The Sierra Leone Premier League has been suspended indefinitely because of a lack of sponsorship.<\/p>\n
The news comes as the country’s national team makes gains in the Fifa rankings,<\/strong> moving above the likes of Nigeria, Cameroon, and South Africa.<\/p>\n The first round of the league ended two weeks ago and the second stage should have have started this weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cThings can’t continue like this – I’m appealing to companies to come to our aid \u201d <\/strong>Victor Lewis Chairman of Sierra Leone’s Premier League<\/p>\n “We do not have the money to start the second phase,” Victor Lewis, Chairman of the Premier League Board (PLB) said.<\/p>\n “Until we have the cash the league will remain suspended.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Kallon FC, owned by the Sierra Leone footballing legend Mohamed Kallon, are currently top of the table.<\/p>\n “I’m disappointed to state that all the companies we’ve approached have let us down, with the exception of the cement company Leocem,” Lewis said.<\/p>\n “We had difficult times running the first round of the league because of lack of sufficient cash – we only received money from Leocem, which was not enough.<\/p>\n “Some of us used our personal money to complete the first round.<\/p>\n “Things can’t continue like this and I’m appealing to companies to come to our aid by rescuing the league from collapsing.”<\/p>\n One of the companies approached to sponsor the league, local sports betting company Mercury International, explained they did not sponsor the league because the board had named it after a mobile phone company before approaching them.<\/p>\n By Mohamed Fajah Barrie BBC Sport, Freetown <\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The Sierra Leone Premier League has been suspended indefinitely because of a lack of sponsorship. The news comes as the country’s national team makes gains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[2792,12175],"class_list":["post-40677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-sierra-leone-football","tag-sierra-leone-premier-lreague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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