Tag: Facts

The Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, has been on a three-week break, giving fans, players and clubs the chance to savour the many beautiful moments the 10-match old league has ...

 1. Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan, founded in 1950, is the oldest football club in the current Nigeria top league. History. 2. With the season barely 6 weeks old, 7 ...

In 1966 the World Cup trophy was stolen and later found by a dog days before the tournament began. The Jules Rimet trophy, which is made of solid gold and ...

Neil Armstrong originally wanted to take a football to the moon, but NASA deemed it to be un-American.

In October of 1998 a bolt of lightning killed an entire 11-man soccer team from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The opposing team was completely unharmed. Thirty more people had ...

Former Chelsea player, Celestine Babayaro injured his legs while celebrating his debut goal in a pre-season match. The Nigerian born player broke his leg doing one of his trademark somersault ...

The World's First Football Club was the English Sheffield Football Club. It was founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.

GLO NPFL Round 8: Facts and Stats The Glo NPFL managed by the League Management Company LMC have turned up several mouth-watering clashes, a few surprising results and so many ...

Photo: MensXP The highest number of goals scored by one player in a single Football match is 16. It was scored by Stephan Stanis (France) playing for Racing Club de ...

Photo: Wikipedia The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria has the best performance in history of the FIFA under-17 World Cup and have won it more times than any other country. The ...