The stats do not lie - ranking Africa's Premier League stars

The curtain has travel down connected the 2024-25 Premier League season, with Mohamed Salah instrumental arsenic Liverpool wrapped up the rubric with 4 games to spare.

The Egyptian was named Premier League subordinate of the season connected the backmost of his 47 extremity involvements (29 goals, 18 assists), a tally which moved him level with 1990s icons Alan Shearer and Andy Cole for the astir ever successful a season.

Cameroon's Bryan Mbeumo besides had an awesome campaign, with his career-best 20 strikes and 7 assists apt to spark transportation involvement successful the Brentford forward.

But which different Africans made an impression? BBC Sport Africa has been crunching the information to find out.

Standout forwards: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford), Yoane Wissa (Brentford)

Among attackers, it was a lawsuit of Salah starring the way. Not galore could support up.

The 32-year-old topped the division's charts for expected goals (25.4), minutes per extremity (116.5), full shots (130), full shots connected people (61) and touches successful the absorption container (394).

His 89 chances created was the joint-second highest successful the apical flight, portion Mbeumo's tally of 70 was fifth-highest, the adjacent champion by an African and a nine grounds for a Brentford player.

By uncovering the nett 20 times, Mbeumo besides notably outperformed his expected goals, with the metric which rates the prime of chances suggesting that his efforts were worthy lone 12.3 goals.

He formed a deadly concern with 19-goal guardant Yoane Wissa, with the DR Congo antheral scoring each 154.1 minutes to springiness him the second-best onslaught complaint of immoderate subordinate from the continent.

Antoine Semenyo besides stood retired arsenic his last-day treble for Bournemouth secured him treble figures for goals (11) for the archetypal clip successful the apical flight.

His 211 touches successful the absorption container were 2nd lone to Salah, portion the Ghanaian ranked 3rd successful the league for some full shots (125) and dribbles completed (69).

Standout midfielders: Alex Iwobi (Fulham), Idrissa Gueye (Everton), Carlos Baleba (Brighton & Hove Albion)

Alex Iwobi proved to beryllium the astir originative African midfielder with his 9 goals and six assists for Fulham conscionable up of Manchester United's Amad Diallo (eight goals and six assists) – though the Nigerian played 1,093 much minutes than the Ivorian.

Iwobi besides led the mode for chances created (59) and palmy passes into the last 3rd (508), portion Ghana's Thomas Partey recorded the astir palmy passes (1,631) of immoderate African midfielder arsenic Arsenal erstwhile again fell abbreviated successful the rubric race.

Elsewhere, Idrissa Gana Gueye made his acquisition number to assistance Everton comfortably unafraid their Premier League presumption successful their last play astatine Goodison Park.

The 35-year-old Senegalese made a league-high 133 tackles and won 221 duels, the astir of immoderate African midfielder.

Cameroon's Carlos Baleba proved that helium is connected his mode towards becoming a apical talent, winning backmost possession for his Brighton broadside 197 times.

That fig leads the mode for the continent's midfielders, with Gueye adjacent down connected 194.

Standout defenders: Calvin Bassey (Fulham), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (West Ham), Rayan Ait-Nouri (Wolves)

Three full-backs stood retired with their performances.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka, who has switched his allegiance to DR Congo, made the astir interceptions (66) and completed the astir dribbles (64) among Premier League defenders – signifier that saw him voted West Ham's subordinate of the play by fans.

Algeria's Rayan Ait-Nouri provided a superior attacking menace playing arsenic a wing-back, bagging 4 goals and 7 assists successful a struggling Wolves side.

Ola Aina had the champion play of his vocation for Nottingham Forest, impressively winning backmost possession 190 times - the highest fig recorded by immoderate top-flight defender.

The Nigerian right-back besides made a joint-high 3 clearances disconnected the line, a fig which was matched by six different players including, unexpectedly, Everton and Senegal guardant Iliman Ndiaye.

Aina's planetary team-mate Calvin Bassey touched the shot 2,536 times for Fulham - much than immoderate different African successful the Premier League – and his 1,926 palmy passes, 113 clearances and 17 blocks were the astir by a defender from the continent.

Meanwhile, Noussair Mazraoui's 115 tackles and 216 duels for Manchester United ranked the Moroccan 2nd and 3rd respectively among the league's defenders.

Andre Onana, the lone African goalkeeper successful the Premier League, endured a disappointing clip arsenic Manchester United recorded their worst decorativeness successful 50 years.

The Cameroon fig 1 did support 9 cleanable sheets, but that meant the 44 goals helium conceded came successful conscionable 25 games.

His 90 saves were the 12th astir of immoderate keeper portion his prevention percent of 66.9% ranked him 15th among those who made 10 oregon much appearances.

The 29-year-old made 3 errors starring to goals, with lone 3 men making more.

The subordinate who committed the astir fouls successful the Premier League successful 2024-25 threw up a astonishing name, with Bournemouth's Semenyo drafting the referee's whistle 73 times.

That fig was good supra anyone other from the continent, arsenic Gueye and his Everton team-mate Aboulaye Doucoure of Mali registered 55 and 49 fouls respectively.

Ipswich Town and Egypt midfielder Samy Morsy picked up the astir yellowish cards by an African (10), with Gueye and Semenyo some getting 1 less and rounding retired a podium of indiscipline.

Mohammed Kudus was dispossessed a league-high 93 times, and the Ghanaian besides struck the woodwork six times – an unfortunate tally matched lone by Nicolas Jackson, Mohamed Salah and Cole Palmer.

Chelsea's Senegalese guardant Jackson was offside much times than immoderate different African, drifting past the past antheral 23 times. Only Chris Wood, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Jamie Vardy were connected the incorrect extremity of an adjunct referee's emblem much often.

Taiwo Awoniyi got utilized to being near retired of Nottingham Forest's starting XI arsenic Wood spearheaded an unlikely, but yet successfully, situation for Europe.

Only 2 players – Forest team-mate Jota Silva and Ipswich midfielder Jack Taylor – made much substitute appearances than Awoniyi, with 23 of the Nigerian striker's 26 outings coming from the bench.

Data via Opta and Premier League