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| Full name | Jérémie Boga[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1997-01-03)3 January 1997 (age 28)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Marseille, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Attacking midfielder,winger | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Nice | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2009 | ASPTT Marseille | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2015 | Chelsea | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | Chelsea | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | →Rennes (loan) | 27 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | →Granada (loan) | 26 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | →Birmingham City (loan) | 31 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2022 | Sassuolo | 99 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | →Atalanta (loan) | 15 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Atalanta | 23 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Nice | 61 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | France U19 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Ivory Coast | 25 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10 June 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Jérémie Boga (born 3 January 1997) is a professionalfootballer who plays as anattacking midfielder orwinger forLigue 1 clubNice. Born in France, he plays for theIvory Coast national team.
Coming throughChelsea's youth system, Boga spent the 2015–16 season on loan toRennes and the 2016–17 season withGranada, also on loan, before making his first-team debut for Chelsea in August 2017. He then joinedEFL Championship clubBirmingham City on loan for the remainder of the season. In 2018, he moved to Italian clubSassuolo on a permanent deal.
Internationally, Boga represented his native France up tounder-19 level, but then chose to play for his parents' country, Ivory Coast, at senior level. He was also eligible to represent England.
In 2008, Boga joinedChelsea from ASPTT Marseille as a youngster when he moved with his family toLondon, where his father worked. He was educated atRichard Challoner School inNew Malden.[3] After impressing in Chelsea's Academy, he earned himself his first professional contract, therefore keeping at the London-based club until 2017.[4]
He was named on the bench for Chelsea's final game of the2014–15 season, a 3–1 victory againstSunderland in thePremier League, but he remained unused.[5]
On 31 August 2015, Boga joinedRennes on a season-long loan to gain first team experience since his impressive spell in the Chelsea youth system.[6] He made his debut on 18 September, as an 82nd-minute substitute forPaul-Georges Ntep in a 1–1 draw withLille inLigue 1.[7] At the beginning of October, Boga made a single appearance for Rennes' reserve team againstGSI Pontivy, in which he scored the only goal of the game, converting a penalty in the first-half.[8] On 28 November 2015, in his first start for the team, Boga scored his first professional goal, againstStade de Reims which resulted in a 2–2 draw.[9] His second goal of the season took the Round of 64Coupe de France match againstOGC Nice into extra time. The game went to penalties, and Rennes won theshootout 7–6.[10] On 9 January 2016, Boga scored his third goal of the season in a 2–2 draw withLorient.[11]
On 6 July 2016, Boga joinedLa Liga clubGranada on a season-long loan.[12] He made his Granada debut on 20 August in a 1–1 draw withVillarreal, playing the full 90 minutes.[13] A week later, Boga scored his first goal in a 5–1 home defeat againstLas Palmas, scoring Granada's equalizer after Las Palmas took the lead through formerLiverpool playerNabil El Zhar.[14] On 2 April 2017, Boga scored the equalizing goal againstBarcelona. Granada lost the game 4–1.[15]
Boga returned to Chelsea for the 2017–18 season and unexpectedly started in their first game of the season againstBurnley. However, he was substituted in the 18th minute afterGary Cahill was sent off.[16] He signed a new three-year contract with Chelsea before, on 28 August 2017, joiningChampionship clubBirmingham City on loan for the2017–18 season.[17]
He was one of six debutants in Birmingham's next fixture, away toNorwich City. He played the whole match as his team lost 1–0,[18] and continued in the side for the next five league matches. Incoming managerSteve Cotterill imposed a fitness programme on the players, and on Boga in particular, who did not start another match for two months.[19] When he did return, in a 1–1 draw away toSheffield United on 25 November, he opened the scoring with his first goal for Birmingham. After the defence failed to clear a corner, "an unmarked Boga jinked on the edge of the area before thumping a curling effort pastBlackman's outstretched hands";[20] the goal won him the club's Goal of the Season award.[21] Two weeks later, with his side losing 1–0 away toFulham with 15 minutes left, he missed a penalty, hitting his shot too high.[22] Cotterill continued to select Boga, and he scored his second Birmingham goal with a powerful header in a 3–1 win againstSunderland in late January that lifted his team out of the relegation positions.[23] He played less under Cotterill's successor,Garry Monk, and not at all in the last few weeks of the season, as Birmingham narrowly avoided relegation.[24] In all competitions, he made 34 appearances, 25 of which were starts.[25]
On 21 July 2018, he moved toSassuolo on a permanent transfer for a fee reported to be around £3.5 million.[26]
On 24 January 2022, Boga moved toAtalanta, initially on loan, with Atalanta holding an obligation to make the deal permanent.[27] His deal was made permanent at the end of the 2021–22 season.[28] In one and a half seasons at the club, Boga contributed four goals and six assists across all competitions.[29]
On 25 July 2023,Ligue 1 sideNice announced the signing of Boga on a long-term contract, for a reported fee of €18 million.[28][29]
Boga has been capped by France atunder-16 andunder-19 levels. In April 2017, it was announced that Boga had committed to playing for the Ivory Coast internationally.[30] He was called up to theIvory Coast national team for the first time for afriendly match against theNetherlands and anAfrican Cup of Nations qualifier againstGuinea on 4 and 10 June 2017.[31] He made his debut in the latter, coming on forJean Michaël Seri in the 77th minute of a 3–2 home defeat.[32]
Boga participated in its first international competition at the2021 Africa Cup of Nations inCameroon, with eliminated in the Round of 16 byEgypt at the goal.
On 28 December 2023, he was selected from the list of 27 Ivorian players selected byJean-Louis Gasset to compete in the2023 Africa Cup of Nations.[33]
Boga was born in Marseille, France, toIvorian parents.[34]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Chelsea | 2014–15 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017–18 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Rennes (loan) | 2015–16 | Ligue 1 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 31 | 3 | |
| Granada (loan) | 2016–17 | La Liga | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 27 | 2 | ||
| Birmingham City (loan) | 2017–18 | Championship | 31 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 2 | ||
| Sassuolo | 2018–19 | Serie A | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 27 | 3 | ||
| 2019–20 | 34 | 11 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 11 | ||||
| 2020–21 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 4 | ||||
| 2021–22 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 12 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 99 | 18 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 103 | 18 | ||||
| Atalanta (loan) | 2021–22 | Serie A | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 6[c] | 1 | 22 | 2 | |
| Atalanta | 2022–23 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 2 | |||
| Total | 38 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | 6 | 1 | 47 | 4 | |||
| Nice | 2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 29 | 6 | ||
| 2024–25 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 3[c] | 1 | 24 | 2 | |||
| 2025–26 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 6[d] | 0 | 18 | 2 | |||
| Total | 61 | 9 | 1 | 0 | — | 9 | 1 | 71 | 10 | |||
| Career total | 284 | 38 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 313 | 42 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2017 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 25 | 2 | |
Scores and results list Ivory Coast's goal tally first.[35]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 8 October 2021 | Orlando Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa |  Malawi | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 2 | 6 January 2024 | Laurent Pokou Stadium, San-Pédro, Ivory Coast |  Sierra Leone | 4–0 | 5–1 | Friendly |
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