17 Premier League Teams Have Muslim Players (2016 – 2017 season)

Paul Labile Pogba is the latest Muslim to have joined the English Premier League, playing for Manchester United. He was introduced to the Islamic faith by his mother. Yeo Moriba, his mother, has been described as his inspiration.

The English Premier League is the most watched professional sport league in the world. Clubs have diverse squads and players coming from different nationalities, race and religion.

In the last ten years, the number of Muslim footballers have increased in the league and with certain changes have had to be taken place such as keeping an eye on those who fast during Ramadan and to not give bottles of champagne to them if they become man of the match. Here is a list of 47 Muslim players who will be playing for English teams for the year 2016-2017.

Paul Labile Pogba

 

 

Eden Hazard

Born: La Louvière, Belgium
Midfielder – Age: 25
Club: Chelsea

Adnan Januzaj

Born: Brussels, Belgium
Midfielder – Age 21
Club: Manchester United

 

 

Mame Biram Diouf

Born: Dakar, Senegal
Forward – Age 28
Club: Stoke City

Sofiane Feghouli

Nationality: Algerian/French
Midfielder – Age: 26
Club: West Ham United

 

Ahmed Musa

Nationality: Nigerian
Forward – Age: 23
Club: Leicester City

 

 

Mesut Özil

Nationality: Germany (Turkish)
Midfielder – Age: 27
Club: Arsenal

 

 

Riyad Mahrez

Nationality: Algerian/French (Algerian)
Midfielder – Age: 25
Club: Leicester City

 

 

 

Yaya Sanogo

Born: France
Striker – Age: 23
Club: Arsenal

 

 

Kurt Zouma

 

 

 Marouane Fellaini

Born: Etterbeek, Belgium
Midfielder – Age: 28
Club: Manchester United

 

 

Bacary Sagna

Born: Sens, France
Defender – Age: 33
Club: Manchester City

 

 

Samir Nasri

Born: Septèmes-les-Vallons, France
Midfielder – Age: 29
Club: Manchester City

 

 

Yaya Toure

Born: Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
Age: 33
Club: Manchester City

 

 

 

Mamadou Sakho

Born: Paris, France
Defender – Age: 26
Club: Liverpool

 

 

Emre Can

Born: Frankfurt, Germany
Midfielder – Age: 22
Club: Liverpool

 

 

 

Asmir Begovic

Born: Bosnia
Goalkeeper – Age: 29
Club: Chelsea

 

 

 

Younes Kaboul

Born: Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France
Defender – Age: 30
Club: Tottenham

 

 

Moussa Dembele

 

 

Nacer Chadli

Born: Liège, Belgium
Midfielder – Age: 27
Club: Tottenham

 

 

 

Nabil Bentaleb

Born: Lille, France (Plays for Algeria)
Midfielder – Age: 21
Club: Tottenhan

 

Cheikhou Kouyate

Born: Dakar, Senegal
Midfielder – Age: 26
Club: West Ham

 

 

 

Arouna Koné

Born: Anyama, Ivory Coast
Striker – Age: 32
Club: Everton

 

 

Sadio Mané

Born: Sédhiou, Senegal
Midfield – Age: 24
Club: Liverpool

 

 

Andre Ayew

Born: Seclin, France (Nationality: Ghanaian)
Midfielder – Age 26
Club: West Ham United

 

 

Mohamed Elneny

Born: El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Egypt
Midfield – Age: 24
Club: Arsenal

 

 

Abdul Rahman Baba

Born: Tamale, Ghana
Defender – Age: 22
Club: Chelsea

 

 

Xherdan Shaqiri

Nationality: Swiss, Kosovo and Albanian (Born: SFR Yugoslavia)
Midfielder – Age 24
Club: Stoke City

 

 

 

Lewis Grabban

Born: Croydon, London, England (Jamaican)
Striker – Age: 28
Club: A.F.C Bournemouth

 

 

 

Essaid Belkalem

Born: Mekla, Algeria
Defender – Age: 27
Club: Watford

 

 

Abdoulaye Doucouré

Born: Meulan-en-Yvelines, France
Midfield – Age: 23
Club: Watford

 

 

Nordin Amrabat

Born: Naarden, Netherlands (Nationality: Moroccan)
Midfield – Age: 29
Club: Watford

 

 

 

İlkay Gündoğan

Born: Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Midfielder – Age: 25
Club: Manchester City

 

 

 

Yohan Benalouane

Born: Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
Defender – Age: 29
Club: Leicester City

 

 

Wahbi Khazri

Born: Ajaccio, Corsica, France(Nationality: Tunisian)
Defender – Age: 25
Club: Sunderland

 

 

 

Lamine Koné

Born: Paris, France (Nationality: Ivorian)
Defender – Age: 27
Club: Sunderland

 

 

 

Adlene Guedioura

Born: La Roche-sur-Yon, France (Nationality: Algerian)
Midfielder – Age: 30
Club: Watford

 

 

Ahmed Elmohamady

Born: Basyoun, Egypt
Midfielder – Age: 28
Club: Hull City

 

 

Youssouf Mulumbu

Born: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Midfielder – Age: 29
Club: Norwich City

 

 

Ibrahim Afellay

Born: Utrecht, Netherlands
Midfield – Age: 30
Club: Stoke City

 

 

Bakary Sako

Born: Ivry-sur-Seine, France(Malian)
Midfield – Age: 28
Club: Crystal Palace

 

 

 

Gokhan Inler

Born: Olten, Switzerland
Midfield – Age: 32
Club: Leicester City

 

 

 

Muhamed Bešić

Born: Berlin, Germany (Bosnian)
Midfield – Age: 23
Club: Everton

 

Oumar Niasse

Born: Ouakam, Senegal
Striker – Age: 26
Club: Everton

 

 

 

Shani Tarashaj

Born: Hausen am Albis, Switzerland
Striker – Age: 21
Club: Everton