All-Time Goalscorers for African National Teams

Leading scorers across all African national teams in our match-by-match goal database.

#	Player	Team	Goals	Tournaments
1	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	40	9
2	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	34	7
3	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	31	7
4	Sadio Mané	Senegal	27	6
5	Patrick Mboma	Cameroon	24	6
6	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	24	9
7	Islam Slimani	Algeria	24	4
8	Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria	21	5
9	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Gabon	21	4
10	Vincent Aboubakar	Cameroon	21	4
11	Roger Milla	Cameroon	20	5
12	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	20	3
13	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	20	2
14	Riyad Mahrez	Algeria	20	5
15	Kalusha Bwalya	Zambia	19	6
16	Pascal Feindouno	Guinea	19	3
17	Moumouni Dagano	Burkina Faso	19	1
18	Francileudo Santos	Tunisia	18	4
19	Abdoulaye Traoré	Ivory Coast	17	5
20	Emmanuel Adebayor	Togo	17	1
21	Frédéric baldi	Mali	17	3
22	Amr Zaki	Egypt	17	2
23	Victor Osimhen	Nigeria	17	2
24	Ahmed Hassan	Egypt	16	4
25	Henri Camara	Senegal	16	4
26	Dennis Oliech	Kenya	16	1
27	André Ayew	Ghana	16	8
28	Jordan Ayew	Ghana	16	4
29	Ismaïla Sarr	Senegal	16	5
30	Laurent Pokou	Ivory Coast	15	2
31	Shaun Bartlett	South Africa	15	3
32	El Hadji Diouf	Senegal	15	1
33	Dieumerci Mbokani	DR Congo	15	2
34	Ayoub El Kaabi	Morocco	15	1
35	Rabah Madjer	Algeria	14	4
36	Joël Tiéhi	Ivory Coast	14	4
37	Peter Ndlovu	Zimbabwe	14	1
38	Akwá	Angola	14	—
39	Ibrahima Bakayoko	Ivory Coast	13	1
40	Seydou Keita	Mali	13	4
41	Obafemi Martins	Nigeria	13	2
42	Flávio Amado	Angola	13	4
43	Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	13	6
44	Salomon Kalou	Ivory Coast	13	4
45	Razak Omotoyossi	Benin	13	2
46	Wahbi Khazri	Tunisia	13	5
47	Michael Olunga	Kenya	13	1
48	Hassan El-Shazly	Egypt	12	3
49	Ahmed Faras	Morocco	12	2
50	Lakhdar Belloumi	Algeria	12	4
51	Djamel Menad	Algeria	12	2
52	Zoubeir Baya	Tunisia	12	2
53	Benni McCarthy	South Africa	12	3
54	Sulley Muntari	Ghana	12	3
55	Youssef Msakni	Tunisia	12	5
56	Mengistu Worku	Ethiopia	11	4
57	François Omam-Biyik	Cameroon	11	4
58	Alphonse Tchami	Cameroon	11	2
59	Titi Camara	Guinea	11	1
60	Jay-Jay Okocha	Nigeria	11	2
61	Shabani Nonda	DR Congo	11	1
62	Yakubu	Nigeria	11	4
63	Emad Moteab	Egypt	11	2
64	Gervinho	Ivory Coast	11	5
65	Baghdad Bounedjah	Algeria	11	2
66	Yoane Wissa	DR Congo	11	2
67	Ndaye Mulamba	DR Congo	10	2
68	Segun Odegbami	Nigeria	10	2
69	Paulo António Alves	Angola	10	1
70	Hafid Tasfaout	Algeria	10	1
71	Daniel Amokachi	Nigeria	10	2
72	Julius Aghahowa	Nigeria	10	3
73	Aruna Dindane	Ivory Coast	10	2
74	Collins Mbesuma	Zambia	10	1
75	Christopher Katongo	Zambia	10	4
76	Wilfried Bony	Ivory Coast	10	5
77	Emilio Nsue	Equatorial Guinea	10	3
78	Bertrand Traoré	Burkina Faso	10	3
79	Youssef En-Nesyri	Morocco	10	6
80	Cédric Bakambu	DR Congo	10	2
81	Thomas Partey	Ghana	10	1
82	Trézéguet	Egypt	10	4
83	Geny Catamo	Mozambique	10	2
84	Ismael Saibari	Morocco	10	2
85	Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetsh	Egypt	9	1
86	Osei Kofi	Ghana	9	2
87	Tedj Bensaoula	Algeria	9	3
88	Mamadou Zongo	Burkina Faso	9	—
89	Ziad Jaziri	Tunisia	9	2
90	Youssouf Hadji	Morocco	9	1
91	Matthew Amoah	Ghana	9	1
92	Issam Jemâa	Tunisia	9	2
93	Trésor Mputu	DR Congo	9	2
94	Hosny Abd Rabo	Egypt	9	2
95	Manucho	Angola	9	3
96	Aristide Bancé	Burkina Faso	9	3
97	Getaneh Kebede	Ethiopia	9	1
98	Sofiane Feghouli	Algeria	9	3
99	Prejuce Nakoulma	Burkina Faso	9	1
100	Steve Mounié	Benin	9	1

Data updated 2026-10-20. Goal records rely on our match-by-match database; see methodology.