Mamadou Niang

Mamadou Niang

Niang with Marseille in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Mamadou Hamidou Niang
Date of birth	(1979-10-13) 13 October 1979
Place of birth	Matam, Senegal
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Al Sadd
Number	9
Youth career
1998–1999	Le Havre
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2001	Troyes B	35	(19)
2001–2003	Troyes	47	(8)
2003	→ Metz (loan)	12	(5)
2003–2005	Strasbourg	56	(21)
2005–2010	Marseille	155	(71)
2010–2011	Fenerbahçe	29	(15)
2011–	Al Sadd	3	(2)
International career‡
2004–	Senegal	50	(19)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:50, 19 September 2011 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Mamadou Niang (born 13 October 1979 in Matam) is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a forward for Qatar club Al Sadd in the Qatar National First Division. He has represented Senegal at international level, participating in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 African Cup of Nations. He wears the number 7 jersey. He is the older brother of Papa Niang, who currently plays at FF Jaro in Finnish Veikkausliiga.

Career

Troyes

After beginning his career with the Le Havre youth team, Niang turned professional at 18 years of age with Troyes. He had a mixed beginning to his career with his first season featuring ten Ligue 1 starts, all from the bench, the following season would show little improvement with 17 starts and only 3 league goals.

Loan to Metz

A loan period with second division Metz allowed him to hone his skills, contributing 5 goals in 12 appearances and helping Metz return to top flight French football for the 2003–04 season.

Strasbourg

Jean Fernandez, the Metz manager, tried to make the loan deal into a permanent move but failed and Niang left Troyes for Strasbourg. The arrival of Danijel Ljuboja, to Strasbourg at the same time allowed Niang to form an important strike partnership until Ljuboja moved to Paris Saint-Germain. Niang didn't score again for the remainder of the second half of that season.

The 2004–05 season saw Mickaël Pagis arrive at Strasbourg, and a fruitful new partnership was formed, with the pair linking up for 27 goals in the league. This partnership helped Strasbourg make it to the Coupe de la Ligue final, where victory over Caen gave Strasbourg their second Coupe de la Ligue trophy.

Olympique Marseille

Mamadou niang training with Marseille

In 2005, Niang moved to Marseille for a reported fee of €7 million. He was joined six months later by Mickaël Pagis. Niang finished the season as Marseille's top scorer with ten goals but Marseille lost the Coupe de France final to Paris Saint-Germain.

Niang would go on to finish the 2009–10 season with 18 goals in Ligue 1, making him the highest scorer in the league and Marseille's highest scorer with 28 goals in all competitions.

Niang was selected OM player of the month for May 2008.

Fenerbahçe

He signed a 3+1 year deal with Fenerbahçe on 14 August 2010 for a fee of reported €8 million. Mamadou Niang had made a great start with Fenerbahçe SK when he scored 7 goals in his first 6 league appearances. Niang scored his first hat-trick for Fenerbahçe on his 5th appearance when they won 6-2 against Kasımpaşa.

Al Sadd

On 6 September 2011 he was sold to Al-Sadd for €7.5 million.

On 19 October 2011, at the 2011 AFC Champions League Semi-final match against Suwon Samsung Bluewings, he scored a controversial second goal for his team, not returning the ball to the opponent team which had kicked the ball out deliberately due to an injury situation. While Suwon players were standing off-guard expecting to have possession back, Niang ran straight to the opponent's side and found the net easily. The goal induced an intrusion of a home fan and a huge melee of both players and bench. He then got himself sent-off in injury time for kicking the ball away when he was flagged offside, receiving another yellow card in addition to his previous, meaning he could not participate in the second leg in Doha.

Career statistics

As of 16 September 2011.

Season	Club	Country	Championship	National Cup	European Cup
2000–2001	Troyes	Ligue 1	10 app / 2 goals	4 app / 1 goal	–
2001–2002	Troyes	Ligue 1	17 app / 3 goals	2 app	2 app
2002–2003	Troyes	Ligue 1	20 app / 3 goals	1 app	–
2002–2003	Metz	Ligue 2	12 app / 5 goals	–	–
2003–2004	Strasbourg	Ligue 1	23 app / 9 goals	2 app / 1 goal	–
2004–2005	Strasbourg	Ligue 1	33 app / 12 goals	5 app / 3 goals	–
2005–2006	Olympique de Marseille	Ligue 1	28 app / 10 goals	4 app / 2 goals	8 app / 1 goal
2006–2007	Olympique de Marseille	Ligue 1	37 app / 12 goals	8 app / 3 goals	4 app / 2 goals
2007–2008	Olympique de Marseille	Ligue 1	29 app / 18 goals	2 app / 1 goal	10 app / 4 goals
2008–2009	Olympique de Marseille	Ligue 1	27 app / 13 goals	1 app	13 app / 7 goals
2009–2010	Olympique de Marseille	Ligue 1	32 app / 18 goals	–	9 app / 3 goals
2010–2011	Olympique de Marseille	Ligue 1	2 app / 0 goals	–	-
2010–2011	Fenerbahçe	Süper Lig	29 app / 15 goals	2 app / 0 goals –	2 app / 0 goals

Honours

Club

ES Troyes AC

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2001

RC Strasbourg

• Coupe de la Ligue: 2005

Olympique de Marseille

• Ligue 1: 2009–10
• Coupe de la Ligue: 2010
• Trophée des Champions: 2010
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005

Fenerbahçe

• Spor Toto Süper Lig: 2010–11

Al Sadd

• Asian Champions League: 2011

Individual

• UNFP Player of the Month (3) : May 2005, December 2005, December 2007
• Ligue 1 Team of the Year (2) : 2007–08, 2009–10
• Ligue 1 Goal of the Year (1) : 2009–10
• Ligue 1 top goalscorer (1) : 2009–10

External links

• Mamadou Niang Turkish league stats at tff.org
• Mamadou Niang – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
• Mamadou Niang Fenerbahçe Profile Template:Tr icon
• Mamadou Niang at National-Football-Teams.com