_20_(Cherif_Ndiaye).jpg) Ndiaye withRed Star Belgrade in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pape Cherif Ndiaye | ||
| Date of birth | (1996-01-23)23 January 1996 (age 29) | ||
| Place of birth | Dakar,Senegal[1] | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Samsunspor | ||
| Number | 19 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Grand Yoff FC | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2019 | Waasland-Beveren | 9 | (0) |
| 2019–2021 | Gorica | 52 | (15) |
| 2020–2021 | →Göztepe (loan) | 39 | (10) |
| 2021–2022 | Göztepe | 30 | (10) |
| 2022 | Shanghai Port | 24 | (9) |
| 2023 | Adana Demirspor | 14 | (9) |
| 2023–2025 | Red Star Belgrade | 60 | (31) |
| 2025– | Samsunspor | 7 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2024– | Senegal | 8 | (1) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10 October 2025 | |||
Pape Cherif Ndiaye (born 23 January 1996) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as aforward forSüper Lig clubSamsunspor and theSenegal national team.[3]
Ndiaye joined Waasland-Beveren from the Senegalese club Grand Yoff FC.[4] He made his debut for Waasland-Beveren in a 1–0 loss on 21 January 2017 toK.V. Oostende.[5]
Ndiaye played atGöztepe (2020–21, 2021–22 seasons) andAdana Demirspor (2022–23 half term, 2023) teams in Turkey. After going to China, SH Port, on 28 January 2023, Ndiaye returned to Turkey on loan toAdana Demirspor with an option to buy.[6] He made a good performance by scoring 4 goals in 6 matches played by Adana Demirspor in theUEFA Europa Conference League qualifying round matches on 2023–24 season. The option to buy was exercised on 1 July 2023.
After Adana Demirspor failed to qualify for theUEFA Conference League, Ndiaye's excellent start to the season did not go unnoticed. In the last minutes of 4 September, Ndiaye inks a three-year contract, with an option for another year, with theUEFA Champions League participantRed Star Belgrade, in a transfer worth €4 million,[7] along with KoreanHwang In-beom. In his new team, he made hisUEFA Champions League debut againstManchester City match.[8] His first score in that League is againstYoung Boys on 4 October 2023.[9] 23 September 2024, he scored ahat-trick in theEternal derby againstPartizan Belgrade and becoming the first player to do so in 56 years sinceStevan Ostojić on 17 November 1968.[10]
Ndiaye made his debut for theSenegal national team on 6 June 2024 in aWorld Cup qualifier againstDR Congo at theDiamniadio Olympic Stadium. He substitutedNicolas Jackson in the 90th minute as the game ended in a 1–1 draw.[11]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Waasland-Beveren | 2016–17 | Belgian First Division A | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2017–18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1 | |||
| 2018–19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 1 | 13 | 1 | |||
| Gorica | 2018–19 | Croatian First Football League | 17 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 17 | 8 | ||
| 2019–20 | 33 | 7 | 3 | 4 | — | — | 36 | 11 | ||||
| 2020–21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 52 | 15 | 3 | 4 | — | — | 55 | 19 | ||||
| Göztepe (loan) | 2020–21 | Süper Lig | 39 | 10 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 40 | 12 | ||
| Göztepe | 2021–22 | Süper Lig | 30 | 10 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 33 | 12 | ||
| Shanghai Port | 2022 | Chinese Super League | 24 | 9 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 9 | ||
| Adana Demirspor (loan) | 2022–23 | Süper Lig | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 12 | 8 | ||
| Adana Demirspor | 2023–24 | Süper Lig | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6[b] | 4 | — | 8 | 5 | |
| Red Star | 2023–24 | Serbian Superliga | 28 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 6[c] | 1 | — | 39 | 15 | |
| 2024–25 | 29 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 10[c] | 2 | — | 42 | 22 | |||
| 2025–26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | |||
| Total | 60 | 31 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 38 | ||
| Career total | 227 | 84 | 16 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 270 | 104 | ||
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