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Folarin Balogun
Balogun with the United States in 2026
Personal information
Full name Folarin Jerry Balogun[1]
Date of birth (2001-07-03) July 3, 2001 (age 25)
Place of birth Brooklyn, New York, U.S.[2]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3]
Position Striker
Team information
Current team
 Monaco
Number 9
Youth career
Aldersbrook
2008–2020 Arsenal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2023 Arsenal 2 (0)
2022 → Middlesbrough (loan) 18 (3)
2022–2023 → Reims (loan) 37 (21)
2023– Monaco 72 (24)
International career‡
2018 England U17 4 (0)
2018 United States U18 4 (2)
2018–2019 England U18 10 (3)
2020 England U20 1 (0)
2021–2022 England U21 13 (7)
2023– United States 31 (12)
Medal record
Representing  United States
Men's soccer
CONCACAF Nations League
Winner2023
Winner2024
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of May 17, 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of July 6, 2026

Folarin Jerry Balogun (born July 3, 2001) is a professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Monaco and the United States national team.

Balogun began his career at the Arsenal Academy, and was promoted to the first team in 2020. He appeared sparingly for the club, and went on loan to EFL Championship club Middlesbrough in 2022. In the following season, he made his breakthrough during a loan to Ligue 1 club Reims, where he scored 22 goals in his first season, the highest ever for an American in a top five European league.[4] In August 2023, Balogun left Arsenal and signed for Monaco for €40 million ($43 million), where he was named the club's 2025–26 Player of the Season.[5]

Balogun represented both the United States and England at the youth international level. In May 2023, he decided to play for the U.S. senior national team. He made his debut in June 2023, winning the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League and scoring his first goal in the final.[6]

Early life

Balogun was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Yoruba Nigerian parents.[7][8] His parents were living in London, and visited New York when his mother was seven months pregnant with him. Airline staff did not allow her to board the family's return flight to London due to safety concerns over the advanced state of her pregnancy, and Balogun was subsequently born in New York.[9] He returned to the United Kingdom with his parents when he was two months old and grew up in London.[10][11][12]

Club career

Arsenal

Early career

Balogun joined Arsenal at the age of eight, after being scouted while playing for his previous Sunday League team, Aldersbrook.[13][14] Before trialling with Arsenal, he had trialled with the club's North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur and nearly signed for them.[14]

In 2017, Balogun was an integral part of Trevor Bumstead's Arsenal U16 team that won the Liam Brady Cup, defeating Bayern Munich, Manchester United, and Juventus.[15] He signed a professional contract in February 2019.[16] In July 2020, after failing to agree to a new contract with Arsenal, he was linked with a transfer away from the club, including a proposed £8 million move to Brentford.[17][18]

2020–22: Senior team debut and loan to Middlesbrough

On October 29, 2020, Balogun made his senior debut in the Europa League, coming on as a substitute in the 74th minute, in a group stage match against Dundalk.[19][20] On November 26, he scored his first senior goal, in a Europa League group stage match against Molde.[21][20]

On April 26, 2021, Balogun signed a new long-term contract with the club.[22] On August 13, Balogun made his Premier League debut in a 2–0 loss against newly promoted Brentford.[23]

On January 12, 2022, he joined EFL Championship club Middlesbrough on a loan deal until the end of the season.[24][25][26] On March 8, he scored his first goal for Boro in a 4–1 loss to Sheffield United,[27] and later scored in back-to-back wins over Birmingham City and Peterborough United.[28][29]

2022–23: Loan to Reims

In August 2022, he moved on loan to French club Reims.[30][31] Balogun scored on his debut for the club on August 7, a 4–1 defeat to Marseille; fellow Arsenal loanee Nuno Tavares, also on his debut, scored for Marseille in the match.[32] On January 29, 2023, Balogun scored a late goal in stoppage time to seal a 1–1 draw away to league leaders Paris Saint-Germain.[33] It was his eleventh goal in Ligue 1 during the season, the most of any player aged 21 or under in Europe's top five leagues.[33] Three days later, Balogun scored his first senior hat-trick in a 4–2 win over Lorient, his fourteenth goal of the season in Ligue 1.[34] This made him the top scorer in Ligue 1 at that time.[35] He finished the season with 21 goals, the fourth top scorer in the league.[36]

Upon his return to Arsenal for the 2023–24 season, Balogun stated he would not leave the club again on loan.[37] In August 2023, he was reported to have attracted interest from Chelsea, Inter Milan, and Monaco.[38]

Monaco

Balogun with Monaco in 2025

On August 30, 2023, Ligue 1 side Monaco announced the signing of Balogun on a five-year contract,[39][40] for a reported fee of €30 million, which could rise to €40 million with add-ons.[41] On September 2, he played his first match for Monaco, coming on against Lens. During the match, he picked up his first yellow card for simulation after trying to win a penalty.[42] On September 17, he scored his first league goal for Monaco, three minutes after coming off the bench in a 2–2 draw to Lorient.[43] On September 22, he had his first start at the club, in which he missed two penalties in a 1–0 defeat against Nice.[44]

In the 2024–25 season, Balogun suffered a series of injuries which sidelined him most of the season. On May 3, 2025, he scored on his first start back from injury, a 3–1 win over Saint-Étienne.[45]

On November 4, 2025, he scored his first Champions League goal, securing a 1–0 away win over Bodø/Glimt.[46] On February 17 in the Champions League, Balogun scored a first-half brace against Paris Saint-Germain, though Monaco would ultimately lose 2–3.[47] One month later on March 6, he recorded another goal and assist against PSG, with Monaco winning 3–1 in the league matchup.[48] Dating back to February 21, he scored in eight consecutive league games (including 10 goal contributions in his last 10 club games). This tied with the 2025–26 top five European league season record goalscoring streak shared only by Kylian Mbappé at Real Madrid (eight goals).[49] Balogun's streak was also one goal away from the 21st-century Ligue 1 goalscoring streak record.[50] Balogun finished the 2025–26 season as Monaco's top scorer with 19 goals and four assists in all competitions, and the league's fourth top scorer with 13 goals.[51] For his season performances, he was named the 2025–26 Monaco Player of the Season.[49]

International career

Born in the United States to Nigerian parents,[52] and raised in the United Kingdom, Balogun was eligible to represent the United States, England, and Nigeria at international level before he committed himself to the United States.[53]

Youth career

After playing for England at the under-17 level, and appearing in the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship,[54] he accepted a call up from the United States under-18 national team in August 2018 for a training camp and a tournament in the Czech Republic.[11][55] He played in all four of the United States' games in the Václav Ježek Youth Tournament and scored twice.[56] He also expressed interest in playing for Nigeria, although he stated that he enjoys England's "style of play" which is "similar to Arsenal's".[57][58]

In 2019, he appeared and scored for the England under-18 national team in a tournament in Dubai.[59] In October 2020, he made an appearance for the England under-20 against Wales.[60]

On August 27, 2021, Balogun received his first call up to the England under-21 team.[61] On September 7, 2021, he made his England U21 debut as a substitute during the 2–0 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification win over Kosovo under-21s at Stadium MK.[62]

In October 2022, he said he was open to playing for Nigeria.[63]

Senior career

Balogun playing for the United States in 2026

On May 16, 2023, FIFA approved Balogun's application for a switch to represent the United States national team. He had been recruited by the United States through several meetings, which included watching the Orlando Magic and New York Knicks play in Florida.[64] Balogun received his first call up to the United States senior squad on June 1, featuring in the squad for the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League Finals.[65] On June 18, Balogun scored his first goal for the United States in their Nations League final victory over Canada.[6]

Balogun was selected to the USMNT's roster at the 2024 Copa America. In the first match, Balogun scored the United States' second goal in a 2–0 win against Bolivia,[66] and in the second, he scored the opener in the 2–1 defeat at the hands of Panama when the U.S. was down to 10 players after a red card given to Timothy Weah in the 18th minute. Despite the loss, Balogun won the Man of the Match award.[67] Following the game, Balogun, along with teammates Weah, Chris Richards and Weston McKennie, suffered racial abuse from online trolls. Balogun's club Monaco, as well as CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the U.S. Soccer Federation condemned the actions and fully supported the players.[68][69]

2026 World Cup and red card controversy

On May 26, 2026, Balogun was selected in the 26-man squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.[70] On June 12 in his World Cup debut and the team's opening group stage match against Paraguay, Balogun scored twice in the 4–1 opener, being named Player of the Match. The game marked the first time an American had a multi-goal World Cup match in 96 years, since the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay, when Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in World Cup history, coincidentally also against Paraguay.[71][72] The following game against Australia, he won a second back-to-back Player of the Match award as the United States secured top spot in Group D.[73]

Balogun scored the opening goal in the 2–0 win against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32, matching Landon Donovan for the second-most goals scored by an American in a single FIFA World Cup, with three, trailing only Patenaude's four goals in 1930.[74] However, later in the game he received a controversial red card by referee Raphael Claus for a contact foul on the ankle of Tarik Muharemović in the 64th minute when the two players were challenging for the ball. This made Balogun only the fourth World Cup player to score a goal and receive a red card in the same match, most recently by Zinedine Zidane in 2006.[75][76][77] This initially forced him out of the United States' round of 16 match against Belgium, which led to outrage by American fans and caused a media campaign of "Free Flo".[78] However, the suspension was later overturned after a committee of lawyers claimed the use of instant slow motion VAR violated FIFA rules and that the red card was excessive compared to similar or worse incidents in the tournament that faced lighter or no punishments; most notably the comparison of an aggressive foul by Lionel Messi against Algeria that did not result in a red or even yellow card.[79] The card was rescinded under the Article 27 authority of the FIFA Disciplinary Code by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, becoming the 4th such reversal within 2026.[80][81] It was later confirmed that U.S. president Donald Trump had called Infantino to review the controversial red card decision.[82][83][84] This led to anger and controversy; Belgium felt that it was a violation of Article 66.4 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, which states that "a sending-off automatically incurs suspension from the subsequent match".[85][86]

On the morning of July 6, the day of the match between the United States and Belgium, the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) was granted the right to appeal the decision to let Balogun play in that day's game; FIFA's appeals committee dismissed the appeal, stating that the appeal was inadmissible as "the RBFA is not a party to the proceedings and, as such, has no standing to appeal the decision."[87]

The lifting of the suspension was widely criticized,[88][89] with a statement from UEFA saying that it threatened the integrity of the sport.[90] Former player Zlatan Ibrahimović supported the decision.[91]

Balogun played in the match against Belgium, which the United States lost by a score of 4–1.[92]

Style of play

Balogun (left) playing for Arsenal at the 2023 MLS All-Star Game

Balogun is known for his pace, technique, and two-footedness.[93] Labelled a pure "number nine" or center forward, Balogun has also played as a trequartista in youth soccer, and was deployed by Chris Wilder in a second-striker role at Middlesbrough.[94][95] Martin Keown compared Balogun to Arsenal's second highest ever goalscorer Ian Wright, due to his pace and intelligent movement.[96]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played May 17, 2026[97]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Arsenal U21 2018–19[98] ————1[c]010
2019–20[99] ————1[c]010
2020–21[20] ————2[c]121
2021–22[100] ————2[c]222
Total ————6363
Arsenal 2020–21[20] Premier League 0000105[d]2—62
2021–22[100] Premier League 200020——40
Total 20003052—102
Middlesbrough (loan) 2021–22[100] Championship 18320———203
Reims (loan) 2022–23[101] Ligue 1 372121———3922
Monaco 2023–24[102] Ligue 1 29731———328
2024–25[103] Ligue 1 13400—3[e]000164
2025–26[104] Ligue 1 301331—10[e]5—4319
Total 722462—135009131
Career total 12948103301876316661
  1. ↑ Includes FA Cup, Coupe de France
  2. ↑ Includes EFL Cup
  3. 1 2 3 4 Appearance(s) in EFL Trophy
  4. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  5. 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Champions League

International

As of match played July 6, 2026
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
United States 202383
202492
202563
202684
Total3112
Scores and results list the United States' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Balogun goal.
List of international goals scored by Folarin Balogun
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition
1June 18, 2023Allegiant Stadium, Paradise, United States2 Canada2–02–02023 CONCACAF Nations League final
2September 12, 2023Allianz Field, Saint Paul, United States4 Oman1–04–0Friendly
3October 17, 2023Geodis Park, Nashville, United States6 Ghana3–04–0Friendly
4June 23, 2024AT&T Stadium, Arlington, United States13 Bolivia2–02–02024 Copa América
5June 27, 2024Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, United States14 Panama1–01–22024 Copa América
6September 9, 2025Lower.com Field, Columbus, United States19 Japan2–02–0Friendly
7October 10, 2025Q2 Stadium, Austin, United States20 Ecuador1–11–1Friendly
8November 15, 2025Subaru Park, Chester, United States22 Paraguay2–12–1Friendly
9May 31, 2026Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, United States26 Senegal3–23–2Friendly
10June 12, 2026SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, United States28 Paraguay2–04–12026 FIFA World Cup
113–0
12 July 1, 2026 Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, United States 30  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1–0 2–0 2026 FIFA World Cup

Honors

United States

Individual

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