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History of club

Ikorodu City Football Club was founded in January 2022 and was created for the deeper purpose of serving as a community club in the Ikorodu region of Lagos State, to help find, nurture, and groom talents for the larger benefit of the country.

The club stems from the rebirth of the foremost community-based football team from Ikorodu, known as Bolowotan Football Club (BFC) whose history dates back to 2007. After years of existence, Bolowatan FC gained promotion to the Nigeria National League (NNL) but due to funding issues couldn’t play handed over the slot to MFM FC, who later gained promotion to the top flight league, the then Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

The vision of the club is to have a stronghold in Ikorodu and help reduce the crime rate in the area by training indigent youths and giving them a future to help with that, some of the best players across Lagos were assembled to start Ikorodu City Football Club in 2022 where the club participated in the Nigerian National League (NNL), the second division of Nigeria’s football in the 2021/2022 season and has played in that division for two consecutive seasons now.

The goal of the club is to help take out talents from the street, give them a hope and a future so as to keep them from vices that ruin them and the society and to showcase Nigeria and Africa’s talent to the world through partnerships and player export.