Asisat Oshoala

Asisat Lamina Oshoala is a Nigerian professional footballer, a striker for Saudi club Al Hilal and the Nigeria national team, widely regarded as one of the best female players of her generation and one of the most celebrated African female footballers of all time, having won African Women's Footballer of the Year a record six times. ¹ The English article states that she is a Muslim; it names no school for her, so her data record leaves her faith as unknown. ¹

She was born on 9 October 1994 in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. ¹ She attended Air Force Primary School in Victoria Island, Lagos, and completed secondary school at Aunty Ayo International School in Ikoyi, Lagos, and she has said her parents were not supportive when she dropped out of school to pursue a football career. ¹

She began with FC Robo and Rivers Angels in Nigeria. ¹ She was the top scorer and best player at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and best player at the 2014 African Women's Championship, which Nigeria won; in September 2014 President Goodluck Jonathan made her a Member of the Order of the Niger. ¹ On 23 January 2015 she joined Liverpool, becoming the first African player to compete in England's Women's Super League, and she won the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year award in 2015. ¹ In March 2016 she signed for Arsenal and helped the club win the 2016 FA Women's Cup final. ¹

In February 2017 she signed for China's Dalian Quanjian, winning two league championships and a cup title and the league's Golden Boot. ¹ She joined Barcelona on loan in January 2019 and permanently that May. ¹ She scored Barcelona's only goal in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final against Lyon, becoming the first African to score in such a final, and on 16 May 2021 became the first African woman to win the competition. ¹ In 2021–22 she won the Primera División's Pichichi Trophy, in August 2022 she became the first African woman nominated for the Ballon d'Or Féminin, and in 2024 the first African player to win the Champions League three times. ¹ Across her Barcelona years she made 162 appearances and scored 117 goals, the fourth-highest tally in the club's history, and won 14 trophies. ¹

On 1 February 2024 she joined Bay FC in the United States, scoring the only goal on her debut against Angel City, and on 2 September 2025 she signed for Al Hilal in the Saudi Women's Premier League, scoring in her first match. ¹ For Nigeria she played at the 2015, 2019 and 2023 World Cups — in 2023 becoming the first African to score at three different Women's World Cups — and won the Women's Africa Cup of Nations in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2024. ¹

She is a Nike brand ambassador, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021, and in 2019 launched the Asisat Oshoala Foundation, which aims to empower girl footballers in Africa and hosts the annual Football4girls tournament in Lagos. ¹ She is popularly called "Agba Baller", "legendary footballer" in her local parlance. ¹

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