BOWFT23: Edo Queens, Remo Stars Ladies Battle for Final Ticket 

*Bayelsa Queens in face-off with  Delta Queens for the other ticket

Adibe Emenyonu  in Benin City

In what sports enthusiasts have described as a renewed rivalry, Edo Queens will today play Remo Stars Ladies in the opening semi-final game of the third edition of the Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament (BOWFT).

The match which is scheduled to hold at the Western Boys Mini Stadium in Ikpoba-Okha LGA of Edo State will kick-off at 4pm.

In a top of the billing encounter at the group stage, Edo Queens FC secured a 2-1 victory over their Ogun State-based Remo Stars Ladies with the deciding goal recorded through a penalty on the dot of 90th minute of the tension soaked game.

In the quarter-final encounter, new entrants to Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL), Remo Stars Ladies knocked out the defending champions of the BOWFT, FC Robo 3-1 to secure the semi-final ticket. 

In the second game of semi-finals, Bayelsa Queens FC will face-off with Delta Queens FC at the UNIBEN Sports Complex in Benin City by 4pm.

Winners of today’s semi-final games in the BOWFT will play the final of the tournament on Wednesday, November 1stat the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City.

Over twenty-three wives of governors and former governors will attend the grand finale of the tournament which will hold alongside the closing ceremony of the competition.