Shooting Stars F.C.

Shooting Stars Sports Club
Full name Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC)
Nickname(s) Oluyole Warriors
Founded 1950s (As WNDC Ibadan)
Ground Adamasingba Stadium
(Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman Senator Abiola Ajimobi
Manager Fatai Amoo
League Nigerian Premier League
Home colours
Away colours

Shooting Stars Football Club (often nicknamed 3SC or Oluyole Warriors) is a Nigerian soccer club based in Ibadan.

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History

The club was one of the founders of the Nigerian Premier League in 1972, when they were called WNDC Ibadan (Western Nigeria Development Company).[1]

The nickname "Shooting Stars" was added with the suggestion of team foundation members the late Jide Johnson and Niyi Omowon the "Aare Odan Liberty" (Generalissimo of Liberty Stadium) who believed that the players were "stars" in their own right.

Shooting Stars is one of the most followed football clubs in Nigeria and play their home matches at the Lekan Salami Stadium. The stadium was named after one the prominent supporters of the club who is now deceased. Before, "Sooting" as it is called by its supporters used to play at the famous Liberty Stadium, one of the venues for the world youth soccer championship in 1999.

Shooting stars is the first club to win the FA cup on club basis in Nigeria in 1971, players like Aderoju Omowon, Niyi Akande, Jossy Lad, Amusa Adisa were prominent in the squad. Shooting Stars is one of the most decorated clubsides in Nigeria alongside Enugu Rangers and the defunct Stationery Stores F.C. of Lagos. In fact, Shooting Stars and Enugu Rangers are known as the traditional football clubs in the country, both dominating the football scene in the country during 70s and 80s.

Shooting Stars have played and won many matches against top club sides in Africa. 3SC won the first edition of CAF Cup, defeating the Nakivubo Villa of Uganda 3-0 in the finals at the Lekan Salami stadium after the first leg ended goalless. They won the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1976, becoming the first Nigerian clubside to win an international trophy.[2]

Many well known international stars have played for Shooting Stars in the past, including former African footballer of the year Rashidi Yekini, "the mathematical" Segun Odegbami and so on.[3]

They ended their 2004/5 season in fifth place in the Premier League. After the introduction of a strange double-league format by the Nigerian Football Association, Shooting Stars got relegated to the lower division in 2006, but won promotion in 2009 after finishing second in the Division 1B. The Club left his Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan and settled to the Adamasingba Stadium.[4]

Achievements

1976, 1980, 1983, 1995, 1998
1971 (as WNDC)
1977, 1979, 1995
1984, 1996
1992
1976
1998

Performance in CAF competitions

1999 - Group Stage
1972: Second Round
1981: Second Round
1984: Runners-up
1996: Runners-up
1992 - Champion
1993 - First Round
1995 - Second Round
1976 - Champion
1977 - Semi-Finals
1978 - First Round
1980 - Quarter-Finals

Current team

[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
GK Abiodun Akande
GK Dele Ajiboye
3 DF Yomi Adigun
6 DF Sylvanus Ebiaku
7 FW Adeyemi Adedeye
8 FW Taofeek Adepoju
9 FW Emmanuel Ikhimim
11 MF Bolaji Adekunle
12 DF Lateef Adigun Olamide
13 DF Chibuzor Madu
14 FW Dalapo Omotayo
16 FW Mohammed Ado
17 FW Meshack Chukwubuikem
18 MF Shola Abolade
19 DF Waheed Omololu
20 FW Hakeem Adebisi
22 MF Ihekwoaba Okwudili
23 FW Lekan Agunloye
24 MF Hassan Taiwo
No. Position Player
25 DF Adesola Adeoye
26 FW Abiodun Folorunsho
27 DF Akeem Ibrahim
28 MF Haruna Musa
29 MF David Abidoye
30 DF Mohammed Shuaibu
31 FW Azuka Okubor
32 GK Lukman Orire
33 DF Daniel Osuata
34 MF Ihekwoaba Okwudili
36 MF Seyi Ogunsanya
37 FW Ladi Gasper
38 FW Ranti Ilugbaro
39 FW Kaffo Monsuru
40 MF Billy Ismaheel Oludare
41 MF Sillah Musa
46 MF Okafor Ugochukwu Jerry
Ayo Babalola
Seun Akinyemi

Staff

Management

Sports

Medical

Notable players

Notable Coaches

References

  1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4374879.stm Living for 'Shooting'
  2. ^ African Club Competitions 1976 - RSSSF
  3. ^ http://www.shootingstars.com.ng/history.html 3SC History
  4. ^ 3SC set for Adamasingba return
  5. ^ http://www.mtnfootball.com/africa/nigeria/premier-league/news/2011/dec/14-3sc-axe-skipper-lawal-kabiru-alausa.html

External links
ACB Lagos · Bendel Insurance · Mighty Jets F.C. · WNDC Ibadan (3SC) · Enugu Vasco da Gama · Octopus (Port Harcourt)