Fabien Farnolle

Fabien Farnolle

Farnolle in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Fabien Ceddy Farnolle
Date of birth	(1985-02-05) 5 February 1985
Place of birth	Bordeaux, France
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Yeni Malatyaspor
Number	30
Youth career
1995–2002	Bordeaux
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2005	Bordeaux	0	(0)
2002–2005	Bordeaux B	15	(0)
2005–2006	Vitória Setúbal	0	(0)
2005–2006	Vitória Setúbal B	4	(0)
2006–2007	Quevilly	8	(0)
2007–2008	US Lormont	0	(0)
2008–2009	Libourne	4	(0)
2009–2010	Bordeaux	0	(0)
2009–2010	Bordeaux B	15	(0)
2010–2014	Clermont Foot	109	(0)
2015	Dinamo București	0	(0)
2015–2017	Le Havre	64	(0)
2017–	Yeni Malatyaspor	27	(0)
International career‡
2003	France U18
2012–	Benin	8	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 May 2018 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 October 2015

Fabien Ceddy Farnolle (born 2 February 1985 in Bordeaux) is a French born Beninese footballer who plays for Yeni Malatyaspor as a goalkeeper.

Club career

At Bordeaux since ten years old, he was promoted to the senior side in 2002 at the age of 17. His stay in the senior side would be short lived as he would be relegated to Bordeaux's reserve side where he would remain for his entire first spell at Bordeaux. His three-year spell with the reserve side saw him play very little with fifteen appearances made over the three years playing for Bordeaux's B team. He would leave Les Girondins in the summer of 2005 for Portugal. Farnolle would sign for Primeira Liga side Vitória de Setúbal.

He would impress manager Luís Norton de Matos who would keep him in the first team squad where he would compete to be Setúbal's number one choice goalkeeper alongside Marcelo Moretto and Marco Tábuas. Despite impressing Setúbal's manager, he would be beaten to the starting line up by Marcelo Moretto. His relegation to the bench would see him be relegated to Setúbal's B team who at the time were playing in the Portuguese Second Division.

Following the end of the 2005–06 season he would leave the Sadinos and return to France to play for US Quevilly where he would remain for one season. Over the next few seasons, he would move to several different clubs in the quest to play more first team football including a return to Bordeaux where like his first spell he would end up relegated to the B team. In the summer of 2010, he left Bordeaux for Ligue 2 side Clermont Foot where he would establish himself as Clermont's first choice goalkeeper.

In February 2015, Farnolle signed a contract for three seasons with Romanian club Dinamo București. He played only one game, in the League Cup, then he became a bench-warmer and two months later decided to put an end to the deal.

Farnolle signed for Turkish club Yeni Malatyaspor in June 2017.

International career

Farnolle represented the French French under-18 side at youth level.

In 2012, Farnolle received an invitation by the Benin Football Federation to play for the Beninese national side as Farnolle had Beninese parentage who settled in France prior to his birth. Farnolle accepted the invitation and was selected by then manager Manuel Amoros for Benin's first international game of the year. He made his debut against Ethiopia in a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on 29 February.

External links

• Fabien Farnolle at National-Football-Teams.com
• Fabien Farnolle at ForaDeJogo (archived)