Abdelmoumene Djabou (born 31 January 1987) is an Algerian professional

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who plays as an

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for

ES Sétif Entente Sportive Sétifienne ( ar, الوفاق الرياضي السطايفي), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in ...

in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. An Algerian international since 2010, Djabou was a member of the Algerian teams at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the

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in Equatorial Guinea. As of March 2015, he has won 12 international caps and scored three goals. Djabou is Algeria's all-time top scorer at the

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with two goals, a record he shares with

Salah Assad Salah Assad ( ar, صالح عصاد; born 10 June 1958, in Larbaâ Nath Irathen) is a former Algerian football striker and manager. He played for RC Kouba, where he won an Algerian championship in 1981, and in France for FC Mulhouse For Alger ...

and

Islam Slimani Islam Slimani ( ar, إسلام سليماني; born 18 June 1988) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Brest and the Algeria national team. Slimani began his career in his homeland with JSM Chéraga and C ...

Club career

Djabou came through the junior ranks of his hometown club

with the exception of one season with

USM Sétif Union Sportive Madinet Sétif ( ar, الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة سطيف), known as USM Sétif or simply USMS for short, is an Algerian football club located in Sétif, Algeria. The club was founded in 1933 and its colors are garnet ...

. He made his senior debut during the 2004–05 season, making two league appearances. The following season, he made another two appearances. He spent the 2006–07 season on loan to

MC El Eulma Mouloudia Chabab El Eulma ( ar, مولودية شباب العلمة), known as MC El Eulma or simply MCEE for short, is an Algerian football club based in El Eulma. The club was founded in 1936 and its colors are green and red. Their home stadi ...

. On 30 September 2008, Djabou was loaned out to Swiss club

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. However, after a month with the club, his paperwork had still not cleared and Djabou returned to

. In January 2009, Djabou was loaned out to

USM El Harrach Union Sportive de la Médina d'El Harrach ( ar, الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الحراش), known as USM El Harrach or simply USMH for short, is an Algerian Association football, football club based in El Harrach, Algiers. The club ...

. Djabou made his début for

on 19 February 2009, against

NA Hussein Dey Nasr Athlétique de Hussein Dey ( ar, نصر حسين داي), known as NA Hussein Dey or NAHD for short, is an Algerian football club based in Hussein Dey, Algiers. The club was founded in 1947 and its colours are red and yellow. Their home ...

coming on as a substitute in the 60th minute for Gharbi. He scored his first goal for the club against his former club

in the 17th minute, with the end result being 2–2. He scored his second goal against RC Kouba in the first minute, with the final result ending at 5–1. He appeared in 12 games and scored two goals during his first loan spell at

. He also spent the 2009–10 season on loan with the club, scoring five goals in 31 appearances. On 9 June 2010, he returned to ES Sétif. On 13 June 2012, Djabou signed a two-year contract with Tunisian side Club Africain.

International career

On 18 September 2010, Djabou was called up to the Algeria national team by new coach

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for a qualifier against the

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. Djabou competed for Algeria at the

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in Sudan, helping the Desert Foxes reach the semi-finals. He appeared twice during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, and was selected for Algeria's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals on 2 June 2014. On 22 June, Djabou scored the third goal for ''Les Fennecs'' in a 4–2 World Cup group match win against

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. He also scored the team's consolation goal in the 120th minute of a 2–1 extra time defeat by

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in the

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International goals

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

Honours

ES Sétif * Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1: 2008–09, 2011–12, 2016–17 * Algerian Cup: 2011–12 *

Arab Champions League The Arab Club Champions Cup ( ar, كأس العرب للأندية الأبطال, french: Ligue des Champions Arabe) is an annual regional club football competition organised by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) and contested by el ...

: 2007–08 *

North African Cup Winners Cup The North African Cup Winners Cup was a competition organised by the Federation of North African Football, that contains the winners of the domestic cups around North Africa. The competition contains representatives from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco ...

: 2010 *

North African Super Cup The North African Super Cup was an annual association football competition which was launched in 1931, It stopped in 1956, and it returned in 2010. It is organised by the Union of North African Football Federations. The Super Cup pits the winner o ...

: 2010 Club Africain *

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 The Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (; ar, الرابطة المحترفة الأولى لكرة القدم) was previously called the Tunisian National Championship between 1956 and 1994. is the top division football tournament in Tunisia und ...

: 2014–15

References

ES SÉTIF : ABDELMOUMEN DJABOU EST DE RETOUR
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External links

Elboutoula Profile
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Eurosport.fr Profile
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