*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:22, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Riyad Karim Mahrez (Arabic: رياض كريم محرز, romanized: Riyāḍ Karīm Maḥraz; born 21 February 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli and captains the Algeria national team.
Mahrez began his career as a youth player for French club AAS Sarcelles. He turned professional in 2009 with Quimper, where he played for only one season before moving to Le Havre, spending a total of three years with them, initially playing for their reserve team and then becoming a first-team regular. In January 2014, Mahrez signed for English side Leicester City, helping them win the Championship and promotion to the Premier League at the end of his first season. In the 2015–16 season, he was the Algerian Footballer of the Year, the PFA Players' Player of the Year, and was a member of the Premier League PFA Team of the Year as he helped Leicester City win the Premier League. Mahrez signed for Manchester City in 2018, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and EFL Cup in his first season. He has gone on to win a further four league titles, one FA Cup, two EFL Cups and a UEFA Champions League in 2022–23 as part of a continental treble whilst at City.
Born in France, Mahrez made his international debut for Algeria in 2014, representing the nation at the 2014 FIFA World Cup as well as the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023, winning the 2019 tournament. In 2016, he was named CAF's African Footballer of the Year.
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Riyad Karim Mahrez (Arabic: رياض كريم محرز, romanized: Riyāḍ Karīm Maḥraz; born 21 February 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a right winger...
1972), French-Algerian singer RiyadMahrez (born 1991), Algerian footballer Sidi Mahrez (951–1022), Tunisian jurist Mahrez Mebarek (born 1985), Algerian...
and most times in the top three (9). The France-born Frédéric Kanouté, RiyadMahrez and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are the only European-born players to win...
On matchday 3, City defeated Copenhagen at home 5–0, with goals from RiyadMahrez, Julián Álvarez, a brace from Erling Haaland and an own goal from Davit...
in a decade. He made his debut for the Foxes on 23 August, replacing RiyadMahrez for the final 22 minutes of a 2–0 loss at Chelsea. The following 29 April...
midfielder Djamel Belmadi. As of 2015, only Karim Ziani, Madjid Bougherra and RiyadMahrez have won the award on two consecutive occasions . Of the five, only Karim...
achievement. In January 2016, manager Claudio Ranieri declared that Vardy and RiyadMahrez would be sold to no-one, describing them as "priceless". On 2 February...
of the calendar year. On 25 September 2018, he provided an assist to RiyadMahrez and later scored his first senior goal in injury time to secure City...
2015–16, alongside his midfield partners N'Golo Kanté, Marc Albrighton and RiyadMahrez. He scored his first top-flight goal on 23 January 2016, to open a 3–0...
the Emirates Stadium with one goal each for City from Gabriel Jesus, RiyadMahrez, Foden and Aymeric Laporte and one goal for Arsenal from Alexandre Lacazette...
Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016. "RiyadMahrez Named Leicester City Player of the Season". Leicester City. Archived...
the group against Senegal, Algeria looked better and after goals from RiyadMahrez and youngster Nabil Bentaleb the Foxes were through to the next round...
Raheem Sterling, Phil Foden, an own goal from Semi Ajayi, Gabriel Jesus, RiyadMahrez, Nicolás Otamendi, and Leroy Sané. It was Rotherham's heaviest ever FA...
including Benjamin Mendy, Ibrahim Ba, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Lassana Diarra, RiyadMahrez, Steve Mandanda, Vikash Dhorasoo, Paul Pogba and Dimitri Payet. The club...
February 2022, he made his Premier League debut as a substitute for RiyadMahrez, in a 4–0 away win over Norwich City. On 13 August 2022, Kayky signed...
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