Alex Iwobi: Football Profile, Fulham Move, Super Eagles Caps and Net Worth

Alex Iwobi is a Nigeria international midfielder who joined Premier League club Fulham from Everton on 2 September 2023, having come through the Arsenal academy he entered in 2004. Born in Lagos on 3 May 1996 and raised in Newham, London, Iwobi won his 100th cap for Nigeria in a friendly against Portugal on 10 June 2026. The live module carries his current caps and goals. On the money question, Afrik-foot estimated his net worth at €45 million in 2026 and Pulse Nigeria put it at about £39 million in January 2026, and both are media estimates, not published accounts.

Ask about him in a Lagos viewing centre and two answers arrive before the question is finished: Jay-Jay Okocha's nephew, and the London boy who picked the Super Eagles. Both are true, and both explain why football followers (soccer followers, in South Africa) from Accra to Kampala keep an eye on the Cottagers' team sheet. What follows sets the dated facts in order: the clubs and the fees, the caps, the estimates of what he earns with an outlet and a year beside each one, and how to follow his matches in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT.

Who Is Alex Iwobi?

Alex Iwobi is a midfielder who was born in Lagos on 3 May 1996, moved to England at the age of four and grew up in Newham, London. He joined Fulham in September 2023, and the live module above carries his club details and this season's numbers, so nothing written here needs to chase them.

The family detail every Nigerian knows sits on his mother's side. She is the sister of Austin Okocha, the former Nigeria international known everywhere as Jay-Jay, which makes Okocha his maternal uncle and turns every clever touch into a matter for comparison in bars from Surulere to Kumasi. That comparison says as much about how much Nigeria loved the uncle as about the nephew, and the two are different players. Beyond that, the family background is briefly told: Lagos by birth, London by upbringing.

From Arsenal's Academy to Fulham: The Road and the Fees

The road starts earlier than most, because Iwobi joined Arsenal's youth system in 2004 while still at primary school and stayed in it for more than a decade before the first team called. His senior debut came on 27 October 2015 in a 3-0 League Cup defeat to Sheffield Wednesday, and his Premier League debut followed four days later in a 3-0 win at Swansea City. Between 2015 and 2019 he won the FA Cup of 2016-17 and the Community Shield of 2015 and 2017 with Arsenal.

Everton signed him on 8 August 2019 on a five-year deal. According to the BBC as cited by Wikipedia, the fee was an initial £28 million to Arsenal, rising to £34 million with add-ons, while Afrik-foot gives the fee as up to €30.4 million and notes that it stood as the record for a Nigerian player until Victor Osimhen joined Napoli a year later. Four seasons on Merseyside ended with Everton's Players' Player of the Season award for 2022-23, the vote of the men who trained beside him every day.

The move to Fulham came on 2 September 2023. The clubs did not disclose the fee, and Afrik-foot reports a contract running to June 2028. For a reader weighing the transfers together, one detail is worth a moment: an academy graduate who cost Arsenal nothing was sold for a reported £28 million to £34 million, and none of that money went to the player. That point returns in the net worth section below.

What Does Iwobi Do on the Pitch?

What sort of player is he? Iwobi is listed as a midfielder, and his best work is done between the lines, receiving on the half turn and carrying the ball forward so that a team moves up the pitch together. It could be argued that this is the least glamorous skill in the game, a little like the danfo driver who always finds the gap in Ikorodu Road traffic, and yet nobody gets home without him.

The recognition has come in dated instalments. He was CAF Youth Player of the Year in 2016, he won the FA Cup with Arsenal in 2016-17, and he took the dressing room vote at Everton in 2022-23. The defining run, though, is the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, where he played all seven of Nigeria's games on the way to the final. A midfielder picked seven times in a month by his national coach is being told something about trust.

Then there is the durability record. On 18 October 2025 he passed Shola Ameobi's 298 Premier League appearances, as reported by Afrik-foot, to become the Nigerian with the most appearances in the history of the EPL. When Naija boys abroad are counted, the list of those who lasted longest in England's top division starts with him. His appearance and goal totals for Fulham change with every match, and the module above keeps them, season by season.

Iwobi and the Super Eagles: Caps, AFCON and the England Question

How many caps does Alex Iwobi have? He reached his 100th on 10 June 2026, in a 2-1 friendly defeat to Portugal. Counts differ from outlet to outlet, mostly because they were written in different years, so treat any figure without a date as an old snapshot. The live module above updates after each international window, and the records module shows where the hundred mark places him on Nigeria's all-time caps list.

His debut came on 8 October 2015, as a substitute for Ahmed Musa in a 2-0 friendly defeat to DR Congo, which means he was a Nigeria international nineteen days before he was an Arsenal first-team player. He had already won 11 youth caps for England, from under-16 to under-18 level, so the choice was a real one. Why Nigeria? The plain facts point the same way: a birth in Lagos, a mother from the Okocha family and an uncle who wore the green shirt with rare joy. For diaspora supporters in London, Johannesburg or Nairobi, that decision is why he is claimed so warmly.

The tournament record is a long one. He played in all three of Nigeria's group games at the 2018 World Cup, where the team went out at the group stage, and he has three Africa Cup of Nations medals. Nigeria finished third in 2019 and again in 2025, and in between came the 2023 final, lost 2-1 to hosts Ivory Coast. That final is the match that best defines him, because he played in every game of the campaign and came within a goal of the trophy.

The fixtures module shows Nigeria's qualifying route and results, so the route to each tournament can be read there at any time. Ghanaian readers know the feeling from the other side, since Nigeria against the Black Stars is the rivalry that measures both nations, while followers of the Harambee Stars, the Cranes and Bafana Bafana usually meet him at AFCON.

Alex Iwobi net worth

Afrik-foot estimated Alex Iwobi's net worth at €45 million in 2026, and Pulse Nigeria estimated it at about £39 million in a profile published on 7 January 2026. These are published media estimates, not official figures and never audited accounts. Rates move daily, so convert on the day you read and treat the answer as a guide to scale.

On salary, Afrik-foot reported about €93,668 a week, or roughly €4.87 million a year, in 2026, while Pulse Nigeria reported £80,000 a week, or £4.16 million a year, in January 2026. Both figures are media estimates. Older figures from his Everton years still circulate without a date, so check the year on any number you are shown.

The other headings are thinner. Pulse Nigeria mentions a deal with Nike but gives no value, and no reliable figure has been published for his endorsements, his image rights or a market valuation. As such, an exact sponsorship income should be read as a guess unless it names its outlet and its year.

Why do the two totals differ? Part of it is currency, since one is in euros and the other in pounds, and part of it is method, because neither outlet shows its working. The usual approach is to multiply a weekly wage by the years of a contract (his Fulham deal is reported to run to June 2028), add career earnings from Arsenal and Everton, and then assume a figure for endorsements. Change any one assumption and the total moves by millions.

Two cautions keep the numbers honest. Transfer fees go to the selling club, so the £28 million Everton paid Arsenal in 2019 was never his. A wage is income before agents, deductions and the cost of living, which makes it a poor guide to wealth: £4.16 million a year earned is a different thing from £4.16 million a year kept. The table below sets each figure beside its outlet and year so that you can judge them yourself.

How to Watch Iwobi From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

Fulham play in the Premier League, and across Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda the EPL reaches homes, viewing centres, pubs and bars through pay-TV and streaming. Which channel carries a given match in your country is listed in the fixtures module, because broadcast rights are data that can change between seasons and no written line should promise them. The standings have their own module too, where the table is known as the log in South Africa, and it updates after every match.

What stays constant is the clock. Ghana runs on GMT, so a traditional winter Saturday kick-off at 15:00 in England is 15:00 in Accra. Add one hour for Lagos (WAT), two for Johannesburg (SAST) and three for Nairobi and Kampala (EAT). When Britain is on summer time, at the start and end of the season, each of those moves an hour earlier. The late Saturday game finishes close to bedtime in Nairobi and Kampala while Lagos is still at the suya spot, and the module prints all four zones for every Fulham fixture.

Nigeria games are scheduled separately from the club season, slotted into the breaks set aside for national teams and the AFCON cycle, and the Nigeria fixtures module carries those kick-offs in the same four zones. If Iwobi is the reason you watch Fulham, read the lineup module before kick-off, since selection is the one thing no written profile can tell you in advance. If he has sent you looking for others who made the journey from African roots to European leagues, the full list of African footballers is the place to continue.