Nwankwo Kanu

**Nwankwo Kanu** (born 1 August 1976) is a Nigerian football player. He plays for Portsmouth and Nigeria national team.

## Personal Life

Nwankwo Kanu is married to fitness enthusiast, Amara Kanu and they have 3 children together. Two sons and one daughter.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Iwuanyanwu Nationale|1992–93|Nigerian Premier League|25|15|||||||–|25|15|||
|rowspan="4"|Ajax|1993–94|Eredivisie|6|2|0|0|–|||–|6|2|||
|1994–95|Eredivisie|18|10|1|1|–|7|1|–|26|12|||||
|1995–96|Eredivisie|30|13|0|0|–|9|0|3|0|42|13||||
|rowspan="4"|Inter Milan|1996–97|Serie A|0|0|||–|0|0|–|0|0|||
|1997–98|Serie A|11|1|2|0|–|5|0|–|18|1|||||
|1998–99|Serie A|1|0|1|0|–|||–|2|0|||||
|rowspan="7"|Arsenal|1998–99|Premier League|12|6|5|1|0|0|0|0|–|17|7||
|1999–2000|Premier League|31|12|2|0|1|1|15|3|1|1|50|17|||
|2000–01|Premier League|27|3|1|0|0|0|14|2|–|42|5||||
|2001–02|Premier League|23|3|5|2|2|1|9|0|–|39|6||||
|2002–03|Premier League|16|5|1|0|1|0|8|1|–|26|6||||
|2003–04|Premier League|10|1|3|0|4|2|7|0|–|24|3||||
|rowspan="3"|West Bromwich Albion|2004–05|Premier League|28|2|2|1|0|0|–|–|30|3|||
|2005–06|Premier League|25|5|1|0|2|1|–|–|28|6|||||
|rowspan="7"|Portsmouth|2006–07|Premier League|36|10|2|2|0|0|–|–|38|12|||
|2007–08|Premier League|25|4|5|2|1|1|–|–|31|7|||||
|2008–09|Premier League|17|1|2|0|1|0|5|1|–|25|2||||
|2009–10|Premier League|23|2|1|0|4|2|–|–|28|4|||||
|2010–11|Championship|32|2|1|0|1|0|–|–|34|2|||||
|2011–12|Championship|10|1|0|0|1|0|–|–|11|1|||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="18"|Nigeria|1994|3|0|
|1995|2|1|||
|1996|0|0|||
|1997|1|0|||
|1998|5|1|||
|1999|0|0|||
|2000|10|1|||
|2001|6|2|||
|2002|11|0|||
|2003|4|3|||
|2004|7|0|||
|2005|6|2|||
|2006|8|0|||
|2007|6|2|||
|2008|6|0|||
|2009|5|0|||
|2010|5|0|||
|2011|1|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|21 October 1995|Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium, Tashkent||3–1|3–2|1995 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations||||||||
|2|5 June 1998|Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam||1–3|1–5|Friendly||||||||
|3|22 April 2000|Lagos National Stadium, Lagos||4–0|4–0|2002 World Cup qualifier||||||||
|4|27 January 2001|Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt||3–0|3–0|2002 World Cup qualifier||||||||
|5|5 May 2001|Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt||1–0|2–0|2002 World Cup qualifier||||||||
|6|25 May 2003|Independence Park, Kingston||2–2|2–3|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|7|7 June 2003|Abuja Stadium, Abuja||3–1|4–1|2004 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier|||||||
|8|4–1|||||||||||||
|9|26 March 2005|Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt||2–0|2–0|2006 World Cup qualifier||||||||
|10|8 October 2005|Abuja Stadium, Abuja||4–1|5–1|2006 World Cup qualifier||||||||
|11|24 March 2007|MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta||1–0|1–0|2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier||||||||
|12|17 June 2007|Stade Général Seyni Kountché, Niamey||1–0|3–1|2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier||||||||

## Honours

**Iwuanyanwu Nationale**
- Nigerian Premier League: 1992–93

**Ajax**
- Eredivisie: 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96
- UEFA Champions League: 1994–95; runner-up: 1995–96
- UEFA Super Cup: 1995
- Intercontinental Cup: 1995

**Inter Milan**
- UEFA Cup: 1997–98

**Arsenal**
- Premier League: 2001–02, 2003–04
- FA Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03; runner-up: 2000–01
- FA Charity Shield: 1999
- UEFA Cup runner-up: 1999–2000

**Portsmouth**
- FA Cup: 2007–08

**Nigeria U17**
- FIFA U-17 World Championship: 1993

**Nigeria U23**
- Summer Olympics: 1996

**Nigeria**
- Afro-Asian Cup of Nations: 1995
- African Cup of Nations runner-up: 2000
- African Cup of Nations Bronze: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008

**Individual**
- Ajax Talent of the Year (Marco van Basten Award): 1994–95
- African Footballer of the Year: 1996, 1999
- BBC African Footballer of the Year: 1997, 1999
- FA Cup Final Man of the Match: 2008
- IFFHS Legends
- IFFHS All-time Africa Men's Dream Team: 2021

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Nwankwo Kanu
- **image**: 1 nwankwo kanu 2017 (edited).jpg
- **caption**: Kanu in a friendly in 2017
- **fullname**: Nwankwo Kanu
- **birth place**: Owerri, Nigeria
- **height**: 1.97 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
- **years1**: 1992–1993
- **clubs1**: Heartland F.C., Iwuanyanwu Nationale
- **caps1**: 25
- **goals1**: 15
- **years2**: 1993–1996
- **clubs2**: AFC Ajax, Ajax
- **caps2**: 54
- **goals2**: 25
- **years3**: 1996–1999
- **clubs3**: Inter Milan
- **caps3**: 12
- **goals3**: 1
- **years4**: 1999–2004
- **clubs4**: Arsenal F.C., Arsenal
- **caps4**: 119
- **goals4**: 30
- **years5**: 2004–2006
- **clubs5**: West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bromwich Albion
- **caps5**: 53
- **goals5**: 7
- **years6**: 2006–2012
- **clubs6**: Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth
- **caps6**: 143
- **goals6**: 20
- **totalcaps**: 406
- **totalgoals**: 98
- **nationalyears1**: 1993
- **nationalteam1**: Nigeria national under-17 football team, Nigeria U17
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 5
- **nationalyears2**: 1996
- **nationalteam2**: Nigeria national under-23 football team, Nigeria U23
- **nationalcaps2**: 6
- **nationalgoals2**: 3
- **nationalyears3**: 1994–2011
- **nationalteam3**: Nigeria national football team, Nigeria
- **nationalcaps3**: 87
- **nationalgoals3**: 12