{{short description|Saint-Martinois footballer}} {{use dmy dates|date=May 2026 }} {{Infobox football biography |name = Yannick Bellechasse |fullname = Yannick Bellechasse |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|10|26|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Marigot, Saint Martin|Marigot]], Saint Martin |position = [[Forward (association football)#Striker|Striker]] |height = |currentclub = [[Junior Stars FC|Junior Stars]] |years1 = 2017– |clubs1 = [[Junior Stars FC|Junior Stars]] |caps1 = |goals1 = 17 |years2 = 2020–2022 |clubs2 = [[Flames United]] |caps2 = |goals2 = |years3 = 2022 |clubs3 = [[Lymers FC|Lymers]] |caps3 = 4 |goals3 = 3 |nationalyears1 = 2012– |nationalteam1 = [[Saint Martin national football team|Saint Martin]] |nationalcaps1 = 32 |nationalgoals1 = 7 |ntupdate = 14:36, 17 November 2025 (UTC) }}
'''Yannick Bellechasse''' (born 26 October 1992) is a French and [[Collectivity of Saint Martin|Saint-Martinois]] [[Association football|footballer]] who plays as a [[Forward (association football)#Striker|striker]] for [[Lymers FC]] and the [[Saint Martin national football team|Saint Martin national team]]. As part of the Saint Martin national team, he made seven goals including a hat-trick made during the [[2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League]] in [[2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C|League C]]. ==Early life== Yannick Bellechasse was born on 26 October 1992 in [[Marigot, Saint Martin|Marigot]], Saint Martin, an [[overseas collectivity]] of France in the Caribbean.<ref name=profile>{{Cite web|url=https://ca.soccerway.com/players/yannick-bellechasse/265232/|title=Saint Martin - Y. Bellechasse - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway|work=Soccerway|access-date=2019-11-09}}</ref> ==Club career== Bellechase made his club career in 2017 competing for the [[Junior Stars]] in the [[Saint-Martin Senior League]]. During the 2018–19 season, he became the Saint-Martin champion. He stayed with the team until the 2020–21 season, switching to [[Flames United]] that same season and won the [[Sint Maarten Premier League]]. After that, he had short stints with [[Lymers FC]], scoring three goals for the team, and [[Red Star Baie-Mahault]] during the 2022–23 season. His goals for Lymers remain his only club goals as of May 2026. In that same season, he moved back to the Junior Stars and again became the Saint-Martin Champion.<ref name="NFT" /> == International career == Bellechasse made his football debut for the [[Saint Martin national football team]] in 2012, playing three matches for the team at the [[2012 Caribbean Cup qualification]] against Bermuda, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. He did not make another appearance for the team until 2018 after competing in a [[friendly match]] against Anguilla.<ref name="NFT" />
He then competed for the team during the [[2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League]] in [[2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C|League C]] play. During the season, he scored his first ever goals.<ref name="NFT" /> In a 3-0 victory over the [[Cayman Islands national football team|Cayman Islands]], Bellechasse scored a hat trick to win their first match in the league.<ref name=hat>{{Cite web|url=https://www.concacafnationsleague.com/article/saint-martin-shakes-up-group-a-with-win-over-first-place-cayman-islands|title=Saint Martin shakes up Group A with win over first place Cayman Islands|work=[[CONCACAF Nations League]]|language=en|access-date=10 May 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125175056/https://www.concacaf.com/nations-league/article/saint-martin-shakes-up-group-a-with-win-over-first-place-cayman-islands |archive-date=25 January 2025 |url-status=dead |date=8 October 2019}}</ref> He then scored another goal, doing so against the [[United States Virgin Islands national soccer team]] to win the match 2-1. After the League, he did not compete for the team until 2022 in a friendly against the [[Bahamas national soccer team]], where he scored another goal to win 2-0. His latest goal was during the group stage of the [[2025–26 CONCACAF Series]] in [[2025–26 CONCACAF Series#Group B|Group B]] against Dominica. There, he scored two more goals, one being a penalty, after [[Troy Jules]] had scored for the opposing team. Saint Martin won the match 2–1.<ref name="NFT" />
===International goals=== ''Scores and results list Saint Martin's goal tally first.''<ref name="NFT"/> {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;" ! No. !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition |- |align="center"|1 ||rowspan="3"|12 October 2019 ||rowspan="3"|[[Raymond E. Guishard Technical Centre]], [[The Valley, Anguilla|The Valley]], Anguilla || rowspan="3" | {{fb|CAY}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 ||rowspan="3" align=center|3–0 ||rowspan="3"|[[2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C]] |- |align="center"|2 || align=center|'''2'''–0 |- |align="center"|3 || align=center|'''3'''–0 |- |align="center"|4 || 19 November 2019 || [[Bethlehem Soccer Stadium]], [[Upper Bethlehem, U.S. Virgin Islands|Upper Bethlehem]], U.S. Virgin Islands || {{fb|VIR}} ||align="center"| '''2'''–0 ||align="center"| 2–1 || 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C |- |align="center"|5 || 26 March 2022 || [[Stade Thelbert Carti]], [[Quartier-d'Orleans]], Saint Martin || {{fb|Bahamas}} || align=center | '''2'''–0 || align=center |2–0 || [[exhibition match|Friendly]] |- |align="center"|6 ||rowspan="2"|12 November 2025 ||rowspan="2"|[[SKNFA Technical Center]], [[Basseterre]], Saint Kitts and Nevis || rowspan="2" | {{fb|DMA}} || align=center|'''1'''–1 ||rowspan="2" align=center|2–1 ||rowspan="2"|[[2025–26 CONCACAF Series]] |- |align="center"|7 || align=center|'''2'''–1 |- | colspan="7"|<small>Last updated 17 November 2025</small> |}
=== International career statistics === {{updated|match played 26 March 2022}}<ref name="NFT">{{NFT player|id=48667|access-date=28 November 2019}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan=3 | [[Saint Martin national football team|Saint Martin]] |- !Year!!Apps!!Goals |- |2012||3||0 |- |2018||4||0 |- |2019||7||4 |- |2022||1||1 |- !Total||15||5 |}
== See also == * [[List of top international men's football goal scorers by country|List of top international men's football goalscorers by country]]
== References == {{reflist}}
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