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Samuel Nibombé

Belgian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ138474291 ↗
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Samuel Kondi Nibombe (born 15 August 2007) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Monaco.

Club career

Born in Mons, in Wallonia, Belgium, Samuel Nibombé is the son of Togo international footballer Daré Nibombé, who then played for RAEC Mons.

He is a youth product of Mons, Anderlecht and Charleroi, from where he joined the Monaco youth academy in the summer 2023, signing his first professional contract with the Ligue 1 club.

In March 2025, he signed a new contract with Monaco lasting until 2027.

Having become a leader of Monaco youth team in both the under-19 championships and the Youth League, he also appeared on the bench on several occasion with the first team during the 2024–25 season. But his progress was halted by a cardiac accident during a youth game in May 2025, coming back on the pitch half a year later, and eventually making his way back with the first team in December 2025.

Nibombé made his professional debut with Monaco in a 2–2 Champions League draw with reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain on 25 February 2026.

International career

Born in Belgium, Nibombé also has Togolese origins. He is a youth international for Belgium, having played for all the youth teams between under-15 and under-19, regularly captaining the selections.

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“Samuel Nibombé” enters the record as belgian association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Samuel, Nibombé and Belgian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Nibombé” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.