Kebba Ceesay (born 14 November 1987) is a Gambian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played as a defender. He also holds Swedish nationality.

Career

Ceesay joined Djurgården from

IK Brage Idrottsklubben Brage, also known as IK Brage or simply Brage, is a Swedish football club located in Borlänge. The club is affiliated with Dalarnas Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Domnarvsvallen. The club colours, reflected in thei ...

at the start of the 2007 season, and made his

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football le ...

debut for

Djurgården Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, ''Kungliga Djurgården'' (), is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museu ...

in the Stockholm derby against

Hammarby IF Hammarby Idrottsförening ("Hammarby Sports Club"), commonly known as Hammarby IF or simply Hammarby ( or, especially locally, ), is a Swedish sports club located in Stockholm, with a number of member organizations active in a variety of differ ...

on 13 August 2007. He usually plays as a

right back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

even though he personally considers himself to be a

central defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

. Ceesay visited English side

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for a trial in November 2009, but no transfer was made. Ceesay made his debut for Gambia against

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playing with fellow Djurgården player

Pa Dembo Touray Pa Dembo Touray (born 31 March 1980,), is the goalkeeper coach of Prespa Birlik. He is a former Gambian football goalkeeper and national team player for Gambia. Club career Touray, an English spelling of the name "Touré", began his footballin ...

. With his contract ending after the 2012 season he declared that he wouldn't accept sitting on the bench at Djurgården. He received a contract offer from

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club

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but instead chose to sign with Polish club

Lech Poznań Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań S.A., commonly referred to as KKS Lech Poznań or simply Lech Poznań (), is a Polish professional football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation's highest division. T ...

in August 2012. On 18 July 2016 he returned to

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is nam ...

on a 2,5 year deal. Already on 13 November 2018, it was confirmed, that Ceesay had signed with

IK Sirius IK Sirius is a Swedish bandy club located in Uppsala, currently playing in Elitserien. IK Sirius were formed in 1907 and play their home games at Studenternas Idrottsplats. History IK Sirius' first success was becoming Swedish runners-up in ...

and would join the club for the 2019 season on a one-year contract.Kebba Ceesay ansluter till Sirius
siriusfotboll.se, 13 November 2018

Career statistics

Club

¹ Including

Polish SuperCup The Polish Super Cup (, ) is an annually held match between the champions of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winners or, if the Ekstraklasa champions also win the Polish Cup, the Cup's runners-up. As of 2021, the Polish Super Cup has been pl ...

Honours

Club

;Lech Poznań *

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 ...

: 2014–15 *

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, 2016

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at IK Sirius * * 1987 births Living people Gambian footballers Association football defenders Lech Poznań players Ekstraklasa players The Gambia international footballers Gambian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Poland Gambian emigrants to Sweden Naturalized citizens of Sweden Swedish footballers Sweden under-21 international footballers IK Brage players Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players Vasalunds IF players Dalkurd FF players IK Sirius players Allsvenskan players Superettan players Swedish people of Gambian descent Swedish sportspeople of African descent {{Gambia-footy-bio-stub