Sinaly Diomandé

{{short description|Ivorian footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Sinaly Diomandé

| image =

| upright =

| alt =

| caption =

| full_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2001|4|9|df=y}}

| birth_place = Djékanou, Ivory Coast

| height = 1.84 m{{cite web |url=https://www.ol.fr/en/football/roster/players/sinaly-diomande |title=Sinaly Diomandé |publisher=Olympique Lyonnais |access-date=9 March 2023 }}

| position = Center-back, right-back

| currentclub = Auxerre

| clubnumber = 20

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Académie JMG

| youthyears2 = {{0|0000}}–2019

| youthclubs2 = Guidars FC

| years1 = 2019–2020

| clubs1 = Lyon II

| caps1 = 18

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2020–2024

| clubs2 = Lyon

| caps2 = 72

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 2024–

| clubs3 = Auxerre

| caps3 = 11

| goals3 = 2

| nationalyears1 = 2020–

| nationalteam1 = Ivory Coast

| nationalcaps1 = 10

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| club-update = 10 January 2025

| nationalteam-update = 16 November 2022

}}

Sinaly Diomandé (born 9 April 2001) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a center-back or right-back for Ligue 1 side Auxerre and the Ivory Coast national team.{{Soccerway|id=sinaly-diomande/632510|accessdate=2 July 2023}}

Club career

Diomandé came out of the Jean-Marc Guillou academy in Abidjan, before joining the Guidars FC, in Mali. He moved to Olympique Lyonnais in September 2019 for a fee of €550,000, with bonuses rising up to €2 million.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=L'OL recrute le jeune défenseur Sinaly Diomande et prête Théo Ndicka à Bourg-en-Bresse|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/L-ol-recrute-le-jeune-defenseur-sinaly-diomande-et-prete-theo-ndicka-a-bourg-en-bresse/1055237|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 September 2020|website=L'Équipe|language=fr}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Sinaly Diomande|url=https://www.jmgfootball.com/joueurs/sinaly-diomande/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 September 2020|website=JMG Football|language=fr-FR}}

After a year of playing in Lyon's reserve team, where he became one of the players most used by Gueïda Fofana, and an impressive summer preparation, Diomande made his professional debut for Olympique Lyonnais on 18 September 2020, helping his team keep a clean sheet against Nîmes in this Ligue 1 encounter.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=19 September 2020|title=Après OL – Nîmes (0–0) : les débuts de Sinaly Diomande|url=https://www.ol.fr/fr-fr/contenus/articles/2020/09/19/apres-ol-nimes-0-0-les-debuts-de-sinaly-diomande|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 September 2020|website=OL.fr|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=6 September 2020|title=Transferts : Marçal (OL) va signer à Wolverhampton|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Transferts-marcal-ol-va-signer-a-wolverhampton/1168697|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 September 2020|website=L'Équipe|language=fr}}

On 30 August 2024, Diomandé was transferred to Auxerre, signing a three-year contract.{{cite web|url=https://www.aja.fr/sinaly-diomande-arrive-a-laja/|title=Sinaly Diomandé arrive à l’AJA|date=30 August 2024|publisher=AJ Auxerre|lang=fr}}

International career

Diomandé debuted with the Ivory Coast national team in a 1–1 friendly draw with Belgium on 8 October 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2020/10/08/world/friendlies/belgium/cote-divoire/3398187/|title=Belgium vs. Côte d'Ivoire - 8 October 2020|website=Soccerway}}

Career statistics

=Club=

{{updated|match played 10 January 2025.}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

rowspan="2"|Club

!rowspan="2"|Season

!colspan="3"|League

!colspan="2"|National cup

!colspan="2"|League cup

!colspan="2"|Europe

!colspan="2"|Other

!colspan="2"|Total

DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
rowspan="4"|Lyon II

|2019–20

|CFA 2

|16

0colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—160
2021–22

|CFA 2

|1

0colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—10
2022–23

|CFA 2

|1

0colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—10
colspan="2"|Total

!18||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||18||0

rowspan="6"|Lyon

|2019–20

|Ligue 1

|0

000000{{efn|name=UCL|Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League}}0colspan="2"|—00
2020–21

|Ligue 1

|27

040colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—310
2021–22

|Ligue 1

|11

000colspan="2"|—4{{efn|Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League}}0colspan="2"|—150
2022–23

|Ligue 1

|24

050colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—290
2023–24

|Ligue 1

|10

000colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—100
colspan="2"|Total

!72||0||9||0||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|—||85||0

Auxerre

|2024–25

|Ligue 1

|11

210colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—122
colspan="3"|Career total

!101||2||10||0||0||0||4||0||0||0||115||2

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=International=

{{updated|match played 16 November 2022}}{{NFT player |id=79712|name=Diomandé, Sinaly |access-date=19 February 2021}}

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|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year

National teamYearAppsGoals
rowspan="3"|Ivory Coast

|2020

30
202150
202220
colspan="2"|Total100

References

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