Steve Mounié

Beninese footballer (born 1994)

Steve Mounié
Mounié training in 2014
Personal information
Full name Steve Michel Mounié[1]
Date of birth (1994-09-29) 29 September 1994 (age 29)
Place of birth Parakou, Benin
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Brest
Number 9
Youth career
2009–2014 Montpellier
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Montpellier 37 (14)
2015–2016 → Nîmes (loan) 32 (11)
2017–2020 Huddersfield Town 89 (17)
2020– Brest 117 (27)
International career‡
2015– Benin 50 (16)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 March 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 March 2024

Steve Michel Mounié (born 29 September 1994) is a Beninese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Brest, whom he captains, and the Benin national team.[2]

Club career

Montpellier

Mounié is a Montpellier youth academy graduate. He made his first team debut on 28 October 2014 in a 2014–15 Coupe de la Ligue round of 32 home match against AC Ajaccio, replacing Jean Deza after 86 minutes; Montpellier lost the match 1–0.[3]

On 31 August 2015, Mounié was loaned to Nîmes Olympique of Ligue 2 for the rest of the 2015–16 season.[4] He was the club's top scorer for the season, with 11 goals in 33 competitive matches, all of them scored during the league campaign.

On 29 June 2016, Mounié extended his contract with Montpellier by two years to 30 June 2019.[5]

On 11 March 2017, Mounié scored for the fifth consecutive Ligue 1 match in a 3–2 home loss to Nantes; it was his 13th league goal of the season.[6]

Huddersfield Town

On 5 July 2017, Mounié joined newly-promoted Premier League club Huddersfield Town on a four-year deal for a club record fee of €13 million (£11.5 million) plus add-ons. The record fee surpassed the previous record £8 million (initial fee) that the club spent on Aaron Mooy from Manchester City a week earlier.[7]

Mounié made his competitive debut on 12 August 2017, scoring twice in Huddersfield's first match in the division, a 3–0 win at Crystal Palace.[8] On 11 February 2018, he scored, assisted Mooy and forced an own goal in a 4–1 home win over AFC Bournemouth.[9]

Brest

On 9 September 2020, Mounié signed with Ligue 1 side Brest.[10]

International career

Mouniè played for Benin national team at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations where the team reached the quarter-finals.[11]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 17 March 2024[12]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Montpellier 2014–15 Ligue 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 1 0
2015–16 2 0 0 0 0 0 — 2 0
2016–17 35 14 1 0 2 1 — 38 15
Total 37 14 1 0 3 1 0 0 41 15
Nîmes (loan) 2015–16 Ligue 2 32 11 1 0 0 0 — 33 11
Huddersfield Town 2017–18 Premier League 28 7 3 2 0 0 — 31 9
2018–19 31 2 1 0 0 0 — 32 2
2019–20 Championship 30 8 1 0 1 0 — 32 8
Total 89 17 5 2 1 0 0 0 95 19
Brest 2020–21 Ligue 1 35 9 2 1 — — 37 10
2021–22 35 9 3 1 — — 38 10
2022–23 23 6 2 0 — — 25 6
2023–24 24 3 3 1 — — 27 4
Total 117 27 10 3 0 0 0 0 127 30
Career total 275 69 17 5 4 1 0 0 296 75

International

As of match played 23 March 2024[13]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Benin 2015 2 0
2016 3 1
2017 4 0
2018 4 1
2019 12 5
2020 3 1
2021 9 3
2022 5 2
2023 7 3
2024 1 0
Total 50 16
Scores and results list Benin's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mounié goal.[13]
List of international goals scored by Steve Mounié
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 23 March 2016 Juba Stadium, Juba, South Sudan  South Sudan 2–0 2–1 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2 17 November 2018 Independence Stadium, Bakau, Gambia  Gambia 1–0 1–3 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
3 24 March 2019 Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin  Togo 2–1 2–1 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
4 18 June 2019 Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco  Mauritania 1–0 3–1 Friendly
5 2–1
6 3–1
7 13 October 2019 Stade Charles de Gaulle, Porto-Novo, Benin  Zambia 1–1 2–2 Friendly
8 11 October 2020 Estádio Pina Manique, Lisbon, Portugal  Gabon 2–0 2–0 Friendly
9 2 September 2021 Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo, Madagascar  Madagascar 1–0 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
10 7 October 2021 National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  Tanzania 1–0 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
11 11 November 2021 Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin  Madagascar 2–0 2–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
12 24 March 2022 Mardan Sports Complex, Antalya, Turkey  Liberia 4–0 4–0 Friendly
13 29 March 2022 Mardan Sports Complex, Antalya, Turkey  Togo 1–1 1–1 Friendly
14 22 March 2023 Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin  Rwanda 1–1 1–1 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
15 9 September 2023 Estádio do Zimpeto, Maputo, Mozambique  Mozambique 1–0 2–3 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
16 18 November 2023 Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban, South Africa  South Africa 1–2 1–2 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification

References

  1. ^ "Benin" (PDF). Confederation of African Football. 15 June 2019. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Benin – S. Mounié – Results, fixtures, tables and statistics". Soccerway. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Montpellier vs Ajaccio 0–1". Soccerway. 29 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Trois recrues pour Nîmes". L'Équipe. 31 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Montpellier : Steve Mounié prolonge son contrat". L'Équipe. 29 June 2016.
  6. ^ "Sala nets winner as Nantes beat Montpellier". ligue1.com. 11 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Steve Mounie: Huddersfield sign Montpellier striker for a club-record fee". BBC. 5 July 2017.
  8. ^ Doyale, Paul (12 August 2017). "Steve Mounié double gives Huddersfield perfect start against Crystal Palace". The Guardian.
  9. ^ "Huddersfield Town 4–1 Bournemouth". BBC Sport. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Stade Brestois. Steve Mounié à Brest, c'est officiel". Ouest France (in French). 9 September 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Total Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2019". CAFOnline.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019.
  12. ^ Steve Mounié at Soccerway. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  13. ^ a b Steve Mounié at National-Football-Teams.com

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