အတြက္ ျမန္မာေနရွင္နယ္လိဂ္ တစ္လတာ အေကာင္းဆံုးဆုကို သီဟေဇာ္ႏွင့္ ဦးေငြထြန္းတို႔ ရရွိ". 2018. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  18. ^Sekou Sylla from Guinea: player profile and statisticsArchived 2022-03-05 at the Wayback MachineSoccerway.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
  19. ^"Đội bóng đất Cảng chiêu mộ thành công 'người cũ'". 26 December 2020. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  20. ^"Churchill sign Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of India. 13 July 2021. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  21. ^"CHURCHILL BROTHERS FC GOAChurchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". footballexpress.in. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  22. ^"I-League: Defending champs Gokulam Kerala begin campaign with solid win". siasat.com. The Siasat Daily. 26 August 2021. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  23. ^Myanmar National LeagueArchived 2021-12-03 at the Wayback Machinethemnl.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
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