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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Andy Delort[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1991-10-09)9 October 1991 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sète, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Montpellier (on loan fromMC Alger) | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Sète | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Pointe Courte AC Sète | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Sète | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Pointe Courte AC Sète | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2008 | Sète | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Ajaccio | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Nîmes | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Ajaccio | 47 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | →Metz (loan) | 13 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Tours | 38 | (24) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Wigan Athletic | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | →Tours (loan) | 14 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Caen | 36 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Tigres UANL | 14 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Toulouse | 47 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | →Montpellier (loan) | 36 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Montpellier | 59 | (26) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Nice | 46 | (22) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | →Nantes (loan) | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Umm Salal | 12 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | MC Alger | 10 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | →Montpellier (loan) | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | France (beach) | 1 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | France U20 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019– | Algeria | 15 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:52, 2 March 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 November 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
Andy Delort (Arabic:أندي ديلور; born 9 October 1991) is a professionalfootballer who plays as astriker for FrenchLigue 1 clubMontpellier, on loan fromAlgerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 clubMC Alger, and theAlgeria national team.[3]
Born in France, Delort was aFrance under-20 youth international before representing Algeria at senior level. He has also played for theFrance beach soccer team.
Delort was born in Sète, France, to a father ofRomani descent,[4] and a mother of Algerian descent.[5][6] He started his career atSète. He joinedAjaccio in 2008, having finished top scorer at France U19 league level with 30 goals.[7] After coming through Ajaccio's youth ranks, he attracted interest fromBordeaux andBorussia Dortmund. After enjoying a trial at Borussia Dortmund, playing in the reserve team withMario Götze andShinji Kagawa, Dortmund offered him a contract. However, he chose to joinNîmes because of managerJean-Michel Cavalli, claiming "a player who leapfrogs, burns his wings".[8]
Delort played his first game ofLigue 2 for Nîmes on 30 August 2009, coming on as a 53rd-minute substitute againstMetz. During the season, he was rarely used in the first team making only three substitute appearances.[7]
Delort re-joined his original club, AC Ajaccio, in June 2010. He scored his first two goals at professional level on 15 September 2010 against Le Havre in theFrench League Cup, before achieving his first goals in theCoupe de France on 12 November 2010. His first Ligue 2 goals contributed to victories againstAngers on 17 December 2010 and againstIstres. He signed his first professional contract for three and a half years with AC Ajaccio on 28 January 2011. On 11 March 2011, he was one of the players involved in a mass brawl when he was replaced in the match againstNantes. As a result of the incident, several players were given suspensions; both Delort and his teammateCarl Medjani received four-match bans.[8][9][10] He earned promotion toLigue 1 with AC Ajaccio during the2010–11 season, after finishing 2nd in the league.
On 31 January 2012, Delort signed a six-month loan deal with Ligue 2 club Metz,[11] where he scored 1 goal in 13 appearances.
He returned to AC Ajaccio for the2012–13 season, and scored his first goal in Ligue 1 on 27 April 2013 in a 2–1 win overMontpellier. In that season, he made 16 appearances in Ligue 1. In the same season, he scored 12 goals in 16 appearances for the club's reserve team.[7]
In the summer of 2013, Delort joined Ligue 2 sideTours. He finished the2013–14 season as joint top scorer in Ligue 2, scoring 24 goals in 36 matches and was named in the Ligue 2Team of the Year, as well as receiving a nomination for the Ligue 2Player of the Year, eventually finishing runner-up to Metz'sDiafra Sakho for the award.[12]
On deadline day of the summer 2014 transfer window, Delort signed forChampionship sideWigan Athletic for a fee reported to be under £3 million. He was given the number 49 shirt.[13] Delort struggled at Wigan and amassed only 11 league appearances for the club, failing to score in any of them. In an interview withHat Trick, he admitted that he had struggled to settle at Wigan following his sudden upheaval from France.[14]
Having not been able to settle well in England, Delort re-joined Tours on loan until the end of the season on transfer deadline day in the summer of 2015.[15] In doing so, he opted to take a 50% pay cut in order to obtain regular playing time again.[14]
Delort completed a transfer toCaen on 2 July 2015.[16] In his debut with Caen, he scored his first goal in a 1–0 defeat ofMarseille on 8 August 2015.[17] At the start of the following season, Delort refused to attend training during a protracted transfer saga withLiga MX sideTigres UANL.[18]
On 2 September 2016, Delort's transfer to Tigres was officially announced becoming the second French player to join the team afterAndré-Pierre Gignac. He signed a four-year contract while the transfer fee paid to Caen was reported as €8 million.[19] On 22 October 2016, he scored his first goal in Liga MX with Tigres, againstUNAM at theEstadio Olímpico Universitario in a 3–1 victory. He spent less than six months at the club, however, scoring 3 goals in 14 appearances, before returning to France to joinToulouse.
On 26 January 2017, Delort returned to France, joining Toulouse on a reported four-year contract and for a reported transfer fee of €6 million.[20] He scored on his debut for the club on 2 February, netting the opening goal in a 4–0 win overAngers, and repeated the feat in his next two appearances againstLorient andBastia.[21][22]
On 24 July 2018, Delort was loaned to Montpellier until the end of the 2018–19 season with an option to buy.[23] On 12 June 2019, Delort signed permanently with Montpellier.[24] There, he scored a total of 41 goals across all competitions, beatingOlivier Giroud's record and became the 3rd best striker of Montpellier in the 21st century.[25]
On 28 August 2021, Delort signed with fellow Ligue 1 sideNice on a 4-year deal.[26] On 21 May 2022, he scored his first Ligue 1 hat-trick in a 3–2 victory overReims.[27]
On 30 January 2023, Delort moved to fellow French clubNantes, initially on a six-month loan with an obligation to buy.[28] He scored his first two goals with Nantes during aCoupe de France quarter finals againstRC Lens on 1 March 2023.[29]
On 7 July 2023, Delort officially signed for Qatari clubUmm Salal on a two-year contract with an option for a one-year extension. The transfer fee of the deal was estimated to be €2.5 million.[30] On 12 February 2024, he terminated his contract with Umm Salal.[31]
On 11 September 2024, Delort signed with Algerian clubMC Alger on a two-year contract with an option for a one-year extension.[32]
On 29 January 2025, Delort returned to Montpellier on loan until the end of the 2024–25 season with an option to buy.[33]
Delort played in thebeach soccer team managed byEric Cantona in 2009. During an amateur tournament in Sète, he was spotted by Laurent Castro, who asked him to play in the qualification for the 2009 World Cup.[8] He scored five goals in the qualifiers.
In 2011, he was selected byFrance Under 20s team byFrancis Smerecki to play against the United States on 17 May 2011.[7] He was then called to participate in the 2011 Toulon Tournament in June with the France team, but had to pull out of the squad having suffered an injury in a league game.[34]
OfAlgerian nationality through his mother, Delort expressed an interest in representing theAlgeria national football team in April 2019.[35][36]
On 13 June 2019, the Algerian federation announced Delort's inclusion in its final squad for the2019 Africa Cup of Nations. He made his debut three days later in a friendly against Mali, coming on as a substitute forYacine Brahimi in the 75th minute and scoring the winning goal 5 minutes later in a 3–2 victory.[37]
In October 2021, Delort was not called up to the national team for the recent World Cup qualifiers. Coach Djamel Belmadi revealed at a press conference that Delort himself refused the call-up because he wanted to concentrate on his club career, having recently signed with OGC Nice. Delort confirmed this and said he wanted to take a break from the national team for a year.[38]
Delort has two children, a son and a daughter.[39] In January 2021, he received the medal of his hometown, Sète[40] from the hands of the mayor François Commeinhes.
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Ajaccio | 2010–11 | Ligue 2 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | — | 29 | 6 | |
| 2011–12 | Ligue 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | ||
| 2012–13 | Ligue 1 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 18 | 1 | ||
| Total | 47 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | — | 56 | 7 | |||
| Metz (loan) | 2011–12 | Ligue 2 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 13 | 1 | |
| Tours | 2013–14 | Ligue 2 | 36 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | 39 | 25 | |
| 2014–15 | Ligue 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| Total | 38 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | 41 | 25 | |||
| Wigan Athletic | 2014–15 | Championship | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 11 | 0 | |
| Tours (loan) | 2014–15 | Ligue 2 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 14 | 2 | |
| Caen | 2015–16 | Ligue 1 | 36 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 38 | 13 | |
| Tigres UANL | 2016–17 | Liga MX | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | 2[a] | 1 | 16 | 4 | |
| Toulouse | 2016–17 | Ligue 1 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 15 | 5 | |
| 2017–18 | Ligue 1 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 36 | 5 | ||
| Total | 47 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 51 | 10 | |||
| Montpellier (loan) | 2018–19 | Ligue 1 | 36 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 38 | 14 | |
| Montpellier | 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 31 | 12 | |
| 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 30 | 15 | 4 | 4 | — | — | 34 | 19 | |||
| 2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 2 | |||
| Total | 95 | 40 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | — | 106 | 47 | |||
| Nice | 2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 32 | 16 | 5 | 2 | — | — | 37 | 18 | ||
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | — | 4[b] | 1 | 18 | 7 | ||
| Total | 46 | 22 | 5 | 2 | — | 4 | 1 | 55 | 25 | |||
| Nantes (loan) | 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | — | 1[c] | 0 | 17 | 2 | |
| Umm Salal | 2023–24 | Qatar Stars League | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | — | 19 | 13 | |
| MC Alger | 2024–25 | Algerian Ligue 1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | 5[d] | 0 | 15 | 3 | |
| Montpellier (loan) | 2024–25 | Ligue 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 386 | 125 | 24 | 10 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 443 | 150 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 2019 | 7 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 2 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 16 June 2019 | Jassim bin Hamad Stadium,Doha, Qatar |  Mali | 3–2 | 3–2 | Friendly |
| 2. | 16 November 2020 | National Sports Stadium,Harare, Zimbabwe |  Zimbabwe | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
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