Aaron Leya Iseka

Aaron Leya Iseka (born 15 November 1997) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Barnsley.

Club Career

Anderlecht

Leya Iseka is a youth exponent from Anderlecht. In the 2013–14 UEFA Youth League, aged 15 in an under-19 tournament, he scored four goals in six games of a group-stage elimination, including a hat-trick on 3 October in a 4–2 home win over Olympiacos. The following season, he scored nine times in seven UEFA Youth League games, second only to Chelsea's Dominic Solanke. This included another hat-trick on 18 March 2015 in a 5–0 home win over Porto in the quarter-finals. That same month, he was given his first professional contract, for five years.

He made his first team debut on 3 December 2014, in a Belgian Cup 7th-round game against K.R.C. Mechelen, replacing Cyriac after 75 minutes in a 4–1 home win. He scored his first goal on 21 January 2015 in the second leg of the quarter-finals, a 4–2 (7–2 aggregate) win over Zulte Waregem. On 22 March he was an unused substitute in the 2015 Belgian Cup Final, a 2–1 loss to Club Brugge at the King Baudouin Stadium. He made nine appearances that season in the Belgian Pro League, the first being on 18 January when he replaced Andy Najar for the last six minutes of a 3–0 win over Lierse S.K. at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium.

Loans

On 23 July 2016, Leya Iseka joined Marseille in Ligue 1 on a season-long loan, a month after his brother Michy Batshuayi had left the club. However, he returned to Belgium at the start of January 2017 to find a new club he could be loaned out to, after Marseille announced they would not keep him; he was expected to join Mouscron but nothing came of it. He did not score in nine total matches for OM, but did feature and score more frequently for the reserves in CFA (fourth tier).

Leya Iseka was loaned to fellow top-flight team Zulte-Waregem for the season on 21 June 2017. On 22 July, he made his debut in the 2017 Belgian Supe

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