Below are some of the professional football players in the women national team and those who have performed well in their featured matches and championships;
Florence Omagbemi is a Nigeria female football player and a former midfielder born on the 2nd of February, 1975, in Warri. She is one of the professional players in the women football team who represented the country for years and had featured in about four FIFA Women’s World Cups and also in the Africa Women Cup of Nations and championships on several occasions.
She won the African Women’s Championship on several occasions such as 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004 with the Super Falcons of Nigeria according to the recorded history. She was one of the participants at the 2000 Olympic as well.
Omagbemi who once assisted the Nigeria women’s national under-20 football team coach was made an acting coach of Super Falcons in 2016; in that same year, she became the first woman coach to win the Africa Women Cup of Nation, AWCON on December 3rd 2016 as a player and a coach.
Asisat Oshoala (nickname: Seedorf) is a professional Nigerian female football player born on the 9th of October 1994 in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. She has an international career and has played with many football clubs at international levels.
She played for Dalian Quanjian F.C. of the Chinese Women’s Super League as a forward, and was the league’s top scorer in 2017. She has since starred for Barcelona, Bay FC in the United States and, from 2025, Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia.
Asisat Lamina Oshoala had earlier joined Liverpool Ladies of the FA Women’s Super League, the highest division of women’s football in England, on January 23rd 2015. She became part of the Nigeria national women’s team as a forward and has made her fame by scoring many of the goals at several tournaments.
Her teammates refer to her as ’Superzee’. At the 7th edition of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in 2014 she was named the best player and was the top goal scorer with seven goals. Similarly, at the 2014 African Women’s Championship she was named the best player and was the second highest goal scorer of the tournament.
That same year, in the month of September, she was made a Member of the Order of the Niger by the then president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. On the 8th of June during the subsequent year, she opened up a senior FIFA World Cup account by scoring the country’s second goal in a 3 - 3 draw with Sweden.
Some of the Nigeria Super Falcon Players (both past and current) includes;
Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha are the usual answers, with Rashidi Yekini (37 goals) and Stephen Keshi close behind. Asisat Oshoala is the greatest Nigerian woman footballer, with six African Player of the Year awards.
Which Nigerians have won African Footballer of the Year?
Rashidi Yekini (1993), Emmanuel Amunike (1994), Nwankwo Kanu (1996, 1999), Victor Osimhen (2023) and Ademola Lookman (2024).
