Safwan Mbaé (born 20 April 1997) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

Championnat National 3 The Championnat National 3, commonly referred to as simply National 3 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur 2, is a football league competition. The league serves as the fifth division of the French football league system behind ...

club

Bourgoin-Jallieu Bourgoin-Jallieu (; ) is a commune in the Isère department in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in France. The city had 28,834 inhabitants in 2019 and lies 35 kilometres east-southeast of Lyon. It was formed by the merger of the former comm ...

. Born in France, he plays for the Comoros national team.

Club career

Mbaé made his professional debut on 26 April 2017 in the

Coupe de France The Coupe de France (), also known in English language, English as the French Cup or less commonly as the France Cup, is the premier Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in French football organised by the French Football Fed ...

semi-final against

Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain () or simply PSG, is a French professional Association football, football club based in Paris. They compete in Ligue 1, the French football league system, top d ...

. He started the game and played the whole match in a 5–0 away loss, during which he scored an own goal in the 51st minute. In September 2020, Mbaé signed for GOAL FC on a free transfer. After spells at

Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo language, Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany. The Fortification, walled city on the English Channel coast had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth ...

FC Sète 34 FC Sète 34 was a French football club based in Sète and founded in 1901 as Olympique de Cette. The club won the French league title twice (in 1934 and 1939) and the French cup also twice (1930 and 1934). In 1934 they became the first club to w ...

and

SO Châtellerault Stade Olympique Châtellerault is a French association football club founded in 1914. It is based in Châtellerault, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France and plays in the Championnat National 3 The Championnat National 3, commonly referred to as simpl ...

, Mbaé joined newly relegated

club FC Bourgoin-Jallieu ahead of the 2024-25 season.

International career

Born in France, Mbaé is of Comorian descent and also holds Comorian nationality. Mbaé was called up by the

Comoros The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni, ...

on 23 August 2019. He made his international debut on 1 September 2021 during a 7–1 friendly win over the

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (; Seychellois Creole: ), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 155 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, ...

, the biggest win in the history of the Comoros national team.

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(in English) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mbaé, Safwan 1997 births Living people Footballers from Paris Comorian men's footballers Comoros men's international footballers French men's footballers French sportspeople of Comorian descent Men's association football defenders AS Monaco FC players CD Teruel footballers GOAL FC players US Saint-Malo players FC Sète 34 players SO Châtellerault players FC Bourgoin-Jallieu players Championnat National 2 players Tercera División players Segunda División B players French expatriate men's footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Monaco French expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Monaco Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Black French sportspeople 21st-century French sportsmen