Sharks F.C.

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Sharks F.C.
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Full nameSharks Football Club
Nickname(s)The Blue Angels
Founded1972
Dissolved2016
Ground Sharks Stadium
Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
Capacity5,000
League Nigeria National League
2015 17th (relegated)

Sharks F.C. is a former Nigerian football club based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. They played in the top division in Nigerian football, the Nigerian Premier League. Their home stadium was Sharks Stadium although they played some of their bigger games at Liberation Stadium. In 2016, the club was officially merged with city rivals Dolphins F.C. and the two teams became collectively known as Rivers United F.C.

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History

Sharks were almost relocated to Abeokuta in 1998 due to crowd problems. In protest, they missed the last six games of the 1998 Professional League, finished bottom of the league on 32 points and were suspended for two years. [1]

2009–10

They started the 2009–10 season slow out of the gate, anchored to the bottom of the table and going through three managers when Kadiri Ikhana left after eight games. On 27 February 2010 they were suspended indefinitely by the league for "noncompliance of statutes" after a shakeup of their management staff. This was after the team was robbed in Edo State on their way back from a minicamp in Abuja. They managed to finish in 16th place with 48 points, avoiding relegation by one point.

Merger with Dolphins

After relegation in 2016, the Government of Rivers State merged the Sharks F.C. with their rivals Dolphins F.C. to create Rivers United F.C. which took Dolphins' slot in the Premier League. [2]

Achievements

Notes

  1. "Nigeria 1998". RSSSF .
  2. "Dolphins renamed Rivers United Football Club | Goal.com". www.goal.com.

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