Serhou Guirassy

Serhou Guirassy has been with Borussia Dortmund since 2024. Having scored 35 goals in his first season, he was instrumental in BVB securing fourth place in the league and the quarter-finals in the UEFA Champions League. After Erling Haaland, he is the second Dortmund player to finish a season as top scorer in the Champions League, scoring 13 times in his 14 Champions League matches. In the league, he scored four times in the 6-0 home win over Union Berlin – the first team he has managed that feat as a professional. 14 of his 21 goals in the Bundesliga either gave his side the lead, equalised or brought Dortmund back within one goal.

“I am very happy to be with such a big club like Borussia Dortmund. My season is going well, I am one of the top scorers in the Bundesliga and also in the Champions League. But you can always improve," he told the BORUSSIA members’ magazine during the past season and described his ambition: “I have a winning mentality – I always want to win. I grew up with it. Of course, that’s not always possible, but you have to carve out every opportunity. And if we don't win, I'm very unhappy – the whole team are, and that’s my mentality anyway.”

Serhou Yadaly Guirassy was born on 12 March 1996 in Arles in southern France and grew up in Montargis in the Centre-Val de Loire region in northern France. The son of Guinean parents, he started playing football at the age of six, but it was only when he was 14 that his performances really started catching the eye. Second division team Stade Laval brought him into their U16 setup. Five months before his 18th birthday, he played his first second division match. In the summer of 2015, he moved to OSC Lille in the top tear, but failed to hit the net in the first half of the season and was sent on loan to second division side AJ Auxerre, where he had in fact had an unsuccessful trial four and a half years earlier.

Just one year later, in July 2016, the then 20-year-old moved to the Bundesliga, joining 1. FC Köln. Due to injury, however, he was limited to just six appearances as a substitute in his inaugural season in Cologne. In total, he made 45 appearances for Cologne in the first and second tiers up to December 2018, as well as in the DFB-Pokal and the Europa League, in which he scored nine goals in total.

He returned to the German Bundesliga in September 2022 after spells with French first division team SC Amiens (38 games, 13 goals) and Stade Rennes (81 appearances, 25 goals) and signed with VfB Stuttgart on transfer deadline day. He really caught the eye during Stuttgart’s relegation battle, scored in every second game of his first 22 Bundesliga matches for VfB, including a goal and an assist in the relegation play-offs against Hamburger SV. In May 2023, Stuttgart signed him on a permanent basis, and the following season he scored 17 times in 14 games before the winter break. He also played a big part in the second half of the season, helping Stuttgart finish the 2023/24 season as runners-up. In 58 competitive games for VfB, Guirassy was involved in an outstanding 49 goals (44 goals, five assists).

Serhou Guirassy played for French youth teams from the U16s, playing at the U19 Euros in 2015, where he reached the semi-finals with his team. On 25 March 2022, he made his debut for the national team of Guinea, the home country of his parents.