Ligue 1 Uber Eats talent comes from far and wide! | OneFootball

Senegal, Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco... players have truly come from everywhere to light up France's top flight! Check out all the key stats concerning the different nationalities present in Ligue 1 Uber Eats - the League of talents - this season.

Ligue 1 Uber Eats once again welcomed a host of top nationalities during the summer of 2023. No fewer than 65 international players were recruited during the transfer window, with some promising signings already on the books.

The first Jordanian to play in France, Mousa Tamari, for example, has already had the opportunity to showcase his dribbling skills and the finesse of his left foot with Montpellier Hérault SC (three goals in four games). Teddy Teuma, the only Maltese player competing in the top flight this season, has also been in sparkling form, with one assist and three goals, including a magnificent one against MHSC.

This season, 71 nationalities are represented among the 18 Ligue 1 Uber Eats clubs, eight more than last year. Apart from France, 17 countries have five or more nationals in our league, while 21 nations have one player flying the flag in France's top flight.

Senegal overtakes Brazil

Behind the French nationality, logically the most represented with 230 players, Senegal is the nation most represented in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in 2023-24, with 24 players spread across ten different clubs (Clermont, HAC, RC Lens, Lorient, OM, FC Metz, AS Monaco, FC Nantes, OGC Nice and Stade de Reims). The West African country thus overtakes Brazil, last year's leader, thanks in no small part to FC Metz. With seven players, Les Grenats have 29% of the Senegalese players in Ligue 1 Uber Eats this season. Further proof that the partnership between the Moselle-based club and the Dakar-based Génération Foot academy is bearing fruit.

Behind Senegal, two countries share second place. Côte d'Ivoire and Morocco, with 17 representatives each, were unable to be separated. Brazil, meanwhile, has slipped back to fourth place, dropping from 19 to 15 players in the space of a year. Five other nations manage to place at least ten players in our league: Algeria, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland.

Nationalities most represented in Ligue 1 Uber Eats (2023-24):

1. Senegal: 24 players

2. Ivory Coast: 17 players

-- Morocco: 17 players

4. Brazil: 15 players

5. Algeria: 14 players

6. Portugal: 13 players

7. Belgium: 10 players

-- Spain: 10 players

-- Switzerland: 10 players

10. Mali: 8 players

-- Netherlands: 8 players

-- Cameroon: 8 players

Toulouse, the most cosmopolitan

As was the case last year, Toulouse FC is the club with the most foreign players in Ligue 1 Uber Eats this season. Toulouse's 22 foreigners, who come from 18 different countries, make up the most cosmopolitan dressing room in the league. Olympique de Marseille are not far behind, with 21 foreign players and 16 different nationalities.

Clubs with the most foreign players (2023-24):

1. Toulouse FC: 22 (73% foreign players)

2. OM: 21 (81% foreign players)

-- FC Metz: 21 (70% foreign players)

4. PSG: 20 (61% foreign players)

5. Stade de Reims: 19 (73% foreign players)

6. AS Monaco: 18 (64% foreign players)

-- Clermont Foot: 18 (55% foreign players)

8. LOSC: 16 (62% foreign players)

9. OL: 15 (60% foreign players)

-- RC Lens: 15 (50% foreign players)

-- FC Lorient: 15 (48% foreign players)

12. OGC Nice: 14 (50% foreign players)

-- FC Nantes: 14 (44% foreign players)

14. RC Strasbourg Alsace: 13 (48% foreign players)

-- Havre AC: 13 (41% foreign players)

16. Montpellier HSC: 11 (44% foreign players)

17. Stade Rennais: 9 (36% foreign players)

18. Stade Brestois 29: 7 (29% foreign players)

The 18 Ligue 1 Uber Eats clubs have between 8 and 18 different nationalities among their players, from Stade Brestois 29 to Toulouse FC. Like FC Metz with its Senegalese players, a number of trends are emerging.

PSG, for example, has a penchant for the Iberian peninsula, with five of the league's ten Spaniards (Asensio, Rico, Ruiz, Soler, Tenas) in the squad and five of the league's 13 Portuguese (Danilo, G. Ramos, Nuno Tavares, Nhaga, Vitinha).

For their part, Toulouse FC are enjoying their Scandinavian adventure, with two of the league's three Danes (Desler, Nicolaisen), two of the league's three Norwegians (Kamanzi, Donnum), the only Finn (Skytta) and one of the three Swedes (Zanden) in Ligue 1 Uber Eats this season.

In terms of French players, OM have the fewest in their squad with five. In contrast, Le Havre AC has the most (19).

Breakdown of nationalities by team in Ligue 1 Uber Eats (2023-24):

Toulouse FC: 18 nationalities

(France 8, Denmark 2, Spain 2, Morocco 2, Norway 2, Netherlands 2, Germany 1, Australia 1, Burkina Faso 1, Cameroon 1, Cape Verde 1, Chile 1, Finland 1, Jamaica 1, Mali 1, Sweden 1, Switzerland 1, Venezuela 1)

OM: 16 nationalities

(France 5, Senegal 3, Argentina 2, Cameroon 2, Spain 2, Morocco 2, England 1, Belgium 1, Brazil 1, Central African Republic 1, Côte d'Ivoire 1, Gabon 1, Panama 1, Portugal 1, DR Congo 1, Switzerland 1)

Stade de Reims: 15 nationalities

(France 7, Belgium 3, Côte d'Ivoire 2, Japan 2, Morocco 2, Germany 1, England 1, Denmark 1, Gambia 1, Guinea 1, Kenya 1, Malta 1, Netherlands 1, Senegal 1, Zimbabwe 1)

AS Monaco: 15 nationalities

(France 10, Switzerland 3, Brazil 2, Senegal 2, Belgium 1, Chile 1, Ivory Coast 1, United States 1, Ghana 1, Japan 1, Mali 1, Netherlands 1, Poland 1, Portugal 1, Russia 1)

RC Lens: 15 nationalities

(France 15, Colombia 2, Argentina 1, Austria 1, Belgium 1, Comoros 1, Ghana 1, Guinea 1, Mali 1, Netherlands 1, Poland 1, Portugal 1, Senegal 1, Uzbekistan 1, Venezuela 1)

Clermont Foot: 14 nationalities

(France 15, Algeria 2, Ghana 2, Mali 2, Morocco 2, Senegal 2, Angola 1, Austria 1, Belgium 1, Brazil 1, Gabon 1, Jamaica 1, Kosovo 1, Serbia 1)

LOSC: 14 nationalities

(France 10, Algeria 3, Brazil 2, Portugal 2, England 1, Angola 1, Argentina 1, Canada 1, Iceland 1, Italy 1, Kosovo 1, Slovakia 1, Sweden 1, Turkey 1)

FC Lorient: 13 nationalities

(France 16, Senegal 3, Austria 1, Benin 1, Brazil 1, Cameroon 1, Central African Republic 1, Guinea 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 1, DR Congo 1, Switzerland 1, Tunisia 1)

FC Metz: 12 nationalities

(France 9, Senegal 7, Ivory Coast 4, Algeria 2, Belgium 1, Colombia 1, Congo 1, Gambia 1, Ghana 1, Guinea-Bissau 1, Haiti 1, Sweden 1)

OL: 12 nationalities

(France 10, Brazil 2, Côte d'Ivoire 2, Croatia 2, Portugal 2, England 1, Angola 1, Argentina 1, Ghana 1, Guinea-Bissau 1, Ireland 1, Zimbabwe 1)

RC Strasbourg Alsace: 12 nationalities

(France 14, Côte d'Ivoire 3, South Africa 1, Belgium 1, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1, Brazil 1, Guinea 1, Haiti 1, Morocco 1, Netherlands 1, Poland 1, Ukraine 1)

FC Nantes: 12 nationalities

(France 18, Brazil 3, Cameroon 2, Algeria 1, Egypt 1, Spain 1, Haiti 1, Nigeria 1, DR Congo 1, Senegal 1, Slovenia 1, Switzerland 1)

PSG: 11 nationalities

(France 13, Spain 5, Portugal 5, Italy 3, Germany 1, Brazil 1, South Korea 1, Costa Rica 1, Morocco 1, Slovakia 1, Uruguay 1)

OGC Nice: 11 nationalities

(France 14, Algeria 4, Poland 2, Brazil 1, Burundi 1, Ivory Coast 1, Morocco 1, Nigeria 1, Netherlands 1, Senegal 1, Switzerland 1)

Montpellier HSC: 11 nationalities

(France 14, Mali 2, Algeria 1, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1, Cameroon 1, Guinea 1, Italy 1, Jordan 1, Nigeria 1, Switzerland 1, Tunisia 1)

Havre AC: 9 nationalities

(France 19, Morocco 3, Senegal 3, Ivory Coast 2, Congo 1, United States 1, Guinea 1, Hungary 1, Russia 1)

Stade Rennais: 9 nationalities

(France 15, Morocco 2, Belgium 1, Cameroon 1, Central African Republic 1, Côte d'Ivoire 1, Serbia 1, Switzerland 1, Turkey 1)

Stade Brestois 29: 8 nationalities

(France 17, Algeria 1, Benin 1, Mali 1, Morocco 1, Netherlands 1, Portugal 1, Uruguay 1)