 Djiga with Nîmes in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yacouba Nasser Djiga | ||
| Date of birth | (2002-11-15) 15 November 2002 (age 22) | ||
| Place of birth | Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | ||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
| Current team | Red Star Belgrade | ||
| Number | 24 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 0000–2019 | Vitesse FC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2021 | Vitesse FC | 40 | (1) |
| 2021–2024 | FC Basel | 11 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | → Nîmes (loan) | 21 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | → Red Star Belgrade (loan) | 22 | (1) |
| 2024– | Red Star Belgrade | 17 | (2) |
| International career | |||
| 2021– | Burkina Faso U20 | 4 | (0) |
| 2022– | Burkina Faso | 7 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 December 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 November 2024 | |||
Yacouba Nasser Djiga (born 15 November 2002) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serbian club Red Star Belgrade and the Burkina Faso national team.
Club career
Djiga played his youth football with Vitesse FC in Burkina Faso. After having received various call-ups to their first team and having made his team debut during the last games of the 2018–19 season, he advanced to their squad in the 2019–20 season. Djiga played 14 games for them, scoring one goal, in the Deuxième Division the second tier of football in Burkina Faso. Despite the season remaining uncompleted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, because the team were league leaders, they won promotion to the Burkinabé Premier League. In the following season Djiga was regular starter in the team. He received a calls-up to the Burkina Faso U20 team and played four games for them in the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.
During the transfer window in the summer of 2021, Djiga signed for Swiss top flight side FC Basel after receiving interest from Lille OSC in the French Ligue 1 and Belgian and Spanish clubs. Basel announced his signing on 19 June.
Djinga joined Basel's first team for their 2021–22 season under head coach Patrick Rahmen. After having played in five test games, on 29 July 2021 Djiga debuted for them during a 2–0 away win over Partizani in the second qualifying round of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League. Unfortunately Djiga injured himself during the game and was forced out for six weeks with a capsular ligament injury in the left ankle. He returned to the team on 19 September to play the Swiss Cup match against armature team FC Rorschach-Goldach. On 24 October Djiga then played his Swiss Super League debut for his new club in the home game at St. Jakob-Park as Basel won 2–0 against Lugano and he played the entire game. During that season Djinga played just six domestic league matches, three in the Conference League and two in the Swiss Cup, but he also had six appearances in their U-21 team who played in the 2021–22 Promotion League, the third tier of Swiss football.
On 28 August 2022, Djiga joined Nîmes in France on a season-long loan.
Following his loan, Djinga returned to Basel and played, under their new head coach Timo Schultz mainly as substitute, in the first four domestic league games of the season as well as both games in the Conference League games. On 20 August 2023 he played in their starting eleven as the team played their first round Cup match against lower level opponents FC Saint-Blaise. He scored his first goal for his club in this game, it was the team's fourth goal, as they went on to win 8–1. On 4 September, the club announced that Djinga was loaned out to Red Star Belgrade.
In his first season with them, Red Star became 2023–24 Serbian SuperLiga champions and won the 2023–24 Serbian Cup. On 17 May 2024 it was announced that the club pulled their option and took the player over on a permanent deal.
International career
Djiga debuted for the Burkina Faso national team in a 5–0 friendly loss to Kosovo on 24 March 2022.
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 22 December 2024
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Basel U21 | 2021–22 | Swiss Promotion League | 6 | 0 | — | — | 6 | 0 | ||
| Basel | 2021–22 | Swiss Super League | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 2022–23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2023–24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Total | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 22 | 1 | ||
| Nîmes (loan) | 2022–23 | Ligue 2 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 21 | 0 | |
| Red Star Belgrade | 2023–24 | Serbian SuperLiga | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 1 |
| 2024–25 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 25 | 2 | ||
| Total | 39 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 54 | 3 | ||
| Career total | 77 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 103 | 4 | ||
- Includes Swiss Cup, Serbian Cup
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
References
- "Nasser Djiga". crvenazvezdafk.com.
- "l'invraisemblable imbroglio autour de Nasser Djiga, bloqué par son club". ouest-france.fr.
- "Commentaire: il faut sauver les sélections avant leur disparition". lematin.ch.
- "Neue Welt für Djiga beim FC Basel". srf.ch.
- "Yacouba Nasser Djiga, la pépite qui fait craquer de grands clubs". burkina24.com.
- FC Basel 1893 (19 June 2021). "Der FCB verpflichtet Yacouba Nasser Djiga". FCB signed Yacouba Nasser Djiga. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - uefa.com (29 July 2021). "FK Partizani - FC Basel 0:2 (0:1) – Overview". uefa.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- FC Basel 1893 (31 July 2021). "Nasser Djiga verletzt". Nasser Djiga injured. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (19 September 2021). "FC Rorschach-Goldach 17 - FC Basel 0:3 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- FC Basel 1893 (24 October 2021). "Wieder ein Dreier – der FCB Schlägt Lugano 2:0". Another three pointer - FCB beat Lugano 2-0. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - "NASSER DJIGA PRÊTÉ POUR LA SAISON" (in French). Nîmes. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
- FC Basel 1893 (20 August 2023). "FC Saint-Blaise - FC Basel 1:8". FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - FC Basel 1893 (4 September 2023). "Nasser Djiga leihweise nach Serbien" [Nasser Djiga on loan in Serbia] (in Swiss High German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - FC Basel 1893 (17 May 2024). "Nasser Djiga verlässt den FCB" [Nasser Djiga is leaving FCB] (in Swiss High German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Kosovo vs. Burkina Faso". www.national-football-teams.com.
- Nasser Djiga at Soccerway
External links
- Profile on the Swiss Football League homepage
- Profile at FC Basel (in German)
- Nasser Djiga at Soccerway
- Nasser Djiga at playmakerstats.com
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| Burkina Faso squad – 2023 Africa Cup of Nations | ||
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- 2002 births
- 21st-century Burkinabé sportsmen
- Living people
- Burkinabé men's footballers
- Burkina Faso men's under-20 international footballers
- Burkina Faso men's international footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- FC Basel players
- Nîmes Olympique players
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- Swiss Super League players
- Burkinabé expatriate men's footballers
- Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in France
- Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia
- 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players