Malcom Bokele
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Malcom Bokele Mputu | ||
| Date of birth | 12 February 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Lyon, France | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Göztepe | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| AS Bellecour Perrache | |||
| Eveil Lyon | |||
| 2011–2014 | Lyon | ||
| 2014–2017 | FC Lyon | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2019 | Bourg-Péronnas B | 5 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Metz B | 9 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | Bordeaux B | 8 | (0) |
| 2021–2024 | Bordeaux | 56 | (2) |
| 2021–2022 | → Villefranche (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 2024– | Göztepe | 35 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | Cameroon U23 | 1 | (0) |
| 2023– | Cameroon | 2 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 29 August 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 00:44, 4 September 2025 (UTC) | |||
Malcom Bokele Mputu (born 12 February 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as centre-back for Süper Lig club Göztepe. Born in France, he plays for the Cameroon national team.
Club career
[edit | edit source]Bokele is a youth product of the academies of AS Bellecour Perrache, Eveil Lyon, Lyon and FC Lyon.[2] He began his senior career with the reserves of Bourg-Péronnas in 2017.[3] He followed that up with a stint with the reserves of FC Metz from 2017 to 2019. In October 2019, he moved to the reserves of Bordeaux.[4] On 1 June 2021, he signed his first professional contract with Bordeaux for 3 years.[5] He joined Villefranche on 29 January 2022 for the second half of the 2021-22 season in the Championnat National.[6] Moving to the Bordeaux senior team for the 2022-23 season, he made his professional debut with them in a 0–0 Ligue 2 tie with Valenciennes on 22 August 2022.[7]
International career
[edit | edit source]Bokele was born in France to a Congolese father and Cameroonian mother.[8] He was called up to the Cameroon U23s in October 2021.[9] He debuted with the senior Cameroon national team in a 1–1 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tie with Namibia on 24 March 2023.[10]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Bokele's brother Morgan Bokele is also a professional footballer.[11]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]Club
[edit | edit source]- As of match played 29 August 2025
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Bourg-Péronnas B | 2017–18 | National 3 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| Metz B | 2019–20 | National 3 | 9 | 0 | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| Bordeaux B | 2021–22 | National 3 | 9 | 0 | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| Villefranche Beaujolais | 2021–22 | Ligue 3 | 14 | 0 | — | — | 2[a] | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Bordeaux | 2022–23 | Ligue 2 | 29 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 32 | 2 | ||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 2 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | |||
| Total | 56 | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 60 | 2 | ||||
| Göztepe | 2024–25 | Süper Lig | 31 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 36 | 1 | ||
| 2025–26 | Süper Lig | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 1 | |||
| Total | 35 | 2 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 40 | 2 | ||||
| Career total | 128 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 139 | 4 | ||
- ^ Appearances Ligue 1 relegation/promotion play-offs
International
[edit | edit source]- As of match played 4 September 2025
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 2023 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 3 | 0 | |
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Malcom Bokele at SoccerwayLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Malcom Bokele at BDFutbolLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Malcom Bokele – French league stats at Ligue 1 – also available in French (archived)
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Lyon
- Cameroonian men's footballers
- Cameroon men's international footballers
- Cameroon men's youth international footballers
- 21st-century Cameroonian sportsmen
- French men's footballers
- Cameroonian people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
- French sportspeople of Cameroonian descent
- French sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
- Men's association football defenders
- Football Bourg-en-Bresse Péronnas 01 players
- FC Metz players
- FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
- FC Villefranche Beaujolais players
- Göztepe S.K. footballers
- Ligue 2 players
- Championnat National players
- Championnat National 3 players
- Süper Lig players
- Black French sportspeople
- 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
- French expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
- Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- French expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- 21st-century French sportsmen