Celestine Babayaro

Celestine Babayaro is a Nigerian footballer, born on 29 August 1978 in Kaduna, Nigeria. Babayaro plays as a left-back. Babayaro has scored 17 goals in 387 games for club and country and has won 8 trophies, including 1 league title.

Babayaro's career stats

GamesGoals
Clubs, all competitions35217
Nigeria350
Total38717

Goals per game: 0.04.

Babayaro's trophies and awards

  • Trophies with club and country: 8
  • League titles: 1
  • Domestic cups: 3
  • Other international club trophies: 2
  • Individual awards: 3

Anderlecht

  • Belgian First Division: 1 (1994–95)
  • Belgian Super Cup: 1 (1995)

Chelsea

  • FA Cup: 1 (1999–2000)
  • FA Charity Shield: 1 (2000)
  • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1 (1997–98)
  • UEFA Super Cup: 1 (1998)

Nigeria U17

  • FIFA U-17 World Championship: 1 (1993)

Nigeria U23

  • Olympic Gold Medal: 1 (1996)

Individual

  • Belgian Young Professional Footballer of the Year: 2 (1994–95, 1995–96)
  • Ebony Shoe: 1 (1996)

Clubs

League games and goals at each club.

  1. 1994–1997: Anderlecht, 76 games, 8 goals
  2. 1997–2005: Chelsea, 132 games, 5 goals
  3. 2005–2008: Newcastle United, 47 games, 0 goals
  4. 2008: LA Galaxy, 0 games, 0 goals

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