Bilal Bari
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Bilal Bari | ||
Date of birth | 19 January 1998 | ||
Place of birth | Lens, France | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Levski Sofia | ||
Number | 19 | ||
Youth career | |||
2005–2008 | Montigny-en-Gohelle | ||
2008–2018 | Lens | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015–2019 | Lens B | 57 | (16) |
2018–2019 | Lens | 1 | (0) |
2018–2019 | → RS Berkane (loan) | 10 | (1) |
2019–2020 | Concordia Chiajna | 22 | (2) |
2020–2021 | Montana | 12 | (3) |
2021– | Levski Sofia | 39 | (6) |
National team | |||
2017 | Morocco U20 | 5 | (0) |
2018– | Morocco U23 | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07:55, 19 March 2022 (UTC) |
Bilal Bari (born 19 January 1998) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Levski Sofia in the Bulgarian First League.[1]
Professional career[]
On 23 May 2018, Bari signed his first professional contract with his childhood club RC Lens.[2] Bari made his professional debut with Lens in a 2–0 Ligue 2 win over US Orléans on 27 July 2018.[3] On August 27 he was loaned out at RS Berkane playing one season for them in the Maroccan Botola. In the summer of 2019 he signed with the Romanian CS Concordia Chiajna . He played 22 games and scored 2 goals for The Eagles in the Romanian second tier division. On 2nd September 2019 he signed with the Bulgarian elite FC Montana. After playing just half season with the Northwest Bulgarian team he was signed by one of the country's grand teams - Levski Sofia. He made his league debut for the blues on 21st February 2021 against Etar . By the end of the season he appeared in 8 more games, but he wasn't able to net a single goal. He scored his first goal for Levski at October 16 the same year against Lokomotiv Sofia netting the second goal for the Levski's 2-1 away win. He scored this goal after playing 20 league games for Levski. By the end of the half season he played 8 more league games, each one full time and scored 4 more goals, some of them crucial. Furthermore he is the outfield player, who played most minutes for the first half season for Levski, starting each game and being substituted in only two. He also scored a hat-trick at the Bulgarian Cup round of 16 game against Septemvri Simitli.
International career[]
Born in France, Bari is of Moroccan descent. He represented the Morocco U20 in their victorious campaign in the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie.[4] He debuted for the Morocco U23s in a 1–0 friendly loss to the Senegal U23 on 24 March 2018.[5]
Career statistics[]
Club[]
- As of 19 March 2021
Club | Season | Division | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Lens B | National 2 | 2015–16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |
2016–17 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | |||
2017–18 | 27 | 13 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 27 | 13 | |||
Total | 57 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 16 | ||
Lens | Ligue 2 | 2016–17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
2018–19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
RS Berkane (loan) | Botola | 2018–19 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
Concordia Chiajna | Liga II | 2019–20 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 23 | 3 | |
Montana | First League | 2020–21 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | |
Levski Sofia | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
2021–22 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | 26 | 9 | |||
Total | 39 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 9 | ||
Career total | 141 | 28 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153 | 32 |
Honours[]
Morocco U20
References[]
- ^ Bilal Bari at Soccerway
- ^ ELMB (26 May 2018). "Bilal Bari signe son premier contrat professionnel au RC Lens".
- ^ "LFP.fr - Ligue de Football Professionnel - Domino's Ligue 2 - Saison 2018/2019 - 1ère journée - US Orléans / RC Lens". www.lfp.fr.
- ^ "MadeInLens - BIlal Bari remporte les Jeux de la Francophonie". www.madeinlens.com.
- ^ "Bilal Bari joue mais s'incline avec le Maroc Espoirs face au Sénégal - Lensois.com". 24 March 2018.
External links[]
- Bilal Bari at Soccerway
- Bilal Bari – French league stats at LFP – also available in French
- Bilal Bari at Footballdatabase
- 1998 births
- Living people
- People from Lens, Pas-de-Calais
- Sportspeople from Pas-de-Calais
- Moroccan footballers
- Moroccan expatriate footballers
- French expatriate footballers
- Morocco youth international footballers
- French footballers
- French people of Moroccan descent
- Association football forwards
- Ligue 2 players
- Botola players
- Liga II players
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- RC Lens players
- CS Concordia Chiajna players
- FC Montana players
- Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Romania
- French expatriate sportspeople in Romania
- Expatriate footballers in Romania
- Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- French expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria