2025-2026 EPL Season: Senegal Dominates Africa With Seven Players+ Full List

As the 2025-2026 English Premier League Season set to kick off on Friday, 15 August, 2025, players of Senegalese origin will be highly represented in the league regarded as the most lucrative in world football, reports Business Today NG.
The league will kick-started with a marquee opening clash pitting defending champions Liverpool against Bournemouth.
At least seven Senegalese players are expected to compete in the 2025-2026 season including veteran Idrissa Gana Gueye, who has just extended his contract with Everton, where he’ll be joined by Iliman Ndiaye, who arrived last year from Olympique de Marseille.
The likes of Pape Matar Sarr will continue in the shirt of Tottenham Hotspur and Ismaïla Sarr will continue his journey with Carabao Cup Champions, Crystal Palace, and Nicolas Jackson will ply his trade at the newly crowned World Club Champions,Chelsea.
Two fresh talents are set to join the Senegalese train in the EPL top flight in the persons of Hadji Malick Diouf at West Ham United and Habib Diarra at Sunderland. The duo performed excellently well last season with Slavia Prague and Strasbourg, respectively.
Recall that in the last few years, several Senegalese stars like Sadio Mané with Liverpool and Southampton, and Cheikhou Kouyaté with West Ham and Crystal Palace, have left their imprint on EPL