List of 10 Top Paid Nigerian Footballers (2020)

List of 10 Top Paid Nigerian
Footballers (2020)
List of 10 Top Paid Nigerian Footballers (2020)

1. Odion Ighalo | £190,000
Odion Ighalo is a professional Nigerian footballer who plays
as a striker. Born in Lagos and raised in Edo, Ighalo played
in Nigeria with Prime and Julius Berger, where he was
discovered by FIFA agent Marcelo Houseman who recommended him
to Atta Aneke, being subsequently taken on trial by Norway’s
Lyn.
After Lyn, he moved to Udinese for a 5-year contract where he
was loaned to Granada and Cesena. Ighalo also played for
Watford and he’s currently playing for Changchun Yatai, a
Chinese club. He is now on loan to Manchester United.
As it stands, Ighalo is the highest paid player in the
Nigerian team earning a whooping £190,000.

2. John Mikel Obi | £140,000
John Mikel Obi variously known as John Obi Mikel or Mikel John
Obi, is considered to be the richest Nigerian footballer this
2020 who plays and captains the Nigeria national team. Mikel
obi’s spell at Chelsea proved to be one of his significant
moments in football.
His prolonged Chelsea spell of 10 years or so earned him
massive wealth and incredible recognition as one of the most
notable Nigerian footballers across the world. Currently, he
is considered the richest footballer in the Nigerian team.
Obi’s worth is estimated to be $57 Million.
Mikel formerly played for Chinese outfit, Tianjin TEDA FC and
they paid him a whooping £140,000 per week, which has an
equivalence of 66.7 million in naira and $183,000 in dollars.
Mikel’s current club is Trabzonspor and he earns similar
figure there.
3. Obafemi Martins | £95,000

Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins is another rich Nigerian footballer
who plays as a forward. This player is known for his speed on
the ball. After leaving Nigeria for Italy at age 16, he has
since played for a number of top-division clubs around Europe.
He is married to Ghanaian-Italian Abigail Barwuah, sister of
Mario Balotelli. The couple have one child named Kendrick,
born in 2013.
Obafemi Martins began his senior career in 2002 at the Italian
Serie A Club Inter Milan, before moving to the English Premier
League club Newcastle in 2006, and then the German Bundesliga
club VfL Wolfsburg in 2009.
Having joined Russian Premier League side Rubin Kazan in July
2010, they loaned him to Birmingham City in January 2011. He
currently plays for Chinese football club, Shanghai Greenland
Shenhua. Martins earns £95,000 weekly.

4. Kelechi Iheanacho | £75,000

Kelechi Promise Iheanacho was born 3rd of October, 1996 and is
a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for Premier
League club Leicester City and the Nigeria national team.
He has made appearances for Manchester City, as well as the
Nigeria squad that won the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the
Nigeria U-20 team at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Iheanacho
was called up to the Manchester City senior squad for the
2015–16 season. After Manchester City, he moved to Leicester
City where he currently plays.

He is currently one of the top paid players in the Nigerian
team. He earns £75,000 weekly at Leicester City.

5. Victor Moses | £85,000

Used as a wing back in Chelsea, Victor Moses can operate as a
winger and is also among Nigeria football stars to earn big
salary in England.
Born in Nigeria, Moses represented England youth teams at
under-rated, under-rated, under-19 and under-21 levels, but

opted to play for Nigeria as opposed to being fully capped for
England.
He has gained over 20 caps for Nigeria since his debut in 2012
and played in their winning campaign at the 2013 Africa Cup of
Nations, as well as the campaign in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
He currently earns £75,000 weekly as his salary and currently
is on loan to Fernabache FC from Chelsea.

6. Alex Iwobi | £70,000

Alex Iwobi was born on the 3rd of May 1996. He is one of the
recent stars of the Super Eagles. Iwobi currently plays as a
forward for Premier League Club Everton and is one of the
richest football players in the Nigeria national team.

Iwobi started as a youth international for England, with whom
he won the Victory Shield of 2011. Iwobi went on to play for
Nigeria. He made his senior debut for the Super Eagles on 8
October 2015, replacing Ahmed Musa in the 57th minute of a 2–0
friendly defeat to DR Congo in Visé, Belgium.

7. Ahmed Musa | £60,000

Ahmed Musa is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as
a forward and left winger for Saudi Arabian team Al-Nassr.
Musa is the first Nigerian to score more than once in a FIFA
World Cup match after scoring twice against Argentina in the
2014 FIFA World Cup.

He is also the first Nigerian to score in two FIFA World Cup
competitions after scoring twice against Iceland in the group
stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Musa currently earns £60,000
as his weekly wages.

8. Wilfred Ndidi | £50,000

Wilfred Ndidi is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays
for Premier League club, Leicester City and the Nigeria
national team as a midfielder.

He spent his youthful career at Nath Boys Academy. He then
played for Genk before moving to Leicester City where he
currently plays and earns £50,000 every week.

9. Emmanuel Emenike

Emmanuel Emenike was born on the 10th of May 1987 and started
his football career with Delta Force. He later moved to South
Africa where he played for the South African National First
Division team Mpumalanga Black Aces. After his time at
Mpumalanga Black Aces, he moved to F.C. Cape Town in 2008
before signing for Karabükspor in 2009 on a one-year loan
deal.

Emenike would later play for the likes of Fenerbahçe, Spartak
Moscow and Olympia Kosovo. In 2018, he mutually resolved his
contract with Olympiacos and he is currently on loan to Las
Palmas although he is currently injured.

10. Ogenyi Onazi | £16,000

The 24 years old footballer starred in the Team that won
Nigeria’s last 2013 African Cup of Nations.

The ex- Lazio player was transferred to Trabzonspor FC and now
earns a sum of 16,000 GBP per week.