Serhou Guirassy
Footballer (born 1996)
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Serhou Yadaly Guirassy (born 12 March 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. Born in France, he plays for the Guinea national team.
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Guirassy with Guinea in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Serhou Yadaly Guirassy[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 12 March 1996[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Arles, France | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[3] | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2009–2010 | Montargis | ||
| 2010–2011 | Amilly | ||
| 2011–2013 | Laval | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2015 | Laval B | 17 | (14) |
| 2013–2015 | Laval | 33 | (6) |
| 2015–2016 | Lille | 8 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | → Lille B | 4 | (4) |
| 2016 | → Auxerre (loan) | 16 | (8) |
| 2016–2017 | 1. FC Köln II | 5 | (2) |
| 2016–2019 | 1. FC Köln | 37 | (6) |
| 2018 | → Amiens (loan) | 13 | (3) |
| 2019–2020 | Amiens | 24 | (10) |
| 2020–2023 | Rennes | 65 | (19) |
| 2022–2023 | → VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 22 | (11) |
| 2023–2024 | VfB Stuttgart | 28 | (28) |
| 2024– | Borussia Dortmund | 66 | (40) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012 | France U16 | 4 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | France U19 | 11 | (6) |
| 2015–2016 | France U20 | 9 | (4) |
| 2022– | Guinea | 28 | (11) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17:28, 12 September 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:12, 31 March 2026 (UTC) | |||
Guirassy began his career at Laval, before playing for Lille, 1. FC Köln, Amiens and Rennes. He later joined VfB Stuttgart, where he set a club record by scoring 28 league goals in the 2023–24 season. In 2024, he moved to Borussia Dortmund, where he became their record top scorer in a single Champions League campaign with 13 goals in 2024–25. He was also their top scorer in the league in his first two seasons with 38 goals in 63 matches.
After initially representing France at various youth levels, Guirassy switched to Guinea, making his debut in 2022 and appearing for them at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
Early life
Club career
Guirassy started his career playing for Montargis, Amilly and Laval.[5]
Lille
In July 2015, Guirassy joined Lille from Laval, signing a four-year contract. The transfer fee was reported to be around €1 million.[6][7]
1. FC Köln
Guirassy joined 1. FC Köln in July 2016, signing a five-year contract.[8][9] Soon after arriving at Köln, he underwent meniscus surgery. Later in the first half of the 2016–17 season, muscular problems kept him out of action.[10] He made his Bundesliga debut on matchday 26 on 1 April 2017, in a 2–1 defeat against Hamburger SV.[10][11] Days later, he was again kept from playing by muscular issues. Towards the end of the season, Guirassy nursed an inflammation of the pubic bone joint.[10]
In his second season, he scored his first goal in a 2–1 away defeat against Bayer Levekusen on 28 October 2017.[12] Five days later, he scored his first goal in the Europa League in a 5–2 victory over BATE Borisov.[13] Later that month, he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win against Arsenal in the same tournament.[14] Eventually, 1. FC Köln finished last in the league to be relegated, with Guirassy being their top scorer in all competitions.[12]
Amiens
In January 2019, he was loaned to Amiens until the end of the season.[15] Amiens exercised an option and bought the rights for Guirassy for the upcoming season. Transfer fees were reported to be about 5 to 6 million Euros.[16] Amiens later took advantage of the option and turned the deal permanent.[17]
On 15 February 2020, he scored a brace in a 4–4 draw against Paris Saint-Germain, with his second goal equalized the match in the stoppage time.[18] However, Amiens were relegated while being at 19th position, when the league was suspended prematurely following the outbreak of COVID-19 in France.[19]
Rennes
On 27 August 2020, Guirassy joined Ligue 1 side Rennes on a five-year deal.[20] He scored his first two goals for the club in the same match, a 4–2 league win against Nîmes.[21] On 20 October 2020, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 1–1 draw against Krasnodar in the 2020–21 season,[22] which was also his club's first ever goal in the competition.[12] On 20 March 2022, he scored his first career hat-trick in a 6–1 thrashing of FC Metz.[23]
VfB Stuttgart
On 1 September 2022, Guirassy joined Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart on loan for the 2022–23 season.[24] On 31 May 2023, the club announced that they had activated the option to make the move permanent, signing a three-year contract.[25]
In the 2023–24 season, Guirassy scored ten goals in the first five matches, including his first Bundesliga hat-trick which came against Mainz, to equal a previous record set by Robert Lewandowski in 2020–21.[12] He also set the Bundesliga record for most goals by a player in the first seven matches of a season by scoring a hat-trick within 15 minutes in a 3–1 win against Wolfsburg. This set the record at 13 goals, overtaking Lewandowski's record of 11 in both 2019–20 and 2020–21.[26] After scoring his 14th goal of the season in an away match against Union Berlin, he was substituted after 30 minutes of play due to a hamstring injury.[27] He later missed two league matches,[28] before he managed to score a penalty to secure a 2–1 victory over Borussia Dortmund, and to reach 15 goals in his first nine matches of the season.[29]
On 13 April 2024, he scored his 25th Bundesliga goal in a 3–0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt, breaking the record of most goals by a Stuttgart player in a single campaign set by Mario Gómez in the 2008–09 season.[30] A few days later, he was named Player of the Month for March, achieving the prize for the second time in the season after September 2023.[31] On the final matchday of the 2023–24 season, he netted a brace in a 4–0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach, finishing the season with 28 goals in 28 matches, only behind Harry Kane.[32] Additionally, he scored the opening goal for the 12th time that season during the match, tying a Bundesliga record set by Gerd Müller in 1969–70, Ailton in 2003–04 and Stefan Kießling in 2012–13.[33]
Borussia Dortmund
On 18 July 2024, Guirassy signed a four-year contract with Borussia Dortmund for a reported transfer fee of €18 million.[34][35] On 18 September, he scored his first goal from a penalty in a 3–0 away win over Club Brugge in the Champions League group stage.[36] On 11 February 2025, Guirassy scored his tenth goal in the Champions League in a 3–0 away victory over Sporting Lisbon,[37] becoming the third Dortmund player, after Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland, to score ten goals in a single Champions League campaign.[38] On 22 February, for the first time in his career, Guirassy scored four goals in a game in a 6–0 home victory over Union Berlin, becoming the third Dortmund player in the 21st century alongside Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Erling Haaland to score four goals in a league match.[39]
On 15 April, he netted his first Champions League hat-trick in a 3–1 win over Barcelona – against whom he also scored a brace months prior – during the quarter-finals of the competition, becoming Africa's and Dortmund's all-time top goalscorer in a single campaign with 13 goals.[40] With his hat-trick, he also became one of only four players next to Lewandowski, Marco Reus and Karim Adeyemi to ever score a hat-trick for Dortmund in the competition.[41][42][43] Guirassy ended his first Champions League season with Dortmund with fourteen matches played, thirteen goals scored and four assists provided, securing the top scorer spot in the competition alongside Raphinha.[44][45] Hence, he became the second African player to achieve this feat, only after George Weah in 1994–95.[46] In the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, he netted a brace in a 2–1 victory over Monterrey, qualifying his club to the quarter-finals, where he scored in a 3–2 loss to Real Madrid.[47]
International career
Guirassy was a youth international for France.[48] However, he decided to represent his country of origin, the Republic of Guinea, at senior level. He debuted in the Guinea national team in a 0–0 friendly draw against South Africa on 25 March 2022, held in Kortrijk, Belgium.[49]
In December 2023, he was named in the Guinean squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.[50]
With six goals, Guirassy was the second top scorer during qualification for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, only behind Morocco's Brahim Díaz. This was not enough to progress, however, as Guinea missed out on the finals for the first time since 2017.[51][52]
Career statistics
Club
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Laval B | 2012–13 | Régional 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2013–14 | CFA 2 | 10 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 6 | |||||
| 2014–15 | CFA 2 | 6 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 8 | |||||
| Total | 17 | 14 | — | — | — | — | 17 | 14 | ||||||
| Laval | 2013–14 | Ligue 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | Ligue 2 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 7 | |||
| Total | 33 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 7 | ||||
| Lille B | 2015–16 | CFA 2 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Lille | 2015–16 | Ligue 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 9 | 1 | ||
| Auxerre (loan) | 2015–16 | Ligue 2 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 16 | 8 | |||
| 1. FC Köln II | 2016–17 | Regionalliga West | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | ||||
| 2017–18 | Regionalliga West | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| 1. FC Köln | 2016–17 | Bundesliga | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
| 2017–18 | Bundesliga | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | 5[c] | 2 | — | 22 | 7 | |||
| 2018–19 | 2. Bundesliga | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 17 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 37 | 6 | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | 2 | — | 45 | 9 | ||||
| Amiens (loan) | 2018–19 | Ligue 1 | 13 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 13 | 3 | ||||
| Amiens | 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 24 | 9 | ||
| 2020–21 | Ligue 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Amiens total | 37 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 13 | ||||
| Rennes | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | 4[d] | 2 | — | 32 | 13 | ||
| 2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 37 | 9 | 2 | 0 | — | 9[e] | 3 | — | 48 | 12 | |||
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 65 | 19 | 3 | 1 | — | 13 | 5 | — | 81 | 25 | ||||
| VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 22 | 11 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 2[f] | 1 | 28 | 14 | ||
| VfB Stuttgart | 2023–24 | Bundesliga | 28 | 28 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 30 | 30 | |||
| Stuttgart total | 50 | 39 | 6 | 4 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 58 | 44 | ||||
| Borussia Dortmund | 2024–25 | Bundesliga | 30 | 21 | 1 | 0 | — | 14[d] | 13 | 5[g] | 4 | 50 | 38 | |
| 2025–26 | Bundesliga | 33 | 17 | 3 | 1 | — | 10[d] | 4 | — | 46 | 22 | |||
| 2026–27 | Bundesliga | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 1[d] | 2 | 1[h] | 0 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Total | 66 | 40 | 4 | 1 | — | 25 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 101 | 64 | |||
| Career total | 339 | 152 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 42 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 412 | 189 | ||
- Includes Coupe de France, DFB-Pokal
- Includes Coupe de la Ligue
- Appearances in UEFA Europa League
- Appearances in UEFA Champions League
- Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
- Appearances in Bundesliga relegation play-offs
- Appearances in FIFA Club World Cup
- Appearance in Franz Beckenbauer Supercup
International
- As of match played 31 March 2026[54]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 2022 | 5 | 0 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3 | |
| 2024 | 10 | 6 | |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | |
| Total | 28 | 11 | |
- Scores and results list Guinea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Guirassy goal.[54]
| No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 June 2023 | Marrakesh Stadium, Marrakesh, Morocco | 6 |  Egypt | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 2 | 17 June 2023 | RCDE Stadium, Barcelona, Spain | 7 |  Brazil | 1–2 | 1–4 | Friendly |
| 3 | 17 October 2023 | Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé, Portugal | 10 |  Gabon | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 4 | 12 October 2024 | Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | 19 |  Ethiopia | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 5 | 2–0 | ||||||
| 6 | 3–0 | ||||||
| 7 | 15 October 2024 | Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | 20 | Ethiopia | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 8 | 3–0 | ||||||
| 9 | 16 November 2024 | Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | 21 |  DR Congo | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 10 | 5 September 2025 | Mandela National Stadium, Kampala, Uganda | 25 |  Somalia | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 11 | 27 March 2026 | Moulay El Hassan Stadium, Rabat, Morocco | 27 |  Togo | 2–2 | 2–2 | Friendly |
Honours
1. FC Köln
Individual
- Bundesliga Player of the Month: September 2023, March 2024, February 2025[55]
- Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2023–24[56] 2024–25[57]
- VDV Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2023–24[58]
- kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2023–24,[59] 2024–25[60]
- UEFA Champions League top scorer: 2024–25 (shared)[61]
