Ayoub Jabbari (born 30 January 2000) is a Moroccan professional

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who plays as a

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for French club

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Club career

Born in

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, Jabbari represented hometown side

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before moving to

C'Chartres Football C'Chartres Football, or simply C'Chartres, is a football club based in Chartres, France. The club was founded in 2018 by the merger of FC Chartres and Chartres Horizon. The club were demoted by the DNCG to Régional 1 at the end of the 2022– ...

on a trial period in 2019. On 12 February 2020, however, he signed a contract with

SM Caen Stade Malherbe Caen (; commonly known as SM Caen, Malherbe, or simply Caen) is a French professional football team, based in the city of Caen in Normandy, that competes in the Championnat National from 2025–26 after relegation from Ligue 2 i ...

until 2023, being initially assigned to the reserve team in

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. On 14 December 2020, Jabbari was loaned to

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side

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until the end of the season. The following 31 August, he terminated his contract with Caen. On 2 February 2022, Jabbari moved to Spain and joined

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, being assigned to the B-side in Segunda División RFEF. He made his first team debut on 9 October, coming on as a late substitute for

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in a 1–0

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away win over

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Personal life

Jabbari's older brother

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is also a footballer. A

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, he also represented Chartres.

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