Naïm Byar
Moroccan footballer (born 2005)
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Naïm Byar (Arabic: نعيم بيار; born 23 February 2005) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Wydad AC. Born in France, he represents Morocco internationally at youth level.
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| Date of birth | 23 February 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Reims, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Wydad AC | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –2014 | SC Tinqueux | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2024 | Stade de Reims | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | → Bologna (loan) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Bologna | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Reims B | 25 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024–2026 | Bologna | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025–2026 | → Foggia (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Wydad AC | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | France U17 | 14 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | France U18 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Morocco U20 | 16 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 4 January 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20 October 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Early life
Club career
As a youth payer, Byar joined the youth academy of French side SC Tinqueux. Following his stint there, he joined the youth academy of French side Stade de Reims in 2014.
Ahead of the 2023–24 season, he joined the youth academy of Italian Serie A side Bologna FC 1909 and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2024.
International career
Byar is a Morocco and France youth international. During the autumn of 2025, he played for the Morocco national under-20 football team at the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[3]
Style of play
Byar plays as a midfielder and is right-footed. Italian news website MondoPrimavera wrote in 2024 that he is "a central midfielder who can also play as an attacking winger, he has made himself available both as a deep-lying midfielder in the build-up phase and as an attacking midfielder, operating behind the two forwards".[4]
Honours
Morocco U20