Mamadou Niang Babacar Ndiaye

Marseille

In 2005, Niang moved to Marseille for a reported fee of €7 million. He was joined six months later by Mickaël Pagis. Niang finished the season as Marseille's top scorer with ten goals but Marseille lost the Coupe de France final to Paris Saint-Germain.

Niang was selected Marseille player of the month by the fans for May 2008.

Niang would go on to finish the 2009–10 season with 18 goals in Ligue 1, making him the highest scorer in the league and Marseille's highest scorer with 28 goals in all competitions.

Fenerbahçe Niang signed a 3+1 year deal with Fenerbahçe on 14 August 2010 for a fee of reported €8 million. He made a great start with Fenerbahçe when he scored seven goals in his first six league appearances. Niang scored his first hat-trick for Fenerbahçe on his fifth appearance when they won 6–2 against Kasımpaşa. He helped his side win the 2010–11 Süper Lig, scoring 16 goals in 29 appearances.

Al Sadd On 6 September 2011, Niang was sold to Al-Sadd for €7.5 million.

On 19 October 2011, at the 2011 AFC Champions League semi-final match against Suwon Samsung Bluewings, he scored the controversial, un-sportsmanlike second goal for his team. Al Sadd should've sent the ball back to the Bluewings since the play was suspended when the home team's player was injured. However, while Suwon's defense stood still thinking their goalkeeper will get the ball back, Niang stole the ball and went past the goalkeeper to score. The goal induced an intrusion of a home fan and a huge melee of both players and bench. The controversy got bigger when Al Sadd's player Keita took a swing at a home fan. Even though his goal was against general notion of fair-play, Niang argued that there was no problem with his goal, and that it was Suwon who played without manners, inducing melee between two teams. After all, AFC did not conclude this issue justly, by giving disciplinary actions to Suwon only, Al Sadd getting absolutely nothing, not even Niang or Keita. He then got himself sent-off in injury time for kicking the ball away when he was flagged offside, receiving another yellow card in addition to his previous, meaning he could not participate in the second leg in Doha.

Beşiktaş (loan) On 31 January 2013, Niang moved to Turkish side Beşiktaş on loan until the end of the season.

On 3 March 2013, he scored his first goal and contributed with an assist in a 3–2 win against his old club Fenerbahçe securing three points for his team in the final derby ever on İnönü Stadium.

Arles-Avignon On 28 August 2014, Niang returned to France to sign for Arles-Avignon, having been overseas for the last four years.

International career Niang represented the national team at the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations, where his team took fourth place for the third time in history.

Career statistics Club

International Scores and results list Senegal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Niang goal.

Honours Troyes UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2001

Strasbourg Coupe de la Ligue: 2004–05

Marseille Ligue 1: 2009–10 Coupe de la Ligue: 2009–10 Trophée des Champions: 2010 UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005

Fenerbahçe Süper Lig: 2010–11

Al Sadd AFC Champions League: 2011

Senegal Africa Cup of Nations fourth place: 2006

Individual UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Month: May 2005, December 2005, December 2007 UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year: 2007–08, 2009–10 UNFP Ligue 1 Goal of the Year: 2009–10 Ligue 1 top scorer: 2009–10 Marseille Player of the Season: 2009–10