El-Kanemi Warriors Football Club is a football team based in

Maiduguri Maiduguri is the capital and the largest city of Borno State Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border form ...

Borno State Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon, its northern border ...

, Nigeria. They play at

El-Kanemi Stadium El-Kanemi Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Maiduguri, Nigeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of El-Kanemi Warriors. The stadium has a seating capacity of 10,000 people. It was named after the Kanem-Born ...

. They ended their 2005, season in the lower half of the

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.They were relegated to the

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in 2007. In 2012, the El-Kanemi Warriors were promoted back to the top level. Due to the

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, in 2014 they played their home games in Kano. From 2015 to 2016, they hosted their home games at the Muhammadu Dikko Stadium in Katsina before returning to

and

. On October 17, 2017, the club announced former

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coach, Imama Amapakabo as their new coach on a one-year deal.

Achievements

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: 2 ::1991, 1992 *

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: 2 ::1991, 2000

Performance in CAF competitions

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: 2 appearances ::1992 – First Round ::1993 – Semi-finals

Current squad

''As of 17 April 2019''

External links

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