Africa, the home of countless Ligue 1 Uber Eats stars, is getting ready to launch the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations. For this great celebration of football in Cameroon, from 9 January to 6 February, no fewer than 56 players from France's top flight have been called up by their respective national teams.

Here we take a look at the best-represented French clubs and the national teams that have the most representatives from our championship.

Metz on top

With seven of its players present in Cameroon, FC Metz will the best-represented Ligue 1 Uber Eats club at AFCON 2022: Farid Boulaya and Alexandre Oukidja with Algeria, Dylan Bronn with Tunisia, Kiki Kouyaté with Mali, Habib Maïga with Côte d'Ivoire and Pape Matar Sarr with Senegal will all be in action. Among them, they have totalled 96 appearances with FCM this season (84 starts) and 7613 minutes played, by far the biggest chunk of playing time among called-up players from Ligue 1 Uber Eats clubs.

Second behind the side from Moselle come FC Nantes and AS Saint-Etienne, each of who have sent five of their players to Cameroon. With Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia), Denis Bouanga (Gabon), Harold Moukoudi and Yvan Neyou (Cameroon) and Saïdou Sow (Guinea), Les Verts have seen five important players leave for the national team.

In total, these players have scored 12 goals this season, representing 71% of their club's strikes. No other Ligue 1 Uber Eats team comes close to this percentage, with Clermont Foot coming in second in the category with 45% of their goals scored by Mohamed Bayo (Guinea). Jim Allevinah (Gabon) and Saïf-Eddine Khaoui (Tunisia) are the other two Clermont Foot players making their way to Cameroon.

Rennes' rearguard called up

Angers SCO, Stade de Reims, Stade Rennais and ESTAC Troyes come next, with four players present in Cameroon. Rennes will have to reshape their backline with the departures of 'keeper Alfred Gomis, stopper Nayef Aguerd and full-back Hamari Traoré, three first-team regulars, as well as that of the Ghanaian attacking star Kamaldeen Sulemana. Among them, these four players have accumulated 5,700 minutes of play - the second highest behind FC Metz - and 71 appearances, including 64 starts.

Meanwhile Angers will be sending some of its most effective players to AFCON. In addition to Enzo Ebosse, coach Gérald Baticle will have to do without Stéphane Bahoken (Cameroon), Sofiane Boufal and Azzeddine Ounahi (Morocco), who have scored nine goals among them - 35% of the club's strikes - this season, the third highest such percentage in Ligue 1 Uber Eats behind ASSE and CF63.

Note that 19 out of 20 of Ligue 1 Uber Eats's clubs have at least one representative AFCON 2022, LOSC being the only squad with no players involved.

The 56 Ligue 1 Uber Eats players at AFCON 2022, by club

FC Metz (7):
Sofiane Alakouch (Morocco)
Farid Boulaya and Alexandre Oukidja (Algeria)
Dylan Bronn (Tunisia)
Boubakar Kouyaté (Mali)
Habib Maïga (Ivory Coast)
Pape Matar Sarr (Senegal)

FC Nantes (5):
Santiago Énème Bocari (Equatorial Guinea)
Jean-Charles Castelletto (Cameroon)
Kalifa Coulibaly and Charles Traoré (Mali)
Moses Simon (Nigeria)

AS Saint-Etienne (5):
Denis Bouanga (Gabon)
Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia)
Harold Moukoudi and Yvan Neyou (Cameroon)
Saïdou Sow (Guinea)
 
Angers SCO (4):
Stéphane Bahoken and Enzo Ebosse (Cameroon)
Sofiane Boufal and Azzeddine Ounahi (Morocco)

Stade de Reims (4):
Moreto Cassama (Guinea-Bissau)
Moussa Doumbia and El Bilal Touré (Mali)
Ghislain Konan (Ivory Coast)

Stade Rennais FC (4):
Nayef Aguerd (Morocco)
Alfred Gomis (Senegal)
Kamaldeen Sulemana (Ghana)
Hamari Traoré (Mali)

ESTAC Troyes (4):
Issa Kaboré (Burkina Faso)
Rominigue Kouamé (Mali)
Mama Baldé (Guinea-Bissau)
Yoann Touzghar (Tunisia)

Clermont Foot (3):
Jim Allevinah (Gabon)
Mohamed Bayo (Guinea)
Saïf-Eddine Khaoui (Tunisia)

Olympique Lyonnais (3):
Tino Kadewere (Zimbabwe)
Islam Slimani (Algeria)
Karl Toko Ekambi (Cameroon)

Paris Saint-Germain (3):
Abdou Diallo and Idrissa Gueye (Senegal)
Achraf Hakimi (Morocco)

Girondins de Bordeaux (2):
Gideon Mensah (Ghana)
Junior Onana (Cameroon)

RC Lens (2):
Ignatius Ganago (Cameroon)
Massadio Haïdara (Mali)

Olympique de Marseille (2):
Bamba Dieng and Pape Gueye (Senegal)
 
OGC Nice (2):
Youcef Atal (Algeria)
Mario Lemina (Gabon)

RC Strasbourg Alsace (2):
Habib Diallo (Senegal)
Alexander Djiku (Ghana)

Stade Brestois 29 (1):
Haris Belkebla (Algeria)
 
FC Lorient (1):
Dango Ouattara (Burkina Faso)

AS Monaco (1):
Pelé (Guinea-Bissau)

Montpellier Hérault SC (1):
Ambroise Oyongo (Cameroon)
 
LOSC (no players involved)

One third of the Indomitable Lions

In terms of national teams, Cameroon has called up the largest number of Ligue 1 Uber Eats players: nine. Nearly a third (32%) of the Indomitable Lions called up play in our league: Stéphane Bahoken and Enzo Ebosse (Angers SCO), Junior Onana (Girondins de Bordeaux), Ignatius Ganago (RC Lens), Karl Toko Ekambi (OL), Ambroise Oyongo (Montpellier HSC) and Jean-Charles Castelletto (FC Nantes) - as well as Harold Moukoudi and Yvan Neyou (ASSE).

Mali (eight representatives) and Senegal (seven) complete the podium, while 15 of the 24 nations involved in AFCON 2022have at least one Ligue 1 Uber Eats player in their ranks.

The 56 Ligue 1 Uber Eats players at AFCON 2022, by national team

Cameroon (9):
Stephane Bahoken and Enzo Ebosse (Angers SCO)
Junior Onana (Girondins de Bordeaux)
Ignatius Ganago (RC Lens)
Karl Toko Ekambi (OL)
Ambroise Oyongo (Montpellier HSC)
Jean-Charles Castelletto (FC Nantes)
Harold Moukoudi and Yvan Neyou (ASSE)

Mali (8):
Massadio Haïdara (RC Lens)
Boubakar Kouyaté (FC Metz)
Kalifa Coulibaly and Charles Traoré (FC Nantes)
Moussa Doumbia and El Bilal Touré (Stade de Reims)
Hamari Traoré (Stade Rennais)
Rominigue Kouamé (ESTAC Troyes)

Senegal (7):
Bamba Dieng and Pape Gueye (OM)
Pape Matar Sarr (FC Metz)
Abdou Diallo and Idrissa Gueye (PSG)
Alfred Gomis (Stade Rennais)
Habib Diallo (RC Strasbourg Alsace)
 
Morocco (5):
Sofiane Boufal and Azzeddine Ounahi (Angers SCO)
Sofiane Alakouch (FC Metz)
Achraf Hakimi (PSG)
Nayef Aguerd (Stade Rennais)

Algeria (5):
Haris Belkebla (Stade Brestois 29)
Islam Slimani (OL)
Farid Boulaya and Alexandre Oukidja (FC Metz)
Youcef Atal (OGC Nice)

Tunisia (4):
Saïf-Eddine Khaoui (Clermont Foot)
Dylan Bronn (FC Metz)
Wahbi Khazri (ASSE)
Yoann Touzghar (ESTAC Troyes)

Gabon (3):
Jim Allevinah (Clermont Foot)
Mario Lemina (OGC Nice)
Denis Bouanga (ASSE)

Ghana (3):
Gideon Mensah (Girondins de Bordeaux)
Kamaldeen Sulemana (Stade Rennais)
Alexander Djiku (RC Strasbourg Alsace)

Guinea-Bissau (3):
Pelé (AS Monaco)
Moreto Cassama (Stade de Reims)
Mama Baldé (ESTAC Troyes)

Burkina Faso (2):
Dango Ouattara (FC Lorient)
Issa Kaboré (ESTAC Troyes)

Côte d'Ivoire (2):
Habib Maïga (FC Metz)
Ghislain Konan (Stade de Reims)

Guinea (2):
Mohamed Bayo (Clermont Foot)
Saïdou Sow (ASSE)

Equatorial Guinea (1):
Santiago Énème Bocari (FC Nantes)
 
Nigeria (1):
Moses Simon (FC Nantes)

Zimbabwe (1):
Tino Kadewere (OL)


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