Mendyl with Schalke 04 in 2018
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | (1997-10-21) 21 October 1997 (age 26) | ||
| Place of birth | Casablanca, Morocco | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Left back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | OH Leuven | ||
| Number | 20 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2010 | Wydad AC | ||
| 2010–2015 | Mohammed VI Academy | ||
| 2016–2017 | Lille | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2017 | Lille II | 26 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | Lille | 13 | (0) |
| 2018–2022 | Schalke 04 | 12 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | → Dijon (loan) | 18 | (1) |
| 2021–2022 | → Gaziantep (loan) | 22 | (1) |
| 2022– | OH Leuven | 48 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2015 | Morocco U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Morocco U20 | 6 | (1) |
| 2016– | Morocco | 20 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 March 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 July 2022 | |||
Hamza Mendyl (Arabic: حمزة منديل; born 21 October 1997) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a left back for Belgian Pro League club OH Leuven and the Morocco national team.
Mendyl made his professional debut in a 1–0 Ligue 1 win for Lille over Caen on 16 February 2017.[2]
On 17 August 2018, Mendyl joined Schalke 04 on a five-year deal.[3]
Mendyl was born in Casablanca, Morocco to an Ivorian father and a Moroccan mother.[4] He played for various youth Moroccan sides,[5][6] before debuting for the senior Morocco national football team in a 2–0 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification win over São Tomé and Príncipe.[7]
In May 2018 he was named in Morocco's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[8]
Mendyl married Moroccan Instagram star Maroua Ourahali in late 2018. They had their honeymoon in the Maldives and now have a son together called Cayden, who was born on 20 February 2020. Hamza is a close friend of fellow footballer Amine Harit.[citation needed]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup[a] | Europe[b] | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Lille | 2016–17 | Ligue 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
| 2017–18 | Ligue 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 14 | 0 | ||
| Total | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 16 | 0 | |||
| Schalke 04 | 2018–19 | Bundesliga | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
| 2020–21 | Bundesliga | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| Total | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |||
| Dijon (loan) | 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 20 | 1 | |
| Gaziantep (loan) | 2021–22 | Süper Lig | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 23 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 65 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 80 | 2 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 2016 | 5 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 0 | |
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Oud-Heverlee Leuven – current squad
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