Personal information | |||
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Full name | Thievy Guivane Bifouma Koulossa[1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 13 May 1992||
Place of birth | Saint-Denis, France | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Esteghlal Khuzestan | ||
Number | 23 | ||
Youth career | |||
1999–2006 | CS Meaux | ||
2006–2010 | Strasbourg | ||
2010–2011 | Espanyol | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2011 | Espanyol B | 6 | (3) |
2011–2016 | Espanyol | 32 | (4) |
2012–2013 | → Las Palmas (loan) | 38 | (11) |
2014 | → West Bromwich Albion (loan) | 6 | (2) |
2014–2015 | → Almería (loan) | 29 | (4) |
2015–2016 | → Granada (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2016 | → Reims (loan) | 14 | (4) |
2016–2017 | Bastia | 14 | (2) |
2017 | Osmanlıspor | 17 | (1) |
2017–2018 | Sivasspor | 28 | (6) |
2018–2019 | Ankaragücü | 13 | (1) |
2019–2020 | Yeni Malatyaspor | 31 | (8) |
2020–2021 | Shenzhen | 9 | (0) |
2021 | → Heilongjiang Ice City (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2022 | Bursaspor | 10 | (1) |
2022–2023 | OFI | 11 | (0) |
2023–2024 | A.E. Kifisia | 29 | (2) |
2024– | Esteghlal Khuzestan | 6 | (3) |
International career‡ | |||
2011 | France U20 | 1 | (0) |
2012–2013 | France U21 | 3 | (0) |
2014– | Congo | 41 | (16) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:21, 21 October 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 September 2023 |
Thievy Guivane Bifouma Koulossa (born 13 May 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Persian Gulf Pro League club Esteghlal Khuzestan.
He spent most of his early career in Spain, totalling 68 La Liga games and eight goals for Espanyol, Almería and Granada in addition to a season on loan at Las Palmas in the Segunda División. As well as brief spells in England with West Bromwich Albion and France with Reims and Bastia, he represented four clubs in Turkey's Süper Lig.
Formerly a youth international for France, where he was born, Bifouma made his senior debut for the Congo in 2014. He competed at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, where he was joint top scorer.