Tochukwu Oluehi (born 2 May 1987) is a Nigerian

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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for

Hakkarigücü Spor Hakkârigücü is a women's football club founded in 1989 and based in Hakkâri, eastern Turkey. The club president is Kıymet Kurt, and the manager is Cemile Timur. The team play their home matches in the Merzan Stadium. History The women ...

, and the Nigeria women's national team.

Club career

Oluehi played for

Bobruichanka Bobruisk Bobruichanka Bobruisk is a Belarusian women's football club from Bobruisk. The club is one of the most successful women's team in Belarus, as it won the Belarusian Premier League several times. History The team has won eight championships in a r ...

in the

2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 13th edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held at Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon, Portugal. German team VfL Wolfsburg won the title over Swedish club Tyre ...

. In April 2016, Oluehi and compatriot Cecilia Nku left

Rivers Angels Rivers Angels F.C. (formerly Larry Angels F.C.) is a Nigerian football club based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. They play in the Nigeria Women Premier League, the top flight division in the female soccer league system. History The club wa ...

to join Norwegian

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in 1 ...

club

Medkila IL Medkila IL is a football team from Harstad in North Norway, most notable for its women's football team which is playing in the 1. divisjon, the second tier of Norwegian women's football. Medkila first came to prominence after winning the 2003 N ...

. She played 21 games for Medkila, before returned to Rivers Angels and is since 2017 the

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, of the Angels. In September 2022, she moved to Turkey and joined

to play in the 2022–23 Super League.

International career

She also played three times an

FIFA Women's World Cup The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA), the sport's international governing bo ...

and one time the

Summer Olympic Games 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 ...

for the

Nigeria women's national football team The Nigeria national women's football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, represents Nigeria in international women's football and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation. The team is by far Africa's most successful international women ...

. On 16 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Nigerian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.

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* * 1987 births Living people Nigerian women's footballers Nigeria women's international footballers 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Olympic footballers for Nigeria Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's association football goalkeepers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Toppserien players Medkila IL (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Expatriate women's footballers in Belarus Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Bayelsa Queens F.C. players Sunshine Queens F.C. players Rivers Angels F.C. players Bobruichanka Bobruisk players Igbo sportspeople Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey Turkish Women's Football Super League players Hakkarigücü Spor players 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Nigeria-women-footy-bio-stub