Stephen Odey

Stephen Pius Odey (born 15 January 1998) is a Nigerian professional footballer, who plays as a forward for Genk in the Belgian First Division A.

Stephen Odey
Personal information
Full name Stephen Pius Odey
Date of birth (1998-01-15) 15 January 1998
Place of birth Lagos, Nigeria
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Genk
Number 15
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 MFM 42 (23)
2017–2019 Zürich 45 (12)
2019– Genk 11 (0)
2020– → Amiens (loan) 15 (3)
National team‡
2017– Nigeria 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 November 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 August 2018

Club career

Odey played in the second edition of GTBank-Lagos state principals cup where he was the captain of the winning Dairy Farm Senior secondary school Agege. He also topped the list of the GTBank 13-man all star team of that year. He trained at CampGTBank with 23 other students under lead coach Mark Elis, former coach at Arsenal.

He is the all-time top scorer for MFM in the Nigerian Professional Football League, the highest football league level in Nigeria. Odey was the highest goalscorer for MFM in the 2015–16 season.[1][2] He scored his first career hat-trick in January 2017 against Lobi Stars.[2]

On 4 October 2017, Odey completed a transfer to Swiss club FC Zürich.[3] On 28 June 2019 it was confirmed, that Odey had joined Genk on a 5-year contract.[4]

On 11 September 2020 he joined Amiens on loan.[5]

International career

On 13 August 2017, Odey made his debut for Nigeria, as a substitute, in a 1–0 loss against Benin.[6]

Honours

Individual

  • Player of the Month, NPFL League Bloggers Award: January 2017[7]
  • Player of the Month, NPFL League Bloggers Award: March 2017[8]

FC Zürich

References
  1. "NPFL Top Scorers 2015-2016".
  2. "Stephen Odey first hat-trick".
  3. "Der FC Zürich verpflichtet Stürmer Stephen Odey" (in German). 4 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  4. Stephen Odey joins KRC Genk, fcz.ch, 28 June 2019
  5. "Der FC Zürich verpflichtet Stürmer Stephen Odey" (in Dutch). 11 September 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  6. "Benin vs. Nigeria". National Football Teams. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  7. "League Bloggers Award January 2017".
  8. "League Bloggers Award March 2017".


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