On this day: November 8

Birthdays, historic matches and AFCON moments in African football on November 8.

46 African footballers in our database were born on November 8, including Diomansy Kamara, Ado Onaiwu and Jawhar Mnari.

African national teams have played 27 matches on November 8 since 1959.

Footballers born on November 8 (46)

Player	Born	Nation	Position
Diomansy Kamara	1980	Senegal	Forward
Ado Onaiwu	1995	Nigeria	Forward
Jawhar Mnari	1976	Tunisia	Midfielder
Jacques N'Guea	1955	Cameroon	Forward
Rachid Rokki	1974	Morocco	Forward
Diawandou Diagne	1994	Senegal	Defender
Gustavo Sangaré	1996	Burkina Faso	Midfielder
Ibrahim Gnanou	1986	Burkina Faso	Centre-back
Dennis Lota	1973	Zambia	Forward
Akram Tawfik	1997	Egypt	Midfielder
Ilias Hassani	1995	Algeria	Defender
Omar Jawo	1981	Gambia	Defender
Christian Maghoma	1997	DR Congo	Defender
Christian Fabrice Okoua	1991	Ivory Coast	Goalkeeper
Abd El-Karim Sakr	1918	Egypt	Forward
Phinda Dlamini	1984	Eswatini	Forward
Moncef Chérif	1940	Tunisia	Forward
Ilhan Fandi	2002	South Africa	Midfielder
Johannes Hindjou	1979	Namibia	Midfielder
Inès Boutaleb	1998	Algeria	Forward
Bosun Ayeni	1978	Nigeria	Midfielder
Jean-Maxime Ndongo	1992	Equatorial Guinea	Midfielder
Aymeric Ahmed	2003	Comoros	Midfielder
Ode Thompson	1980	Nigeria	Forward
Emma Naris	1996	Namibia
Mohamed Mouloud Harim	1985	Algeria
Jamel Zahiri	1985	Morocco	Forward
Salif Sanou	1967	Burkina Faso	Forward
Zouhair Naïm	1985	Morocco	Forward
Ismaël Karba Bangoura	1994	Guinea	Defender
Ibrahima Keita	2001	Mauritania
Occupé Bayenga	1988	DR Congo	Forward
Luvuyo Phewa	1999	South Africa	Defender
Graeme Brown	1980	South Africa	Forward
Francis Ambané	1984	Cameroon	Midfielder
Andy Salako	1972	Nigeria	Defender
Chukwuka Onuwa Emmanuel	1996	Nigeria
Amy Lasu	1995	South Sudan
Ashik Punchoo	1976	Mauritius	Defender
Amr Abdel Fattah	1998	Egypt	Forward
Offrande Zanzala	1996	Congo	Forward
Houcine Rabii	1991	Tunisia	Defender
Franck Aholie	1992	Ivory Coast	Forward
Fatoumata Karentao	1990	Mali	Goalkeeper
Ismaël Kanda	2000	Congo
Djibril Sarr	1990	Senegal	Forward