Ocean Boys

Ocean Boys FC
Basic data
Surname	Ocean Boys Football Club
Seat	Brass , Nigeria
founding	November 12, 2002
resolution	November 23, 2012
president	Sylva Nathaniel Ngo
First soccer team
Venue	Yenagoa Township Stadium or Ughelli Township Stadium
Places	5,000 (both)
league	Nigerian Premier League
2009/10	14th place
home Away

Ocean Boys was a Nigerian brass football club .

history

season	space
2002	?
2003	?
2004	?
2005	? (Ascent)
2006	1 (2) (group B) nq
2007	7 (group A) nq
2007/08	13
2008/09	8th
2009/10	14th
* nq = not qualified for the final round * The placement before the start of the final round are in brackets .

Ocean Boys FC was founded on November 12th, 2002 by Sylva Nathaniel Ngo, Chairman of the Brass City Council. Ngo founded the club with the intention of giving young players the chance to become active in a club and thus to lure them off the streets. Within three years they made it to the Nigerian Premier League . In 2006, in their first first division season, the big surprise came. In Group B, the team won ten of eighteen games and qualified behind Nasarawa United for the final round. In this (from group A Kwara United and Wikki Tourists qualified ) each team played against each other once. In the four-way tournament from September 6th to 10th, 2006, the Ocean Boys won the first two games against Nasarawa United and Wikki Tourists, so they could afford a draw against Kwara United on the last day. The championship was won with 3-0 goals and seven points. The following year the season was disappointing. In Group A they only managed to place seventh and thus clearly missed qualifying for the final round. Even in the new league mode 2007/08 they could not build on the success of 2006 and only came in 13. With fifty points, the club was only four points ahead of the first relegation place. However, they celebrated victories in the Nigerian soccer cup and reached the final. On July 7, 2008 they faced the Gombe United team in the final in Makurdi , in the Aper Aku Stadium . After 90 minutes and extra time no winner was found and the score was 2-2, the penalty shoot-out had to decide. The Ocean Boys prevailed 7: 6 and were able to hold the trophy in their hands for the first time. For the 2008/09 season the club reached a single-digit place in the table. With eighth place the team achieved a good midfield position. So far, the Ocean Boys have won the Nigerian Premier League and the Nigerian Football Cup. The club went bankrupt in November 2012 and all games of the 2011/2012 season were canceled. On December 21, 2012, the successor club Divine Warriors was founded, but this was dissolved after nine games and the resignation of Ada Gwegwe. The successor club sold on March 8, 2013 through its early bankruptcy, most of the players and its license to Fountain FC .

Stadion

The club played its home games either in the Yenagoa Township Stadium or in the Ughelli Township Stadium .

successes

• Nigerian Premier League : 2006
• Nigerian FA Cup : 2008

Well-known former players

(Selection)

• Gift Atulewa (Nigeria's U-National)
• Ideye Brown, Nigerian national team player
• Ikechukwu Ezenwa (Nigerian national team player and Olympic participant (silver) 2008)
• Uche Okechukwu (Former Nigerian international)
• Stephen Worgu (Nigeria's U international)

Ocean's trainer

(incomplete)

• 2006 00000: Maurice Cooreman
• 2007 00000: Tunde Disu
• 0000000000 Larry Eteli
• 2008-2009: Evans Ogenyi
• 2009 00000: Lawrence Akpokona

swell

1. ↑ Profile on nigeriafootballleague.org ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ League results of the Nigerian Premier League 2006 on rsssf.com
3. ^ Ocean Boys finally quits NPL
4. ^ Ocean Boys now Divine Warriors FC - SuperSport - Football
5. ↑ Gwegwe blasts NNL, Divine Warriors - SuperSport - Football