Daniel-Kofi Kyereh

Daniel-Kofi Kyereh
Personal information
Full name Daniel-Kofi Kyereh[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-08) 8 March 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 SC Freiburg
Number 11
Youth career
Eintracht Braunschweig
–2014 VfL Wolfsburg
2014–2015 TSV Havelse
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2018 TSV Havelse 61 (16)
2018–2020 Wehen Wiesbaden 62 (21)
2020–2022 FC St. Pauli 63 (21)
2022– SC Freiburg 12 (2)
International career‡
2021– Ghana 18 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 July 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:15, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Daniel-Kofi Kyereh (born 8 March 1996) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward[2] for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg and the Ghana national team.[3]

Club career

Wehen Wiesbaden

On 6 June 2018, Kyereh signed with 3. Liga club, Wehen Wiesbaden.[4] He helped Wehen secure promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with a goal in a 3–1 victory over Ingolstadt in a relegation match in May 2019.[citation needed] Following the club's relegation in the 2019–20 season, Kyereh was released on 30 June 2020.[5]

FC St. Pauli

In July 2020, Kyereh signed a three-year contract with FC St. Pauli. In his first game in 2020 he scored two late goals to secure a point.[6]

SC Freiburg

On 27 June 2022, Kyereh signed with Bundesliga side SC Freiburg.[7] He scored his first competitive goal for Freiburg in a league match against Mainz on 1 October 2022.[8] Five days later, he scored his first goal in European football in a 2–0 win over FC Nantes in the group stage of the Europa League.[8]

International career

Kyereh was born in Ghana to a German mother and Ghanaian father, and moved to Germany at the age of 1.[9] He debuted for the Ghana national team in a 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification win over Ethiopia on 3 September 2021.[10]

On 14 November 2022, Ghana manager Otto Addo selected Kyereh as part of the final squad to represent the nation at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[11] He featured as a second-half substitute in all three matches as the Black Stars were eliminated in the group stage.[12]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 13 November 2022[13]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League DFB-Pokal Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
TSV Havelse 2014–15 Regionalliga Nord 4 2 0 0 – – 4 2
2015–16 Regionalliga Nord 1 0 0 0 – – 1 0
2016–17 Regionalliga Nord 27 3 0 0 – – 27 3
2017–18 Regionalliga Nord 29 11 0 0 – – 29 11
Total 61 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 16
Wehen Wiesbaden 2018–19 3. Liga 34 15 2 0 – 2[a] 2 38 17
2019–20 2. Bundesliga 28 6 1 1 – 0 0 29 7
Total 62 21 3 1 0 0 2 2 67 24
FC St. Pauli 2020–21 2. Bundesliga 34 9 1 0 – – 35 9
2021–22 2. Bundesliga 29 12 3 1 – – 32 13
Total 63 21 4 1 0 0 0 0 67 22
SC Freiburg 2022–23 Bundesliga 9 2 2 0 4[b] 1 – 15 3
Career total 195 60 9 2 4 1 2 2 190 65
  1. ^ Appearances in 2. Bundesliga relegation play-offs
  2. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

Honours

Wehen Wiesbaden

References

  1. ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Ghana (GHA)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 14. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Black Stars player admits poor performance after early AFCON exit". Adomonline.com. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Daniel-Kofi Kyereh". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. ^ "HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN, DANIEL-KOFI KYEREH!n". svwehen-wiesbaden.de. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Daniel Kofi Kyereh released by SV Wehen Wiesbaden". footballghana.com.
  6. ^ ""Dynamik und Tempo": St. Pauli verpflichtet Kyereh". kicker (in German). 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Herzlich Willkommen, Kofi!". www.scfreiburg.com (in German). 27 June 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Kyereh scores for the second straight game in Freiburg 2-0 Nantes". Footy Ghana. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  9. ^ "SV Wehen Wiesbaden: Youngster Kyereh hat sich vor Spiel in Rostock an Startelf herangetastet". 29 July 2020. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020.
  10. ^ "FIFA". fifa.com.
  11. ^ "Otto Addo announces squad for World Cup finals". Ghana Football Association. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  12. ^ "Ghana midfielder Daniel-Kofi Kyereh presented with Hearts of Oak jersey". Ghana Soccer Net. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  13. ^ Daniel-Kofi Kyereh at Soccerway
  14. ^ Kopp, Manuel (25 June 2019). "Hessenpokal-Finale: Wiesbaden viel zu stark für Baunatal". HNA. Retrieved 29 July 2020.