Hannibal Mejbri: Football Profile, Tunisia Caps and Net Worth

Hannibal Mejbri is a Tunisian football midfielder who joined Burnley from Manchester United on 28 August 2024. Born in France on 21 January 2003, he made his senior debut for Tunisia in 2021 and represented the country at the 2022 World Cup. For football and soccer followers across Africa, his story connects a familiar Manchester United education with the responsibility of creating chances for the Carthage Eagles.

His move to Burnley followed loans at Birmingham City and Sevilla, each offering a different route into senior football. The useful questions go beyond the recognisable hair and Old Trafford background: where does Hannibal play best, what has he contributed internationally, and which financial claims deserve your trust? His career offers a good example of how regular minutes in a settled role can shape the development of young African footballers.

Who Is Hannibal Mejbri?

Hannibal Mejbri is a creative midfielder whose senior career has developed across English and Spanish football, alongside international appearances for Tunisia. Mejbri and Hannibal refer to the same player, born in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. His birth date gives a more useful permanent reference than an age that changes each January. His French upbringing and Tunisian international career place him within a familiar African football story: a player developing in Europe while choosing to represent his family’s country.

For the quick answers, Hannibal joined Burnley in August 2024, and the financial figures discussed below are published salary estimates rather than a personal wealth total. His current Tunisia caps and goals appear in the live records module alongside its update date. His first senior international goal came against Namibia on 13 October 2025. A substitute appearance adds to a caps total, so the dated milestones provide a steadier guide to his career.

How Did Hannibal Reach Burnley?

Hannibal’s route ran through Paris FC, Boulogne-Billancourt and Monaco before Manchester United signed him in 2019. United’s reported payment was €5 million. That figure describes a payment between clubs, rather than money received personally by the player. The early transfers also show how much of his development happened before regular senior football became the central question.

His Manchester United senior debut came on 23 May 2021, when he entered a Premier League victory over Wolves as a substitute. Birmingham City then provided the next step through a loan for the 2022/23 season. The purpose was straightforward: regular senior competition, with its physical demands and responsibility, offered experience that academy football could no longer provide on its own.

Hannibal returned to United after Birmingham and scored his first Premier League goal against Brighton on 16 September 2023. He then joined Sevilla on loan on 15 January 2024, with a reported purchase option of around €20 million. That option was a possible future transfer payment, rather than a completed sale. The Spanish move offered another opportunity to establish himself in senior football and experience a different tactical setting. A loan fee has not been publicly confirmed.

Burnley signed him permanently on 28 August 2024 on a four year contract, bringing his Manchester United chapter to a close. A transfer fee has not been publicly confirmed. The move offered a longer development horizon than another temporary assignment. Burnley finished as Championship runners up in 2024/25 and earned promotion; their competition for any later season belongs in the live club and fixtures modules.

What Does Hannibal Do on the Pitch?

Hannibal’s creative role is to receive between midfield and defence, connect attacks and deliver set pieces. Calling him a number 10 describes where he can influence possession, rather than requiring him to stand permanently behind a striker. Watch his position before he receives the ball: finding space beyond an opponent’s midfield can turn an ordinary pass into an attacking opening. His value in that role depends on what the next receiver can do with the ball.

The defining example is his first senior goal, a Birmingham free kick against West Brom on 10 February 2023. The delivery showed the importance of reading the goalkeeper’s position and choosing execution to suit the opening. For a viewer in Lagos, it resembles spotting a gap in a busy junction: the opportunity comes from noticing where everybody else has already committed themselves.

His first Premier League goal, scored for Manchester United against Brighton in September 2023, offers another useful reference point. It demonstrated a shooting threat from outside the penalty area, complementing the passing and dead ball work associated with his creative position. These historical moments explain his range without turning a highlights collection into a claim about every performance. The match records module supplies the fuller context, including appearances and the competitions in which they came.

Hannibal and Tunisia: Debut, Tournaments and Caps

Hannibal made his Tunisia debut on 5 June 2021, appearing as a substitute in a friendly victory over DR Congo. His French upbringing and Tunisia career connect him with the diaspora stories familiar to Nigerian and Ghanaian readers. A footballer’s development in Europe can lead to a senior international career representing an African country.

He started the opening match against Mali at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, played in 2022, before Tunisia reached the quarter finals. For Super Eagles followers, that tournament provides a familiar point of comparison with another established African side. Hannibal’s inclusion showed that his international education was already extending beyond friendlies and qualification matches.

He made his World Cup debut against Denmark on 22 November 2022, entering a goalless draw as a substitute. Tunisia finished that tournament with four points, including a victory over France, but did not progress from the group. His first senior international goal followed against Namibia on 13 October 2025 in World Cup qualifying. The live records module carries his current Tunisia caps and goals, with its update date providing the reference for those changing totals.

Hannibal was named in Tunisia’s 2026 World Cup squad on 15 May 2026, following his involvement at Qatar 2022. His creative position and set piece delivery explain the footballing role he could offer, without attributing an unpublished selection explanation to the coach. Tunisia won nine of their ten group matches without conceding during qualification for the 2026 finals, according to The National in 2026. Before that tournament, the country had never progressed beyond a World Cup group, giving chance creation particular significance alongside its defensive foundation.

Hannibal Mejbri net worth

Africafoot and Football League World have published estimates of Hannibal’s Burnley salary, rather than a personal wealth total. A private wealth total would require reliable information about assets, liabilities and money retained over time. Transfer fees, career earnings and a contract’s possible future wages cannot answer that question individually. Giving a confident personal fortune from those ingredients would make the number appear more precise than the available evidence allows.

Africafoot reports an estimated Burnley salary of about €1.2 million a year, giving €1,206,245 annually and roughly €92,800 a month; the report’s publication year remains unconfirmed. Football League World reported a 2025 salary estimate of £20,000 a week. Across a full year, that works out at approximately £1.04 million. These are published estimates rather than official accounts or confirmed statements from Hannibal. They offer attributed wage indications, but do not establish how much he has saved or what his assets are worth.

Salary estimates can disagree because they use different currencies, reporting dates or assumptions about bonuses. A weekly figure also needs to be converted consistently before comparison with an annual one. Expressing Hannibal’s wages in Nigerian, Kenyan, Ugandan, South African or Ghanaian currency needs an exchange rate recorded on a specific date; leaving such equivalents unchanged would distort comparisons. The original currency and reporting year provide a clearer reference for readers comparing how much a player is estimated to earn.

No substantiated endorsement income, separate image rights payment or market valuation has been publicly reported. That means the amounts are unknown, rather than evidence that no commercial arrangements exist. Market value would in any case describe an assessment of transfer worth, while a transfer fee generally goes to the selling club. Neither belongs in a personal wealth calculation as cash owned by the player. Keep the salary estimate, transfer history and unanswered net worth question separate when reading financial profiles.

How to Watch Hannibal From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

Find the Burnley or Tunisia fixture in the match module, then consult the viewing details attached to its competition. Broadcast availability varies across the five countries, so confirm that the listed service carries the particular match you want to follow. Club league coverage may differ from coverage of Hannibal’s cup appearances or Tunisia internationals. Those details help you plan a viewing centre visit or choose access for the fixture.

Check the calendar date together with all four kick-off labels: WAT for Nigeria, EAT for Kenya and Uganda, SAST for South Africa, and GMT for Ghana. A late start can put the final whistle on the following date for some viewers. Seasonal clock changes in Britain also affect the conversion of a UK listing. Hannibal’s place in the confirmed lineup offers another viewing cue: look at where he receives possession and who takes the set pieces to understand his assignment.