Christy Onyenaturuchi Ucheibe (born 25 December 2000) is a Nigerian professional

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who plays as a

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or a

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for Portuguese club Benfica.

Club career

Ucheibe played for

Nasarawa Amazons Nasarawa Amazons F.C. is a women's association football club based in Lafia in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The club is associated with the men's football club Nasarawa United. The home jersey is green, while the away jersey is white with a diagonal s ...

in the 2018 season. On 14 February 2020, Ucheibe signed for Portuguese club Benfica on a -year deal.

International career

Ucheibe was selected for the

2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the fourth edition of the youth association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who alm ...

and the

2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its i ...

. In the last tournament she played three matches from the start. Ucheibe was called up to the Nigeria squad for the

2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations The 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (, ), (also referred to as WAFCON 2022) officially known as the 2022 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes, was the 14th edition of the biennial African international women's ...

. On 16 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Nigerian squad for the

FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by women's national teams and organised by FIFA. The tournament, which took place from 2 ...

. Ucheibe was called up to the Nigeria squad for the

2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

Honours

Benfica *

Campeonato Nacional Feminino The Campeonato Nacional Feminino (English: Women's National Championship), also known as Liga BPI for sponsorship reasons, is the top-tier women's association football league in Portugal and part of the various women's football competitions in ...

: 2020–21, 2021-22,

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, 2023–24, 2024–25 *

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; ) is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...

: 2023–24 *

Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual club football competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the top two tiers of Portuguese football – the ...

: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25 * Supertaça de Portugal: 2022, 2023 Individual
EaglesTracker Defender of the Season
2023-24

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* 2000 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Nigerian women's footballers 21st-century Nigerian sportswomen Campeonato Nacional Feminino players S.L. Benfica (women) footballers Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate women's footballers in Portugal Nasarawa Amazons F.C. players Nigeria women's international footballers 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Nigeria {{Nigeria-women-footy-bio-stub