Islam Slimani

Islam Slimani is an Algerian professional footballer, born in Algiers on 18 June 1988. A striker, he rose from Algerian club football to Sporting CP in Portugal and Leicester City in England, and with 46 goals in more than a hundred appearances he is Algeria's all-time top scorer. ^{1 2 3}

Slimani began at JSM Chéraga and joined CR Belouizdad in May 2009; his goals there — including four in one match against JS Kabylie in May 2011 — carried him to Sporting CP in 2013, where he scored regularly for three seasons and won the Taça de Portugal in 2015. In 2016 Leicester City paid a club-record £28 million for him; after eighteen months he was loaned in turn to Newcastle United, Fenerbahçe and Monaco, then joined Lyon in 2021, briefly returned to Sporting, and passed through Brest, Anderlecht, Coritiba and Mechelen before returning to Algeria with CR Belouizdad in 2024 and a loan to Westerlo in 2025. He had won the Algerian Golden Ball for 2013. ^{1 2}

He debuted for Algeria in 2012, played at five Africa Cup of Nations tournaments and the 2014 World Cup — where he was Algeria's joint top scorer — and was part of the squad that won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. ¹

Neither article states Slimani's religion: there is no religion field in either infobox and no statement in either text. Wikidata carries only Islam, generically, a single structured value that names no school. The record therefore stands at unknown, with the Wikidata reading preserved in the data file. ^{1 2 3}