| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (2005-02-23)23 February 2005 (age 20) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Reims, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Wydad AC | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –2014 | SC Tinqueux | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2024 | Stade de Reims | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | →Bologna (loan) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Bologna | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Reims B | 25 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024–2026 | Bologna | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025–2026 | →Foggia (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Wydad AC | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | France U17 | 14 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | France U18 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Morocco U20 | 16 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 4 January 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20 October 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Naïm Byar (Arabic:نعيم بيار; born 23 February 2005) is a professionalfootballer who plays as amidfielder forWydad AC. Born in France, he represents Morocco internationally at youth level.
Byar was born on 23 February 2005. Born inReims, France, he is the son of Najim.[1]
As a youth payer, Byar joined theyouth academy of French sideSC Tinqueux. Following his stint there, he joined the youth academy of French sideStade de Reims in 2014.
Ahead of the2023–24 season, he joined the youth academy of ItalianSerie A sideBologna FC 1909 and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2024.
On 7 January 2026, Byar signed withWydad AC in Morocco.[2]
Byar is a Morocco and France youth international. During the autumn of 2025, he played for theMorocco national under-20 football team at the2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[3]
Byar plays as amidfielder and is right-footed. Italian news websiteMondoPrimavera wrote in 2024 that he is "a central midfielder who can also play as an attacking winger, he has made himself available both as a deep-lying midfielder in the build-up phase and as an attacking midfielder, operating behind the two forwards".[4]
Morocco U20