Malcom Bokele
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Malcom Bokele Mputu | ||
| Date of birth | 12 February 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Lyon, France | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Göztepe | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| AS Bellecour Perrache | |||
| Eveil Lyon | |||
| 2011–2014 | Lyon | ||
| 2014–2017 | FC Lyon | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2019 | Bourg-Péronnas B | 5 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Metz B | 9 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | Bordeaux B | 8 | (0) |
| 2021–2024 | Bordeaux | 56 | (2) |
| 2021–2022 | → Villefranche (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 2024– | Göztepe | 61 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | Cameroon U23 | 1 | (0) |
| 2023– | Cameroon | 2 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10 June 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 00:44, 4 September 2025 (UTC) | |||
Malcom Bokele Mputu (born 12 February 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as centre-back for Süper Lig club Göztepe. Born in France, he plays for the Cameroon national team.
Club career
[edit]Bokele is a youth product of the academies of AS Bellecour Perrache, Eveil Lyon, Lyon and FC Lyon.[2] He began his senior career with the reserves of Bourg-Péronnas in 2017.[3] He followed that up with a stint with the reserves of FC Metz from 2017 to 2019. In October 2019, he moved to the reserves of Bordeaux.[4] On 1 June 2021, he signed his first professional contract with Bordeaux for 3 years.[5] He joined Villefranche on 29 January 2022 for the second half of the 2021–22 season in the Championnat National.[6] Moving to the Bordeaux senior team for the 2022–23 season, he made his professional debut with them in a 0–0 Ligue 2 tie with Valenciennes on 22 August 2022.[7]
International career
[edit]Bokele was born in France to a Congolese father and a Cameroonian mother.[8] He was called up to the Cameroon U23s in October 2021.[9] He debuted with the senior Cameroon national team in a 1–1 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tie with Namibia on 24 March 2023.[10]
Personal life
[edit]Bokele's brother Morgan Bokele is also a professional footballer.[11]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- As of match played 29 August 2025
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Bourg-Péronnas B | 2017–18 | National 3 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| Metz B | 2019–20 | National 3 | 9 | 0 | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| Bordeaux B | 2021–22 | National 3 | 9 | 0 | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| Villefranche Beaujolais | 2021–22 | Ligue 3 | 14 | 0 | — | — | 2[a] | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Bordeaux | 2022–23 | Ligue 2 | 29 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 32 | 2 | ||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 2 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | |||
| Total | 56 | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 60 | 2 | ||||
| Göztepe | 2024–25 | Süper Lig | 31 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 36 | 1 | ||
| 2025–26 | Süper Lig | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 1 | |||
| Total | 35 | 2 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 40 | 2 | ||||
| Career total | 128 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 139 | 4 | ||
- ↑ Appearances Ligue 1 relegation/promotion play-offs
International
[edit]- As of match played 4 September 2025
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 2023 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 3 | 0 | |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Malcom Bokele" (in French). FC Girondins de Bordeaux. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ↑ "Malcom Bokele : "Cela ne fait que trois matchs, on fera un bilan dans un moment"". OneFootball. 2022.
- ↑ "Football / National. Bokele : " Je ne pensais pas que le niveau de la L1 était aussi difficile "". www.leprogres.fr. 2 March 2022.
- ↑ "Malcom Bokele (ex-Metz) s'entraîne aux Girondins de Bordeaux". actufoot.com.
- ↑ Actu, S. B. M. (1 June 2021). "Foot/Ligue 1 – Malcom Bokele signe pro avec les Girondins - Sport Business Mag". Archived from the original on 22 August 2022.
- ↑ "Football/National : Malcom Bokele rejoint le FCVB". Le Patriote Beaujolais. 29 January 2022.
- ↑ "Girondins33 - Nicolas Maurice-Belay : "Malcom Bokele et Dilane Bakwa ont montré de belles choses !"". www.girondins33.com. August 2022.
- ↑ TOMEGAH, Rodolph (30 October 2021). "Bordeaux : Mbaye Niang de retour, première apparition pour Malcom Bokele Mputu".
- ↑ ETONG, Romaric (3 October 2021). "Morgan et Malcom Bokélé convoqués avec les U23 du Cameroun - Allez Les Lions".
- ↑ "Cameroon vs. Namibia - Football Match Summary - March 24, 2023 - ESPN". ESPN.com.
- ↑ Weic, Karel (1 February 2024). "Mercato - Le frère de Malcom Bokele passe pro à Metz et file en National 1". MaLigue2 (in French). Retrieved 15 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Malcom Bokele at Soccerway
- Malcom Bokele at BDFutbol
- Malcom Bokele – French league stats at Ligue 1 – also available in French (archived)
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- 2000 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Lyon
- Cameroonian men's footballers
- Cameroon men's international footballers
- Cameroon men's youth international footballers
- 21st-century Cameroonian sportsmen
- French men's footballers
- Cameroonian people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
- French sportspeople of Cameroonian descent
- French sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
- Men's association football defenders
- Football Bourg-en-Bresse Péronnas 01 players
- FC Metz players
- FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
- FC Villefranche Beaujolais players
- Göztepe S.K. footballers
- Ligue 2 players
- Ligue 3 players
- Championnat National 3 players
- Süper Lig players
- Black French sportspeople
- 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
- French expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
- Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- French expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- 21st-century French sportsmen