Lyle Lakay

Lyle Lakay
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-08-17) 17 August 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa[1]
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Left winger
Team information
Current team
 SuperSport United
Number 12
Youth career
Stephanians Ottery
Hellenic FC
Old Mutual Academy
–2009 SuperSport United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2012 SuperSport United[2] 14 (0)
2009–2010 → Cape Town (loan)
2011–2012 → Cape Town (loan)
2012–2017 Bloemfontein Celtic 93 (8)
2017–2018 Cape Town City 28 (2)
2018–2023 Mamelodi Sundowns 103 (8)
2022–2023 → Cape Town City (loan) 18 (0)
2023– SuperSport United 28 (4)
International career‡
2011 South Africa U20 3 (0)
2015– South Africa 11 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 August 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 November 2023

Lyle Lakay (born 17 August 1991) is a South African professional soccer player who plays a midfielder for SuperSport United in the Premier Soccer League.

Club career

Lakay is a product of the SuperSport United's youth academy, he was promoted to the first team in 2009 but spent the 2009–10 season with National First Division side Cape Town. For the 2010–11 season he returned to Supersport United. After another loan spell with FC Cape Town, Lakay joined Bloemfontein Celtic in 2012. He is expected to sign for the big spending Pretoria side, Mamelodi Sundowns FC during the January transfer window 2014. On 14 November 2013, the player was quoted to have said, "Yes, I arrived today in Tshwane, but I will start training with Sundowns tomorrow (Friday). I hope everything will go well."

In 2023, he returned to his former club SuperSport United for free.[3]

International career

In 2011, he was called up to the South Africa U-20 team for the 2011 African Youth Championship.

References

  1. ^ a b "Lyle Lakay". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  2. ^ "ABSA Premiership 2010/11 – Lyle Lakay Player Profile". ABSA Premiership. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Lakay: I left Downs for free".


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