Sainey Sanyang
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sainey Sanyang | ||
| Date of birth | 18 April 2003 | ||
| Place of birth | Old Jeswang, The Gambia | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team |
Botev Vratsa (on loan from CSKA Sofia) | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2023 | Hawks FC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023– | CSKA Sofia | 38 | (2) |
| 2025 | CSKA Sofia II | 6 | (1) |
| 2026– | → Botev Vratsa (loan) | 21 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023 | Gambia U20 | 10 | (0) |
| 2025– | Gambia | 8 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12:48, 24 August 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 04:41, 30 May 2026 (UTC) | |||
Sainey Sanyang (born 18 April 2003) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Bulgarian First League club Botev Vratsa on loan from CSKA Sofia and the Gambia national team.[1]
Career
Sanyang was transferred to CSKA Sofia during the summer of 2023.[2]
On 5 September 2025, he earned his first cap for Gambia, playing the full 90 minutes of the 3:1 away victory over Kenya in a 2026 World Cup qualifier.[3][4]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 10 August 2026
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| CSKA Sofia | 2023–24 | First League | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| 2024–25 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 16 | 2 | |||
| 2025–26 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | |||
| Total | 38 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 3 | ||
| CSKA Sofia II | 2024–25 | Second League | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | 1 | |||
| 2025–26 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Botev Vratsa (loan) | 2025–26 | First League | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 18 | 2 | ||
| 2026–27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | ||
| Career total | 65 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 75 | 6 | ||
International
- As of match played 29 May 2026
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gambia | |||
| 2025 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 8 | 0 | |
Honours
International
- U-20 Africa Cup of Nations runner-up: 2023
References
- ↑ Sainey Sanyang Career Stats, bulgarian-football.com
- ↑ CSKA signed Gambian national player, cska.bg 25 June 2023
- ↑ Jackson, Graeme (5 September 2025). "The Scorpions run riot in Nairobi". africanfootball.com. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
- ↑ "Match log for Sainey Sanyang". soccerway.com. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
External links
- Sainey Sanyang at Soccerway
Categories:
- 2003 births
- Living people
- Gambian men's footballers
- 21st-century Gambian sportsmen
- Men's association football defenders
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- PFC CSKA Sofia players
- POFC Botev Vratsa players
- Gambian expatriate men's footballers
- Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
- 21st-century Gambian people
- The Gambia men's under-20 international footballers
- The Gambia men's international footballers