Nigeria national football team

**Nigeria national football team** is the national football team of Nigeria.

## Top scorers

|Pos|Player|Goals|Apps|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Rashidi Yekini|37|58|1985-1998|
|2|Segun Odegbami|24||1976-1989|
|3|Sunday Oyarekhua|17||1971-1975|
|3|Yakubu|17||2001-present|
|5|Samson Siasia|16||1989-1998|
|6|Thompson Usiyan|15||1976-1978|
|7|Daniel Amokachi|14||1990-1997|
|7|Jay-Jay Okocha|14||1993-2005|
|7|Julius Aghahowa|14||2000-2005|
|10|Nwankwo Kanu|13|75|1995-2007|
|10|Obafemi Martins|13||2004-2007|

## Players

The following players were called up for the friendly matches against Algeria and Tunisia in Austria on 9 and 13 October 2020 respectively.

_Caps and goals current as of 17 November 2019 after the match against Lesotho._

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Nigeria
- **badge**: Flag of Nigeria.svg
- **nickname**: _Super Eagles_
- **sub-confederation**: West African Football Union, WAFU (West Africa)
- **confederation**: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa)
- **coach**: Gernot Rohr
- **captain**: Ahmed Musa
- **most caps**: Vincent Enyeama
Joseph Yobo (101)
- **top scorer**: Rashidi Yekini (37)
- **fifa trigramme**: NGA
- **fifa max**: 5
- **fifa max date**: April 1994
- **fifa min**: 82
- **fifa min date**: November 1999
- **elo max**: 15
- **elo max date**: 31 May 2004
- **elo min**: 72
- **elo min date**: 27 December 1964
- **home stadium**: Moshood Abiola National Stadium
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- **first game**:  Sierra Leone national football team, Sierra Leone 0–2
(Freetown, Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, Sierra Leone; 8 October 1949)
- **largest win**: 10–1
(Lagos, Colonial Nigeria, Nigeria; 28 November 1959)
- **largest loss**: and  British Togoland
7–0
(Accra, Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast; 1 June 1955)
- **world cup apps**: 6
- **world cup first**: 1994
- **world cup best**: Round of 16 (1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994, 1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998, 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014)
- **regional name**: Africa Cup of Nations
- **regional cup apps**: 18
- **regional cup first**: 1963 African Nations Cup, 1963
- **regional cup best**: Champions (1980 Africa Cup of Nations, 1980, 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, 1994, 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, 2013)
- **2ndregional name**: African Nations Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 3
- **2ndregional cup first**: 2014 African Nations Championship, 2014
- **2ndregional cup best**: Runners-up (2018 African Nations Championship, 2018)
- **3rdregional name**: WAFU Nations Cup
- **3rdregional cup apps**: 3
- **3rdregional cup first**: 2010 WAFU Nations Cup, 2010
- **3rdregional cup best**: Champions (2010 WAFU Nations Cup, 2010)
- **confederations cup apps**: 2
- **confederations cup first**: 1995 King Fahd Cup, 1995
- **confederations cup best**: Fourth place (1995 King Fahd Cup, 1995)