Sekou Koita

**Sekou Koita** (born 28 November 1999) is a Malian football player. He plays for Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg and the Mali national team.

## Club career

Sekou Koita started playing football for Union Sportive des Clubs de Kita and Centre Latika de Bamako. He had his first senior appearances for AS Bakaridjan, then he played for USC Kita. In 2017 he came to Austria, signing for the Austrian side  FC Red Bull Salzburg. He went on loan to FC Liefering. In 2019 he came back to Red Bull Salzburg.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|FC Liefering|2017–18|Austrian Football Second League|6|1|—|—|—|6|1||||
|2018–19|Austrian Football Second League|9|1|—|—|—|9|1||||||
|Wolfsberger AC (loan)|2018–19|Austrian Bundesliga|14|5|0|0|—|—|14|5||||
|rowspan="6"|Red Bull Salzburg|2019–20|Austrian Bundesliga|16|8|4|3|3|0|0|0|23|11|
|2020–21|Austrian Bundesliga|17|14|4|3|8|0|0|0|29|17|||
|2021–22|Austrian Bundesliga|2|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|2|1|||
|2022–23|Austrian Bundesliga|22|6|1|0|2|0|0|0|25|6|||
|2023–24|Austrian Bundesliga|5|3|2|0|1|0|0|0|8|3|||

### International

|colspan="3"|Mali||
| --- | --- | --- |
|2016|6|1|
|2019|4|1|
|2020|2|0|
|2021|5|1|
|2022|1|1|
|2023|3|0|

- _Mali score listed first, score column indicates score after each Koïta goal._

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|19 January 2016|Umuganda Stadium, Gisenyi, Rwanda||**1**–1|2–2|2016 African Nations Championship|
|2.|10 October 2019|Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa||**1**–2|1–2|Friendly|
|3.|17 November 2020|Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia||**1**–0|2–1|2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification|
|4.|9 June 2022|St. Mary's Stadium-Kitende, Entebbe, Uganda||**2**–0|3–1|2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification|

## Honours

**Red Bull Salzburg**
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
- Austrian Cup: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22

**Mali U-17**
- FIFA U-17 World Cup runner-up: 2015

**Mali U-20**
- Africa U-20 Cup of Nations: 2019

**Mali**
- African Nations Championship runner-up: 2016

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Sékou Koïta
- **fullname**: Sékou Koïta
- **image**: FC RB Salzburg gegen SK Sturm Graz(2023-05-21) 31.jpg
- **caption**: Koïta with FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg in 2023
- **birth place**: Kita, Mali, Kita, Mali
- **height**: 1.73 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
- **currentclub**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **clubnumber**: 20
- **youthclubs1**: USC Kita
- **years1**: 2018–2019
- **clubs1**: FC Liefering, Liefering
- **caps1**: 15
- **goals1**: 2
- **years2**: 2019
- **clubs2**: → Wolfsberger AC (loan)
- **caps2**: 14
- **goals2**: 5
- **years3**: 2019–
- **clubs3**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **caps3**: 62
- **goals3**: 31
- **nationalyears1**: 2015
- **nationalteam1**: Mali national under-17 football team, Mali U17
- **nationalcaps1**: 10
- **nationalgoals1**: 3
- **nationalyears2**: 2017–2019
- **nationalteam2**: Mali national under-20 football team, Mali U20
- **nationalcaps2**: 10
- **nationalgoals2**: 3
- **nationalyears3**: 2016–
- **nationalteam3**: Mali national football team, Mali
- **nationalcaps3**: 20
- **nationalgoals3**: 4
- **club-update**: 23 September 2023
- **ntupdate**: 19 June 2023 (UTC)