Mavis Tchibota

Mavis Tchibota was born in 1996 in Pointe-Noire

Tchibota was born on 7 May 1996 in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. He is the son of Pierre Tchibota, who played for the Congo national team. He came to Israel as a teenager with his mother, but delays kept him from officially joining the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth team at first.

He played for Diables Noirs in Congo before joining Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2015. He was loaned to Hapoel Kfar Saba for 2 seasons and then to Bnei Yehuda, which signed him permanently in 2018. In 2019 he moved to Ludogorets Razgrad in Bulgaria and won 2 league titles there.

In February 2022 he returned to Israel and joined Maccabi Haifa, winning 2 league titles. In 2024 he signed with Akron Tolyatti in Russia, and in 2025 he was loaned to Bnei Sakhnin. In September 2025 he joined Sepsi OSK in Romania, and he later played for Hapoel Acre.

He played for Congo at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup and made his senior debut in 2017 against Ghana. He married his Israeli partner Karolina in Cyprus in May 2016. In January 2018 he received temporary residency in Israel.