Nigeria Leagues
Federation Cup: Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba to stage Grand Finale on Thursday
The Grand Finale of this 12 months’s NFF-Tingo Federation Cup Competitors will happen on the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba on Thursday, 15th June 2023.
The day will start with the ladies’s closing, between Cup holders Bayelsa Queens and multi-titlists Rivers Angels, which is billed to start at 2pm. The lads’s closing, between 1978 champions Bendel Insurance coverage of Benin and multi-titlists Rangers Worldwide of Enugu, will kick off at 5pm.
Soccer directors, promoters, stakeholders and followers are already wanting ahead to among the finest finals in each males’s and girls’s variations, with Rivers Angels and Bayelsa Queens the 2 groups which have represented Nigeria within the nascent CAF Girls’s Champions League competitions – which underscores their energy on the house entrance.
Bayelsa Queens are the defending champions of the competitors, having overwhelmed FC Robo Queens of Lagos within the closing of the 2021 competitors on the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin Metropolis.
The elements are there for a fierce contest within the males’s closing, with Bendel Insurance coverage and Enugu Rangers having contested two of essentially the most memorable finals within the historical past of the lads’s competitors.
In what amounted to a shocking end result that 12 months, leaving bookmakers holding the brief finish of the stick, ‘Benin Arsenal’ dismantled the much-feared Enugu Rangers 3-0 within the 1978 closing on the Nationwide Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. Peter Egharevba scored the primary purpose via a protracted vary free-kick that silenced the vociferous followers of the ‘Flying Antelopes’.
Three years down the road, Rangers exacted their revenge, with the peerless ‘Chairman’ Christian Chukwu main the orchestra from the again because the all-white clad boys from Coal Metropolis gained 2-0 with targets from Okwuchukwu Obiora and Ifeanyi Onyedika on a sunny afternoon.
Bendel Insurance coverage have been in flaming kind this season, unbeaten within the abridged Nigeria Premier Soccer League season and posting credible performances in every single place. Rangers Worldwide had been on the backfoot for the bigger a part of the primary half of the season however picked up within the second stanza, and are positive to offer their all within the closing of a contest through which they like to soar.
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