Jeremy Bokila

Bokila was born in Kinshasa, DR Congo. In the summer of 2012, Bokila was loaned to Liga I team, Petrolul Ploiești, with an option to make the move permanent. In the first half of the season he netted six goals in the league and three in the cup for the Yellow Wolves. In March 2013, it was announced that after continuous outstanding performances, Petrolul Ploiești would make his move permanent in the summer. In the 2012–13 Liga I season he played in 31 games and scored 16 goals, helping his team finish third in Liga I. In the same season he won the Romanian Cup with Petrolul Ploiești scoring the only goal in the final against CFR Cluj. He played a total of five games and scored six goals in the Romanian Cup in the 2012–13 season. On 28 August 2013, Bokila joined Russian Premier League side Terek Grozny for a €2.5 million transfer fee from Petrolul who had acquired his services on loan from Zulte. In July 2015, Bokila signed for Chinese Super League side Guangzhou R&F. For the second half of the 2015–16 season, this club loaned him to the Turkish Süper Lig club Eskişehirspor. After relegation in 2016, he returned, but was immediately loaned to Al-Kharitiyath in Qatar for one season. In January 2017, Bokila moved to the Turkish Süper Lig club Akhisarspor. He became a part of the team that achieved the most successes in the club's history by winning the 2018 Turkish Super Cup and participating in the 2018–19 Turkish Cup final. After relegation in summer 2019, Bokila was signed…

Bokila has Congolese and Dutch citizenship but chose to represent the Democratic Republic of the Congo at senior level. Bokila made his national team debut against Burkina Faso on 14 November 2012. At the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, Bokila scored an equalising goal in a 1–1 draw with Tunisia to ensure that DR Congo qualified for the knockout stage. In the quarter-finals, he also levelled the scores in a 4–2 win against Congo in which DR Congo came back from 2–0 down.

Club

As of match played 25 October 2025

International

As of match played 25 May 2016. DR Congo score listed first, score column indicates score after each Bokila goal.

Bokila was born in a footballing family. His father Ndingi Bokila Mandjombolo was known in the eighties as "the pearl of Harelbeke", being a valuable player and top scorer three times in a row at Belgian club K.R.C. Harelbeke, between 1980 and 1982. His sister Esther and brothers Noé and Wim are also footballers, while Jeremy's older brother Paldy played for TOP Oss among other teams before giving up professional football and emigrating to Italy.