Mohamed Salah was born on 15 June 1992 in Egypt and grew up in Nagrig, a rural village in the Gharbia Governorate. He began his career at Al Mokawloon Al Arab in Cairo, making his professional debut in May 2010 before attracting the attention of Swiss club Basel, who signed him in 2012. At Basel he won two consecutive Swiss Super League titles and caught the eye of Europe's bigger clubs with sharp performances in UEFA competition.
Chelsea paid a reported £11 million for him in January 2014, but regular starts proved hard to come by, and loan spells at Fiorentina and Roma followed. At Roma he found real consistency, contributing 15 goals and six assists in 2015–16 before posting 19 goals the following season. Liverpool signed him in June 2017 for £36.9 million, and in his debut Premier League campaign he scored 32 goals in 38 matches — a single-season record for the division at that time. He went on to collect a Champions League winners' medal in 2019, two Premier League titles, an FA Cup, two EFL Cups, and a FIFA Club World Cup with the club, and in 2024–25 set a new Premier League record for goal contributions in a 38-game season.
A direct, quick right winger with a sharp eye for goal from inside the penalty area, Salah is Liverpool's central attacking figure and holds the club's all-time Premier League scoring record.
At international level he made his senior Egypt debut in September 2011 and has gone on to earn over 100 caps, captaining the side and scoring 63 goals. He helped Egypt qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and reached the Africa Cup of Nations final in both 2017 and 2022.