.jpg) Ndicka withEintracht Frankfurt in 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Obite Evan Ndicka[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1999-08-20)20 August 1999 (age 26)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Roma | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | F.C.A. Paris 19ème | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Solitaires Paris-Est F.C. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2017 | Auxerre | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Auxerre | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2023 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 134 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Roma | 82 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | France U16 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | France U17 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | France U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | France U19 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | France U20 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | France U21 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Ivory Coast | 27 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 February 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10 January 2026 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Obite Evan Ndicka (born 20 August 1999) is a professionalfootballer who plays as acentre-back forSerie A clubRoma. Born in France, he plays for theIvory Coast national team.
Ndicka is an academy graduate ofAuxerre and made his senior debut for the club in January 2017, aged 17. He spent the next season-and-half at the club, making 14 senior appearances before joiningBundesliga sideEintracht Frankfurt in July 2018.
Ndicka was born inParis to a Cameroonian father and an Ivorian mother.[4][5]
Having joinedLigue 2 sideAuxerre at the age of 13, Ndicka progressed through the club's academy and made his professional debut on 27 January 2017, starting in a 1–0 win overClermont.[6][7] He signed his first professional contract with the club on 5 February.[6] He ultimately made 14 appearances for the club over the next season and half before signing forBundesliga sideEintracht Frankfurt for a reported fee of €5.5m.[8]
On 5 July 2018, Ndicka signed for German clubEintracht Frankfurt on a five-year deal.[9] He quickly became an important member of the first-team squad and featured regularly for the club in the league and theEuropa League.[citation needed] In February 2019, his performances earned him the Bundesliga Rookie of the Month award, a monthly title awarded to the highest performing under-23 player in a particular month, and saw him also nominated for the Rookie of the Season award.[10][11] From then, he missed only one match for the remainder of the season as the club narrowly missed out onChampions League qualification.[12]
Having been a part of the side that won the2021–22 UEFA Europa League,[13][14] in June 2023 Ndicka officially left Eintracht after five seasons, following the expiration of his contract.[15][16]
On 21 June 2023, Ndicka signed forSerie A clubRoma on a five-year contract.[17] On 14 April 2024, during a match againstUdinese in the Serie A at the 73rd minute, Ndicka collapsed due to chest pain; he was eventually taken away on a stretcher, although conscious.[18] The match was abandoned fifteen minutes later with a 1–1 draw.[19] The club stated later that Ndicka was conscious and taken to a hospital for "further checks".[20]
On 28 November 2024, Ndicka scored his first goal for the club in a 2–2 away draw againstTottenham Hotspur in theUEFA Europa League.[21] During the 2024–25 season, he became the first Roma outfield player since 2004 to play every minute of all 38 league matches without being substituted.[22]
Ndicka represented France atU16 andU17 level and was called up to theU18 team for the first time bymanagerBernard Diomède in March 2017.[23][24] He then went on to play for every French youth squad up to theUnder-21 national team.[25]
In June 2023, he officially switched his allegiance toIvory Coast,[26] subsequently receiving his first official call-up by the senior national team for the2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match againstZambia;[27][28] however, he was eventually forced to withdraw from the squad, due tobureaucratic issues.[29] He finally debuted with the Ivory Coast in a 1–02023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification win overLesotho on 9 September 2023.[30]
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.[31] On 11 February 2024, he won the2023 Africa Cup of Nations with theIvory Coast with CoachEmerse Fae.
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Auxerre | 2016–17 | Ligue 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2017–18 | Ligue 2 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 0 | |||
| Total | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 16 | 0 | ||||
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 2018–19 | Bundesliga | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 9[c] | 0 | — | 36 | 1 | ||
| 2019–20 | Bundesliga | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | 8[c] | 1 | — | 34 | 2 | |||
| 2020–21 | Bundesliga | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 25 | 3 | ||||
| 2021–22 | Bundesliga | 32 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 11[c] | 0 | — | 44 | 4 | |||
| 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 30 | 1 | 5 | 1 | — | 8[d] | 0 | 1[e] | 0 | 44 | 2 | ||
| Total | 134 | 10 | 12 | 1 | — | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 183 | 12 | |||
| Roma | 2023–24 | Serie A | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9[c] | 0 | — | 34 | 0 | ||
| 2024–25 | Serie A | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 11[c] | 1 | — | 51 | 1 | |||
| 2025–26 | Serie A | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 8[c] | 1 | — | 28 | 1 | |||
| Total | 82 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 28 | 2 | — | 113 | 2 | ||||
| Career total | 230 | 10 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 64 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 312 | 14 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Ivory Coast | 2023 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024 | 15 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 27 | 0 | |
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