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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mehdi Abeid[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1992-08-06)6 August 1992 (age 33)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Al-Raed | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 17 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Thiais | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | US Alfortville | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2010 | Lens | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Lens II | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2015 | Newcastle United | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | →St Johnstone (loan) | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | →Panathinaikos (loan) | 32 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Panathinaikos | 29 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2019 | Dijon | 73 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Nantes | 25 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Al Nasr | 29 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Khor Fakkan | 23 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | İstanbul Başakşehir | 18 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Al-Raed | 25 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | France U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Algeria U23 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Algeria | 19 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19 April 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20:30, 11 June 2021 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Mehdi Abeid (Arabic:مهدي عبيد; born 6 August 1992) is a professionalfootballer who plays as amidfielder forSaudi Pro League clubAl-Raed and theAlgeria national team.[4]
Abeid was born inMontreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France,[5] to Algerian parents fromAïn Témouchent, Algeria.[6]
Abeid joinedRC Lens in 2003 and was part of the academy team for eight years before he left to joinNewcastle United.[citation needed]
Abeid joined Newcastle United on 25 May 2011, signing a five-year contract.[7] Following his transfer, he stated:
Abeid made his debut for Newcastle United in a pre-season friendly againstDarlington, which was followed by a pitch invasion, which caused the game to be delayed for ten minutes.[8] On 20 September 2011, Abeid made his official debut for the club as a starter againstNottingham Forest in the third round of the2011–12 Football League Cup.[9] He scored his first goal in a 1–1 draw against Turkish sideFenerbahçe on 21 July 2012.[10]
On 31 January 2013, Abeid went on loan toScottish Premier League sideSt Johnstone until the end of the season.[11]
On 30 July 2013, Abeid signed a one-year loan deal withPanathinaikos. He scored his first goal in a match againstVeria. He went on to help his team achieve third place, three points behind runners-upPAOK. He contributed with seven goals and five assists in 28 appearances, being the team's second-highest goalscorer of the season.[12] On 26 April 2014, he helped Panathinaikos win theGreek Cup, their first since 2010.[13] He then helped his team win the Greek play-offs for theChampions League by scoring two goals in four games.
On 1 November 2014, three years after he signed for the club, Abeid made hisPremier League debut for Newcastle United, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 home win overLiverpool.[14] He suffered a fractured toe while on international duty withAlgeria in mid-November.[15]
On 18 August 2015, Abeid joined Panathinaikos for an undisclosed fee.[16] His excellent performance duringthe season was a passport to be called up in Algeria squad ahead ofAfrican Cup qualifiers againstEthiopia on 25 and 29 March 2016.[17]
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On 30 August 2016, the second spell of Abeid with Panathinaikos was officially terminated, since the Algerian international central midfielder joinedDijon FCO. The 24-year-old former player of Newcastle United, who failed to repeat the impressive performances of2013–14 season after his return to the Greens at summer of 2015 and was not in managerAndrea Stramaccioni's plans, signed a three-season contract with the French club, while Panathinaikos kept a percentage of his rights, in order to make some profit in case of a future transfer.[18]
In July 2019, Abeid joined Dijon'sLigue 1 rivalsFC Nantes on a free transfer following the expiration of his Dijon contract. He reportedly agreed a three-year deal with Nantes.[19]
In late January 2021, Abeid joinedUAE Pro League clubAl-Nasr for a fee of £1.35m.
On July 10, 2023, he signed a 2+1 year contract withSüper Lig clubİstanbul Başakşehir.[20]
On 25 August 2024, Abeid joined Saudi Arabian clubAl-Raed.[21]
In 2009, Abeid was a member of theFrance national under-17 team at the2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in Germany. He played in all three of France's group games, starting two of them. He has also been capped at theunder-16 andunder-18 levels.
In September 2011, Abeid said that he was considering an offer to switch allegiance and represent Algeria atunder-23 level.[6] On 30 September, sports daily Le Buteur announced that Abeid had spoken to Algeria's under-23 coachAzzedine Aït Djoudi and confirmed that he would be joining the team for a training camp in October.[22] On 8 October, he started for the team in a friendly againstUSM Alger.[23] On 13 November, he made his official debut as a starter in a 2–0 win againstSouth Africa.[24] On 16 November, he was selected as part of Algeria's squad for the2011 CAF U-23 Championship in Morocco.[25]
In November 2014, Abeid received his first international call-up to thesenior team for the2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers againstEthiopia andMali.[26] A fractured toe ruled him out of selection for both games.[15] In June 2015, he made his full international debut, coming on as a substitute for the last 5 minutes of a2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier againstSeychelles.[27]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Lens II | 2009–10 | CFA | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | 8 | 0 | |||
| 2010–11 | CFA | 11 | 3 | — | — | — | 11 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 19 | 3 | — | — | — | 19 | 3 | |||||
| Newcastle United | 2011–12 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
| 2012–13 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2014–15 | Premier League | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 16 | 0 | ||
| Total | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | ||
| St Johnstone (loan) | 2012–13 | Scottish Premier League | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Panathinaikos (loan) | 2013–14 | Super League Greece | 28 | 7 | 6 | 1 | — | 4[d] | 2 | 38 | 10 | |
| Panathinaikos | 2015–16 | Super League Greece | 24 | 3 | 6 | 1 | — | 5[d] | 0 | 35 | 4 | |
| Total | 52 | 10 | 12 | 2 | — | 9 | 2 | 73 | 14 | |||
| Dijon | 2016–17 | Ligue 1 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 28 | 3 | |
| 2017–18 | Ligue 1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 20 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19 | Ligue 1 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[e] | 0 | 29 | 3 | |
| Total | 73 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 77 | 6 | ||
| Nantes | 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 29 | 3 | |
| Career total | 194 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 232 | 26 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 2015 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 8 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 1 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 March 2019 | Mustapha Tchaker Stadium,Blida, Algeria |  Gambia | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
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