Rinsola Babajide

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Rinsola Babajide
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Babajide with Liverpool in 2020
Personal information
Full name Omorinsola Omowunmi Ajike Babajide [1]
Date of birth (1998-06-17) 17 June 1998 (age 27)
Place of birth London, England [2]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Roma
Number 30
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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– 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 Serie A Femminile club 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]

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She previously played for Liverpool, Millwall Lionesses, Watford and Brighton & Hove Albion.

Club career

Crystal Palace

Rinsola Babajide began her career at Crystal Palace and played for the club during the 2014–15 season. [3] She made nine appearances and scored twice and made a further two appearances for the reserve team.

She made her senior debut for the club during the opening game of the season, 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]

Millwall Lionesses

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]

Watford

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]

Liverpool

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]

Brighton & Hove Albion

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]

Real Betis (loan) and UDG Tenerife

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]

AS Roma

She joined AS Roma on 14 July 2025.

International career

England

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]

Nigeria

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

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 11 May 2019
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueLeague Cup [a] FA Cup [b] Continental [c] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Millwall Lionesses 2015 FA WSL 2 1735210—235
2016 1441020—174
Total317623000409
Watford 2017 FA WSL 2 93—00—93
2017–18 604000—100
Total153400000193
Liverpool 2017–18 FA WSL 400000—40
2018–19 1741100—185
Total214110000225
Career total671411330008117

Honours

England U20s

Nigeria

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 "List of Players – England" (PDF). FIFA. 24 September 2016. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Rinsola Babajide on IWD and fighting racism". Olympics.
  3. 1 2 3 "Babajide joins Albion on loan". www.brightonandhovealbion.com. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Nigeria call up former England starlet Rinsola Babajide for 2024 Olympics qualifiers". espn.co.uk. 14 October 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Aug 24, Denham United Ladies 0–2 Crystal Palace Ladies". Full Time The FA.
  6. ↑ "10 Oct, Cambridge United Ladies 3–3 Crystal Palace Ladies". Full Time The FA. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  7. ↑ Aloia, Andrew; Garry, Tom (18 March 2015). "Women's Super League Two 2015 club-by-club season preview". BBC . Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  8. ↑ Christopher-Browne, Philippa (20 March 2015). "BABAJIDE: IT WAS A GOOD FIRST GAME". millwall.fawsl.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  9. ↑ Matthews, Anthony (10 February 2017). "Watford Ladies announce signing of six players ahead of Spring Series opener at Aston Villa". Watford Observer . Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Kingsley, Igho (27 February 2017). "Babajide Scores First Competitive Goal For Watford Before Linking Up With England Squad". allnigeriasoccer.com. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  11. ↑ "Ladies sign England U20 international Babajide". a Liverpool Football Club. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  12. ↑ "Rinsola Babajide: Liverpool Ladies sign England U20 striker from Watford Ladies". BBC Sport. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  13. ↑ "Liverpool's relegated women underfunded and in disarray". The Guardian. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  14. ↑ "Babajide requests to leave Liverpool". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  15. ↑ "I understand Liverpool forward Rinsola Babajide is now training with the U21s". Twitter. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  16. ↑ "Rinsola Babajide apuntala el ataque de la UDG Tenerife" (in Spanish). UD Granadilla Tenerife. 3 July 2023. Archived from the original on 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  17. ↑ "ENGLAND WIN BRONZE MEDAL AT FIFA U20 WOMEN'S WORLD CUP". The FA. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  18. ↑ FULL MATCH | England vs England | Lionesses Training Match . Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  19. ↑ Veevers, Nicholas (9 September 2020). "With eight new faces in the England squad, find out a bit more about each of them". The Football Association.
  20. ↑ "Photo confirmation : Liverpool's Nigeria-eligible winger joins Real Betis Feminas".
  21. ↑ "Ajibade scores stunner to rescue 1-1 draw for Super Falcons against Ethiopia". Vanguard. 25 October 2023.
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