Alexandre Oukidja
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| Full name | Alexandre Roger Marcel Oukidja[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 July 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nevers, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | IMT | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Gueugnon | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2014 | Lille B | 84 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2014 | Lille | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | → Aviron Bayonnais (loan) | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | → Mouscron (loan) | 64 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2018 | Strasbourg | 109 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2025 | Metz | 204 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | IMT | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2025 | Algeria | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 31 July 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 28 August 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Alexandre Roger Marcel Oukidja (Arabic: الكسندر روجر أوكيجا; born 19 July 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serbian club IMT. Born in France, he plays for the Algeria national team.
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Oukidja made his professional debut in the 2005–06 season in Ligue 2 for Gueugnon, coming on as a half-time substitute for Pierre Bouysse in a 1–3 defeat away at Montpellier.[3] He joined Lille in the summer of 2006 and over the following seasons, he established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper for the reserve team in the Championnat de France Amateur. On 27 January 2012, Oukidja joined Championnat National side Aviron Bayonnais on a six-month loan deal.[4]
International career
Oukidja made his debut for the Algeria national team on 26 March 2019 in a 1–0 friendly win against Tunisia.[5] He was also member of the Algerian squad which won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.[6]
On 15 June 2023, Oukidja officially announced his international retirement after playing only six matches with the national team.[7] In August 2024, he came out of the retirement and was included in the squad for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches.[8]
Personal life
Oukidja was born in France to an Algerian father from Tizi Ouzou and a French mother. He holds both French and Algerian nationalities.[9]
