Pathé Ciss
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pathé Ismaël Ciss | ||
| Date of birth | 16 March 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Central midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Rayo Vallecano | ||
| Number | 6 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2006–2014 | Diambars | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2017 | Diambars | ||
| 2017–2020 | União Madeira | 30 | (2) |
| 2018–2019 | → Famalicão (loan) | 28 | (4) |
| 2019–2020 | → Fuenlabrada (loan) | 20 | (3) |
| 2020–2021 | Fuenlabrada | 30 | (3) |
| 2021– | Rayo Vallecano | 127 | (9) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2022– | Senegal | 13 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 21:08, 5 December 2022 (UTC) | |||
Pathé Ismaël Ciss (born 16 March 1994) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a central or defensive midfielder for La Liga club Rayo Vallecano and the Senegal national team.
Club career
[edit | edit source]Ciss was born in Dakar, and joined the Diambars FC academy at the age of 12, joining his older brother Saliou and father Ibou, who was a coach there.[1] He started his senior career at Diambars, before joining LigaPro side C.F. União on 31 July 2017.[2]
Ciss made his professional debut on 13 August 2017, coming on as a late substitute for Gonçalo Abreu in a 2–0 home win against Real S.C. He scored his first goal abroad on 29 October, netting the game's only in a home defeat of U.D. Oliveirense.
On 30 August 2018, after União suffered relegation, Ciss moved to F.C. Famalicão on a one-year loan deal, still in the second division.[3] He contributed with four goals during the campaign, as his side returned to Primeira Liga after 25 years.
On 2 September 2019, Ciss was loaned to Spanish Segunda División side CF Fuenlabrada, for one year.[4] The following 13 July, he signed a permanent contract until 2023 with the club.[5]
On 28 July 2021, Ciss signed a four-year deal with Rayo Vallecano, newly promoted to La Liga, along with teammate Randy Nteka.[6]
International career
[edit | edit source]Ciss made his debut for the Senegal national football team in a friendly match with Bolivia on 24 September 2022.[7] He was named in coach Aliou Cissé's squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, making his tournament debut as a substitute in Senegal's 3–1 win over host nation Qatar.[8] He went on to start against Ecuador in the team's final group match[9] and England in the round of 16.[10]
In December 2023, he was named in Senegal's squad for the postponed 2023 Africa Cup of Nations held in the Ivory Coast.[11]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]Club
[edit | edit source]- As of match played 22 August 2021
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| União Madeira | 2017–18[12] | LigaPro | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 34 | 2 | |
| Famalicão (loan) | 2018–19[12] | LigaPro | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 28 | 4 | |
| Fuenlabrada (loan) | 2019–20[13] | Segunda División | 20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 22 | 3 | ||
| Fuenlabrada | 2020–21[13] | Segunda División | 30 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 3 | ||
| Rayo Vallecano | 2021–22[13] | La Liga | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 110 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 6 | ||
References
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External links
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- Pathé Ciss at ForaDeJogo (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1994 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Dakar
- Senegalese men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Diambars FC players
- Liga Portugal 2 players
- C.F. União players
- F.C. Famalicão players
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- CF Fuenlabrada footballers
- Rayo Vallecano players
- 2022 FIFA World Cup players
- 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Senegalese expatriate men's footballers
- Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- 21st-century Senegalese sportsmen