UEFA Champions League 2025-2026: Morocco, the most represented African nation | OneFootball

Ligue des Champions

The UEFA Champions League 2025-2026 has kicked off. Discover all the African players competing in this season’s tournament.

From Real Madrid to PSG and Galatasaray, African stars are shining bright in this season’s Champions League. A total of 69 African players will represent the continent in Europe’s most prestigious club competition. Here are the players eligible for African national teams who are not active members of another youth national side taking part in the tournament. Morocco leads the way with the highest number of representatives.

Algeria (6)Farès Chaïbi (Eintracht Frankfurt)Ibrahim Maza (Bayer Leverkusen)Adem Zorgane (Union SG)Amine Gouiri (OM)Ramy Bensebaïni (Dortmund)Rayan Aït-Nouri (Manchester City)

Burkina Faso (2)Edmond Tapsoba (Bayer Leverkusen)Adamo Nagalo (PSV)

Cameroon (2)Christian Kofane (Bayer Leverkusen)Franck Zambo-Anguissa (Napoli)

Cape Verde (1)Leandro Andrade (Qarabag)

Central African Republic (1)Geoffrey Kondogbia (Marseille)

Ivory Coast (6)Odilon Kossounou (Atalanta)Wilfried Singo (Galatasaray)Hamed Traoré (Marseille)Ousmane Diomande (Sporting CP)Nicolas Pépé (Villarreal)Chris Kouakou (Qarabag)

Gabon (2)Mario Lemina (Galatasaray)Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille)

Gambia (1)Youssoupha Sanyang (Slavia Prague)