Folashade Florence Ijamilusi OON (born 30 May 2001) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Chinese club Liaoning Baiye and the Nigeria Women’s National Team. She scored Nigeria’s equaliser in the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations final against Morocco, which Nigeria won.
Career
Folashade Ijamilusi started playing football aged 6,[3] before eventually joining Springsoca Academy. From there, she joined Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL) club, Robo Queens, winning the Young Player of the Season award in 2019. She finished as the Top Scorer in the 2023-24 NWFL season.
On 5 February 2025, Ijamilusi joined Chinese Women’s Super League side, Liaoning Baiye. On 9 March 2025, she made her debut, grabbing an assist in a 3-0 win over defending champions, Wuhan Jianghan.
International career
Ijamilusi played for Nigeria’s youth teams at U17 and U20 level, between 2016 and 2019, featuring at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup and the 2019 All Africa Games[8] Women’s tournament which Nigeria won.
In 2019, she got her first call-up to the senior national, as coach Thomas Dennerby called up 30 home-based players in preparation for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. She didn’t make the final squad for the tournament.
On 30 October 2024, she made her national team debut, scoring a hat-trick against Algeria in a friendly.
She was called up to the Nigerian squad for the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations tournament. On 18 July 2025, she scored her first-ever goal at the tournament against Zambia, in the quarter final.
On 26 July 2025, Ijamilusi scored Nigeria’s equaliser against hosts Morocco in the final, as they overcame a 2-goal deficit to win their record-extending 10th title.
