Mohamed Noureddine Abdusalam Zubya (; born March 20, 1989) is a

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

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who plays for

Al-Ittihad Tripoli Al-Ittihad Sports Club () is a professional football (soccer), football club based in Bab Ben Gashier, Tripoli, Libya. They have won the Libyan Premier League 18 times, the Libyan Cup 7 times and the Libyan SuperCup 11 times. Al-ittihad reached t ...

Club career

Born in

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, he was playing with

Aschat SC Aschat Sports Club is a Libyan football club based in Tripoli, Libya. The club was founded in 1982. The club is based in the Zaweyat Addahmani region in Tripoli, near the coast. The club did enjoy success in the 1990s, winning a league title in ...

when he moved in 2006 to

Al-Ittihad Al-Ittihad may refer to: Sports Football Men Teams * Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia * Al Ittihad SCSC (Tripoli), Tripoli, Libya * Al Ittihad Gheryan, Gharyan, Libya * Al Ittihad Misurata SC, Misurata, Libya * Al Ittihad SC ...

where he stayed until 2011 and where he won 4 successive

Libyan Premier League The Libyan Premier League () is the men's top professional football division of the Libyan football league system. Administered by the Competition Organizing Committee in the Libyan Football Federation, Libyan Premier League is contested by 22 t ...

championships. In 2007 Zubya was handed a one-year ban by CAF for trying to assault the assistant referee in his side's

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match against

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. He returned after a six-month suspension and scored two goals. in the

Libyan SuperCup The Libyan Super Cup is a Libyan football championship contested between the winners of the Libyan Premier League and the Alfatih Cup. The game is played at the beginning of the following season, and signals the beginning of the domestic year. The ...

final against Al Akhdar. In August 2011, Zubya sign for Al Arabi Kuwait. On June 11, Zubya agreed a four-year contract with Serbian team Partizan. After passing medical exams and after reaching an agreement with Al-Arabi, Zubya officially signed on June 12 and was prepared to join his new teammates as it was designated as priority by Partizan manager

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to have the team complete as soon as possible to start preparing the team for the

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qualification which were a little more than a month away. Zubya made his debut for Partizan in club's first official match of the season, on July 17, 2012, in a

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second qualifying round first-leg match, away, against

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. Zubya was released from his Partizan contract in January 2013. In November 2013, Zubya sign for

JS Kabylie Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie (Kabyle grammar, Kabyle: Ilemẓiyen inaddalen n leqvayel; Berber languages, Tamazight: ⵉⵍⵎⵣⵢⵏ ⵉⵏⴰⴷⴰⵍⵏ ⵏ ⵍⵇⵠⴰⵢⵍ; ), known as JS Kabylie or simply JSK, is an Algerian profession ...

. He then played with

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in the

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.Mohamed Zubya
at National-Football-Teams.com In April 2023, Zubya was kidnapped by an armed group, says the human rights committee in Liby

International career

Zubya played for the Libya national football team, Libyan national team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.Mohamed Zubya
at

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.com

International goals

:''Scores and results list Libya's goal tally first.''

Honours

Al Ittihad Tripoli *

: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2021 *

Libyan Cup The Libyan Cup is the main knock-out competition for football clubs in Libya. History *The Libyan Cup competition started in 1976. *From the year 1978 to the year 1995 the Libyan Cup was played only 3 times, The LPL's runner-up was named (''non ...

: 2007, 2009, 2018 *

: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Al Arabi Kuwait *

Kuwait Crown Cup The Crown Prince Cup () is a Kuwaiti annual football competition created in 1994. Previous winners *1994: Al-Kuwait *1995: Kazma *1996: Al Arabi *1997: Al Arabi *1998: Qadsia *1999: Al Arabi *2000: Al Arabi *2001: Al-Salmiya *2002: Qadsi ...

: 2011–12 Partizan *

Serbian SuperLiga The Serbian Super League (), also known as Mozzart SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Serbia and the highest level of the Serbian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a sys ...

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Riffa SC *

Bahraini Premier League The Bahraini Premier League is the main domestic football competition in the kingdom of Bahrain. Currently known as the Nasser bin Hamad Premier League, the first season was held in 1956-1957. The winners of the domestic championship qualify f ...

: 2014 Esperance Tunis *

: 2016–17 Individual *

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best goalscorer with

MC Oran (), known as , commonly referred to as MC Oran for short, is an Algerian professional Association football, football club based in Oran. Founded on 1 January 1917, the club was known as Mouloudia Chaâbia Ouahrania from 1971 to 1977, Mouloudia P ...

: 2015–16 (13 goals)

References

External links

*
Player Profile @ Goalzz.com
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zubya, Mohamed 1989 births Living people Libyan men's footballers 21st-century Libyan sportsmen Libya men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Al Ittihad SCSC (Tripoli) players Libyan expatriate men's footballers Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) players FK Partizan players Serbian SuperLiga players Expatriate men's footballers in Kuwait Expatriate men's footballers in Algeria Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Libyan expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia Libyan expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Libyan expatriate sportspeople in Algeria Libyan expatriate sportspeople in Serbia JS Kabylie players MC Oran players Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players Footballers from Tripoli, Libya Kuwait Premier League players Libyan Premier League players