Anass Zaroury

Anass Zaroury (Arabic: أنس الزروري; born 7 November 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL Championship club Burnley and for the Morocco national team.

Anass Zaroury
Anass Zaroury playing for Morocco
Personal information
Full name Anass Zaroury[1]
Date of birth (2000-11-07) 7 November 2000[2]
Place of birth Mechelen, Belgium
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Burnley
Number 19
Youth career
0000–2019 Zulte Waregem
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2021 Lommel 21 (6)
2021–2022 Charleroi 43 (7)
2021 → Lommel (loan) 9 (1)
2022– Burnley 20 (6)
International career‡
2017 Belgium U17 4 (2)
2017 Belgium U18 3 (0)
2021–2022 Belgium U21 7 (0)
2022– Morocco 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:02, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Club career

On 1 February 2021, Zaroury joined Belgian First Division A side Charleroi on a two-and-a-half-year deal, returning on loan to Lommel until the end of the season.[3]

On 30 August 2022, Zaroury signed for EFL Championship club Burnley for an undisclosed fee on a four-year deal.[4] He scored his first goal for Burnley in a 4–0 win against Swansea City on 15 October 2022.[5] Zaroury scored the second and third goals as Burnley beat Bournemouth in the 3rd round of the FA Cup in January 2023. [6]

International career

Born in Belgium, Zaroury is of Moroccan descent.[7] He is a former youth international for Belgium, having played with them up to the Belgium U21s. On 16 November 2022, Zaroury was officially invited to join the Moroccan national team, during the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar,[8][9] in which he replaced Amine Harit, who suffered an injury one week before the World Cup starts.[10][11][12] On 17 November, he made his international debut in a friendly match against Georgia.[13]

Career statistics
As of match played 11 February 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[lower-alpha 1] League Cup[lower-alpha 2] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Lommel 2019–20[2] Belgian First Division B 5011—61
2020–21[2] Belgian First Division B 25720—277
Total 30731—338
Charleroi 2021–22[2] Belgian First Division A 38510—395
2022–23[2] Belgian First Division A 52——52
Total 43710—447
Burnley 2022–23[2] Championship 20622122310
Career total 9320631210025
  1. Includes Belgian Cup, FA Cup
  2. Includes EFL Cup

References
  1. "SQUAD LIST 2022/23 & U21 REGISTERED CONTRACT PLAYERS" (PDF). English Football League. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  2. Anass Zaroury at Soccerway. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  3. "Anass Zaroury versiert transfer naar Charleroi (maar blijft nog even in Lommel)". proximus.be (in Dutch). 1 February 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. "ZAROURY IS A CLARET". www.burnleyfootballclub.com. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  5. "Burnley 4-0 Swansea". BBC. 15 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  6. "Championship Burnley beat Bournemouth in thriller". BBC Sport.
  7. "Anass Zaroury: in de tribune onder Maes, in de basis onder Manning". www.hbvl.be.
  8. "رسميا.. وليد الركراكي يوجه الدعوة إلى أنس زروري لتعويض أمين حارث في المونديال". هسبورت (in Arabic). 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  9. "Burnley's boy wonder Anass Zaroury receives late call-up for the World Cup in Qatar". www.burnleyexpress.net. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  10. "Morocco's Harit set to miss World Cup after injury". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  11. "Morocco's Harit and Poland goalkeeper Dragowski out of World Cup after late injuries". The Independent. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  12. "Amine Harit to miss the World Cup following serious knee injury". HESPRESS English - Morocco News. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  13. @BurnleyOfficial (18 November 2022). "Anass Zaroury made his international debut for Morocco in their friendly against Georgia last night" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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