Former Barcelona ahead and Ballon d’Or nominee Oshoala leaves San Francisco for Saudi Ladies’s League on free switch.
Revealed On 2 Sep 2025
Nigeria ahead Asisat Oshoala has joined Saudi Ladies’s Premier League membership Al-Hilal on switch from Bay FC within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League.
Phrases of the settlement weren’t disclosed. The 30-year-old Nigerian worldwide signed a two-year contract with Al-Hilal.
Oshoala joined Bay FC earlier than its inaugural season in 2024 from Barcelona, the place she received two Ladies’s Champions League titles. She scored a team-high seven objectives in her first yr with the San Francisco Bay Space crew.
The 30-year-old scored Bay FC’s first franchise purpose on March 17, 2024, within the seventeenth minute of a match in opposition to Angel Metropolis.
“Asisat has been an extremely necessary a part of Bay FC historical past, not solely together with her impression on the pitch but additionally by the vitality, professionalism, and kindness she introduced every single day,” Matt Patter, Bay’s sporting director, stated in a ready assertion Tuesday.
“She is a world-class participant and an excellent higher individual, and we’re grateful for every part she contributed to our membership in its first season.”
A six-time African participant of the yr, her final being in 2023, Oshoala was on the Nigerian crew that received its tenth Africa Cup of Nations title in July.
Born in Ikorodu, Oshoala was additionally the primary African girl to be nominated for the Ballon d’Or award, the title thought to be representing the perfect participant on this planet every year.
She missed out on the 2022 award to Alexia Putellas of Spain. That yr additionally marked her sixth and final African Ladies’s Participant of the Yr award.
Oshoala joins fellow Nigerians, Ashleigh Plumptre and Francisca Ordega, at Al-Hilal.
