.jpg) Aboubakar with Beşiktaş in 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Vincent Aboubakar[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 January 1992[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Garoua, Cameroon[3] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[4] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Hatayspor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Coton Sport | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Coton Sport | 15 | (19) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Valenciennes | 72 | (9) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Valenciennes B | 4 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Lorient | 37 | (17) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2020 | Porto | 83 | (36) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | → Beşiktaş (loan) | 27 | (12) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Porto B | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Beşiktaş | 26 | (15) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Al Nassr | 34 | (12) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Beşiktaş | 38 | (18) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Hatayspor | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Cameroon U20 | 14 | (22) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010– | Cameroon | 107 | (41) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 November 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 November 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Vincent Aboubakar (born 22 January 1992) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Hatayspor and captains the Cameroon national team.
Aboubakar began his career at Coton Sport and moved to Europe in 2010, playing for Ligue 1 clubs Valenciennes and Lorient, totalling 109 appearances and 26 goals in France's top division. In 2015, he signed for Porto, where he played 125 games and scored 58 goals, winning a Primeira Liga title. He won the Turkish Süper Lig while on loan at Beşiktaş in 2017, and again in 2021.
Aboubakar has earned over 100 caps for Cameroon since his international debut in May 2010. He is currently the third-highest scorer in the history of the national team, behind only Samuel Eto'o and Roger Milla. He was part of their squads for the 2010, 2014 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, as well as the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023. Aboubakar scored the winning goal in the final of the 2017 tournament, and was the top goalscorer of the 2021 edition.
- ^ "Vincent Aboubakar". Turkish Football Federation. Archived from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™: List of Players: Cameroon" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ "Vincent Aboubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts". 30 May 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "Vincent Aboubakar". Beşiktaş J.K. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.