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Bryan Mbeumo
Mbeumo while with Troyes in 2018
Personal information
Full name Bryan Tetsadong Marceau Mbeumo[1]
Date of birth (1999-08-07) 7 August 1999 (age 25)[2]
Place of birth Avallon, France
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[3]
Position(s) Forward, right winger
Team information
Current team
 Brentford
Number 19
Youth career
2005–2011 CO Avallonais
2011–2012 Bourgoin-Jallieu
2012–2013 CO Avallonais
2013–2016 Troyes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Troyes II 33 (14)
2018–2019 Troyes 41 (11)
2019– Brentford 218 (63)
International career‡
2015 France U17 1 (0)
2018–2019 France U20 3 (0)
2019–2020 France U21 6 (1)
2022– Cameroon 22 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:41, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:00, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Bryan Tetsadong Marceau Mbeumo (French pronunciation: [bø.mo];[4] born 7 August 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or right winger for Premier League club Brentford and the Cameroon national team.

He is a product of the ES Troyes AC academy, and began his senior career there in 2018. He transferred to Brentford in 2019, and was a member of their squad which gained promotion to the Premier League in 2021. Although he had been capped by France at youth level, Mbeumo decided to represent Cameroon, and made his full international debut for them in 2022. At the end of that year, he was included in Cameroon's FIFA World Cup squad, playing in three matches.

Club career

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Troyes

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A left-footed winger with a preference for playing on the right,[5] Mbeumo joined Troyes at the age of 14. He graduated to the club's reserve team in the 2016–17 season.[2][6] He was in the Troyes U-19 team which won the 2018 Coupe Gambardella, scoring twice in the final at the Stade de France.[7]

Mbeumo made his senior debut for the club in a 1–0 Ligue 1 win over Metz on 17 February 2018, and made three further appearances during the 2017–18 season,[2] which culminated in Troyes' relegation to Ligue 2.[7] Mbeumo became a first-team regular in the 2018–19 season, making 40 appearances and scoring 11 goals.[2] Troyes reached the Ligue 2 promotion play-off semi-finals.[7] He departed the Stade de l'Aube in August 2019, having made 46 senior appearances, and scoring 12 goals.[2][6]

Brentford

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2019–2021

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On 5 August 2019, Mbeumo moved to England to join Championship club Brentford on a five-year contract, for a club record fee of £5.8 million.[6][8] He made 47 appearances and scored 16 goals in the 2019–20 season.[9] Brentford reached the 2020 Championship play-off final, but were defeated 2–1 by Fulham.[10] Mbeumo's performances were recognised with a nomination for the EFL Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards at the 2020 London Football Awards.[11]

Mbeumo's goalscoring dropped off during the "difficult" COVID-19-affected 2020–21 season.[12] By March 2021, however, his ten assists and four goals helped him gain another nomination for the EFL Player of the Year award, at the 2021 London Football Awards.[13] Mbeumo finished the season with eight goals in 49 appearances, and Brentford qualified for the Premier League by winning the 2021 Championship play-off final, in which they defeated Swansea City 2–0.[14][15]

2021–22 season

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Mbeumo was deployed as a forward alongside Ivan Toney early in the 2021–22 season and by his 11th Premier League appearance,[16][17] he had scored two goals and hit the woodwork seven times.[18][19] Mbeumo's first hat-trick of his career (scored in a 4–1 FA Cup third round win over Port Vale on 8 January 2022) was also the first scored by a substitute in Brentford history; it earned him a place in the Team of the Round, and a nomination for Player of the Round.[20] Three weeks later, he signed a new four-year contract, with a one-year option.[21] Mbeumo ended the 2021–22 season with eight goals in 38 appearances; in addition, he tied with Raphinha for the record of most woodwork hits during a Premier League season,[18] with seven.[22]

2022–23 season

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During the 2022–23 pre-season friendlies, Mbeumo proved his versatility by at times being deployed as a wing back in a 3–4–3 formation.[23] He made 39 appearances in all competitions, scoring 9 goals.[24] Mbeumo's 9 goals (all scored in league matches) more than doubled that of the previous season, with head coach Thomas Frank remarking that Mbeumo "has grown more and more to be a key player for us. He works very hard on his finishing".[25]

2023–24 season

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Starting the 2023–24 season on the right hand side of a front three alongside Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade,[5][26] Mbeumo's five goals across seven appearances in August and October 2023 saw him nominated for the Premier League Player of the Month award for each month.[27][28] In the absence of the suspended Ivan Toney, he became the team's first-choice penalty taker.[29] Mbeumo scored two further goals before missing three months after undergoing surgery on a "bad" ankle injury suffered during a 2–1 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion on 6 December.[30][31][32] He ended the 2023–24 season with 27 appearances and nine goals.[30]

2024–25 season

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Following the departure of Ivan Toney and a long-term injury suffered by new forward signing Igor Thiago, Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa again led Brentford's forward line during the early months of the 2024–25 season.[33] Good goalscoring form saw Mbeumo nominated for the Premier League Player of the Month award in August and October 2024 and January 2025.[34][35][36] His October performances also won him a nomination for the PFA Premier League Fans' Player of the Month award.[37]

International career

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Mbeumo lining up for France U20 in 2019

Mbeumo won 10 caps and scored one goal for France at U17, U20 and U21 level.[38] In August 2022, following a meeting in London with Samuel Eto'o, Mbeumo declared his senior international allegiance to the Cameroon national team.[39] He made 9 appearances and scored one goal during the 2022–23 season, with three appearances coming during Cameroon's 2022 World Cup campaign,[40] prior to the team's group stage exit.[41] After appearing in three of Cameroon's four 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches and scoring one goal,[40] injury ruled Mbeumo out of the final tournament.[32]

Personal life

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Mbeumo has a Cameroonian father and a French mother.[42]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 1 May 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Troyes II 2016–17[2] CFA 2 12 5 ― ― ― 12 5
2017–18[2] Championnat National 3 21 9 ― ― ― 21 9
Total 33 14 ― ― ― 33 14
Troyes 2017–18[2] Ligue 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 ― 4 0
2018–19[2] Ligue 2 35 10 1 0 3 1 1[c] 0 40 11
2019–20[2] Ligue 2 2 1 ― ― ― 2 1
Total 41 11 1 0 3 1 1 0 46 12
Brentford 2019–20[9] Championship 42 15 1 0 1 0 3[d] 1 47 16
2020–21[14] Championship 44 8 0 0 2 0 3[d] 0 49 8
2021–22[18] Premier League 35 4 1 3 2 1 ― 38 8
2022–23[24] Premier League 38 9 0 0 1 0 ― 39 9
2023–24[30] Premier League 25 9 0 0 2 0 ― 27 9
2024–25[43] Premier League 34 18 1 0 3 0 ― 38 18
Total 218 63 3 3 11 1 6 1 238 68
Career total 292 88 4 3 14 2 7 1 317 94
  1. ^ Includes Coupe de France, FA Cup
  2. ^ Includes Coupe de la Ligue, EFL Cup
  3. ^ Appearance in Ligue 2 promotion play-offs
  4. ^ a b Appearances in Championship play-offs

International

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As of match played 25 March 2025[40]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Cameroon 2022 6 0
2023 8 3
2024 6 2
2025 2 1
Total 22 6
Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mbeumo goal.
List of international goals scored by Bryan Mbeumo
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 10 June 2023 Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego, United States  Mexico 1–0 2–2 Friendly [44]
2 12 September 2023 Roumdé Adjia Stadium, Garoua, Cameroon  Burundi 1–0 3–0 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification [45]
3 17 November 2023 Japoma Stadium, Douala, Cameroon  Mauritius 1–0 3–0 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification [46]
4 11 June 2024 Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda, Angola  Angola 1–0 1–1 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification [47]
5 11 October 2024 Japoma Stadium, Douala, Cameroon  Kenya 3–1 4–1 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification [48]
6 25 March 2025 Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium, Yaoundé, Cameroon  Libya 2–0 3–1 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

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Brentford

References

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