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Nicolas Anelka

Anelka playing for Chelsea in 2010

Personal information

Full name

\nNicolas S\u00e9bastien Anelka^[1]

Date of birth

\n14 March 1979 (age 45)^[2]

Place of birth

\nLe Chesnay, France

Height

\n1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)^[3]

Position(s)

\nForward

Youth career

1983\u20131993

\nTrappes Saint-Quentin

1993\u20131995

\nClairefontaine^[4]

1995\u20131996

\nParis Saint-Germain

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

1996\u20131997

\nParis Saint-Germain

\n10

\n(1)

1997\u20131999

\nArsenal

\n65

\n(23)

1999\u20132000

\nReal Madrid

\n19

\n(2)

2000\u20132002

\nParis Saint-Germain

\n39

\n(14)

2001\u20132002

\n\u2192 Liverpool (loan)

\n20

\n(4)

2002\u20132005

\nManchester City

\n89

\n(37)

2005\u20132006

\nFenerbah\u00e7e

\n39

\n(14)

2006\u20132008

\nBolton Wanderers

\n53

\n(21)

2008\u20132012

\nChelsea

\n125

\n(38)

2012\u20132013

\nShanghai Shenhua

\n22

\n(3)

2013

\n\u2192 Juventus (loan)

\n2

\n(0)

2013\u20132014

\nWest Bromwich Albion

\n12

\n(2)

2014\u20132015

\nMumbai City

\n13

\n(2)

Total

\n508

\n(157)

International career

1997

\nFrance U20

\n3

\n(0)

1998\u20132010

\nFrance

\n69

\n(14)

Managerial career

2015

\nMumbai City

Medal record

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Men's football\n
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Representing $\"\"$ France\n
UEFA European Championship\n
Winner	2000	\n
FIFA Confederations Cup\n
Winner	2001	\n

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicolas S\u00e9bastien Anelka (born 14 March 1979) is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a forward. As a player, he regularly featured in his country's national team, often scoring at crucial moments. Known for his ability to both score and assist goals, he has been described as a classy and quick player, with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball, and was capable of playing both as a main striker and as a second striker.^[5]^[6]\n

Anelka began his career at Paris Saint-Germain, but soon moved to Arsenal. At Arsenal, he won the 1997\u201398 Premier League and FA Cup double. He became a first team regular and won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award the following season. He moved to Real Madrid for \u00a322.3 million in 1999. He was part of the Real Madrid team that won the 1999\u20132000 UEFA Champions League, but he did not settle in well and returned to PSG in a \u00a320 million deal. Despite regular first team football in Paris, Anelka set his eyes upon the Premier League once more, moving on loan to Liverpool in January 2002 before joining Manchester City for \u00a313 million at the start of the 2002\u201303 season.\n

After three seasons in Manchester, he moved to Turkish club Fenerbah\u00e7e for two seasons, before returning to England to join Bolton Wanderers in deals worth \u00a37 million and \u00a38 million respectively. He was then transferred to Chelsea from Bolton for a reported \u00a315 million in January 2008. At Chelsea, he won one Premier League title and two FA Cup trophies, as well as played in the 2007\u201308 UEFA Champions League final. In 2009, he won the Premier League Golden Boot award as the league's top goalscorer. During his transfers over the years, he has built an aggregate transfer cost of just under \u00a390 million.^[7] After leaving Chelsea, he had brief stints at Shanghai Shenhua, Juventus, West Bromwich Albion and Mumbai City.\n

Anelka played 69 times at international level and won his first international honours with France at UEFA Euro 2000, also winning the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup the following year. His failure to settle at club level limited his international appearances, but he returned to the national team for Euro 2008. On 19 June 2010, he was excluded by the French Football Federation (FFF) from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa for \"comments directed against the national coach, Raymond Domenech.\"^[8] He did not play again for the national team.^[9]\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup\n	League cup\n	Continental\n	Other^[a]\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Paris Saint-Germain\n	1995\u201396\n	Division 1\n	2	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	2	0\n
1996\u201397\n	Division 1\n	8	1	\u2014	1	0	1	0	\u2014	10	1\n
Total\n	10	1	\u2013	1	0	1	0	\u2013	12	1\n
Arsenal\n	1996\u201397\n	Premier League\n	4	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	4	0\n
1997\u201398\n	Premier League\n	26	6	9	3	3	0	2	0	\u2014	40	9\n
1998\u201399\n	Premier League\n	35	17	5	0	0	0	5	1	1	1	46	19\n
Total\n	65	23	14	3	3	0	7	1	1	1	90	28\n
Real Madrid\n	1999\u20132000\n	La Liga\n	19	2	0	0	\u2014	9	2	3	3	31	7\n
Paris Saint-Germain\n	2000\u201301\n	Division 1\n	27	8	0	0	1	0	9	5	\u2014	37	13\n
2001\u201302\n	Division 1\n	12	2	\u2014	0	0	7	3	\u2014	19	5\n
Total\n	39	10	0	0	1	0	16	8	\u2013	56	18\n
Liverpool (loan)\n	2001\u201302\n	Premier League\n	20	4	2	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	22	5\n
Manchester City\n	2002\u201303\n	Premier League\n	38	14	1	0	2	0	\u2014	\u2014	41	14\n
2003\u201304\n	Premier League\n	32	16	4	4	2	0	5	4	\u2014	43	24\n
2004\u201305\n	Premier League\n	19	7	\u2014	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	19	7\n
Total\n	89	37	5	4	4	0	5	4	\u2013	103	45\n
Fenerbah\u00e7e\n	2004\u201305\n	S\u00fcper Lig\n	14	4	2	0	\u2014	2	0	\u2014	18	4\n
2005\u201306\n	S\u00fcper Lig\n	25	10	6	2	\u2014	6	0	\u2014	37	12\n
2006\u201307\n	S\u00fcper Lig\n	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	2	0	\u2014	2	0\n
Total\n	39	14	8	2	\u2013	10	0	\u2013	57	16\n
Bolton Wanderers\n	2006\u201307\n	Premier League\n	35	11	3	0	1	1	\u2014	\u2014	39	12\n
2007\u201308\n	Premier League\n	18	10	\u2014	\u2014	4	1	\u2014	22	11\n
Total\n	53	21	3	0	1	1	4	1	\u2013	61	23\n
Chelsea\n	2007\u201308\n	Premier League\n	14	1	3	1	2	0	5	0	\u2014	24	2\n
2008\u201309\n	Premier League\n	37	19	5	4	0	0	12	2	\u2014	54	25\n
2009\u201310\n	Premier League\n	33	11	4	1	0	0	7	3	1	0	45	15\n
2010\u201311\n	Premier League\n	32	6	3	1	1	2	9	7	1	0	46	16\n
2011\u201312\n	Premier League\n	9	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	\u2014	15	1\n
Total\n	125	38	15	7	5	2	37	12	2	0	184	59\n
Shanghai Shenhua\n	2012\n	Chinese Super League\n	22	3	2	0	\u2014	3	1	\u2014	27	4\n
Juventus (loan)\n	2012\u201313\n	Serie A\n	2	0	\u2014	\u2014	1	0	\u2014	3	0\n
West Bromwich Albion\n	2013\u201314\n	Premier League\n	12	2	0	0	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	12	2\n
Mumbai City\n	2014\n	Indian Super League\n	7	2	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	7	2\n
2015\n	Indian Super League\n	6	0	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	6	0\n
Total\n	13	2	0	0	\u2013	\u2013	\u2013	13	2\n
Career total\n	508	157	49	17	15	3	93	29	6	4	671	210\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
France\n	1998	3	1\n
1999	7	2\n
2000	10^[a]	2\n
2001	7	1\n
2002	1	0\n
2005	2	1\n
2006	3	1\n
2007	10	3\n
2008	11	1\n
2009	9	2\n
2010	6	0\n
Total	69	14\n

No.\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n	Ref.\n
1\n	10 October 1998\n	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia\n	$\"\"$ Russia\n	1\u20130\n	3\u20132\n	UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying\n	^[165]\n
2\n	10 February 1999\n	Wembley Stadium, London, England\n	$\"\"$ England\n	1\u20130\n	2\u20130\n	Friendly\n	^[166]\n
3\n	2\u20130\n
4\n	6 June 2000\n	Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco\n	$\"\"$ Morocco\n	4\u20131\n	5\u20131\n	Friendly\n	^[167]\n
5\n	16 August 2000\n	Stade V\u00e9lodrome, Marseille, France\n	World XI\n	5\u20130\n	5\u20131\n	Friendly\n	^[168]\n
6\n	30 May 2001\n	Daegu Stadium, Daegu, South Korea\n	$\"\"$ South Korea\n	3\u20130\n	5\u20130\n	2001 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[169]\n
7\n	9 November 2005\n	Stade Pierre-Aliker, Fort-de-France, France\n	$\"\"$ Costa Rica\n	1\u20132\n	3\u20132\n	Friendly\n	^[170]\n
8\n	11 October 2006\n	Stade Auguste-Bonal, Montb\u00e9liard, France\n	$\"\"$ Faroe Islands\n	3\u20130\n	5\u20130\n	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying\n	^[171]\n
9\n	24 March 2007\n	Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium, Kaunas, Lithuania\n	$\"\"$ Lithuania\n	1\u20130\n	1\u20130\n	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying\n	^[172]\n
10\n	2 June 2007\n	Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France\n	$\"\"$ Ukraine\n	2\u20130\n	2\u20130\n	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying\n	^[173]\n
11\n	13 October 2007\n	T\u00f3rsv\u00f8llur, T\u00f3rshavn, Faroe Islands\n	$\"\"$ Faroe Islands\n	1\u20130\n	6\u20130\n	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying\n	^[174]\n
12\n	10 September 2008\n	Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France\n	$\"\"$ Serbia\n	2\u20130\n	2\u20131\n	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n	^[175]\n
13\n	10 October 2009\n	Stade de Roudourou, Guingamp, France\n	$\"\"$ Faroe Islands\n	4\u20130\n	5\u20130\n	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n	^[176]\n
14\n	14 November 2009\n	Croke Park, Dublin, Republic of Ireland\n	$\"\"$ Republic of Ireland\n	1\u20130\n	1\u20130\n	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n	^[177]\n

Early and personal life

Club career

Paris Saint-Germain

Arsenal

Real Madrid

Return to Paris Saint-Germain

Liverpool (loan)

Manchester City

Fenerbah\u00e7e

Bolton Wanderers

Chelsea

Shanghai Shenhua

Juventus (loan)

West Bromwich Albion

Mumbai City FC

International career

Retirement

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

References

External links

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