Riyadh, a Saudi Women's Cup semi-final. Asisat Oshoala scored a hat-trick as Al Hilal beat Qadsiah 5-1, taking her to 17 goals and six assists in all competitions that season by Foot Africa's count. That settles where she plays now, but what she earns there has never been published.
| At a glance | |
|---|---|
| Current club | Al Hilal, Saudi Women's Premier League |
| Since | September 2025, transferred from Bay FC on 2 September |
| Contract | Two-year deal signed in September 2025, per Al Jazeera |
| Salary | Not published by Al Hilal, Bay FC or any previous club |
| Known fee | About €150,000 ($162,000) from Barcelona to Bay FC in January 2024, as reported; Al Hilal fee not disclosed |
| Previous clubs | Liverpool, Arsenal, Dalian Quanjian, Barcelona, Bay FC |
Websites that quote her weekly wage to the last naira are guessing. No club she has played for, and no league, has ever released the figure.
Oshoala's pay, club by club
Money figures appear below only where a named outlet reported them.
| Club | Years | What has been reported |
|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 2015 | Salary not disclosed |
| Arsenal | 2016 to 2017 | Salary not disclosed |
| Dalian Quanjian | 2017 to 2019 | Salary not disclosed |
| Barcelona | 2019 to 2024 | Salary not disclosed; outgoing fee of about €150,000 ($162,000) reported by SPORT |
| Bay FC | 2024 to 2025 | Salary not disclosed; deal ran through 2026 with a 2027 option |
| Al Hilal | 2025 to date | Two-year deal; terms and salary not disclosed |
The Barcelona fee is the only hard number in her career, and even that came from a Spanish newspaper in January 2024 rather than from either club. China? Goal's 2021 look at the Chinese Women's Super League gave no figure for her. Older claims of a fixed weekly wage at Barcelona, or a set monthly sum in China, have no traceable source. We have removed them.
What can be said about Barcelona is the floor. Spain's first collective agreement for women's top-flight players, signed in February 2020, set a minimum of €16,000 a year. A star forward at the European champions earned well above it. How far above? Unknown.
The NWSL years at Bay FC
She left Barcelona in early 2024 with 107 goals in 149 appearances and two Champions League titles. “I know it's a big change. I understand the challenge that I have ahead of me,” she said on arrival in California.
League rules shaped the money around her move. The NWSL doubled its salary cap from $1.375 million to $2.75 million for 2024 while starting to phase out allocation money, and that cap covers an entire squad. In August 2024 the league and its players' union agreed a new collective bargaining agreement that lifted the cap to $3.3 million for 2025 and the minimum salary from $37,856 to $48,500.
Her own line? Blank.
On Spotrac's 2024 Bay FC page the salary column next to her name shows only a dash, because a player's pay cannot be disclosed without the written consent of the NWSL Players Association.
On the pitch she earned her keep. She scored the first goal in Bay FC history, against Angel City on 17 March 2024, added seven more that season and got the winner in the club's first play-off match. Sporting director Matt Potter called her “a world-class player and an even better person.”
Al Hilal and what is known now
Pulse Sports, Legit.ng and international outlets all covered the September 2025 switch to Riyadh, where she joined fellow Nigerians Ashleigh Plumptre and Francisca Ordega. Legit.ng called it a big-money move in its headline. Its report contains no figure. Bay FC said the terms were not disclosed. Silence again.
So any “salary at Al Hilal” quoted elsewhere is an estimate without a source.
Converting to naira
Because her own wages are private, the only honest naira sums are the published reference points around her. We use the official market rate of ₦1,328.17 to the dollar reported by Vanguard on 2 October 2026; the parallel market was selling at up to ₦1,390.
| Published figure | US dollars | Naira (at ₦1,328.17) |
|---|---|---|
| Reported Barcelona to Bay FC fee | $162,000 | about ₦215.2 million |
| NWSL minimum salary, 2024 | $37,856 | about ₦50.3 million |
| NWSL minimum salary, 2025 | $48,500 | about ₦64.4 million |
| Presidential reward per Falcon, WAFCON 2024 | $100,000 | about ₦132.8 million |
The fee went to Barcelona, not to her.
Our view: the gap African women still play across
Start with prize money. CAF doubled the WAFCON winners' purse to $2 million for the 2026 edition in Morocco, while the men's AFCON champions in Morocco a few months earlier collected $10 million.
The biggest single payday many Super Falcons have seen came from government, not club or confederation. After the 2024 WAFCON title in Rabat, President Tinubu gave each player $100,000, a three-bedroom apartment and the OON, and the Governors' Forum added ₦10 million each. Generous. But a one-off reward is not a wage, and plenty of NWFL players at home will never see a contract worth that over a full career, which is exactly why Oshoala's route through Liverpool, Arsenal, China, Spain, America and now Saudi Arabia matters so much to the younger players watching her.
The next step, for the NFF and for clubs, is making the numbers public enough that her successors can negotiate with facts rather than rumours. Her full story is in our Asisat Oshoala biography, and the squad comparison in our look at the highest-paid Super Falcons player.
This article was most recently revised and updated 7 hours ago
