On 23 December 2025, Chicago Stars FC paid Houston Dash $40,000 in allocation money for Michelle Alozie and gave the Super Falcons defender a contract through the 2028 NWSL season. Searches for her husband, salary and net worth end in the same place. She has a new club. She has said little about her private life. Her pay is unpublished.
| At a glance | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 April 1997 (aged 29) |
| Club | Chicago Stars FC, contract to 2028 |
| Position and number | Defender, number 5 |
| Husband | None on public record |
| Salary | Not published |
| Net worth | No verified figure |
| Degree | Molecular biology, Yale University |
| Family roots | Imo State, Nigeria |
Michelle Alozie husband and private life
There is no public record of a husband. Alozie has never said she is married or engaged.
Her name did surface in relationship gossip after a Houston Rockets game in February 2024, and Nigerian sites have run rumours since, but she has confirmed nothing and her only explanation was that she went to mark National Girls and Women in Sports Day. A rumour is not a fact. This page names nobody.
What she has shared herself is professional. She grew up in Apple Valley, California, to parents from Imo State and studied molecular biology at Yale University. While at Houston Dash she spoke about working part-time as a cancer research technician at Texas Children's Hospital. Our guide to where Super Falcons players come from sets her Imo link beside her team-mates.
Michelle Alozie salary and net worth
Her salary is not public. NWSL pay is confidential unless the players' union agrees otherwise. The contract trackers list her deal, three years to 2028 with free agency in 2029, and leave the pay column empty.
The only published benchmark is the league floor. The collective bargaining agreement reached in 2024 set the minimum NWSL salary at $48,500 for 2025, rising to $82,500 by 2030, with no limit on what an individual can earn, which makes it a floor and tells you nothing about any one player. Where Alozie sits above that line is unknown.
An older version of this page quoted a $1 million salary and a $5 million net worth. Neither had a source, so both are gone.
No verified net worth exists.
Pay in green and white is covered in our rundown of Super Falcons earnings.
From Yale to Chicago Stars FC
Alozie scored 19 goals in 49 appearances for Yale University between 2015 and 2018, until a torn anterior cruciate ligament wrecked her senior year and sent her to the University of Tennessee for a graduate season. She went undrafted in 2019. In January 2020 she signed for BIIK Kazygurt in Kazakhstan, and the coronavirus pandemic cut the stay to about three months. Houston Dash then gave her a preseason trial in 2021, a national team replacement contract and eventually a full one, and kept her for five seasons, extending her deal by two years in December 2022 after she helped the club reach the playoffs. Here are our own sums from the published league totals.
| Season | Club | League appearances | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Houston Dash | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | Houston Dash | 10 | 2 |
| 2023 | Houston Dash | 17 | 4 |
| 2024 and 2025 | Houston Dash | 44 | 1 |
| Houston total | Houston Dash | 75 | 7 |
| 2026 | Chicago Stars FC | 15 starts (not a match total) | 0 |
The 2024 and 2025 row is a subtraction: Houston's 75 league games and seven goals, minus the three seasons above it. Seven in 75 is roughly a goal every 11 matches.
In Chicago she has started 15 league games and set up one goal. Chicago sat bottom of the 16-team league with 16 points from 22 matches as of early September, the latest standing we could confirm.
Super Falcons career and the 2026 tournaments
She made her Nigeria debut in June 2021. She played every minute of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Then came 22 July 2025. Her 94th-minute strike beat South Africa 2-1 in the Women's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final in Casablanca, and Nigeria went on to win the title. Speaking during that tournament she told ESPN: “I think it's really important for people to get the eyes on African footballers.”
The 2026 edition was far harder. Played in Morocco from 26 July to 16 August, it began with a 3-2 loss to debutants Malawi. Nigeria then beat Zambia 1-0 and Egypt 6-2. Cameroon won the quarter-final 1-0. A 2-1 defeat by South Africa in the World Cup play-off ended any hope of reaching the 2027 finals, which Nigeria had never missed before.
Autumn brought a recovery. Alozie scored the opener in a 2-0 win over Comoros at Ikenne on 9 October, the first leg of a 2028 Olympic qualifier, and Nigeria won the return 5-0, as our report on the second leg explains. Morocco are next in 2027.
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