Joe Aribo

Joseph Oluwaseyi Temitope Ayodele-Aribo (born 21 July 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Rangers and the Nigeria national football team.

Joe Aribo

Personal information
Full name	Joseph Oluwaseyi Temitope Ayodele-Aribo[1]
Date of birth	(1996-07-21) 21 July 1996[2]
Place of birth	Camberwell, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[2]
Playing position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Rangers
Number	17
Youth career
	Kinetic Academy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014–2015	Staines Town	22	(0)
2015–2019	Charlton Athletic	81	(14)
2019–	Rangers	30	(4)
National team^‡
2019–	Nigeria	4	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:22, 13 August 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 03:22, 16 november 2019 (UTC)

Club career

Early career

Aribo played for Staines Town under Marcus Gayle in the Isthmian League Premier Division, winning the club's academy player of the year award in April 2014.[3]

Charlton Athletic

Aribo joined Charlton Athletic in September 2015 following a successful trial, and signed a one-year contract in May 2016.[4] He made his first team debut as a 62nd-minute substitute for Andrew Crofts in a 2–0 defeat to Crawley Town in an EFL Trophy group stage match at The Valley on 16 October 2016.[5]

Rangers

Aribo was offered a new contract by Charlton at the end of the 2018–19 season,[6] but he instead opted to sign a four-year deal with Scottish Premiership club Rangers.[7] He made his competitive debut for the club on 9 July 2019 in a 4–0 win over St Joseph's of Gibraltar in the Europa League.[8] He suffered a head injury in a match in September 2019.[9]

Style of play

Speaking in October 2016, Aribo said that his strengths were "driving with the ball and getting up the pitch".[10]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 12 August 2020

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Staines Town[lower-alpha 1]	2014–15[11][12]	Conference South	22	0	2	0	—		1[lower-alpha 2]	0	25	0
Charlton Athletic	2015–16[13]	Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2016–17[14]	League One	19	0	1	0	0	0	2[lower-alpha 3]	0	22	0
	2017–18[15]	League One	26	5	1	0	2	0	7[lower-alpha 4]	1	36	6
	2018–19[16]	League One	36	9	0	0	0	0	3[lower-alpha 5]	1	39	10
	Total		81	14	2	0	2	0	12	2	97	16
Rangers	2019–20[17]	Scottish Premiership	27	3	3	1	4	1	15[lower-alpha 6]	4	49	9
	2020–21[18]	Scottish Premiership	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
	Total		30	4	3	1	4	1	15	4	52	10
Career total			133	18	7	1	6	1	28	6	174	26

1. Can't obtain data for the FA Cup third qualifying round replay and FA Trophy third qualifying round.
2. Appearance in the FA Trophy
3. Appearances in the EFL Trophy
4. Five appearances in the EFL Trophy and two in the League One play-offs
5. Appearances in the League One play-offs
6. Fourteen appearances in the Europa League

International

As of match played 17 November 2019[19]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Nigeria	2019	4	2
Total		4	2

International goals

Scores and results list the Nigeria's goal tally first.[19]

International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition

No.	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	10 September 2019	Dnipro-Arena, Dnipro, Ukraine	1	Ukraine	1–0	2–2	Friendly
2	13 October 2019	National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore	2	Brazil	1–0	1–1	Friendly

Honours

Charlton Athletic

• EFL League One play-offs: 2019[20]

Rangers

• Scottish League Cup runner-up: 2019–20[21]

References

1. "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/08/2015 and 31/08/2015" (PDF). The FA. p. 1. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
2. "Joe Aribo". 11v11. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
3. Youlton, Clive (14 May 2014). "Staines Town prospect is no ordinary Joe". SurreyLive. Reach. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
4. Jones, George (19 May 2016). "Development squad duo sign new contracts". Charlton Athletic FC. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
5. Jones, George (4 October 2016). "CHECKATRADE TROPHY REPORT | Charlton Athletic 0 Crawley Town 2". Charlton Athletic FC. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
6. "Charlton Athletic offer Patrick Bauer and Joe Aribo new contracts". BBC Sport. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
7. "Joe Aribo: Rangers sign midfielder from Charlton Athletic". BBC Sport. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
8. Thomas Duncan (9 July 2019). "St Joseph's 0-4 Rangers: Steven Gerrard's team win Europa League qualifier". BBC Sport.
9. "Joe Aribo: Rangers midfielder set to miss next few games". 26 September 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
10. Jones, George (5 October 2016). "ADDICKS' FUTURE | Getting to know Joe Aribo". Charlton Athleetic FC. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
11. "J. Aribo". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
12. For FA Cup second qualifying round: "Staines Town 5–0 Leverstock Green". Leverstock Green F.C. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
    For FA Cup third qualifying round: Youlton, Clive (11 October 2014). "Bassett lifts Staines Town in FA Cup rescue act". Surrey Live. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
    For FA Trophy third qualifying round replay: Youlton, Clive (3 December 2014). "Staines Town agony over dramatic FA Trophy exit at Poole Town". Surrey Live. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
13. "Games played by Joe Aribo in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
14. "Games played by Joe Aribo in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
15. "Games played by Joe Aribo in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
16. "Games played by Joe Aribo in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
17. "Games played by Joe Aribo in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
18. "Games played by Joe Aribo in 2020/2021". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
19. "Aribo, Joe". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
20. Law, James (26 May 2019). "Charlton Athletic 2–1 Sunderland". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
21. "Rangers 0-1 Celtic: League Cup final 'went my way' - Fraser Forster". BBC Sport. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.