Junior Ajayi
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Oluwafemi Junior Ajayi[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 29 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lagos, Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Smouha | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 28 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | CS Sfaxien | 28 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2021 | Al Ahly | 103 | (30) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Al-Nasr | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Smouha | 6 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Nigeria | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:29, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Oluwafemi Junior Ajayi (born 29 January 1996), commonly known as Junior Ajayi, is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Egyptian Premier League club Smouha.[2][3][4]
He was selected in Nigeria's 18-man squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics,[5] after helping them qualify for Rio with his decisive goals. With Nigeria, he won the Olympic bronze medal. Junior Ajayi helped Egyptian giants Al Ahly secure 2 CAF Champion Leagues, 2019–20 and 2020–21. However, following the arrival of Percy Tau and Luís Miquissone, he was never selected by Pitso Mosimane for matches and demanded Al Ahly to terminate his contract. He eventually found himself in Libyan side Al Nasr-Benghazi. On July 30, 2022, Junior Ajayi returned to Egypt by signing for Alexandria-based Smouha.
Career statistics
[edit]International
[edit]| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2018 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 1 | 0 | |
Honours
[edit]Al Ahly
- Egyptian Premier League: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
- Egypt Cup: 2016–17, 2019–20
- Egyptian Super Cup: 2018, 2019; runner-up: 2017, 2020
- CAF Champions League: 2019–20, 2020–21; runner-up: 2017, 2018
- FIFA Club World Cup third place: 2020
Nigeria U23
- Summer Olympics third place: 2016
References
[edit]- ^ "FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2020: Squad list" (PDF). FIFA. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Nigeria, Media (14 June 2018). "Biography Of Junior Ajayi (Footballer)". Media Nigeria. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ "Junior Ajayi". Nnu.ng - Nigeria News Update. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ "خبر في الجول - رسميا أجاي أهلاوي". FilGoal.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ ESPN (25 July 2016). "2016 Olympics men's football final squad lists for all 16 teams". ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
External links
[edit]- Junior Ajayi at Soccerway
- Junior Ajayi at National-Football-Teams.com
- Living people
- Nigerian men's footballers
- Nigeria men's international footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Shooting Stars S.C. players
- CS Sfaxien players
- Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia
- Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for 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 men's 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
- Footballers from Lagos
- CAF Champions League–winning players
- 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen