Kano Pillars F.C.

Kano Pillars
Full name	Kano Pillars Football Club
Nickname(s)	Sai Masu Gida
Founded	1990; 32 years ago
Ground	Sani Abacha Stadium; Kano
Capacity	16,000
Chairman	Alhaji Surajo Yahaya Jambul
Manager	Ibrahim A. Musa
League	Nigeria Professional Football League
2020–21	Nigeria Professional Football League, 6th of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours

Kano Pillars Football Club is a Nigerian professional football club based in Kano. They play in the top division in Nigerian football, the Nigerian Premier 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.

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.

June 2021, 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. [1]

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.

league trophies: kano pillars won their first league title in 2008
2012: pillars won their second league title ahead of enyimba
2013: kano pillars won a second successful title ahead of ahead of enyimba again
2014: pillars joined heartland and enyimba in winning three league titles in a row

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.

longest unbeaten run ended when they lost to Julius Berger FC Ended after 12 years with loss to Nasarawa United August 2015.

Performance in CAF competitions[]

CAF Champions League: 6 appearances

Kano Pillars arrival to Ahmadu Bello Stadium for a friendly match.

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
12	GK	NGA
14	DF	NGA	Emmanuel Anyanwu
16	FW	NGA	Bright Silas
18	MF	NGA	Kokoete Udo
19	FW	NGA


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	FW	NGA	Mustapha Jibrin
21	MF	NGA
23	GK	NGA
24	FW	NGA
25	MF	NGA	Aniekeme Okon
26	DF	NGA	Chinedu Sunday Chukwu
27	DF	NGA
28	FW	NGA
29	MF	NGA
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