Lesly St. Fleur (born 21 March 1989) is a Bahamian international football player, who plays as a striker for Jamaica National Premier League side Montego Bay United and is the all-time top goalscorer for the Bahamas national team.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 21 March 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Haiti | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Montego Bay United | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Bears FC | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2010 | Bears FC | 53 | (34) |
| 2010 | Milltown FC | 13 | (10) |
| 2011 | Sporting Central Academy | 11 | (3) |
| 2011 | Bears FC | 12 | (16) |
| 2012–2020 | Montego Bay United | 139 | (34) |
| 2020– | Bears FC | 39 | (57) |
| International career‡ | |||
| Bahamas U17[1] | |||
| Bahamas U20[2] | |||
| 2006–2024 | Bahamas | 39 | (13) |
| 2009– | Bahamas (beach) | 6 | (32) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 31 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 26 May 2026 | |||
Club career
editSt. Fleur was born in Haiti,[13][14] and has played his club football for Bears FC in the Bahamas. He briefly played for Jamaican side Sporting Central Academy in 2011, but left them to return to the Bahamas in November 2011 while joint top goalscorer of the team.[15] He then returned to Jamaica in 2012 to play for Montego Bay United.
International career
editSt. Fleur made his debut for the Bahamas in a September 2006 Caribbean Cup qualification match against the Cayman Islands and has, as of March 2016, earned a total of 12 caps, scoring 6 goals. He has represented his country in 7 FIFA World Cup qualification games.[16] In a 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier in July 2011 the Bahamas beat Turks & Caicos Islands 6–0. Of the six goals scored by the national team, he scored an unbelievable five goals. This single match shot him to the top of the Bahamas' goal scoring charts with six goals. He has also represented the Bahamas in international beach soccer.[17]
Career statistics
editClub
edit| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Bears FC | 2005–06 | BFA Senior League | — | — | ||||||||
| 2006–07 | 13 | — | — | |||||||||
| 2007–08 | 7 | — | — | |||||||||
| 2008–09 | 15 | — | — | |||||||||
| 2009–10 | — | — | ||||||||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Milltown FC | 2010 | Canadian Soccer League | 13 | 10 | — | — | — | 13 | 10 | |||
| Bears FC | 2010–11 | BFA Senior League | 12 | 16 | — | — | ||||||
| Sporting Central Academy | 2011–12 | Jamaica Premier League | 11 | 3 | — | — | — | 11 | 3 | |||
International
edit- As of match played 4 September 2024[18]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahamas | 2006 | 5 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011 | 2 | 5 | |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 6 | 1 | |
| Total | 39 | 13 | |
International goals
edit- Scores and results list Bahamas' goal tally first.[18]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 26 March 2008 | Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, Bahamas |  British Virgin Islands | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 2. | 9 July 2011 | Roscow A. L. Davies Soccer Field, Nassau, Bahamas |  Turks and Caicos Islands | 2–0 | 6–0 | 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 3. | 3–0 | |||||
| 4. | 4–0 | |||||
| 5. | 5–0 | |||||
| 6. | 6–0 | |||||
| 7. | 16 March 2019 | Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, Bahamas | Turks and Caicos Islands | 6–1 | 6–1 | Friendly |
| 8. | 10 October 2019 | Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis | British Virgin Islands | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C |
| 9. | 2–0 | |||||
| 10. | 14 November 2019 | Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, Bahamas | British Virgin Islands | 2–0 | 3–0 | |
| 11. | 12 May 2022 | Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, Bahamas | Turks and Caicos Islands | 3–1 | 4–2 | Friendly |
| 12. | 3 June 2022 | Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, Bahamas |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League B |
| 13. | 4 September 2024 | Bethlehem Soccer Stadium, Upper Bethlehem, United States Virgin Islands |  U.S. Virgin Islands | 1–0 | 3–3 | 2024-25 CONCACAF Nations League C |
References
edit- ↑ "CONCACAF 2005 U-17 Tournament Recap". Issuu. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ↑ "CONCACAF 2007 Under-20 Tournament Recap". Issuu. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ↑ "St Fleur brings Bahamian flair to Jamaican shores". jamaicaobserver.com.
- ↑ "Fleur blooms in Jamaica". jamaica-star.com.
- ↑ "Lesly St. Fleur, el delantero clave de Bahamas". telemundodeportes.com (Archived). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Lesly St Fleur becomes the first member of The Bahamas Beach Soccer National Team to be endorsed by corporate Bahamas". bahamaslocal.com.
- ↑ "Lesly St. Fleur - Nassau Guardian article".
- ↑ "Who is Lesly St. Fleur – The pride of Bahamas football".
- ↑ "Lesly St Fleur - Tribune 242 article".
- ↑ "St. Fleur of Bahamas thriving on sand and grass".
- ↑ "Lesly St. Fleur on Gold Cup Qualifying: "Everyone is excited"".
- ↑ "Lesly St. Fleur - Jamaica Gleaner article".
- ↑ Reid, Paul A., ed. (3 March 2012). "MBU buoyed by St Fleur's arrival". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ Press, ed. (3 March 2012). "Bahamas Football: Beach Baha Boys get by Antigua to book quarterfinal spot". Sports Max. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
- ↑ Sporting coach not perturbed by St Fleur's departure Archived 2014-07-25 at the Wayback Machine – Jamaica Observer
- ↑ Lesly St. Fleur – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ↑ "Favorites USA, and Mexico post opening-day victories at CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship". Tropik TV. 2009-06-21. Archived from the original on 2021-06-05. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
- 1 2 "Lesly St. Fleur". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
External links
edit- Lesly St. Fleur at National-Football-Teams.com
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