Career record
Taye Taiwo is a full-back, born 16 April 1985, listed at 183 cm, and holds Nigeria citizenship. The club record here runs 2003–2015 across 11 clubs, 258 appearances and 20 goals.
The longest stay was Olympique de Marseille, 6 years from 2005 to 2011 and 192 appearances. Olympique de Marseille accounts for the most football: 192 appearances of the 258 on record. The best scoring rate came at Olympique de Marseille — 17 in 192, a goal every 11.3 games. Across 12 years there were 10 moves, roughly one every 1.2 seasons. At senior international level the record is 53 caps and 5 goals.
| Club | Years | Appearances | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lobi Stars F.C. | 2003–2005 | — | — |
| Olympique de Marseille | 2005–2011 | 192 | 17 |
| AC Milan | 2011–2013 | 4 | 0 |
| Queens Park Rangers F.C. | 2012–2012 | 15 | 1 |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | 2012–2013 | 20 | 0 |
| Bursaspor | 2013–2015 | 27 | 2 |
| Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi | 2015 | — | — |
| Ifeanyi Ubah F.C. | — | — | — |
| FC Lausanne-Sport | — | — | — |
| IFK Eskilstuna | — | — | — |
| AFC Eskilstuna | — | — | — |
International record
| Team | Years | Caps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria men's national football team | 2004–2011 | 53 | 5 |
| Nigeria national under-20 football team | 2005–2005 | 11 | 4 |
His clubs, in this archive
The archive covers 6 of the seasons Taye Taiwo spent at Olympique de Marseille, 2005/06 to 2010/11. Olympique de Marseille won the Ligue 1 once in that span and finished in the top four five times, averaging 68 points a season. At AC Milan, 2 covered seasons run 2011/12 to 2012/13, best finish 2nd in 2011/12. Those placings are recalculated from the individual results rather than copied from a table, so they can be read against any other club on this site.
| Season | Competition | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympique de Marseille, 2005/06–2010/11 | |||
| 2005/06 | Ligue 1 | 5th of 20 | 60 |
| 2006/07 | Ligue 1 | 2nd of 20 | 64 |
| 2007/08 | Ligue 1 | 3rd of 20 | 62 |
| 2008/09 | Ligue 1 | 2nd of 20 | 77 |
| 2009/10 | Ligue 1 | 1st of 20 | 78 |
| 2010/11 | Ligue 1 | 2nd of 20 | 68 |
| AC Milan, 2011/12–2012/13 | |||
| 2011/12 | Serie A | 2nd of 20 | 80 |
| 2012/13 | Serie A | 3rd of 20 | 72 |
Only the seasons this archive holds are listed — it begins in 2000/01 and covers league matches in the five competitions named above, so a career that started earlier or ran through other leagues shows a gap here rather than a blank.
How this page is put together
The career table above is the structured record held on Wikidata under a public-domain licence, read once and cached, not queried while you are reading. The player is bound to that record by date of birth rather than by name: a name search returns the wrong Klose and three different Robinhos, and a page carrying somebody else’s links cannot afford that.
Compare any two clubs he played for with the head-to-head tool, or read the records these seasons feed into.
Frequently asked
When and where was Taye Taiwo born?
16 April 1985, and holds Nigeria citizenship.
Which clubs did Taye Taiwo play for?
11 on record: Lobi Stars F.C., Olympique de Marseille, AC Milan, Queens Park Rangers F.C., FC Dynamo Kyiv, Bursaspor, Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi, Ifeanyi Ubah F.C.….
How many of those seasons are in this archive?
8 of them, at 2 clubs. The archive runs from 2000/01 and covers the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, so seasons outside that window or in other leagues are not counted.
How long did the career last?
From 2003 to 2015 on the club record here, 12 years across 11 clubs in 2 of the five leagues this archive covers.
Which competitions can this site say anything about?
Ligue 1, Serie A. Those are the ones his clubs played in during the seasons the archive holds; the rest of the career is listed above but has no placings beside it.
Where do these figures come from?
The career record is the structured data held for this player on Wikidata, which is public-domain. The league placings and points beside it are not: those are recalculated here from every individual result in the archive, which is why they can be compared with any other club or season on this site.