Malamine Efekele
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Malamine Efekele[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 19 July 2004 | ||
| Place of birth | Livry-Gargan, France | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | St. Gallen | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2012–2019 | AS Bondy | ||
| 2019–2023 | Monaco | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023–2025 | Monaco | 0 | (0) |
| 2024–2025 | → Cercle Brugge (loan) | 23 | (1) |
| 2025– | St. Gallen | 14 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023 | France U19 | 3 | (1) |
| 2023–2024 | France U20 | 7 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 29 December 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 March 2024 | |||
Malamine Efekele (born 19 July 2004) is a French professional footballer who plays for Swiss Super League club St. Gallen.
Born in Livry-Gargan, Malamine Efekele joined the AS Monaco academy in 2019, from the Bondy football club, after also spending some time in the INF Clairefontaine.[2][3][4][5]
During the 2021–22 season, despite being sidelined for several months because of injury, he was among the top goalscorer of Monaco under-19s.[4][6][7]
Efekele signed his first professional contract with the club on the summer 2022, then making headlines for his striking resemblance to Kylian Mbappé, both in term of profile—a Bondy-grown paced striker playing in the Monaco academy—and physical appearance.[4][6][8][9]
The following season, he played both the Championnat U19 and the Premier League International Cup,[10][11] emerging as one of the standouts of the academy by March 2023, having proven to be decisive against the likes of West Ham, as he scored a brace in a 2–1 away International Cup win against them.[12]
On 24 January 2024, Efekele moved on loan to Cercle Brugge in Belgium.[13]
On 28 August 2025, Efekele signed a two-season contract with Swiss club St. Gallen.[14]
International career
Efekele was born in France and is of DR Congolese descent. He was called up to a training camp for the DR Congo U20s in December 2021.[15] He is a youth international for France, first receiving a call with the under-19 in March 2023, along the likes of Warren Zaïre-Emery and Mathys Tel.[16][17]
In May 2023, he was selected with France under-20s for the FIFA World Cup.[10][11]
Honours
Monaco U19
- Championnat National U19 runner-up: 2021–22[18]