Map: Where African Footballers Were Born
Cities that have produced at least three footballers in our database, sized by number of players.
Hover or tap a country for its value. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
The data
| City | Country | Footballers |
|---|---|---|
| Accra | Ghana | 478 |
| Nigeria | Nigeria | 383 |
| Lagos | Nigeria | 367 |
| Kinshasa | DR Congo | 319 |
| Yaoundé | Cameroon | 306 |
| Dakar | Senegal | 305 |
| Abidjan | Ivory Coast | 288 |
| Ghana | Ghana | 273 |
| Douala | Cameroon | 242 |
| Casablanca | Morocco | 214 |
| Algiers | Algeria | 204 |
| Bamako | Mali | 198 |
| Tunis | Tunisia | 187 |
| Cairo | Egypt | 180 |
| Conakry | Guinea | 172 |
| Egypt | Egypt | 163 |
| Cape Town | South Africa | 146 |
| Luanda | Angola | 141 |
| Paris | France | 132 |
| Oran | Algeria | 131 |
| Kumasi | Ghana | 121 |
| Cameroon | Cameroon | 118 |
| Monrovia | Liberia | 112 |
| Johannesburg | South Africa | 107 |
| Morocco | Morocco | 104 |
| Tunisia | Tunisia | 103 |
| Zambia | Zambia | 103 |
| Ivory Coast | Ivory Coast | 102 |
| Bissau | Guinea-Bissau | 101 |
| Freetown | Sierra Leone | 95 |
| Lomé | Togo | 93 |
| Marseille | France | 91 |
| Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso | 86 |
| Kampala | Uganda | 84 |
| South Africa | South Africa | 77 |
| Kaduna | Nigeria | 76 |
| Bujumbura | Burundi | 72 |
| Banjul | Gambia | 71 |
| Lusaka | Zambia | 70 |
| Botswana | Botswana | 70 |