Nigeria & Africa · the national record

Nigerian futsal has a home.

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.

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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.

The Futsal9ja course · Edition 4

From never seen it to world class.

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.

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Made in partnership with the National Futsal Super League. Free to read, free to print and free to share.

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 →
The league so far

Two zones played. Two champions.

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.

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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.

National Futsal Super League
National league body

National Futsal Super League

In partnership with the Nigeria Football Federation

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.

nfsl-ng.com · @nfsl_league

Futsal Lagos
Organiser & development

Futsal Lagos

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

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. 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.

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.

Join the register
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 and 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 not sure yet
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, 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 →
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, then take the whole course.

Open the Futsal9ja course →
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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.

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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
ENTRIES OPEN · NFSL ZONE THREE

Abuja zonal tour

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 →
STARTING SOON

FL Weekend Training Program

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: FutsalLagos
UPCOMING · POSTPONED, NOT PARKED

Futsal Lagos · Season 1

The first professional futsal league season in Nigeria. Postponed from its original window, and still coming. Clubs, venue and matchdays confirm here first.

TO COME

Ibadan and Lagos zonal tours

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.

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NFSL National Final

Every zone champion in one place for one national title. Venue to be announced.

FREE · ALWAYS ON

The Futsal9ja course

Edition 4 is live: thirty eight sections and forty one drills by age, in five languages.

Open the course →
The record so far
23 OCT 2026NFSL

Selected Star are the Port Harcourt champions

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
22 OCT 2026NFSL

Port Harcourt semi finals: Selected Star and Family Love go through

Selected Star beat Ambassadors 7:3 and Family Love beat London 8:4 to set up the final.

SOURCE · NFSL
21 OCT 2026NFSL

Port Harcourt opens with 51 goals in four games

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
OCT 2026NFSL

Abuja entries open

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 · NFSL
SEP 2026Futsal9ja

Edition 4 of the Futsal9ja course goes live

The 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 · Futsal9ja
31 AUG TO 2 SEP 2026Exhibition

138 goals in three mornings in Ibadan

The 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 · NFSL
MAY 2026Community

Futsal Enugu brings the game to the South East

An 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
15 FEB 2026NFSL

Emirates FA are the first NFSL champions

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
FEB 2026NFSL

Sports Commission hails the maiden 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 Nigeria
30 JAN 2026NFSL

Semi finals: Lalo Stars and Emirates book the final

Lalo Stars beat CrocCity Football Academy 3:2, and Emirates come through a semi final battle with Hotspur to win 4:2.

SOURCE · NFSL
29 JAN 2026NFSL

Quarter finals decided in Kaduna

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.

SOURCE · NFSL
26 JAN 2026NFSL

The NFSL kicks off at Murtala Mohammed Square

The 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 · Blueprint
25 JAN 2026NFSL

Kaduna trains all 32 teams before a ball is kicked

Coaches, 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 · Leadership
14 DEC 2025Futsal Lagos

Futsal Lagos × BallOFF: the December Showdown

Futsal 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 · ViewLagos
NOV 2025NFSL

NFSL announced: Kaduna to host inaugural national league

Galaxy 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 / 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, 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 · Sportsgister
2025Futsal Lagos

Futsal Lagos exhibitions continue

Futsal 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 Lagos
2025Africa

Year zero for the women's game

The 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
DEC 2022Futsal Lagos

WLB Sports launches Futsal Lagos

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 Nigeria
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Results, launches, appointments. If it moves Nigerian or African futsal, it belongs on this record.

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Competition centre

NFSL · The 2026 season.

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

The 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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The road to the trophy · hover a team to light its path
Quarter finals · 21 Oct
Semi finals · 22 Oct
The Final · 23 Oct
 
CHAMPIONS · PORT HARCOURT 2026
Selected Star
5:4 in the final
Selected Star with the trophy
SELECTED STAR · CHAMPIONS, PORT HARCOURT 2026
The scoreboard late in the final
FIVE FOUR · 34 SECONDS TO GO
A Selected Star player with his gold medal
GOLD AROUND THE NECK
A Family Love player after the final
FAMILY LOVE · SILVER, AND SMILING
The final
Selected StarvsFamily Love

Selected Star 5:4 Family Love

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.

23 · 10 · 2026 · PH INDOOR ARENA, PORT HARCOURT

Results and imagery from NFSL Port Harcourt Zone 2026 (@nfsl_league · Galaxy 5s Global Sports). Futsal9ja covers the league independently. Corrections are welcome at media@futsal9ja.com.
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Quarter finals · 29 Jan
Semi finals · 30 Jan
The Final · 15 Feb
 
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 finalists.

EMIRATES FA · CHAMPIONS, KADUNA 2026
YSFON QUEENS · WOMEN CHAMPIONS
FINALS DAY · THE WALKOUT
MOTM AWARDS · EVERY MATCH HONOURED
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. The lane that opened worldwide in 2025 now has a Nigerian flag in it.

15 · 02 · 2026 · HAND BALL COURT, MURTALA MOHAMMED SQUARE

Results, stats and imagery from NFSL Kaduna Zone 2026 (@nfsl_league · Galaxy 5s Global Sports). Futsal9ja covers the league independently. Corrections are welcome at media@futsal9ja.com.
Between the zones

The Ibadan exhibition games.

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.

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Day one · 31 Aug · Men
The Elites FC13:11Heritage 7 Hills

Four games and 79 goals in a morning. Both finalists had put fourteen past somebody in their semi finals.

Day two · 1 Sep · Academies
Infinity FCvChampions FC

The academies took the floor, and the game turned on a comeback from 5:1 down.

Day three · 2 Sep · Women
Apex Stars FA9:3Liberty Angels FC

Apex Stars were 1:3 down at the interval. Four games, 48 goals.

The zonal tour

Five cities. One national final.

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.

NORTH WESTNORTH EASTNORTH CENTRALSOUTH WESTSOUTH EASTSOUTH SOUTHKADUNAZONE ONE · DONEABUJAENTRIES OPENPORT HARCOURTZONE TWO · DONETO COMEIBADANLAGOSTO COMEENUGUCOMMUNITY
North West

Kaduna

Murtala Mohammed Sq.

Champions: Emirates FA · Women: YSFON Queens

DONE ✓
South South

Port Harcourt

PH Indoor Arena

Champions: Selected Star, 5:4 against Family Love

DONE ✓
South West

Ibadan

Venue to be confirmed

The exhibition games filled the city's indoor court in September

TO COME
South West

Lagos

Venue to be announced

The biggest market on the tour

TO COME
Every zone

National Final

Venue to be announced

Zone champions, one host city, one national title

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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 with 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.com
Contact

Talk to us.