| Intro | Association football player |
| Is |
Athlete Football player Association football player |
| From | Senegal |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 7 January 1994, Dakar |
| Age: | 26 years |
Khaly Thiam (born 7 January 1994) is a Senegalese footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig side Gaziantepspor.
Career
Club
Thiam started his senior footballing career in 2012 in Hungary with Kaposvári Rákóczi, making 25 appearances and scoring 4 goals in two years with the Nemzeti Bajnokság I team; he also played 13 times for the team’s reserves in the second tier Nemzeti Bajnokság II. In 2014, Thiam joined fellow Hungarian top-flight club MTK Budapest and subsequently made his debut on 26 July in a league match against Pécsi MFC. 47 appearances and 3 goals in his first two seasons came prior to him leaving MTK to complete a loan move to Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire on 4 May 2016. He scored one goal, vs. Philadelphia Union, in twenty games in the United States before returning to Hungary.
On 25 January 2017, Thiam joined Süper Lig side Gaziantepspor on a three-and-a-half year contract.
Career statistics
Club
- As of 26 January 2017.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Kaposvári Rákóczi | |||||||||||
| 2012–13 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 11 | 1 | ||
| 2013–14 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | 25 | 4 | ||
| Total | 25 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | 36 | 5 | ||
| Kaposvári Rákóczi II | |||||||||||
| 2012–13 | 13 | 3 | — | — | — | 13 | 3 | ||||
| 2013–14 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 13 | 3 | — | — | — | 13 | 3 | ||||
| MTK Budapest | |||||||||||
| 2014–15 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | — | 27 | 2 | ||
| 2015–16 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 35 | 2 | ||
| 2016–17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 47 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 4 | |
| Chicago Fire (loan) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 23 | 2 | |||
| Total | 20 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 23 | 2 | |||
| Gaziantepspor | |||||||||||
| 2016–17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| Career Total | 105 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 134 | 14 | |