Revealed: Meet The African player of the year awards nominees

Nominees for the 2015 African Footballer of
the Year and Africa-based Footballer of the
Year awards revealed, the list contains 37 players.

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They are listed below:

Algeria: Baghdad Bounedjah (Etoile Sahel/
TUN), Yacine Brahimi (Porto/POR), Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia/ESP), Faouzi Ghoulam (Napoli/ITA), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City/ENG), El-Arbi Hillel Soudani (Dinamo Zagreb/CRO)

Benin: Rudy Gestede (Aston Villa/ENG)
Cape Verde: Heldon Ramos (Rio Ave/POR)
Congo Brazzaville: Thievy Bifouma (Granada/
ESP), Ferebory Dore (Angers/FRA)

Cameroon: Vincent Aboubakar (Porto/POR),
Stephane Mbia (Trabzonspor/TUR), Nicolas
Nkoulou (Marseille/FRA)

Democratic Republic of Congo: Yannick
Bolasie (Crystal Palace/ENG), Robert Kidiaba
(TP Mazembe), Dieumerci Mbokani (Norwich
City/ENG)

Egypt: Bassem Morsy (Zamalek), Mohamed
Salah (Roma/ITA)

Equatorial Guinea: Javier Balboa (Al Faisaly/
KSA)

Gabon: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia
Dortmund/GER)

Ghana: Christian Atsu (Bournemouth/ENG),
Andre Ayew (Swansea City/ENG)

Guinea: Ibrahima Traore (Borussia
Moenchengladbach/GER)

Ivory Coast: Serge Aurier (Paris Saint-
Germain/FRA), Gervinho (Roma/ITA), Max
Alain Gradel (Bournemouth/ENG), Yaya Toure
(Manchester City/ENG, title-holder)

Kenya: Vincent Wanyama (Southampton/ENG)

Nigeria: Vincent Enyeama (Lille/FRA), Ahmed
Musa (CSKA Moscow/RUS)

Mali: Seydou Keita (Roma/ITA)

Morocco: Mehdi Benatia (Bayern Munich/GER)
Senegal: Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City/ENG),
Sadio Mane (Southampton/ENG)

Sudan: Mudather Eltaib (Al Hilal)

Tunisia: Aymen Abdennour (Valencia/ESP),
Yassine Chikhaoui (Al Gharafa/QAT)
Africa-based Footballer of the Year (24
nominees)

Algeria: Zinedine Ferhat, Mohamed Meftah
(both USM Alger), Baghdad Bounedjah (Etoile
Sahel/TUN), Abdelmalek Ziaya (Entente Setif)

Burkina Faso: Mohamed Koffi (Zamalek/EGY)
Congo Brazzaville: Boris Moubhio (AC
Leopards)

Democratic Republic of Congo: Robert Kidiaba
(TP Mazembe)

Egypt: Hazem Emam, Bassem Morsy (both
Zamalek)

Equatorial Guinea: Felix Ovono (Orlando
Pirates/RSA)

Gabon: Malick Evouna (Al Ahly/EGY)

Ivory Coast: Roger Assale, Sylvain Gbohouo
(both TP Mazembe/COD)

Madagascar: Carolus Andriamahitsinoro (USM
Alger/ALG)

Mali: Djigui Diarra (Stade Malien)

Morocco: Abdeladim Khadrouf (Moghreb
Tetouan)

South Africa: Kermit Erasmus, Thamsanqa
Gabuza, Oupa Manyisa (all Orlando Pirates)
Sudan: Bakry ‘Al Medina’ Babiker (Al
Merrikh), Mudather Eltaib (Al Hilal)

Tanzania: Mbwana Samatta (TP Mazembe/
COD)

Tunisia: Ahmed Akaichi, Hocine Ragued (both
Esperance)

Will Nigerian win it this time around?? 

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