Paul Onuachu’s acrobatic overhead kick against Fatih Karagümrük has been voted the best goal of the 2025/26 Turkish Süper Lig season, capping a campaign in which the Super Eagles striker also shared the Golden Boot with 22 league goals.
Paul Onuachu has added another piece of silverware to an already extraordinary season. The Trabzonspor forward was named winner of the Turkish Süper Lig Goal of the Season award on Saturday, with fans across Turkey voting for his spectacular overhead kick against Fatih Karagümrük in gameweek 7 of the 2025/26 campaign.
The goal came in a thrilling 4-2 win for Trabzonspor at Karagümrük. Onuachu met a cross from Wagner Pina and connected with a sweeping scissor kick finish that flew past goalkeeper Ivo Grbic before anyone in the ground could react. The strike had already taken the Turkish Süper Lig’s Goal of the Month award for September, and it has now gone on to claim the biggest individual goal accolade of the entire season.
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A Giant Who Defied Gravity
Onuachu’s size has always made him an imposing aerial threat, but this goal was something different entirely. At 2.01 metres tall, pulling off a clean overhead kick with that kind of power and placement is no small feat. It was the kind of moment that reminded Nigerian football fans why this man, once written off during a difficult stint in England, belongs among the best strikers on the continent.
He beat out Fenerbahce midfielder Marco Asensio and Besiktas’ Orkun Kokcu for the award, two technically gifted players whose own goal contributions this season drew wide admiration in Turkey. That Onuachu topped them both says a great deal about just how special his strike was.
According to FootballInNigeria.com.ng, Onuachu was involved in 39.3 percent of Trabzonspor’s league goals this season, a contribution level that underlines how central he has been to everything the Black Sea Storm achieved.
The Numbers Behind the Season
Onuachu finished the 2025/26 Süper Lig as joint top scorer with 22 league goals, sharing the Golden Boot with Istanbul Basaksehir’s Eldor Shomurodov. Across all competitions, he registered 26 goals and two assists in 43 appearances, averaging a goal every 98 minutes in league action. By reaching that total, he became only the sixth player in Trabzonspor’s history to finish a season as the league’s top scorer.
His journey to this point has not been a straight line. After a prolific spell at KRC Genk in Belgium, where he scored 29 goals in the 2020/21 season alone, a move to Southampton in 2023 brought limited opportunities. He managed just four goals in 36 appearances over a season and a half in the Premier League. Returning to Trabzonspor, first on loan in 2023/24 where he netted 15 league goals, and then on a permanent deal in July 2025, has completely transformed his career trajectory.
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Cup Glory to Top It All Off
The Goal of the Season award came just weeks after Trabzonspor lifted the Turkish Cup for a record extending 10th time, beating Konyaspor 2-1 in the final. Onuachu was the match winner that night, scoring both goals to send the Black Sea Storm faithful into raptures.
Fellow Nigerians Chibuike Nwaiwu and Anthony Nwakaeme were also part of the squad that claimed the cup, making it a particularly proud night for Nigerian football on the Turkish stage. The presence of three Super Eagles players at a club winning trophies in one of Europe’s more competitive leagues is a story worth celebrating.
Onuachu scored four goals throughout the Turkish Cup run in total, contributing in earlier rounds before delivering when it mattered most in the final. It rounded off what has been, by any measure, the most productive single season of his professional career.
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What Comes Next for Onuachu?
The 32 year old has now established himself as one of the most reliable strikers in Turkish football, and his performances this season will inevitably attract interest from clubs elsewhere in Europe. Whether he stays at Trabzonspor or moves on, Nigerian fans will be watching closely.
For now, the Goal of the Season trophy sits alongside a Golden Boot and a Turkish Cup winner’s medal. It is the kind of haul that cements a legacy, and for a player who had question marks over his career just two years ago, it is a story of remarkable resilience.
📌 Did You Know?
- Onuachu’s overhead kick against Fatih Karagümrük came in a 4-2 away win in gameweek 7, the highest-scoring match of that particular Trabzonspor fixture in years.
- He averaged a goal every 98 minutes across his 25 league starts in the 2025/26 Süper Lig season, one of the best returns in the entire division.
- Onuachu scored only four goals in 36 appearances during his disappointing spell at Southampton in the Premier League before his permanent return to Trabzonspor in July 2025.
- At 2.01 metres, Onuachu is one of the tallest regular starters in the Turkish Süper Lig, yet this season showed he is equally dangerous on the ground and in acrobatic situations.
- His 22 goal haul in the 2025/26 Süper Lig made him only the sixth player in Trabzonspor’s history to finish a Turkish league season as the outright or joint top scorer.
- Onuachu was involved in 39.3 percent of all Trabzonspor’s Süper Lig goals in 2025/26, a creative and scoring contribution that no other single player in the squad came close to matching.
- Three Super Eagles players, Onuachu, Anthony Nwakaeme, and Chibuike Nwaiwu, were all part of the Trabzonspor squad that won the Turkish Cup for a record 10th time in 2026.
