Finalist of the African Cup of nations in 2019, the Senegal is the country best represented, with, in addition to paris Gueye, the attacker messin Habib Diallo, the keeper of rennes Edouard Mendy and his team-mate the striker Mbaye Niang.

The Moroccan Yunis Abdelhamid (Reims), the Gabonese Denis Bouanga (Saint-Etienne), the Algerian Andy Delort (Montpellier), the Nigerian Moses Simon (Nantes) and the Malian Hamari Traore (Rennes) have also been selected, in addition to Osimhen and Slimani.