SoNy Sugar F.C.
{{Short description|Kenyan football club}}
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| ground = Green Stadium
Awendo, Kenya
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SoNy Sugar Football Club is an association football club based in Awendo, Kenya. It was competing in the Kenyan Premier League, the top tier of the Kenyan football league system, and played its home games at the Sony Green Stadium. Due to failure attributed to financial challenges facing the sponsor, the club was relegated from the Kenya Premier League. Though not formally disbanded, it has low key activities confined at its home base.
History
It was expelled from Kenya Football League in 2019 after failing to participate in 3 of its matches.{{Cite web|last=Charles|first=Odero|title=Sony Sugar FC expelled from the Kenyan Premier League|url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/football/2001350454/sony-sugar-fc-expelled-from-the-kenyan-premier-league|access-date=2020-06-30|website=The Standard|language=en}} In the 2005–06 season, the club clinched its first league title with a record that included over 20 wins. The sugar millers were led to their first premier league trophy by head coach Francis Baraza who had just taken over from Peter Otieno 'Bassanga'. Most of the players were casual workers at the sugar milling factory. Some of the players who played a key role in the title winning season are Zak (GK), Ayoo (DEF), Noah Abich (DEF), Fred Ajwang (MF), Marwa Chamberi (ST), Jockins Atudo (DEF), Victor Ali Abondo (MF), Neto (MF), Chimbuzi (DEF), Onkangi (ST), Zakayo, Sylvester Wanyama DEF, Emmanuel Geno, Salim Babu (MF), Tom AKA Tosh, Oduor Alfred, Adan, Willis AKA Awilo, Dennis Chweya, Waweru, Imbusi and Zachary Onyango.
Formed in 1982, the club is owned by South Nyanza Sugar Company and earned promotion to the Kenyan Premier League in 1993.
Achievements
:: 2006
References
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External links
- [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesk/kenyachamp.html RSSSF league history]
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Category:Kenyan Premier League clubs
Category:Football clubs in Kenya
Category:Sport in Nyanza Province
Category:1982 establishments in Kenya
Category:Association football clubs established in 1982
Category:Works association football clubs in Kenya
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