Mouhamadou Habibou "Habib" Diallo (born 18 June 1995) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for French Ligue 2 club Metz and the Senegal national team.
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| Full name | Mouhamadou Habibou Diallo[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 June 1995[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Thiès, Senegal | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Metz | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Metz B | 29 | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2020 | Metz | 104 | (48) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Brest (loan) | 50 | (16) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2023 | Strasbourg | 100 | (40) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2025 | Al-Shabab | 30 | (6) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | → Damac (loan) | 27 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Metz | 25 | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Senegal U23 | 4 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Senegal | 40 | (9) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:01, 10 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 January 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club career
editMetz
editIn the summer of 2015, Diallo was promoted to the senior team at Metz. He played 17 games in his debut season with the club, scoring 9 times.[citation needed] He appeared in 19 matches for Metz during the 2016–17 Ligue 1 season, scoring once. In January 2017, he was sent out on loan to Brest for the remainder of the season after falling out of favour with new manager Frédéric Hantz.[citation needed] Diallo had a successful time in Brittany, playing 16 times and scoring 7 goals.[citation needed] He went back on loan to Brest in the summer 2017 under the management of Jean-Marc Furlan. He spent the entire season there as Brest finished 5th and he scored 9 goals in 33 games in Ligue 2.[citation needed]
After returning from his loan, Diallo had a prolific season with Metz, winning the Ligue 2 title and scoring 26 league goals in 37 games in the process, only bettered by Gaëtan Charbonnier who played for Diallo's old club Brest, scoring 27 times.[4] Diallo was included in the year-end UNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Season squad alongside 6 of his Metz teammates.[5]
Diallo immediately got up to life in Ligue 1, scoring 6 times in his first 8 matches. In the January window he was subject to interest and a reported bid from Premier League club Chelsea, but no move materialised.[6] By the time the Ligue 1 was suspended in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Diallo had contributed 12 goals with Metz sitting in 15th position in the table.[7]
Strasbourg
editOn 5 October 2020, Diallo signed a five-year contract with Strasbourg for a fee of 10 million euros plus bonuses, making it the most expensive transfer in the club’s history.[8][9] The move was poorly received by some Metz supporters, long-standing rivals of Strasbourg, who vandalized their club’s headquarters in retaliation.[10]
He made his debut on 18 October, replacing Lionel Carole before halftime in a Ligue 1 home match against Olympique Lyonnais. Trailing 3–0, Strasbourg came back to 3–2, notably thanks to a goal from the Senegalese striker, who scored shortly after coming on.[11]
Al-Shabab
editOn 14 August 2023, Diallo joined Saudi Pro League club Al-Shabab for a club record €20 million.[12]
Damac (loan)
editOn 26 August 2024, Diallo joined Saudi Pro League club Damac on loan. Who chose against signing him permanently not wanting a fee installment.[13]
Return to Metz
editOn 31 August 2025, Diallo signed a three-year contract with Metz, newly promoted to Ligue 1.[14]
He missed the chance to score his first goal in his debut match against Angers SCO on 14 September 2025, failing to convert a penalty.[15] In the following match, this time against AS Monaco, Diallo scored his first goal since returning to Metz with a low angled shot after receiving a pass from Cheikh Sabaly.[16]
International career
editDiallo made his debut for Senegal on 17 November 2018 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea, as a 55th-minute substitute for M'Baye Niang.[17]
Diallo was part of Senegal's squad for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations; the Lions of Teranga went on to win the tournament for the first time in their history.[18][19]
He was appointed a Grand Officer of the National Order of the Lion by President of Senegal Macky Sall following the nation's victory at the tournament.[20]
In December 2023, Diallo was named in Senegal's squad for the postponed 2023 Africa Cup of Nations held in the Ivory Coast.[21]
Career statistics
editClub
edit- As of match played 10 May 2026[22]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Metz B | 2013–14 | CFA 2 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | CFA | 18 | 1 | — | — | 18 | 1 | |||
| 2015–16 | CFA 2 | 5 | 2 | — | — | 5 | 2 | |||
| 2016–17 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 29 | 4 | — | — | 29 | 4 | ||||
| Metz | 2015–16 | Ligue 2 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 9 |
| 2016–17 | Ligue 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 1 | |
| 2017–18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19 | Ligue 2 | 37 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 26 | |
| 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 26 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 12 | |
| 2020–21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |||
| Total | 104 | 48 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 115 | 48 | ||
| Brest (loan) | 2016–17 | Ligue 2 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 |
| 2017–18 | 34 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 11 | ||
| Total | 50 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 18 | ||
| Strasbourg | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 0 | — | 32 | 9 | |
| 2021–22 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 1 | — | 33 | 12 | |||
| 2022–23 | 37 | 20 | 1 | 0 | — | 38 | 20 | |||
| Total | 100 | 40 | 3 | 1 | — | 103 | 41 | |||
| Al-Shabab | 2023–24 | Saudi Pro League | 30 | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | 33 | 6 | |
| Damac (loan) | 2024–25 | Saudi Pro League | 27 | 7 | 1 | 0 | — | 28 | 7 | |
| Metz | 2025–26 | Ligue 1 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | — | 25 | 4 | |
| Career total | 349 | 123 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 366 | 126 | ||
- ↑ Includes Coupe de France, King's Cup
- ↑ Includes Coupe de la Ligue
International
edit- As of match played 9 January 2026[23]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 2018 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 7 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 14 | 3 | |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 9 | |
- Scores and results list Senegal's goal tally first.[23]
Honours
editMetz
Senegal
Individual
- UNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Season: 2018–19[5]
- UNFP Ligue 2 Player of the Month: August 2018[26]
Orders
References
edit- ↑ "SENEGAL" (PDF). Africa Cup of Nations. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ↑ "Habib DIALLO - Attaquant".
- ↑ "Habib Diallo". RC Strasbourg Alsace. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ↑ "French Ligue 2 Statistics – Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- 1 2 "Le palmarès 2019 des Trophées UNFP". Le Figaro (in French). 19 May 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ↑ "Chelsea submit bid to sign Metz striker Habib Diallo". Metro. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ↑ "Who is Habib Diallo? Get to know Metz striker linked with £18m Leeds move". HITC. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ↑ "Habib Diallo signe au Racing". rcstrasbourgalsace.fr. 5 October 2020..
- ↑ "Transferts: Habib Diallo (Metz) signe pour cinq ans à Strasbourg - Foot - Transferts". L'Équipe. Retrieved 5 October 2020..
- ↑ Romain Rigaux (6 October 2020). "Metz: Diallo, le siège du club tagué". news.maxifoot.fr..
- ↑ Matéo Dufour (18 October 2020). "Ligue 1: l'OL retrouve enfin le chemin de la victoire à Strasbourg". footmercato.net..
- ↑ "الشباب يعلن تعاقده مع حبيب ديالو".
- ↑ "أسد التيرانجا ' حبيب ديــالو ' ضمكـاوي".
- ↑ "Ligue 1. FC Metz: Habib Diallo officiellement de retour !". www.republicain-lorrain.fr (in French). 31 August 2025. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
- ↑ "Ligue 1. FC Metz: retour contrarié pour Habib Diallo face à Angers". www.republicain-lorrain.fr (in French). 14 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
- ↑ Guillaume, Emeric (21 September 2025). "Le FC Metz craque face à l'AS Monaco et s'incline lourdement en Ligue 1". Moselle TV (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2025.
- ↑ "Equatorial Guinea v Senegal game report". CAF. 17 November 2018.
- ↑ "Cisse unveils Senegal squad, hopes for elusive TotalEnergies AFCON title". Confederation of African Football. 25 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ↑ "Senegal 0-0 Egypt". BBC Sport. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- 1 2 "Cash prizes, real estate, and highest honours as Senegal celebrates Nations Cup heroes". Reuters. 8 February 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ↑ "Afcon 2023: Senegal and Sadio Mane set for defence of title". BBC Sport Africa. 29 December 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ↑ Mouhamadou Diallo at Soccerway
- 1 2 "Habib Diallo". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ↑ "Ligue 2: le FC Metz termine en apothéose". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 18 May 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ "Africa Cup Of Nations: Senegal Beat Egypt To Win Final (AFCON)". Sports Illustrated. 6 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- ↑ "Habib Diallo, joueur du mois d'août de Domino's Ligue 2". UNFP. 25 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
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External links
edit- Habib Diallo at National-Football-Teams.com
- Habib Diallo – French league stats at Ligue 1 – also available in French (archived)