Abderraouf Zarabi

Abderraouf Zarabi
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-03-26) 26 March 1979
Place of birth Algiers, Algeria
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position Left-back
Youth career
1989–1996 IRB Ouargla
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1997 IRB Ouargla
1997–2003 NA Hussein Dey
2003–2007 Ajaccio 18 (0)
2005–2006 → Gueugnon (loan) 30 (0)
2007–2008 Gueugnon 23 (0)
2008 Hibernian 7 (0)
2008–2011 Nîmes 86 (1)
2011–2012 JS Kabylie 22 (0)
2012 CS Constantine 3 (0)
2013 MC Oran 2 (0)
2013 PK-35 Vantaa 11 (0)
International career
2003–2009 Algeria 22 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Abderraouf Zarabi (born 26 March 1979) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He made 22 appearances for the Algeria national team.[1]

Club career

Hibernian

Zarabi was born in Algiers, Algeria. He signed with the Scottish Premier League club Hibernian in January 2008, but was released from his contract at the end of the 2007–08 season.[2] He was released because his wife and child were rejected visas to come and live in Edinburgh.[2]

Nîmes

Zarabi decided to return to French football, signing a contract with newly promoted Ligue 2 side Nîmes Olympique.[3] On 1 August 2008, he made his debut for the club, starting in a Ligue 2 match against Brest.[4]

Personal life

Abderraouf is the son of former Algeria international and NA Hussein Dey star Abdelaziz Zarabi. His younger brother Kheireddine Zarabi is also a footballer.

After retiring from professional football, Zarabi settled in Nîmes, France, where he founded the Univers Football Academy. Under his management, the academy's youth team achieved a historic promotion to the U17 National level in 2026. During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, he also worked as a media pundit, sharing his analysis ahead of the group stage matchs for Algerian national team.[5]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Algeria 200350
200400
200500
200640
200770
200850
200910
Total220

Notes

  1. ↑ "Zarabi : "J'ai réalisé mon rêve de rester dans le football"". 24 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Abdel Zarabi". Hibernian official website. 21 May 2008.
  3. ↑ Nîmes : Arrivée de Zarabi Archived 14 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Ligue de Football Professionnel : Ligue 2, actualités, résultats, classements, statistiques". www.lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008.
  5. ↑ Naim Beneddra (15 June 2026). "Abderaouf Zarabi : « Face à l'Argentine, qu'on joue notre football ! »". Africafoot. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
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