Hemeya Tanjy
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hemeya Tanjy[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1 May 1998[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Teyarett, Mauritania[2] | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Olympic Zawia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2018 | Tidjikja | 41 | (31) |
| 2018–2023 | Nouadhibou | 85 | (67) |
| 2023–2024 | Al-Ittihad | 6 | (0) |
| 2024-2025 | Al-Hilal | 20 | (5) |
| 2025–2026 | Douanes | ||
| 2026– | Olympic Zawia | 0 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2016 | Mauritania U20 | 2 | (2) |
| 2018 | Mauritania U23 | 0 | (0) |
| 2018– | Mauritania | 52 | (8) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Hemeya Tanjy (born 1 May 1998) is a Mauritanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Libyan Premier League club Olympic Zawia and the Mauritania national team.
Tanjy grew up playing street football in the streets of his hometown of Nouakchott.[3] He played for local teams such as Skok Club and Zamzam club before he was discovered by the National Football Academy, where he spent a few years.[3]
Tanjy made his senior debut with topflight club Tidjikja, where he played for three years.[4] He finished as the league's leading scorer in the 2017–18 season.[5]
Tanjy signed a two-year deal with Nouadhibou in June 2018.[6] In his first year with the club, he scored the game-winning goal in the title-clinching match against ASAC Concorde.[7]
He finished as the leading scorer in the 2020–21 season, scoring 19 goals in 18 matches.[5]
In December 2022, Tanjy became the first player in league history to score 100 goals.[8]
International career
Tanjy played for the national under-20 team during the 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifiers in 2016, scoring twice in two matches.[9]
In May 2018, he was named to the 22-man squad selected to play at the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualifiers.[10]
He received a callup up to the senior national team in January 2018 ahead of the 2018 African Nations Championship.[11] He made his senior international debut during the first group stage match against Morocco on 13 January, replacing Moussa Samba in the 77th minute of an eventual 4–0 defeat.[12] Mauritania was eliminated in the group stage.
He was called up yet again for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt,[13] though he did not appear in any games.[3]
On 9 October 2020, Tanjy scored his first senior international goal in a 2–1 friendly win over Sierra Leone. He scored his second international goal on 22 June 2021, netting the second goal in a 2–0 win over Yemen that qualified Mauritania to the FIFA Arab Cup.[14] In November 2021, Tanjy was named to the final squad for the FIFA Arab Cup.[15]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 23 December 2025
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Others | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Tidjikja | 2016-17 | Super D1 | 21 | 16 | - | - | 21 | 16 | ||||
| 2017-18 | 20 | 15 | - | 20 | 15 | |||||||
| Total | 41 | 31 | 41 | 31 | ||||||||
| Nouadhibou | 2018-19 | Super D1 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 12 | ||||
| 2019-20 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 | 20 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 25 | ||||||
| 2021-22 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 18 | ||||
| 2022-23 | 25 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 24 | ||||
| Total | 85 | 67 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 109 | 79 | ||
| Al-Ittihad | 2023-24 | Libyan Premier League | 6 | 0 | - | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Al Hilal | 2023-24 | Libyan Premier League | 10 | 3 | - | 10 | 3 | |||||
| 2024-25 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Total career | 152 | 112 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 178 | 126 | ||
International
- As of 23 December 2025[16]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 2018 | 5 | 0 |
| 2019 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 11 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 10 | 3 | |
| 2024 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | |
| Total | 52 | 8 | |
International goals
- Scores and results list Mauritania's goal tally first.[16]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 9 October 2020 | Stade Cheikha Ould Boïdiya, Nouakchott, Mauritania |  Sierra Leone | 2–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 2. | 6 December 2021 | Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah, Qatar |  Syria | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2021 FIFA Arab Cup |
