It is anticipated that Victor Osimhen will surpass Rashidi Yekini as the Super Eagles’ all-time leading scorer, but which other football stars are included on the list?
Nigeria has a long history of producing world-class football talent, many of whom have gone on to play at a high level for the national team. This makes Nigeria one of the best football nations in Africa.
Here are the top 10 Super Eagles with the most goals scored out of all the superstars who have played for the Nigerian national team in the illustrious green and white.
Super Eagles all-time highest goalscorers
10. Ahmed Musa
Ahmed Musa is the current captain of the Super Eagles. Not only is he the most-capped Super Eagles player in Nigerian football, but he is also the tenth-most prolific goal scorer for the Super Eagles.
Since making his Nigerian debut in 2010, the 30-year-old winger has scored 16 goals in 107 games, and he still has time to do so.
9. Odion Ighalo
Al Hilal striker Odion Ighalo is one of three Super Eagles players who are tied for 16 goals, but he has scored more goals in 70 games than Ahmed Musa.
With 16 goals in 37 appearances for the Super Eagles since making his debut in 2015, Ighalo ranks among the team’s all-time top scorers. As he has not officially left the Nigerian football team, this is an impressive accomplishment that could still be improved upon.
8. Samson Siasia
A legend of the Super Eagles, went on to become more well-known for his work with the national team as a coach multiple times, but he also had a great playing career.
Although Samson Siasia is best known for his work as a Super Eagles manager, he also had a successful playing career, earning him the position of eighth on the list of the Top 10 Super Eagles all-time top scorers. The striker scored 16 goals in 51 appearances for the Super Eagles from 1984 until 1999, when he retired from the team. This placed him in joint seventh place on the list of the Top 10 Super Eagles all-time top scorers.
7. Victor Osimhen
Victor Osimhen scored a support against Sierra Leone on June 18, 2023, to take his Super Eagles count to 17 objectives, turning into the most noteworthy scoring dynamic player in the public group.
The 24-year-old has scored 17 goals in 26 games, giving him the best goal-to-game ratio in Super Eagles history and setting him up to become the team’s all-time leading scorer in the future—assuming nothing unexpected happens.
6. Sunday Oyarekhua
Well-known Sunday Oyarekhua scored 17 goals in 28 games for the Nigerian national football team between 1971 and 1976, when they were still known as the “Green Eagles.”
Sunday Oyarekhua, who played for the Super Eagles in the 1970s, scored a lot of goals, making him number six on the list of the Super Eagles’ all-time top scorers. However, his coworkers, former teammates, and a few fans who saw him play have done their best to convey how good the late “Sunny” was.
Segun Odegbami took over from Oyarekhua after he left the Nigerian national team in 1976 as the Super Eagles’ all-time leading scorer.
5. Obafemi Martins
Obafemi Martins is one of the best strikers to have played for the Super Eagles of Nigeria. He ranks fifth on the Super Eagles’ all-time list of highest goal scorers.
From 2004 to 2015, the Super Eagles’ former Inter Milan striker, who was affectionately referred to as “Obagoal,” scored 18 goals in 48 games. His career’s defining characteristics were his speed, mobility, and athleticism.
4. Ikechukwu Uche
kechukwu Uche played for the Super Eagles for eight years. During that time, he established himself as a reliable and effective player for the Nigerian national team
He retired as number four on the list of all-time Super Eagles goal scorers.
The diminutive football striker quit international competition after scoring 19 goals in 46 games for the Super Eagles from 2007 to 2015.
3. Yakubu Aiyegbeni
Unfortunately, Yakubu Aiyegbeni’s open goal miss against South Korea at the 2010 World Cup is more well-known than the fact that he is the Super Eagles’ third-leading scorer all-time.
Yakubu Aiyegbeni is the third-highest on the Top 10 Super Eagles all-time top scorers list. A certified goal machine and ice-cold finisher (with the exception of that one time), Yakubu scored 21 goals in 57 games for Nigeria between 2000 and 2012. His career was overshadowed by his incredible miss against South Korea, but he is the third-highest on the Top 10 Super Eagles all-time top scorers list.
2. Segun Odegbami
Regarded by many as the first genuine superstar of Nigerian football, was as entertaining to watch as he was prolific.
When compared to the rest of the top ten, the “genius” Odegbami scored 23 goals in 46 games for the Nigerian national team in a shorter amount of time. He played for the national team from 1976 to 1982.
1. Rashidi Yekini
Even infants are aware of the late great Rashidi Yekini and his abilities for the Super Eagles—his identity is the worst kept secret.
Yekini is by a wide margin and away Nigeria’s unsurpassed driving top scorer with 37 objectives, no less than 14 a bigger number of than any other individual up to this point and many accept his record will stay solid as he sits first spot on the list of Super Hawks all-time most elevated goalscorers.
At an impressive rate of 0.63 goals per game, Rashidi Yekini scored 37 goals in 58 games. Since Yekini, who made his debut for Nigeria in 1984, left the Nigerian national team in 1998, this is the standard that all Nigerian footballers strive to achieve.
Who is highest goal scorer in Super Eagles?
Rashidi Yekini is currently the highest goalscorers for Nigeria Super Eagles with 37 goals in 58 games.
Here is the current top 10:
1. Rashidi Yekini – 37 goals
2. Segun Odegbami – 23 goals
3. Yakubu Ayegbeni – 21 goals
4. Ikechukwu Uche – 19 goals
5. Obafemi Martins – 18 goals
6. Sunday Oyarekhua – 17 goals
7. Victor Osimhen – 17 goals
8. Samson Siasia – 16 goals
9. Odion Ighalo – 16 goals
10. Ahmed Musa – 16 goals
11. Julius Aghahowa – 14 goals
