Serhou Guirassy

Serhou Guirassy
Guirassy with Guinea at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations
Personal information
Full name Serhou Yadaly Guirassy[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-12) 12 March 1996[2]
Place of birth Arles, France
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[3]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Borussia Dortmund
Number 9
Youth career
2009–2010 Montargis
2010–2011 Amilly
2011–2013 Laval
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2015 Laval B 17 (14)
2013–2015 Laval 33 (6)
2015–2016 Lille 8 (0)
2015–2016 → Lille B 4 (4)
2016 → Auxerre (loan) 16 (8)
2016–2017 1. FC Köln II 5 (2)
2016–2019 1. FC Köln 37 (6)
2018 → Amiens (loan) 13 (3)
2019–2020 Amiens 24 (10)
2020–2023 Rennes 65 (19)
2022–2023 → VfB Stuttgart (loan) 22 (11)
2023–2024 VfB Stuttgart 28 (28)
2024– Borussia Dortmund 30 (21)
International career‡
2012 France U16 4 (1)
2014–2015 France U19 11 (6)
2015–2016 France U20 9 (4)
2022– Guinea 23 (9)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:25, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:33, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Serhou Yadaly Guirassy (born 12 March 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. Born in France, he plays for the Guinea national team.

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] After scoring his 14th goal of the season in an away match against Union Berlin, he was substituted after 30 minutes of play due to a hamstring injury.[27] He later missed two league matches,[28] before he managed to score a penalty to secure a 2–1 victory over Borussia Dortmund, and to reach 15 goals in his first nine matches of the season.[29]

On 13 April 2024, he scored his 25th Bundesliga goal in a 3–0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt, breaking the record of most goals by a Stuttgart player in a single campaign set by Mario Gómez in the 2008–09 season.[30] A few days later, he was named Player of the Month for March, achieving the prize for the second time in the season after September 2023.[31] On the final matchday of the 2023–24 season, he netted a brace in a 4–0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach, finishing the season with 28 goals in 28 matches, only behind Harry Kane.[32] Additionally, he scored the opening goal for the 12th time that season during the match, tying a Bundesliga record set by Gerd Müller in 1969–70, Ailton in 2003–04 and Stefan Kießling in 2012–13.[33] Guirassy was ranked the highest African goal scorer in the 2023–24 Bundesliga season by African Folder.[34]

Borussia Dortmund

On 18 July 2024, Guirassy signed a four-year contract with Borussia Dortmund for a reported transfer fee of €18 million.[35][36] Later that year, on 18 September, he scored his first goal from a penalty in a 3–0 away win over Club Brugge in the Champions League group stage.[37]

On 11 February 2025, Guirassy scored his tenth goal in the Champions League in a 3–0 away victory over Sporting Lisbon,[38] becoming topscorer of the competition as well as the third player ever in Dortmund history, after Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland, to score ten goals in a single Champions League campaign.[39] On 22 February, for the first time in his career, Guirassy scored four goals out of the play in a 6–0 home victory over Union Berlin, becoming the third Dortmund player in the 21st century alongside Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Erling Haaland to score four goals in a Bundesliga match. It was also the first time that Guirassy scored more than two goals in a match for Dortmund.[40] Later that year, on 15 April, he netted his first Champions League hat-trick in a 3–1 win over Barcelona - against whom he also scored a brace months prior - during the quarter-finals of the competition, becoming Africa's and Dortmund's all-time top goalscorer in a single campaign with 13 goals.[41] With his hat-trick, he also became one of only four players next to Robert Lewandowski, Marco Reus and Karim Adeyemi to ever score a hat-trick for Dortmund in the Champions League.[42][43][44] He is also the first African player to score a hat-trick against Barcelona in the Champions League, and the player with the most goals scored against Barcelona in a single edition of the competition, with five in total.[45] Guirassy ended his first Champions League season with Dortmund with fourteen matches played, thirteen goals scored and four assists provided, securing the top scorer spot in the competition alongside Raphinha.[46][47] Hence, he became the second African player to achieve this feat, only after George Weah in 1994–95.[48] In the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, he netted a brace in a 2–1 victory over Monterrey, qualifying his club to the quarter-finals.[49]

International career

Guirassy was a youth international for France.[50] However, he decided to represent the home country of his parents, the Republic of Guinea, at senior level. He debuted in the Guinea national team in a 0–0 friendly draw against South Africa on 25 March 2022, held in Kortrijk, Belgium.[51]

In December 2023, he was named in the Guinean squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.[52]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 18 August 2025[53][54]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Laval B 2012–13 Régional 1 1 0 — — — — 1 0
2013–14 CFA 2 10 6 — — — — 10 6
2014–15 CFA 2 6 8 — — — — 6 8
Total 17 14 — — — — 17 14
Laval 2013–14 Ligue 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 — — 4 0
2014–15 Ligue 2 29 6 2 1 3 0 — — 34 7
Total 33 6 2 1 3 0 — — 38 7
Lille B 2015–16 CFA 2 4 4 — — — — 4 4
Lille 2015–16 Ligue 1 8 0 0 0 1 1 — — 9 1
Auxerre (loan) 2015–16 Ligue 2 16 8 0 0 — — — 16 8
1. FC Köln II 2016–17 Regionalliga West 4 2 — — — — 4 2
2017–18 Regionalliga West 1 0 — — — — 1 0
Total 5 2 — — — — 5 2
1. FC Köln 2016–17 Bundesliga 6 0 0 0 — — — 6 0
2017–18 Bundesliga 15 4 2 1 — 5[c] 2 — 22 7
2018–19 2. Bundesliga 16 2 1 0 — — — 17 2
Total 37 6 3 1 — 5 2 — 45 9
Amiens (loan) 2018–19 Ligue 1 13 3 0 0 0 0 — — 13 3
Amiens 2019–20 Ligue 1 23 9 1 0 0 0 — — 24 9
2020–21 Ligue 2 1 1 0 0 — — — 1 1
Total 37 13 1 0 0 0 — — 38 13
Rennes 2020–21 Ligue 1 27 10 1 1 — 4[d] 2 — 32 13
2021–22 Ligue 1 37 9 2 0 — 9[e] 3 — 48 12
2022–23 Ligue 1 1 0 0 0 — 0 0 — 1 0
Total 65 19 3 1 — 13 5 — 81 25
VfB Stuttgart (loan) 2022–23 Bundesliga 22 11 4 2 — — 2[f] 1 28 14
VfB Stuttgart 2023–24 Bundesliga 28 28 2 2 — — — 30 30
Total 50 39 6 4 — — 2 1 58 44
Borussia Dortmund 2024–25 Bundesliga 30 21 1 0 — 14[d] 13 5[g] 4 50 38
2025–26 Bundesliga 0 0 1 1 — 0 0 — 1 1
Total 30 21 2 1 — 14 13 5 4 51 39
Career total 302 132 17 8 4 1 32 20 7 5 362 166
  1. ^ Includes Coupe de France, DFB-Pokal
  2. ^ Includes Coupe de la Ligue
  3. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  4. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  5. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  6. ^ Appearances in Bundesliga relegation play-offs
  7. ^ Appearances in FIFA Club World Cup

International

As of match played 25 March 2025[55]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Guinea 2022 5 0
2023 7 3
2024 9 6
2025 2 0
Total 23 9
Scores and results list Guinea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Guirassy goal.[55]
List of international goals scored by Serhou Guirassy
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition
1 14 June 2023 Marrakesh Stadium, Marrakesh, Morocco 6  Egypt 1–0 1–2 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2 17 June 2023 RCDE Stadium, Barcelona, Spain 7  Brazil 1–2 1–4 Friendly
3 17 October 2023 Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé, Portugal 10  Gabon 1–0 1–1 Friendly
4 12 October 2024 Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast 19  Ethiopia 1–0 4–1 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
5 2–0
6 3–0
7 15 October 2024 Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast 20  Ethiopia 1–0 3–0 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
8 3–0
9 16 November 2024 Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast 21  DR Congo 1–0 1–0 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Honours

1. FC Köln

Individual

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