Lawrence Ati-Zigi

Club

As of match played 27 August 2026

International

As of match played 3 July 2026

Liefering

In January 2015, Ati-Zigi joined Red Bull Salzburg from Ghanaian feeder club Red Bull Ghana. Ati-Zigi was immediately loaned out to reserve team FC Liefering who play in the Austria 2. Liga. He joined other Ghanaian players including David Atanga and Raphael Dwamena. Ati-Zigi made his league debut for Liefering on 17 April 2015, when his club beat TSV Hartberg 4–1 at Untersberg-Arena. After his debut, he went ahead to play in six consecutive league matches. At the end of his first season, he played six league matches with Liefering finishing in second place in the 2014–15 Austrian Football First League. The following season, he featured in 16 out of 36 games as the club finished in fourth place in the 2015–16 Austrian Football First League. He also made the Red Bull Salzburg match day squad twice, due to that earned a medal as Salzburg won the 2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga. In his final season with Liefering, he played in 11 games to help the club secure a second place finish in the 2016–17 Austrian Football First League. In total he featured in 33 matches for Liefering in this two year stint.

Sochaux

In July 2017, Ati-Zigi joined French team FC Sochaux-Montbéliard on a three-year deal reuniting with his former coach Peter Zeidler from Liefering and Red Bull Salzburg. He made his club debut in the first round of the in a Coupe de la Ligue on 8 August 2017 against Valenciennes which ended in a 3–1 loss. Over the season, he remained as the…

Ati-Zigi was a member of the Ghana national under-17 team in 2013 and he played for the team in the 2013 African U-17 Championship. In 2015, he was promoted to the Ghana under-20 side. He earned a place in the final squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He started in all four games as Ghana was eliminated by Mali in the round of 16. On 23 August 2017, Ati-Zigi received his first call-up to the Ghana senior national team for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification games against Congo on 1 and 5 September 2017. On 7 June 2018, Ati-Zigi made his senior national team debut for Ghana, starting and playing 90 minutes in a friendly match against Iceland that ended in a 2–2 draw. Ati-Zigi was part of the Ghanaian team in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations that was eliminated at the group stage of the competition. On 14 November 2022, Ati-Zigi was named in the 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Following injuries to Ghana's first and second choice goalkeepers, Joe Wollacott and Richard Ofori, with both missing out on the competition, he was set to be the first choice goalkeeper for the Black Stars. On 17 November, he manned the post for the Black Stars and kept a clean sheet in their 2–0 pre-world cup friendly match against Switzerland. The start was his first start in over a year. On 24 November 2022, he made his World Cup debut and started in Ghana’s opening group match of World Cup against Portugal which ended in a 3–2 loss to Ghana. In the second group game against South…

Red Bull Salzburg

Austrian Bundesliga: 2015–16 St. Gallen

Swiss Cup: 2025–26, runners-up: 2020–21, 2021–22 Individual

Swiss Super League Player of the Month: November 2022 Swiss Super League Best Player First Half of the season: 2022–23 Swiss Super League Team of the Season: 2022–23