Spires 5-Aside Tourney: Orion & Leon 're champions of Ikorodu

Spires 5-Aside Tourney: Orion & Leon 're champions of Ikorodu

There were widespread celebrations in Ikorodu on Saturday as the grand finale of the Spires 5-Aside Naija Street Soccer Tournament took center stage at Deeonis football courts Ota-Ona.

The final, which attracted hundreds of football fans, and spectators recorded plenty of excitement as Orion and Leon football club annihilated New Generation FC 7-0 to emerge back-to-back champions of Ikorodu.

The coach Biyi Adesonya tutored side received a prize money of N500,000, as champions, while New Generation FC walked away with the sum of N300,000, as runner-up of the tournament.

Third-Place Winner, Diamond football club went home with N100,000. Samuel Emmanuel of Orion and Leon football club won the Top scorer award and received the sum of N50,000. All three teams from 1st to 3rd will represent the Ikorodu division at the state tournament in October.

The initiator of the tournament, Dr. Bankole Allibay, has expressed delight on the overall fallout of the tournament in Ikorodu as he assures other divisions will be even better.

" We have started well in Ikorodu and the projection is to improve on the standard in other divisions, congratulations to the top three teams in Ikorodu, we look forward to see them at the state championship". Allibay said.

The Spires 5-Aside Naija Street Soccer divisional championship moves to Epe on Saturday, 2nd May 2026.