Serhou Guirassy

Serhou Yadaly Guirassy[note 1] (born 12 March 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and the Guinea national team.

Serhou Guirassy
Guirassy with VfB Stuttgart in 2022
Personal information
Full name Serhou Yadaly Guirassy[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-12) 12 March 1996[1]
Place of birth Arles, France
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 VfB Stuttgart
Number 9
Youth career
2009–2010 Montargis
2010–2011 Amilly
2011–2013 Laval
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Laval B 16 (14)
2013–2015 Laval 33 (6)
2015–2016 Lille 8 (0)
2015–2016 Lille B 4 (4)
2016 → Auxerre (loan) 16 (8)
2016–2019 1. FC Köln 37 (6)
2016–2019 1. FC Köln II 5 (2)
2019 → Amiens (loan) 13 (3)
2019–2020 Amiens 24 (10)
2020–2023 Rennes 65 (19)
2022–2023 → VfB Stuttgart (loan) 22 (11)
2023– VfB Stuttgart 8 (14)
International career‡
2012 France U16 4 (1)
2014–2015 France U19 11 (6)
2015–2016 France U20 9 (4)
2022– Guinea 10 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:50, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:31, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Early life

Guirassy was born in Arles, France, to Guinean parents.[4]

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 Robert Lewandowski's record of 11 in both 2019–20 and 2020–21.[26]

International career

Guirassy was a youth international for France.[27] However, he decided to represent the home country of his parents, the Republic of Guinea, at senior level. He debuted with the Guinean national team in a friendly 0–0 tie with South Africa on 25 March 2022, held in Kortrijk, Belgium.[28]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 21 October 2023[29]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[lower-alpha 1] League cup[lower-alpha 2] Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Laval B 2013–14 CFA 2 106————106
2014–15 CFA 2 68————68
Total 1614————1614
Laval 2013–14 Ligue 2 400000——40
2014–15 Ligue 2 2962130——347
Total 3362130——387
Lille 2015–16 Ligue 1 800011——91
Lille B 2015–16 CFA 2 44————44
Auxerre (loan) 2015–16 Ligue 2 16800———168
1. FC Köln 2016–17 Bundesliga 6000———60
2017–18 Bundesliga 15421—5[lower-alpha 3]2—227
2018–19 2. Bundesliga 16210———172
Total 37631—52—459
1. FC Köln II 2016–17 Regionalliga 42————42
2017–18 Regionalliga 10————10
Total 52————52
Amiens (loan) 2018–19 Ligue 1 1330000——133
Amiens 2019–20 Ligue 1 2391000——249
2020–21 Ligue 2 1100———11
Total 37131000——3813
Rennes 2020–21 Ligue 1 271011—4[lower-alpha 4]2—3213
2021–22 Ligue 1 37920—9[lower-alpha 5]3—4812
2022–23 Ligue 1 1000—00—10
Total 651931—135—8125
VfB Stuttgart (loan) 2022–23 Bundesliga 221142——2[lower-alpha 6]12814
VfB Stuttgart 2023–24 Bundesliga 81411———915
Total 302553——213729
Career total 251971464118721289112
  1. Includes Coupe de France, DFB-Pokal
  2. Includes Coupe de la Ligue
  3. Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  4. Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  5. Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  6. Appearances in Bundesliga relegation play-offs

International
As of match played 17 October 2023[30]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Guinea 202250
202353
Total103
Scores and results list Guinea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Guirassy goal.[30]
List of international goals scored by Serhou Guirassy
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition
114 June 2023Marrakesh Stadium, Marrakesh, Morocco6 Egypt1–01–22023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
217 June 2023RCDE Stadium, Barcelona, Spain7 Brazil1–21–4Friendly
317 October 2023Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé, Portugal10 Gabon1–01–1Friendly

Honours

Individual

Notes
  1. Guirassy's given name is often incorrectly written as Sehrou.[3]

References
  1. Serhou Guirassy at WorldFootball.net
  2. "Serhou Guirassy". Stade Rennais F.C. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  3. "Alle schrieben seinen Namen falsch: Verwirrung um FC-Stürmer Guirassy" [Everyone wrote his name wrong: confusion about FC striker Guirassy]. ksta.de (in German). Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. 15 July 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  4. "Guinée : Guirassy répond à l'intérêt du Syli National". afrik-foot.com (in French). 16 October 2020.
  5. "Le Montargois Serhou Guirassy, attaquant de Laval (L2), s'éclate chez les Bleus". La République du Centre (in French). 2 April 2015.
  6. "Ligue 1 : Lille engage un jeune attaquant". Le Parisien (in French). 2 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  7. "Sehrou Guirassy quitte Laval et file à Lille". Ouest-France (in French). 5 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  8. "Bundesliga Daily: 20 July". Bundesliga. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  9. "Kölner Happy End: Guirassy wechselt zum FC" [Köln happy ending: Guirassy moves to FC]. kicker Online (in German). 20 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  10. "Rückschlag: Fehlt Guirassy auch noch Anfang nächster Saison?". kicker Online (in German). 12 May 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  11. "Hamburgs Herzschlagfinale dank Holtby". kicker Online (in German). 1 April 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  12. "Serhou Guirassy: Who is the Stuttgart striker outscoring Harry Kane at the top of the Bundesliga goal charts?". Bundesliga. 22 September 2023.
  13. "1. FC Köln 5–2 BATE Borissow" (in German). dfb.de. 2 November 2017.
  14. "Guirassy schießt Arsenals B-Elf ab" (in German). Der Spiegel. 24 November 2017.
  15. "SERHOU GUIRASSY EST AMIÉNOIS !". Amiens SC. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  16. "Klassenerhalt dank Guirassy-Tor – Transfer nach Amiens perfekt". Geissblog. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  17. "Amiens SC : quel avenir pour Serhou Guirassy ?" (in French). le11amienois.fr. 5 June 2019.
  18. "Amiens 4–4 Paris Saint Germain". BBC Sport. 15 February 2020.
  19. "LFP : l'assemblée générale vote à 74,49 % le maintien d'une Ligue 1 à vingt clubs". L'Équipe. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  20. "Serhou Guirassy, nouvel atout offensif du Stade Rennais F.C.!" [Serhou Guitarssy, new offensive asset of Stade Rennais F.C.!]. Stade Rennais F.C. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  21. "Nimes 2–4 Rennes". www.whoscored.com. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  22. "Rennes 1–1 FK Krasnodar". BBC Sport. 20 October 2020.
  23. "Stade Rennais 6–1 Metz". ESPN. 20 March 2022.
  24. "Serhou Guirassy kommt zum VfB". VfB Stuttgart (in German). 1 September 2022.
  25. "VfB zieht die Kaufoption für Serhou Guirassy". www.vfb.de (in German). 31 May 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  26. "Guirassy-Wahnsinn in Stuttgart!". sport1.de (in German). 7 October 2023.
  27. "Serhou Guirassy". fff.fr (in French).
  28. "Starting Lineups – S. Africa vs Guinea – 25.03.2022". Sky Sports. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  29. Serhou Guirassy at Soccerway. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  30. "Serhou Guirassy". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  31. "Bundesliga Player of the Month". EA Sports. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
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