Cheick Diabaté (footballer)

Cheick Tidiane Diabaté (born 25 April 1988) is a Malian professional footballer who plays for Esteghlal in the Persian Gulf Pro League.

Cheick Diabaté
Diabaté in December 2020
Personal information
Full name Cheick Tidiane Diabaté
Date of birth (1988-04-25) 25 April 1988
Place of birth Bamako, Mali
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Esteghlal
Number 7
Youth career
2000–2006 Centre Salif Keita
2006–2008 Bordeaux
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2016 Bordeaux 127 (50)
2008–2009 → Ajaccio (loan) 30 (14)
2009–2010 → Nancy (loan) 2 (0)
2016–2018 Osmanlıspor 8 (0)
2017 → Metz (loan) 14 (8)
2018 → Benevento (loan) 11 (8)
2018–2019 Emirates 19 (10)
2019– Esteghlal 28 (17)
National team‡
2005 Mali U-17
2005–2016 Mali 39 (15)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 August 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:21, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Club career

Bordeaux

Diabaté was promoted to the senior squad of Girondins de Bordeaux for the 2008–09 season following a successful season in the CFA, where he made 35 appearances and scored 18 goals. As Bordeaux preferred to field more experienced strikers, manager Laurent Blanc loaned Diabaté out to the Corsica-based and Ligue 2 club AC Ajaccio to enable him to get more playing time.

Ajaccio (loan)

Diabaté made his debut for AC Ajaccio in their opening match of the 2008–09 Ligue 2 season, in a loss to Châteauroux, playing the full 90 minutes. In the second match, he scored a brace in their 3–1 away win over Stade de Reims.[2] Three weeks later, he scored another brace, this time in a 4–0 home thrashing of Vannes.[3] He scored one goal in each of the following three Ligue 2 matches with Ajaccio earning wins over Brest[4] and Clermont[5] and drawing with Nîmes.[6]

Diabaté's positive play continued throughout the season scoring important match-winning goals in Ligue 2 matches against Guingamp,[7] Lens,[8] Angers,[9] and Boulogne.[10] He also scored a goal in the Derby Corse against SC Bastia, in a 1–1 home Ligue 2 draw.[11] Diabaté finished the season with 14 Ligue 2 goals, which made him the club's top scorer and placed him 4th among the top Ligue 2 scorers of the season; Ajaccio managed to stave off relegation only on the final day of the season.

While on loan to AC Ajaccio, Diabaté had his contract with Bordeaux extended until June 2013.[12]

Nancy (loan)

Diabaté returned to Bordeaux on 1 July 2009. On 20 July, he was loaned out again, this time to fellow Ligue 1 club AS Nancy.[13] The striker spent most of the season playing for the reserve team, playing only three matches (two matches in Ligue 1 and one match in the Coupe de la Ligue) for the first team.

Return to Bordeaux

Diabaté scored two goals in the final of the 2013 Coupe de France to help Bordeaux defeat Evian TG 3–2.

Diabaté had an excellent 2013–14 Ligue 1 season with Bordeaux, registering 12 goals in 25 Ligue 1 matches and scoring in a 1–1 away draw against Toulouse FC, one goal in each of the two rounds of matches against FC Lorient, and a second-half brace in a 4–1 home win against FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.

Osmanlıspor

On 27 May 2016, Diabaté joined Osmanlıspor on a three-year contract.[14] Having returned from his loan to Metz in the summer, it was reported in mid-August 2017 that he had agreed to the termination of his contract.[15]

Metz (loan)

On 30 December 2016, the Süper Lig club Osmanlıspor announced that Diabaté had been loaned to Ligue 1 club Metz until the end of the 2016–2017 season, with Metz having an option to purchase him.[16][17] Diabaté helped Metz avoid relegation scoring 8 goals in 14 matches and the club expressed interest in signing him permanently in June 2017.[18][19]

Benevento (loan)

In January 2018, Diabaté joined Serie A side Benevento on loan for the rest of the 2017–18 season.[20][21] He scored his first goal in his first match for the Campanian team in a 3–2 win against Crotone.[22] Diabate also scored two goals a piece against Hellas Verona, Juventus, and Sassuolo. His goal scoring form was such that with six goals in 3 games he equaled a long-standing Serie A record held since 2001 by Dario Hubner.[23] He finished the season with 8 goals in 11 games, having the best goal ratio among the players with more than one appearance in Serie A in 2010s, ahead of likes of Edinson Cavani, Romelu Lukaku, Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimović.[24][25]

Emirates Club

On 18 September 2018, Diabaté joined Emirates Club on a one-year contract.[26]

Esteghlal

On 9 July 2019, Diabaté signed for Iranian club Esteghlal on a two-year contract.[27] He was handed the number 7 shirt.[28] He debuted for the club on 23 August, coming on as 67th-minute substitute for Farshid Esmaeili in a league match against Machine Sazi.[29] Six days later, he made his first start in his first appearance at Azadi Stadium in a 1–1 win against Foolad.[30] On 1 November, he scored his first goals for Esteghlal, netting a hat-trick in a 4–2 away win against Tractor.[31] He scored a brace in his AFC Champions League debut against Kuwait SC in a 3–0 victory.[32] He ended the season with a tally of 18 goals in all competitions of which his 13 goals in the league made him the top scorer for that season.[33]

International career

Diabaté started out with Mali's national under-17 team where they participated in the 2005 African U-17 Championship. He scored a goal in each of their group stage matches but Mali failed to advance to the knock-out stage.[34] Less than a month after that tournament, he made his senior debut against Liberia in a 2006 World Cup qualifier 5 June 2005, coming on as an 85th-minute substitute for Dramane Coulibaly; Mali won the match 4–1.[35] Diabaté was a member of the Mali side that earned third place at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. He finished the tournament as one of the top scorers, having netted 3 goals in total, including two in the third place play-off against Ghana on 11 February 2012, which Mali won 2–0.[36]

Career statistics

Club
As of 30 January 2021[37][38][39]
Club Season League Cup[lower-alpha 1] League Cup[lower-alpha 2] Continental[lower-alpha 3] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Ajaccio (loan) 2008–09 Ligue 2 3014———3014
Nancy (loan) 2009–10 Ligue 1 20—10—30
Bordeaux 2010–11 Ligue 1 16422——186
2011–12 268———268
2012–13 23846—843518
2013–14 2512—10202812
2014–15 158—2100179
2015–16 22101210412813
Total 127507104114515266
Osmanlıspor 2016–17 Süper Lig 8035—51166
Metz (loan) 2016–17 Ligue 1 148———148
Benevento (loan) 2017–18 Serie A 118———118
Emirates 2018–19 UAE Pro-League 191034——2214
Esteghlal 2019–20 Persian Gulf Pro League 211520—542819
2020–21 6200—0062
Total 271720—543421
Career total 2381071519512410282137
  1. Includes Coupe de France, Turkish Cup, Coppa Italia, UAE League Cup and Iranian Hazfi Cup.
  2. Includes Coupe de la Ligue.
  3. Includes UEFA Europa League and AFC Champions League.

International goals
Scores and results list Mali's goal tally first.[40]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.18 November 2008Stade Robert Diochon, Rouen, France Algeria1–01–1Friendly
2.26 March 2011Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali Zimbabwe1–01–02012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
3.10 August 2011Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir, Tunisia Tunisia4–24–2Friendly
4.3 September 2011Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali Cape Verde1–03–02012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
5.2–0
6.8 October 2011Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex, Monrovia, Liberia Liberia1–12–22012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
7.5 February 2012Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon Gabon1–11–12012 Africa Cup of Nations
8.11 February 2012Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Ghana1–02–02012 Africa Cup of Nations
9.2–0
10.8 October 2012Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali Botswana1–03–02013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
11.13 October 2012Lobatse Stadium, Lobatse, Botswana Botswana1–04–12013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
12.13 June 2013Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali Benin2–22–22014 FIFA World Cup qualification
13.5 March 2014Stade Municipal Saint-Leu.-la-Forêt, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, France Senegal1–11–1Friendly
14.7 September 2014Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali Malawi2–02–02015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
15.11 November 2015Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali Botswana1–02–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Bordeaux

Mali

Individual

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