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Liberian Premier League
The Liberian First Division, officially known as Orange First Division for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of football in Liberia. The first division league began in 1956 and has only once been won by a club outside Monrovia. It has been dominated by Mighty Barrolle FC and Invincible Eleven FC. The league is organized by the ''Liberia Football Association''. In 2010, the league became known as the Orange Premier League for sponsorship reasons and it is now called LFA-Orange First Division League. Sponsorship In March 2010, Cellcom GSM, a telecommunications corporation in Liberia and Guinea contracted a three-year sponsorship deal with the League until the end of the 2012–13 season. In October 2013, Cellcom GSM and the Liberia Football Association extended their deal to another three years until the end of the 2015–16 season. Clubs :''Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.'' Previous champions Performance By Club Top goalscorers See also *Liberia na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberia Football Association
The Liberia Football Association is the governing body of football (soccer), football in Liberia. Its offices are located at Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia. National teams Men's national team The Liberia national football team, Liberian men's national football team represents Liberia in international football competitions at the senior men's level. The national team has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup but has qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations on two occasions, in 1996 Africa Cup of Nations, 1996, and 2002 Africa Cup of Nations, 2002. Clubs Liberian_Premier_League, Liberian First Division League (2024–2025) *Bea Mountain FC *Black Man Warriors *Discoveries S.A. *FC Fassell *Freeport FC *Global Pharma FC *Heaven Eleven FC *Invincible Eleven *LISCR FC *LPRC Oilers * Mighty Barrolle, Mighty Barrolle FC *Paynesville FC *Shaita FC *Watanga FC LFA 2nd Division (2024–2025) * CeCe United * District 17 Academy * Downtown FC * Gardnersville FC * Gompa FC * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederation Of African Football
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is the administrative and controlling body for association football, beach soccer, and futsal in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the ''Grand Hotel'' in Khartoum, Sudan. At the FIFA Congress in 1954 held in Bern, Switzerland, it was voted to recognize Africa as a Confederation. Representing the African geography of association football, confederation of FIFA, CAF organizes runs and regulates national team and football team, club #CAF competitions, continental competitions annually or biennially such as the Africa Cup of Nations and Women's Africa Cup of Nations, which they control the prize money and broadcasting of sports events, broadcast rights to. CAF will be allocated 9 spots at the FIFA World Cup starting from 2026 FIFA World Cup, 2026 and could have an opportunity of 10 spots with the addition of an intercontinental play-off tournament involving 6 teams to decide the last 2 FIFA World Cup places (46+2). The main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robertsport
Robertsport is a town in western Liberia, about 10 miles (16 km) from the Sierra Leone border. It is named after Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia. The town lies on Cape Mount peninsula, a spit of land separating the brackish lagoon Lake Piso from the Atlantic Ocean, north-west of Monrovia. It serves as the capital of Grand Cape Mount County and is the home of the city corporation. History In the mid-15th century, the Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reached the cape, a 1,000-foot high granite promontory, which he named Cabo do Monte (Cape Mount). Cape Mount was the site of Dutch trading post, which turned out to be very hard to defend. The post never became self-sufficient, and habitually required assistance from the station at Elmina, about 750 miles away by sea. Théodore Canot, a writer and slave-trader, established a settlement in the area in 1840. In 1849 the Liberian government signed a treaty with the Vai people, acquiring the territory of Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paynesville FC
Paynesville may refer to: ;Australia *Paynesville, Victoria * Paynesville, Western Australia ;Liberia * Paynesville, Liberia ;United States * Paynesville, California * Paynesville, Indiana *Paynesville, Minnesota *Paynesville, Missouri * Paynesville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota See also *Painesville, Ohio Painesville is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located along the Grand River (Ohio), Grand River, it is a northeast suburb of Cleveland. Its population was 20,312 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Pa ... * Lake City, Nevada County, California, also called Painesville {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LPRC Oilers
LPRC Oilers is a football club from Liberia based in Monrovia. Their home stadium is the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company. The LPRC Oilers have been a fixture in Liberian football since the late 1980s. Achievements * Liberian Premier League: 7 ''''. Retrieved 29 October 2022. :: 1991, 1992, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2019, 2021. * Liberian Cup: 6 :: 1988, 1989, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2005. * Liberian Super Cup: 1 :: 2002. *President Cup: 2 :: 2015, 2019. Performance in CAF competitions * |
LISCR FC
Liberian International Shipping & Corporate Registry FC, abbreviated to LISCR FC, is a football (soccer) club from Liberia based in Gardnersville, Montserrado County. They play their home matches at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in central Monrovia. They have won the Liberia Football Association Knockout three times and the Liberia Super Cup trophy twice. They won the premiership title for the first time in their history in the 2010–11 season and retained the title the following season (2011–12). LISCR became the last winner of the Liberian Premier League before the dissolution of the league to the first division by the Liberia Football Association. After five years of the dissolution of the Premiership, they won the new first division for the first time in 2017 after finishing top of the 2016–17 Liberia First Division League table with an unbeaten record. Early history The club was formed on August 24, 1995, as Young Barcelona by its president, Mustapha I. Raji. Its firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paynesville, Liberia
Paynesville (sometimes Paynesward) is a suburb east of Monrovia, Liberia. It is geographically larger than the city of Monrovia. It is expanding eastward along the Robertsfield Highway and northeastward beyond Red Light Market, one of the largest market areas in Liberia. Paynesville is often considered a part of the Greater Monrovia area. It was the location of the Paynesville Omega Transmitter, the highest structure in Africa, until the tower's demolition in 2011. The Liberia Broadcasting System is also located in Paynesville. The Liberian Judo Federation is based in Paynesville. The Montserrado county School System office is looked in Paynesville, at vokar Mission Neighborhoods Paynesville has several neighborhoods, called "communities" by residents, which are notable for their unique names. Some communities include housing estates, and older settlements, while others are named after landmarks, major boulevards/roads or local leaders. Others predate the street names altogethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Kallon-Liberia
FC Kallon is a Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ...n professional football club based in Paynesville. Founded on March 16, 2008, on DuPort Road in Paynesville, outside of Monrovia, the club was named Muscat FC before it became FC Kallon. FC Kallon has positively engaged young people in Liberia by committing to support their game and encourage education for all through sports. The club gained promotion to the second division in 2018 after it was undefeated and crowned champions of the third division. The club finished the 2019 season in sixth place, which placed them in the promotion playoff against Nimba Kwado FC. Club history Fourth Division The club played in the fourth division for two seasons from 2005 to 2007. They got promoted to the third division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yekepa
Yekepa is a town in the Yahmein or Yarmein District of northern Nimba County in Liberia, lying near the Guinean border. It was the base for Lamco's iron ore mining operation until it was destroyed in the First Liberian Civil War which lasted from 1989 to 1997. Nearby Guesthouse Hill is one of the highest points in the nation. The community is home to the African Bible College University. Despite some controversy, international steel company Arcelor Mittal was given approval to begin restoring the once prosperous mining town in May 2007. The reconstruction was to include a hospital, schools and other facilities for the township. However, due to fluctuations in world iron prices, much of the redevelopment never happened, and less than a decade later, much of the site had been abandoned once again. Notable people *Jeremiah Koung Jeremiah Kpan Koung Sr. (born 17 March 1978) is a Liberian politician who is the 31st and current vice president of Liberia. He served in the Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven Eleven FC
Heaven, or the Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to Earth or incarnate and earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or, in exceptional cases, enter Heaven without dying. Heaven is often described as a "highest place", the holiest place, a paradise, in contrast to Hell or the Underworld or the "low places" and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply divine will. Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a ''world to come''. Another belief is in an axis mundi or world tree which connects the heavens, the terrestrial world, and the underworld. In Indian religions, heaven is considered as ''Svar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Pharma FC
Global may refer to: General *Globe, a spherical model of celestial bodies *Earth, the third planet from the Sun Entertainment * ''Global'' (Paul van Dyk album), 2003 * ''Global'' (Bunji Garlin album), 2007 * ''Global'' (Humanoid album), 1989 * ''Global'' (Todd Rundgren album), 2015 * Bruno J. Global, a character in the anime series ''The Super Dimension Fortress Marcoss'' Companies and brands Television * Global Television Network, in Canada ** Canwest Global, former parent company of Global Television Network ** Global BC, on-air brand of CHAN-TV, a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ** Global Calgary ** Global Edmonton ** Global Halifax ** Global Montreal ** Global News, the news division of the Global Television Network ** Global Okanagan, on-air brand of CHBC-TV, a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada ** Global Toronto, a television station in Toronto * Global TV (Venezuela), a regional channel in Venezuela * Global TV, the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freeport F
Freeport, a variant of free port, may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Freeport, name of several space stations in the video game ''Freelancer'' (2003) * Freeport, a fictional town in the video game ''SiN'' (1998) * ''Freeport: The City of Adventure'', a role playing game setting by Green Ronin Publishing Places United States *Freeport, California *Freeport, Florida *Freeport, Illinois * Freeport, Indiana *Freeport, Iowa *Freeport, Kansas *Freeport, Maine ** Freeport (CDP), Maine *Freeport, Michigan *Freeport, Minnesota *Freeport, New York *Freeport, Ohio *Freeport, Pennsylvania *Freeport, Texas *Freeport, West Virginia Elsewhere *Freeport, Bahamas *Freeport, Nova Scotia, Canada *Freeport Tortuga, Haiti *Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago Railway stations *Braintree Freeport railway station, a railway station in Braintree, Essex, England, United Kingdom *Freeport (LIRR station), a Long Island Railroad Station in Freeport, New York, United States *Freeport station (Illinois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
