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Shooting Stars FC
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| Full name | Shooting Stars Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Oluyole Warriors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Lekan Salami Stadium Ibadan, Nigeria (Capacity 18,500) |
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| League | Nigerian Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shooting Stars Football Club is a Nigerian soccer club based in Ibadan. They won the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1976 [1]. They ended their 2004/5 season in fifth place in the Nigerian Premier League. They play their home games at Lekan Salami Stadium.
The club was one of the founders of the Nigerian Premier League in 1972, when they were called WNPC Ibadan.
Shooting Stars is one of the most followed football clubs in Nigeria. Shooting stars play their home matches at the Lekan Salami stadium in the ancient city of Ibadan.The stadium was actually named after one the prominent supporters of the club who is now deceased. Before, "sooting" as it is called by its supporters used to play at the famous Liberty stadium which was one of the venues for the world youth soccer championship in 1999.
Shooting stars is one of the most decorated clubsides in Nigeria alongside Enugu Rangers and the defunct stationery stores Fc of Lagos.In fact shooting stars and Enugu Rangers are known as the tradtional football clubs in the country.They both dominated the football scene in the country during 70s and 80s.
Shootings stars is also very popular across the African continent having played and won so many matches against top club sides in Africa.Shooting stars won the first edition of CAF cup,defeating the Nakivubo Villa of Uganda 3-0 in the finals at the Lekan Salami stadium after the first leg ended goaless.Shooting stars was also the first Nigerian clubside to win international trophy for clubsides in 1976 when they won the African cup winners.
Many well known international stars have played for shooting stars in the past.These include the former African footballer of the year Rashidi Yekini,"the mathematical" Segun Odegbami and so on.
After the introduction of strange league format by the Nigerian Football Association some years back,shooting stars got relegated to the lower division in the year 2006 and they are fighting to be back at the top where they belong.
- Name:Shooting stars sports club
- Nickname:Oluyole warriors
- Stadium:Lekan Salami Stadium,Ibadan,capacity 18,500.
1976, 1980, 1983, 1995, 1998
1977, 1979, 1995
1984, 1996... lost in the finals on both occasions
- CAF Cup: 1
1992
1976
1998
- Mutiu Adepoju
- Abiodun Baruwa
- Eric Ejiofor
- Mudashiru Lawal
- Gbenga Okunowo
- Femi Opabunmi
- Ike Shorunmu
- Rashidi Yekini
- Segun Odegbami
| Nigerian Premier League 2007/08 |  |
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| Enugu Rangers | Heartland | Kano Pillars | Kware Utd | Wikki Tourists | Niger Tornadoes | Ocean Boys | Prime | Akwa Utd | Bayelsa Utd | Bendel Insurance | Enyimba | Gombe Utd | Lobi Stars | Nasarawa Utd | Zamfara Utd | Sharks | Shooting Stars | Jigawa Golden Stars | JUTH FC | |
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