2015 Winners Golden Bet/Lagos SWAN Cup Draws Holds In Lagos

The Press conference and Draws for the 2015 Winners Golden Bet/Lagos SWAN cup took place on Wednesday 17th of July, 2015 at the association’ secretariat situated inside the Lagos National stadium, Surulere in an event chaired by its chairman, Fred Edoreh.

The event which started around 12 noon was also attended by the title sponsors, Winners Golden Bet and also 5Sports who have also partnered Lagos SWAN for the 2015 “Lagos SWAN Week” which holds at the Legacy pitch of the National Stadium.

Draws for the 2015 Winners Golden Bet:Lagos SWAN cup

In his opening remark, Chairman of Lagos Sports Writer Association of Nigeria, Fred Edoreh commended journalists present for finding a time out of their busy schedule to come for the event which officially heralded the commencement of this year’s edition of the Lagos SWAN Week, The Opening Ceremony comes up on the 24th of July with the game between SWAN veterans and Nigerian ex-internationals.

Also speaking at the event Debo Oshundun chairman of the Lagos SWAN Sports Committee assured that this year’s event promises to be action packed, Explaining that the Addition of the “Tug Of War” Competition to this year’s SWAN Week was Geared towards Adding Spice to the SWAN Week, Oshundun While Thanking Title Sponsors Winners Golden Bet And Other Partners like the Nigerian Sports Awards, OWU Sportswear and 5 Sports limited called on well meaning Corporate Bodies and Nigerians to come Partner with SWAN towards making events like this more Successful.

The Draws Proper was Conducted by the Immediate past Vice Chairman of Lagos SWAN and Lagos State FA Board member Wale Joseph, Assisted by Lagos SWAN Sports Committee member Tega Onajaife.

Last year’s Silver winning team City FM are drawn in Group A with Radio Nigeria, Voice of Nigeria and SuperSport Nigeria.

Group B is made up of TVC, SilverBird Television, Sports vision, Inspiration FM and Cool FM.

The NTA will face Nations/Sportinglife, Channels Television and Skysports Nigeria in Group C. And Last but not the least Defending Champions Sports battle with News Agency of Nigeria, Complete Sports and Top Radio.

Fixtures for the Group Stages of the Winners Golden Bet SWAN Cup will be released on Monday and The Legacy pitch of the National Stadium in Surulere will host all the matches for this year’s edition of the SWAN Cup.

Chairman Lagos SWAN Sports Committee Debo Oshundun And Chairman Lagos SWAN Fred Edoreh at the Draws for the 2015 Winners Golden Bet/Lagos SWAN cup

Group A

City FM,

Radio Nigeria,

Voice of Nigeria

SuperSport Nigeria

Group B

TVC

SilverBird Television

Sports vision

Inspiration FM

Cool FM.

Group C

NTA

Nations/Sportinglife

Channels Television

Skysports Nigeria

Group D

SportsDay

News Agency of Nigeria

Complete Sports

Top Radio.

Lagos SWAN unveils sponsor, partners for SWAN Cup 2014

The Sport Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Lagos Chapter yesterday at its secretariat at the National Stadium Lagos, unveiled Winners Golden Bet.com as the major sponsor for this year’s Lagos SWAN Cup billed to kick off next week Thursday, April 24 at the Legacy Pitch of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

The body also unveiled some of its other partners for the event which include Nigeria Sports Award; Owu Sports wears outfit among others.

Deji Beecroft Assistant General Manager of WinnersGoldenBet.com in his comment said that the company decided to support the SWAN because of the role of the sporting media in Nation building.

“Sports reporting is a very complicated job that needs lots of courage and sense of timing and Lagos SWAN members have done well in reporting events both locally and internationally thereby making it easy for Nigerians to follow happenings in this various competitions across the world, hence our resolve to support this event”. He informed.

Chairman of the body, Fred Edoreh said at the unveiling ceremony which also had in attendance ex-international, Paul Okoku as well as Vice Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association (LSFA) Alhaji Tade Azeez and former Head of Communications, Multichoice, Segun Fayose

“Our new sponsor, Winners Golden Bet.com is a reputable sports business organisation which has shown tremendous capacity and commitment to sports development and provision of added value for sports fans and enthusiasts and we are very happy and extremely grateful to associate with them for the SWAN Cup,” said Edoreh.

Ex-international Paul Okoku

The SWAN Cup designed to promote healthy living and friendship among journalists on the sports desks of the various media houses is the major feature of the Lagos SWAN Week. The week shall also feature a seminar on “Sports journalism and nation building”, a topic which the SWAN chairman says “is most imperative at this point in the development of our nation.”

Meanwhile, the 16 teams participating in this year’s edition of the SWAN Cup have been drawn into four groups of four teams each. Defending champions, Complete Sports; TVC; LTV/Eko FM and Radio Nigeria are in Group A while last edition’s runners up, NTA leads Group B. Others in the group include City FM; Cool FM and Sportsville.

In Group C are former champions, SportsDay; SuperSports; Brila FM and Top Radio while Silverbird; Mastersports; Sky Sports and The Sun Newspapers are in Group D.
Edoreh announced that Team Lagos SWAN will take on Team Nollywood in a novelty match which will herald the opening ceremony of the championship.

Kunle Adeyeye of FRCN Conducting the Draws

Group A
Complete Sports
TVC/Radio Continental
LTV/Eko FM
Radio Nigeria

Group B
NTA
City FM
CoolWazobiaInfo
Sportsville

Group C
SportsDay
SuperSports
Brila FM
Top Radio

Group D
Silverbird
Mastersports
Sky Sports
The Sun Newspapers