Thomas Reis sat Paul Onuachu down for a private talk before Trabzonspor hosted Gaziantep FK at Papara Park on Sunday 1 November 2026, Fotomaç reported on Saturday. In the paper's Turkish, translated, the coach told him: “I know your quality and I trust you a lot. Now is the perfect time to show us what you can do.”
Onuachu has scored three times this season and went off early in the Conference League opener at KuPS. He still arrives as the joint winner of the 2025/26 Süper Lig Golden Boot. Here is what is on the record.
| Detail | Fact |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ebere Paul Onuachu |
| Born | 28 May 1994, Owerri, Imo State (aged 32) |
| Height and position | 2.01 metres, striker |
| Club and contract | Trabzonspor, until June 2028 |
| 2025/26 league record | 22 goals in 30 games, joint top scorer |
| Nigeria | 33 caps, 5 goals (as of 10 June 2026) |
| Reported salary | Guaranteed €2 million a season, club filing of July 2025 |
| Net worth | No reliable published figure |
How old is Paul Onuachu?
He is 32. Onuachu was born on 28 May 1994 in Owerri, and both Wikipedia and FotMob give that date. At 2.01 metres, or 6ft 7in, he is among the tallest strikers in Europe.
Paul Onuachu net worth and salary
No reliable net worth figure exists.
No bank, club or financial title has published one for Onuachu. Sites that print one give no method, so the $5 million figure for 2024 once carried here is gone. A valuation is not wealth, but it can be checked: FotMob lists his market value at €2.3 million, against a peak of €18 million on 31 March 2022.
On pay there is a real document, so we start there. Trabzonspor's statement of 4 July 2025, republished by Hürriyet, set a fee of €5.67 million to Southampton in four instalments, a contract of three years plus an option season, a guaranteed €2 million per season and a 20 per cent sell-on share for Southampton if he leaves. Spread over 52 weeks that is roughly €38,500 a week, our own arithmetic and not a published figure.
Estimates differ. SalaryLeaks, updated on 5 September 2026, shows €48,000 a week and €2.5 million a year plus €750,000 in bonuses, though it does not mark the figure as verified. Estimate only. The €55,769 a week quoted here before matches no disclosure we could find; the club's filing for his 2023 loan showed a guaranteed €1,742,500 for the season.
Does Paul Onuachu have a wife?
Yes, per Nigerian press. Soccernet reported on 20 June 2022 that he had married a Ghanaian partner in a Lagos ceremony attended by Super Eagles team-mates, and noted that he had shared pre-wedding photos on his own Instagram account.
On children, no public record.
Onuachu has said nothing publicly that we can cite on his family beyond the wedding, so we add nothing. Earlier lines here on a girlfriend and children are gone.
From Midtjylland to Trabzonspor
He spent 2012 to 2019 at FC Midtjylland, scoring 74 goals in 181 games and winning the Danish Superliga in 2015 and 2018, with a loan at Vejle Boldklub in between that brought five goals in 13 league games. Racing Genk signed him in August 2019. A fresh start. In 2020/21 he scored 33 league goals, took the Belgian Golden Shoe and the Ebony Shoe, and won the Belgian Cup.
Southampton agreed a three-and-a-half-year deal on 1 February 2023. Hard going. He managed four goals in 40 games, the first arriving only on 19 January 2025 in a 3-2 defeat by Nottingham Forest, almost two years after he joined, with the 2023/24 season spent on loan in Turkey.
Trabzonspor was the cure.
On loan in 2023/24 he scored 17 goals in 25 games, including a hat-trick against Gaziantep on 28 April 2024. The move became permanent on 30 June 2025.
The 2025/26 goal streak and the Super Eagles
Last season was his best.
Onuachu scored in 10 consecutive matches across all competitions, 12 goals in all, until a 1-0 win over Eyüpspor in March 2026 broke the run, according to AllAfrica. In the league he scored in eight straight games, the first Trabzonspor player to do so since Burak Yılmaz in 2011, AllNigeriaSoccer noted.
He finished with 22 league goals in 30 games, level with Eldor Shomurodov of Istanbul Basaksehir. NTV noted he was the sixth Trabzonspor player to win the scoring title and the third foreigner after Şota Arveladze and Alexander Sörloth. The last league goal came on 4 April in the 2-1 home win over Galatasaray, whose Victor Osimhen scored 15 in 22 as the champions, and then nothing for six games. A dry spell.
Then Antalya. A trophy.
On 22 May 2026 he scored both goals in the 2-1 Turkish Cup final win over Konyaspor, Trabzonspor's record tenth cup.
For Nigeria he debuted on 26 March 2019 in a friendly against Egypt in Asaba, scoring within ten seconds. He was in the squad that beat Egypt on penalties for AFCON 2025 bronze, scored against Uganda there on 30 December 2025, and converted a penalty in the 2-2 draw with Poland in Warsaw on 3 June 2026. Our Super Eagles news page follows the squad, and Eric Chelle's pay is covered separately.
Turkey now has two Nigerian forwards near the top of the scoring charts, as Osimhen's brace in the Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe derby showed. Gaziantep is Onuachu's chance to restart a season of three goals.
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