Yassine Bounou Football Profile: Bono's Clubs, Morocco Caps and Net Worth

Yassine Bounou, known as Bono or Yassine Bono, is a Moroccan goalkeeper born in Montreal, Canada, on 5 April 1991, and he was Morocco's first choice keeper at the 2022 World Cup and at AFCON 2025. He saved two penalties in the round of 16 shootout against Spain on 6 December 2022, and on 17 August 2023 he joined Al Hilal in the Saudi Pro League. Bono, Bounou and Yassine Bono are the same player, so whichever spelling brought you here, this is his football (or soccer, if you are reading in Johannesburg) story.

Bounou's career runs from the Wydad AC youth ranks through Spain to Riyadh, with honours recorded by year and salary reports attributed to their outlets. His two penalty saves against Spain give supporters in Lagos viewing centres a clear reason to retell Morocco's 2022 World Cup shootout victory.

Who Is Yassine Bounou, and Why Is He Called Bono?

Bounou is the leading North African goalkeeper of his generation and, it could be argued, the reference point for young keepers across the continent. He won African Goalkeeper of the Year in 2023 and again in 2025. His trophies span Morocco, Spain and Saudi Arabia, which shows how far his career has travelled from a childhood shared between two countries.

Bono is the name by which Yassine Bounou is also known. Readers searching for Yassine Bono, Bono or Bounou are looking for the same Moroccan goalkeeper.

The Road From Casablanca: Every Club and Every Reported Fee

His clubs include Wydad AC, Atlético Madrid, Real Zaragoza, Girona, Sevilla and Al Hilal, and the only transfer fee widely reported for him is the roughly €21m that Marca said Sevilla would receive from Al Hilal in August 2023. His football began at Wydad AC, whose youth system he joined in 1999 before stepping up to the senior side in 2010.

Atlético Madrid signed him in 2012, and most of his first two years there were spent with Atlético Madrid B. He never made a league appearance for the first team, yet he holds a La Liga medal for 2013-14 and a Supercopa de España medal from 2014 as part of that squad. His route to regular senior football continued with a loan move.

Real Zaragoza took him on loan from 2014 to 2016, before Girona signed him permanently in 2016. Neither the Girona deal nor his later permanent move to Sevilla came with a widely published fee, so those figures stay blank here rather than being guessed.

Sevilla took him on loan for 2019-20, a season that brought a European trophy, then signed him permanently in 2020. On 17 August 2023 he joined Al Hilal on a three year contract, and in October 2025 the club announced an extension until 2028. His club appearance totals belong in the stats module, which updates after matches.

Why Did Bono Leave Sevilla for Al Hilal?

The reported answer is a far bigger contract at an ambitious club, signed after he had won two Europa League titles with Sevilla. Football España, citing Marca, reported in August 2023 that the move would pay him about six times his Sevilla wage, and he was 32 when he signed for three seasons. The move combined a reported wage increase with an opportunity to compete for honours in Saudi Arabia.

Al Hilal won the Saudi Pro League in 2023-24 and the King's Cup in 2023-24 and 2025-26. For readers in Kampala and Accra, the move also changed how they watch him, because Saudi Pro League football reaches African phones mostly through streaming and short clips. The league's interest in African stars is a talking point in all five of our countries, and Bounou is among the clearest cases of a player who went there at his peak and kept winning.

What Does Bounou Do on the Pitch?

Bounou's reputation as a shot stopper draws heavily on his penalty saves in knockout matches. His calm with the ball at his feet suits teams that build from the back, while shootouts have supplied some of his most memorable moments.

His Sevilla loan in 2019-20 ended with a Europa League winner's medal. A second title with the Spanish club followed in 2022-23, giving his European career two trophy winning campaigns.

He won the Ricardo Zamora Trophy for 2021-22, and he was the first winner from a club other than Real Madrid, Barcelona or Atlético Madrid since 2006-07. That award adds a season long goalkeeping distinction to the knockout successes associated with him.

Against Spain at the 2022 World Cup, Bounou saved two penalties in Morocco's successful shootout. For supporters watching from Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya or Uganda, those saves offer a specific example of a goalkeeper shaping the outcome of an international knockout tie.

Bono and the Atlas Lions: Debut, the Spain Shootout and AFCON 2025

Bounou made his Morocco debut in August 2013 against Burkina Faso. The caps module above carries his international appearance total. His tournament history includes serving as first choice at the 2022 World Cup and the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

Why did he choose Morocco over Canada? He was born in Montreal to Moroccan parents, but his football was formed in Morocco, where he joined the Wydad youth system in 1999 and stayed for more than a decade. His upbringing and football development provide the Moroccan connection behind his international career.

The round of 16 meeting with Spain on 6 December 2022 became a defining match in Bounou's international career. It went to penalties, Bounou saved two, and Morocco went on to the semi finals.

Morocco won the Africa Cup of Nations 2025, and Bounou took the Golden Glove and a place in the Team of the Tournament. The title was awarded to Morocco after CAF overturned Senegal's final result, and both nations remain among the strongest on the continent. Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Uganda have all met Morocco in AFCON or qualifying. He sits near the top of any list of African footballers of his era.

Yassine Bounou net worth

The listed news reports do not establish a net worth for Yassine Bounou. A net worth is hard to pin down for any footballer, because wages are reported while savings, property and investments stay private. What can be attributed is his pay, set out below with each outlet and year.

On salary, Football España, citing Marca, reported in August 2023 that Al Hilal would pay him roughly six times his Sevilla wage. In 2024, Morocco World News put his earnings at about $11m a year, or about $210,000 a week, and ranked him eighth among the world's highest paid goalkeepers. These are dated earnings reports, rather than a valuation of his wealth.

The rest of the picture is thinner than the salary reports suggest. The roughly €21m fee Marca reported in 2023 went to Sevilla, not to Bounou, so it adds nothing to his own wealth. No reliable figures for his endorsements or image rights have been reported, and none is invented here. Bounou's estimated transfer price concerns his registration, while personal wealth concerns assets he owns; converting either figure into naira, shillings, rand or cedis also requires a dated exchange rate.

The salary figures in this section are published estimates from news reports, rather than an account of what he holds. A salary is gross pay before agents and costs take their share, so even a reliable wage figure overstates what a player keeps. Weekly earnings alone cannot establish his savings, assets or total wealth.

How to Watch Bounou From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

Al Hilal's Saudi Pro League matches reach all five countries mostly through streaming services and official clips, and the broadcaster for each country is listed in the fixtures module because rights change from season to season. No channel is promised in the copy, since the module is the part that stays accurate. Morocco matches follow the same rule, with the listing attached to each fixture.

Riyadh runs on the same clock as Nairobi and Kampala, which makes the conversion simple. A Saudi Pro League match starting at 21:00 in Riyadh kicks off at 21:00 EAT, 20:00 SAST, 19:00 WAT and 18:00 GMT, so Johannesburg sees it an hour earlier on the clock than Nairobi, Lagos two hours earlier and Accra three. Evening kick offs in Saudi Arabia therefore land in good viewing hours across the continent.

International windows bring him back into African time zones with Morocco, and the fixtures module converts every kick off into WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together. So, before an Al Hilal or Morocco match, open the fixtures module, find the time in your own zone and check the listing for your country, because that is where the broadcaster and the start time are kept up to date.