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Khaly Thiam
Personal information
Full name	Khaly Iyane Thiam
Date of birth	7 January 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth	Dakar, Senegal
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	MTK Budapest
Number	23
Youth career
	Racing Club Dakar
Senior career*
Years	Team
2012–2014	Kaposvári Rákóczi
2012–2014	Kaposvári Rákóczi II
2014–2018	MTK Budapest
2016	→ Chicago Fire (loan)
2017	→ Gaziantepspor (loan)
2017	→ Dynamo Moscow (loan)
2018	→ Levski Sofia (loan)
2018–2020	Levski Sofia
2020–2022	Altay
2022	Pendikspor
2023–	MTK Budapest
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 June 2024

Khaly Thiam (born 7 January 1994) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Hungarian club MTK Budapest.^[1]

Career

Club

Thiam started his senior footballing career in 2012 in Hungary with Kaposvári Rákóczi, making 25 appearances and scoring 4 goals in two years with the Nemzeti Bajnokság I team; he also played 13 times for the team's reserves in the second tier Nemzeti Bajnokság II.^[1] In 2014, Thiam joined fellow Hungarian top-flight club MTK Budapest and subsequently made his debut on 26 July in a league match against Pécsi MFC.^[1] 47 appearances and 3 goals in his first two seasons came prior to him leaving MTK to complete a loan move to Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire on 4 May 2016.^[2] He scored one goal, vs. Philadelphia Union, in twenty games in the United States before returning to Hungary.^[1]

On 25 January 2017, Thiam joined Süper Lig side Gaziantepspor on a three-and-a-half-year contract.^[3]

On 21 August 2017, Russian club FC Dynamo Moscow announced the signing of Thiam on a one-year loan deal from MTK Budapest (as Gaziantepspor did not activate a buyout option). The Dynamo contract included a buyout option.^[4] The loan was terminated on 12 February 2018 by mutual consent after Thiam failed to establish his position in the Dynamo squad.^[5]

On 14 February 2018, he was loaned to the Bulgarian club Levski Sofia until the end of the season.^[6] On 2 June 2018, Thiam was permanently transferred to Levski, where he established himself as a regular starter. On 28 June 2020, he captained the team in the 2:1 away win over Beroe in a First League game, which had been announced beforehand to be his last match for the "bluemen".^[7]

In August 2020 Thiam joined Turkish club Altay.^[8] In July 2022, Thiam joined Pendikspor^[9] where he remained until December 2022.^[10]

On 31 January 2023, Thiam returned to MTK Budapest, now in the second-tier NB II. He signed a two-and-a-half-year contract.^[11]

Career statistics

Club

As of 8 December 2017.^[1]

Club	Season	League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Kaposvári Rákóczi
	2012–13	6	1	0	0	5	0	—		11	1
	2013–14	19	3	2	1	4	0	—		25	4
	Total	25	4	2	1	9	0	—		36	5
Kaposvári Rákóczi II
	2012–13	13	3	—		—		—		13	3
	2013–14	0	0	—		—		—		0	0
	Total	13	3	—		—		—		13	3
MTK Budapest
	2014–15	16	1	0	0	11	1	—		27	2
	2015–16	31	2	2	0	—		2	0	35	2
	2016–17	0	0	0	0	—		0	0	0	0
	Total	47	3	2	0	11	1	2	0	62	4
Chicago Fire (loan)
	2016	20	1	3	1	—		—		23	2
	Total	20	1	3	1	—		—		23	2
Gaziantepspor (loan)
	2016–17	11	1	0	0	—		—		11	1
	Total	11	1	0	0	—		—		11	1
FC Dynamo Moscow (loan)
	2017–18	6	0	0	0	—		—		6	0
	Total	6	0	0	0	—		—		6	0
Career Total		122	12	7	2	20	1	2	0	151	15

Personal life

In an interview for Hungarian media in July 2019, Thiam announced he had sent his documents for a Hungarian passport since he moved to the country at age 18 and his wife, with whom they have two kids, is also Hungarian, and he also showed a desire to represent Hungary at international level.^[12]