Runners-up of the Sierra Leone Football Association 2022 national division one playoff Luawa Football Club has kick-started preparations for the 2022/23 Sierra Leone Premier League season less than two weeks after the team gained promotion into the country’s top-tier league.
The team which is based in the Western Area bears the “Luawa” name a chiefdom in Kailahun District Eastern Sierra Leone as a result of the situation that the Club’s Owner Lawyer Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai is also an indigene of the aforementioned, Luawa Chiefdom has produced several influential people including the late Kai Londo.
Luawa Football Club has appeared in the national division one playoff twice, it took the club only nine years to attain promotion to the Premier League after it was established in 2013, and the preparation for their maiden appearance will also feature a multi-purpose event celebration and fundraising dinner scheduled for the 1st October 2022 at the View Hotel, FCC Building