After close to four years of inactivity outside the shores of Nigeria, Kwara United supporters will have something to cheer as the Afonja Warriors return to the sub-regional West African Football Union Club Competition with a date with Ghana’s Adauna FC on June 19 in Accra and the second leg billed for Ilorin in the first week of July.

Revealing this to NationSport exclusively was the Secretary of Kwara United, Ademola Kiyesola recently in Owerri.

"Kwara United will play in the WAFU Cup and as a matter of fact, we are going to Adauna FC of Ghana on the 19th of this month. This goes to show to Ilorin people that our club will not only participate in the NPL but also international matches will be watched live. We are appealing to our fans to start coming back to the Stadium to come watch us as we have made it a point of duty to bring smiles back to the faces of Kwara people. We will play the first leg in Accra before the second leg here in Ilorin in the first week of July.

"We will not lag behind too in the NPL. We are currently placed 7th with 38 points and we plan to finish as high as we can get. We want to solicit the support of the just-inaugurated administration because the last dispensation really assisted Kwara United FC a great deal, and we also hope that the incumbent Governor of the state, Abdulfatah Ahmed, who was also part of that administration, will shower the club with same support," Kiyesola told

NationSport.