Bryan Tetsadong Marceau Mbeumo (; born 7 August 1999) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for club

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. Born in France, he plays for the Cameroon national team. Mbeumo is a product of the

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academy, and began his senior career there in 2018. He transferred to Brentford in 2019, and was a member of their squad which gained promotion to the Premier League in 2021. Although he had been capped by

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at youth level, Mbeumo decided to represent Cameroon, and made his full international debut for them in 2022. At the end of that year, he was included in Cameroon's

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squad, playing in three matches.

Club career

Troyes

A left-footed winger with a preference for playing on the right, Mbeumo joined

at the age of 14. He graduated to the club's

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in the 2016–17 season. He was in the Troyes U-19 team which won the 2018 Coupe Gambardella, scoring twice in the final at the

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. Mbeumo made his senior debut for the club in a 1–0

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win over

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on 17 February 2018, and made three further appearances during the 2017–18 season, which culminated in Troyes' relegation to

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. Mbeumo became a first-team regular in the 2018–19 season, making 40 appearances and scoring 11 goals. Troyes reached the Ligue 2 promotion play-off semi-finals. He departed the

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in August 2019, having made 46 senior appearances, and scoring 12 goals.

Brentford

2019–2021

On 5 August 2019, Mbeumo moved to England to join

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club

on a five-year contract, for a club record fee of £5.8 million. He made 47 appearances and scored 16 goals in the 2019–20 season. Brentford reached the 2020 Championship play-off final, but were defeated 2–1 by

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. Mbeumo's performances were recognised with a nomination for the EFL Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards at the 2020 London Football Awards. Mbeumo's goalscoring dropped off during the "difficult"

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-affected 2020–21 season. By March 2021, however, his ten assists and four goals helped him gain another nomination for the EFL Player of the Year award, at the 2021 London Football Awards. Mbeumo finished the season with eight goals in 49 appearances, and Brentford qualified for the

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by winning the 2021 Championship play-off final, in which they defeated

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2–0.

2021–22 season

Mbeumo was deployed as a forward alongside Ivan Toney early in the 2021–22 season and by his 11th

appearance, he had scored two goals and hit the

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seven times. Mbeumo's first

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of his career (scored in a 4–1

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third round win over Port Vale on 8 January 2022) was also the first scored by a substitute in Brentford history; it earned him a place in the Team of the Round, and a nomination for Player of the Round. Three weeks later, he signed a new four-year contract, with a one-year option. Mbeumo ended the 2021–22 season with eight goals in 38 appearances; in addition, he tied with Raphinha for the record of most

hits during a Premier League season, with seven.

2022–23 season

During the 2022–23 pre-season friendlies, Mbeumo proved his versatility by at times being deployed as a wing back in a 3–4–3 formation. He made 39 appearances in all competitions, scoring 9 goals. Mbeumo's 9 goals (all scored in league matches) more than doubled that of the previous season, with head coach Thomas Frank remarking that Mbeumo "has grown more and more to be a key player for us. He works very hard on his finishing".

2023–24 season

Starting the 2023–24 season on the right hand side of a front three alongside Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade, Mbeumo's five goals across seven appearances in August and October 2023 saw him nominated for the

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award for each month. In the absence of the suspended Ivan Toney, he became the team's first-choice

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taker. Mbeumo scored two further goals before missing three months after undergoing surgery on a "bad" ankle injury suffered during a 2–1 defeat to

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on 6 December. He ended the 2023–24 season with 27 appearances and nine goals.

2024–25 season

Following the departure of Ivan Toney and a long-term injury suffered by new forward signing Igor Thiago, Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa again led Brentford's forward line during the early months of the 2024–25 season. Good goalscoring form saw Mbeumo nominated for the Premier League Player of the Month award in August and October 2024 and January 2025. His October performances also won him a nomination for the PFA Premier League Fans' Player of the Month award.

International career

Mbeumo won 10 caps and scored one goal for France at U17,

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and U21 level. In August 2022, following a meeting in London with

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, Mbeumo declared his senior international allegiance to the Cameroon national team. He made 9 appearances and scored one goal during the 2022–23 season, with three appearances coming during Cameroon's

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campaign, prior to the team's group stage exit. After appearing in three of Cameroon's four 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches and scoring one goal, injury ruled Mbeumo out of the

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Personal life

Mbeumo has a Cameroonian father and a French mother.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mbeumo goal.''

Honours

Brentford *

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Individual *

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References

External links

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at the Brentford F.C. official website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mbeumo, Bryan 1999 births Living people People from Avallon Footballers from Yonne Cameroonian men's footballers French men's footballers Men's association football forwards Men's association football wingers FC Bourgoin-Jallieu players ES Troyes AC players Brentford F.C. players Championnat National 3 players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players English Football League players Premier League players France men's youth international footballers France men's under-21 international footballers Cameroon men's international footballers 2022 FIFA World Cup players Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers French expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England French expatriate sportspeople in England Black French sportspeople French sportspeople of Cameroonian descent Cameroonian people of French descent 21st-century Cameroonian sportsmen 21st-century French sportsmen