Tijani Babangida

**Tijani Babangida** (born 25 September 1973) is a former Nigerian football player. He has played for Nigeria national team. Babangida was especially praised for his dribbling on the field and his speed as an attacker on the flanks. Known for his pace, his playing style was sometimes compared to that of Marc Overmars. He is regarded to be one of the greatest Nigerian wingers and dribblers in his position.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|VVV-Venlo (loan)|1991–92|Eredivisie|6|3||
|1992–93|Eerste Divisie|28|16|||
|Roda|1993–94|Eredivisie|29|11||
|1994–95|20|5||||
|1995–96|29|10||||
|Ajax|1996–97|Eredivisie|25|4||
|1997–98|26|13||||
|1998–99|18|2||||
|1999–2000|8|1||||
|Gençlerbirliği (loan)|2000–01|Turkish First Football League|12|2||
|Vitesse (loan)|2001–02|Eredivisie|14|1||
|Al-Ittihad (loan)|2002–03|Saudi Premier League|5|0||
|Changchun Yatai|2003|Jia-B League|9|4||
|2004|League One|20|4|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="9"|Nigeria|1994|2|0|
|1995|0|0|||
|1996|0|0|||
|1997|2|0|||
|1998|7|1|||
|1999|3|0|||
|2000|10|2|||
|2001|7|2|||
|2002|5|0|||

- _Scores and results list Nigeria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Babangida goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|28 June 1998|Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France||1–4|1–4|1998 World Cup||||||||
|align="center"|2|10 February 2000|National Stadium, Lagos, Nigeria||1–0|2–0|2000 African Cup of Nations|||||||
|align="center"|3|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|4|29 July 2001|Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt, Nigeria||2–0|3–0|2002 World Cup qualifier|||||||
|align="center"|5|align="center"|3–0|||||||||||

## Honours

- Summer Olympics: 1996
- Eredivisie: 1997–98
- KNVB Cup: 1997–98, 1998–99
- Turkish Cup: 2000–01
- Jia B: 2003

## Related pages

- List of Nigerians

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Tijani Babangida
- **birth place**: Kaduna, Nigeria
- **height**: 1.69 m
- **position**: Winger (association football), Winger
- **youthyears1**: 1987–1990
- **youthclubs1**: Arewa Textiles
- **youthyears2**: 1990–1991
- **youthclubs2**: Niger Tornadoes F.C., Niger Tornadoes
- **years1**: 1991–1996
- **clubs1**: Roda JC
- **caps1**: 78
- **goals1**: 26
- **years2**: 1991–1993
- **clubs2**: → VVV-Venlo (loan)
- **caps2**: 34
- **goals2**: 19
- **years3**: 1996–2003
- **clubs3**: AFC Ajax, Ajax
- **caps3**: 77
- **goals3**: 20
- **years4**: 2000–2001
- **clubs4**: → Gençlerbirliği S.K., Gençlerbirliği (loan)
- **caps4**: 12
- **goals4**: 2
- **years5**: 2001–2002
- **clubs5**: → SBV Vitesse, Vitesse (loan)
- **caps5**: 14
- **goals5**: 1
- **years6**: 2002–2003
- **clubs6**: → Ittihad FC (Jeddah), Al-Ittihad (loan)
- **caps6**: 5
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 2003–2004
- **clubs7**: Changchun Yatai F.C., Changchun Yatai
- **caps7**: 29
- **goals7**: 8
- **totalcaps**: 272
- **totalgoals**: 85
- **nationalyears1**: 1994–2004
- **nationalteam1**: Nigeria national football team, Nigeria
- **nationalcaps1**: 36
- **nationalgoals1**: 5