We back the game from the ground up, helping people convert courts, start clubs, find coaches and get on the record. Clubs, universities, academies and players, from the compound court to the continent.
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.
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.
Our free coaching course for Nigerian futsal. Thirty eight sections, an eight stage pathway with a test at every gate, and forty one drills sorted by age. Every position, every phase and every restart, with more than a hundred and twenty videos you can play on the page.
Made in partnership with the National Futsal Super League. Free to read, free to print and free to share.
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 →Emirates FA won Kaduna in February, the first NFSL title, with YSFON Queens taking the women's final 12:3. In October Selected Star won Port Harcourt, edging Family Love 5:4 after 82 goals in seven games. Abuja is next, and entries are open.
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.

The national futsal league, and the competition a national team pathway is built on. Kaduna and Port Harcourt are done, Abuja is open, and every zone champion goes through to a National Final.
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From exhibition days at the National Stadium, Meadow Hall and Whitesands to Futsal Enugu in the South East, plus an upcoming league season and a weekend development programme for school age players. Futsal Lagos organises, teaches and grows the game.
Futsallagosng@gmail.com · +234 810 627 6537 · fb: FutsalLagos
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. We wrote the free Futsal9ja course, and we staged the Ibadan exhibition games with the NFSL.
Building something in Nigerian futsal and not listed here? Write to media@futsal9ja.com.
Clubs, universities, academies, coaches, referees and players. We'll help you start, and we'll put you on the map.
Join the registerClubs, universities, academies, players and competitions. Free to join, and nothing is listed until it's confirmed.
Who plays this game in Nigeria, and where. Clubs, universities, academies, players and competitions, all in one place and all free to join.
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 →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 →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 →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 →Any organised competition in Nigeria can have a page here, with fixtures, results and tables. Nothing is listed until it's confirmed, so this page stays empty until the first entries are verified.
Register competitions →Scouts, organisers and journalists can't find what isn't recorded. This is the list they'll look at.
When competitions open, registered clubs and campuses are the first ones contacted.
A public record of your side, your season and your players: the thing sponsors and federations ask for.
Brazil, Iran, Morocco, Spain: every one of them built it on purpose. Six referenced case studies on exactly how, and what Nigeria can copy.
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.
Four seconds to restart. A ball that won't bounce. A keeper who attacks. Learn the language and the laws, then take the whole course.
Open the Futsal9ja course →Futsal isn't small football. The vocabulary and the laws are what make it the fastest technical education in the sport.
The keeper, and a fifth outfield player. Starts attacks with their feet.
The anchor. Organises everything ahead, wins the ball, launches the break.
The wings. Carry the game court to court, both ends, no rest.
Back to goal. Holds, links, spins, finishes. The reference point of every attack.
Every restart must be taken inside four seconds. The game never breathes.
From the sixth team foul, every foul is a 10 metre penalty. No wall. Discipline becomes tactical.
Smaller, heavier, and it stays on the floor. Technique is forced, then owned.
Everything above is the first five minutes. The course is the rest: thirty eight sections, each with a drill you can run tomorrow, free in English, Pidgin, Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa.
How the course works, the laws that change your coaching, and what a session looks like at every age.
READ PART A →BThe map: eight stages over five years, a gate to pass at each one, and drills for every age.
READ PART B →CSeven technical modules, from stopping the ball dead to beating a man and finishing with the toe.
READ PART C →DThe two and three player moves behind around half of all futsal goals, animated and on video.
READ PART D →EFixo, ala, pivô and goleiro, each with the training that builds the role.
READ PART E →FSystems and rotations, defending, transitions, set plays and the 5v4 power play.
READ PART F →GPhysical preparation, the FIFA library indexed, kit, where to watch and free coach education.
READ PART G →Every part on one page. It remembers where you stopped, so you can pick it up on the bus.
OPEN IT ALL →Costed, practical, repeatable. Everything here can be done with what already exists in your city.
You don't need a stadium or a budget. You need a court, a ball and a plan. These are the plans.
A basketball court is nearly a futsal court. Measure, mark two 6m arcs, mount two 3×2m goals, play. A weekend job.
The biggest venue network in Nigeria already exists. It just closes at 4pm. One timetable slot makes a league.
A name, a crest, ten players and a WhatsApp group. Keep records. They become your first sponsorship deck.
365 playable days a year indoors. More players, more games and more jobs per naira than anything else in football.
A coach, two referees, a scorer and a media hand. Every organised matchday is five people working.
Score sheets, team lists, photos. A season of records is what turns a kickabout into a club.
Courts and competitions are the easy part. A sport is built by the coaches, officials and organisers who run it week after week.
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.
Four second counts, accumulated fouls, flying keepers. Futsal referees are specialists, and no competition on this site runs without them.
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.
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.
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.
Add a courtNigerian and African futsal, as it happens. Got a story, a result or a fixture? Send it in.
The league goes to the capital: the Indoor Arena at the MKO Abiola National Stadium. Clubs can enter now, and places are confirmed in the order entries arrive.
Enter at nfsl-ng.com →Weekend futsal development for school age players: elite coaching, weekly matches, discipline, leadership and a healthy social space away from screens. Families welcome.
Futsallagosng@gmail.com · +234 810 627 6537 · fb: FutsalLagosThe first professional futsal league season in Nigeria. Postponed from its original window, and still coming. Clubs, venue and matchdays confirm here first.
The last two zones before the final. Venues and entry windows come from the league, and they will be on this page the day they do.
Every zone champion in one place for one national title. Venue to be announced.
Edition 4 is live: thirty eight sections and forty one drills by age, in five languages.
Open the course →Selected Star beat Family Love 5:4 in the final at the PH Indoor Arena to win zone two of the National Futsal Super League. They scored eighteen goals in three games on the way, and three of the seven games in Port Harcourt were settled by a single goal, the final among them.
SOURCE · NFSL
Selected Star beat Ambassadors 7:3 and Family Love beat London 8:4 to set up the final.
SOURCE · NFSL
Ambassadors beat Kigali 16:5, Selected Star edged City Boys 6:5, Family Love beat Python 5:3 and London squeezed past MCWJEF 6:5 in the quarter finals at the PH Indoor Arena.
SOURCE · NFSL
Zone three goes to the capital. Clubs can enter now at nfsl-ng.com, with Ibadan and Lagos to follow and every zone champion going through to the National Final.
SOURCE · NFSLThe free coaching course reaches thirty eight sections, with an eight stage pathway, forty one drills by age and more than a hundred and twenty videos, in English, Pidgin, Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa. It lives at futsal9ja.org/course and on the NFSL website.
SOURCE · Futsal9jaThe Ibadan Exhibition Games, staged by Futsal9ja with the NFSL at the Liberty Stadium indoor handball court, brought ten clubs and nine games over three days. The Elites FC won the men's final 13:11 against Heritage 7 Hills, the academies game turned on a comeback from 5:1 down, and Apex Stars FA came from 1:3 behind at the interval to beat Liberty Angels FC 9:3. More than fifty clubs applied for the ten places.
SOURCE · Futsal9ja · NFSLAn exhibition event at CIC College, Uwani, staged in partnership with the Enugu State Ministry of Youth and Sports, introduces organised futsal to Enugu with school participation and community matchdays.
SOURCE · Futsal Lagos
Emirates FA beat Lalo Stars 5:3 in the final at the Hand Ball Court, Murtala Mohammed Square, to become the first champions of the National Futsal Super League. In the women's final, YSFON Queens overwhelm RCCG Great Grace FC 12:3.
SOURCE · NFSL
The National Sports Commission describes the week long, 32 team league as a strategic step toward rebuilding futsal's competitive framework in Nigeria, aligned with its RHINSE agenda: reform, high performance, inclusion, nurturing talent, sustainability and enterprise.
SOURCE · Voice of NigeriaLalo Stars beat CrocCity Football Academy 3:2, and Emirates come through a semi final battle with Hotspur to win 4:2.
SOURCE · NFSLLalo Stars edge Barrack Chelsea 5:4, CrocCity beat Jamba 4:2, Hotspur survive Bakura 5:4 and Emirates see off Aitor Stars 4:3.
SOURCE · NFSLThe maiden National Futsal Super League gets underway in Kaduna. Opening day results include Everlasting FC's 14:2 statement win and Barrack Chelsea edging Kwaru United 5:4.
SOURCE · BlueprintCoaches, players and referees from every participating club attend a one day seminar overseen by CAF and FIFA accredited futsal referee Musa Dung Davou, updating all 32 teams on the laws of the modern game before kickoff.
SOURCE · LeadershipFutsal Lagos joins forces with BallOFF at Whitesands School, Lekki: top tier competition and street style futsal powered by MTN and the African Impact Initiative, pulling fans, players and sponsors into one arena.
SOURCE · ViewLagosGalaxy 5s Global Sports, in partnership with the Nigeria Football Federation, announces the maiden National Futsal Super League in Kaduna: 32 teams drawn from the six geopolitical zones, with coaching and refereeing programmes alongside. MD Shamsudeen Tijjani Yusuf: after a 30 year absence, the league will produce the bedrock of a national futsal team.
SOURCE · Leadership / BlueprintThe second WLB Futsal Lagos Exhibition Day takes over Meadow Hall School, Ikate: Futsal Lagos All Stars against Smart City FC, a women's showcase pointing at the future, and Dazzle FC dismantling Varsity FC 6:2. COO Bolaji Animashaun calls it a test run for the league, and the schools programme in action.
SOURCE · Independent Nigeria · SportsgisterFutsal Lagos stages further exhibition matchdays in Lagos, with sides including Smart City FC taking part, building the case for organised indoor football in the country's biggest city.
SOURCE · Futsal LagosThe first ever CAF Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations is played and Morocco lift it, then the first FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup follows the same year. An entire international lane opens at once.
SOURCE · CAF / FIFA
Sports agency WLB Sports Limited announces Futsal Lagos, a professional futsal initiative and the first of its kind, opening with an exhibition at the indoor sports hall, National Stadium, Surulere, featuring two professional teams and a celebrity match. Cofounder Unwana Etuk: the aim is to make futsal the number one indoor sport in Lagos and Nigeria.
SOURCE · Pulse Sports NigeriaResults, launches, appointments. If it moves Nigerian or African futsal, it belongs on this record.
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NATIONAL FUTSAL SUPER LEAGUE · GALAXY 5s GLOBAL SPORTS · IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NFFThe National Futsal Super League, delivered by Galaxy 5s Global Sports in partnership with the NFF. Kaduna opened the season in January with 32 teams, Port Harcourt followed in October, and Abuja is next. This is the full record, zone by zone.
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Family Love came into the final with eight goals from their semi and took the champions all the way to the last whistle. Selected Star held on, as they had against City Boys two nights earlier, and Port Harcourt had its first NFSL champions.
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On finals day in Kaduna, YSFON Queens F/C KD swept the women's final, and Nigerian women's futsal had its first champions. The lane that opened worldwide in 2025 now has a Nigerian flag in it.
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Staged by Futsal9ja in partnership with the NFSL at the Liberty Stadium indoor handball court, 31 August to 2 September. Ten clubs played, from more than fifty that applied.
Four games and 79 goals in a morning. Both finalists had put fourteen past somebody in their semi finals.
The academies took the floor, and the game turned on a comeback from 5:1 down.
Apex Stars were 1:3 down at the interval. Four games, 48 goals.
Kaduna was the proof and Port Harcourt made it two. Abuja is next, then Ibadan and Lagos, with every zone champion going through to a National Final.
Champions: Emirates FA · Women: YSFON Queens
DONE ✓Champions: Selected Star, 5:4 against Family Love
DONE ✓Who reigns in the capital? Enter a club →
ENTRIES OPENThe exhibition games filled the city's indoor court in September
TO COMEThe biggest market on the tour
TO COMEZone champions, one host city, one national title
THENFutsal9ja 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.
We start where the game actually is: a hard court, ten players and a WhatsApp group. Everything else is built on top of that.
Not a federation, not a club. We back every organisation moving this game and compete with none of them.
Registering costs nothing. The research is published free. The guides are free to copy, print and use.
Support is a word until you list it. This is the work.
Costed, step by step guides for converting a hard court, opening a school hall and founding a club with no money at all.
Coaches to clubs, referees to competitions, players to teams, and organisers to each other. One register, one country.
Referenced research anyone can put in front of a school, a sponsor, a state or a federation, free to use with no credit needed.
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.
NFSL, Futsal Lagos and everyone else organising the game get amplified here. Their wins are the sport's wins.
So that in ten years there is a written history of how Nigerian futsal was built, and by whom.
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.
Partnering with established futsal education bodies so Nigerian coaches can train and earn recognised futsal qualifications without leaving the country.
Structured help for clubs and academies: training frameworks, matchday standards and season planning, not just a listing on a page.
A first generation of certified Nigerian futsal officials, trained to the laws that actually govern the game.
Beyond Lagos and Ibadan. Court conversions, school leagues and organisers in every geopolitical zone.
Turning an open international lane into an actual Nigerian pathway: teams, competition and a route to the national side.
Enough verified data on players, courts and competitions to make the case to states, schools and the federation with numbers.
Anything and everything. If you're not sure who to ask, ask here.
PLAYERSplayers@futsal9ja.comJoin the community, get on the register, send footage.
CLUBS & INSTITUTIONSclubs@futsal9ja.comClubs, universities, academies and competitions.
MEDIA & PARTNERSmedia@futsal9ja.comPress, story tips, sponsorship and partnerships.

Futsal was codified in South America in the 1930s and became Brazil's default childhood game. Most Brazilian players grow up on the court and only move to grass in their teens: thousands of clubs, school halls and neighbourhood courts feeding one pipeline that never sleeps.
The output is unmatched: five futsal world titles, more than any nation, and a production line whose first touch was learned on a hard court with a heavy ball. Data cited by FIFA and UEFA puts futsal at roughly 275% more ball touches per player than 11 a side.
For Nigeria: a factory is a decision. Brazil built the courts, the leagues and the habit, then let talent do the rest. Decisions travel.

Every Iranian kid played gol koochik, small goal street football. In 2003 the federation built a professional league on top of that habit and began scouting from age 12. The street supplied the players; the league supplied the stage.
The result: the most decorated nation in Asian futsal, and third at the 2016 Futsal World Cup.
For Nigeria: we already own the street half. The compound game is gol koochik with a different accent. The missing half is the system, and systems can be copied.

Morocco folded futsal into the national football project: a dedicated base at the Mohammed VI complex, full-time technical staff, continental ambition on a schedule. The same governance that reached a football World Cup semi final built the futsal power too, on purpose.
Three African titles (2016, 2020, 2024) and back to back World Cup quarter finals later, the blueprint is complete and it is African.
For Nigeria: no imported miracle required. The proof lives in our confederation, against our opponents.

Spain built the LNFS, a professional futsal league running since 1989 and older than the Premier League, then let clubs, academies, TV deals and coaching schools grow around it. Futsal became a sport in its own right and a finishing school for football.
Two world titles, seven European crowns, thirty five unbroken years of a professional top flight.
For Nigeria: leagues are infrastructure. Talent follows a stage. Build the stage, keep it standing, and everything compounds.

Uzbekistan hosted the 2024 Futsal World Cup, the first ever in Central Asia. Thailand runs a professional league that fills arenas and qualifies for World Cups. Indonesia's pro league is booming with broadcast money.
Emerging nations are buying in early because early is cheap.
For Nigeria: the window is open. This is our timing, not our excuse. The cost of entry only rises.

Argentina won the 2016 Futsal World Cup with a fraction of Brazil's futsal economy. Paraguay and Costa Rica qualify consistently on structure alone. Mexico is building through the CONCACAF championship right now.
None of them outspent anyone. They were better organised.
For Nigeria: strategy is the equaliser. The podium is not reserved for the rich. It is reserved for the organised.

Twenty one goals, the most in any game in Port Harcourt.
The first of the champions’ two one goal escapes.
Settled by a single goal.
Ambassadors had scored sixteen in the quarter finals. Selected Star kept them to three.
Eight goals, the most either finalist scored in a single game.

Selected Star are the champions of Port Harcourt.