Asisat Oshola is one of the best African players in the world. The striker has been chosen as African Player of the Year on no less than three occasions (2014, 2016 and 2017). The year 2014 was a stellar one for the Nigerian as she also claimed the Ballon d’Or and the Golden Shoe at the U20 World Cup. Oshola has great experience despite her youth having played for Arsenal in 2016 alongside Vicky Losada and for Liverpool the previous year in the English top division of Women’s Football

Asisat Oshoala has been ranked as number 55 on the Guardian’s list of 100 best female footballers of 2019.

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However, Asisat and Malawian scoring sensation, Tabitha Chawinga are the only Africans in the list.

Oshoala, who was at number 86 on the 2018 list, moved up 31 places this year to become the highest ranked African. In contrast, Chawinga, who was the highest ranked African last year at number 71, fell 24 places to number 95 on the 2019 list.

Sam Kerr of Australia was listed as the best female player for 2019, while Lucy Bronze of England and Meghan Rapinoe of the US finished second and third respectively.

See full list:

1) Sam Kerr. Chicago Red Stars & Australia

2) Lucy Bronze. Olympique Lyon & England

3) Megan Rapinoe. Reign FC & USA

4) Ada Hegerberg. Olympique Lyon & Norway

5) Amandine Henry. Olympique Lyon & France

6) Vivianne Miedema. Arsenal & Netherlands.

7) Rose Lavelle. Washington Spirit & USA

8 ) Pernille Harder. Wolfsburg & Denmark

9) Wendie Renard. Lyon & France

10) Eugenie Le Sommer. Lyon & France

11) Julie Ertz. Chicago Red Stars & USA

12) Alex Morgan. Orlando Pride & USA

13) Dzsenifer Marozsan. Olympique Lyon & Germany

14) Ellen White. Manchester City & England

15) Caroline Graham Hansen. Barcelona & Norway

16) Danielle Van De Donk. Arsenal & Netherlands

17) Tobin Heath. Portland Thorns & USA

18) Crystal Dunn. North Carolina Courage & USA

19) Lieke Martens. Barcelona & Netherlands

20) Sari Van Veenendaal. Atletico Madrid & Netherlands

21) Amel Majri. Olympique Lyon & France

22) Debinha. North Carolina Courage & Brazil

23) Alex Popp. Wolfsburg & Germany

24) Christiane Endler. PSG & Chile

25) Jenni Hermoso. Barcelona & Spain

26) Marta. Orlando Pride & Brazil

27) Lindsey Horan. Portland Thorns & USA.

28) Christine Sinclair. Portland Thorns & Canada.

29) Becky Sauerbrunn. Utah Royals & USA

30) Christine Press. Utah Royals & USA

31) Saki Kumagai. Olympique Lyon & Japan

32) Nikita Parris. Olympique Lyon & England

33) Nilla Fischer. Linkoping & Sweden

34) Kim Little. Arsenal & Scotland

35) Kosovare Asllani. CD Tacon & Sweden

36) Ewa Pajor. Wolfsburg & Poland

37) Sara Dabritz. PSG & Germany

38) Sam Mewis. North Carolina Courage & USA

39) Fran Kirby. Chelsea & Engand

40) Yuki Nagasato. Chicago Red Stars & Japan

41) Jill Scott. Manchester City & England

42) Carli Lloyd. Sky Blue FC & USA

43) Griedge Mbock. Olympique Lyon & France

44) Hedvig Lindahl. Wolfsburg & Sweden

45) Alyssa Naeher. Chicago Red Stars & USA

46) Jackie Groenen. Manchester United & Netherlands

47) Steph Houghton. Manchester City & England

48) Irene Paredes. PSG & Spain

49) Abby Dahlkemper. North Carolina Courage & USA

50) Sherida Spitse. Valeranga & Netherlands

51) Sofia Jakobsson. CD Tacon & Sweden

52) Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir. Wolfsburg & Iceland

53) Barbara Bonansea. Juventus & Italy

54) Kadidiatou Diani. PSG & France

55) Asisat Oshoala. Barcelona & Nigeria

56) Caroline Seger. Rosengard & Sweden

57) Lina Magull. Bayern Munich & Germany

58) Ji So-yun. Chelsea & South Korea

59) Cristiane. Sao Paulo & Brazil

60) Casey Short. Chicago Red Stars & USA

61) Kelley O'Hara. Utah Royals & USA

62) Alexia Putellas. Barcelona & Spain

63) Formiga. PSG & Brazil

64) Sarah Bouhaddi. Olympique Lyon & France

65) Denise O'Sullivan. North Carolina Courage & Republic of Ireland

66) Lynn Williams. North Carolina Courage & USA

67) Giulia Gwinn. Bayern Munich & Germany

68) Guro Reiten. Chelsea & Norway

69) Stina Blackstenius. Linkoping & Sweden

70) Mana Iwabuchi. INAC Kobe Leonessa & Japan

71) Mal Pugh. Washington Spirit & USA

72) Delphine Cascarino. Olympique Lyon & France.

73) Ingrid Engen. Wolfsburg / Norway

74) Mapi Leon. Barcelona & Spain

75) Marie-Antoinette Katoto. PSG & France

76) Erin Cuthbert. Chelsea & Scotland

77) Magdalena Eriksson. Chelsea & Sweden

78) Beth Mead. Arsenal & England

79) Veronica Boquete. Utah Royals & Spain

80) Khadija Shaw. Bordeaux & Jamaica

81) Maren Mjelde. Chelsea & Norway

82) Fridolina Rolfo. Wolfsburg & Sweden

83) Almuth Schult. Wolfsburg & Germany

84) Aubrey Bledsoe. Washington Spirit & USA

85) Abby Erceg. North Carolina Courage & New Zealand

86) Sandra Panos. Barcelona & Spain

87) Jessie Fleming. UCLA Bruins & Canada

88) Ellie Carpenter. Portland Thorns & Australia

89) Beth England. Chelsea & England

90) Rachel Daly. Houston Dash & England


91) Hanna Glas. PSG & Sweden

92) Marta Torrejon. Barcelona & Spain

93) Yuika Sugasawa. Urawa Red Diamonds & Japan

94) Leah Williamson. Arsenal & England

95) Tabitha Chawinga. Jiangsu Suning & Malawi

96) Jaelene Hinkle. North Carolina Courage & USA

97) Claudia Neto. Wolfsburg & Portugal

98) Valerie Gauvin. Montpellier / France

99) Lena Oberdorf. SGS Essen & Germany

100) Ludmila. Atletico Madrid & Brazil