Getaneh Kebede ( am, ጌታነህ ከበደ; born 2 April 1992) is an Ethiopian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays for

Ethiopian Premier League The Ethiopian Premier League ( Amharic:የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪምየር ሊግ), known as the BetKing Ethiopian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top tier association football league of Ethiopia run by the Ethiopian Premier League ...

club Wolkite City and the Ethiopia national team.

Club career

Getaneh was born in

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

, Ethiopia. He began his club career with Debub Police, before which he moved to Dedebit. He was the 2013 top scorer of the Ethiopian Premier League. On 19 July 2013, it was announced that Getaneh succeeded in a trial with

Bidvest Wits Bidvest Wits Football Club, (simply often known as Wits University F.C. or Wits) was a South African professional football club from Johannesburg which played in the Premier Soccer League the first-tier of South African league football system ...

and signed a three-year contract with the team. In September 2016 he joined his old club Dedebit. On 14 August 2018, the 29-time league champions Saint George S.C. announced they had signed Getaneh to a two year contract.

International career

Getaneh is part of the Ethiopia national team, where he made his debut in a 2010 CECAFA Cup match against

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in December 2010. In a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

, he scored two goals in a second leg 5–0 win, which sent Ethiopia to the second round of World Cup qualification. On 29 March 2016, Getaneh scored twice against Algeria in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier held in

to draw 3–3 and deny the Desert Foxes qualification to the final tournament. He scored two goals against

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in a 2–1 win on 5 June 2016 and added one more goal in the return match at the

Awassa Kenema Stadium Hawassa Kenema Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Hawassa, Sidama Region, Ethiopia. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Hawassa City S.C. The stadium has a capacity of 60,000 people, but still on process. ...

on 3 September 2016. Ethiopia won the game 2–1 and finished runners-up in Group J, though they were unable to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. However, Getaneh finished as the second top scorer of qualification with six goals, behind only

Hillal Soudani El Arabi Hilal Soudani ( ar, العربي هلال سوداني; born 25 November 1987) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Damac and the Algeria national team. Soudani made his international debut in 2010, and ...

of Algeria's seven goals.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Ethiopia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Getaneh goal.''

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* 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Addis Ababa Ethiopian footballers Association football forwards Ethiopia international footballers 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players Bidvest Wits F.C. players University of Pretoria F.C. players Saint George S.C. players Wolkite City F.C. players Ethiopian expatriate footballers Ethiopian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Expatriate soccer players in South Africa {{Ethiopia-footy-bio-stub