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Jérôme Onguéné
Cameroonian footballer (born 1997)
Jérôme Junior Onguéné (born 22 December 1997) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Swiss club Servette, on loan from the German Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt, and the Cameroon national team.
 Onguéné with Cameroon at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jérôme Junior Onguéné[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1997-12-22) 22 December 1997 (age 26) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mbalmayo, Cameroon | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Servette (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt) | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 68 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | AS Illzach Modenheim | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Sochaux | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Sochaux | 45 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | VfB Stuttgart | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 17 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → FC Liefering (loan) | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2022 | Red Bull Salzburg | 56 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | → Genoa (loan) | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Eintracht Frankfurt | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | → Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | → Servette (loan) | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | France U16 | 16 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | France U17 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | France U18 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | France U19 | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | France U20 | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Cameroon | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 December 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:56, 10 August 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
On 31 January 2017, Onguéné moved to VfB Stuttgart.[3] He was loaned to FC Red Bull Salzburg on 31 August 2017 until the end of the season.[4] In June 2018 Onguéné moved permanently to Salzburg.[5]
On 15 January 2021, Onguéné moved to Serie A club Genoa, on a loan until the end of the season.[6] The loan included an option to buy.[6]
On 25 March 2022, Onguéné signed a five-year contract with Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany, effective 1 July 2022.[7] On 5 January 2023, Onguéné returned to Red Bull Salzburg on loan until the end of the season having failed to make an appearance for Frankfurt.[8] He did not make any appearances for Red Bull during this stint, mostly dealing with knee issues. On 4 August 2023, Onguéné moved on a new loan to Servette in Switzerland.[9]
Onguéné won the 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship with France. In August 2018 Onguéné switched his allegiance to Cameroon and was nominated for the match against Comoros in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group B.[10] He made his debut for Cameroon in a 1–0 win over Malawi national football team on 12 October 2018.[11]
Club
- As of match played 8 December 2021[12]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Sochaux II | 2013–14 | CFA 2 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 2014–15 | CFA 2 | 19 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 19 | 0 | |||||
| 2015–16 | CFA 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 27 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 27 | 0 | ||||||
| Sochaux | 2014–15 | Ligue 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2015–16 | Ligue 2 | 32 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 39 | 1 | |||
| 2016–17 | Ligue 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 0 | |||
| Total | 45 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | — | 57 | 1 | ||||
| VfB Stuttgart II | 2016–17 | Regionalliga Südwest | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
| FC Liefering (loan) | 2017–18 | Austrian First League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 2017–18 | Austrian Bundesliga | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 22 | 5 | ||
| Red Bull Salzburg | 2018–19 | Austrian Bundesliga | 13 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | — | 22 | 3 | ||
| 2019–20 | Austrian Bundesliga | 23 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 6 | 1 | — | 34 | 2 | |||
| 2020–21 | Austrian Bundesliga | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | — | 15 | 1 | |||
| 2021–22 | Austrian Bundesliga | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | — | 18 | 2 | |||
| Total | 73 | 11 | 17 | 1 | — | 21 | 1 | — | 111 | 13 | ||||
| Genoa (loan) | 2020–21 | Serie A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 4 | 0 | |||
| Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 2022–23 | Austrian Bundesliga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career total | 154 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 204 | 14 | ||
- Red Bull Salzburg
- France U19
- Cameroon
- Africa Cup of Nations bronze: 2021[13]
- "FIFA U-20 World Cup Republic of Korea 2017: List of players" (PDF). 9 June 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- "Jérôme Onguéné". Eintracht Frankfurt. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- "Jérôme Onguéné sign VfB". VfB Stuttgart. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- "Jérôme Onguéné released on loan". VfB Stuttgart. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- "Jérôme Onguéné makes permanent Salzburg move". VfB Stuttgart. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- "Onguene done deal for Genoa". Football Italia. January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- "Jérôme Onguéné to join in the summer". Eintracht Frankfurt. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- "Jerome Onguene signs loan deal until summer". www.redbullsalzburg.at/en. 5 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- "JÉRÔME ONGUÉNÉ PRÊTÉ AU SERVETTE FC" [JÉRÔME ONGUÉNÉ LOANED TO SERVETTE FC] (in French). Servette FC. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- "Comores-Cameroun : Les 23 de Clarence Seedorf" (in French). Cameroonian Football Federation. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- Jérôme Onguéné at Soccerway
- AfricaNews (2022-02-06). "Cameroon beats Burkina Faso to end AFCON 2021 in third place". Africanews. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- Jérôme Onguéné at the French Football Federation (in French)
