Victor Osimhen: Football Profile, Clubs, Net Worth and Super Eagles Record

Victor Osimhen is a Nigerian striker, born in Lagos on 29 December 1998, who joined Galatasaray on loan in 2024 and signed permanently in July 2025 for a net fee of €75 million. He plays for Nigeria, the Super Eagles, which makes him the first name on most team sheets written in a Lagos viewing centre. In football (or soccer, as many South African readers call it) he is also the 2023 CAF African Footballer of the Year and the first African to finish a season as top scorer in Serie A.

He is known for pace, relentless pressing and goals: a centre-forward who took the Golden Boot at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup and has scored heavily in several leagues. What follows covers every club and reported fee in order, a net worth section that shows its working and labels the estimates, and kick-off times for Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. The numbers that move (caps, goals, live form) live in the data modules above, which update themselves after every match.

Who Is Victor Osimhen?

Victor James Osimhen is a centre-forward, a number 9 in the classic sense, born in Lagos State on 29 December 1998. His age updates every year, so the birth date is the reliable part. He came through the youth ranks in Lagos before a wider audience met him at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Nigeria won that tournament and Osimhen took the Golden Boot with 10 goals, a figure that scouts do not forget in a hurry. In my opinion, everything that followed in Europe was built on those weeks, because they proved he could carry a team's scoring on his own.

For readers who want the quick profile, the key points are these. He signed a four-year contract with Galatasaray in July 2025, and he has been a senior Nigeria international since June 2017. The award that mattered most at home came in 2023, when he was named CAF African Footballer of the Year.

The Road From Lagos: Every Club and Every Reported Fee

The road out of Lagos began with a signature long before it began with a match. Osimhen agreed a pre-contract with VfL Wolfsburg in January 2016, joined the German club in January 2017, shortly after his 18th birthday, and made his Bundesliga debut that May. Germany was a development chapter, and his minutes there built the base for what followed. A teenager from Lagos learning a new country and a new league needed minutes more than he needed a famous badge.

Belgium supplied the next step. On loan at Charleroi in 2018-19 he scored 20 goals in 36 games across all competitions, and the club signed him permanently on the strength of it. Lille moved quickly, taking him to France on a five-year deal in August 2019, and he repaid them with 18 goals in all competitions in his only season there. In the space of two years, the Wolfsburg and Charleroi chapters had made him one of the most wanted forwards in Europe.

Napoli made that official in July 2020, paying a club-record €70 million that could rise to €80 million with add-ons. The return came in 2022-23, when Osimhen finished as Serie A top scorer with 26 goals, the first African player to win the award Italians call the Capocannoniere, and Napoli won their first league title in 33 years. That season showed the full value of the investment.

What do those fees mean in naira, cedis, shillings or rand? They were agreed in euros and paid from one club to another, so a transfer fee is not the player's wage, and any local figure depends on the exchange rate on the day you check it. That is why the euro amounts are kept here and the conversion is left to the rate on your phone. The scale is easier to remember than any conversion: his move to Napoli was a record for the club.

Why Did Osimhen Leave Napoli for Galatasaray?

Why would a Serie A champion and top scorer swap Naples for Istanbul? The 2022-23 title was the summit of the Napoli chapter, and by the summer of 2024 both the player and the club were ready for the next one. The route was a season loan in 2024-25, and Osimhen treated it like a permanent job from the start. He finished as Süper Lig top scorer and Galatasaray won the league, with a Nigerian number 9 leading the line.

A loan that goes that well tends to end with a contract. Galatasaray signed him permanently in July 2025 on a four-year deal, paying Napoli a net €75 million. Napoli had paid €70 million rising to €80 million five years earlier, so they received a fee in the same range after winning a league title with him, which is sound business by any club's measure. For the Cimbom faithful, the reward kept coming: Galatasaray won the Süper Lig again in 2025-26, their 26th league title, sealed in May 2026.

What Does Osimhen Do on the Pitch?

Osimhen is a striker who begins defending before the opposition have finished their first pass. He presses centre-backs and goalkeepers at full speed, forces hurried clearances, and is already running in behind the last defender when the ball is won. Lagos has a comparison ready, because he plays like a danfo driver who has seen a gap open on Ikorodu Road, fully committed before anyone else has noticed the space was there.

What makes him different from other quick forwards is the aerial threat that comes with the pace. He attacks crosses and long balls with a leap that owes more to timing than to height, so a coach can play over a defence to him as easily as through it. Perhaps that is why he has scored heavily in four different leagues: defenders who drop deep to deny the run in behind give him room to press and to head, and defenders who push up leave the space he wants.

If one season holds the whole player, it is 2022-23. Osimhen scored 26 goals, finished as Serie A top scorer, and Napoli won the title that ended a 33-year wait. For the Super Eagles players who share a dressing room with him, the meaning was plain: a Nigerian number 9 could be the leading man in a title-winning side in one of Europe's biggest leagues, and not only a useful part of one.

The honours list reads well in any order. With his clubs he has won Serie A in 2022-23 and the Süper Lig in 2024-25 and 2025-26. With Nigeria he has the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, a runner-up medal from AFCON 2023 and a bronze from AFCON 2025. The individual awards sit alongside them: the U-17 World Cup Golden Boot in 2015, the Serie A top-scorer award for 2022-23, the Süper Lig top-scorer award in 2024-25 and the 2023 CAF prize.

Osimhen and the Super Eagles: Debut, AFCON Medals and the Caps Module

Osimhen made his senior Nigeria debut in June 2017, a month after his first Bundesliga appearance and less than two years after the U-17 World Cup. The country already knew the name, which is a rare thing for a teenager, and the expectation has travelled with him ever since. How should you read his international record? Start with the tournaments, because that is where a striker's reputation at home is settled, and leave the running totals to the module.

Nigeria finished as runners-up at AFCON 2023 with Osimhen in the side, and took bronze at AFCON 2025, where he scored four goals. Two medals from consecutive tournaments is a strong return, and what would turn them into gold is a matter of fine margins in the last two matches, which is where every AFCON is decided. It could be argued that no forward on the continent carries more of his team's hopes into the tournament, which is a compliment and a workload at once.

The caps and goals module above carries his live Nigeria totals, and it updates after every international window. A cap is one senior international appearance, friendlies included, and the goals column counts senior internationals only, so the 10 goals from the 2015 U-17 World Cup are not in it. Read the two numbers together, because goals per cap is the fairest way to compare a striker across eras.

Readers in Accra, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Kampala will measure him against their own number 9s, and that is the right instinct. The Black Stars, Bafana Bafana, the Harambee Stars and the Uganda Cranes have all sent forwards to Europe, and Osimhen's 2022-23 season belongs to all of them in one sense, because he was the first African player from any country to finish top scorer in Serie A. His four goals at AFCON 2025 are one more chapter in the wider story told in our guide to African footballers.

Victor Osimhen net worth

Afrik-foot reported in 2026 a net worth estimate for Victor Osimhen of USD 30 million to 40 million, which is roughly 45 to 60 billion naira, 3.9 to 5.2 billion Kenyan shillings, 525 to 700 million rand or 330 to 440 million cedis. These are published estimates, not accounts, and no verified record of his assets exists. The conversions here are rough, made at about 1,500 naira, 129 shillings, 17.5 rand and 11 cedis to the dollar, with one euro taken as about 1.15 dollars, so check the rate on the day you read this.

On salary, Foot-africa reported (year not confirmed) the terms announced by Galatasaray: EUR 15 million net a year, plus a EUR 1 million loyalty bonus and EUR 5 million a year in image rights, about EUR 21 million in total. In rough terms that total is about 36 billion naira, 3.1 billion shillings, 420 million rand or 265 million cedis. The image rights part, EUR 5 million a year, is about 8.6 billion naira, 740 million shillings, 100 million rand or 63 million cedis. Afrik-foot (2025) gave a lower net worth of about EUR 10 million to 12 million, roughly 17 to 21 billion naira, 1.5 to 1.8 billion shillings, 200 to 240 million rand or 127 to 152 million cedis, which shows how far outlets can differ.

No market value figure is reported in the record used here. The transfer fees of €70 million and €75 million went from club to club, so they measure his value as a player and add nothing to the estimate of what he holds.

On endorsements, Ülker is reported to have a deal worth about EUR 1.5 million (outlet and year not confirmed), roughly 2.6 billion naira, 220 million shillings, 30 million rand or 19 million cedis. Nike, Moniepoint and Dettol are named in coverage, with no value reported. Treat all of this as unofficial: the net worth rests on career salaries and endorsements, outlets disagree, and the Galatasaray contract terms are the best-documented figure.

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

Galatasaray matches are set in Istanbul, and the fixtures module above shows every real kick-off in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together, so there is no sum to do before you settle in. Use it as the reference for each match, because kick-off times for evening games vary by competition and broadcaster.

Super Eagles matches work the other way round, because a home game is set in WAT and the rest of the continent adjusts. A 17:00 WAT kick-off in Nigeria is 19:00 EAT, 18:00 SAST and 16:00 GMT. Which channel or app carries a given match differs by country and by competition, and the where to watch module lists it for Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda from the rights data. Check it before each match, because the Süper Lig, European nights and internationals are not always shown in the same place.

The habit across the five countries is to follow the player first and the club second. Napoli gained supporters from Lagos to Nairobi when Osimhen was scoring there, and Galatasaray, Gala to the regulars, have inherited many of them, which is why Süper Lig evenings have found a place in viewing centres alongside English and Spanish football. Most of that watching happens on a phone or a shared screen, often with a green Super Eagles shirt somewhere in the room. If you are new to Turkish football, read the Süper Lig table (the log, to South African readers) in the module before kick-off, and the result will mean more.