Seidu Yahaya

Seydou Yahaya
Personal information
Date of birth	31 December 1989 (age 34)
Place of birth	Accra, Ghana
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
2004–2006	Tema Youth
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–2009	Tema Youth
2008–2009	→ Anagennisi Karditsa (loan)
2009–2010	AEK Athens
2010–2012	Maccabi Haifa
2012–2015	Astra Giurgiu
2015–2017	Sheriff Tiraspol
2018	Dinamo Minsk
2019	Al-Fayha
2019	Dinamo Minsk
2020	Liepāja
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 December 2020

Seidu Yahaya (born 31 December 1989) is a former Ghanaian footballer.

Career

Yahaya started his professional career at Tema Youth in 2006.^[1] In 2008, Yahaya was transferred from Tema Youth to Anagennisi Karditsa on a loan deal, where he featured 29 times for the Canaries all making it in the starting eleven. From Anagennisi he made it to AEK Athens where he featured five times.^[2] Although he made some good appearances in the start of the 2009–2010 season, including his first Europa League game against Everton at the Goodison Park in England, Yahaya fell out of favor with Dusan Bajevic quickly and was never featured again.

He was signed by Maccabi Haifa in 2010. In the first season with Maccabi Haifa Yahaya won the championship and lost in the cup final. Maccabi Haifa exercised Yahaya's contract option for the next three years where he left his previous number 18 shirt for his favorite number 6 shirt.

On the 20 June 2012, he signed a three-year contract with Liga I club Astra Giurgiu,^[3] which ended On 30 June 2015. He joined Sheriff Tiraspol on 14 June 2015 through where he won the Moldovan Supercup in his first game against Milsami Orhei.

Honours

Maccabi Haifa

Israeli Premier League (1): 2010–11
Israel State Cup Runner-up (2): 2010–11, 2011–12

Astra Giurgiu

Sheriff Tiraspol

Moldovan National Division (2): 2015–16, 2016–17
Moldovan Cup (1): 2016–17
Moldovan Super Cup (1): 2015

References

^ "Kotoko stop Gunners from firing". Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
^ "AEK Athens Profile". Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
^ "Astra bought a ghanese midfielder". Gazeta Sporturilor. Retrieved 20 June 2012.

External links

Seidu Yahaya at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Seidu Yahaya at Soccerway

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[1] "Kotoko stop Gunners from firing". Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2009.

[2] "AEK Athens Profile". Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2009.

[3] "Astra bought a ghanese midfielder". Gazeta Sporturilor. Retrieved 20 June 2012.

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