Personal information | |||
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Full name | Lyle Lakay | ||
Date of birth | 17 August 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||
Playing position | Left-winger | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Cape Town City | ||
Number | 7 | ||
Youth career | |||
Stephanians Ottery | |||
Hellenic FC | |||
Old Mutual Academy | |||
–2009 | SuperSport United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009–2012 | SuperSport United | 3 | (0) |
2009–2010 | →FC Cape Town (loan) | ? | (?) |
2011–2012 | →FC Cape Town (loan) | ? | (?) |
2012–2017 | Bloemfontein Celtic | 93 | (8) |
2017– | Cape Town City | 2 | (0) |
National team | |||
2011 | South Africa U-20 | 3 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 September 2017. |
Lyle Lakay (born 17 August 1991 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Cape Town City in the Premier Soccer League.
He is a product of the SuperSport United's youth academy, he was promoted to the first team in 2009 but spent the 2009–10 season with National First Division side FC Cape Town. For the 2010–11 season he returned to Supersport United. After another loan spell with FC Cape Town, Lakay joined Bloemfontein Celtic in 2012. He is expected to sign for the big spending Pretoria side, Mamelodi Sundowns FC during the January transfer window 2014. On 14 November 2013, the player was quoted to have said, “Yes, I arrived today in Tshwane, but I will start training with Sundowns tomorrow (Friday). I hope everything will go well."
In 2011, he was called up to the South Africa U-20 team for the 2011 African Youth Championship.