Asisat Oshoala
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Oshoala with Bay FC in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Asisat Lamina Oshoala | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 9 October 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ikorodu, Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Bay FC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Robo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2013 | Robo | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Rivers Angels | (6) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Liverpool | 9 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Arsenal | 11 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Dalian Quanjian | 20 | (23) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | → Barcelona (loan) | 7 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2024 | Barcelona | 101 | (85) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Bay FC | 31 | (8) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2014 | Nigeria U20 | 11 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013– | Nigeria | 61 | (37) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 January 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 October 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Asisat Lamina Oshoala ⓘMON (born 9 October 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Bay FC and the Nigeria national team. She is widely regarded as one of the best female players in women's football of her generation. She is one of the most celebrated African female footballers of all time, having won African Women's Footballer of the Year a record six times.
Oshoala previously played for English clubs Arsenal and Liverpool, Chinese club Dalian, and Nigerian clubs Rivers Angels and FC Robo. She won the 2015 FA Women's Cup with Arsenal; two league championships and a cup title with Dalian; and the 2019–20 Copa de la Reina and 2019–20 Supercopa de España Femenina with Barcelona. In 2019, she became the first African player to score a goal in a UEFA Women's Champions League final. On 16 May 2021, Oshoala became the first African woman to win the UEFA Champions League, after Barcelona defeated Chelsea 4–0 in the finals. The following season, she became the first African woman to win the Primera División's Pichichi Trophy, and in August 2022 became the first African woman nominated to the Ballon d'Or Féminin. In 2024, she became the first African player to win the UEFA Champions League three times.
Oshoala was the highest goal scorer at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and was named the best player at the tournament. She was also named the best player and second highest goal scorer with the Super Falcons team who won the 2014 African Women's Championship.
In September 2014, Oshoala was made a Member of the Order of the Niger by President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan. In 2021, she was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30. She is popularly called “Àgba Baller”, which means in her local parlance, “Legendary Footballer”.
In July 2023, after her group stage heroics against Australia in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, Oshoala saw a massive increase in her Instagram followership which made her become the first African female footballer to have a million followers on the social media platform.