Papa Alioune Diouf (born 22 June 1989) is a Senegalese professional

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who plays as a forward or winger for Swedish club

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. He made two appearances for the Senegal national team between 2010 and 2012.

Club career

Early career

Born in

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, Senegal, Papa Diouf started his career at Touré Kunda, before moved to Dakar Université Club in 2009. On 20 February 2011, the Bulgarian

Litex Lovech Litex ( bg, Литекс) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Lovech, which currently competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club. The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion ...

confirmed Diouf has joined on loan until the end of the season. He made his

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debut on 27 February, coming on as a 52nd-minute substitute for Dejan Djermanović in the 3–0 victory over

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; he then scored his first goal for the club 38 minutes later.

Kalmar FF

On 20 September 2011, Swedish club Kalmar FF confirmed that they had reached a deal with Dakar UC regarding Diouf, as of 1 January 2012 he would go on a six-month loan to Kalmar, together with Archford Gutu from Dynamos Harare, Zimbabwe. On 14 March Kalmar FF announced that they had decided to sign both Gutu and Diouf before Allsvenskan had started.

Return to Kalmar FF

On 21 June 2022, Diouf returned to

Kalmar FF Kalmar Fotbollförening, more commonly known as Kalmar FF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Kalmar. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Guldfågeln Arena. Formed on 15 June 1910, the cl ...

until the end of the 2022 season. After that, he played half a year for

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club SSD Brindisi FC before returning to Sweden and Kalmar's smaller neighboring club Oskarshamns AIK.

International career

Diouf earned his first cap with the Senegal national team as a substitute in a friendly against the

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on 10 May 2010.

Honours

Litex Lovech * Bulgarian A PFG:

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