The Most Famous
SOCCER PLAYERS from Benin
This page contains a list of the greatest Beninese Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 16,880 Soccer Players, 2 of which were born in Benin. This makes Benin the birth place of the 142nd most number of Soccer Players behind Central African Republic and Guatemala.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Beninese Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Beninese Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Stéphane Sessègnon (1984 - )
With an HPI of 38.44, Stéphane Sessègnon is the most famous Beninese Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Stéphane Sessègnon (born 1 June 1984) is a Beninese professional footballer who plays for Sirens in the Maltese Premier League. He is a Benin international, having represented the nation at the 2008, 2010 and 2019 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations. Sessègnon plays a variety of positions as a forward, a winger and as a midfield offensive playmaker. He is Benin's all-time top scorer and appearance maker with 24 international goals in 89 matches.
2. Steve Mounié (1994 - )
With an HPI of 24.83, Steve Mounié is the 2nd most famous Beninese Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Steve Michel Mounié (born 29 September 1994) is a Beninese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Brest, whom he captains, and the Benin national team.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as soccer players born between 1984 and 1994. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living soccer players include Stéphane Sessègnon and Steve Mounié. As of April 2022, 1 new soccer players have been added to Pantheon including Steve Mounié.
