The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) 2022 National Division 1 Play-off is set to kick start on Monday, 29th August 2022 both in Makeni and the Kenema Zone respectively, with four champions, facing off in the opening ceremony out of the ten teams that qualified to reach this stage.

Bombali Sebora Football Club champions of the North East Region Football Association (NERFA) Super Ten competition also the only team that records forty-five points face again Edmond Michael Foundation for the second time at the Kenema City field, the host team for this fixture was eliminated at the quarter-finals stage on penalties in 2012 their last playoff appearance by EMF which also emerged as champions in the Southern Region Football Association (SRFA) Super Ten competition.

Western Area Football Association (WAFA) Real Republicans Football Club reach the playoffs for the first time for over a decade since they were relegated into division one in the 2008/09 season and will commence the journey of ending their twelve years absence at the Makeni Wusum field against the champions in the Eastern Region Football Association (ERFA) Super Ten competition Freetown Football Club who are in the quest to ensuring Kenema produce two Premier League clubs.

Both matches will kick off at exactly 4:30 pm, and two matches are played every day after the opening ceremony across the two venues, three teams will promote into the country’s top tier league for the 2022/23 season