Daniel-Kofi Kyereh

Daniel-Kofi Kyereh
Personal information
Full name Daniel-Kofi Kyereh[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-08) 8 March 1996
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
 VfL Osnabrück
Number 7
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)
2022–2026 SC Freiburg 12 (2)
2022–2026 SC Freiburg II 8 (2)
2026– VfL Osnabrück 0 (0)
International career‡
2021–2022 Ghana 18 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16 May 2026
‡ National team caps and goals 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 for German 2. Bundesliga club VfL Osnabrück.[2]

Club career

Wehen Wiesbaden

On 6 June 2018, Kyereh signed with 3. Liga club, Wehen Wiesbaden.[3] 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. Following the club's relegation in the 2019–20 season, Kyereh was released on 30 June 2020.[4]

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.[5]

SC Freiburg

On 27 June 2022, Kyereh signed with Bundesliga side SC Freiburg.[6] He scored his first competitive goal for Freiburg in a league match against Mainz on 1 October 2022.[7] 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.[7]

International career

Kyereh was born in Ghana to a German mother and Ghanaian father, and moved to Germany at the age of 1.[8] He debuted for the Ghana national team in a 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification win over Ethiopia on 3 September 2021.[9]

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.[10] He featured as a second-half substitute in all three matches as the Black Stars were eliminated in the group stage.[11]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 13 November 2022[12]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League DFB-Pokal Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
TSV Havelse 2014–15 Regionalliga Nord 4200––42
2015–16 Regionalliga Nord 1000––10
2016–17 Regionalliga Nord 27300––273
2017–18 Regionalliga Nord 291100––2911
Total 61160000006116
Wehen Wiesbaden 2018–19 3. Liga 341520–2[a]23817
2019–20 2. Bundesliga 28611–00297
Total 62213100226724
FC St. Pauli 2020–21 2. Bundesliga 34910––359
2021–22 2. Bundesliga 291231––3213
Total 63214100006722
SC Freiburg 2022–23 Bundesliga 92204[b]1–153
Career total 1956092412219065

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. ↑ "HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN, DANIEL-KOFI KYEREH!n". svwehen-wiesbaden.de. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Daniel Kofi Kyereh released by SV Wehen Wiesbaden". footballghana.com.
  5. ↑ ""Dynamik und Tempo": St. Pauli verpflichtet Kyereh". kicker (in German). 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Herzlich Willkommen, Kofi!". www.scfreiburg.com (in German). 27 June 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  7. 1 2 "Kyereh scores for the second straight game in Freiburg 2-0 Nantes". Footy Ghana. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "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.
  9. ↑ "FIFA". fifa.com.
  10. ↑ "Otto Addo announces squad for World Cup finals". Ghana Football Association. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "Ghana midfielder Daniel-Kofi Kyereh presented with Hearts of Oak jersey". Ghana Soccer Net. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  12. ↑ Daniel-Kofi Kyereh at Soccerway
  13. ↑ Kopp, Manuel (25 June 2019). "Hessenpokal-Finale: Wiesbaden viel zu stark für Baunatal". HNA. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
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