Amin Cherni

Amin Cherni
Personal information
Full name Mohammed Amin Cherni
Date of birth (2001-07-07) 7 July 2001
Place of birth Paris, France[1]
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
Göztepe
Number 15
Youth career
2010–2020 Paris FC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2021 Paris FC II 5 (0)
2021–2022 Paris 13 Atletico 20 (0)
2022–2023 Chambly 29 (3)
2023–2025 Laval 62 (6)
2025– Göztepe 1 (0)
International career
2020–2021 Tunisia U20 8 (0)
2023– Tunisia 2 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10 August 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 15:00, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Mohammed Amin Cherni (born 7 July 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Turkish Süper Lig club Göztepe. Born in France, he plays for the Tunisia national team.

Career

Cherni joined the youth academy of Paris FC at the age of 9, and spent a decade with the club eventually playing for the reserves in 2020.[2] On 29 June 2021, he moved to the crosstown club Paris 13 Atletico in the Championnat National 2 where he began his senior career.[3] The following season on 15 June 2022, he moved to Chambly under his former coach Fabien Valeri.[4] On 30 June 2023, he moved to the Ligue 2 with Laval for 2 seasons, signing his first professional contract.[5] He made his professional debut with Laval in a 1–0 Ligue 2 win over Angers on 5 August 2023.[6]

On 23 July 2025, Cherni signed a three-year contract with Göztepe in Turkey.[7]

International career

Born in France, Cherni is of Tunisian descent. He was a youth international for Tunisia, having played for the Tunisia U20s at the 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.[8] He was called up to the senior Tunisia national team for a set of 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification matches in November 2023.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Player". Ligue1.
  2. ^ "Amine Cherni, un international tunisien à Chambly - Foot amateur". 13heuresfoot. 24 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Football. Amine Cherni (FC Chambly): "Je n'étais pas assez aguerri"". Courrier picard. 3 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Chambly : un international U20 tunisien débarque (off)". Foot National. 15 June 2022.
  5. ^ Comte, Etienne (30 June 2023). "Officiel - Laval enrôle Amine Cherni".
  6. ^ "Stade lavallois. Cherni sans pression, Sanna en héros... Les notes du derby face à Angers Sco". www.oxygeneradio.com.
  7. ^ "AMİN CHERNI GÖZTEPE'MİZDE" [AMEN CHERNI IN OUR GÖZTEPE] (in Turkish). Göztepe S.K. 23 July 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  8. ^ à 07h55, Par Laurent Pruneta Le 16 février 2021 (16 February 2021). "Coupe Afrique des Nations U20 : le rêve éveillé de l'espoir du Paris FC". leparisien.fr.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Stade Lavallois : première sélection en équipe de Tunisie pour le défenseur, Amin Cherni - France Bleu". ici, par France Bleu et France 3. 9 November 2023.