2018 CAF Champions League side MFM disbanded after being relegated from NPFL

By Oyediji Oluwaseun Babatunde

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Football Club (MFM FC) have been disbanded, just a few months after they were relegated from the Nigeria Premier Football League.

The Lagos-based club was condemned to life in the Nigeria National League with just two matches left in the 2021-22 campaign, marking an end their successive six-year stint in the Nigerian topflight in July 2022.

While the club was preparing to start a new life in the lower league after six years in the top stage, NigeriaFootball.ng has been informed the club has been disbanded and players asked to seek for new clubs ahead of the 2022/2023 abridged Nigeria National League (NNL) season scheduled to kick off on March 3.

With MFM as a church deciding to discontinue funding the club and returned the slot they recieved freely a decade ago back to its owner Bolowatan FC who has also now sold their slot to Henserd FC of Sagbama, Bayelsa State.

The Olukoya Boys as MFM FM were fondly called were wholly owned by Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, a Pentecostal Christian Organization, came into existence in 2007. In 2013, MFM FC participated in the Nigeria National League after they took over Toyin Gafaar’s Bolowatan FC slot for free.

Three years later, they made their debut in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) in 2016 but narrowly escaped relegation and in the 2017 season, they finished second to qualify for the 2018 CAF Champions League.

In the 2020 and 2021 seasons, they finished 14th and 10th respectively before eventually getting relegated from the top-flight at the end of the 2021/2022 season.