Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 8 March 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Makurdi, Nigeria | ||
Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Jamshedpur | ||
Number | 6 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2014 | Lobi Stars | ||
2014–2016 | Sunshine Stars | 63 | (3) |
2017 | Ifeanyi Ubah | 29 | (0) |
2017 | Kano Pillars | 0 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 57 | (3) |
2020 | Tobol | 0 | (0) |
2020–2021 | Jamshedpur | 20 | (4) |
2021–2022 | NK Solin | 1 | (0) |
2022–2023 | Queen's Park | 21 | (3) |
2023–2024 | Quang Nam | 19 | (2) |
2024– | Jamshedpur | 6 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2015–2018 | Nigeria | 13 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:27, 26 October 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 July 2019 |
Stephen Eze (born 8 March 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Indian Super League club Jamshedpur.
He has also represented the Nigeria national team, winning 13 caps.
Eze started his professional career at Lobi Stars. He played regularly during two seasons, before moving to Sunshine Stars in September 2014. [1]
After two seasons with Sunshine, Eze joined Ifeanyi Ubah where he won Nigeria Super Cup in early 2017. On 9 November 2017, Eze joined Kano Pillars. [2]
Two months later, on 18 January 2018, Eze joined Bulgarian First League club Lokomotiv Plovdiv, signing a two-year contract. [3] On 18 February, he made his league debut for Lokomotiv, coming on as a substitute for Asen Georgiev against Pirin Blagoevgrad. [4] On 16 April 2019, Eze scored his first goal for Lokomotiv in a Bulgarian Cup match against Septemvri Sofia, which Lokomotiv won 4–0. [5]
On 21 January 2020, Eze joined Kazakhstan Premier League club FC Tobol. [6] An injury sustained in a pre-season friendly match meant he never got to feature in an official game for the team, as he had to undergo an operation in Turkey. Eze parted ways with Tobol in July 2020. [7]
On 10 September 2020, Eze joined Indian Super League side Jamshedpur. [8] After his one year contract was completed, on 1 July 2021, Eze left Jamshedpur FC and became a free agent.[ citation needed ]
On 17 February 2022, Eze joined Croatian First League club NK Solin. He made his debut coming off the bench in a 3-0 loss against NK Dugopolje. [9]
After a year with Croatian club NK Solin, Eze signed for Scottish club Queen's Park in August 2022. [10] In June 2023, Stephen Eze departed the club by mutual consent [11]
Eze was invited to play for the Nigeria national team. He was named in the Super Eagles' 23-man A' team which played in the Caf CHAN 2016, led by coach Sunday Oliseh. Eze played all the group games, but the team was eliminated in the first round. His performances led to an invitation to the full Nigeria team. He was also in the A' team in the 2016 African Nations Championship where results improved, Nigeria progressing to the final before losing to the hosts Morocco. [12] [13]
In May 2018 he was named in the preliminary 30-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia; [14] however, he did not make the final 23. [15]
As of 22 September 2019 [update]
Club | League | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Lokomotiv Plovdiv | First League | 2017–18 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 0 | ||
2018–19 | 25 | 0 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 31 | 1 | ||||
2019–20 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 [a] | 0 | 15 | 1 | ||
Career statistics | 48 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 2 |
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