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| Full name | Real Kakamora Football Club |
|---|---|
| Founded | 27 January 1998; 26 years ago |
| Ground | Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara |
| Capacity | 22,000 |
| League | Telekom S-League |
| 2023 | Telekom S-League, 12th of 12 |
Real Kakamora Football Club is a Solomon Islands football club based in Honiara. The club competes in the Telekom S-League, the top flight of football in the Solomon Islands.
Originally founded in January of 1998 [1] as an amateur team, the club has alternated between a dark blue and white kit since its inception and remained relatively unknown throughout most of the nation until they were chosen as last-minute replacements for Makuru FC (who refused to play in the league due to religious exemptions) to join the newly-formed league in 2011. [2] Since the onset of their tenure in the Telekom S-League, Real Kakamora has played the majority of their home matches at the 22,000-capacity Lawson Tama Stadium in Honiara, which has served as the de facto home venue of the entire league as a whole, restricting the club to play both their home and away matches at the stadium. In early 2024, the club became notorious as one of the world's worst performing clubs in a league already known for its relative lack of quality; their 0-0-22 finish in the 2023 season, conceding an average of 5.27 goals per match, [3] was dubbed as "the statistical worst season of the modern era of professional football."[ citation needed ]
In domestic football, Real Kakamora has not yet captured a trophy in their brief history, not having placed first in the Telekom S-League, but did enjoy somewhat limited success in its first few seasons as a professional club with the exception of two 4th-place finishes in the 2011-12 [4] and 2014-15 [5] [6] editions of the league. As a result of their lack of success, they have not yet participated in the OFC Champions League in any form. Since their last 4th-place finish, the team has served as a perennial bottom-feeder in Solomon football, finishing in the bottom four places of the table each season; the lone exception being a 5th-place finish in 2021. [7] Their aforementioned winless season in 2023 was particularly abhorrent in the sense that the team finished with a goal difference of -102 despite playing in only 22 matches, with their final match of the season resulting in a 14-0 loss to Solomon Warriors, with striker Tigi Molea tallying 10 goals in the match to clinch the league title for Warriors, the 2nd-highest total in league history. [8] [9]
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