Kamal Bafounta
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kamal Bafounta Ortega[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 8 January 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Vénissieux, France[1] | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Lyon-La Duchère | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2008 | Vénissieux | ||
| 2008–2012 | Saint-Priest | ||
| 2012–2013 | Lyon | ||
| 2013–2017 | FC Lyon | ||
| 2017–2018 | Nantes | ||
| 2018–2021 | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2022 | Borussia Dortmund II | 3 | (0) |
| 2022–2024 | Lorient B | 22 | (1) |
| 2023–2024 | → Cholet (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2024–2025 | Tabor Sežana | 20 | (2) |
| 2025– | Lyon-La Duchère | 7 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017 | France U16 | 5 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 7 February 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:25, 24 July 2021 (UTC) | |||
Kamal Bafounta Ortega (born 8 January 2002) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championnat National 3 club Lyon-La Duchère.
Club career
International career
Bafounta was born in France to a Congolese father and Spanish mother.[3] He holds both French and Spanish nationalities.[4] He has represented France at under-16 level.[5]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 24 July 2021[6]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Borussia Dortmund II | 2021–22 | 3. Liga | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
- Notes
References
- 1 2 3 Kamal Bafounta at WorldFootball.net
- ↑ "KAMAL BAFOUNTA EST ROUGE ET NOIR !" [KAMAL BAFOUNTA IS RED AND BLACK!] (in French). Cholet. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ↑ "Vénissieux - RENCONTRE. La future pépite du foot français sera-t-elle vénissiane ?". www.leprogres.fr.
- ↑ "Kamal Bafounta -". unfp.org. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ↑ Kamal Bafounta at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)
- ↑ Kamal Bafounta at Soccerway
Categories:
- 2002 births
- Sportspeople from Vénissieux
- Footballers from Lyon Metropolis
- Living people
- Black French sportspeople
- 21st-century French sportsmen
- 21st-century Spanish sportsmen
- French sportspeople of Republic of the Congo descent
- French people of Spanish descent
- Sportspeople of Spanish descent
- Men's association football midfielders
- French men's footballers
- France men's youth international footballers
- Spanish men's footballers
- Borussia Dortmund II players
- FC Lorient players
- SO Cholet players
- NK Tabor Sežana players
- Lyon-La Duchère players
- 3. Liga players
- Ligue 3 players
- Championnat National 1 players
- Championnat National 2 players
- Slovenian Second League players
- French expatriate men's footballers
- Spanish expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
- French expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia
- French expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia