Francisca Ordega has no verified net worth. No reliable, dated source publishes a figure, and her salary at Al Ittihad was never disclosed. The Nigerian forward is 33. She signed for the Saudi club in January 2025 and went to the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) with the Super Falcons.

This page replaces our 2023 profile. The old $1 million to $5 million estimate is gone.

Francisca Ordega at a glance

Net worth and salary

Our earlier version quoted a range from unnamed online sources. Nothing checkable stands behind it. It is gone.

The Al Ittihad announcement carried no financial terms. We found no published salary, endorsement figure or business accounts for her anywhere.

Where she plays in 2026

Ordega joined Al Ittihad Women from CSKA Moscow, where she had spent four seasons. The club said it was signing the Nigerian international for two and a half years, and in her own video message she said: “I'm happy to join this team; the team is full of dreams, and I'm excited to be here.”

Counting from January 2025, that deal would run to about mid-2027. The sources disagree. One football database lists her as a free agent, with the Al Ittihad spell ending in June 2026, yet the Nigeria squad list published on 10 July 2026 still gives Ittihad as her club, and FotMob's current Al Ittihad squad page does not list her among its 22 players either. We found no announcement of a new club, an extension or a release. Her club for 2026/27 is therefore unconfirmed.

Her 2025/26 season and WAFCON 2026

By late February 2026 she had one league goal and one league assist, and Al Ittihad sat second on 22 points from 11 games, which is 2.00 per game. The next snapshot we found shows 26 points from 14 games, third place and 1.86 per game. By our arithmetic the team took four points from three matches, a win, a defeat and a goalless draw.

Coach Justine Madugu still picked her for the 25-player WAFCON squad, as one of nine forwards. Nigeria were drawn with Malawi, Zambia and Egypt. They then lost the quarter-final 1-0 to Cameroon and dropped into the World Cup play-in in Casablanca, where South Africa won 2-1. Nigeria will miss the 2027 Women's World Cup.

FotMob credits her with 63 minutes and a yellow card against South Africa, and no minutes in the other four games. The Daily Trust match report says she featured but gives no minute, so treat the 63 as unconfirmed.

Career by club

These figures come from Wikipedia's career table, whose coverage varies by club, so treat the total as indicative. We calculated the goals per game. The seven clubs shown add up to 174 games and 45 goals, or 0.26 per game.

Moscow was her peak. The 24 goals in 62 games are the best rate on the table. Piteå, Atlético Madrid and Levante were the leanest. Bayelsa Queens, Rivers Angels, Rossiyanka and Shanghai Shengli have no comparable public figures.

Her club honours are the 2012 Nigerian Women's Cup with Rivers Angels, then the Russian Women's Cup in 2022 and 2023 and the Russian Women's Super Cup in 2024 with CSKA Moscow. With Nigeria she has won, among others, the Africa Women Cup of Nations in 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2018 and the 2021 Turkish Women's Cup. She also holds the Order of the Niger at officer level. Her cap count is not settled, because one career database credits her with 55 caps and 7 goals for Nigeria while another shows 32 matches and 3 goals, and the first of them lists only six goals in its own table.

She keeps her private life out of view, and we do not report family details we cannot source.

More Nigerians playing overseas are in our Nigerians abroad stats tracker, and the next generation is in our report on the Flamingos' world title.