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- Updated: October 11, 2016
FC Johansen won the first domestic competition in Sierra Leone since the ebola epidemic
The Sierra Leone Football Association is hoping to revive the domestic league for the first time since the ebola epidemic forced its postponement.
The last edition of the Premier League was stopped midway through the season in 2014 because of the ebola threat.
Sierra Leone was declared ebola free by the World Health Organisation in March.
And the first domestic football competition – the FA Cup – was completed on Saturday, encouraging the SLFA to restart the league.
But while FC Johansen picked up their first silverware by beating Republic of Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces 1-0 in a replay final, the achievement was lessened by the absence from the competition of eight out of 14 Premier League teams.
They boycotted the FA Cup in protest at the continued infighting at the SLFA and there are fears they could adopt the same stance in regard to the league, which is intended to begin in three months.
The SLFA has the …
