Warri Wolves Football Club (formerly NPA) is a Nigerian

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club. Formerly run by the

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, the club was based in

Warri The city of Warri is an oil hub within South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House. Warri City is one of the major hubs of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. Warri, Udu, Okpe and Uvwie are the commercial ...

, before relocating to

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after promotion to the

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in 2003.

History

After making the 2001 Super Four play-offs, NPA FC was relegated by three points in the next season after winning only 10 of their 34 league games. They were promoted again in 2003 after finishing second in Division 2. NPA FC ended their 2004/05 season near the bottom of the table and it was announced that 16 of their 40 players would be laid off. The team was relegated again after the 2005–06 season, and moved back to Warri in April 2007 after a deal with the government of Delta State. The team was renamed "Warri Wolves" at the start of the season and won promotion to the 2009 Premier League season as champions of Division 1B. Wolves finished with 59 points from 18 wins, five draws and seven losses, scoring 42 goals and conceded 16. They were involved in an incident on March 8, 2008, when a pitch invasion after a goalless draw at First Bank FC left seven players and officials injured. They played the first part of the 2008–09 season in Oleh because of renovations to the Warri Stadium. They are fondly back in Warri City and now play home matches at the Warri Township Stadium.

Performance in CAF competitions

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: 1 appearance ::

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

– First Round *

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: 3 appearances ::

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

– First Round of 16 ::

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

– Second Round ::

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

– Second Round *

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: 1 appearance ::2002 – First Round (as NPA)

Staff

* Peter Nieketien (Technical Adviser) * Moses Etu (chairman) * Azuka Chiemeka (Media Officer) * Onoriode Joshua Oborevwori (Chairman of Delta Sports Commission) * Napoleon Aluma (Head Coach)

Coaching history

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(Jan 2005 – Jan 2006) * Solomon Ogbeide (2008–2009) * Paul Aigbogun (Jan 2010 – Feb 2012) *

(Feb 2012 – Sept 2012) * Edema Fuludu (2012) * Solomon Ogbeide (2013) * Paul Aigbogun (Jan 2014 – Jan 2016) * Sam Okpodu (Jan 2016 – Jun 2016) * Ard Sluis (2016) * Mansur Abdullahi (2016) * Ngozi Elechi (Aug 2019 – Sept 2019) * Evans Ogenyi (Sept 2019 – 2022) * Jolomi Atune (2022 – 2024) * Napoleon Aluma (2024 – present)

References

{{Nigerian Premier League Football clubs in Nigeria Sport in Delta State