Achraf Hakimi is Morocco’s captain and one of the first names on the teamsheet for a PSG side locked in a five-way fight at the top of Ligue 1. He is also the most successful African player the club has ever had, and any football prediction for a PSG title run starts with him on the right flank. Whether that makes him the greatest is another matter, because the competition includes a Ballon d’Or winner, a club captain from the 1970s and one of the most gifted dribblers of his generation.
Achraf Hakimi
Hakimi transferred from Inter Milan to PSG in July 2021 and has since won five Ligue 1 titles, two Coupe de France trophies and two Champions Leagues with PSG. In his first Champions League appearance, he opened the scoring in the 5-0 win over Inter in the 2025 final, the first goal PSG had ever scored in a Champions League final. A year later, PSG appeared in the Champions league final once again, where he converted his penalty in the shootout win over Arsenal in Budapest.
His individual record matches the trophies. He was named CAF African Player of the Year for 2025 and finished sixth in that year’s Ballon d’Or, the highest placing for a Moroccan player ever recorded. He has also been in the Ligue 1 team of the year four seasons running which is a huge milestone for the Moroccan.
Winning the 2026 Champions League final made him only the second African to win the competition three times, after Samuel Eto’o. Hakimi’s first came with Real Madrid in 2018 where he played a bit-part role.
George Weah
Weah is his obvious rival, with them both playing for PSG. Weah signed for PSG from Monaco in 1992, where he scored 32 goals in 96 league games over three seasons. PSG won the 1993-94 French title, two Coupe de France trophies and the 1995 Coupe de la Ligue with him leading the line.
He was named African Footballer of the Year in 1994 while at the club, and finished as the top scorer in the 1994-95 Champions League as PSG reached the semi-finals. Weah then joined AC Milan in 1995 and became the first ever African to win the Ballon d’Or. The award covered his form for both clubs.
Mustapha Dahleb
For longevity, nobody comes close to Dahleb. The Algerian playmaker spent a decade at PSG from 1974 to 1984 and scored 98 goals in all competitions. His 85 league goals made him the club’s record scorer in the top flight until Zlatan Ibrahimovic passed him in 2015.
Dahleb captained the side from 1976 to 1978 and won the Coupe de France in 1982 and 1983, PSG’s first major trophies. Former France manager Raymond Domenech later called him the best player in PSG’s history.
Jay-Jay Okocha
Okocha arrived in Paris from Fenerbahce in 1998 in a deal that made him the most expensive African player at the time, for a fee of £14million. He scored 12 goals in 84 Ligue 1 games over four seasons.
However the trophies never followed. His only honours in Paris were the 1998 Trophee des Champions and a share of the 2001 Intertoto Cup, in which he scored five goals. His case rests on what he did with the ball rather than what he won.
Idrissa Gueye
Gueye joined from Everton in 2019 and gave PSG three seasons of graft in midfield. He won two Ligue 1 titles, two Coupe de France trophies and the 2019-20 Coupe de la Ligue in 111 appearances in all competitions.
He was part of the squad that reached the 2020 Champions League final, although he was an unused substitute in the 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich.
The verdict
On trophies, it is not close. Hakimi’s 14 major honours at PSG are more than any African player in the club’s history, and he also delivered the Champions League trophy that none of his African predecessors came close to achieving.
Weah still has the strongest claim on pure individual peak. He was the best player in Europe for a spell, and his Ballon d’Or remains the benchmark for African footballers. But he only spent three seasons in Paris.
Hakimi has spent more than five seasons with the Parisians, played more than 200 games and been central to the most successful era the club has had. For PSG specifically, that makes him the greatest African player in their history, with Weah a close second.
