Abia Warriors Football Club is a
Nigerian professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club based in the city of
Umuahia,
Abia state
Abia State ( ig, Ȯha Abia) is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, it is bordered to the north and northeast by the states of Enugu, and Ebonyi, Imo State to the west, Cross River State to the east, Akwa Ibom State to the ...
.
Between 2005 and 2010, they played under the name "Orji Uzor Kalu FC" in honor of Abia governor
Orji Uzor Kalu who helped the club with state sponsorship upon promotion to the professional level. They reverted to their old name in summer of 2010.
They won promotion to the
Nigeria Premier League for the first time in August 2013 after winning their division on the last day.
Current squad
Notable players
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Raimi Kola
Raimi Kola Kowiyu is a Nigeria-born naturalized Beninese national soccer team player. He presently plays for AS Tonnerre in the benin premier league 2019–20 season. He has played as forward for Abia Warriors. in the Nigeria Premier League, Buffl ...
(2015–2017)
References
External links
2005 Division 1 table
Association football clubs established in 2003
Football clubs in Nigeria
Abia State
2003 establishments in Nigeria
Sports clubs and teams in Nigeria
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