![]() Babajide with Liverpool in 2020 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Omorinsola Omowunmi Ajike Babajide [1] | ||
Date of birth | 17 June 1998 | ||
Place of birth | London, England [2] | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | AS Roma | ||
Number | TBA | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2015 [3] | Crystal Palace | 9 | (2) |
2015–2016 | Millwall Lionesses | 31 | (7) |
2017–2018 | Watford | 15 | (3) |
2018–2022 | Liverpool | 45 | (10) |
2021–2022 | → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2022–2023 | Real Betis | 38 | (9) |
2023–2025 | UDG Tenerife | 41 | (7) |
2025– | AS Roma | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2016–2017 | England U19 | 9 | (0) |
2017–2018 | England U20 | 6 | (0) |
2019 | England U21 | 8 | (2) |
2023– | Nigeria | 5 | (1) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 11:53, 3 July 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 October 2023 |
Omorinsola Omowunmi Ajike Babajide (born 17 June 1998), known as Rinsola Babajide, is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for AS Roma. Born in England, she represented her country of birth as a youth international up to under-21 level, before switching allegiance to Nigeria and making her senior debut in October 2023. [4]
She previously played for Liverpool, Millwall Lionesses, Watford and Brighton & Hove Albion.
Rinsola Babajide began her career at Crystal Palace and played for the club during the 2014–15 season. [3] She made 9 appearances and scored twice and made a further 2 appearances for the reserve team.
She during the opening game of the season which was a 2–0 win against Denham United on 24 August 2014. [5] She scored her first goal for Crystal Palace during a 3–3 draw against Cambridge United on 5 October 2014. [6]
She joined Millwall Lionesses from Crystal Palace in January 2015, [7] but made her professional debut on March 18 against the London Bees in a FA WSL match which ended in a draw. [8]
In February 2017, Babajide completed a transfer to Watford Ladies. [9] She scored her first competitive goal for the club in a 3–2 loss to London Bees in a FA WSL Spring Series fixture. [10] Babajide finished as Watford's joint top scorer in the 2017 Spring Series, with three goals. [11]
Her transfer to Liverpool was announced on 25 January 2018. [12] Babajide was part of the squad that saw Liverpool relegated to the Championship in 2020. [13]
Babajide was Liverpool's second highest goal scorer in the 2018/19 WSL season with two campaign goals.
Babajide was then Liverpool's joint-second WSL goal scorer in the 2019/20 season with one single league goal. She didn't feature for Liverpool in the second half of the 2020/21 Championship season after refusing to train [14] with the first team squad and was then subsequently moved down into the age group development squad away from the first team. [15]
On 26 July 2021, Brighton & Hove Albion Women Football Club announced the signing of Rinsola on a season-long loan deal from Liverpool Women. [3]
On 3 July 2023, after an 18-month spell with Real Betis, Babajide joined fellow Liga F side UDG Tenerife on a two-year deal. [16]
She joined AS Roma on 14 July 2025.
In August 2018, Babajide was part of the England U20s squad that claimed bronze at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [17] In September 2020 she was included in a training camp for the England senior team. [18] [19]
Due to her Nigerian parents, Babajide was also eligible to represent Nigeria. [20] She received her first call up in October 2023 and made her debut on 25 October 2023, starting in a 1–1 draw with Ethiopia during 2024 Olympic qualifying. [21]
On 6th July, 2025, she scored and assisted once in Nigeria v. Tunisia in the 2024 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations Day 1
Club | Season | League | League Cup [a] | FA Cup [b] | Continental [c] | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Millwall Lionesses | 2015 | FA WSL 2 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 23 | 5 | |
2016 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 17 | 4 | |||
Total | 31 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 9 | ||
Watford | 2017 | FA WSL 2 | 9 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 3 | ||
2017–18 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | |||
Total | 15 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | ||
Liverpool | 2017–18 | FA WSL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |
2018–19 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 18 | 5 | |||
Total | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 5 | ||
Career total | 67 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 17 |
England U20s
Nigeria
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