Ade Akinbiyi
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adeola Oluwatoyin Akinbiyi | ||
| Date of birth | 10 October 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Hackney, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Senrab | |||
| 1991–1993 | Norwich City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1997 | Norwich City | 49 | (3) |
| 1994 | → Hereford United (loan) | 4 | (2) |
| 1994 | → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 7 | (4) |
| 1997–1998 | Gillingham | 63 | (28) |
| 1998–1999 | Bristol City | 47 | (21) |
| 1999–2000 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 37 | (16) |
| 2000–2002 | Leicester City | 58 | (11) |
| 2002–2003 | Crystal Palace | 24 | (3) |
| 2003 | → Stoke City (loan) | 4 | (2) |
| 2003–2005 | Stoke City | 59 | (17) |
| 2005–2006 | Burnley | 39 | (16) |
| 2006–2007 | Sheffield United | 18 | (3) |
| 2007–2009 | Burnley | 70 | (10) |
| 2009 | Houston Dynamo | 14 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Notts County | 10 | (0) |
| 2013–2015 | Colwyn Bay | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 505 | (136) | |
| National team | |||
| 1999 | Nigeria | 1 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Adeola Oluwatoyin "Ade" Akinbiyi (born 10 October 1974) is a former Nigerian footballer who played as a forward.
Akinbiyi has had a much-travelled career with many different clubs with transfer fees totalling more than £11.5 million during his career, including being Leicester City's record signing (at £5.3 million).
Born in England, Akinbiyi qualifies to play for the Nigeria national football team through his parents, and earned one cap for Nigeria.
Akinbiyi began his career as a trainee at Norwich City, where he worked his way up into the first team in 1992. He made his début on 3 November 1993 as a substitute against German giants Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup. The match ended 1–1, meaning that Norwich won the second round tie 3–2 on aggregate and went on to face Inter Milan, who eliminated them. He was loaned to Hereford United and Brighton & Hove Albion before completing a £250,000 move to Gillingham in 1997. He scored 29 goals in 67 league and cup games for the Gills and was quickly transferred to newly promoted Division One side Bristol City for £1.2m.
Akinbiyi's stock continued to rise and after scoring 21 goals for Bristol City in the 1998–99 season, Wolverhampton Wanderers paid a club record £3.5million for him in September 1999 in an attempt to replace Robbie Keane. He played only one season at Molineux, finishing as the club's top goalscorer with 16 goals but Wolves just missed out on a playoff place.
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