Ports Authority F.C.

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Ports Authority FC
Full namePorts Authority Football Club
Nickname(s)The Water Front Boys
Ground National Stadium
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Capacity36,000
OwnerSierra Leone Port Authority (SLPA) [1]
Chairman Musa Sesay
Manager Christian Cole
League Sierra Leone National Premier League
2022–20238th

Ports Authority Football Club is a Sierra Leonean professional football club based in the capital Freetown. The club is a member of the Sierra Leone National Premier League, which is the top football division in Sierra Leone. The club is owned and run by the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA). Ports Authority play their home games at the National Stadium in Freetown.

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Overview

One of the biggest and most popular football clubs in Sierra Leone, they won the Sierra Leone National Premier League championship in 1973 and again in 2008. They have won the Sierra Leonean FA Cup competition on two consecutive times in 1990 and 1991. Ports Authority have an intense rivalry with East End Lions as both clubs come from the east end of Freetown. In 1996, Ports Authority became the first and only Sierra Leonean football club to reach the quarter-final of CAF Confederation Cup.

Ports Authority Football team executives fired three from their technical team on 07/05/2010 after an executive meeting. The three fired were the technical director of the team, Akie Noah, head coach Abu Bakarr Kamara and one of his assistants, Mohamed Kamara (Ahmed Central). According to the chairman of the media team of the club, Musa Sesay, he said the three were asked to quit the club with immediate effect.

For the moment, the team will be coached by Hassan Milla, a former player of the team and supervised by Harold Nat Johnson. [2]

Achievements

1973, 2008, 2011.
1990, 1991, 2004, 2011.

Performance in CAF competitions

2000  – Preliminary Round
2009  – Preliminary Round
2012  –
1974  – First Round
2007  – First Round
2011  – Preliminary Round
1996 – Quarter-Finals
1991 – disqualified in First Round
1992 – First Round

Notable players

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References

  1. ↑ "Ports Authority FC present trophy to GM | Sierra Express Media". www.sierraexpressmedia.com. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Awoko Newspaper - Awoko Newspaper". Awoko.org. 2019-05-20. Retrieved 2019-06-15.


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