Livio Nabab (born 14 June 1988) is a French professional

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who plays as a striker for French

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side

US Granville Union Sportive Granville, commonly referred to as US Granville or simply Granville, is a French association football, football club based in Granville, Manche, Granville in the Lower Normandy Regions of France, region. History The club was fo ...

Club career

Nabab was born in

Les Abymes Les Abymes (; ) is the most populous commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. It is located on the west side of the island of Grande-Terre, and is part of the largest metropolitan area of Gua ...

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galant ...

. He made his professional debut for

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 ...

on 4 April 2009 in a

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game against

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. He was loaned out to

Stade Lavallois Stade Lavallois Mayenne Football Club (), also referred to as Stade Lavallois or simply Laval,Stade Laval, used by some English-speaking media outlets and journalists, is not a grammatically correct name for the club. is a Football in France, F ...

during the

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season. On 31 August 2013, he left Caen to play for

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship reasons, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Prof ...

side Arles-Avignon. Nabab played just one year of his three-year deal at Arles-Avignon, moving in July 2014 to

Auxerre Auxerre ( , , Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Auchoirre'') is the capital (Prefectures in France, prefecture) of the Yonne Departments of France, department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Par ...

. At the end of the 2014–15 season he signed a two-year deal with Belgian club

Waasland-Beveren Sportkring Beveren (SK Beveren) is a Belgian professional association football club based in Beveren, East Flanders. The club is affiliated with the founded number 4068 and has yellow and blue as its colours. The team was founded in 1936 in H ...

. In June 2016, Nabab returned to France, signing an initial one-year deal with

US Orléans Union Sportive Orléans Loiret Football (; commonly referred to as US Orléans or simply Orléans) is a French association football club based in Orléans. The club was founded in 1976 and currently play in Championnat National after being releg ...

in Ligue 2. The option in the contract depending upon Orléans avoiding relegation was triggered and he remained with the club for a second season. In July 2018, Nabab signed a two-year deal with Bourg-Péronnas in the

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. Release by Bourg-Péronnas at the end of the 2019–20 season, he dropped down a division to

with

International career

Nabab has also represented

in international competition, playing for the team at the 2010 Caribbean Cup and the

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.Lugo, Erik Francisco
"CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2011 - Full Details"
. ''RSSSF'', 21 July 2011. Retrieved on 8 July 2013.

Career statistics

Club

International

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nabab, Livio 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Les Abymes Men's association football forwards Guadeloupean men's footballers Guadeloupe men's international footballers French men's footballers French people of Guadeloupean descent Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players Belgian Pro League players Stade Malherbe Caen players Stade Lavallois players AC Arlésien players S.K. Beveren players US Orléans players Football Bourg-en-Bresse Péronnas 01 players US Granville players 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players French expatriate men's footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium 21st-century French sportsmen