.JPG) Bony with Swansea City in 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Wilfried Guemiand Bony[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 December 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bingerville, Ivory Coast | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Maracanã Bingerville | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | Cyril Domoraud Academy | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Issia Wazi | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | → Sparta Prague B (loan) | 14 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Sparta Prague | 59 | (22) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Vitesse | 65 | (46) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Swansea City | 54 | (25) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Manchester City | 36 | (6) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | → Stoke City (loan) | 10 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Swansea City | 22 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | → Al-Arabi (loan) | 7 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Al-Ittihad | 10 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | NEC Nijmegen | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Always Ready | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2019 | Ivory Coast | 56 | (16) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 May 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:26, 14 July 2019 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Wilfried Guemiand Bony (born 10 December 1988) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
Having begun his career at Issia Wazi, Bony moved to Sparta Prague in 2007, helping them to the Czech First League title in 2009–10. In January 2011, he was signed by Dutch club Vitesse, where he was the top scorer in the Eredivisie in 2012–13, leading to a £12 million transfer to Premier League club Swansea City. Bony scored 35 goals in 70 appearances for the Swans and in January 2015, joined Manchester City in a £28 million deal. However, he struggled for match-time, and following the arrival of Pep Guardiola in mid-2016, he joined Stoke City on loan for the 2016–17 season. Bony returned to Swansea in August 2017. After his loan spell with Al-Arabi, he was released by Swansea in May 2019 to leave on 30 June.[3] In 2020, he signed a contract with Al-Ittihad, but in a mutual agreement with the club he left after playing ten games in the ten months with the team.
Internationally, Bony made his debut for Ivory Coast, in 2010, and was selected in the squads for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, helping them to victory in 2015.
- ^ "Barclays Premier League Squad Numbers 2013/14". Premier League. 16 August 2013. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ^ "Bony". Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "Wilfried Bony: Ivory Coast striker leaves Swansea alongside several senior players". BBC Sport. 18 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.