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Sunshine Queens F.C.

Female professional football club in Nigeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ18211556 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sunshine Queens FC is a women's association football club in Nigeria. They play in the topmost division of female football in the NWFL Premiership. Their home stadium is Akure Township Stadium. The club is one of the running football activities of Ondo State Football Agency. The current head coach is Rafiu Oseni.

History

The club was founded in 2005. It is nicknamed Owena Mermaid, evidently after a prominent river in the state.

Current squad

Squad list for 2022 season.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sunshine Queens F.C.” as female professional football club in Nigeria. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. The account is most persuasive where Sunshine, Queens and Female can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as female professional football club in Nigeria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18211556. Authority coordinates are 7.258, 5.204. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sunshine Queens F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.