Zenith Bank/ Delta Principals’ Cup: Semi- finals take centre stage in Ozoro, Ughelli
The semi-finals of the 2025 Zenith Bank/Delta Principals Cup football competition takes place at two centres today October 9.
On September 18, the annual competition kicked off in Asaba and now the final four teams have emerged out of over 1,000 secondary schools that started the competition from the preliminary stage.
Warri South LG represented by Ogbe Ijoh Grammar School are through to the last four and they will face Justice, Peace and Success Secondary School representing Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta Sate. The match is slated for Notre Dame College, Ozoro.
The second semi-finals will see Otokutu Grammar School representing Ughelli South take on Urhobo College, Effurun, representing Uvwie LG in a match slated for Government College, Ughelli.
These four semi-finalists took part in the preliminaries to represent their respective Local Governments and also went ahead to emerge tops at the zonal qualifiers decided at various centres before the quarter-finals that took place only on Tuesday in four different centres across the state.
CEO of Hideaplus, the organisers of the annual youth developmental football competition, Tony Pemu, told our correspondent that the 2025 event has been very exciting.
“We have seen games from the zonal and quarter-final stage looking like the final in terms of the skills displayed and the talents exhibited. In the semis we expect more responses from the players just as we expect a big final on October 16 in Asaba,” Pemu said.
Meanwhile, a total of 64 players have been scouted so far with the potential of moving on to greener pastures to horn their trade in the round leather game.
The players include Salah James, Divine Efenudi, Oghenevwere Johnson, Young Jeffrey, Ojobo Rejoice, Okiki Victor, Nwori Ifeanyi, Eze Destiny and Evans Faith to mention just a few.
The winners of Thursday’s semi-final matches will be through to lay in the final of this edition, the 8th in the series, slated for the Stephen Keshi Stadium Asaba.
