In December Gael Bigirimana scored the third goal against Wigan Athletic and became the first ever player from Burundi to score a Premier League goal. That took the number of nationalities to have bagged Premier League goals to 87 and we brought you the full list of nationalities the next day asking if you could name any of them?
That Gael Bigirimana goal was the Premier League’s 20,001st goal and of course the first scored by a player from Burundi but now you can add another African country to the list. We thought it would be pretty rude not to update our grand old list since the total is now 88 thanks to Kei Kamara’s header against Everton.
The Sierra Leonean scored the equaliser at Carrow Road and as a travelling Everton fan I can tell you that it only hurt half as much as when Grant Holt tucked away the winner.
But it does give Sierra Leone a rightful place on the list; number 88 of all the countries to have scored in the Premier League.
Now it is 88 countries altogether that make up the list of nations which have seen a player from their country score in the Premier League and when you consider there are 209 national associations affiliated with FIFA that is an astonishing amount.
No other league in world football comes close to the English total which truly reflects the multi-national game that the English Premier League has become.
Here is the entire list in full. Impress your friends… can you name players to match the countries?
That is how I worded the end to my last article on the topic but after watching several of my friends squirm for weeks over the list this time I am going to give you a few of them for free, in fact an example for each of the first 20.
Then try and name the rest…
1. Algeria - Kamel Ghilas
2. Angola - Manucho
3. Antigua and Barbuda - Mikele Leigertwood
4. Argentina - Sergio Aguero
5. Australia - Tim Cahill
6. Austria - Andreas Weimann
7. Barbados - Emmerson Boyce
8. Belarus - Alexander Hleb
9. Belgium - Maraoune Fellaini
10. Benin - Stephane Sessegnon
11. Bermuda - Shaun Goater
12. Bosnia-Herzegovina - Edin Dzeko
13. Brazil - Rafael
14. Bulgaria - Dimitar Berbatov
15. Burundi - Gael Bigirimana
16. Cameroon - Benoit Assou-Ekotto
17. Canada - Junior Hoilett
18. Chile - Mark Gonzalez
19. China - Zheng Zhi
20. Colombia - Hugo Rodallega
Good luck with the rest….
21. Congo
22. Congo DR
23. Costa Rica
24. Croatia
25. Czech Republic
26. Denmark
27. Ecuador
28. Egypt
29. England
30. Finland
31. France
32. Gabon
33. Georgia
34. Germany
35. Ghana
36. Greece
37. Grenada
38. Guinea
39. Guyana
40. Honduras
41. Hungary
42. Iceland
43. Iran
44. Israel
45. Italy
46. Ivory Coast
47. Jamaica
48. Japan
49. Korea Republic
50. Latvia
51. Liberia
52. Macedonia
53. Mali
54. Mexico
55. Montenegro
56. Montserrat
57. Morocco
58. Netherlands
59. New Zealand
60. Nigeria
61. Northern Ireland
62. Norway
63. Paraguay
64. Peru
65. Poland
66. Portugal
67. Republic of Ireland
68. Romania
69. Russia
70. Scotland
71. Senegal
72. Serbia
73. Slovakia
74. Slovenia
75. South Africa
76. Spain
77. Sweden
78. Switzerland
79. Togo
80. Trinidad and Tobago
81. Tunisia
82. Turkey
83. Ukraine
84. USA
85. Uruguay
86. Wales
87. Zimbabwe
88. Sierra Leone - Kei Kamara
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Mathew Nash
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I’m Mathew Nash a 23 year old graduate in Sports Studies and I have an insatiable love for sport. With a particularly keen interest for the madcap world of football I have always been known amongst friends as a beacon for bizarre sporting trivia and knowledge. My other passion is for writing and hopefully combining the two will create a superb and entertaining marriage that will create, divide and share opinion.
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