Souleymane Camara


Souleymane Camara is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is a former Senegal international and has represented his nation at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments in 2002, 2006, and 2012. As of 2021, he holds the record of the most appearances for French club Montpellier, with 433, and is the club's second-highest goalscorer, with 76 goals.

Club career

Camara was influential in Montpellier winning their first ever Ligue 1 title in 2012, scoring 9 goals, including one goal in a crucial 2–0 victory over Rennes with two matches left in the season.
On 5 August 2017, Camara scored the only goal in Montpellier's 1–0 win against Caen on matchday 1 of the 2017–18 season. It was his 48th Ligue 1 goal for Montpellier and made him Montpellier's record scorer in Ligue 1, breaking Laurent Blanc's 26-year-old record of 47 Division 1 goals scored for Montpellier in four seasons.
In March 2019 he became the first player to score in 15 different seasons in France's Ligue 1 in the 21st century. In May 2019 he extended his contract with Montpellier for a further season.
In May 2020, it was announced that Camara would not extend his contract with Montpellier, and would retire at the end of the season. By the end of his Montpellier career, Camara played a club-record 433 games in all competitions during his 13-year stay with 76 goals scored – a record bettered only by Blanc.

Career statistics

International

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1Stade Modibo Kéïta, Bamako, Mali1-01-02002 African Cup of Nations
2Riyadh, Saudi Arabia1-12-3Friendly
3Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal1-22-2Friendly
4Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal1-12-1Friendly
5EPRU Stadium, Gqeberha, South Africa1-03-2Friendly
6Port Said Stadium, Port Said, Egypt1-01-22006 African Cup of Nations
7Mantes-la-Ville, France2-04-1Friendly

Honours

Monaco
Montpellier
Senegal