NPFL: BetKing Renews Partnership Deal With Ikorodu City FC As Official Partner

BetKing, Nigeria’s starring sports betting and integer amusement marque nether KingMakers, is pleased to denote the renewal of its authoritative concern with Ikorodu City Football Club for the 2025/26 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season. This renewal marks the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth of collaboration betwixt some organisations, underscoring a shared committedness to grassroots development, younker empowerment, and the maturation of Nigerian football.

Since the concern commenced successful 2023, Ikorodu City FC, affectionately known arsenic the Oga Boys, has made awesome strides, earning promotion to the NPFL successful 2024 and finishing an admirable 4th spot successful their debut 2024/25 campaign. Their play was peculiarly memorable, highlighted by a record-breaking 6–0 triumph implicit Katsina United, 1 of the astir ascendant results successful NPFL history.

BetKing’s enactment for Nigerian sports extends good beyond football. The institution has precocious commissioned a modern mini sports analyzable astatine Ifako Ijaiye, which is already benefiting implicit 400,000 assemblage members, including those from neighbouring areas. Additionally, BetKing provided enactment for para-athletics astatine the precocious concluded National Sports Festival successful Ogun State, organised the BetKing Wheelchair Basketball Championship, and partnered with the Paralympic Committee of Nigeria. These initiatives bespeak BetKing’s committedness to grassroots sports and inclusivity crossed the country.

Speaking connected the renewed partnership, Gossy Ukanwoke, Managing Director of KingMakers and CEO of BetKing, stated: “Our renewed concern with Ikorodu City FC reflects our committedness to empowering young endowment and strengthening Africa’s presumption arsenic a planetary sports powerhouse. At KingMakers and BetKing, we judge the aboriginal of sports begins with grassroots investment, which is wherefore we built and commissioned a mini stadium astatine Ifako Ijaiye earlier this twelvemonth to supply younker and communities with a modern abstraction to play, train, and dream.

“Beyond infrastructure, our enactment for initiatives specified arsenic Paralympians demonstrates our dedication to gathering an inclusive sports ecosystem that creates pride, opportunity, and lasting interaction crossed Nigeria and the continent,” helium added.

Ikorodu City FC Chairman, Sanmi Doherty, remarked: “BetKing has been much than a sponsor—they person been a catalyst for our vision. From promotion to a top-four NPFL decorativeness and 1 of the astir ascendant results successful the league, their enactment has been transformational. We look guardant to gathering connected this momentum together.”

BetKing, nether the KingMakers umbrella, remains committed to empowering communities, inspiring fans, and advancing Nigerian sports done strategical investments successful shot and inclusive initiatives.