Daylam Meddah (born 6 October 2002) is a French professional

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who plays as a

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for club Pau.

Career

Meddah is a youth product of the academies of ES du Mont-Gaillard and

Le Havre Le Havre is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the Seine, river Seine on the English Channel, Channe ...

. On 20 July 2019, he signed his first professional contract with

, signing a 3-year contract. He began his career with the reserves of

. He briefly joined the reserves of

Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...

on 18 August 2021. He transferred to

Sochaux Sochaux () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Geography Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris. Population Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''. Economy ...

on 16 June 2022, signing a 3-year contract. He made his professional debut with Sochaux in a 0–

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tie with

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on 1 August 2022, coming on in the 70th minute. On 3 February 2025, Meddah was loaned to Pau.

Personal life

Meddah was born in

Montivilliers Montivilliers ( or ) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A large light industrial and farming town by the banks of the river Lézarde in the Pays de Caux, situated just north of ...

in Normandy, France. He holds

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and Moroccan nationalities. He has Algerian descent.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meddah, Daylam 2002 births Living people People from Montivilliers French men's footballers Moroccan men's footballers French sportspeople of Algerian descent Le Havre AC players Angers SCO players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players Stade Malherbe Caen players Pau FC players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players Men's association football midfielders 21st-century French sportsmen