Games
Goals
Assists
Trophies
1993/2005 Bayern Munich (GER) 277 games, 10 goals
(German Championship: 175 games, 7 goals)
(German Cup: 23 games, 1 goal)
(German League Cup: 4 games)
(Champions League: 74 games, 1 goal)
(UEFA Cup: 1 game)
(Intercontinental Cup: 1 game, 1 goal)
1995/96 FC Nuremberg (GER) (Loan) 12 games, 1 goal
2005/08 AS Roma (ITA) 31 games, 1 goal
(Italian Championship: 21 games)
(Italian Cup: 3 games)
(UEFA Cup: 7 games, 1 goal)
2006/07 Livorno (ITA) (Loan) 26 matches
(Italian Championship: 18 matches)
(Italian Cup: 8 matches)
2008 Ajax Amsterdam (HOL) (Loan) 2 matches
2009 Asante Kotoko (GHA)
With the National Team :
59 caps, 3 goals
(Friendly matches: 18 caps)
(World Cup qualifiers: 16 caps, 2 goals)
(World Cup: 1 cap)
(African Cup of Nations qualifiers: 11 caps, 1 goal)
(African Cup of Nations: 13 caps)
1st cap: November 28, 1993 against Sierra Leone (3-2)
Last cap: June 12, 2006 against Italy (0-2)
Samuel Osei Kuffour
Born September 3, 1976 in Kumasi (GHA)
Ghanaian, Central defender, 1m78
A record-breaking defender
Samuel Kuffour was born on September 3, 1976 in Kumasi, Ghana. He first played in Ghanaian clubs as a child before being spotted by Torino FC, who brought him into their training center when he was 15 years old. After spending 2 years in Italy, he was finally recruited by Bayern Munich in 1993.
First joining Bayern Munich B, he then played for the first team with which he scored his first and last goal in the Champions League on November 2, 1994. With this goal, he already broke a record, that of the youngest defender to score a goal in the Champions League at 18 years and 61 days.
From substitute to starter in the Champions League final
After becoming a substitute for 2 seasons, he was finally loaned to FC Nuremberg in the German second division during the 1995/96 season. After playing a few games for this club, he returned to Bayern Munich where he would definitely establish himself as an undisputed starter.
During the 1998/99 season, he reached the Champions League final as a starter. Unfortunately for him, his team was surprised in the final moments of the match, Manchester United scoring a legendary express comeback. But he would only have to wait 2 years to participate in a Champions League final again, this time victorious, during the 2000/01 season.
He also scored the winning goal in the narrow 1-0 victory against Boca Juniors in the Intercontinental Cup that same year. Author of a statospheric season confirming his status as one of the best defenders in the world, he finished second in the African Ballon d'Or behind RC Lens player El Hadji Diouf. It was then the second time for him that he finished second in this distinction.
A Ghanaian legend who ended his career abruptly
Finally, his long love affair with Bayern Munich ended in 2005 when he decided to join the Italian championship and the club AS Roma. This experience will be a failure, it is already the end of the player's grandiose career, who signs for Ajax Amsterdam but only plays 2 matches there. Out of shape, the player is only a shadow of himself and he returns to Ghana, to Asante Kotoko, to put a definitive end to his career in 2009, then aged 33.
Having worn his country's jersey for 13 years, he was a Ghanaian international from the age of 17, then he became the team captain at only 23. In 1992, he was part of the Ghana team that won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games, he also broke the record for the youngest player to win a medal at the Olympic Games in football at only 15 years old.
In the youth categories, he was part of this golden Ghanaian generation of the early 90s which was one of the best. His greatest feat with Ghana in the seniors remains this 4th place at the African Cup of Nations in 1996. In total, he played 59 times for his country, scoring 3 goals between 1993 and 2006.
Trophies :

4th at African Cup of Nations x1
- 1996 (Ghana)

Olympic Games Bronze Medal x1
- 1992 (Ghana)
Finalist Under-20 World Cup x1
- 1993 (Ghana)
Under-17 World Cup x1
- 1991 (Ghana)
Finalist Under-17 World Cup x1
- 1993 (Ghana)

Champions League x1
- 2001 (Bayern Munich)

Finalist Champions League x1
- 1999 (Bayern Munich)

Intercontinental Cup x1
- 2001 (Bayern Munich)

Finalist UEFA Supercup x1
- 2001 (Bayern Munich)

Bundesliga x6
- 1997 (Bayern Munich)
- 1999 (Bayern Munich)
- 2000 (Bayern Munich)
- 2001 (Bayern Munich)
- 2003 (Bayern Munich)
- 2005 (Bayern Munich)

Vice-Champion Bundesliga x2
- 1998 (Bayern Munich)
- 2004 (Bayern Munich)

Vice-Champion Eredivisie x1
- 2008 (Ajax Amsterdam)

German Cup x4
- 1998 (Bayern Munich)
- 2000 (Bayern Munich)
- 2003 (Bayern Munich)
- 2005 (Bayern Munich)

Finalist German Cup x1
- 1999 (Bayern Munich)

Finalist Italian Cup x1
- 2006 (AS Roma)
German League Cup x6
- 1997 (Bayern Munich)
- 1998 (Bayern Munich)
- 1999 (Bayern Munich)
- 2000 (Bayern Munich)
- 2001 (Bayern Munich)
- 2004 (Bayern Munich)
Individual Trophies :
- 2nd best African player of the year in 1999 and 2001
- Voted Ghanaian footballer of the year in 1998, 1999 and 2001
- Voted African footballer of the year by BBC in 2001
- Voted man of the match of the Intercontinental Cup final in 2001
- Voted best defender of the German championship in 1999
- CAF Top 30 Best African Players of All Time
- IFFHS All-time Africa Men's Dream Team: 2021
- Africa Cup of Nations: Team of All Tournaments