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Collins Fai
Personal information
Full name Collins Ngoran Suiru Fai
Date of birth (1992-08-13) 13 August 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Bamenda, Cameroon
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Position(s) Right back, left back
Youth career
2005–2011 PWD Bamenda
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 Union Douala[2] 18 (0)
2013NQSA (loan)[2] 6 (1)
2013–2016 Dinamo București 56 (0)
2016–2022 Standard Liège 125 (3)
2022–2023 Al-Tai 34 (0)
2024 Radnički Niš 7 (0)
International career
Cameroon U21[3]
Cameroon U23[3]
2012– Cameroon[4] 56 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Cameroon
Africa Cup of Nations
Winner 2017 Gabon
Third place 2021 Cameroon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 June 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 April 2024

Collins Ngoran Fai (born 13 August 1992) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for the Cameroon national team. Mainly a right back,[5] he can also operate as a left back.

Early life

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Collins Fai was born and raised in Bamenda, a city of the English-speaking part of Cameroon. He spent his entire youth career at local PWD Bamenda.

Club career

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Aged 19, Fai joined the Cameroonian top team of Union Douala.

In 2013, Fai joined European football for the first time as he signed with the Romanian team of FC Dinamo București.

In January 2016, Fai joined Standard Liège in Belgium. On 17 March 2018, Fai played as Standard Liège beat Genk 1–0 in extra time to win the 2018 Belgian Cup Final and qualify for the UEFA Europa League.[6] On 29 January 2022, Fai joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Tai.[7]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of 8 September 2021
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dinamo București 2013–14 Liga I 11 0 1 0 12 0
2014–15 24 0 1 0 3 0 28 0
2015–16 21 0 3 0 2 0 26 0
Total 56 0 5 0 5 0 66 0
Standard Liège 2015–16 Belgian Pro League 7 0 1 0 8 0
2016–17 Belgian First Division A 18 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 24 0
2017–18 32 1 6 0 38 1
2018–19 30 1 0 0 7 0 1 0 38 1
2019–20 8 0 2 1 3 0 13 1
2020–21 19 0 1 0 8 0 28 0
2021–22 2 0 0 0 2 0
Total 116 2 10 1 23 0 2 0 151 3
Career total 172 2 15 1 5 0 23 0 2 0 217 3

International

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As of matches played on 7 December 2023[8]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Cameroon 2012 1 0
2013 0 0
2014 0 0
2015 1 0
2016 1 0
2017 15 0
2018 6 0
2019 9 0
2020 1 0
2021 6 0
2022 15 0
2023 1 0
Total 56 0

Honours

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Union Douala

Standard Liège

Cameroon

References

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  1. ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: List of players: Cameroon" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 5. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Cameroon: Fai Collins joins Romanian side Dinamo". Star Africa. 19 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b "L-a impresionat pe Mulţescu de la primul antrenament şi a semnat! Collins Fai e "câine"" (in Romanian). Prosport. 20 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Matches amicaux: Le Cameroun engagé chez les A et A'" (in French). Journal du Cameroun. 9 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  5. ^ "🇨🇲 Fai Collins completes move to Al_Tai FC as he continues to impress at AFCON". KICK442. 29 January 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Emond knikt Standard na verlengingen naar bekerwinst". Archived from the original on 21 May 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  7. ^ "الطائي يتعاقد مع الظهير الأيمن الكاميروني كولينز فاي".
  8. ^ Collins Fai at National-Football-Teams.com
  9. ^ AfricaNews. "Cameroon beats Burkina Faso to end AFCON 2021 in third place | Africanews". Africanews. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
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