Fiston Mayele: Football Profile, Club, DR Congo Caps and Net Worth

Fiston Mayele is a DR Congo striker, born on 24 June 1994 in Mbuji-Mayi, who joined Al Ahli Tripoli in Libya in August 2026 after three seasons with Pyramids in Egypt. He is also searched as Mayele Fiston Kalala and Fiston Kalala Mayele, and all three spellings lead to the same centre forward, the top scorer of the 2024-25 CAF Champions League. South African soccer fans know him best from that competition, where his goals carried Pyramids to their first title.

Mayele's story runs from Mbuji-Mayi to Tripoli, and it takes in what he does on the pitch, his record with the Leopards and every reported pay figure with its outlet and date. His 2024-25 CAF Champions League top scorer record is the clearest measure of his standing, so the numbers are laid out plainly rather than guessed. Every claim carries its date, because his story has moved quickly since 2021.

Who Is Fiston Mayele?

Fiston Mayele is a Congolese forward who made his name in African club football rather than in Europe, and he has spent his whole career on the continent. Wikipedia records his full name as Fiston Kalala Mayele, born on 24 June 1994 in Mbuji-Mayi, which made him 32 when he signed in Tripoli.

He is a striker in the old sense, measured by goals and trophies. He has won league titles in Tanzania, the Egypt Cup, the CAF Champions League and the CAF Super Cup, and he was named CAF African Interclub Player of the Year in 2025. For Nigerian readers, think of him as the kind of forward a viewing centre in Surulere learns to respect the hard way, on a CAF night, before anyone has learned his full name.

The Road From Mbuji-Mayi: Every Club and Every Reported Fee

Mayele made his name in the Congolese game at JS Likasi, where he scored 34 league goals in 40 appearances between 2015 and 2017. That return is what first marked him out, and it got clubs outside the country watching. The step that changed his career was the move east, to a league with far more television reach across the region.

Young Africans signed him in August 2021, and Kenyan and Ugandan readers who follow the Bongo league will know him as the Yanga striker the Wananchi sang about. He won the Tanzanian Premier League in 2021-22 and 2022-23. He was also top scorer of the 2022-23 CAF Confederation Cup, the run in which Yanga reached the 2023 final.

Pyramids took him to Egypt in 2023, and he left in 2026 with 54 goals in 123 appearances in all competitions. Al Ahli Tripoli announced his signing on 19 August 2026, on a contract running to June 2028.

Why Did Mayele Leave Pyramids for Al Ahli Tripoli?

Mayele left Pyramids for Al Ahli Tripoli for the money and for his age, by his own account. CAF Online reported on 11 September 2026 that he said he signed for the money, citing his age, and it is an honest answer that most of us would recognise. It is like a Lagos tailor with a full order book who still takes the wedding job that pays the year's rent, because the best paid seasons do not last forever.

For followers of the Leopards, the useful point is that Libyan league matches are best followed through CAF clips and the broadcaster line in the data module. If Al Ahli Tripoli play in CAF competition, those ties give him a continental stage, and his goals in African club football are the record that travels with him.

What Does Mayele Do on the Pitch?

Mayele is a centre forward who leads the line and lives in the penalty area, and his record shows a striker who scores in the matches that decide trophies. He has been top scorer of a CAF competition twice, the Confederation Cup in 2022-23 and the Champions League in 2024-25.

The 2024-25 CAF Champions League is the defining season of his career so far. Pyramids won their first title in that competition, and Mayele finished as its top scorer, which is the sort of double that settles arguments in any viewing centre. Afterwards, he was named CAF African Interclub Player of the Year in 2025, the award for the best player at an African club.

The goals did not stop at the continental stage. Pyramids won the CAF Super Cup in 2025 and the FIFA African Asian Pacific Cup in 2025, in which Mayele scored a hat trick, and he was top scorer of the FIFA Intercontinental Cup in 2025. That came on top of his top scorer awards in the 2022-23 Confederation Cup and the 2024-25 Champions League.

For Super Eagles defenders, he is the type of forward who punishes a single loose moment in the box. That being said, the Yanga years remain the chapter East African readers return to, because the 2023 Confederation Cup run put a Tanzanian club in a continental final with Mayele as its leading scorer. The honours table below sets out every title and award with its year and club.

Mayele and the Leopards: Debut, Tournaments and the Caps Module

Mayele made his debut for Dr Congo in 2021. The total rises with each international window, so the caps module above carries the live figure, and any number in an older article is a snapshot of its date.

The split by year shows how his place grew. He won 3 caps in 2021, none in 2022, then 8 in 2023, 14 in 2024, 10 in 2025 and 5 in 2026. The jump from 2023 lines up with his Pyramids years, when his goals in CAF competition kept him in front of the Leopards staff in every squad discussion.

The Leopards took him to the 2023 and 2025 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations, then to the World Cup in 2026. The defining match of his international career is the 3 to 1 win over Uzbekistan on 27 June 2026, when he scored his first World Cup goal.

So, how should you read his record going forward? Read the caps module for the live total and the fixtures module for the next Leopards window, with times shown in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT. For more forwards from across the continent, our guide to African footballers carries the profiles that sit alongside his.

Fiston Mayele net worth

No named outlet has published a verified net worth estimate for Fiston Mayele, and no endorsement deal for him appears in reliable reporting. That matters, because a single round net worth figure with no outlet behind it is a guess, not a record. The reason the figure is hard to pin down is simple: players at African clubs rarely publish their wages, contracts are reported by insiders, and savings, property and agency fees are never public.

What has been reported is salary, and every figure here is a press estimate. Afrik-foot reported on 20 August 2026 that Mayele would earn about USD 5 million a year (about EUR 4.28m) at Al Ahli Tripoli, citing the insider Micky Jnr, and the club had not confirmed it. CAF Online reported on 11 September 2026 that Le Monde put the two year deal at a net USD 5m per season, excluding bonuses. Africa Soccer reported in August 2026 a total of USD 10m over the two years, about EUR 8.56m.

Those reports put him at the top of the continent's pay table, the joueur le mieux payé d'Afrique in French coverage. Africa Soccer also reported in August 2026 that Al Ahly of Cairo had earlier offered him about USD 3m a year, which he turned down. In September 2026, Africa Soccer reported that Sofiane Boufal had joined Al Ittihad Tripoli on about USD 5m a season, level with Mayele as Africa's highest paid player.

For Nigerian and Ghanaian readers asking how much he earns per week, no outlet has reported a weekly figure, and splitting an annual estimate across the weeks only produces another estimate. The working matters too. Transfer fees go to the selling club, not the player, a wage is income rather than net worth, and a net salary before bonuses is a different number from the gross figure a club pays. Read every amount above as a reported contract value, never as his bank balance.

How to Watch Mayele From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

Most fans in our five countries follow Mayele through CAF's own broadcasts and highlight clips, and Libyan league matches are best followed through CAF clips and the broadcaster line in the data module. CAF Confederation Cup and Champions League ties are shown widely, and the broadcaster for each country sits in the data module on the page, updated as rights change. That module, not any written promise, is where to check who carries a match where you live.

Kick off times in the fixtures module are given in WAT for Lagos and Accra viewers, EAT for Nairobi and Kampala, SAST for Johannesburg and GMT for reference. Tripoli sits on the same clock as Johannesburg, so South African readers can take a Libyan kick off at face value. For the Leopards, the national team fixtures carry the same four zones.

If you are following him from Nairobi or Kampala for the Yanga memories, or from Johannesburg because of the Champions League, the practical step is the same. Set the fixtures module to your time zone, check the broadcaster line for your country before the match, and use CAF's highlight clips for the Libyan league games that are not shown live.