Southern Arena, Southern Province, Bo City’s newest venue, will host its first match on May 21 has been announced.

The 6,000-seater football stadium constructed by Turkish-based contractors is ready to host Sierra Leone Premier League reigning champions and league leaders Bo Rangers against the final winner between Kamboi Eagles, Wusum Stars, Bai Bureh Warriors and East End Lions in an interregional tournament.

The Competition organising committee has drawn Kamboi Eagles to play Bai Bureh Warriors, and Wusum Stars tackle East End Lions on the 19th. The two winners lock horns on the 20th at Bo Stadium.

The four-team tournament winner will engage Bo Rangers at the Southern Arena for the grand final cracker on Sunday, May 21, meaning it will be the first official match at the venue. The venue is intended to become the centrepiece of Bo City.

@southernarena confirm date of first match at new stadium

Southern Arena set to host its first football match on Sunday, May 21.@bo_rangers will tackle the overall winner between @EELions, Kamboi Eagles, Bai Burreh Warriors & Wusum Stars. #SaloneTwitter #AfricanFootball pic.twitter.com/jG0OpOqHY9

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FC Kallon star striker Alie Conteh best known as Nzonzi becomes the first-ever player to hit six goals in a single match in the Sierra Leone national top-flight league on Thursday.

FC Kallon thrashed newcomers Lamboi FC 6-0 at the Angola field in Goderich as Conteh set a new high in the Sierra Leone Premier League record books.

The 20-year-old Sierra Leonean international recorded his fourteen of the season. For the first time, a player scored five goals in a 45-minute hattrick in the opening 10 minutes.

As a result, FC Kallon moved up to third on 44 points, 14 points adrift from the leaders.

Conteh is presently the top scorer with 14 goals overtaking Bo Rangers’ Abu Komeh, who has accounted for 13 goals with runaway leaders Bo Rangers.

On the International stage, Conteh scored a brace for Sierra Leone in the Chan 2023 qualifier as the home-based Leone Stars defeated their Cape Verdean counterparts at the Marrakech Stadium in July last year.

A Hattrick in 1️⃣0️⃣ minutes and 5️⃣ goals in the first 4️⃣5️⃣ minutes.
First to do both in the SLPL. pic.twitter.com/H0RLnLA7Jt

— FC KALLON (@fckallon) May 11, 2023

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The Sierra Leone Football Association have confirmed that the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has rejected their proposal to host Nigeria in the African Cup of Nations Matchday 5 qualifier at home.

Sierra Leoneans were hoping to watch their national team, Leone Stars, battle against Nigeria in June’s crucial AFCON qualifier at the newly built 6000-seater Southern Arena in Bo City, Sierra Leone.

SLFA say the decision was due to poor hotel facilities in the country’s Southern Province second city. As it stands, Sierra Leone will have to look on the road to host Nigeria’s Super Eagles next month.

Super Eagles of Nigeria regained the top spot in Group A after their 1-0 win through Moses Simon’s spot kick in the 30-minute in their matchday four reverse fixture of the 2023 AFCON qualifiers in March.

Sierra Leone registered its first victory in the African Cup of Nations Qualifying Group A campaign defeating Sao Tome 2-0 to move two points behind leaders Guinea Bissau.

Both sides played to a 2-2 draw in their matchday three qualifiers, but on matchday four, Sierra Leone looked more determined to keep their qualification campaign alive.

Sierra Leone sits third in Group A but must win against Nigeria and Guinea-Bissua in their final two games to make a back-to-back AFCON final.

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Bo Rangers extended their lead to nine points at the top of the Sierra Leone Premier League after they defeated Diamond Stars 1-0 on Sunday.

The season second top scorer Abu Komeh scored the Elephants’ only goal in the 30th minute to sink Diamond Stars to sixth.

Bo Rangers, in the hunt for a back-to-back league title, for the first time in its history, won their third match in a row, having beaten FC Johansen and Wilberforce Strikers in the last eight days.

Might Blackpool, who played to a barren draw to Wilberforce Strikers, are nine points adrift at the top of the table.

Diamond Stars are winless in their last five matches (L3, D2), conceding twelve goals and scoring nineteen this season. Bo Rangers will extend their lead to twelve points if they beat Mighty Blackpool on Saturday in Bo, while Diamond Stars go away to Lamboi FC on the same day. 

In another mouth-watering encounter, East End Lions beat FC Kallon 1-0 at Trade Center to leapfrog the Cavaliers to third with thirty-six points. FC Johansen also secured a vital win against Lamboi FC to move up to tenth on the table with twenty-four points. 

In Kenema, Kamboi Eagles returned to winning ways after defeating Real Republicans 1-0 to boost survival hopes. Also in the East, Luawa FC registered back-to-back wins in Kailahun after beating bottom side Wusum Stars 1-0 to go ninth with twenty-five points. 

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Sahr Musa and Julius Goba scored as FC Kallon moved to third in the Premier League table with a clinical win over Bai Bureh Warriors at Angola Field on Sunday.

The Cavaliers on 32 points from 18 matches, two points away from fourth-placed East End Lions in the photo and four points ahead of Diamond Stars in fifth.

The Warriors, who could have gone sixth with a win, stay seventh with twenty-five points (W6, D7, L5).

In Kailahun, Luawa FC beat fellow newcomers Lamboi FC 1-0 courtesy of Nabieu Daffay’s second-half strike.

This is Luawa’s first win since beating Freetonians SLIFA 2-1 on 28th January, taking them up to twelfth with twenty-one points (W5, D6, L7).

In Kono, Diamond Stars drew 2-2 with Freetonians SLIFA as the Easterners failed to leapfrog East End Lions to fourth.

Struggling East End Tigers played to a goalless draw by Freetown City FC, who remain eleventh with twenty-one points.

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The Sierra Leone Football Association President Thomas Daddy Brima, Vice President 1 Harold Nat-Johnson and the Executive Committee on Friday, April 7, bid farewell to three UEFA Assist experts following a two-day training of female football stakeholders at the Atlantic Lumley Hotel in Freetown.

The three experts were Monika Staab, a Women’s Football Director in Saudi Arabia, Jules MCgeever, a UEFA Marketing Expert and Eva Pasquier, Head of International Relations at UEFA.

This comes after the Sierra Leone Football Association partnering with UEFA, successfully concluded a two-day training workshop for female football administrators, coaches, female sports journalists and referees at the Atlantic Lumley Hotel in Freetown on Thursday, April 6.

Over thirty-five (35) women drawn from Female Premier League clubs, media, and regional and district associations across the country benefited from the workshop.

The SLFA says the farewell ceremony was preceded by thorough deliberations on issues affecting the growth of women’s football in the country, which led to establishing an inclusive action plan with clear timelines.

Also present in the discussions was a cross-section of the training participants who were allowed to pass on their concerns, questions and suggestions to the leadership of the FA.

In his farewell speech, President Brima expressed his commitment to fully implement all recommendations put forward by UEFA Assist to ensure rapid development in the women’s football sector.

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