Yakubu Aiyegbeni

**Yakubu Aiyegbeni** (born 22 November 1982) is a Nigerian football player. He plays for Everton and Nigeria national team.

### Club

- Source:

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|Maccabi Haifa|1999–2000|rowspan="4"|Israeli Premier League|||||||||||
|2000–01|14|3|||||||14|3|||||
|2001–02|22|19|||||5|5|27|24|||||
|2002–03|13|16|||||||13|16|||||
|Hapoel Kfar Saba (loan)|1999–2000|Israeli Premier League|23|6|||||||23|6|||
|rowspan="4"|Portsmouth|2002–03|First Division|14|7|–|–|–|14|7|||||
|2003–04|rowspan="2"|Premier League|37|16|4|1|2|2|–|43|19||||
|2004–05|30|12|2|2|3|2|–|35|16||||||
|rowspan="4"|Middlesbrough|2005–06|rowspan="3"|Premier League|34|13|7|4|2|0|14|2|57|19|
|2006–07|37|12|8|4|0|0|–|45|16||||||
|2007–08|2|0|–|–|–|2|0||||||||
|rowspan="5"|Everton|2007–08|rowspan="4"|Premier League|29|15|1|0|3|3|6|3|39|21|
|2008–09|14|4|0|0|1|0|2|1|17|5|||||
|2009–10|25|5|0|0|2|1|9|0|36|6|||||
|2010–11|14|1|0|0|1|0|0|0|15|1|||||
|Leicester City|2010–11|Championship|20|11|–|–|–|20|11||||||
|Blackburn Rovers|2011–12|Premier League|30|17|0|0|3|1|–|33|18||||
|rowspan="3"|Guangzhou R&F|2012|rowspan="2"|Chinese Super League|14|9|1|1|–|–|15|10|||
|2013|29|15|1|0|–|–|30|15|||||||
|rowspan="3"|Al-Rayyan|2013–14|Qatar Stars League|8|3|0|0|0|0|6|1|14|4||
|2014-15 Qatari Second Division|2014-15|Qatari Second Division|2|2|0|0|–|–|2|2|||||
|Reading|2014–15|Championship|7|0|4|1|–|–|11|1|||||
|Kayserispor|2015–16|Süper Lig|12|0|5|3|–|–|17|3|||||
|Coventry City|2016–17|League One|3|0|–|–|–|3|0||||||

## Honours

**Maccabi Haifa**
- Israel Premier League: 2000–01, 2001–02

**Portsmouth**
- Football League First Division: 2002–03

**Nigeria**
- Africa Cup of Nations third-place: 2002, 2004, 2010

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Yakubu
- **image**: Yakubu in 2013 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Yakubu with Guangzhou R&F F.C., Guangzhou R&F in 2013
- **fullname**: Yakubu Ayegbeni
- **birth place**: Benin City, Nigeria
- **height**: 1.83 m
- **position**: Striker (association football), Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1994–1997
- **youthclubs1**: Gateway F.C., Gateway
- **years1**: 1997–1998
- **clubs1**: Julius Berger F.C., Julius Berger
- **years2**: 1998
- **clubs2**: → Gil Vicente F.C., Gil Vicente (loan)
- **years3**: 1998–2003
- **clubs3**: Maccabi Haifa F.C., Maccabi Haifa
- **caps3**: 49
- **goals3**: 38
- **years4**: 1999–2000
- **clubs4**: → Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C., Hapoel Kfar Saba (loan)
- **caps4**: 23
- **goals4**: 6
- **years5**: 2003
- **clubs5**: → Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth (loan)
- **caps5**: 14
- **goals5**: 7
- **years6**: 2003–2005
- **clubs6**: Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth
- **caps6**: 67
- **goals6**: 28
- **years7**: 2005–2007
- **clubs7**: Middlesbrough F.C., Middlesbrough
- **caps7**: 73
- **goals7**: 25
- **years8**: 2007–2011
- **clubs8**: Everton F.C., Everton
- **caps8**: 82
- **goals8**: 25
- **years9**: 2011
- **clubs9**: → Leicester City F.C., Leicester City (loan)
- **caps9**: 20
- **goals9**: 11
- **years10**: 2011–2012
- **clubs10**: Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers
- **caps10**: 30
- **goals10**: 17
- **years11**: 2012–2013
- **clubs11**: Guangzhou R&F F.C., Guangzhou R&F
- **caps11**: 43
- **goals11**: 24
- **years12**: 2014–2015
- **clubs12**: Al-Rayyan SC, Al-Rayyan
- **caps12**: 10
- **goals12**: 5
- **years13**: 2015
- **clubs13**: Reading F.C., Reading
- **caps13**: 7
- **goals13**: 0
- **years14**: 2015–2016
- **clubs14**: Kayserispor
- **caps14**: 12
- **goals14**: 0
- **years15**: 2017
- **clubs15**: Coventry City F.C., Coventry City
- **caps15**: 3
- **goals15**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 424
- **totalgoals**: 170
- **nationalyears1**: 2000–2012
- **nationalteam1**: Nigeria national football team, Nigeria
- **nationalcaps1**: 58
- **nationalgoals1**: 21