Nottingham Forest Girls have boosted their squad with the signing of Nigeria ahead Pleasure Omewa from Danish champions Fortuna Hjørring. The 23-year-old has joined the membership on a everlasting deal that can run till the tip of the 2025/26 season.
The membership confirmed the switch in an official assertion, describing Omewa as a ahead with robust expertise and a profitable mentality. Her arrival is seen as a key transfer as Forest intention for a powerful end in Girls’s Tremendous League 2.
Omewa joins Forest after a powerful spell in Denmark, the place she spent 5 years with Fortuna Hjørring. Throughout that point, she scored over 50 targets in all competitions and performed a serious position within the membership’s success. She received two Danish Girls’s Cups and helped the staff safe the league title within the 2024/25 season. Her performances additionally earned her the league’s Participant of the Season award.
The Nigerian ahead started her profession at house with Confluence Queens earlier than shifting to Europe in 2021. She first performed for B.93 in Denmark, scoring three targets in 9 matches, earlier than switching to Fortuna Hjørring later that 12 months, a transfer that proved very important to her growth.
At worldwide degree, Omewa has represented Nigeria at under-17 and under-20 ranges and earned her first senior look for the Tremendous Falcons final 12 months. She was additionally a part of the squad that defeated Benin over two legs to qualify for the 2026 Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations.
Forest head coach Carly Davies welcomed the brand new signing, saying the membership is happy so as to add a confirmed goalscorer to the squad. She praised Omewa’s sharp ending and perception in entrance of aim, noting that her qualities will assist the staff push in the direction of its targets.
Omewa expressed her pleasure at becoming a member of the membership, describing Nottingham Forest as formidable and saying she is able to contribute to the staff’s progress in England.
Nottingham Forest at present sit sixth in WSL2, degree on factors with Newcastle United. With essential matches in opposition to promotion challengers Birmingham Metropolis and Charlton Athletic forward, Omewa’s signing is anticipated to present the staff a well timed elevate.
She additionally turns into the newest Nigerian participant linked with Nottingham Forest, following the presence of Ola Aina and Taiwo Awoniyi within the membership’s males’s staff.
