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Kano Pillars Football Club is a Nigerian professional football club based in Kano, North Western part of Nigeria. They play in the lower division in Nigerian football, the Nigeria National League. Their home stadium is Sani Abacha Stadium. Kano Pillars FC was founded in 1990, the year in which the professional association football league started in Nigeria. It was an amalgamation of three amateur clubs in Kano State.

Kano Pillars

Full name	Kano Pillars Football Club
Nickname(s)	Sai Masu Gida
Founded	1990; 32 years ago (1990)
Ground	Sani Abacha Stadium Kano
Capacity	16,000[1]
Chairman	Alhaji Surajo Yahaya Jambul
Manager	Ibrahim A. Musa
League	Nigeria National League
2021–22	Nigeria Professional Football League, 19th of 20 (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

Founded in 1990, By Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima former chairman Nigeria Football Association and former sport commissioner of Kano, from the combination of WRECA FC, Kano Golden Stars and Bank of the North FC, Kano Pillars achieved outstanding success by winning the 2007–08 Nigerian Premier League. Kano Pillars produced players like Abiodun Baruwa who has since played for Swiss, Austrian, Welsh and British Clubs and Sani Kaita who later plays for Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Another Prominent player is Ahmed Garba 'Yaro Yaro' who later plays for AB in Denmark and a notable player from Kano Pillars FC is Ahmed Musa who played for Leicester City in the English Premier league after joining from CSKA Moscow. It was registered as a limited liability company with the Corporate Affairs Commission, Nigeria, and then registered with the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) as a professional football club. The Kano Pillars drew an average home league attendance of 10,000 in the 2016 league season.

In the 2020/2021 NPFL season, Kano Pillars were fined a whopping sum of ₦7,500,000.00 for failing to follow the orders of the LMC and NFF, which prohibited fans from viewing live games in the stadium. Fans disrupted a top table clash between Akwa United and Kano Pillars. The game ended 0-0 after it was concluded the following day.

They were relegated from NPFL on 16 July 2022 following the confirmation of a verdict against them for the deduction of 3 points, despite an appeal which the NFF committee disregarded against their complaint. The verdict on them was a penalty for what their former chairman did to match officials in their encounter with Dakkada FC[2]

2009 Champions League

They are also nicknamed "Ahly Killers" as they scored 2 magnificent goals in Egypt and drew with Al Ahly Cairo in Egypt 2–2 and 1–1 in Nigeria, so the Ahly Killers went to the Group stage in the African Champions League on the away goals rule. They made it to the semi-finals before being eliminated against fellow Nigerian team Heartland.

Achievements

• Nigerian Premier League

Champions (4): 2007–08, 2011–12, 2013, 2014.

Runners-up (1): 2009–10.

• Nigerian FA Cup

Winners (2): 2019, 1953

Runners-up (2): 1991, 2018.

• Nigerian super cup. 1.winners 2008.
• "'Nigerian super four"'. (runners up)2.

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 6 appearances

2009 – Semi-finals

2011 – First Round

2013 – First Round

2014 – Preliminary Round

2015 – First Round

2020 – Preliminary Round

• CAF Confederation Cup: 0 appearance

Current players

As of 25 December 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GHA Ibrahim Iddrisu 2 DF  CMR Ngweni Ndassi 3 DF  NGA Sani Nasiru 4 MF  NGA Chinedu Ike 6 DF  NGA Musa Munkaila 7 FW  NGA Ahmed Musa 8 MF  NGA Mustapha Salisu 9 FW  NGA Joseph Yanki 10 MF  NGA Rabiu Ali 11 MF  NGA Chris Madaki 12 GK  NGA Joshua Enaholo 14 DF  NGA Emmanuel Anyanwu 16 FW  NGA Bright Silas 18 MF  NGA Kokoete Udo 19 FW  NGA Amia Kenneth Kumbur

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  NGA Mustapha Jibrin 21 MF  NGA Yusuf Seun 23 GK  NGA Suraj Ayeleso 24 FW  NGA David Ebuka 25 MF  NGA Aniekeme Okon 26 DF  NGA Chinedu Sunday Chukwu 27 DF  NGA Victor Dennis 28 FW  NGA Nwagua Nyima 29 MF  NGA Chibuike Ewenike 30 DF  NGA Fahad Usman 31 MF  NGA Yusuf Maigoro 33 DF  NGA Usman Abbas 34 FW  NGA Abbas Rabiu 36 MF  NGA Ali Abdullahi 38 FW  NGA Umar Shehu

Staff

Head Coach/Technical Adviser

• Lionel Emmanuel Soccoia

Chairman

• Tukur Babangida

general manager

• Umar Babangida (Little)

General Coordinator

• Salisu Yaro

Kit Manager

• Habibu Zubair Abubakar

Marketing Manager

• 

  Sani Lawal Mohammed

Notable coaches

• Malik Jabir (2008–) (Technical Adviser)
• Ahmed Pele Abdu
• Ladan Bosso
• Baba Ganaru
• Kadiri Ikhana (1991), (1997–98), (2007–08), (2016–date)
• Ivo Sajh (2009)

Notable players

• Rabiu Ali
• Ahmed Musa
• Junior Lokosa
• Chinedu Udoji
• Ndubisi Chukunyere

References

2. https://punchng.com/lmc-fines-pillars-n7-5m-over-fans-violence/[1]

External links

• Kano Pillars FC Official Website

На других языках

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[de] Kano Pillars

Der Kano Pillars Football Club ist ein 1990 gegründeter nigerianischer Fußballverein aus Kano, der aktuell in der ersten Liga, der Nigeria Professional Football League, spielt.

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- [en] Kano Pillars F.C.

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[ru] Кано Пилларс

«Кано Пилларс» (англ. Kano Pillars FC) — нигерийский футбольный клуб из города Кано. Выступает в чемпионате Нигерии. Основан в 1990 году. Домашние матчи проводит на стадионе «Сани Абача», вмещающем 16 000 зрителей.

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