Nigeria & Africa · the national record

Nigerian futsal has a home.

We back the game from the ground up. Court conversions, new clubs, coach connections and a national record of who plays. From the compound court to the continent.

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Where to start

Six doors. Pick one.

Everything we do sits behind one of these, research, practical help, community and the register. Nothing is buried, it's just not all shouting at you at once.

Why one platform

The pieces exist. They're just not joined up.

A player in Kano, a court in Aba, a coach in Ibadan and a league in Lagos are all part of the same sport, they've just never been on the same page. That's the job.

PlayersFound, recorded, and pointed at somewhere to play
ClubsUniversities, academies and sides, all on one register
CoachesConnected to teams, and to the education they need
CourtsMapped, converted, and opened up to the game
BodiesNFSL, Futsal Lagos and everyone organising it
The point of all of it

One day a Nigerian walks out for a Futsal World Cup.

Everything on this site is a metre of that road, a court converted, a club founded, a coach trained, a player found. It starts on a hard court in an estate, and it ends on a stage the whole world is watching.

Be part of it →
PHOTO · NFSL / IKOJO PICTURES
It already happened

Nigeria has national futsal champions.

Emirates FA lifted the first NFSL trophy in Kaduna. Thirty two teams, 281 goals, and a women's final that YSFON Queens won 12–3. The bracket, the stats and the road ahead are all inside.

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The ecosystem

We are not the only ones building.

Futsal9ja is independent, not a governing body and not a club. These are the organisations moving the game in Nigeria right now, and we back all of them.

Nigeria Futsal Super League
National league body

Nigeria Futsal Super League

In partnership with the Nigerian Football Federation

The national futsal league structure, and the competition a national team pathway is built on. NFSL gives the organised game in Nigeria its top tier and its link to the federation.

Futsal Lagos
Organiser & development

Futsal Lagos

Exhibition days at the National Stadium, Meadow Hall and Whitesands. Futsal Enugu in the South East. A league season on the way and a weekend development programme for school age players. Futsal Lagos organises the game, teaches it and grows it.

Futsallagosng@gmail.com · +234 810 627 6537 · fb: FutsalLagos

Development & community

Futsal9ja

We work from the bottom up: helping people convert courts, start clubs, find coaches and get on the record, then telling the country it happened.

Building something in Nigerian futsal and not listed here? Write to media@futsal9ja.org.

If you play it, run it, or teach it, you belong on the record.

Clubs, universities, academies, coaches, referees and players. We'll help you start, and we'll put you on the map.

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The register

If you play it, you belong on the record.

Clubs, universities, academies, players and competitions. Free to join, and nothing is listed until it's confirmed.

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Choose your category

The national record.

Who plays this game in Nigeria, and where. Clubs, universities, academies, players and competitions, all in one place, all free to join.

The clubs register is open.

Every club that steps on a court is building this game. Register yours and it joins the national record. Nothing is listed until it's confirmed, so this page stays empty until the first entries are verified.

Register clubs →
Club nameFull name and any short name you go by
BaseCity and state
FoundedYear, if you know it
CrestAny image file, even a phone photo
ContactA name, a phone number or an email
The universities register is open.

Campus futsal is where most futsal nations found their first generation of players and coaches. Nothing is listed until it's confirmed, so this page stays empty until the first entries are verified.

Register universities →
InstitutionUniversity or polytechnic name
Team nameIf the side has one
BaseCity and state
LevelIntramural, inter-faculty, or representative
ContactSports officer, captain or coordinator
The academies register is open.

Youth academies decide whether the next generation ever touches a futsal ball. Nothing is listed until it's confirmed, so this page stays empty until the first entries are verified.

Register academies →
Academy nameAnd any parent club
BaseCity and state
Age groupsWhat you currently run
SurfaceIndoor hall, hard court, or both
ContactHead coach or administrator
The players register is open.

You don't need a club to be on the radar. If you play, we want to know you exist. Nothing is listed until it's confirmed, so this page stays empty until the first entries are verified.

Register players →
NameAnd the name you play under
PositionGoleiro, fixo, ala or pivô, or unsure
BaseCity and state
Where you playCourt, school, estate, club
FootageAny clip at all, even from a phone
The competitions register is open.

Any organised competition in Nigeria can have a page here, fixtures, results and tables. Nothing is listed until it's confirmed, so this page stays empty until the first entries are verified.

Register competitions →
Competition nameAnd the organising body
FormatLeague, cup, invitational
TeamsHow many, and who
VenueWhere it's played
DatesStart and finish, if set

Why register?

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Visibility

Scouts, organisers and journalists can't find what isn't recorded. This is the list they'll look at.

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Invitations

When competitions open, registered clubs and campuses are the first ones contacted.

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Proof

A public record of your side, your season and your players, the thing sponsors and federations ask for.

The Blueprint Files

Nobody was born a futsal nation.

Brazil, Iran, Morocco, Spain, every one of them built it on purpose. Six referenced case studies on exactly how, and what Nigeria can copy.

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Six case studies

How the others did it.

Six researched, referenced case studies on how football nations built futsal from nothing, and exactly what Nigeria can copy. Free to read, free to share.

Learn the game

Futsal isn't small football.

Four seconds to restart. A ball that won't bounce. A keeper who attacks. Learn the language and the laws.

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The vocabulary

Five roles. One language.

Futsal isn't small football. The vocabulary and the laws are what make it the fastest technical education in the sport.

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Goleiro

The keeper, and a fifth outfield player. Starts attacks with their feet.

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Fixo

The anchor. Organises everything ahead, wins the ball, launches the break.

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Ala

The wings. Carry the game court to court, both ends, no rest.

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Pivô

Back to goal. Holds, links, spins, finishes. The reference point of every attack.

4s

Four seconds

Every restart must be taken inside four seconds. The game never breathes.

6th

Accumulated fouls

From the sixth team foul, every foul is a 10-metre penalty. No wall. Discipline becomes tactical.

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The ball

Smaller, heavier, and it stays on the floor. Technique is forced, then owned.

Build files

You don't need a stadium. You need a weekend.

Costed, practical, repeatable. Everything here can be done with what already exists in your city.

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Six guides

Start with what we have.

You don't need a stadium or a budget. You need a court, a ball and a plan. These are the plans.

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Convert any hard court

A basketball court is nearly a futsal court. Measure, mark two 6m arcs, mount two 3×2m goals, play. A weekend job.

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Open the school hall

The biggest venue network in Nigeria already exists, it just closes at 4pm. One timetable slot makes a league.

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Start a club with zero naira

A name, a crest, ten players and a WhatsApp group. Keep records, they become your first sponsorship deck.

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Do the math

365 playable days a year indoors. More players, more games and more jobs per naira than anything else in football.

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Run a matchday

A coach, two referees, a scorer and a media hand. Every organised matchday is five people working.

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Keep the record

Score sheets, team lists, photos. A season of records is what turns a kickabout into a club.

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Community

The game needs people.

Courts and competitions are the easy part. A sport is built by the coaches, officials and organisers who run it week after week.

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Coaches

Rotations, the press, the keeper as a fifth player. Futsal is a chess match at sprint speed, and Nigeria has thousands of football minds who've never been told they could coach it.

We're working toward partnerships with established futsal education bodies, so coaches here can train and certify without leaving the country.

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Officials

Four-second counts, accumulated fouls, flying keepers. Futsal referees are specialists, and no competition on this site runs without them.

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The women's game

2025 was year zero worldwide: the first CAF Women's Futsal AFCON and the first FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup, months apart. Nobody in Nigeria owns that lane yet.

The open lane

The women's game is a ground floor.

2025 was year zero worldwide, the first CAF Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations, then the first FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup months later. An entire international lane opened at once.

Nobody in Nigeria owns it yet. Whoever organises it first writes its history.

Build it with us
Community project

Where Nigeria plays.

Lagos
Ibadan
Abuja
Kano
Enugu
Port Harcourt
Aba
Kaduna

We're mapping every playable court in the country, indoor halls, hard courts, school pitches. Solid pins are confirmed venues; hollow pins are cities still asking for one.

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News

What's moving.

Nigerian and African futsal, as it happens. Got a story, a result or a fixture? Send it in.

On the radar
SEASON ONE · UPCOMING

Futsal Lagos · Season 1

The first professional futsal league season in Nigeria. The launch moved back from its original window and the work never stopped. Clubs, venue and matchdays will confirm here first.

STARTING SOON

FL Weekend Training Program

Weekend futsal for secondary school players. Elite coaching, weekly matches, and habits that follow a young player off the court: discipline, teamwork, leadership. A healthy weekend away from screens that parents can enjoy too.

Futsallagosng@gmail.com · +234 810 627 6537 · fb: FutsalLagos
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Abuja City Futsal Zonal Tour

Indoor Arena, MKO Abiola National Stadium, Package B.

UPCOMING

Port Harcourt Zonal Tour

Indoor Arena, 59 Niger Street, PH Township.

UPCOMING

Lagos Zonal Tour

Venue to be announced.

UPCOMING

NFSL National Final

Zonal champions collide, venue TBA.

The record so far
JUN 2026NFSL

The zonal tour is announced: Abuja, Port Harcourt, Lagos

Off the back of Kaduna, the NFSL confirms its next phase. City tours in Abuja at the MKO Abiola National Stadium indoor arena, Port Harcourt at 59 Niger Street, and Lagos at a venue to be announced, with the winners heading to a National Final.

SOURCE · NFSL (@nfsl_league)
MAY 2026Community

Futsal Enugu brings the game to the South East

An exhibition event at CIC College, Uwani, staged with the Enugu State Ministry of Youth and Sports, introduces organised futsal to Enugu. Schools take part, the community turns out, and another city learns what a small ball on a hard court can do.

SOURCE · Futsal Lagos · PHOTO · FUTSAL LAGOS
15 FEB 2026NFSL

Emirates FA are the first champions of the NFSL

Emirates FA beat Lalo Stars 5–3 in the final at the Hand Ball Court, Murtala Mohammed Square, and become the first champions of the National Futsal Super League. In the women's final, YSFON Queens overwhelm RCCG Great Grace 12–3. Every match of the tournament crowned its own player of the match, and the honours table tells that story.

SOURCE · NFSL (@nfsl_league) · PHOTO · NFSL / IKOJO PICTURES
FEB 2026NFSL

Sports Commission salutes the maiden league

The National Sports Commission describes the week long, thirty two team league as a strategic step toward rebuilding futsal's competitive framework in Nigeria, in line with its RHINSE agenda of reform, high performance, inclusion, nurturing talent, sustainability and enterprise.

SOURCE · Voice of Nigeria
30 JAN 2026NFSL

Lalo Stars and Emirates book the final

Lalo Stars beat CrocCity Football Academy 3–2 in the early semi final. Emirates come through a proper scrap with Hotspur and win it 4–2. The final is set for Valentine's weekend.

SOURCE · NFSL (@nfsl_league)
29 JAN 2026NFSL

Quarter finals decided in a single afternoon

Lalo Stars edge Barrack Chelsea 5–4, CrocCity beat Jamba 4–2, Hotspur survive Bakura 5–4 and Emirates see off Aitor Stars 4–3. Four matches, twenty six goals, and a semi final line up nobody would have called in November.

SOURCE · NFSL (@nfsl_league)
26 JAN 2026NFSL

The NFSL kicks off at Murtala Mohammed Square

The first National Futsal Super League gets underway in Kaduna. Opening day belongs to the attackers: Everlasting FC put fourteen past Young Boys, and Barrack Chelsea edge Kwaru United 5–4 in the tie of the round.

SOURCE · Blueprint
25 JAN 2026NFSL

All 32 teams gather in Kaduna for pre league training

Coaches, players and referees from every participating club attend a one day seminar overseen by Musa Dung Davou, a CAF and FIFA accredited futsal referee, bringing all thirty two squads up to date on the laws of the modern game before a ball is kicked.

SOURCE · Leadership
14 DEC 2025Futsal Lagos

Futsal Lagos and BallOFF stage the December Showdown

Futsal Lagos joins forces with BallOFF at Whitesands School, Lekki. Top tier competition meets street style futsal, powered by MTN and the African Impact Initiative, and the crowd gets a taste of what a full league weekend will feel like.

SOURCE · ViewLagos
NOV 2025NFSL

NFSL announced: Kaduna to host the first national league

Galaxy 5s Global Sports, in partnership with the Nigeria Football Federation, announces the maiden National Futsal Super League in Kaduna. Thirty two teams drawn from the six geopolitical zones, with coaching and refereeing programmes running alongside. MD Shamsudeen Tijjani Yusuf says the league will produce the bedrock of a national futsal team after a thirty year absence.

SOURCE · Leadership · Blueprint
1 APR 2025Futsal Lagos

Exhibition Day II packs out Meadow Hall School

The second WLB Futsal Lagos Exhibition Day takes over Meadow Hall School in Ikate. Futsal Lagos All Stars meet Smart City FC, a women's showcase points at where the game is heading, and Dazzle FC take Varsity FC apart 6–2. COO Bolaji Animashaun calls the day a test run for the league, and it doubles as the schools programme in action.

SOURCE · Independent Nigeria · Sportsgister
2025Africa

The women's game gets its first continental stage

The first CAF Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations is played and Morocco lift it. The first FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup follows the same year. An entire international lane opens at once, and every country that wants a seat needs a domestic game to stand on.

SOURCE · CAF · FIFA · PHOTO · NFSL (@nfsl_league)
DEC 2022Futsal Lagos

WLB Sports launches Futsal Lagos at the National Stadium

Sports agency WLB Sports Limited announces Futsal Lagos, the first professional futsal initiative of its kind in Nigeria, and opens with an exhibition at the indoor sports hall of the National Stadium, Surulere. Two professional sides play, celebrities join in, and co founder Unwana Etuk sets the ambition plainly: make futsal the number one indoor sport in Lagos and the country.

SOURCE · Pulse Sports Nigeria
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Competition centre

NFSL · Kaduna 2026.

NFSLNATIONAL FUTSAL SUPER LEAGUE · GALAXY 5s GLOBAL SPORTS · IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NFF

The first National Futsal Super League brought 32 teams to Kaduna, drawn from the six geopolitical zones and delivered by Galaxy 5s Global Sports with the NFF. Everything that happened is recorded here.

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Quarter finals · 29 Jan
Semi finals · 30 Jan
The Final · 15 Feb
 
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CHAMPIONS · KADUNA 2026
Emirates FA
5–3 in the final
First round · all 16 ties · 26 and 27 Jan
Young Tigers2–6Shugaba Excell
Young Stars1–13Lalo Stars
Ado Yalo FC5–2Badarawa Utd
Kwaru Utd4–5Barrack Chelsea FC
Triple O Football Academy3–2United Pillars
NITR Stars FC0–10CrocCity Football Academy
Young Boys FC2–14Everlasting FC
Sky FC2–9Jamba FC
Wogifa FC2–8Hotspur FC
Big Honour FC5–4Deaf Youth FC
Bakura FC5–2RCCG Region 30 FC
Samba Boys1–3Sabo Warriors
Emirates FA·NASFAT FC
Soccer Diplomats·El Suraj FC
Kwaga FC·Blue Whales FC
Aitor Stars·Mahuta City FC

An intermediate round decided the last quarter final places.

EMIRATES FA · CHAMPIONS, KADUNA 2026PHOTO · NFSL / IKOJO PICTURES
YSFON QUEENS · WOMEN CHAMPIONSPHOTO · NFSL / IKOJO PICTURES
FINALS DAY · THE WALKOUTPHOTO · NFSL / IKOJO PICTURES
THE HONOURS TABLE · WINNERS, MVP, BEST GKPHOTO · NFSL / IKOJO PICTURES
The women's final
YSFON QueensvsRCCG Great Grace

YSFON Queens 12–3 RCCG Great Grace

On finals day in Kaduna, YSFON Queens F/C KD swept the women's final and Nigerian women's futsal had its first champions. A lane that only opened worldwide in 2025 now has a Nigerian flag planted in it.

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PHOTO · NFSL (@nfsl_league)

The zonal tour

Six zones. One national final.

Kaduna proved it works. Abuja is next, then Port Harcourt, then Lagos, and a National Final to crown the year.

NORTH-WESTNORTH-EASTNORTH-CENTRALSOUTH-WESTSOUTH-EASTSOUTH-SOUTHKADUNAPHASE 1 · COMPLETEABUJANEXTPORT HARCOURTUPCOMINGLAGOSUPCOMINGENUGUCOMMUNITY
North-West

Kaduna

Murtala Mohammed Sq.

Champions: Emirates FA · Women: YSFON Queens

COMPLETED ✓
South-South

Port Harcourt

Indoor Arena, 59 Niger Street

City zonal tour, the port city qualifier

UPCOMING
South-West

Lagos

Venue to be announced

City zonal tour, the biggest market awaits

UPCOMING
North-East

Zone TBA

The format is built for all six zones

FUTURE
South-East

Zone TBA

The format is built for all six zones

FUTURE
Results, stats and photography come from NFSL Kaduna Zone 2026, published by @nfsl_league with Galaxy 5s Global Sports. Match photography by Ikojo Pictures. Futsal9ja reports on the league independently. Spotted an error? Write to media@futsal9ja.org.
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About

We are not covering a sport. We are building one.

Futsal9ja works from the bottom up. We help people start things, we back everyone already building, and we keep the record so none of it gets lost.

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Bottom up

We start where the game actually is: a hard court, ten players and a WhatsApp group. Everything else is built on top of that.

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Independent

Not a federation, not a club. We back every organisation moving this game and compete with none of them.

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Free

Registering costs nothing. The research is published free. The guides are free to copy, print and use.

In practice

What that actually means.

Support is a word until you list it. This is the work.

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We help you start

Costed, step-by-step guides for converting a hard court, opening a school hall and founding a club with no money at all.

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We connect people

Coaches to clubs, referees to competitions, players to teams, and organisers to each other. One register, one country.

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We make the case

Referenced research anyone can put in front of a school, a sponsor, a state or a federation, free to use, no credit needed.

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We promote the game

Your club, your court, your competition and your highlight, published where the rest of Nigerian futsal is looking, and pushed to people who've never seen futsal at all.

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We back the bodies

NFSL, Futsal Lagos and everyone else organising the game get amplified here. Their wins are the sport's wins.

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We keep the record

So that in ten years there is a written history of how Nigerian futsal was built, and by whom.

The direction

Where this goes.

What we're building toward. None of it is live yet, it's here so you know what we're aiming at, and so the right people can find us early.

We publish plans as plans. Nothing above is announced, funded or agreed, if you can help make any of it real, or you already work in futsal education, that's exactly the conversation we want: hello@futsal9ja.org
Contact

Talk to us.

GENERALhello@futsal9ja.org

Anything and everything. If you're not sure who to ask, ask here.

 PLAYERSplayers@futsal9ja.org

Join the community, get on the register, send footage.

 CLUBS & INSTITUTIONSclubs@futsal9ja.org

Clubs, universities, academies and competitions.

 MEDIA & PARTNERSmedia@futsal9ja.org

Press, story tips, sponsorship and partnerships.