Souleymane Camara
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 Camara playing for Montpellier in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Souleymane Camara | ||
| Date of birth | 22 December 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000–2001 | Monaco | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2005 | Monaco | 59 | (7) |
| 2004 | → Guingamp (loan) | 13 | (2) |
| 2005–2008 | Nice | 31 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | → Montpellier (loan) | 37 | (11) |
| 2008–2020 | Montpellier | 347 | (59) |
| Total | 487 | (80) | |
| International career | |||
| 2002–2012 | Senegal | 35 | (7) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Souleymane Camara (born 22 December 1982) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is a former Senegal international and has represented his nation at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments in 2002, 2006, and 2012.[1] As of 2021, he holds the record of the most appearances for French club Montpellier, with 433, and is the club's second-highest goalscorer, with 76 goals.[2]
Camara was influential in Montpellier winning their first ever Ligue 1 title in 2012, scoring 9 goals, including one goal in a crucial 2–0 victory over Rennes with two matches left in the season.[3][4][1]
On 5 August 2017, Camara scored the only goal in Montpellier's 1–0 win against Caen on matchday 1 of the 2017–18 season. It was his 48th Ligue 1 goal for Montpellier and made him Montpellier's record scorer in Ligue 1, breaking Laurent Blanc's 26-year-old record of 47 Division 1 goals scored for Montpellier in four seasons.[5]
In March 2019 he became the first player to score in 15 different seasons in France's Ligue 1 in the 21st century.[6] In May 2019 he extended his contract with Montpellier for a further season.[7]
In May 2020, it was announced that Camara would not extend his contract with Montpellier, and would retire at the end of the season.[8] By the end of his Montpellier career, Camara played a club-record 433 games in all competitions during his 13-year stay with 76 goals scored – a record bettered only by Blanc.[1]
