Idrissa Doumbia (born 14 April 1998) is an Ivorian professional

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who plays as a

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for

Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), officially known as Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish professional league for association football clubs. It is the top-flight of the Turkish football league system and is run by the ...

club

Alanyaspor Alanyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in the city of Alanya in Antalya Province. Formed in 1948, the club colours are orange and green. Home matches are played at Kırbıyık Holding Stadium. The most recent club man ...

, on loan from Portuguese club

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional foot ...

Club career

Doumbia made his Anderlecht debut on 30 July 2016 in the first game of the

Jupiler Pro League The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 season and reduced to 16 team ...

2016–17 season against

Royal Excel Mouscron Royal Excel Mouscron (, ), commonly known as Mouscron or familiarly as REM, was a Belgian professional football club based in Mouscron. The team was formed as ''Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz'' in the spring of 2010 as a result of the merging between ...

. In the 2017 Belgian Super Cup he made his first start for Zulte Waregem, against his parent club, Anderlecht. On 29 June 2018, he signed with the

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club

FC Akhmat Grozny Republican Football Club Akhmat ( ce, футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, is a Russian ...

. On 15 January 2019, he moved to Portugal, signing a contract with Sporting until 2024 with a €60 million release clause. On 5 October of the following year, he was loaned to

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side

SD Huesca Sociedad Deportiva Huesca, S.A.D., is a Spanish football club in Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded on 29 March 1960, SD Huesca plays in the Segunda División, having played in the Spanish top division for the first time in t ...

, for one year. On 31 August 2021, he returned to

Zulte Waregem Sportvereniging Zulte Waregem (), commonly known as Zulte Waregem or by their nickname Essevee (), is a Belgian professional football club based in Waregem, West Flanders. Zulte Waregem plays in the Belgian First Division A. Their highest finish a ...

on loan for the 2021–22 season.

International career

Doumbia made his debut for the Ivory Coast U20 in a 3–2 friendly win over the Qatar U20s on 21 March 2016. Doumbia debuted for the Ivory Coast U23s in a pair of

2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification The 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification was a men's under-23 football competition, which decided the participating teams of the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations. Players born 1 January 1997 or later were eligible to participate in the co ...

matches in March 2019.

Career statistics

Honours

Sporting *

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; "Cup of Portugal") is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Placard since the 2015–16 seaso ...

: 2018–19 Ivory Coast U23 *

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runner-up:

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Doumbia, Idrissa 1998 births Living people People from Yamoussoukro Ivorian footballers Men's association football midfielders Ivory Coast men's under-20 international footballers R.S.C. Anderlecht players S.V. Zulte Waregem players FC Akhmat Grozny players Sporting CP footballers SD Huesca footballers Alanyaspor footballers Belgian Pro League players Russian Premier League players La Liga players Süper Lig players Ivorian expatriate footballers Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Spain Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Ivory Coast