DIVTECH FOOTBALL COPA TOURNAMENT 2025 IS UNDERWAY

By, MR SPORT

Divtech Football Copa Tournament 2025 starts in great fashion.

REALITY FA, OKI UNITED, and B UNITED FA begins with victory as they won their opening weekend matches of the 2025 Divtech  Football Copa  Football Competition at OKI PRY. SCH, FOOTBALL FIELD  ALAGUTAN-OKI, IYANA- IPAJA, LAGOS.

Saturday's Group A opener encounter, The defending champion REALITY FA defeated DARLING FC, in a mouthwatering clash as the host nip the visitor 1- 0. goal scored by EMMANUEL OBASOGIE 79th minutes

while OKI UNITED overcame FC SYNERGY by the same scoreline.

The goalscorer was HAMMED SADIKU in  63rd minutes.

Sunday'S group B matches also saw B. UNITED FA beat SGH SPORTS ACADEMY 2-0,  in a tantalizing game that produced goals from TESLIM  in the 9th minutes while IFEANYI 17th minutes goal secured the victory for B UNITED FA.

In other match PLADIS FC and KING FC shared a spoil with a 2-2 draw.

PLADIS FC drew the first blood In 18th minutes goal by QUADRIL while JOSEPH drew level in 44th minutes for KING FC to make it 1-1 In the first half. 

As the second half began,  AYODEJI puts his team ahead in 57th minutes as he puts up a great skill to get past the KING goalkeeper, while KING FC AHMED equalized  in 68th minutes to make it 2-2 score line.

OLADAPO OLALEKAN  Divtech Sports Director, expressed his delight with the tournament's organisation.

This year's tournament has been the finest; it is an upgrade over the previous one. "We now have an opening ceremony before the matches begins,"

OLALEKAN told PREMARV MEDIA SPORTS. "Aside from the fact that the winner will get prizes, the primary goal of this event is to identify and harness the potential hidden talent at the grassroots level, who may one day become football heroes hopefully, to play at a bigger stages in future.

We are doing our best to bring in scouts to examine the Players as well." The event, which runs until March 22, has upped prize money to N150,000 for champions and N80,000 for runners-up, up from N100,000 and N60,000 in previous years. 

One Of The Sponsor Of The Tournament

Chairman of JOKUNBA ENTERPRISES (JKB LAGOS) ADEBAJA ADEKUNLE, whose company is one of the competition's sponsors, emphasized their dedication to youth development. "Said, this is our community, JKB LAGOS base in Iyana Ipaja, and we are here to bring more joy to the youth because they are the future of the country," says ADEKUNLE. 

The organizer of the tournament have also pledged high quality officiating referees throughout the competition as they brought in professional referees.

Below are the fixtures and next weekend matches as the tournament continues.

GROUP A
REALITY FA
OKI UNITED
FC SYNERGY
DARLING FC

GROUP B
PLADIS FC
B. UNITED FA
SGH SPORTS ACADEMY
KING FC

GROUP C
STARS FC
MARVELOUS FC
ZION FC
GODS POWER FC

GROUP D
HEAVEN NATION FC
DESTINY REIGN FA
ALIM CITY FA
REALITY FEEDERS

NEXT WEEKEND MATCHES
SATURDAY, 1st FEB., 2025

Group C
STARS FC vs GODS POWER FC
12pm

MARVELOUS  FC vs ZION FC  1:20pm

Group D
HEAVEN NATION FC vs  REALITY FEEDERS 2:50pm

SUNDAY, 2ND FEB., 2025
DESTINY REIGN FA vs ALIM CITY FA 
3:30pm

2nd Match
GROUP A
FC SYNERGIA vs  REALITY FA  5pm