The complete list of muslim football players, playing this year at the Euro 2016 in France. Notably it is in the month of Ramadan too, here’s a piece on nutrition and advice from Dr. Zafar Iqbal (team Dr at Crystal Palace).Muslim footballers of euro 2016

There are a lot of muslim footballers in the European championship competition, we’ll look at it team by team in alphabetical order. Full squad list taken from ESPNFC.

So let’s get started straight away. As usual leave your comments, if I have missed any.

Muslim Football Players Euro 2016 France

Albania

  1. Amir Rrahmani – Defender – RNK Split
  2. Elseid Hysaj – Defender – Napoli
  3. Mergim Mavraj – Defender – Koln
  4. Naser Aliji – Defender – Basel
  5. Taulant Xhaka – Midfielder – Basel. Brother of Granit Xhaka
  6. Armando Sadiku – Striker – Vaduz

Austria

  1. Ramazan Ozcan – Goal Keeper – Ingolstadt

Belgium

  1. Mousa Dembele – Midfield – Tottenham
  2. Marouane Fellaini – Midfield – Manchester United

France

  1. Bacary Sagna -Defender – Manchester City
  2. Adil Rami -Defender – Sevilla
  3. Paul Labile Pogba – Midfield – Juventus
  4. N’Golo Kante – Midfield – Leicester
  5. Moussa Sissoko – Midfield – Newcastle

Germany

  1. Emre Can – Defence – Liverpool
  2. Shkodran Mustafi – Defender – Valencia
  3. Sami Khedira – Midfield – Juventus
  4. Mesut Ozil – Midfield – Arsenal. Recently performed Umrah

Italy

  1. Stephan El Shaarawy – Midfielder – Roma

Sweden

  1. Erkan Zengin – Midfield – Trabzonspor

Muslim Footballers of Switzerland

  1. Valon Behrami – Midfield – Watford
  2. Granit Xhaka – Midfield – Arsenal
  3. Xherdan Shaqiri – Midfielder – Stoke
  4. Haris Seferovic – Striker – Eintracht Frankfurt
  5. Admir Mehmedi – Striker – Bayer Leverkusen
  6. Shani Tarashaj – Striker – Everton

Turkey

  1. Harun Tekin – Goal Keeper – Bursaspor
  2. Ahmet Calik – Defender – Genclerbirligi
  3. Ismail Koybasi – Defender – Besiktas
  4. Hakan Calhanoglu – Midfielder – Bayern Leverkusen
  5. Nuri Sahin – Midfielder – Borussia Dortmund
  6. Arda Turan – Midfielder – Barcelona
  7. Oguzhan Ozyakup – Midfielder – Besiktas
  8. Yunus Malli – Striker – Mainz

Well that’s all the muslim players that I could list, did I miss any? Let me know via comments.

Here’s and interesting read about fasting and football by the BBC and Nathan Ellington.