60 Greatest African Players: The Complete List

Ranking Player
1 Samuel Eto’o
2 Roger Milla
3 George Weah
4 Abedi Pele
5 Didier Drogba
6 Rabah Madjer
7 Salif Keita
8 Thomas N’kono
9 Mahmoud El Khatib
10 Nwankwo Kanu
11 Ahmed Hassan
12 Jay Jay Okocha
13 Lakhdar Belloumi
14 Hossam Hassan

15 Joseph Antoine Bell 16 Kalusha Bwalya 17 Badou Zaki 18 Michael Essien 19 Bruce Grobelaar 20 Seydou Keita 21 Patrick Ntsoelengoe 22 Samuel Kuffour 23 Noureddine Naybet 24 Petit Sory 25 Theophile Abega 26 Yaya Toure 27 Mohamed Aboutrika 28 Mahamadou Diarra 29 Laurent Pokou 30 Anthony Yeboah 31 Rigobert Song 32 Sunday Oliseh 33 Kolo Toure 34 Rachid Mekloufi 35 Rashidi Yekini 36 Lauren Etame Mayer 37 Hany Ramzi 38 Fredi Kanoute 39 Aziz Bouderbala 40 Finidi George 41 Salah Assad 42 Ahmed Faras 43 Wael Gomaa 44 Japhet N’Doram 45 Yakubu Aiyegbini 46 Lucas Radebe 47 Stephen Keshi 48 Mohamed Timoumi 49 Benni McCarthy 50 Segun Odegbami 51 Tarak Dhiab 52 Youssouf Fofana 53 Francois Omam Biyik 54 Karim Abdul Razak 55 Geremi Njitap 56 Abdelmajid Dolmy 57 Patrick Mboma 58 Mustapha Hadji 59 Ndaye Mulamba 60 Jomo Sono

Players 60-51

Players 50-41

Players 40-31

Players 30-21

Players 20-11

Players 10-1

4 Comments on 60 Greatest African Players: The Complete List

  1. i dont agree with some players above…
    Didier Drogba

    6

    Rabah Madjer

    7

    Salif Keita

    8

    Thomas N’kono

    9

    Mahmoud El Khatib
    but thats a nice try..good work

  2. mbanga mbanga // December 20, 2012 at 12:52 pm // Reply

    Thanks guys, I had forgotten about some of those players but what about the likes of abubakar titi camara, amokachi, veteran egyptian goalkeeper over the past few nations cup tournaments?

  3. peter ndlovu of zimbabwe is one of the greatest terrorised many defenders in africa and england

  4. peter rock // August 2, 2015 at 7:16 am // Reply

    majority of Ghanaian football player from the 60s are missing.this was ghana golden age.they won back to back africa cup of nations title,were runner up twice, making it to four consecutive finals,and got to the Olympics quarter finals of 64 yet non seem good to be in the list. player like osei kofi,Ibrahim sunday etc should be among. I ve also noticed you have a bias towards north african players.

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