{"id":6363,"date":"2026-11-02T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/iwobi-eyes-historic-premier-league-appearance-record\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:16:17","slug":"iwobi-eyes-historic-premier-league-appearance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/iwobi-eyes-historic-premier-league-appearance-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwobi Eyes Historic Premier League Appearance Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international Alex Iwobi has set his sights on becoming the African player with the most appearances in the Premier League, <a href=\"http:\/\/Completesports.com\">Completesports.com<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi moved into second place on the all-time list after featuring in Fulham\u2019s 1-1 draw against Aston Villa at Villa Park last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old had previously been level with former Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah but has now moved ahead with 329 Premier League appearances across three clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder made 100 appearances for Arsenal, 123 for Everton and has featured 106 times for Fulham since joining the London club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/iwobi-equals-salahs-premier-league-milestone-in-fulhams-win-at-coventry-city\/\">Iwobi Equals Salah\u2019s Premier League Milestone In Fulham\u2019s Win At Coventry City<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Ivory Coast international Kolo Toure currently holds the record with 352 Premier League appearances.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"csa1x-widget csbw-odds-card\" aria-label=\"Match odds\">\n<p><label class=\"csbw-oddschip\"><span class=\"csbw-oddsbar__label\">Show odds<\/span><button class=\"csbw-oddsswitch\" type=\"button\" role=\"switch\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-label=\"Show odds\" data-csbw-global=\"1\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"csa1x-actions\">\n<details class=\"csa1x-tipster-details csbw-article-tips\">\n<summary class=\"csa1x-tipster-toggle\">Match prediction<\/summary>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h3>Iwobi Targets Toure\u2019s Record<\/h3>\n<p>Reacting to the milestone, Iwobi said he was pleased with the achievement but remained focused on breaking Toure\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to cherish the memories. I\u2019d like to keep on looking ahead, so it\u2019s a nice little stat to have,\u201d Iwobi told Fulham\u2019s official television channel, <a href=\"http:\/\/fulhamfc.com\">FFC TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m trying to break the record. I think Kolo Toure is up there, so I\u2019ll keep my eyes going forward and see if I can break that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi has scored once in nine league appearances for Fulham this season.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international Alex Iwobi has set his sights on becoming the African player with the most appearances in the Premier League, Completesports.com reports. Iwobi moved into second place on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}