#17
Forward
Mwanalima Adam Jereko
Club
Kansas City
League
National Women's Soccer League USA
Region
USA
Signed
2023
Estimated peak value · 2024
$100,000 / KSh 13m
Estimated, not a transfer fee — our own valuation of her first NWSL season at the Kansas City Current, at KSh 132 to the dollar.
Profile
Kenya — Mombasa to Thika
Dogo: a forward who came out of Mombasa Olympic and made her name at Thika Queens, topping the Kenyan league's scoring charts in their undefeated 2021 season.
Turkey
She captained Hakkarigücü in the Turkish Women's Super League and scored 23 goals there in 2023-24.
The United States and Denmark
In 2024 she became the first Kenyan woman to sign for and play in the NWSL, winning the Summer Cup with the Kansas City Current. A loan to HB Køge in Denmark turned permanent and brought the Danish Cup and the Danish championship, with European football alongside it.
Kenya
She captains the Harambee Starlets.
Cup and continental record
The NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup with the Kansas City Current in 2024, then the Danish Women's Cup with HB Køge and UEFA Women's Europa Cup football with them. For Kenya, WAFCON qualifying and the finals as captain.
Managers he played under
Vlatko Andonovski, the former United States women's national team head coach, signed her for the Kansas City Current in 2024, and she has since played under Kristian Mørch at HB Køge.
Did you know
The first Kenyan woman in the NWSL — and a league and cup double in Denmark
Jereko, known as Dogo, captains the Harambee Starlets. She led the Kenyan league's scoring charts in Thika Queens' undefeated 2021 season, scored 23 goals in a single Turkish Super League campaign in 2023-24, and in 2024 became the first Kenyan woman to sign for and play in the NWSL, with the Kansas City Current, winning the Summer Cup with them. At HB Køge she has since won the Danish Cup and the Danish championship, and played in Europe.
1st
Kenyan woman to play in the NWSL
23
Goals in the 2023-24 Turkish Super League
2
Danish trophies in one season
Did you know
Mombasa Olympic Ladies to the NWSL, and a Danish double
Born in Likoni, Mombasa, she started at Mombasa Olympic Ladies, joined Thika Queens in 2018 and finished as the Kenyan Women's Premier League's leading scorer in an unbeaten title season in 2021. Turkey came next — 11 goals in her first 17 games at Hakkarigücü, and the captaincy by 2023 — then in August 2024 she became the first Kenyan woman to sign in the NWSL, with the Kansas City Current, winning the NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup. A loan to HB Køge became a permanent two-year deal in November 2025, and she has since won the Danish championship and Super Cup.
First
Kenyan woman in the NWSL
11 in 17
Goals in her first Turkish season
2
Danish trophies with HB Køge
Did you know
She captains Kenya, and waited ten years for a tournament
She has led the Harambee Starlets since her senior debut in 2015, with nineteen international goals, and was named most valuable player at the 2026 Four Nations tournament in Zambia. The Starlets' return to WAFCON came a decade into her career — the clearest measure on this site of what the women's game has been asked to do without structure behind it.
19
International goals for Kenya
10 years
Between her debut and a WAFCON campaign
MVP
2026 Four Nations tournament, Zambia
Career record
Captain of the Kenya women's national team. Mombasa Olympic and Thika Queens, then Hakkarigucu Spor in Turkey, then Kansas City Current, where she won the 2024 NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup. Signed permanently for HB Koge in Denmark through 2027.
Career appearances and goals reconciled against Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwanalima_Adam_Jereko)
Firsts & milestones
- Captain of the Kenya women's national team, she is the first Kenyan to play in the NWSL and won the 2024 NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup with Kansas City Current.
Appearances by competition
Career approximations compiled from Transfermarkt and club records
38
Appearances
10
Goals
0
Assists
0
Caps
0
Int'l goals
AI score breakdown
| Criterion | Score | Max |
|---|---|---|
| League Strength | 18 | 25 |
| Club Prestige | 10 | 20 |
| Titles Won (weighted) | 3.8 | 20 |
| Impact | 10 | 15 |
| Total | 41.8 | 80 |
Either side of him in the ranking
Ahead of him · Number 16
Behind him · Number 18