Nico United are an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club based in
Selebi-Phikwe
Selebi-Phikwe (also spelt ''Selibe Phikwe'') is a mining town located in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 42,488 in 2022. The town is an administrative district, separate from the surrounding Central District.
Mining
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,
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalaha ...
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Their name of "Nico", which has been the target of jokes and
Internet memes since
Love Live! School Idol Project
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gained popularity, actually comes from the copper and nickel mining town of Selebi-Phikwe in the northeast part of Botswana, about 420 kilometres from the capital
Gaborone
Gaborone ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census.
Gaboron ...
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History
The team were promoted to the
Botswana Premier League
The Botswana Premier League, currently known as the BTC Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level football league in Botswana. Organised by the Botswana Football Association, the league was formed in 1978 to replace the pre-inde ...
for the first time in the 2004–05 season after spending the 2003–04 season playing in the First Division North.
Honours
*
FA Challenge Cup: 2
::1986, 1987
Officials
*Leslie Selema ''(Manager)''
*Masego Ntsatsi ''(Vice Manager)''
*Tlhalefang Bagwasi ''(Secretary)''
*Mokgosi ''(Vice Secretary)''
*Kgakgamatso Moreri ''(Treasurer)''
*Lopang Pule ''(PR Official)''
*Simeone Mooketsi ''(Add Member)''
*Shane Koontse ''(Supporters Chairman)''
*Mbiganyi Thatitswe
*Comfort Buti
*Vincent Mokgwathi
Football clubs in Botswana
Football clubs in Selebi-Phikwe
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