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Nigeria’s impressive AFCON 2025 campaign has been marked by a strong presence in the tournament’s performance rankings, with Ademola Lookman emerging as the competition’s highest-rated player so far, footynaija.com reports.
The Atalanta forward has been central to the Super Eagles’ perfect run to the quarter-finals, contributing directly to seven goals in three matches: scoring three times and setting up four more.
Nigeria have won all their games, scoring 12 goals and conceding four, and Lookman’s influence has been difficult to miss.
Top 10 highest-rated players at the Africa Cup of Nations. 🌍🌟#AFCON2025 pic.twitter.com/3z981dQjob
— WhoScored (@WhoScored) January 7, 2026
According to data from Whoscored, the 27-year-old leads the tournament ratings on 8.81, placing him ahead of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, who sits second on 8.13. Senegal’s Sadio Mané is third with 7.82.
Victor Osimhen is Nigeria’s next highest-ranked player in fourth place on 7.61, while Akor Adams and Wilfred Ndidi share fifth position with a rating of 7.59, meaning four Super Eagles players feature inside the top ten.
Elsewhere in the list, Ivorian winger Yan Diomande is seventh, with Riyad Mahrez, Amad Diallo and Brahim Diaz also making the top ten.
The individual recognition reflects a collective Nigerian surge that has made them one of the tournament’s most convincing sides so far.
Attention now turns to Saturday’s quarter-final against Algeria in Marrakech, where the Super Eagles will hope their standout performers can maintain their form against one of Africa’s most experienced and tactically disciplined teams.
