Junior Ajayi
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Oluwafemi Junior Ajayi[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 29 January 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Owerri, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2016 | CS Sfaxien | 28 | (10) |
| 2016–2021 | Al Ahly | 103 | (30) |
| 2021– | Al-Nasr Benghazi | 0 | (1) |
Honours | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 July 2021 | |||
Oluwafemi Junior Ajayi (born 29 January 1996), commonly known as Junior Ajayi, is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Libyan club Al-Nasr Benghazi.[2][3]
He was selected by Nigeria for their 18-man squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics,[4] after helping them qualifying to Rio with his decisive goals. With Nigeria, he won the Olympic bronze medal.
Club career[]
CS Sfaxien[]
Junior Ajayi ELFnan joined Tunisian Sfaxien club in September 2015, he participated in 28 matches in the Tunisian league with a rate of 2388 minutes, scored 10 goals and made seven goals and was punished twice with the yellow card, wearing the number 11 with Tunisian Sfaxien and the same number with the Nigeria Olympic team.[5][6]
Al Ahly SC[]
Al Ahly has officially signed a contract with him during the summer transfer period to be the second player to join the red team from CS Sfaxien after Ali Maâloul, for $2,500,000, he scored four goals in ten matches.
Al Nasr-Benghazi[]
Following the termination of Junior Ajayi’s contract by Al Ahly Junior Ajayi became a free agent and signed for Libyan side Al Nasr Benghazi on a free transfer.
Honours[]
Al Ahly[]
- Egyptian Premier League: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
- Egypt Cup: 2016–17, 2019–20
- Egyptian Super Cup: 2017, 2018
- CAF Champions League: 2019–20, 2020–21
- CAF Super Cup: 2021
Nigeria[]
References[]
- ^ "FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2020: Squad list" (PDF). FIFA. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ "خبر في الجول - رسميا أجاي أهلاوي". FilGoal.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ Watch the goal of Junior Ajayi wonderful in the range of Petrojet SC Egyptian league
- ^ ESPN (25 July 2016). "2016 Olympics men's football final squad lists for all 16 teams". ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ^ "Junior Ajayi". Nnu.ng - Nigeria News Update. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ Nigeria, Media (14 June 2018). "Biography Of Junior Ajayi (Footballer)". Media Nigeria. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
External links[]
- Junior Ajayi at Soccerway
- Living people
- Nigerian footballers
- Nigeria international footballers
- Association football forwards
- Shooting Stars S.C. players
- CS Sfaxien players
- Nigerian expatriate footballers
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
- Expatriate footballers in Tunisia
- 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations players
- Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Nigeria
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria
- Olympic medalists in football
- Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players
- Al Ahly SC players
- Expatriate footballers in Egypt
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt
- Egyptian Premier League players
- 1996 births
- African Games bronze medalists for Nigeria
- African Games medalists in football
- Competitors at the 2015 African Games