Shehu Usman Abdullahi (born 12 March 1993) is a Nigerian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

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and defender.

Club career

Qadsia SC

In July 2014, Abdullahi moved from

Kano Pillars Kano Pillars Football Club is a Nigerian professional football club based in Kano, North Western part of Nigeria. They play in the lower division in Nigerian football, the Nigeria National League. Their home stadium is Sani Abacha Stadium. Kano ...

Kuwait Premier League The Kuwait Premier League (), known as STC Premier League due to sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Kuwait football pyramid system. Formed in 1961, Al-Arabi, Qadsia and Kuwait both hold the best record in the competition, having won ...

side

Qadsia SC ) The Royal ( ar, الملكي) The Yellow Castle ( ar, القلعة الصفراء) , founded = as ''Al-Jazira'' , ground = Mohammed Al-Hamad Stadium Hawalli , capacity = 26,000 , chairman = Khaled Fahad Al Sabah , manager = Boris ...

in a deal worth $480,000, of which Abdullahi received $330,000 and Kano Pillars $150,000.

União da Madeira

On 6 June 2015, Shehu joined newly promoted

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...

side

C.F. União Clube de Futebol União, commonly known as União or União da Madeira, was a Portuguese association football, football club based in Funchal, Madeira, notable for its six appearances in the Portuguese top-flight Primeira Liga, between the 1989� ...

on a two-year deal.

Anorthosis Famagusta

On 2 September 2016, Shehu joined Cypriot side

Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis Famagusta ( el, Ανόρθωση Αμμοχώστου, translit=Anorthosi Ammochostou), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Anorthosis Famagusta multi-sport club fou ...

on a two-year deal worth for the 20% of the player re-sale fee in other European club.

Bursaspor

On 24 January 2018, Shehu signed for two and a half years Turkish side

Bursaspor Bursaspor Kulübü Derneği (), commonly known as Bursaspor, is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Bursa. Formed in 1963, the club colours are green and white, with home kits usually featuring both colours in a striped pattern. In th ...

for an undisclosed fee.

Omonia

On 19 September 2020, Shehu signed for the

Cyprus First Division The Cypriot First Division ( el, Πρωτάθλημα Α΄ Κατηγορίας) is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Since February 2016, it is sponsored by Cyta and is thus officially ...

side Omonia.

Levski Sofia

On 16 September 2022, Shehu signed with

Bulgarian First League The First Professional Football League ( bg, Първа професионална футболна лига, Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for spon ...

club

Levski Sofia Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 b ...

until the end of the 2022–23 season.

International career

In January 2014, coach

Stephen Keshi Stephen Okechukwu Keshi (23 January 1962 – 7 June 2016) was a Nigerian football player and manager. During his playing career, Keshi played as a defender and earned 60 caps for the Nigeria national team, making him the nation's second-most ...

, invited him to be included in the Nigeria 23-man team for the 2014 African Nations Championship. Shehu earned his first cap on 11 January 2014, in the 1:2 loss against

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

, appearing as a substitute. He helped Nigeria defeat

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

for a third-place finish by a goal to nil. He was included in the Nigeria 35-man provisional team for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. In May 2018 he was named in the Nigeria preliminary 30-man team for the

2018 FIFA World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...

, in Russia.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club

Qadsia *

Kuwait Emir Cup The Kuwait Amir/Emir Cup ( ar, كأس أمير الكويت) is a Kuwaiti football competition created in 1962. The Emir Cup, is the last football competition held in the Kuwaiti football season. It is considered the most valuable cup. Al Arabi ...

: 2014–15 *

Kuwait Super Cup The Kuwait Super Cup ( ar, كأس السوبر الكويتي) is an annual one-match association football competition in Kuwait organised by Kuwait Football Association (KFA). This competition serves as the season opener and is played between the ...

: 2014 *

AFC Cup The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying s ...

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Omonia *

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division ( el, Πρωτάθλημα Α΄ Κατηγορίας) is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Since February 2016, it is sponsored by Cyta and is thus officially ...

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

Cypriot Cup The Cypriot Cup () is the main cup competition in Cypriot football, run by the Cyprus Football Association (CFA). It began in 1934, the same season with the Cypriot Championship. It is the second most important competition for Cypriot club team ...

: 2021–22 *

Cypriot Super Cup The Cypriot Super Cup is a Cypriot football trophy, contested in an annual match between the previous season's Cypriot First Division champions, and the Cypriot Cup winners. The match is contested at the beginning of the football season, and is us ...

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International

Nigeria U23 *

African Games The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union (AU) with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (AN ...

bronze medal:

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Nigeria Olympic team *

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

bronze medal:

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abdullahi, Shehu 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Kano People from Sokoto Nigerian footballers Nigeria international footballers 2014 African Nations Championship players C.F. União players Primeira Liga players Association football midfielders Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Nigeria Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria Olympic medalists in football Nigerian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Kuwait Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Expatriate footballers in Portugal Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate footballers in Turkey Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Qadsia SC players Kano Pillars F.C. players Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. players Cypriot First Division players 2018 FIFA World Cup players Bursaspor footballers Süper Lig players Nigeria Professional Football League players 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players AFC Cup winning players Kuwait Premier League players Nigeria under-20 international footballers AC Omonia players Nigeria A' international footballers