African players who will play with 11 clubs out of the 16 who have qualified for this phase of the competition. Only five clubs (Atalanta, Barcelona, Dortmund, Juventus and Real Madrid) will not field African players during these round of 16.
Riyad Mahrez (Man City)
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FC Porto (5) and Liverpool (3) are the two clubs with the largest number of African players.
In terms of the representativeness of nationalities, Senegal has the largest contingent with 5 players. Morocco and Algeria follow with three players each. Mali and Guinea have two players. Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Egypt, DR Congo, Nigeria and Central African Republic will each have a single representative in the 1/8 round of the Champions League.
Among all these African players involved, only three have already won the trophy. Senegalese Sadio Mané, Egyptian Mohamed Salah and Guinean Naby Kéita were all in the winning campaign with Liverpool in 2019.
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Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro
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The 21 Africans
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Edouard Mendy (Senegal, Chelsea), Sadio Mané (Senegal, Liverpool), Idrissa Guèye (Senegal, Psg), Mohamed MBaye (Senegal, Fc porto), Mamadou Loum (Senegal, Fc Porto), Hakim Ziyech (Morocco, Chelsea), Yassine Bounou (Morocco, Seville), Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco, Seville), Mohamed Farès (Algeria, Lazio), Ramy Bensebaini (Algeria, Mönchengladbach), Riyad Marhez (Algeria, Manchester City), Amadou Haïdara (Mali, Leipzig) , Moussa Marega (Mali, FC Porto), Naby Kéita (Guinea, Liverpool), Ibrahima Traoré (Guinea, Mönchengladbach), Geoffroy Kondogbia (Rca, Atletico), Choupo-Moting (Cameroon, Bayern), Akpa Akpro (Ivory Coast ), Zaidu Sanusi (Nigeria, Fc Porto), Mohamed Salah (Egypt, Liverpool), Chancel MBemba (Rd Congo, Fc Porto).
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