EDO Queens have been crowned champions of the Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL), the first time the club has achieved the feat.
The Benin-based side battled to a 1-1 draw against Bayelsa Queens in their last match of the NWFL Super Six playoff, taking their total points tally to 10 from five matches. They won four games and lost one.
With Rivers Angels unable to defeat Heartland Queens – the game ended 1-1 – on the final day, Moses Aduku’s girls clinched their maiden title at the Samson Siasia Stadium in Bayelsa State.
Edo Queens took the lead in the 29th minute following Emem Essien’s acrobatic strike.
But Bayelsa Queens pulled one back just four minutes into the second half of the encounter no thanks to Zainab Olopade’s goal.
With the win, Edo Queens will represent Nigeria in the West African Football Union (WAFU) championship which serves as the qualifier for next season’s CAF Women’s Champions League.
Meanwhile, Nasarawa Amazons edged Confluence Queens 1-0 in the last game of the Super Six in Yenagoa. It took Regina Omede’s second-minute goal to separate both sides in the North Central Derby.
Nasarawa Amazons finished fourth with seven points, ahead of fifth Heartland Queens and sixth Confluence Queens, who both ended the tournament with three points each.
On individual awards, FC Robo Queens’ Folashade Ijamilusi, who scored eight goals this season, won the season’s top goal scorer award ahead of Goodness Osigwe (Edo Queens) and Ojiyovwi Kesiena (Nasarawa Amazons), who both scored seven goals.
Rivers Angels’ Morufa Ademola was voted the goalkeeper of the season after her heroic efforts led the Jewels of Rivers to a second-place finish at the season-ending Super Six. The Fair Play award went to the hosts Bayelsa Queens, who finished third.
