Mogbwemo Queens Football Club

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Mogbwemo Queens
Full nameMogbwemo Queens Football Club
Founded2004;19 years ago (2004)
League Sierra Leone Women's Premier League

Mogbwemo Queens Football Club is a professional women's association football club from Bonthe, Sierra Leone. It competes in the Sierra Leone Women's Premier League, the top tier women's football league in Sierra Leone.

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History

The Mogbwemo Queens Football Club was founded in 2004. [1]

In 2023, the club won the Sierra Leone Women's Premier League, with only one defeat in twenty-two matches played. [1] [2] Their coach, Duramani Janneh, was named Best of the Season and Hannah Juana was received the award for Best Goalkeeper. [3]

Their league victory qualified them for their first continental campaign in the 2023 CAF Women's Champions League. [4] [5] They competed in West Africa's Zone-A qualifiers, where they competed against Determine Girls FC (Liberia), AS Mande (Mali), and Dakar Sacre Coeur (Senegal). [6] Mogbwemo Queens tied eventual group-winner AS Mande, [7] but failed to make it through to the next stage of the competition. [8]

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  5. https://twitter.com/karlyboy71/status/1687841210499465217/photo/1
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