George Weah

**George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah** (born 1 October 1966)  is a Liberian politician and retired footballer. He was the 25th President of Liberia from 2018 until 2024. He was elected president during the 2017 general election in December 2017. He has played for Liberia national team.

In 1989, 1994 and 1995, he was named the African Footballer of the Year, and in 1996, he was named African Player of the Century.

After his football career with his high popularity, he ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2005 election, losing to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the second round of voting. In the 2011 election, he ran for vice president on Winston Tubman's ticket. Running as a Congress for Democratic Change candidate, Weah was elected to the Senate in 2014.

Weah won the presidency while a candidate for President of Liberia in the 2017 general election against Vice President Joseph Boakai. He lost his re-election bid to Joseph Boakai, in an election re-match.

#### Europe

Source:
|rowspan="2" width="150"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Super Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Monaco|1988–89|23|14|10|1|–|–|–|–|5|2|38|17||
|1989–90|17|5|–|–|–|–|–|–|7|3|24|8||||
|1990–91|29|10|6|5|–|–|–|–|5|3|40|18||||
|1991–92|34|18|4|1|–|–|–|–|9|4|47|23||||
|rowspan="3"|Paris Saint-Germain|1992–93|30|14|6|2|–|–|–|–|9|7|45|23||
|1993–94|32|11|3|2|–|–|–|–|5|1|40|14||||
|1994–95|34|7|5|2|3|1|–|–|11|8|53|18||||
|rowspan="5"|A.C. Milan|1995–96|26|11|3|1|–|–|1|0|6|3|36|15||
|1996–97|28|13|2|0|–|–|–|–|5|3|35|16||||
|1997–98|24|10|8|3|–|–|–|–|–|–|32|13||||
|1998–99|26|8|4|1|–|–|–|–|–|–|30|9||||
|1999–2000|10|4|2|0|–|–|1|0|1|1|14|5||||
|Chelsea|1999–2000|11|3|4|2|–|–|–|–|–|–|15|5|||
|Manchester City|2000–01|7|1|–|-–|2|3|–|–|–|–|9|4|||
|Marseille|2000–01|19|5|1|0|–|–|–|–|–|–|20|5|||

### International goals

- _Scores and results list Liberia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Liberia goal_.

|scope=col|No.|scope=col|Date|scope=col|Venue|scope=col|Opponent|scope=col|Score|scope=col|Result|scope=col|Competition|scope=col class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"||align="center"|2–0|rowspan=3|1987 West African Nations Cup||||||
|align="center"|2||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"||align="center"|2–0||||||||
|align="center"|3||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"||align="center"|3–0||||||||
|align="center"|4||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"||align="center"|2–1|Friendly|||||||
|align="center"|5||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0|rowspan=2|1987 CEDEAO Cup||||||
|align="center"|6||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"||align="center"|1–2||||||||
|align="center"|7||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–0|rowspan=2|1990 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||
|align="center"|8||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0||||||||
|align="center"|9||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0|1996 Africa Cup of Nations qualification|||||||
|align="center"|10||Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|4–0|rowspan=2|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||
|align="center"|11||Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0||||||||
|align="center"|12||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|2–1|1998 Africa Cup of Nations qualification|||||||
|align="center"|13||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|2–0|2000 Africa Cup of Nations qualification|||||||
|align="center"|14||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|3–0|2002 Africa Cup of Nations qualification|||||||
|align="center"|15||SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|2–0|rowspan=2|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||
|align="center"|16||National Stadium, Freetown, Sierra Leone||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0||||||||
|align="center"|17||Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente, Veracruz, Mexico||align="center"|1–2|align="center"|4–5|Friendly|||||||
|align="center"|18||Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–1|2002 Africa Cup of Nations|||||||

### Club

- Mighty Barrolle
- Liberian Premier League: 1985–86
- Liberian Cup: 1985–86

- Invincible Eleven
- Liberian Premier League: 1986–87

- Monaco
- Coupe de France: 1991

- Paris Saint-Germain
- Ligue 1: 1993–94
- Coupe de France: 1992–93, 1994–95
- Coupe de la Ligue: 1995

- A.C. Milan
- Serie A: 1995–96, 1998–99

- Chelsea
- FA Cup: 1999–2000

### International

**Liberia**
- CSSA Nations Cup runner-up: 1987

### Individual

- African Footballer of the Year: 1989, 1994, 1995
- FIFA XI: 1991, 1996 (Reserve), 1997, 1998
- French Division 1 Foreign Player of the Year: 1990–91
- UEFA Champions League Top Scorer: 1994–95
- BBC African Footballer of the Year: 1995
- Onze d'Or: 1995
- Ballon d'Or: 1995
- FIFA World Player of the Year: 1995
- ESM Team of the Year: 1995–96
- Onze d'Argent: 1996
- FIFA Fair Play Award: 1996
- FIFA World Player of the Year – Silver award: 1996
- IFFHS African Player of the Century: 1996
- World Soccer's 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: 1999
- FIFA 100: 2004
- Arthur Ashe Courage Award 2004
- Golden Foot Legends Award: 2005
- A.C. Milan Hall of Fame
- IFFHS Legends
- Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Cuttington University: 29 June 2018.

## Other websites

- Player profile and statistics – www.liberiansoccer.com
- Criticism of Weah's campaign for presidency
- Biography on UNICEF's homepage
- Italian Profile

## Infobox (football biography)

- **embed**: yes
- **header-color**: lavender
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1981–1984
- **youthclubs1**: Young Survivors Claratown
- **youthyears2**: 1984–1985
- **youthclubs2**: Bongrange Company
- **years1**: 1985–1986
- **clubs1**: Mighty Barrolle
- **caps1**: 10
- **goals1**: 7
- **years2**: 1986–1987
- **clubs2**: Invincible Eleven
- **caps2**: 23
- **goals2**: 400
- **years3**: 1987
- **clubs3**: Africa Sports d'Abidjan, Africa Sports
- **caps3**: 2
- **goals3**: 1
- **years4**: 1987–1988
- **clubs4**: Tonnerre Yaoundé
- **caps4**: 18
- **goals4**: 14
- **years5**: 1988–1992
- **clubs5**: AS Monaco FC, Monaco
- **caps5**: 103
- **goals5**: 47
- **years6**: 1992–1995
- **clubs6**: Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Saint-Germain
- **caps6**: 96
- **goals6**: 32
- **years7**: 1995–2000
- **clubs7**: A.C. Milan, Milan
- **caps7**: 114
- **goals7**: 46
- **years8**: 2000
- **clubs8**: → Chelsea F.C., Chelsea (loan)
- **caps8**: 11
- **goals8**: 3
- **years9**: 2000
- **clubs9**: Manchester City F.C., Manchester City
- **caps9**: 7
- **goals9**: 1
- **years10**: 2000–2001
- **clubs10**: Olympique de Marseille, Marseille
- **caps10**: 19
- **goals10**: 5
- **years11**: 2001–2003
- **clubs11**: Al Jazira Club, Al Jazira
- **caps11**: 8
- **goals11**: 13
- **totalcaps**: 411
- **totalgoals**: 193
- **nationalyears1**: 1986-2002
- **nationalteam1**: Liberia national football team, Liberia
- **nationalcaps1**: 75
- **nationalgoals1**: 18


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: George Weah
- **image**: George Weah 2023.jpg
- **office**: 25th President of Liberia
- **vicepresident**: Jewel Taylor
- **term start**: 22 January 2018
- **term end**: 22 January 2024
- **predecessor**: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- **successor**: Joseph Boakai
- **office1**: Senate of Liberia, Liberia Senator for Montserrado County
- **term start1**: 14 January 2015
- **term end1**: 22 January 2018
- **predecessor1**: Joyce Musu Freeman-Sumo
- **birth name**: George Tawlon Manneh Oppong
Ousman Weah
- **birth place**: Monrovia, Liberia
- **party**: Congress for Democratic Change
- **children**: 3, including George Weah Jr., George and Timothy Weah, Timothy
- **relatives**: Christopher Wreh
- **alma mater**: Parkwood University
DeVry University