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- Total plays
- 1
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Key facts
- 2001
- France U17
- 2005
- → Troyes (loan)
- Full name
- Bafétimbi Gomis
- Date of birth
- ( 1985-08-06 ) 6 August 1985 (age 40)
- Place of birth
- La Seyne-sur-Mer , France
- Height
- 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
- Position
- Striker
- 1994 2000
- Toulon Var
- 2000 2004
- Saint-Étienne
- Years
- Team
- 2004 2009
- Saint-Étienne
- 2009 2014
- Lyon
- 2014 2017
- Swansea City
- 2016 2017
- → Marseille (loan)
- 2017 2018
- Galatasaray
- 2018 2022
- Al-Hilal
- 2022 2023
- Galatasaray
- 2023 2024
- Kawasaki Frontale
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- France
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Senegal
- Place of birth
- La Seyne-sur-Mer
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2008
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Kawasaki Frontale
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 77
- Image
- Gomis asse ol 2425.png
- Height
- 186
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- Commons category
- Bafétimbi Gomis
- date of birth
- 1985-08-06
- sport number
- 18
- name in native language
- Bafétimbi Gomis
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 3
- total goals in career
- 2
- start of work period
- 2004-00-00
- social media followers
- 1589084
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Encyclopedic overview
Bafétimbi Gomis (born 6 August 1985) is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. He's the third fastest hat-trick scorer in UEFA Champions League history, as of December 2025.
Gomis played youth football with Saint-Étienne before making his professional debut for the club in 2004, also spending time on loan at Troyes in Ligue 2. In 2009, he joined Saint-Étienne's Derby du Rhone rivals Lyon for a fee of €13 million. Over five seasons at the Stade Gerland, he played 244 official matches and scored 95 goals, winning the Coupe de France and the Trophée des Champions in 2012. In 2014, he moved to Premier League club Swansea City on a free transfer. After a loan back in France at Marseille, he signed for Galatasaray, where he was top scorer as they won the Süper Lig in 2018. Gomis announced his professional retirement in 2024.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bafétimbi Gomis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.