Hemeya Tanjy

Hemeya Tanjy (born 1 May 1998) is a Mauritanian footballer who plays as a forward for Mauritanian club Nouadhibou and the Mauritania national team.

Hemeya Tanjy
Personal information
Full name Hemeya Tanjy[1]
Date of birth (1998-05-01) 1 May 1998[1]
Place of birth Teyarett, Mauritania[2]
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Al-Ittihad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Tidjikja (16)
2018–2023 Nouadhibou ? (111)
2023– Al-Ittihad 0 (0)
International career‡
2016 Mauritania U20 2 (2)
2018 Mauritania U23 0 (0)
2018– Mauritania 34 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 June 2023

Club career

Tanjy grew up playing street football in the streets of his hometown of Nouakchott.[3] He played for local teams such as Skok Club and Zamzam club before he was discovered by the National Football Academy, where he spent a few years.[3]

Tanjy made his senior debut with topflight club Tidjikja, where he played for three years.[4] He finished as the league's leading scorer in the 2017–18 season.[5]

Tanjy signed a two-year deal with Nouadhibou in June 2018.[6] In his first year with the club, he scored the game-winning goal in the title-clinching match against ASAC Concorde.[7]

He finished as the leading scorer in the 2020–21 season, scoring 19 goals in 18 matches.[5]

In December 2022, Tanjy became the first player in league history to score 100 goals.[8]

International career

Tanjy played for the national under-20 team during the 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifiers in 2016, scoring twice in two matches.[9]

In May 2018, he was named to the 22-man squad selected to play at the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualifiers.[10]

He received a callup up to the senior national team in January 2018 ahead of the 2018 African Nations Championship.[11] He made his senior international debut during the first group stage match against Morocco on 13 January, replacing Moussa Samba in the 77th minute of an eventual 4–0 defeat.[12] Mauritania was eliminated in the group stage.

He was called up yet again for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt,[13] though he did not appear in any games.[3]

On 9 October 2020, Tanjy scored his first senior international goal in a 2–1 friendly win over Sierra Leone. He scored his second international goal on 22 June 2021, netting the second goal in a 2–0 win over Yemen that qualified Mauritania to the FIFA Arab Cup.[14] In November 2021, Tanjy was named to the final squad for the FIFA Arab Cup.[15]

Career statistics

International
As of match played 29 March 2021[16]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Mauritania 201850
201980
202021
202111
Total162

International goals
Scores and results list Mauritania's goal tally first.[16]
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.9 October 2020Stade Cheikha Ould Boïdiya, Nouakchott, Mauritania Sierra Leone2–12–1Friendly
2.6 December 2021Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah, Qatar Syria2–12–12021 FIFA Arab Cup

Honours

Nouadhibou

Individual

  • Super D1 best young player: 2016–17
  • Super D1 top scorer (Golden Boot): 2017–18, 2020–21, 2022–23

References
  1. "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021: List of players: Mauritania" (PDF). FIFA. 4 December 2021. p. 7. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  2. "Hemeya Tanjy". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  3. "No limits for talented Tanjy as Mauritania chase World Cup breakthrough". Confederation of African Football. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  4. "الطنجي.. واعد يهدد مركز بسام في منتخب موريتانيا". kooora.com (in Arabic). 11 May 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  5. "الطنجي ينال لقب هداف الدوري الموريتاني". kooora.com (in Arabic). 19 June 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  6. "نواذيبو يتعاقد مع نجوم تجكجه ويطيح بلكصر من كأس الرئيس / صور". zahraa.mr (in Arabic). 8 June 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  7. "أف سي نواذيبو بطلاً لموريتانيا 2019". alakhbar.info (in Arabic). 21 April 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  8. "الدوري: 9 جولات من دون هزيمة لنواذيبو وإنجازٌ "تاريخي" للطنجي". essahraa.net (in Arabic). 7 December 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  9. "Hemeya Tanjy, l'étoile montante du football mauritanien" (in French). akhbarnouadhibou.info. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  10. "Les « Mourabitounes U-23 en stage à Tunis pour préparer les éliminatoires de la CAN 2019" (in French). saharamedias.net. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  11. "CHAN 2018: LES 23 DE LA MAURITANIE" (in French). Africa Top Sports. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  12. "Morocco 4–0 Mauritania".
  13. Ismail, Ali (22 May 2019). "Mauritania reveal squad ahead of AFCON". KingFut. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  14. "منتخب المرابطين يفوز على نظيره اليمني". essaha.net (in Arabic). 22 June 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  15. Zikpi, Alfred (20 November 2021). "Coupe arabe de la FIFA : La liste de la Mauritanie connue". Africa Top Sports (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  16. Hemeya Tanjy at National-Football-Teams.com


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