Afrigather The Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) has introduced that the ultimate of the 2024 President Federation Cup, Nigeria’s oldest Cup competitors will happen on the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Lagos, on Saturday, June twenty ninth.
This yr’s last will function Rivers Angels in opposition to Naija Ratels within the girls’s occasion, and Abia Warriors will battle El-Kanemi Warriors within the males’s last.
Initially scheduled for the MKO Abiola Nationwide Stadium in Abuja, which might have hosted the ultimate for the primary time within the competitors’s historical past, the NFF and GTI selected Sunday to return to the historic venue on Lagos Island.
The stadium, which hosted the ultimate from 1945 to 1972, will as soon as once more be the stage for the celebrated occasion.
Initially often called Affiliation Floor, later as King George V, after which Lagos Metropolis Floor, the venue was rebuilt within the Eighties and have become often called Onikan Stadium. In 2021, it was renamed Mobolaji Johnson Area.
The final last at this venue in 1972 was a memorable one, the place Bendel Insurance coverage FC led Mighty Jets FC 2-0 earlier than two late objectives by Sam Garba Okoye tied the sport, necessitating a replay two days later on the Liberty Stadium (now Obafemi Awolowo Stadium) in Ibadan.
Lagos has a wealthy historical past of internet hosting this competitors. The Nationwide Stadium in Surulere, constructed for the 2nd All-Africa Video games in 1973, hosted the ultimate from 1974 to 1987, and once more in 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
The Teslim Balogun Stadium, additionally in Surulere, hosted the finals in 2007, 2009, and consecutively from 2011 to 2016. The Agege Metropolis Stadium hosted the 2017 last.
