Ahmed Musa - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding Nigerian player, who obtained 109 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Cap  Goals    Date      Venue	        Opponent       Score    Competition

  1	     5- 9-10	Calabar 	Madagascar	2-0	African Cup Qual.
  2	    10-10-10	Conakry 	Guinea  	0-1	African Cup Qual.
  3	     9- 2-11	Lagos   	Sierra Leone	2-1	
  4	    27- 3-11	Abuja   	Ethiopia	4-0	African Cup Qual.
  5   1  1  29- 3-11	Abuja   	Kenya   	3-0	
  6	 1   1- 6-11	Abuja   	Argentina	4-1	
  7	 1   5- 6-11	Addis Abeba	Ethiopia	2-2	African Cup Qual.
  8	 1   4- 9-11	Antananarivo	Madagascar	2-0	African Cup Qual.
  9	 1   6- 9-11	Dhaka   	Argentina	1-3	
 10	 1  11-10-11	Watford 	Ghana   	0-0	
 11	 1  12-11-11	Benin   	Botswana	0-0	
 12	 1  15-11-11	Kaduna  	Zambia  	2-0	
 13	 1  29- 2-12	Kigali  	Rwanda  	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 14	 1   3- 6-12	Calabar 	Namibia 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 15	 1   9- 6-12	Blantyre	Malawi  	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 16   1  2  16- 6-12	Calabar 	Rwanda  	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 17	 2   8- 9-12	Paynesville	Liberia 	2-2	African Cup Qual.
 18   1  3  13-10-12	Calabar 	Liberia 	6-1	African Cup Qual.
 19	 3   9- 1-13	Faro-Loulé	Cape Verde Isl.	0-0	
 20	 3  21- 1-13	Nelspruit	Burkina Faso	1-1	African Nations Cup
 21	 3  25- 1-13	Nelspruit	Zambia  	1-1	African Nations Cup
 22	 3  29- 1-13	Nelspruit	Ethiopia	2-0	African Nations Cup
 23   1  4   6- 2-13	Durban  	Mali    	4-1	African Nations Cup
 24	 4  10- 2-13	Johannesburg	Burkina Faso	1-0	African Nations Cup
 25	 4  23- 3-13	Calabar 	Kenya   	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 26   1  5   5- 6-13	Nairobi 	Kenya   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 27	 5  12- 6-13	Windhoek	Namibia 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 28	 5  17- 6-13	Belo Horizonte	Tahiti  	6-1	Confederations Cup
 29	 5  20- 6-13	Salvador	Uruguay 	1-2	Confederations Cup
 30	 5  23- 6-13	Fortaleza	Spain   	0-3	Confederations Cup
 31	 5  14- 8-13	Durban  	South Africa	2-0	
 32	 5   7- 9-13	Calabar 	Malawi  	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 33	 5  13-10-13	Addis Adaba 	Ethiopia	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 34	 5  16-11-13	Calabar 	Ethiopia	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 35	 5  18-11-13	London  	Italy   	2-2	
 36	 5   5- 3-14	Atlanta 	Mexico  	0-0	
 37	 5   3- 6-14	Chester 	Greece  	0-0	
 38	 5  16- 6-14	Curitiba	Iran    	0-0	World Cup
 39	 5  21- 6-14	Cuiabá  	Bosnia-Herzeg.	1-0	World Cup
 40   2  7  25- 6-14	Porto Alegre	Argentina	2-3	World Cup
 41	 7  30- 6-14	Brasília	France  	0-2	World Cup
 42	 7   6- 9-14	Calabar 	Congo-Brazz.	2-3	African Cup Qual.
 43	 7  10- 9-14	Cape Town	South Africa	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 44	 7  11-10-14	Khartoum	Sudan      	0-1	African Cup Qual.
 45   2  9  15-10-14	Abuja   	Sudan      	3-1	African Cup Qual.
 46	 9  15-11-14	Pointe-Noire	Congo-Brazz.	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 47	 9  19-11-14	Uyo     	South Africa	2-2	African Cup Qual.
 48	 9  25- 3-15	Uyo     	Uganda  	0-1	
 49   1 10  29- 3-15	Nelspruit	South Africa	1-1	
 50	10  13- 6-15	Kaduna  	Chad    	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 51	10   5- 9-15	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 52   1 11   8- 9-15	Port Harcourt	Niger   	2-0	
 53	11   8-10-15	Visé    	Congo-Kinshasa	0-2	
 54	11  11-10-15	Brussel 	Cameroon	3-0	
 55	11  13-11-15	Lobamba 	Swaziland	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 56	11  17-11-15	Port Harcourt	Swaziland	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 57	11  25- 3-16	Kaduna  	Egypt   	1-1	African Cup Qual.
 58	11  29- 3-16	Alexandria	Egypt   	0-1	African Cup Qual.
 59	11   3- 9-16	Uyo     	Tanzania	1-0	African Cup Qual.
 60	11   9-10-16	Ndola    	Zambia  	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 61	11  12-11-16	Uyo     	Algeria 	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
 62	11  23- 3-17	London  	Senegal 	1-1	
  -   2  -   1- 6-17	St.-Leu-Forêt   Togo     	3-0 [*]	
 63	11  10- 6-17	Uyo     	South Africa	0-2	African Cup Qual.
 64	11   1- 9-17	Uyo     	Cameroon	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 65	11  10-11-17	Constantine	Algeria 	awd [1] World Cup Qualifier
 66	11  14-11-17	Krasnodar	Argentina	4-2	
 67	11  23- 3-18	Wroclaw 	Poland  	1-0	
 68	11  27- 3-18	London  	Serbia  	0-2	
 69	11  28- 5-18	Port Harcourt	Congo-Kinshasa	1-1
 70	11   2- 6-18	London  	England 	1-2	
 71	11   6- 6-18	Schwechat	Czech Republic	0-1
 72	11  16- 6-18	Kaliningrad	Croatia 	0-2	World Cup
 73   2 13  22- 6-18    Volgograd	Iceland 	2-0	World Cup
 74	13  26- 6-18	St. Petersburg	Argentina	1-2	World Cup
 75   1	14   8- 9-18	Victoria	Seychelles	3-0	African Cup Qual.
 76	14  13-10-18	Kaduna  	Libya		4-0	African Cup Qual.
 77   1	15  16-10-18	Sfax		Libya		3-2	African Cup Qual.
 78	15  17-11-18	Johannesburg	South Africa	1-1	African Cup Qual.
 79	15  20-11-18	Asaba		Uganda		0-0	
 80	15  22- 3-19	Asaba   	Seychelles	3-1	African Cup Qual.
 81	15   8- 6-19	Asaba		Zimbabwe	0-0	
 82	15  22- 6-19	Alexandria	Burundi 	1-0	African Nations Cup
 83	15  26- 6-19	Alexandria	Guinea  	1-0	African Nations Cup
 84	15  30- 6-19	Alexandria	Madagascar	0-2	African Nations Cup
 85	15   6- 7-19	Alexandria	Cameroon	3-2	African Nations Cup
 86	15  10- 7-19	Cairo		South Africa	2-1	African Nations Cup
 87	15  14- 7-19	Cairo		Algeria		1-2	African Nations Cup
 88	15  17- 7-19	Cairo		Tunisia 	1-0	African Nations Cup
 89	15  13-11-19	Uyo     	Benin		2-1	African Cup Qual.
 90	15  17-11-19	Maseru          Lesotho 	4-2	African Cup Qual.
 91	15   9-10-20	Sankt Veit	Algeria  	0-1	
 92	15  13-10-20	Sankt Veit	Tunisia 	1-1	
 93	15  13-11-20	Benin City	Sierra Leone	4-4	African Cup Qual.
 94	15  17-11-20	Freetown	Sierra Leone	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 95	15  30- 3-21	Lagos   	Lesotho  	3-0	African Cup Qual.
 96	15   4- 6-21	Wiener Neustadt	Cameroon	0-1	
 97	15   8- 6-21	Wiener Neustadt	Cameroon	0-0 
 98	15   3- 9-21	Lagos   	Liberia 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 99	15   7- 9-21	Mindelo  	Cape Verde	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
100	15   7-10-21	Lagos   	Central Afr. R.	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
101	15  10-10-21	Douala   	Central Afr. R.	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
102   1	16  13-11-21	Tanger  	Liberia 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
103	16  15- 1-22	Garoua  	Sudan   	3-1     African Nations Cup
104	16  23- 1-22	Garoua  	Tunisia  	0-1     African Nations Cup
105	16  29- 3-22	Abuja   	Ghana   	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
106	16  13- 6-22	Agadir          São Tomé/Pr.   10-0	African Cup Qualifier
107	16  24- 3-23	Abuja   	Guinea-Bissau	0-1	African Cup Qualifier
108	16  27- 3-23	Bissau  	Guinea-Bissau	1-0	African Cup Qualifier
109	16   8- 1-24	Abu Dhabi	Guinea  	0-2	

[*] this match, in which Musa scored twice, was not authorized by the French FA nor
    by FIFA and is therefore not considered a full international match.
[1] awarded 3-0 win to Algeria because Nigeria fielded suspended player Abdullahi
    Shehu; original score 1-1.

Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
   109    52   31   26   167-  93     135       61.93

Types of             Matches  Goals

African Cup Qualifier	34	 6
Friendlies		31	 3
World Cup Qualifier	20	 2
African Nations Cup	14	 1
World Cup		 7	 4
Confederations Cup   	 3   	 0

Total 		       109	16


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