Sofyan Amrabat
![]() Amrabat with Morocco at the 2018 World Cup | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Sofyan Amrabat | ||
Date of birth | 21 August 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Huizen, Netherlands | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Fiorentina | ||
Number | 34 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2007 | HSV De Zuidvogels | ||
2007–2014 | Utrecht | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2017 | Utrecht | 49 | (1) |
2017–2018 | Feyenoord | 21 | (1) |
2018–2020 | Club Brugge | 25 | (1) |
2019–2020 | → Hellas Verona (loan) | 34 | (1) |
2020– | Fiorentina | 31 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2010 | Netherlands U15 | 4 | (0) |
2013 | Morocco U17 | 3 | (0) |
2016 | Morocco U23 | 2 | (0) |
2017– | Morocco | 21 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08:53, 31 May 2021 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 8 June 2021 |
Sofyan Amrabat (Arabic: سفيان أمرابط; born 21 August 1996) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A Italian club Fiorentina, and the Morocco national team.
Born in the Netherlands, Amrabat holds Moroccan citizenship. He represented the Netherlands internationally at youth level in 2010, before switching allegiance to Morocco's youth national team in 2013, representing them at senior level from 2017.
Club career[]
Starting his senior career at Utrecht in 2014, Amrabat moved to Feyenoord in 2017. After one season, he joined Club Brugge, before being sent on loan to Italy at Hellas Verona in 2019.
On 31 January 2020, Hellas Verona exercised their option to purchase his rights from Club Brugge and immediately re-sold them to Fiorentina. In return, Fiorentina loaned him back to Verona until the end of the 2019–20 season.[2]
International career[]
Netherlands youth team[]
Amrabat was born in the Netherlands to parents of Moroccan descent. He first represented the Netherlands U15 team.[3]
Morocco[]
Amrabat later represented the Morocco national under-17 football team at the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[4] He made his senior debut for the Morocco national team in a 1–0 friendly win over Tunisia.[5][6]
In May 2018, he was named in Morocco's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[7]
Personal life[]
He is the younger brother of fellow Morocco international player Nordin Amrabat.[8]
Career statistics[]
Club[]
- As of match played 22 May 2021[9]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Utrecht | 2014–15 | Eredivisie | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | ||
2015–16 | Eredivisie | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 4[a] | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
2016–17 | Eredivisie | 31 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 3[a] | 1 | 38 | 1 | ||
Total | 42 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 7 | 1 | 54 | 1 | |||
Feyenoord | 2017–18 | Eredivisie | 21 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6[b] | 1 | 1[c] | 0 | 31 | 2 |
2018–19 | Eredivisie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[d] | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Total | 21 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 2 | ||
Club Brugge | 2018–19 | Belgian Pro League | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4[e] | 0 | — | 29 | 1 | |
2019–20 | Belgian Pro League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
Total | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 30 | 1 | |||
Hellas Verona (loan) | 2019–20 | Serie A | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 1 | ||
Total | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 1 | ||||
Fiorentina | 2020–21 | Serie A | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 0 | ||
Total | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 0 | ||||
Career total | 145 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 176 | 5 |
- ^ Jump up to: a b Appearance(s) in Eredivisie Europa League play-offs
- ^ Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
- ^ Jump up to: a b Appearance in Johan Cruyff Shield
- ^ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
International[]
- As of match played 8 June 2021[10]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Morocco | 2017 | 2 | 0 |
2018 | 6 | 0 | |
2019 | 6 | 0 | |
2020 | 4 | 0 | |
2021 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 21 | 0 |
Honours[]
Feyenoord
Individual[]
- Hellas Verona Player of the season: 2020
- Best African player in the Seria A: 2020
References[]
- ^ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "UFFICIALE: AMRABAT ALLA FIORENTINA MA SOLO DAL 1° LUGLIO 2020" (Press release) (in Italian). Hellas Verona. 31 January 2020.
- ^ "Schaduwteam langs Willem II/RKC". onsoranje.nl. 17 November 2010. Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "FIFA U-17 2013 Squad Lists" (PDF). fifadata.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 18 October 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 November 2013.
- ^ Bakkali, Achraf. "Première apparition de Sofyan Amrabat avec les Lions de l'Atlas". Mountakhab.net. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Sofyan Amrabat maakt Marokko-debuut – FC Utrecht". www.fcutrecht.nl.
- ^ "World Cup 2018: Youssef En Nesyri replaces Badr Benoun in Morocco final squad". BBC Sport. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ "Trotse Nordin Amrabat ziet broer Sofyan bij FC Utrecht tekenen". ad.nl. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ "S. Amrabat". Soccerway. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
- ^ Sofyan Amrabat at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ Feyenoord wint KNVB-beker mede dankzij prachtgoal Van Persie – AD (in Dutch)
- ^ "Jones the shootout hero as Feyenoord win Super Cup". theworldgame.sbs. 5 August 2017.
- ^ "Soccerway Match Report". Soccerway. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
External links[]
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- Sofyan Amrabat – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Sofyan Amrabat at WorldFootball.net
- Sofyan Amrabat at Soccerbase
- Sofyan Amrabat at Soccerway
- 1996 births
- Living people
- People from Huizen
- Citizens of Morocco through descent
- Moroccan footballers
- Morocco international footballers
- Morocco youth international footballers
- Dutch footballers
- Netherlands youth international footballers
- Dutch people of Moroccan descent
- Riffian people
- Association football midfielders
- Eredivisie players
- Belgian First Division A players
- Serie A players
- FC Utrecht players
- Feyenoord players
- Club Brugge KV players
- Hellas Verona F.C. players
- ACF Fiorentina players
- Moroccan expatriate footballers
- Dutch expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- 2018 FIFA World Cup players