Ganbold Ganbayar

Ganbold Ganbayar (Mongolian: Ганболдын Ганбаяр; born 3 September 2000) is a Mongolian footballer who plays for KFC Komarno on loan from Nemzeti Bajnoksag club Puskas Akademia. He became the first Mongolian ever to sign a professional contract with a top-flight club in Europe when he signed for Puskas Akademia in August 2018. He has been touted as Mongolia's potential first superstar player.

Club Career

Mongolia

Ganbayar started playing football at age 7. He first joined the youth team of Khoromkhon FC of the Mongolian Premier League in 2014. That year the senior team won the league championship in the playoffs after being tied on points with Erchim FC (but with an inferior goal differential) following the regular season. During the 2015 Mongolian Premier League season, he scored 15 goals in 11 matches. That year, he was a 70th-minute substitute in the first match of the season for his first senior appearance. He scored his first senior goal against Ulaanbaatar FC in the team's second match and became a regular starter afterward. Ganbayar also competed in the Mongolian Football Federation Under-17 youth division in 2015 and was named the best forward in his division of the tournament.

In May 2014, Ganbayar was named the best player in the under-15 category of Sensation-2020, an annual national high school football tournament under the auspices of the president of Mongolia. In this eighth edition of the tournament, he became the first player from a rural area to win the award.

Ganbayar appeared in both of Khoromkhon's matches during 2016 AFC Cup qualification. He started both matches and played all but three minutes as the team was defeated 0–1 by K-Electric F.C. of Pakistan and played to a scoreless draw against Druk United of Bhutan. Ganbayar was the youngest player to compete at the tournament.

In 2016, he scored 11 goals in 12 league appearances as Khoromkhon finished third in the league. He once again also competed in the Youth Division in 2016 and was

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