Joy Omewa is doing exactly what Nottingham Forest brought her to England to do. The Super Falcons striker scored her third WSL2 goal of the season on Sunday, opening the scoring in a 2-1 win over Durham Women FC at the City Ground, and her form since January has been nothing short of electric.
Another Goal, Another Statement
There’s a composure about Joy Omewa that you don’t always find in a player making their debut season in a new league and a new country. She doesn’t look like someone still finding her feet. She looks like someone who belongs.
On Sunday afternoon at the City Ground, the 23-year-old Nigerian forward showed exactly why Nottingham Forest Women signed her. In the 14th minute, a delivery from teammate Cerys Brown was spilled by the Durham goalkeeper, and Omewa, reacting quickest at the back post, calmly slotted home. Clean. Composed. Clinical.
It was the kind of goal that defines strikers. Not spectacular, but devastatingly efficient. Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah doubled the lead six minutes later, and while Durham pulled one back to make it nervy, Forest held on for a 2-1 win that keeps them pushing up the WSL2 standings.
Goals in Back-to-Back Home Games
What makes this even more impressive is the consistency. Omewa had opened the scoring in Forest’s 2-0 home win over Ipswich Town the previous Sunday. Back-to-back goals at the City Ground. She’s making that stadium feel like home very quickly.
Three goals in a debut stint at a new club, in a new league, in a new country. For a player who only arrived in England in late January, that’s a remarkable return. The transition has been smooth in a way that suggests Omewa’s quality isn’t a fluke of a good season in Denmark. It’s real, transferable, and growing.
As reported by FootballInNigeria.com.ng, the winger-turned-striker has quickly established herself as one of WSL2’s most exciting attacking options this season.
From Denmark to Nottingham: The Journey So Far
Omewa’s story before England is worth understanding. She started her career at Confluence Queens in Nigeria, one of the country’s most historic women’s clubs, before moving to Denmark’s Boldklubben af 1893 in 2021. A year later, she made the switch to Fortuna Hjørring, and what followed was five years of sustained excellence.
At Hjørring, she scored 52 goals in 85 league appearances, won the Danish Women’s Cup twice, and helped the club win the Kvindeligaen title in 2024-25. That title-winning season saw her finish as the league’s top scorer with 22 goals and 4 assists in just 23 matches, earning her the prestigious Kvindeligaen Player of the Season award.
When Nottingham Forest came calling in January 2026, they weren’t taking a gamble on an unknown player. They were signing a proven goalscorer who had dominated Scandinavian women’s football for half a decade. The only question was how quickly she’d adapt to England. So far, the answer is: immediately.
What Her Goals Mean for Forest’s Season
Nottingham Forest Women are in their first-ever season at WSL2 level, having won promotion as champions of the FA Women’s National League North in 2024-25. The jump to the second tier of English women’s football is significant, and Forest have been building carefully.
They sit sixth in the WSL2 standings, still four points off the promotion places with a run of tough fixtures remaining. Omewa’s goals are more than statistics. They’re potentially the difference between a season of consolidation and a genuine push for something bigger.
She also becomes the latest Nigerian to be associated with Nottingham Forest, following the established presence of Ola Aina and Taiwo Awoniyi in the men’s team. The Nigerian connection at the City Ground is growing on both sides of the fence.
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A Super Falcons Story Still Being Written
Omewa isn’t just a club story. She’s a national team player. She has represented Nigeria at U-17 and U-20 level and earned her first senior cap last year when she featured in the Super Falcons’ two-legged victory over Benin that secured qualification for the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.
If she keeps scoring at this rate, coach Justina Nnadiekwe’s job of picking Super Falcons forwards is about to get significantly more difficult. Joy Omewa is making a very strong case to be on that WAFCON plane.
📌 Did You Know?
- Joy Omewa’s three WSL2 goals for Nottingham Forest have all come since February 2026, making her the club’s most prolific scorer since joining despite being at the club for less than two months at the time of writing.
- In her award-winning 2024-25 season at Fortuna Hjørring, Omewa scored 22 league goals in just 23 matches, an average of nearly a goal per game, which ranked her as one of the most lethal forwards in any European women’s league that season.
- Omewa began her professional career at Confluence Queens FC in Lokoja, one of Nigeria’s most storied women’s clubs and a key development hub for female talent in North Central Nigeria.
- Nottingham Forest Women won promotion to WSL2 as champions of the FA Women’s National League North in 2024-25, making the 2025-26 season their first-ever campaign at England’s second tier of women’s football.
- Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah, who scored Forest’s second goal against Durham on Sunday, is one of several experienced WSL2 players Forest have surrounded Omewa with to support her transition. Boye-Hlorkah has been in excellent form herself this season.
- Omewa is a senior Super Falcons cap holder after representing Nigeria in their 2026 WAFCON qualification campaign, meaning she has now competed at international level while simultaneously establishing herself in the English women’s football pyramid.
- Fortuna Hjørring, Omewa’s former club, are one of Denmark’s most decorated women’s clubs, having also won the UEFA Women’s Cup (now UEFA Women’s Champions League) in the early 2000s, making them a genuine continental powerhouse in the development of forward talent.
