Floyd Ayité

Floyd Ayité
Ayité playing for Fulham in 2018
Personal information
Full name Floyd Ama Nino Ayité[1]
Date of birth (1988-12-15) 15 December 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Bordeaux, France
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2011 Bordeaux 7 (0)
2008–2009 → Angers (loan) 33 (3)
2009–2010 → Nancy (loan) 6 (0)
2011–2014 Reims 73 (10)
2014–2016 Bastia 53 (14)
2016–2019 Fulham 78 (14)
2019–2021 Gençlerbirliği 49 (6)
2021–2023 Valenciennes 42 (3)
International career‡
2007– Togo 46 (11)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 June 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:51, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Floyd Ama Nino Ayité (born 15 December 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Togo national team. He mainly plays a winger. He is Jonathan Ayité's younger brother.[2]

Club career

Ayité was born in Bordeaux, and started his career as a footballer for home town Bordeaux. Making his debut for the club in 2008. Loan spells at Angers and Nancy followed.

In 2011, Ayité signed for Stade de Reims, where he made 73 league appearances scoring 10 goals. He joined SC Bastia in 2014 where he scored five goals in 28 league games in his first season at the club.

On 1 July 2016, Ayité signed for English Championship club Fulham for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year contract, with a club option of a further twelve months.[3] He scored his first goals for Fulham when he scored twice in a 4–4 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers on 10 December 2016.[4]

On 2 September 2019, he signed a two-year contract with Gençlerbirliği.[5]

On 4 August 2021, he returned to France and signed a two-year contract with Valenciennes.[6]

International career

Ayité decided to follow in the footsteps of his older brother Jonathan Ayité and represent Togo, making his debut in 2008. On 14 November 2009, he scored his first goal for Togo, against Gabon.[citation needed]

In 2013 he played 3 matches at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations where his team reached the quarterfinals.[7][8]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 1 July 2019
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
Angers (loan) 2008–09[9] Ligue 2 33 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 3
Nancy (loan) 2009–10[9] Ligue 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
Bordeaux 2010–11[9] Ligue 1 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
Reims 2011–12[9] Ligue 2 18 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 3
2012–13[9] Ligue 1 23 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 24 2
2013–14[9] 32 5 1 0 2 1 0 0 35 6
Total 73 10 1 0 3 1 0 0 77 11
Bastia 2014–15[9] Ligue 1 30 6 1 2 2 1 0 0 33 9
2015–16[9] 32 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 34 8
Total 62 14 2 2 3 1 0 0 67 17
Fulham 2016–17[10] Championship 33 9 2 0 0 0 — 35 9
2017–18[11] 29 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 4
2018–19[12] Premier League 16 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 19 1
Total 78 14 3 0 2 0 0 0 83 14
Career total 259 41 8 2 8 2 0 0 275 45

International

Scores and results list Togo's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ayité goal.
List of international goals scored by Floyd Ayité[13]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 19 November 2008 Stade de Kégué, Lomé, Togo  Rwanda 1–0 1–0 Friendly
2 14 November 2009 Stade de Kégué, Lomé, Togo  Gabon 1–0 1–0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
3 13 January 2013 Stade de Kégué, Lomé, Togo  Niger 2–1 2–1 Friendly
4 10 September 2014 Stade de Kégué, Lomé, Togo  Ghana 1–0 2–3 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
5 4 September 2015 El Hadj Hassan Gouled Aptidon Stadium Djibouti City, Djibouti  Djibouti 2–0 2–0 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
6 5 June 2016 Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia  Liberia 1–2 2–2 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
7 11 November 2016 Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia  Comoros 1–0 2–2 Friendly
8 15 November 2016 Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco  Morocco 1–0 1–2 Friendly
9 24 March 2018 Stade Pierre Brisson, Beauvais, France  Ivory Coast 2–1 2–2 Friendly
10 2–2
11 16 October 2018 Independence Stadium, Bakau, Gambia  Gambia 1–0 1–0 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Honours

Fulham

References

  1. ^ "List of players under written contract registered between 01/07/2016 and 31/07/2016" (PDF). The Football Association. p. 33. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Jonathan Ayité en D2 turque - Foot - Transfert". L'Équipe. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Floyd Ayite: Fulham bring in Togo forward from Bastia". BBC Sport. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. ^ "Wolves 4–4 Fulham". BBC. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Floyd Ayite, Gençlerbirliği'nde" (in Turkish). Ntvspor. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Floyd Ayité à VA pour 2 ans !" (in French). Valenciennes. 4 August 2021. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  7. ^ https://africanfootball.com/tournament-matches/141/2013-Africa-Cup-Of-Nations Archived 20 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine /1
  8. ^ "AfricanFootball - Togo".
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h Floyd Ayité at Soccerway. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Games played by Floyd Ayité in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  11. ^ "Games played by Floyd Ayité in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  12. ^ "Games played by Floyd Ayité in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  13. ^ "Ayité, Floyd". National Football Teams. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  14. ^ Cartwright, Phil (26 May 2018). "Aston Villa 0–1 Fulham". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
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