Youba Drame: France-Mali forward completes free transfer from GOAL FC to SC Toulon

France-Mali centre-forward Youba Drame has completed a free transfer from GOAL FC to SC Toulon, with the move formally registered to begin on 04/07/2026 and his contract running until 30/06/2027. The 28-year-old arrives in Toulon without a listed market value at the time of the switch, according to the latest available data.

Drame joins Toulon after a one-season spell with GOAL FC, having signed for the Lyon-based side in mid-2025 following a short period without a club. The latest move keeps him in France, with both clubs competing in domestic competition listed as N/A for league designation, meaning the transfer is classified as an internal move within French football rather than a return to his dual-national home countries of France and Mali.

The transfer is recorded as a free deal, continuing a pattern across much of Drames professional career. His last several moves from FK Viagem Usti nad Labem to FC Zlin, then to Albanian side KF Egnatia, and later into free agency before joining GOAL FC have all been completed without a stated fee. No contract extension details or salary terms at SC Toulon are provided, and there is no indication yet of any option beyond his current deals end date of 30/06/2027.

Born in Beziers on 16/01/1998, Drame stands at 1.85m and operates primarily as a centre-forward, listed in the data as Attack Centre-Forward and preferring his right foot. He holds dual nationality with France and Mali, and is now registered with Sporting Club de Toulon as his national team affiliation in the dataset, underlining his formal tie to the Mediterranean club for the duration of his contract.

Drames career path has been notably itinerant across Europe. After early spells in France with RCO Agdes youth and B teams, he moved abroad in 2018 to FK Viagem Usti nad Labem in the Czech Republic. That step marked the start of his peak valuation years: his market value climbed from 75,000 at Usti nad Labem in late 2018 to 300,000 by mid-2020, before a transfer to FC Zlin in the Czech top flight, where his valuation peaked at 400,000 between 2020 and 2022.

A subsequent move in 2024 took him to KF Egnatia in Albania, where his market value gradually declined from 200,000 to 100,000 during 2024. By the time he left Egnatia for free agency in early 2025, his estimated value had dropped to 50,000 while listed as Without Club. A further update in September 2025 assessed his value at 0 with GOAL FC, and there is no later valuation recorded before his free transfer to Toulon, leaving his current market worth officially unquantified.

There are no competitive match details, appearance totals, or goal statistics provided for his time at GOAL FC or for previous seasons, and the data includes no information on specific recent fixtures, scorelines, or individual performances. As a result, Drames current form and output heading into his spell at Toulon cannot be assessed from the available record.

What is clear is that Drame brings experience from multiple European environments France, the Czech Republic and Albania into a Toulon side listed in a competition marked only as N/A. With his contract fixed from 04/07/2026 to 30/06/2027, this confirmed move offers the France-Mali forward a stable platform in French football, and the way he adapts to his new surroundings in Toulon will be central to determining the next phase of his career and how he is perceived after a period of fluctuating value and frequent transfers.