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Merwan Ifnaoui

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Merwan Ifnaoui
Ifnaoui with Red Star in 2024
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-10-22) 22 October 1998 (age 27)
Place of birth Colombes, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Troyes
Number 10
Youth career
La Garenne-Colombes
Asnières
Red Star
Gennevilliers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2019 Gennevilliers
2019–2020 Lagoa
2020–2023 Racing Club de France 39 (12)
2023–2025 Red Star 81 (5)
2025– Troyes 26 (4)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 11 May 2026

Merwan Ifnaoui (born 22 October 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Troyes.[2]

Career

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Born in Colombes, France,[1] Ifnaoui grew up in the Agnettes neighbourhood of Gennevilliers.[3] He played youth football for La Garenne-Colombes, Asnières and Red Star before returning to Gennevilliers at U19 level, where he captained the team in the 2018–19 season.[3] He had a stint with a Portuguese club in Lagoa, Azores.[3]

From 2020 Ifnaoui played for Racing Club de France.[3] He contributed seven goals and seven assists in the first half of the 2022–23 season with the club being in contention for promotion to Championnat National.[3]

Ifnaoui joined Red Star of the third-tier Championnat National in February 2023.[3] The transfer fee paid to Racing Club de France Football was reported as €50,000.[3]

During October 2023 he made three assists scoring once and was nominated for the player of the month award.[3] On 11 May 2024, the French Football Federation awarded him the title of best player in the Championnat National for the 2023–24 season.[4] At the time, he had scored three goals and provided seven assists in 32 league appearances.[4]

On 27 June 2025, Ifnaoui signed a two-year contract with Troyes.[5]

Personal life

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Born in France, Ifnaoui is of Moroccan descent.[6]

Career statistics

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As of match played 26 August 2024[2]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Coupe de France Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Racing Club de France 2020–21 Championnat National 3 30—30
2021–22 Championnat National 3 225—225
2022–23 Championnat National 2 147—147
Total 3912—3912
Red Star 2022–23 Championnat National 140—140
2023–24 Championnat National 33310343
2024–25 Ligue 2 2 0 0 0 2 0
Total 39310403
Career total 7815107915

Honours

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Racing Club de France

Red Star

Individual

  • Championnat National best player: 2023–24[4]

References

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  1. 1 2 Merwan Ifnaoui at WorldFootball.net
  2. 1 2 Merwan Ifnaoui at Soccerway. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pruneta, Laurent (6 November 2023). ""Ces joueurs-là donnent du bonheur aux gens" : Merwan Ifnaoui, la révélation du Red Star en National" ["These players give happiness to people": Merwan Ifnaoui, the revelation of Red Star in National]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 Sermaise, Florian (11 May 2024). "National : Merwan Ifnaoui (Red Star) meilleur joueur de la saison" [National: Merwan Ifnaoui (Red Star) best player of the season]. Foot National (in French). Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  5. ↑ "Merwan Ifnaoui est Bleu et Blanc" [Merwan Ifnaoui is Blue and White] (in French). ES Troyes AC. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  6. ↑ نيوز, زووم (12 May 2024). "مروان افناوي.. قصة نجاح لاعب المغربي الذي أبهر عالم كرة القدم في فرنسا".
  7. ↑ "Et le Racing CF renaît". www.fff.fr. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  8. ↑ Garlan, Victor (26 April 2024). "Le Red Star sacré champion de National". Foot Mercato (in French). Retrieved 27 August 2024.
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