- El Hadji Diouf
El-Hadji Ousseynou Diouf is a Senegalese footballer. He plays for Bolton Wanderers and Senegal.
- Papa Bouba Diop
Papa Bouba Diop (born January 28, 1978 in Dakar) is a Senegalese footballer, who currently plays for the Senegal national football team, where he is currently the captain, and Fulham.
- Moussa N'Diaye
Moussa N'Diaye (born February 21, 1979) is a Senegalese football player. He played for AS Monaco and CS Sedan, both in France. He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Bruno Metsu
Bruno Metsu (born 28 January, 1954 in Dunkerque) is a French football manager. He took the Senegal national football team to its first ever FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan in 2002 where they surprised everybody by beating France in the opening game of the World Cup by one goal to nil.
- Makhtar N'Diaye
Amadou Makhtar N'Diaye (born December 31, 1981) is a Senegalese football player who is currently unattached and without a club. He has been linked with several clubs including Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Coventry City, Norwich City, Cardiff City and Stoke although no offers are believed to have been made. He has previously played for Stade Rennes and CS Sedan Ardennes in France and Yverdon-Sport FC in Switzerland.
- Aliou Cissé
Aliou Cissé is a Senegalese football player. He has recently signed for a second spell at French Ligue 1 side CS Sedan on a free transfer, after being released by Portsmouth in England at the end of the 2005/06 season. Cisse is an aggressive defensive midfield player who can also play at full back. He began his career with Lille OSC before moving onto CS Sedan and then Paris Saint-Germain. He also spent the majority of the 2001-02 season on loan at Montpellier Herault SC.
- Amara Traoré
Amara Traoré is a Senegalese football player. He played for several teams, including SC Bastia, FC Gueugnon, FC Metz, all in France. He played for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Henri Camara
Henri Camara (born May 10, 1977 in Dakar, Senegal) is a Senegalese footballer who, as of 2005, plays for Wigan Athletic of the English FA Premier League. Camara played for Senegal at their surprising run at the 2002 World Cup, scoring two goals, one a golden goal, in the Round of 16 against Sweden. He was part of the 2004 and 2006 African Nations Cup squads as well. At club level, Camara began his career in France with RC Strasbourg (1998-1999), …
- Habib Beye
Habib Beye (born October 19, 1977 in Suresnes (France), is a Senegalese footballer, who currently plays for French League 1 giants Olympique de Marseille, he is the current captain of the Mediterranean club, since the start of the 2006/2007 season. He made substitute appearances in Senegal's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, against Denmark, Uruguay and Sweden, and is a regular feature in the Senegalese starting line up.
- Alassane N'Dour
Alassane N'Dour is a Senegalese football player. He played for AS Saint-Etienne and now plays in Troyes AC, both in France. He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye
Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye (born February 26, 1978 in Dakar) is a Senegalese footballer. He plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back, currently at Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League. Faye began his career at Senegalese club ASEC Ndiambour, before leaving the then top-three team to go to Jeanne d'Arc in Senegal. He then went on to join Lens in July 2002, integrating into a squad which at that time included fellow Senegalese Papa Bouba Diop, …
- Lamine Diatta
Lamine Diatta is a Senegalese footballer, who is currently a free agent, having left St. Étienne in France. Diatta is tall, strong and the holding force in the centre of Senegal's defence. He gives Senegal aerial power at the back as well as at attacking set pieces. Diatta played in all of Senegal's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Before moving to Lyon in 2004, Diatta played 142 games for Rennes, scoring 9 goals in that time.
- Souleymane Diawara
Souleymane Diawara is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a defender for Charlton Athletic in the English Premiership as well as for the Senegal national football team He has previously played for Le Havre and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. He also has a French passport.
- Diomansy Kamara
Diomansy Kamara (born November 8, 1980 in Paris, France) is a Senegalese footballer who currently plays for the English Premier League club Fulham as a striker.
- Pape Sarr
Pape Sarr (born December 7, 1977) is a Senegalese football player. He played for AS Saint-Etienne and Racing Lens, both in France. He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Khalilou Fadiga
Khalilou Fadiga is a Senegalese football player who plays in midfield for Coventry City. He also holds a Belgian passport. Fadiga began his career at Paris Saint-Germain in France, but failed to make an impression, and so was transferred to fellow Parisian club, "Red Star 93", before moving to Belgian club FC Liège. It was in Belgium that he found the profile that was to launch his international career. After one season he moved from FC Liège to Lommel, …
- Pape Thiaw
Pape Thiaw is a Senegalese football player. He played for several clubs, including Lausanne Sports in Switzerland and Racing Strasbourg in France. He now plays in Spain for Lorca Deportiva on loan from Deportivo Alavés in Segunda División. He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Omar Daf
Omar Daf is a Senegalese football player. He plays for Sochaux in France. He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He also has a French passport.
- Kalidou Cissokho
Kalidou Cissokho (born 14 December, 1972) is a Senegalese football goalkeeper. He played for a few clubs, including ASC Jeanne d'Arc. He played for the Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Souleymane Camara
Souleymane Camara (born December 22, 1982) is a Senegalese football player. He played for AS Monaco in France and now plays for OGC Nice. He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Ferdinand Coly
Ferdinand Coly (born 10 September, 1973 in Dakar) is a Senegalese footballer, who currently plays for Parma in Italy. Coly played in all of Senegal's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. After impressing at the tournament, he moved from Lens to Birmingham City on loan. But this proved to be a poor career move as his sole Premiership appearance came against Arsenal. Coly then moved on to Perugia.
- Salif Diao
Salif Alassane Diao (born February 10 1977 in Kedougou, Senegal) is a Senegalese football player, playing as a defensive midfielder. He currently plays for Stoke City, and is a Senegal international.
- Sylvain N'Diaye
Sylvain N'Diaye (born June 25, 1976 in Paris) is a French-born Senegalese footballer. A defensive midfielder, he has played for Olympique de Marseille since 2003 to 2005. He currently plays for Levante UD. He has played 5 international matches for Senegal.
- Pape Diakhaté
Pape Diakhaté is a Senegalese professional football (soccer) player, currently with AS Nancy. Diakhaté has been at Nancy since his youth, and made his Ligue 2 debut on October 202001, playing the first half of the 2-0 win over LB Châteauroux. Originally a left-back and capable of playing as a wide midfielder, he is recognised mainly as a centre-back. He played 25 league matches the following season, and has appeared regularly for the club, …
- Claude Le Roy
Claude Le Roy is a French football manager and former player, currently in charge of the Ghana national team. Le Roy has had a varied managerial career, starting out with little hype at the small French club Amiens SC, after taking over as manager when his playing days ended. His achievement of leading the Cameroon national team to runners-up in the 1986 African Cup of Nations, …
- Ibrahima Camara
Ibrahima Sory Camara (born January 1 1985 in Conakry) is a Guinean footballer. As of 2006 plays for Guinea and Le Mans UC72 of Ligue 1. Although born in Guinea, Camara grew up in Sierra Leone were his parents came from. In 04/05 season, he promoted to Parma F.C.'s first team, made 9 Serie A appearances and 7 UEFA Cup appearances, which Parma finish as losing Semi-finalists to champion CSKA Moscow. On summer 2006, he was loaned to Le Mans Union Club 72, …
- Papa Malick Diop
Papa Malick Diop (born December 29, 1974) is a Senegalese football player. He played for Racing Strasbourg (France), Neuchatel Xamax (Switzerland) and FC Lorient (France). He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Diop's short stint with Norwich City F.C. (1999) ended in controversy, when the police investigated allegations that he spat at QPR fans
- Omar Diallo
Omar Diallo (born 28 September, 1972) is a Senegalese football goalkeeper. He played for a few clubs, including Olympique Khouribga in Morocco and Sakaryaspor in Turkey. He played for the Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Razak Omotoyossi
Razak Omotoyossi (born 8 October, 1985) is a Beninese football player. The striker signed for Helsingborgs IF in 2007, leaving FC Sheriff in Moldova. Among other achievements, Omotoyossi scored the first ever goal for Benin in the World Youth Championship, and equalized for Sheriff in injury time against FC Spartak Moscow in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.. He was signed to Sheriff, the top Moldovan club, in November 2005.
- Johnny Menyongar
Johnny Menyongar (born June 26, 1979 in Monrovia) is a Liberian soccer player who currently plays forward for the Rochester Raging Rhinos of the USL First Division. Menyongar spent the first six seasons of his professional career with the Minnesota Thunder, totaling 50 regular-season goals in addition to many playoff and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup tallies.
- Demba Touré
Demba Touré is a Senegalese footballer. He currently plays for Grasshopper-Club Zürich where he wears the number 7 shirt on loan from Olympique Lyonnais, and the Senegal national football team. Touré played at Lyon for the 2002 and 2003 seasons, and was then loaned to Grasshopper-Club Zürich for 2004 and 2005.
- Fary Faye
Fary Faye is a football forward from Senegal. He currently plays for Boavista FC of Portugal. He is one of the SuperLiga´s top 5 goalscorers. He was part of the Senegalese 2000 African Nations Cup team, who reached the quarter-finals where they lost to Nigeria.
- Mamadou Seck
Mamadou Seck is a Senegalese footballer, currently playing as a defender for Sheffield United. Seck started his career as a youth in August 1998 for Toulouse and was signed by Nîmes Olympique at the beinning of the 2000-01 season. He played 28 games in 2 seasons before signing for AC Ajaccio for whom he played 73 times, scoring 4 goals until signing for Kayserispor for the 2005-06 season. He played only 8 times for the Turkish side, moving to Le Havre AC in January 2006, …
- Christian Manfredini
Christian Manfredini (by Italian parents), real family name Sisostri is a Côte d'Ivoire-Italian footballer. Born in Port Bouet, Manfredini was adopted by Italian parents at the age of 5. He made his debut in Serie A with A.C. ChievoVerona. After a good 2005-06 season at Lazio, Manfredini was called up by Côte d'Ivoire for the first time, against Spain in a friendly match, on March 1, 2006, as an unused substitute.
- Raoul Diagne
Raoul Diagne (born 10 November, 1910-died 12 November 2002) was a French football defender, who had stints as a coach after his playing career. Born in French Guyana, Diagne, son of politician Blaise Diagne was the first black player to be selected for the France national football team. He was of Senegalese descent and became the first coach of the Senegal national football team.
- Amara Diané
Amara Diané is an Ivorian football striker who plays for French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Côte d'Ivoire national team. He is thought to be one of the hottest prospects in Ivory Coast football today, having been dubbed 'The New Drogba'. At the start of his career Amara trained at the famous youth academy at Ivory Coast club ASEC Abidjan, before moving to the Parisian suburbs, where he joined French Club FC Mantes.
- Amady Faye
Amdy Moustapha Faye (born March 12 1977 in Dakar) is a Senegalese football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a defensive midfielder for English Premier League club Charlton Athletic.
- Ubaldo Aquino
Ubaldo Aquino Valenzano (born May 2, 1958) is a football (soccer) referee from Paraguay, best known for supervising two matches (Germany-Saudi Arabia and Sweden-Senegal) during the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. <br
- Cheikh Gadiaga
Cheikh Gadiaga (born 30 November 1979) is a Senegalese football midfielder currently with Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. in Israel. He was called up to the Senegal national team in 2001.
- Mame Niang
Mame Cheikh Niang (born 31 March 1984) is a Senegalese football striker. He plays for Moroka Swallows and Senegal. He won the 2005-06 PSL top goalscorer award "(Lesley Manyathela Golden Boot)" with 14 goals.