Cities That Produce the Most African Footballers

Birthplaces with the highest number of African footballers in our database.

#	City	Country	Footballers
1	Accra	Ghana	478
2	Nigeria	Nigeria	383
3	Lagos	Nigeria	367
4	Kinshasa	DR Congo	319
5	Yaoundé	Cameroon	306
6	Dakar	Senegal	305
7	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	288
8	Ghana	Ghana	273
9	Douala	Cameroon	242
10	Casablanca	Morocco	213
11	Algiers	Algeria	204
12	Bamako	Mali	198
13	Tunis	Tunisia	187
14	Cairo	Egypt	180
15	Conakry	Guinea	172
16	Egypt	Egypt	163
17	Cape Town	South Africa	146
18	Luanda	Angola	141
19	Paris	France	132
20	Oran	Algeria	131
21	Kumasi	Ghana	121
22	Cameroon	Cameroon	118
23	Monrovia	Liberia	112
24	Johannesburg	South Africa	107
25	Morocco	Morocco	104
26	Tunisia	Tunisia	103
27	Zambia	Zambia	103
28	Ivory Coast	Ivory Coast	102
29	Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	101
30	Freetown	Sierra Leone	95
31	Lomé	Togo	93
32	Marseille	France	91
33	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	86
34	Kampala	Uganda	84
35	South Africa	South Africa	77
36	Kaduna	Nigeria	76
37	Bujumbura	Burundi	72
38	Banjul	Gambia	71
39	Lusaka	Zambia	70
40	Botswana	Botswana	70
41	Senegal	Senegal	69
42	Harare	Zimbabwe	69
43	Soweto	South Africa	66
44	Brazzaville	Congo	66
45	Mauritius	Mauritius	65
46	Uganda	Uganda	64
47	Libreville	Gabon	64
48	Durban	South Africa	62
49	Mali	Mali	62
50	Kenya	Kenya	60
51	Sudan	Sudan	58
52	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	57
53	Jos	Nigeria	55
54	Maputo	Mozambique	54
55	Sfax	Tunisia	54
56	Sétif	Algeria	53
57	Angola	Angola	53
58	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	52
59	Sousse	Tunisia	52
60	Algeria	Algeria	52

Data updated 2026-10-19. Goal records rely on our match-by-match database; see methodology.