Taiwo Awoniyi

Taiwo Micheal Awoniyi (born 12 August 1997) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Nigeria national team.

In 2010, Awoniyi was voted the Most Valuable Player at a Coca-Cola football competition in London. His performance at the competition was spotted by Seyi Olofinjana who invited him to join the Imperial Soccer Academy…

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Career In Numbers

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Journey to Stardom

My Career Path As a Professional Footballer

On 31 August 2015, Awoniyi signed for English club Liverpool for a fee of around £400,000.

Between August 2015 and July 2021, Awoniyi played for a total of 7 clubs on loan terms. These clubs includes the likes of German team FSV Frankfurt, Dutch team NEC, Belgian club Royal Excel Mouscron, Belgian club Gent, Bundesliga side Mainz 05, and lastly Bundesliga side Union Berlin.

Throughout the loan spell, he made a total appearances of 147 across the clubs, and scored a total of 38 goals.

After a successful loan spell at Union Berlin, on the 20th of July 2021, Awoniyi agreed a permanent deal with the club. The German club reportedly paid £6.5 million for the forward. Liverpool negotiated a 10% sell-on clause in this deal.

On 25 June 2022, Awoniyi completed a move to newly promoted Premier League side Nottingham Forest on a five-year deal. The transfer fee paid was a club record for Forest, reportedly £17 million.

As of 18th August 2023, Awoniyi became the first Forest player to score in six consecutive Premier League matches since Stan Collymore in March-April 1995.

Awoniyi represented Nigeria at the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup and went on to win the tournament, scoring four goals during the competition. He also represented Nigeria at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand after winning the 2015 African U-20 Championship in Senegal.

On 12 April 2015, he scored a brace on his debut for the Nigeria U-23 team in a match against Zambia, as his team went on to qualify for the 2015 All African Games.

He was selected by Nigeria for their 35-man provisional squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

He was selected by Gernot Rohr in late 2021 to represent Nigeria at the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, making his debut in their 1–0 loss to the Central African Republic. Awoniyi was selected to represent Nigeria at the AFCON 2021 where he led the line for Nigeria throughout the tournament.