| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | El Hadji Malick Diouf | ||
| Date of birth | 28 December 2004 [1] | ||
| Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [1] | ||
| Position(s) | Left-back, left wing-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | West Ham United | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Galaxy Football Academy | |||
| Académie Mawade Wade | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023–2024 | Tromsø | 15 | (2) |
| 2024–2025 | Slavia Prague | 34 | (8) |
| 2024–2025 | Slavia Prague B | 3 | (0) |
| 2025– | West Ham United | 5 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2024– | Senegal | 8 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16:06, 20 September 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:30, 9 September 2025 (UTC) | |||
El Hadji Malick Diouf (born 28 December 2004) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for Premier League club West Ham United and the Senegal national team. [2]
Born in Dakar, Diouf began his football career at the Galaxy Football Academy and then the Académie Mawade Wade. [3] On 21 February 2023, after a successful trial, Diouf signed with Norwegian side Tromsø. [4] After a slow start to the season, with little game time, the latter half of the season saw Diouf getting regular game time, ending the season with twenty-one appearances, and three goals for the club. [5]
In January 2024, Diouf signed for Czech top flight club Slavia Prague on a four-and-a-half-year contract. [2] His first goal for the club came in his debut game, against Karviná. [6] In the 2024–25 season for Slavia Prague, Diouf played as a left wing-back as they won the Czech First League title. He scored five goals in the first eight games and in 24 league appearances for the season, scored seven goals and made three assists. [3]
On 15 July 2025, Diouf signed for Premier League club West Ham United on a long-term contract for a fee of £19m. [7] [8] On 16 August 2025, he made his competitive debut, in a 3–0 loss to Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. [9]
Diouf made his debut for the Senegal national team on 9 September 2024 in a Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Burundi at the Bingu National Stadium in Malawi. [10]
| Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Tromsø | 2023 | Eliteserien | 15 | 2 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 21 | 3 | ||
| Slavia Prague | 2023–24 | Czech First League | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 [b] | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| 2024–25 | Czech First League | 27 | 7 | 2 | 0 | — | 12 [c] | 0 | 41 | 7 | ||
| Total | 34 | 8 | 3 | 1 | — | 13 | 0 | 50 | 9 | |||
| West Ham United | 2025–26 | Premier League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
| Career total | 51 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 74 | 12 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 2024 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 0 | |