Yemi Idowu's Nath Boys FC are Lagos Metro Pro League Champions

Yemi Idowu's Nath Boys Football Club have won the 2015/2016 Metro Pro League title having won Remo Stars 3-1 on the season’s final day.

Yemi Idowu addressing the Nath Boys team during a pre-season tour in Portugal 2014

Goals from Ademilua Adebayo and Ekene Okolugo’s brace were all the Achieve Yunus coached boys needed to breezed aside the Sky Blue Boys who got their lone strike through Ibeh Nnamdi at the Agege Stadium.

Victory meant Yemi Idowu's Nath Boys emerged as champions with 34 points to Remo Stars' 33 points.


"It's great to win this crown in my second season. It was very tough because there were no pushovers in all the teams that participated,” coach Yunus said after the game.

"So, it is a victory we are going to savour for a long time to come.”

Metro Pro League Chief Executive Officer, Victor Akinyooye while urging corporate bodies to partner with the league assured that more innovations would be witnessed in the new season.

"Metro Pro League has come to stay as fans home and abroad are keen about the league,” Akinyooye said. “People follow it week in, week out and we won't let them down in anyway.”

This victory is another huge achievement for Mr. Yemi Idowu the renowned industrialist and businessman who owns Nath Boys Football Club. This is the 3rd Regional League Championship that his Nath Boys team has won since it was formed in 2010.

Other teams that participated in the league for Lagos privately owned clubs are 36 Lion, The Saints FC, Pepsi Academy and Bridge FC.

Nath Boys was named after Yemi Idowu's Father, Industrialist and sports Administrator, Chief Nathaniel Idowu.