Club: Brighton & Hove Albion
Position: Goalkeeper
Price: £5.0m
Last Season Points Tally: 74 (fourth highest BWSL Goalkeeper)
If there is one thing Chiamaka Nnadozie has never lacked, it’s confidence.
The Nigerian goalkeeper plays with the kind of presence that makes her difficult to ignore. At 25, she has already built a reputation as one of Africa’s best goalkeepers, and her first season in the Barclays Women’s Super League only strengthened it.
For Barclays WSL and WSL2 Fantasy, that makes her £5.0m price tag worth a closer look.
Nnadozie arrived at Brighton & Hove Albion from Paris FC last summer and immediately established herself as the Seagulls’ No. 1. She started all 19 of her WSL appearances, playing 1,710 minutes and keeping six clean sheets. More importantly, she faced 83 shots on target and saved 62 of them, giving her a 74.7% save percentage; the best in the BWSL among goalkeepers with at least 10 appearances.
That is where Nnadozie becomes particularly interesting from a Fantasy perspective.
Clean sheets are obviously valuable, but Fantasy goalkeepers can also earn their keep by making saves and Nnadozie proved last season that she can do both. Her six clean sheets were tied for the fourth-most in the league, while her 62 saves gave her another route to points when Brighton's defence was under pressure.
There were plenty of occasions when Brighton needed her. In the Seagulls' memorable 3-2 victory over Manchester City in April, Nnadozie made four saves as Brighton held on against the league leaders. She followed that with another four-save performance against Arsenal in a 1-1 draw two weeks later.
The numbers suggest that those performances were no fluke. By April, Nnadozie had prevented 5.8 goals, the most of any goalkeeper in the league at that stage.
Then came the summer and another reminder of why Nnadozie's reputation extends well beyond the BWSL.
She returned to Morocco with Nigeria for the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations, where the defending champions entered the tournament as one of the favourites. Nnadozie started Nigeria's opener against Malawi, although the Super Falcons suffered a surprise 3-2 defeat, with Temwa Chawinga scoring twice.
It wasn't her strongest night, but one difficult international performance shouldn't erase what she produced over an entire BWSL campaign. If anything, it highlights the difference between the Fantasy player and the footballer: Nnadozie's value is built on a much larger sample size.
74 Fantasy points last season. Fourth-highest among WSL goalkeepers. Six clean sheets. 62 saves. A league-best 74.7% save percentage.
At £5.0M, Nnadozie isn't the budget option. She could very well be the goalkeeper you pay a little extra for and then don't have to worry about changing every few weeks.
For Fantasy managers looking for a keeper with both clean-sheet upside and serious shot-stopping potential, Nnadozie has already shown she can deliver.
Ultimately, Nnadozie’s Fantasy value comes from more than clean sheets. She’s the kind of goalkeeper who can make a difference when the game gets difficult and it’s exactly what makes £5.0M price tag worthwhile.
