Iliman Ndiaye: Football Winger, Senegal Caps and Career Road

Iliman Ndiaye is a Senegal international forward, born in Rouen, France, on 6 March 2000, who joined Manchester City from Everton on 1 September 2026 on a five year contract. The reported fee was a £60m base fee plus £5m in bonuses, a £65m package for a player whose first professional contract, signed in November 2017, came at non league Boreham Wood.

That climb is the story, and it is the reason his name travels so well from Lagos to Johannesburg, where plenty of readers still call the game soccer. The sections below cover every club on his road with its year and reported fee, what he does on the pitch, his record with Senegal, the press reported City wage and how to follow his matches across five countries. In my opinion, it is the kind of career a Lagos viewing centre loves to argue over, because nobody quite agrees where he plays best.

Who Is Iliman Ndiaye?

Iliman Ndiaye is a wide forward who plays international football for Senegal, although he was born in France. His youth football took him through clubs in France and to Dakar Sacré Cœur in Senegal before he arrived in England. So, when people ask why a boy from Rouen wears the shirt of the Lions of Teranga, the plain answer is that both countries were open to him, and his Senegal link was built on a pitch in Dakar years before his senior debut in 2022.

For a reader in Accra or Lagos, the comparison that fits is the family with roots in two places, like the cousin raised in London who still calls Ibadan home every Christmas. Ndiaye chose his football home, and the choice has rewarded both sides, with an AFCON final and a World Cup goal already on his record. That being said, his club journey is just as unusual, because very few players reach a club of City's size by way of English non league football, and the next section takes that road one stop at a time.

The Road From Rouen: Every Club and Every Reported Fee

Ndiaye's professional road began at Boreham Wood, where he signed his first professional contract in November 2017, after those youth spells in France and at Dakar Sacré Cœur. Non league football sits several divisions below the Premier League, and the jump from there to the top flight is one most young players never make. Sheffield United signed him on 31 August 2019, and he spent part of the 2019-20 season on loan at Hyde United before returning to Bramall Lane to fight for a place.

Sheffield United is where the breakthrough came. In 2022-23 he was named in the EFL Championship Team of the Season and the PFA Championship Team of the Year, and the club made him its Player of the Year. He stayed there from 2019 to 2023. That 2022-23 season is the one that changed how scouts saw him, because a winger who carries a promotion push in the Championship has shown he can handle pressure every weekend.

Marseille signed him on 1 August 2023 for a reported £20 million. Everton then announced his signing from Marseille on 3 July 2024, on a five year deal. It could be argued that the French spell was the bridge he needed, a season in a demanding stadium in front of a demanding crowd, before the Premier League asked him for goals.

Everton got them, with 17 goals in 74 appearances across his two years at the club, before Manchester City signed him on 1 September 2026 for the reported £60m base fee plus £5m in bonuses. Think of a trader who began with a small table by the roadside at Balogun Market and finished with a shop on the main road, and you have the shape of it. The table below sets out every stop in order.

How Did Ndiaye Join Man City?

The record shows a move that suited every party: City added a proven Premier League forward on a five year contract, and Everton received a reported £65m for a player they had signed in 2024. Ndiaye left Goodison Park's story with a high note already written, having scored both goals in the 2-0 win over Southampton in 2025, the final match ever played at the old ground, and he went on to win Everton's Goal of the Season award for 2025-26. Few players leave a club with a cleaner farewell than that.

For anyone typing Iliman Ndiaye Man City into a search bar, the dated facts are these: the club announced the signing on 1 September 2026, the contract runs for five years, and the reported wage covers the period to 30 June 2031. His appearances, goals and minutes in a City shirt belong to the player module above, which updates after every match, so read it for this season's picture rather than any number written in prose.

What Does Ndiaye Do on the Pitch?

Ndiaye is a forward who plays mainly from the wide areas, and he has also been used across the front line for club and country. His value lies in carrying the ball at defenders and turning half chances into goals, which is exactly what City pay a winger to do. The recognition he collected in the Championship in 2022-23 came from that combination, because team of the season awards rarely go to wide players who only look busy without producing anything at the end.

If I had to pick one defining match, it would be the final game at Goodison Park in 2025. Everton beat Southampton 2-0 that day and Ndiaye scored both goals, which means his name sits beside the last chapter of the old ground. Ask any Everton supporter and they will tell you which player closed the old house, and that kind of moment stays in a club's memory long after the league table has been forgotten.

His Goal of the Season award for 2025-26 points the same way. Clubs give that prize to the strike supporters talk about on the way home, and Ndiaye won it in his 2025-26 season at Everton. Then there are the international moments, the only goal in Senegal's AFCON quarter final win over Mali and the goal against Iraq at the 2026 World Cup, which show he finishes the big occasions as well as the ordinary ones.

So, how should you read his form? The player module above holds his appearances, goals and assists for this season, along with any injury or availability notes, and it refreshes after every fixture. Use it to see how City are using him, whether wide on the left, the right or nearer the striker, and compare that with the career figures in the table. Readers following other African footballers in England can use the same modules side by side.

Ndiaye and the Lions of Teranga: Debut, AFCON Final and the Caps Count

Ndiaye made his Senegal debut in June 2022, coming off the bench in a qualifier win over Benin on the way to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. His caps and goals total sits in the player module and changes in every international window. You will see different totals on other trackers, because some update slowly and some count matches differently, so always check the date beside any caps figure before you quote it in a debate.

AFCON 2025 was his biggest tournament with the Lions of Teranga. He played in all seven of Senegal's games, scored the only goal of the quarter final against Mali, and finished with a runners up medal. A final reached is a mark of a squad's depth, and Ndiaye's presence in every match tells you how much the coaching staff trusted him through the long weeks of a tournament.

The 2026 World Cup gave him his first goal on the biggest stage. Senegal beat Iraq 5-0 on 26 June 2026, and Ndiaye scored one goal and set up another. For readers across the continent, that afternoon belongs with the wider story of African football's progress at World Cups, where results like that one raise expectations for every side from the continent that qualifies.

What does it mean for the Super Eagles? Senegal are West African neighbours of Nigeria and Ghana and AFCON rivals of every side in the region, so the defenders who line up for Nigeria or the Black Stars in future meetings will have to plan for a winger who joined Manchester City in 2026. Bafana Bafana fans in South Africa will see the same challenge whenever the draw puts them together. That makes him a player Lagos should study rather than simply admire.

Iliman Ndiaye net worth

No encyclopaedia or news report has published an estimate of Iliman Ndiaye's net worth, so we do not print one. Figures from other sites are estimates, so check the outlet and year beside each one. If a news outlet reports a net worth figure in future, it will appear here with its name and year.

The money figure that circulates in the press is his wage. Reports in 2026 put Ndiaye on £180,000 a week from 1 September 2026 to 30 June 2031. It is a press reported estimate, the club has not confirmed it, and it describes a salary per week rather than wealth. Readers in Ghana searching for his salary per week will find lower figures on pages that still list him at Everton; those come from his previous contract. To see the wage in naira, shillings, rand or cedis, multiply by the day's exchange rate, because a printed conversion would date within weeks.

Why do net worth numbers vary so much? Partly because transfer fees go to clubs, not players: the reported £65m from City went to Everton. Partly because a weekly wage is a headline figure paid before deductions, agent arrangements and the costs of living, and partly because net worth means everything a person owns minus everything they owe, which is private. An estimate built on a wage figure alone is like valuing a Lekki house from the rent on the gate sign.

No endorsement figures, image rights payments or market value from an encyclopaedia or news report were found for Ndiaye, so none is listed. That being the case, the reading is narrow: one press reported wage, clearly labelled, and no verified net worth. When you see a single figure elsewhere, look for the outlet and the year beside it, and treat any number without them with care.

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

Every City match featuring Ndiaye appears in the fixtures module above, with kick off shown in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together, so readers in Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Accra and Kampala can plan without doing the arithmetic. Ghana keeps GMT all year, Nigeria runs one hour ahead on WAT, South Africa two hours ahead on SAST, and Kenya and Uganda three hours ahead on EAT. Remember that the United Kingdom moves its clocks in spring and autumn, so the gap between an English kick off and your local time shifts by an hour twice a year.

Where to watch in each country is listed as data in the broadcaster module, since broadcast deals move from one season to the next and printed channel names would soon go out of date. Premier League football is a long viewing habit in all five countries, from Lagos viewing centres to Nairobi bars where City is simply City, and the Etihad is a name Kampala supporters know as well as any ground in Uganda. Check the module before each match rather than relying on last season's arrangement.

Senegal matches follow the international calendar, and the national team page for the Lions of Teranga carries those fixtures with the same four time zones. AFCON qualifiers and tournament matches are often scheduled at times friendly to West African viewers, so Nigerian and Ghanaian fans keeping an eye on a regional rival rarely need to sit up late. Set a reminder from the fixtures module on the day squads are announced, and you will catch his next appearance for club or country.