Fixtures

Nigeria - Premier League 04/28 15:00 32 Akwa United vs Kano Pillars - View
Nigeria - Premier League 05/05 15:00 33 Kano Pillars vs Doma United - View
Nigeria - Premier League 05/12 15:00 34 Remo Stars vs Kano Pillars - View
Nigeria - Premier League 05/19 15:00 35 Kano Pillars vs Niger Tornadoes - View
Nigeria - Premier League 05/26 15:00 36 Kwara United vs Kano Pillars - View
Nigeria - Premier League 06/02 15:00 37 Plateau United vs Kano Pillars - View

Results

Nigeria - Premier League 04/21 15:00 31 Kano Pillars v Gombe Utd W 4-0
Nigeria - Premier League 04/16 15:00 30 Bendel Insurance v Kano Pillars L 2-1
Nigeria - Premier League 04/08 15:00 29 [8] Kano Pillars v Shooting Stars [7] L 1-2
Nigeria - Premier League 04/03 15:00 28 [4] Enyimba v Kano Pillars [6] L 5-0
Nigeria - Premier League 03/23 15:00 27 Kano Pillars v Sporting Lagos W 1-0
Nigeria - Premier League 03/17 15:00 26 [18] Bayelsa United v Kano Pillars [6] L 2-1
Nigeria - Premier League 03/13 15:00 25 [6] Kano Pillars v Enugu Rangers Intl FC [4] D 1-1
Nigeria - Premier League 03/09 15:00 24 [13] Rivers United v Kano Pillars [6] D 1-1
Nigeria - Premier League 03/04 15:00 23 Kano Pillars v Abia Warriors L 0-1
Nigeria - Premier League 02/28 14:00 22 [9] Katsina Utd v Kano Pillars [3] L 3-2
Nigeria - Premier League 02/25 15:00 21 Kano Pillars v Sunshine Stars FC W 5-1
Nigeria - Premier League 02/17 13:00 20 [20] Heartland FC v Kano Pillars [4] D 1-1

Statistik

 TotalHjemmeUde
Matches played 34 17 17
Wins 14 13 1
Draws 5 2 3
Losses 15 2 13
Goals for 42 29 13
Goals against 41 9 32
Clean sheets 9 9 0
Failed to score 11 2 9

Wikipedia - Kano Pillars F.C.

Kano Pillars Football Club is a Nigerian professional football club based in Kano, North Western part of Nigeria. They play in the first tier division in Nigerian football, the Nigeria Professional Football League. Their home stadium is Sani Abacha Stadium. Kano Pillars FC was founded in 1990, the year the professional association football league started in Nigeria. It was an amalgamation of three amateur clubs in Kano State.

History

Founded in 1990, by Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima, former chairman of Nigeria Football Association and former sports commissioner of Kano, from the combination of WRECA FC, Kano Golden Stars and Bank of the North FC, Kano Pillars achieved outstanding success by winning the 2007–08 Nigerian Premier League. Kano Pillars produced players like Abiodun Baruwa who has since played for Swiss, Austrian, Welsh and British Clubs and Sani Kaita who later plays for Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Another Prominent player is Ahmed Garba 'Yaro Yaro' who later plays for AB in Denmark and a notable player from Kano Pillars FC is Ahmed Musa who played for Leicester City in the English Premier league after joining from CSKA Moscow. It was registered as a limited liability company with the Corporate Affairs Commission, Nigeria, and then registered with the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) as a professional football club. The Kano Pillars drew an average home league attendance of 10,000 in the 2016 league season.[]

In the 2020/2021 NPFL season, Kano Pillars were fined a whopping sum of ₦7,500,000.00 for failing to follow the orders of the LMC and NFF, which prohibited fans from viewing live games in the stadium. Fans disrupted a top table clash between Akwa United and Kano Pillars. The game ended 0-0 after it was concluded the following day.

They were relegated from NPFL on 16 July 2022 following the confirmation of a verdict against them for the deduction of 3 points, despite an appeal which the NFF committee disregarded against their complaint. The verdict on them was a penalty for what their former chairman did to match officials in their encounter with Dakkada FC

2009 Champions League

They are also nicknamed "Ahly Killers" as they scored 2 magnificent goals in Egypt and drew with Al Ahly Cairo in Egypt 2–2 and 1–1 in Nigeria, so the Ahly Killers went to the Group stage in the African Champions League on the away goals rule. They made it to the semi-finals before being eliminated against fellow Nigerian team Heartland.