Racca Rovers was a Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n football team that played in Kano

Kano

Kano is a city in Nigeria and the capital of Kano State in Northern Nigeria. Its metropolitan population is the second largest in Nigeria after Lagos. The Kano Urban area covers 137 sq.km and comprises six Local Government Area - Kano Municipal, Fagge, Dala, Gwale, Tarauni and Nassarawa - with a...

. They won the Nigerian Premier League

Nigerian Premier League

The Nigeria Premier League is the highest level of domestic Nigerian football. It is fed into by the two First Division groups: the Nigerian Division 1-A and Nigerian Division 1-B. It is organized by the Nigeria Football Association. The NPL Chairman is Davidson Owunmi.- History :The league was...

 championship in 1978, the second northern team to do so and the last one until 1994.

Their most famous game was a 2-1 loss to Fluminense Football Club

Fluminense Football Club

Fluminense Football Club is a sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in the beginning of the 20th century as a single-sport institution, Fluminense is today an umbrella organization for several teams in more than 16 different sport activities. The most popular endeavor of Fluminense,...

 in a friendly played in Lagos on 26 April 1978. The game featured Pele

Pelé

However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...

 who played 45 minutes for the Brazilians.

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1 appearance

1979

African Cup of Champions Clubs 1979

The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1979 was the 15th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region , the African Cup of Champions Clubs...

: Quarter-Finals

Former players

• Annas Ahmed
• Baba Otu Mohammed
• Felix Owolabi
• Shefiu Mohammed
• Walter Osai
• Husseini Alabi (C)
• Ahmed Abubakar Garba
• Abdulwahab Haruna
• Grandson Abbas
• Abdulaziz Ahmed
• Godwin Bankole
• Ahmed Musa
  Ahmed Musa (footballer)
  Ahmed Musa is a Nigerian forward playing for the Dutch club VVV-Venlo as a winger. He is also a member of the Nigeria national football team.-Breakthrough in Nigeria:...
  
  
• Idris Musa
• Kalala Mohammed
• Ahmed Garba (Yaro Yaro)
• Ilyasu Yashin

External links

• Pics/details of game vs. Fluminense (Portuguese)