- Emmanuel Adebayor
Emmanuel Adebayor is a Togolese football player who currently plays for Arsenal. He had previously played for FC Metz and AS Monaco. Nicknamed "Sheyi", he is of Nigerian descent via his parents who were born in the Osun State in south-west Nigeria.
- Daniel Gygax
Daniel Gygax is a Swiss football midfielder who currently, as of February 2007, plays for FC Metz on loan from Lille OSC. He currently has 20 caps for the Swiss national team, and has been called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He also participated at the 2004 European Football Championship.
- Babacar Gueye
Babacar Gueye (born 2 March, 1986 in Dakar) is a Senegalese football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for FC Metz.
- Jean Fernandez
Jean Fernandez, (born 8 October, 1954, in Mostaganem, Algeria) is a football manager, currently managing AJ Auxerre. He has previously managed FC Metz and Olympique Marseille where Franck Ribery saw him as a spiritual father.
- Christophe Marichez
Christophe Marichez (born 12 December, 1974 in Hazebrouck) is a French football goalkeeper, currently playing for FC Metz.
- Jeff Strasser
Jeff Strasser (born October 5, 1974 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgian football defender. As one of the rare successful professional footballers from Luxembourg, he made a fairly successful career in French and German first divisions. After playing for French side FC Metz in Ligue 1 between 1993 and 1999, he moved to German Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern and spent three seasons with the club before leaving it for Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2002.
- Ludovic Obraniak
Ludovic Obraniak is a French footballer born on November 10, 1984 in Longeville-Lès-Metz, France currently playing as a midfielder for Lille OSC. He previously played for Metz from 2003 until January 2007, when he transferred from Metz to Lille OSC. He stepped right into the action, even cracking the starting 11 for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League Quarterfinal pairing against Manchester United.
- Momar N'Diaye
Momar N'Diaye (born 13 July, 1987 in Yeumbeul) is a Senegalese football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for FC Metz.
- Wilmer Aguirre
Wilmer Aguirre (born October 5, 1983 in Pisco) is an Peruvian football striker who currently plays for FC Metz.
- Cheikh Gueye
Cheikh Matar Gueye is a Senegalese football (soccer) defender. He currently plays for FC Metz
- Manuel Corrales
Manuel Corrales (born September 3, 1982 in Lima) is an Peruvian football defender who currently plays for FC Metz.
- Julien Cardy
Julien Cardy (born 29 September, 1981 in Pau) is a French football midfielder, currently playing for FC Metz.
- Papiss Cissé
Papiss Demba Cissé is a Senegalese football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for FC Metz.
- Pascal Delhommeau
Pascal Delhommeau (born August 14, 1978 in Nantes) is an French football defender who currently plays for FC Metz.
- Dino Djiba
Dino Djiba (born 20 December, 1985 in Dakar) is a Senegalese-French football (soccer) midfielder. He currently plays for FC Metz.
- Roy Contout
Roy Contout (born 11 February, 1985 in Cayenne) is a French football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for FC Metz.
- Julien François
Julien François is a French footballer. He plays for FC Metz in French Ligue 2 Julien started his career at FC Metz, and also played for Gazélec Ajaccio and Grenoble, en Ligue 2. He played at Grenoble for 4 seasons before returning to FC Metz in the summer of 2006
- Landry Bonnefoi
Landry Bonnefoi (born 20 September 1983 in Villeparisis) is a French footballer, who is the goalkeeper for Metz, on loan from Juventus. Bonnefoi was signed by Juventus from AS Cannes in 2001. Bonnefoi then spent two seasons playing for the Juventus youth team. On season 2003-04 he was on loan at Messina, but only played one game for the Sicilian side. He was brought back to the club in 2004. In 2006, wanting more appearances and home sick, …
- Rigobert Song
Rigobert Song Bahanag (born July 1, 1976) is a Cameroonian football player who, as of 2007, is playing for Galatasaray.
- Souleymane Youla
Souleymane Youla is a Guinean football player. During the season 05/06 he was contracted to Turkish club Beşiktaş J.K., but sent on loan to FC Metz in France. He has just signed with French giants Lille OSC. He has previously played for R.S.C. Anderlecht, K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen and Gençlerbirliği SK. He was part of the Guinean 2004 African Nations Cup team who finished second in their group in the first round of competition.
- Sylvain Marchal
Sylvain Marchal is a French professional football (soccer) player, currently with FC Lorient. Marchal began his career at FC Metz, making his Ligue 1 debut on 10 March1999 in the 0-0 draw at AS Monaco. It was in the latter half of the 2001-02 season that he established himself as a regular in the Metz lineup, but fell out of favour by August 2004, when he was loaned out to Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux.
- Szabolcs Huszti
Szabolcs Huszti is a Hungarian footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Hannover 96. Huszti (his surname meaning to "come from Huszt [English: Khust]") began his professional career at the legendary Hungarian club Ferencváros. Following a solitary first team appearence, he was loaned out to fellow top flight team FC Sopron in December 2003. During this six-month stint, he impressed, scoring 6 goals in his 14 appearances.
- Ludovic Butelle
Ludovic Butelle is a French football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Real Valladolid on loan from Valencia CF. Standing at 1.88 metres, the French keeper is an exciting prospect, and much talked about in the Valencia camp as the possible replacement for the evergreen Santiago Cañizares. Although he is highly talented, Butelle is very inexperienced having just been promoted from the Valencia B team, after the injury of Juan Luis Mora.
- Franck Béria
Franck Béria is an French football defender who currently plays for FC Metz.
- Dimitri Payet
Dimitri Payet is a French soccer player, currently playing for FC Nantes Atlantique in Ligue 1, after having previously played for Le Havre in Ligue 2 and for SS Excelsior in Réunion. Payet scored his first Ligue 1 goal in the 2005/06 season against FC Metz. Payet has played for the French under-21 team, after his first selection on November 9 2006, in which an injury ruled him out of the game. On his first match for the under-21s, Payet set up one goal, …
- Ahn Jung-Hwan
Ahn Jung-Hwan (born January 27, 1976 in Paju, Gyeonggi) is a South Korean football player; he made world headlines by scoring the winning golden goal for Korea against Italy in the 2002 World Cup second round and sending Korea into the quarterfinals. At the time, Ahn was on loan at Italian league side Perugia. His extra-time header dumped the three-time champions from the World Cup.
- Oguchi Onyewu
Oguchialu Chilioke "Oguchi" Onyewu or "Gooch" (born May 13, 1982 in Washington, D.C.) is an American soccer player who plays in defense for Standard Liège and the United States. Onyewu's parents moved to the United States from Nigeria to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C. Onyewu has two brothers, Uche and Nonye, and two sisters, Chi-Chi and Ogechi. Growing up in Silver Spring and later Olney, Maryland, …
- Carl Medjani
Carl Medjani (born May 15, 1985 in Lyon) is a French football player with Lorient. His parents are of Algerian origin. After spending his youth development years at Saint-Étienne he was signed by Liverpool's manager Gérard Houllier in August 2003. Liverpool beat off stiff competition from Premiership rivals Arsenal, Manchester United and German giants Bayern Munich to secure his services.
- Jacques Songo'O
Jacques Celestine Songo'o was a Cameroonian footballer. Songo'o, a veteran goalkeeper, featured in every World Cup from 1990 to 2002. He was also a member of the Cameroonian squad that competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. His most successful period was the years at Spanish club Deportivo La Coruña, where he once won the Zamora Trophy (awarded to the best goalkeeper of the season). When Deportivo bought José Francisco Molina in 2000, …
- Stéphane Léoni
Stéphane Léoni is a French footballer who currently plays for FC Metz of the French Ligue 2. Léoni was born in Saint-Mihiel. A defender, he initially joined Metz as a youth player but failed to break though to the first team. After leaving the club in 1998 he sought to continue his career in England, signing for Bristol Rovers, where he spent two seasons. In 2000 he had a four month spell with Dundee United in the Scottish Premier League before returning to France.
- David Regis
David Regis (born December 2, 1968), is a former French-American soccer defender, who played for the United States at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and was an unused substitute at the 2002 World Cup. Regis began his pro career in 1988 with Valenciennes and played there until 1993. He then transferred to Strasbourg in 1993, Lens in 1996, and Karlsruhe in 1997. That last move was designed to get noticed by the French national team by playing in Germany's Bundesliga, …
- Joseph-Désiré Job
Joseph-Désiré Job is a French-born Cameroonian footballer striker who is currently playing for French Ligue 1 side CS Sedan Ardennes. Job was born in the French city of Lyon, there he enjoyed a bright start to his footballing career and began training with the famous Olympique Lyonnais club at the age of ten. In his first season there he scored a remarkable 13 goals in 14 games. He was tipped early on to be a future French International player, …
- Jules Bocandé
Jules Bocandé is a former football Striker.He was Ligue 1's top goalscorer in 1985-86. He is the father of FC Metz's player Daniel Bocandé.
- Danny Boffin
Danny Boffin is a former Belgian football left winger. His former clubs include R.F.C. de Liège, R.S.C. Anderlecht, FC Metz and Sint-Truidense. Boffin played over 50 matches for the Belgian national team, and was in squad for 1994, 1998 and 2002.
- Patrick Mboma
Henri Patrick Mboma Dem is a former Cameroonian football striker, the all-time top goal-scorer for the Cameroonian national team. He started his domestic football career in 1993, and during his career played for Châteauroux, Paris Saint-Germain, FC Metz, Gamba Osaka, Cagliari, Parma, Sunderland,Al Ittihad, Tokyo Verdy and Vissel Kobe, before retiring on May 16, 2005. After first being capped for Cameroon in 1995, Mboma has scored 33 goals in 57 matches.
- Stéphane Morisot
Stéphane Morisot, born January 11, 1978 in Langres, France is a French defender currently playing for Niort. His previous clubs include FC Metz, Troyes AC and CS Sedan Ardennes.
- Marcin Żewłakow
Marcin Żewłakow is a Polish football player playing for Gent in the Jupiler League. He formerly played for clubs such as Polonia Warszawa, Beveren (Belgium), Excelsior Mouscron (Belgium) or FC Metz (France). He also played for Polish national team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. His brother Michał is also a footballer. They played together at Polonia, Beveren and Mouscron.
- Miralem Pjanić
Miralem Pjanić is a Bosnian-Luxembourgian footballer who plays for FC Metz in France. Pjanić played in the 2006 European Under-17 Championships for Luxembourg, for which Luxembourg had qualified automatically as hosts. He scored Luxembourg's only goal: a fantastic first time, long range, dipping effort lobbing Spanish goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo. In that same year a memorable game against Belgium ended 5-5 with Pjanic scoring 4 goals for Luxembourg.
- Dmitri Sychev
Dmitri Yevgenyevich Sychev is a soccer player from Russia. His last name is also transcribed as "Sytchev", and his first name as "Dmitry" or "Dmitriy". He has been hailed by the international press as "The Russian Michael Owen" and as "The most sensational young Russian forward since Vladimir Beschastnykh".
- Luc Sonor
Luc Sonor is a former professional footballer in France and Scotland. His clubs include FC Metz, AS Monaco and Ayr United. An uncomprising defender, he won the French Cup three times, twice with AS Monaco and once with FC Metz. He also won the French Championship with Monaco where he played under Arsène Wenger. Capped by the French National Side on six occasions, including a famous 2-0 defeat to Scotland at Hampden Park, Glasgow on March 8, 1989.