Eliot Matazo
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 February 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Monaco | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2018 | Anderlecht | ||
| 2018–2019 | Monaco | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2020 | Monaco II | 14 | (0) |
| 2020– | Monaco | 60 | (2) |
| 2024 | → Royal Antwerp (loan) | 19 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017–2018 | Belgium U16 | 12 | (0) |
| 2019 | Belgium U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2021– | Belgium U21 | 22 | (0) |
|
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:35, 30 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
Eliot Matazo (born 15 February 2002) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Monaco.[2]
Club career
[edit]Matazo made his professional debut for AS Monaco on 27 September 2020 in a Ligue 1 game against RC Strasbourg.[3] On 9 May 2021, he scored his first Ligue 1 goal in a 1–0 away win over Reims.[4]
On 1 February 2024, Matazo was loaned by Royal Antwerp until the end of the season.[5]
International career
[edit]Matazo was born in Belgium to a Congolese Malagasy father and Kenyan mother. He is a youth international for Belgium, having played up to the Belgium U21s.[6]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- As of 18 December 2024[7]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Monaco | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 1 | ||
| 2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 28 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 29 | 1 | ||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
| 2024–25 | Ligue 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | ||
| Total | 60 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 0 | — | 83 | 2 | |||
| Royal Antwerp (loan) | 2023–24 | Belgian Pro League | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 70 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 3 | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "Eliot Matazo". AS Monaco FC. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
- ^ Eliot Matazo at Soccerway
- ^ "Résultat et résumé Monaco - Strasbourg, Ligue 1 Uber Eats, 5e journée, Dimanche 27 Septembre 2020". L'Équipe (in French). Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Monaco Grind Out Win In Reims To Move Third". beIN SPORTS. 9 May 2021.
- ^ "RAFC HUURT ELIOT MATAZO" [RAFC LOANS ELIOT MATAZO] (in Dutch). Royal Antwerp. 1 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ "Kenyan midfielder nominated for prestigious Golden Boy award | MozzartSportKe". www.mozzartsport.co.ke.
- ^ Eliot Matazo at Soccerway
External links
[edit]- Profile at the AS Monaco FC website
- Eliot Matazo at the Royal Belgian Football Association
- Eliot Matazo – UEFA competition record (archive)
Categories:
- 2002 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Brussels
- Belgian men's footballers
- Belgium men's youth international footballers
- Belgian people of Kenyan descent
- Belgian sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
- Men's association football midfielders
- People from Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
- AS Monaco FC players
- Royal Antwerp F.C. players
- Ligue 1 players
- Championnat National 2 players
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Monaco
- Belgian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Monaco
- 21st-century Belgian sportsmen