Oluwafemi Junior Ajayi (born 29 January 1996), commonly known as Junior Ajayi, is a Nigerian professional

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who plays as a striker for Egyptian Premier League club

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. He was selected by

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for their 18-man squad for the

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, after helping them qualifying to

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with his decisive goals. With Nigeria, he won the Olympic bronze medal. Junior Ajayi helped Egyptian giants Al Ahly to secure 2 CAF Champion Leagues, 2019-20 and

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. However, following the arrival of

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and Luis Miquissone, he was never selected by

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for matches and demanded Al Ahly to terminate his contract. He eventually found himself in Libyan side Al Nasr-Benghazi. On July 30 2022, Junior Ajayi returned to Egypt by signing for Alexandria based

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Club career

CS Sfaxien

Junior Ajayi ELFnan joined Tunisian Sfaxien club in September 2015, he participated in 28 matches in the Tunisian league with a rate of 2388 minutes, scored 10 goals and made seven goals and was punished twice with the yellow card, wearing the number 11 with Tunisian Sfaxien and the same number with the Nigeria Olympic team.

Al Ahly SC

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has officially signed a contract with him during the summer transfer period to be the second player to join the red team from

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after

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, for $2,500,000, he scored four goals in ten matches.

Al Nasr-Benghazi

Following the termination of Junior Ajayi’s contract by

Junior Ajayi became a free agent and signed for Libyan side Al Nasr Benghazi on a free transfer.

Smouha SC

Egypt’s Alexandria based

secured the signing of Junior Ajayi on a 3 year contract, becoming the second Egyptian club for the Nigerian striker to play at.

Honours

Al Ahly

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: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 *

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: 2016–17, 2019–20 *

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: 2019–20,

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Nigeria

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Bronze Medal:

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ajayi, Junior Living people Nigerian men's footballers Nigeria men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Shooting Stars S.C. players CS Sfaxien players Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Nigeria Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria Olympic medalists in football Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players Al Ahly SC players Expatriate men's footballers in Egypt Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt Egyptian Premier League players 1996 births African Games bronze medalists for Nigeria African Games medalists in football Competitors at the 2015 African Games Footballers from Lagos