The 2022/23 Sierra Leone Premier League season will kick off tomorrow Friday, 9th December 2022 in Bo City Southern Sierra Leone when the defending champions Bo Rangers Football Club host Real Republicans FC one of the three teams that earned promotion into this year’s league during the 2022 national playoffs.

After sixty-eight years of existence, Bo Rangers clinch the previous league season becoming the second provincial team to have won the country’s top-tier league recording seventy-eight (78) points, twenty-five wins, three draws and six defeats.

Bo Rangers are also with an unbeaten streak at home in over twenty-five matches, winning all their home games in the 2021/22 league season, conceding only four in their last twenty home games at the Bo Stadium.

However, on the visiting side Real Republicans nicknamed “Soccer Ambassadors” are not debutants in the league, they are three times Sierra Leone Premier League champions after their first title in 1981, they won it back to back in 1983 and 1984.

Real Republicans Football Club commenced their journey of returning to the country’s top-tier league after their thirteen years absence emerging as champions of the Western Area Football Association (WAFA) Super Ten competition which earned them a spot in the national playoffs and triumphed over Great Scarcies Football Club 4-1 on penalties at the Makeni Wusum field to secure the third place spot.