Virgile Boumelaha (born 6 August 1983 in

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...

) is a French

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

er of Algerian descent; he plays for

FC Grenchen FC Grenchen is a Swiss football club, based in Grenchen. They currently play in the 2. Liga, and play their matches at the Brühl Stadium. History FC Grenchen was founded in 1906. In 1937 they gained promotion to the top league of Swiss ...

Career

Boumelaha began his career with FC Saint-Louis, he moved then to

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

and later to

FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard (; commonly referred to as FCSM or simply Sochaux) is a French association football club based in the city of Montbéliard. The club was founded in 1928 and currently plays in Ligue 2, the second tier of Frenc ...

in 2002 but made two appearances for the club before joining

VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's football team is currently part of Germany's first division, the Bundesliga. VfB Stu ...

in 2004. He failed to break into the first team there, also, signed for

HJK Helsinki Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (), commonly known as HJK Helsinki, or simply as HJK, is a professional football club based in Helsinki, Finland. The club competes in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. Founded in 1907, the club has spent most of its history ...

where he played 1 game over the course of the 2005/06 season. He then moved to Switzerland with

SR Delémont SR Delémont is a Swiss football club based in Delémont and founded in 1909. It played in the Swiss Super League The Swiss Super League (known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a Swiss professional league in the ...

in January 2006 where he played 19 games. After just two seasons with

Delémont Delémont (; fc, D'lémont; german: Delsberg, ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants . History The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn buria ...

, he made his way to

FC Gossau FC Gossau is a Swiss football club from the city of Gossau in the canton of St. Gallen. It currently plays in the Challenge League, the second-highest level of Swiss football. History After its foundation in 1906, FC Gossau spent the first 65 ...

of the Challenge League, who he played 6 months between 18 December 2008 who left the team, he signed than in February 2009 with

Privates

He is the younger brother of

Olivier Boumelaha Olivier Hakim Boumelaha (born 27 May 1981, in Mulhouse) is a French former football striker of Algerian descent. He last played for FC Gossau in the Swiss Challenge League. He is the older brother of Virgile Boumelaha and Sabri Boumelaha. Car ...

and the elder brother of Sabri Boumelaha.

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* *http://www.football.ch/sfl/1707/de/Kader.aspx?pId=82225 1983 births Living people Kabyle people French footballers French expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Switzerland Expatriate footballers in Germany Expatriate footballers in Finland FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players VfB Stuttgart II players FC Gossau players Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players SR Delémont players Ligue 1 players Veikkausliiga players Swiss Challenge League players French people of Kabyle descent Association football midfielders FC Basel players Footballers from Mulhouse French expatriate sportspeople in Finland French expatriate sportspeople in Germany French expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland FC Saint-Louis Neuweg players {{France-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub