Esther Sunday

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Esther Sunday
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Esther Sunday playing for Trabzon İdmanocağı in the 2016–17 Turkish Women's First Football League
Personal information
Full name Ukpong Esther Sunday [1]
Date of birth (1992-03-13) 13 March 1992 (age 32) [1]
Place of birth Lagos, Nigeria
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) [1]
Position(s) Left wing
Team information
Current team
 OKS Stomil Olsztyn
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
0000 Sunshine Queens
0000–2014 Pelican Stars
2014–2015 FC Minsk 24 [2] (27)
2016 Trabzon İdmanocağı 6 (8)
2016–2018 Konak Belediyespor 27 (20)
2018 Ataşehir Belediyespor 7 (4)
2019–2020 Konak Belediyespor 15 (4)
2020–2021 ALG Spor
2021-2022 Dijon 10 (0)
2022- OKS Stomil Olsztyn 0 (0)
International career‡
Nigeria 24 [3] (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:10, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:03, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Ukpong Esther Sunday (born 13 March 1992) is a Nigerian footballer, who plays for OKS Stomil Olsztyn. Sunday has previously played at a club level for Sunshine Queens and Pelican Stars in the Nigerian Women's Championship, as well as FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. She has also played at an international level for the Nigeria women's national football team in several tournaments.

Contents

Playing career

Club

Esther Sunday (left) attacking Kirecburnu Spor in the away match of Trabzon Idmanocagi in the 2015-16 Turkish Women's First Football League. EstherSunday (3).JPG
Esther Sunday (left) attacking Kireçburnu Spor in the away match of Trabzon İdmanocağı in the 2015–16 Turkish Women's First Football League.
Esther Sunday (red) playing for Konak Belediyespor against Besiktas J.K. in the 2017-18 season's away match. EstherSunday (19).jpg
Esther Sunday (red) playing for Konak Belediyespor against Beşiktaş J.K. in the 2017–18 season's away match.

Esther Sunday previously played for the Sunshine Queens and Pelican Stars, both in the Nigerian Women's Championship, before going on to join FC Minsk of the Belarusian Premier League. [4] [5] While there, she was among three Nigerian internationals in the team when the club won the Premier League, the Belarusian Women's Cup and the Belarusian Women's Super Cup. [6]

In January 2016, she moved to Turkey joining Trabzon İdmanocağı. She appeared in the Turkish Cosmetics 2016 Tournament of the top four teams in the league, where she scored a goal en route to a victory with her new team. [7]

In the beginning of the 2016–17 Women's First League's second half, she transferred to the Izmir-based club Konak Belediyespor. [8] She debuted at the UEFA Women's Champions League, and took part in the three matches of the 2017–18 qualifying round. [9] [10] [11]

In July 2018, Sunday signed a one-year contract with the Istanbul-based club Ataşehir Belediyespor before the 2017–18 league champion's participation at the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. [12] She played in all three matches of the qualification round, and scored one goal. [13] [14] [15] In the 2019–20 First League season, she returned to her former club Konak Belediyespor. [8] By October 2020, she transferred to the Gazianyep-based club ALG Spor. [8]

International

Sunday has represented the Nigeria women's national football team at junior levels, being in the squads of the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (competition Runners-Up) and 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [12] At senior level she was part of the squads for the African Women's Championship tournaments in 2010, 2012 and 2014, winning it twice in 2010 and 2014. She was also a member of the team which took part in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, but did not progress past the group stage. [12] [16] [17]

Career statistics

As of 8 March 2020.
ClubSeasonLeagueContinentalNationalTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Trabzon İdmanocağı 2015–16 First League68––68
Total68––68
Konak Belediyespor 2016–17 First League1613––1613
2017–18 First League1173000147
Total272030003020
Ataşehir Belediyespor 2018–19 First League7431105
Total743100105
Konak Belediyespor 2019–20 First League154––154
Total154––00154

Honours

Club

Belarusian Premier League
FC Minsk
Winners (1): 2014
Belarusian Women's Cup
FC Minsk
Winners (1): 2014
Belarusian Women's Super Cup
FC Minsk
Winners (1): 2015
Turkish Women's First League
Konak Belediyespor
Winners (1): 2016–17

International

African Women's Championship
Nigeria women's national football team
Winners (3): 2010, 2014, 2016

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