Ebrima Colley
Gambian footballer (born 2000)
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Ebrima Colley (born 1 February 2000) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Swiss Super League club Young Boys and the Gambia national team.
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Colley in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 February 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Serekunda, The Gambia | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Young Boys | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2017–2019 | Atalanta | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2024 | Atalanta | 5 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → Hellas Verona (loan) | 23 | (1) |
| 2021–2022 | → Spezia (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | → Fatih Karagümrük (loan) | 24 | (1) |
| 2023–2024 | → Young Boys (loan) | 24 | (3) |
| 2024– | Young Boys | 36 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019– | Gambia | 28 | (2) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:30, 22 March 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 8 September 2024 | |||
Club career
Colley started playing for Atalanta's under-19 squad in the 2017–18 season.[2] He made his professional debut for the senior team in a 1–2 Serie A loss to Bologna on 15 December 2019.[3]
On 23 September 2020, Colley joined Serie A side Hellas Verona on loan for the remainder of the season.[4]
On 7 August 2021, Colley joined fellow top-tier club Spezia on loan until the end of the campaign.[5] On 13 August 2022, Colley was loaned to Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük for the rest of the season.[6]
On 1 September 2023, Colley joined Swiss Super League club Young Boys on loan for the remainder of the season, with the deal including an option-to-buy.[7][8] Later that year, on 13 December, he became the first Gambian to score in the UEFA Champions League, by netting a goal in a 2–1 away defeat against RB Leipzig.[9]
International career
Colley made his debut for the Gambia national football team on 22 March 2019 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Algeria, as a 81st-minute substitute for Ebrima Sohna.[10]
He played in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, his national team's first continental tournament, where they made a sensational quarter-final.[11][12]
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 22 March 2026[1]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Atalanta | 2019–20 | Serie A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Hellas Verona (loan) | 2020–21 | Serie A | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 25 | 2 | |
| Spezia (loan) | 2021–22 | Serie A | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 12 | 1 | |
| Fatih Karagümrük (loan) | 2022–23 | Süper Lig | 27 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 30 | 2 | |
| Young Boys (loan) | 2023–24 | Swiss Super League | 24 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3[a] | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| Young Boys | 2024–25 | Swiss Super League | 26 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9[b] | 0 | 39 | 4 |
| 2025-26 | Swiss Super League | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4[c] | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
| Total | 36 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 55 | 4 | ||
| Career total | 126 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 156 | 10 | ||
- Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, one appearance in UEFA Europa League
- Appearances in UEFA Champions League
- Appearances in UEFA Europa League
International
- As of match played 8 September 2024
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gambia | 2019 | 7 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 6 | 1 | |
| Total | 28 | 2 | |
- Scores and results list Gambia's goal tally first.[13]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 16 November 2023 | Benjamini Mkapa National Stadium, Miburani, Tanzania |  Burundi | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying |
| 2. | 23 January 2024 | Stade de la Paix, Bouaké, Ivory Coast |  Cameroon | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations |
