Steve Mounié

Steve Michel Mounié (born 29 September 1994) is a Beninese professional footballer who plays as a striker for English Championship club Huddersfield Town and the Beninese national team.[2]

Steve Mounié
Mounié training in 2014
Personal information
Full name Steve Michel Mounié[1]
Date of birth (1994-09-29) 29 September 1994
Place of birth Parakou, Benin
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Huddersfield Town
Number 24
Youth career
2009–2014 Montpellier
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Montpellier 37 (14)
2015–2016 → Nîmes (loan) 32 (11)
2017– Huddersfield Town 82 (17)
National team‡
2015– Benin 25 (7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:00, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:30, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Club career

Montpellier

Mounié is a Montpellier HSC youth academy graduate. He made his first team debut on 28 October 2014 in a 2014–15 Coupe de la Ligue round of 32 home match against AC Ajaccio, replacing Jean Deza after 86 minutes; Montpellier lost the match 1–0.[3]

On 31 August 2015, Mounié was loaned to Nîmes Olympique of Ligue 2 for the rest of the 2015–16 season.[4] He was the club's top scorer for the season, with 11 goals in 33 competitive matches, all of them scored during the league campaign.

On 29 June 2016, Mounié extended his contract with Montpellier by two years to 30 June 2019.[5]

On 11 March 2017, Mounié scored for the fifth consecutive Ligue 1 match in a 3–2 home loss to Nantes; it was his 13th league goal of the season.[6]

Huddersfield Town

On 5 July 2017, Mounié joined newly-promoted Premier League club Huddersfield Town on a four-year deal for a club record fee of €13 million (£11.5 million) plus add-ons. The record fee surpassed the previous record £8 million (initial fee) that the club spent on Aaron Mooy from Manchester City a week earlier.[7]

Mounié made his competitive debut on 12 August 2017, scoring twice in Huddersfield's first match in the division, a 3–0 win at Crystal Palace.[8] On 11 February 2018, he scored, assisted Mooy and forced an own goal in a 4–1 home win over AFC Bournemouth.[9]

Career statistics

Club
As of 7 March 2020[10]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Montpellier 2014–15 Ligue 1 000010—10
2015–16 200000—20
2016–17 35141021—3815
Total 37141031004115
Nîmes (loan) 2015–16 Ligue 2 32111000—3311
Huddersfield Town 2017–18 Premier League 2873200—319
2018–19 3121000—322
2019–20 Championship 2381010—258
Total 82175210008819
Career total 1504172410016144

    International
    As of match played on 17 November 2019.[11]
    Benin
    YearAppsGoals
    201520
    201631
    201740
    201841
    2019125
    Total257

    International goals
    Scores and results list Benin's goal tally first.[11]
    No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
    1.23 March 2016Juba Stadium, Juba, South Sudan South Sudan2–02–12017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
    2.17 November 2018Independence Stadium, Bakau, Gambia Gambia1–01–32019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
    3.24 March 2019Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin Togo2–12–1
    4.18 June 2019Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco Mauritania1–03–1Friendly
    5.2–1
    6.3–1
    7.13 October 2019Stade Charles de Gaulle, Porto-Novo, Benin Zambia1–12–2

    References
    1. "Benin" (PDF). Confederation of African Football. 15 June 2019. p. 3. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
    2. "Benin – S. Mounié – Soccerway – Results, fixtures, tables and statistics". Soccerway. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
    3. "Montpellier vs Ajaccio 0–1". Soccerway. 29 October 2014.
    4. "Trois recrues pour Nîmes". L'Équipe. 31 August 2015.
    5. "Montpellier : Steve Mounié prolonge son contrat". L'Équipe. 29 June 2016.
    6. "Sala nets winner as Nantes beat Montpellier". ligue1.com. 11 March 2017.
    7. "Steve Mounie: Huddersfield sign Montpellier striker for a club-record fee". BBC. 5 July 2017.
    8. Doyale, Paul. "Steve Mounié double gives Huddersfield perfect start against Crystal Palace". The Guardian.
    9. "Huddersfield Town 4–1 Bournemouth". BBC Sport. 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
    10. Steve Mounié at Soccerway. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
    11. Steve Mounié at National-Football-Teams.com
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