Number 02 · The professional game
Esse Mbeyu Akida
FWD · Kibera Soccer · Kenya · 2015–present
Golden Boot winner in the Greek top flight
60
Total score of 80
18
League strength (25)
16
Prestige (20)
12
Titles won (20)
14
Impact (15)
Israel and Turkey
Born in 1992, she joined FC Ramat HaSharon in Israel in October 2018 and signed for Beşiktaş in Turkey in February 2020, a season cut short by the pandemic.
Greece — PAOK
Three seasons at PAOK from 2021 brought 38 goals in 64 appearances. She won the Greek Women's Premier League Golden Boot in 2021-22 with 17 goals in 18 league games, and was honoured at the Greek players' association awards.
Kenya
One of the Harambee Starlets' leading scorers of the modern era, top scorer at the 2016 COTIF tournament in Valencia with five goals in four games, and part of Kenya's first Africa Women Cup of Nations squad that year.
Home again
She returned to Kenyan football in 2025 with Kibera Soccer.
Honours and milestones
- Greek Women's Premier League Golden Boot, 2021-22
- COTIF top scorer, 2016
- 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations squad
Career record
FC Ramat HaSharon, Beşiktaş, PAOK, Kibera Soccer
Did you know
Seventeen goals in eighteen games, and the Golden Boot in Greece
In 2021-22 she scored 17 times in 18 league matches for PAOK and finished the season as the top scorer in the Greek top flight — 38 goals in 64 appearances across three seasons there. Before Europe she had been top scorer at the COTIF tournament in Valencia with five goals in four games, the run that took Kenya into its first Africa Women Cup of Nations.
17 in 18
Goals in the Golden Boot season
38
Goals in 64 games for PAOK
5 in 4
Goals at the 2016 COTIF tournament