Towering centre-back Axel Disasi joined West Ham United on loan until the end of the 2025/26 season on deadline day, 2 February 2026.
The former Paris FC, Reims and Monaco player has been capped by France at senior level and appeared as a substitute in his country’s 2022 FIFA World Cup final defeat by Argentina in Qatar.
Born in the Paris suburb of Gonesse, Disasi joined Chelsea in the summer of 2023.
Career
Before West Ham
Born in the northern Paris suburb of Gonesse on 11 March 1998…Is of Congolese and Angolan ancestry…Played for local club Villiers-le-Bel, joining at the age of eight and spending seven seasons there…Spent a season at USM Senlis in the town situated 25 miles north of Paris between the ages of 15 and 16…Joined Paris FC of the third-tier Championnat National in the summer of 2014, aged 16…Made his senior debut for Paris FC B in the fourth-tier National 2 in a 1-0 win over CMS Oissel on 22 August 2015…Made his first-team debut for Paris FC in a Coupe de France third-round win over CMS Oissel on 21 November 2015….Made his senior Ligue 2 debut for Paris FC in a 1-0 home defeat by Lens on 11 December 2015, aged exactly 17 years and nine months…Scored on his third appearance for Paris FC on 8 January 2016 in a 3-1 defeat by Tours…Following Paris FC’s relegation in 2015/16, remained in Ligue 2 by joining Reims, who had themselves been relegated from Ligue 1…Spent most of the 2016/17 season playing in National 2 for Reims II, but did appear once in Ligue 2…Appeared 20 times over the next two seasons, helping Reims win promotion to Ligue 1 in 2017/18…Established himself in the first team in 2019/20, appearing 32 times as Reims finished sixth and reached the Coupe de la Ligue semi-finals…Moved to Monaco in August 2020…Appeared 29 times in 2020/21, scored three goals and captained the team as Monaco finished third in Ligue 1 and qualified for the UEFA Champions League…Helped Monaco reach the 2021 Coupe de France final, where they were edged out by Paris Saint-Germain…In 2021/22, played 45 games in all competitions as Monaco again finished third and reached the UEFA Europa League round of 16 and Coupe de France semi-finals, again qualifying for UEFA Champions League…Featured in all 49 matches Monaco played across four competitions in 2022/23, scoring six goals and registering four assists…Netted against Trabzonspor and Bayer Leverkusen as Monaco reached the UEFA Europa League knockout play-off round in 2022/23….Made his senior debut for France in the FIFA World Cup Group D tie with Tunisia in Qatar, becoming the first France men’s international to earn his first cap during a World Cup since Nantes defender Gabriel De Michèle in 1966…Appeared as a substitute in the round of 16 win over Poland and the final against Argentina, which France lost on penalties…Joined Chelsea in August 2023 and scored on his Premier League debut for the Blues in a 1-1 draw with Liverpool…Played 44 times as Chelsea reached the EFL Cup final and FA Cup semi-finals in 2023/24.