Aliou Dieng
Malian footballer (born 1997)
![]() Dieng with Al Ahly at the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup | |||
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Aliou Dieng[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1997-10-16) 16 October 1997 (age 26)[1] | ||
Place of birth | Bamako, Mali | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Al-Kholood | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016–2018 | Djoliba AC | 20[2] | (0) |
2018–2019 | MC Alger | 37 | (1) |
2019– | Al Ahly | 114 | (5) |
2024– | → Al-Kholood (loan) | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2015–2017 | Mali Á | 12 | (1) |
2020– | Mali | 33 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 December 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2024 |
Aliou Dieng (born 16 October 1997) is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Kholood and the Mali national team.
Club career
In July 2019, Dieng joined Egyptian club Al Ahly on a five-year contract for an undisclosed fee.[3]
International career
Dieng represented a local team of Mali at the 2016 African Nations Championship, and scored a penalty in their 2–1 quarter-final win over Tunisia.[4][5] In 2020, Dieng played for the Malian national team for the first time at non-local level, in 2-1 victory against Namibia. With his home country, he also participated at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.
Career statistics
Club
- As of 25 May 2024.[6]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
MC Alger | 2017–18 | Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8[a] | 0 | — | 21 | 0 | |
2018–19 | Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | 27 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 32 | 1 | ||||
Total | 37 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | 53 | 1 | |||
Al Ahly | 2019–20 | Egyptian Premier League | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11[a] | 1 | 1[b] | 0 | 40 | 2 |
2020–21 | Egyptian Premier League | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13[a] | 1 | 4[c] | 0 | 51 | 1 | |
2021–22 | Egyptian Premier League | 21 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 13[a] | 1 | 4[c] | 0 | 43 | 3 | |
2022–23 | Egyptian Premier League | 29 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 13[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 2 | |
2023–24 | Egyptian Premier League | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9[d] | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
Total | 114 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 59 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 211 | 8 | ||
Career total | 151 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 67 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 249 | 9 |
- ^ a b c d e Appearance(s) in the CAF Champions League
- ^ Appearance(s) in the Super Cup
- ^ a b c Appearance(s) in the Super Cup/CAF Super Cup/FIFA Club World Cup
- ^ Four appearances in CAF Champions League, four appearances in African Football League
International
- As of match played 11 June 2024[7]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
Mali | 2015 | 2 | 0 |
2016 | 5 | 1 | |
2017 | 5 | 0 | |
2020 | 1 | 0 | |
2021 | 7 | 0 | |
2022 | 6 | 1 | |
2023 | 4 | 0 | |
2024 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 33 | 2 |
- Scores and results list Mali's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dieng goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 31 January 2016 | Stade Régional Nyamirambo, Kigali, Rwanda | ![]() | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2016 African Nations Championship | [5] |
2 | 9 June 2022 | St. Mary's Stadium-Kitende, Entebbe, Uganda | ![]() | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification | [8] |
Honours
- Al Ahly
- Egyptian Premier League: 2019–20, 2022–23
- Egypt Cup: 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23
- Egyptian Super Cup: 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
- CAF Champions League: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24
- CAF Super Cup: 2021 (May), 2021 (December)
References
- ^ a b c "FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2022™: List of Players: Al Ahly SC" (PDF). FIFA. 7 February 2023. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Aliou Dieng - Al Ahly Cairo - Stats - titles won". www.footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Egypt's Ahly sign Malian midfielder Aliou Dieng". Ahram Online. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Le Mali et la Guinée en demi-finales du CHAN 2016". BBC News Afrique (in French). 31 January 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Tunisia vs. Mali - 31 January 2016". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Mali - A. Dieng - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Aliou Dieng". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "South Sudan vs. Mali - 9 June 2022". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
External links
- Aliou Dieng at Soccerway
- v
- t
- e
Al Ahly SC – current squad
- 1 El Shenawy (c)
- 2 Abdelfattah
- 3 Kamal
- 4 Metwalli
- 5 Rabia
- 6 Ibrahim
- 7 Kahraba
- 8 Tawfik
- 9 Abou Ali
- 10 Tau
- 11 Abdel Kader
- 12 Slim
- 13 Attia
- 14 El Shahat
- 16 Hamza
- 17 El Solia
- 19 Afsha
- 20 Nedved
- 21 Maâloul
- 22 Ashour
- 24 Abdelmonem
- 25 El Zanfaly
- 28 Fouad
- 29 Taher
- 30 Hany
- 31 Shobeir
- 33 El Debes
- 34 Moataz Mohamed
- 36 Koka
- 37 Makhlouf
- 38 Abdallah
- 41 Abdeen
- Aymen
- Attiyat Allah
- Manager: Koller