Ekundayo Jaiyeoba (born 4 April 1980) is a Nigerian football player who played as a striker. He played in the

Bulgarian First League The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

for

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv (), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Stadion Lokomotiv (Plovdiv), Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park and ha ...

. As well as playing in Bulgaria, Jaiyeoba spent time on loan at Israeli side

Maccabi Herzliya Maccabi Herzliya F.C. (, ''Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Herzliya'') is an Israeli football club based in Herzliya. The club is currently in Liga Leumit and plays at the Herzliya Municipal Stadium. History A football section of the Maccabi Herzliya ...

for the second half of the 2007–08 season.

Bulgarian "A" Group

2003-04: Helped

win the Bulgarian APFG League championship with nine goals in 26 appearances. 2004: Featured for

in their UEFA Champions League second round qualifier, as they got eliminated by Belgian side

Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They pl ...

. 2004-05: Started the season with

but later joined another Premier League club

Levski Sofia PFC Levski Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 by a group of high sc ...

. Signed a three-and-a-half-year contract for €150,000. Teamed up with fellow

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

Richard Eromoigbe Richard Eromoigbe (born 26 June 1984) is a Nigerian former football midfielder. Career In January 2002 Eromoigbe signed a contract with Bulgarian club Levski Sofia and joined Cherno More Varna in a year-long loan move, alongside his compatriot ...

. 2005-06: Sidelined for six months after suffering an

Achilles tendon The Achilles tendon or heel cord, also known as the calcaneal tendon, is a tendon at the back of the lower leg, and is the thickest in the human body. It serves to attach the plantaris, gastrocnemius (calf) and soleus muscles to the calcane ...

injury in a UEFA Cup first round qualifying game against Slovenian club

NK Publikum Nogometni klub Celje (), commonly referred to as NK Celje or simply Celje (), is a professional football club from Celje, Slovenia. They play in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, the top tier of Slovenian football. Together with Maribor, they are the only ...

. 2006-07: Helped Levski Sofia to join at

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries, top-divisio ...

Group stage. 2007-08: He started the season with Levski Sofia. On 31 January 2008 he joined Israeli side

on loan until the end of the season. 2008: After playing on loan at Maccabi Herzilya, Levski sold him to

Chernomorets Chernomorets ( ) is a town on the Black Sea coast of southeastern Bulgaria. Administratively part of Sozopol Municipality, Burgas Province, Chernomorets is a popular seaside resort. Chernomorets lies some southeast of the provincial capital Bur ...

in the Bulgarian League. 2009: After several months in

Burgas Burgas (, ), sometimes transliterated as Bourgas, is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, fourth-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, an ...

, he is loaned by

Vihren Sandanski OFC Vihren () is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Sandanski, currently playing in the Second League. Sandanski's home ground is the Sandanski Stadium in Sandanski with a capacity of 6,000. Vihren Sandanski's team colours are green an ...

and later bought. 2010: In June his contract with

Vihren Vihren ( ) is the highest peak of Bulgaria's Pirin Mountains. Reaching , it is Bulgaria's second and the Balkans' third highest, after Musala and Mount Olympus. Although Vihren is deprived of lakes and streams due to the karst topography, a numb ...

expired and he left ''gladiators'' to join ambitious Etar 1924.

References

External links

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Profile at LevskiSofia.info
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jayeoba, Ekundayo 1980 births Living people Footballers from Lagos Nigerian men's footballers Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football forwards Velbazhd Kyustendil players PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv players PFC Levski Sofia players PSFC Chernomorets Burgas players OFC Vihren Sandanski players FC Etar 1924 Veliko Tarnovo players FC Strumska Slava Radomir players Maccabi Herzliya F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Israel First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Israeli Premier League players NEPA Lagos F.C. players 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen