Ebrima Colley
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.jpg) 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 | 39 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019– | Gambia | 28 | (2) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:30, 27 April 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 8 September 2024 | |||
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.
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]
