Faith Friday Obilor
 |
 Obilor playing for RoPS against Asteras Triplois, 17 July 2014 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 5 March 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Aba, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | PDRM | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2010 | Babanawa | ||
| 2010–2011 | AmaZulu | 0 | (0) |
| 2011 | PS Kemi | 21 | (0) |
| 2012–2015 | RoPS | 112 | (5) |
| 2012 | → Inter Turku (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2016 | Inter Turku | 31 | (0) |
| 2017–2019 | HJK | 76 | (3) |
| 2020 | Sheriff Tiraspol | 17 | (0) |
| 2021 | Taraz | 24 | (2) |
| 2022–2023 | Aksu | 46 | (0) |
| 2024- | PDRM | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 May 2024 | |||
Faith Friday Obilor (born 5 March 1991) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Malaysian Football League club PDRM .[1][2]
Career
[edit]Club
[edit]In 2011, he came from Nigeria to join PS Kemi in Finnish 2nd league Ykkönen. He changed clubs after the first season as PS Kemi was relegated and continued to play in Ykkönen another year. After playing 7 matches with FC Inter, Obilor joined RoPS and formed a defensive partnership with fellow Nigerian Nduka Alison, and RoPS secured a promotion to Veikkausliiga at the end of the 2012 season.
On 29 November 2016, Obilor signed a two-year contract with HJK.[3]
Honours
[edit]- RoPS
- Ykkönen (1): 2012
- Finnish Cup (1): 2013
HJK
- Veikkausliiga: 2017, 2018
- Finnish Cup: 2017
Individual
- Veikkausliiga Defender of the Year: 2015,[4] 2018
- Veikkausliiga Team of the Year: 2018
Career statistics
[edit]- As of 3 June 2024.
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| AmaZulu | 2010–11 | South African Premier Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| PS Kemi | 2011 | Ykkönen | 21 | 0 | – | – | – | 21 | 0 | |||
| RoPS | 2012 | Ykkönen | 20 | 1 | – | – | – | 20 | 1 | |||
| 2013 | Veikkausliiga | 31 | 1 | 5 | 1 | – | 6[b] | 0 | 42 | 1 | ||
| 2014 | Veikkausliiga | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 4[b] | 0 | 39 | 1 | |
| 2015 | Veikkausliiga | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 7[b] | 1 | 38 | 3 | ||
| Total | 112 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 139 | 7 | ||
| Inter Turku (loan) | 2012 | Veikkausliiga | 7 | 0 | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | |||
| Inter Turku | 2016 | Veikkausliiga | 33 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 5[b] | 0 | 41 | 0 | |
| HJK | 2017 | Veikkausliiga | 24 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | – | 35 | 2 | |
| 2018 | Veikkausliiga | 29 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 6[d] | 0 | – | 43 | 2 | ||
| 2019 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5[d] | 0 | – | 33 | 0 | ||
| Total | 76 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 14 | 0 | – | – | 111 | 4 | ||
| Sheriff Tiraspol | 2020–21 | Moldovan Super Liga | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3[d] | 0 | – | 21 | 0 | |
| Taraz | 2021 | Kazakhstan Premier League | 24 | 2 | 6 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 2 | ||
| Aksu | 2022 | Kazakhstan Premier League | 22 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 0 | ||
| 2023 | Kazakhstan Premier League | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 0 | |||
| Total | 46 | 0 | 7 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 53 | 0 | ||
| PDRM | 2024–25 | Malaysia Super League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 339 | 10 | 46 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 426 | 13 | ||
- ^ Includes Suomen Cup, Moldovan Cup, Kazakhstan Cup
- ^ a b c d Includes Finnish League Cup
- ^ a b Includes UEFA Europa League
- ^ a b c Includes UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League
References
[edit]- ^ Faith Friday Obilor at Soccerway
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "HJK sopimukseen Obilorin kanssa". hjk.fi (in Finnish). HJK. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- ^ Kai (30 October 2015). "Tässä ovat Captain's Ball -futisgaalan kaikki palkitut tahot". SuomiFutis (in Finnish). Retrieved 2 January 2023.
Categories:
- 1991 births
- Living people
- People from Aba, Nigeria
- Nigerian men's footballers
- Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
- Babanawa F.C. players
- AmaZulu F.C. players
- FC Inter Turku players
- Rovaniemen Palloseura players
- Kemi City F.C. players
- Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players
- FC Sheriff Tiraspol players
- FC Taraz players
- Veikkausliiga players
- Ykkönen players
- Moldovan Super Liga players
- Kazakhstan Premier League players
- Polis Diraja Malaysia FC players
- Malaysia Super League players
- Men's association football defenders
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova
- Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
- Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
- Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova
- Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan