Benjamin Leroy
 Leroy withAjaccioin 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 April 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Cucq,France | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Quevilly-Rouen | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Châteauroux | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2014 | Tours | 108 | (0) |
| 2014–2016 | Evian | 58 | (0) |
| 2016–2018 | Dijon | 1 | (0) |
| 2018–2023 | Ajaccio | 164 | (0) |
| 2023– | Quevilly-Rouen | 36 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 June 2024 | |||
Benjamin Leroy(born 7 April 1989) is a French professionalfootballerwho plays as agoalkeeperforChampionnat NationalclubQuevilly-Rouen.
Club career
[edit]Leroy started his career withChâteaurouxbefore joiningToursin 2009 and made his senior debut in the 0–1 defeat away toSedanon 27 May 2011. Since the following season, Leroy became a regular in the first team and played over 100 league matches for Tours until the end of the 2013–14Ligue 2campaign.
In July 2014, he moved toLigue 1sideEvianon a four-year contract.[1]Halfway through the2014–15 season,Leroy became the starter replacingJesper Hansenin goal.[2]Evian suffered relegation at the end of the season,[3]and Leroy continued as the starter in the2015–16 Ligue 2 season.[4]
On 17 June 2016, Leroy signed a three-year contract withDijon.[5]
On 19 June 2018, after being a backup toBaptiste Reynet,Leroy signed withAjaccio.[6]He grew into a starter for the club, and in the2019–20 seasonhe was voted into the Ligue 2 Team of the Season byFrance Football.[7]His strong performances continued, and in the2021–22 season,he was also voted into theUNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Year.[8]
Honours
[edit]Individual
- France FootballTeam of the Season:2019–20[7]
- UNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Year:2021–22[8]
References
[edit]- ^"Accord pour Benjamin Leroy"(in French). Evian Thonon Gaillard Football Club. Archived fromthe originalon 3 July 2014.Retrieved8 July2014.
- ^"Thonon Évian FC – Appearances Ligue 1 2014/2015".WorldFootball.HEIM:SPIEL.Retrieved13 May2022.
- ^"37e journée 2015: Evian relégué en Ligue 2".L'Internaute(in French). 17 May 2015. Archived fromthe originalon 26 July 2015.Retrieved13 May2022.
- ^"Thonon Évian FC – Appearances Ligue 2 2015/2016".WorldFootball.HEIM:SPIEL.Retrieved13 May2022.
- ^"Transfert: Benjamin Leroy s'engage avec Dijon".L'Equipe(in French). 17 June 2016.Retrieved22 August2016.
- ^Steven Couzigou (19 June 2018)."Ajaccio: Un gardien de Dijon arrive (off.)".foot-national.com(in French).Retrieved21 June2018.
- ^ab"L'équipe type de FF de la saison de Ligue 2".France Football(in French). 4 May 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 23 December 2021.Retrieved6 November2022.
- ^abUNFP [@UNFP](15 May 2022)."Un onze-type qui a vu la vie en rose cette saison, ne cuvée 2021-2022 qui a fière allure, n'est-ce pas"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
External links
[edit]
- Benjamin Leroy profileat foot-national.com
- Benjamin Leroyat FootballDatabase.eu
- Benjamin Leroy– French league stats atLFP– also availablein French(archived)
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- People from Cucq
- Footballers from Pas-de-Calais
- French men's footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- LB Châteauroux players
- Tours FC players
- Thonon Evian Grand Genève FC players
- Dijon FCO players
- AC Ajaccio players
- US Quevilly-Rouen Métropole players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- French football goalkeeper stubs