Tallest: 1 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 1 · Minute
Nigeria's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 42.9% |
| Without them | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 66.7% |
| Alan Hutton | Scotland | 1 |
| Alejandro Bedoya | United States | 1 |
| Alessandro Diamanti | Italy | 1 |
| Alessio Cerci | Italy | 1 |
| Alireza Haghighi | Iran | 1 |
| Alireza Jahanbakhsh | Iran | 1 |
| Allan McGregor | Scotland | 1 |
| Amir Hossein Sadeghi | Iran | 1 |
| Andranik Teymourian | Iran | 1 |
| Andrea Pirlo | Italy | 1 |
| Italy | 1 | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
Nothing here.
| 18 Nov 2013 | v Italy | 2–2 | 39′ | — | Go-ahead goal | 2–1 | Friendly |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 21 Jun 2014 | v Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–0 | came on 65′ | 25 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 2014 · Group stage |
| 16 Jun 2014 | v Iran | 0–0 | came on 52′ | 38 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 2014 · Group stage |
| 7 Jun 2014 | v United States | 1–2 | started, off 64′ | 64 | — | — | Friendly |
| 28 May 2014 | v Scotland | 2–2 | started, off 61′ | 61 | — | — | Friendly |
| 18 Nov 2013 | v Italy | 2–2 | started, off 65′ | 65 | 1 | — | Friendly |
| 7 Sep 2013 | v Malawi | 2–0 | came on 77′ | 13 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2013 |
| 14 Aug 2013 | v South Africa | 2–0 | started, off 46′ | 46 | — | — | Friendly |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.