Sadio Mané

Sadio Mané
Mané with Al-Nassr in 2025
Personal information
Full name Sadio Mané
Date of birth (1992-04-10) 10 April 1992
Place of birth Bambali, Senegal
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Winger
Team information
Current team
Al-Nassr
Number 10
Youth career
2009–2011 Génération Foot
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2012 Metz B 12 (2)
2011–2012 Metz 22 (2)
2012–2014 Red Bull Salzburg 63 (31)
2014–2016 Southampton 67 (21)
2016–2022 Liverpool 196 (90)
2022–2023 Bayern Munich 25 (7)
2023– Al-Nassr 82 (34)
International career
2012 Senegal Olympic 4 (0)
2012– Senegal 126 (53)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Senegal
Africa Cup of Nations
Winner 2021 Cameroon
Winner 2025 Morocco
Runner-up 2019 Egypt
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:00, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:00, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Sadio Mané (born 10 April 1992) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr and the Senegal national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best wingers of his generation and one of the greatest African players of all time.

Mané began his professional career with Ligue 2 club Metz at the age of 19, but he departed after a solitary season to join Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg in 2012 for a fee of €4 million, winning a league and cup domestic double in the 2013–14 season. Later that summer, Mané transferred to English club Southampton for a club record fee of £11.8 million. There, he set a new Premier League record for the fastest hat-trick, scored in 176 seconds in a 6–1 win over Aston Villa in 2015.

Mané signed for fellow Premier League club Liverpool in 2016, for a reported fee of £34 million, making him the most expensive African player in history at that time. Having formed a formidable attacking trio with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino after the departure of prolific midfielder Philippe Coutinho, he helped the side reach back-to-back UEFA Champions League finals in 2018 and 2019, winning the latter. He also finished as the league's joint-top goalscorer in the 2018–19 season, winning the Premier League Golden Boot. Mané then helped end Liverpool's 30-year league title drought by winning the 2019–20 Premier League. In October 2021, he scored his 100th Premier League goal, becoming the third African to reach the landmark. Mané finished fourth and second in the 2019 and 2022 editions of the Ballon d'Or, respectively; and in The Best FIFA Men's Player he ranked fifth in 2019 and fourth in 2020.

At international level, Mané has registered 53 goals in 126 appearances for Senegal since his debut in 2012, and currently ranks as his nation's all-time top goalscorer, and second in all-time appearances. He represented Senegal at the 2012 Olympics, as well as the 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations. In the 2019 tournament, Mané helped Senegal to a runners-up finish, and a year later, was named African Footballer of the Year. In the 2021 final, Mané scored the winning kick in the penalty shoot-out to give Senegal their first Africa Cup of Nations title and he was also named the Player of the tournament. In 2022, he was crowned African Player of the Year for the second time. Mané also represented his nation at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in its second-ever appearance in the competition. Mané later led Senegal to their second AFCON trophy in 2025, once again being named the tournament's best player.