Onome Ebi is a Nigerian football defender currently playing for FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League and the Nigerian national team.

Club career

She played for Bayelsa Queens FC in the Nigerian Women’s Championship before moving to Piteå IF and Djurgårdens IF in Sweden’s Damallsvenskan. Ebi said “I enjoyed my stay in Turkey because of the good weather. Going to Sweden was a different ball game, as the cold weather made it difficult for me to play good football. The amateur nature of the Swedish league made me launch a return to Turkey for Ataşehir Belediyespor FC in the First League.”

She then played for Turkish sides Düvenciler Lisesispor and Ataşehir Belediyespor at the First League. She made her Champions League debut in August 2012 while playing for Ataşehir Belediyespor.

She returned to the Swedish Damallsvenskan in 2013 to play for Sunnanå SK before going to Belarus to play for FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. While there, she was a member of the team that won the Belarusian Premier League, the Belarusian Women’s Cup and the Belarusian Women’s Super Cup twice.

In both club and international competitions, Ebi plays as the number five in the team due to the significance it holds for her. When she arrived at Minsk, the jersey number was already taken, so she asked for the number 55 instead.

International career

She is a member of the Nigerian national team, taking part in the 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 editions of the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

She was also a member of the Nigerian squad in the 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 editions of the African Women’s Championship, winning the tournament twice (2010 and 2014).

Honours

Club

• Turkish Women’s First Football League (2): 2011–12, 2012–13

• Belarusian Premier League (1): 2014
• Belarusian Women’s Cup (1): 2014
• Belarusian Women’s Super Cup (2): 2014, 2015

International

• African Women’s Championship (3): 2010, 2014, 2016

Fourth Place: 2012