Shooting Stars beat Abia Warriors 4-1 at Adamasingba on 1 November 2026, their fourth home win in six league games this season. Away from Ibadan, almost nothing. The club known as 3SC has collected one point in five road matches, and that contrast explains why a side with 14 points at home sits only 10th in the NPFL, on 15 points after 11 games.
The 2023 version of this page described a squad and manager long gone. This one rests on data pulled on 6 November 2026.
| At a glance | Shooting Stars, 6 November 2026 |
|---|---|
| League position | 10th, 15 points from 11 games on 6 November 2026 |
| Points per game | 1.36 overall, 2.33 at home, 0.20 away |
| Head coach | Salisu Yusuf, appointed in August 2026 |
| Home ground | Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba |
| Next match | Barau v Shooting Stars, Sunday 8 November 2026, 15:00 UTC |
| Player pay | No individual wages public; league floor ₦2m a month |
Fourteen points at Adamasingba, one everywhere else
Our table, recalculated from Sportmonks fixtures on 6 November 2026, gives Shooting Stars four wins, three draws and four defeats, with 16 goals scored and 15 conceded. That is 1.36 points a match. Split by venue, it reads like two teams.
| Date, round | Opponent | Score | Shooting Stars scorers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug J1 | Inter Lagos (H) | 2-1 | Lucky Emmanuel, Sodiq Ibrahim |
| 20 Sep J4 | Plateau United (A) | 1-3 | Abubakar Taheer |
| 23 Sep J5 | Katsina United (H) | 2-0 | Ridwan Olalekan Olanrewaju, Qamar Adegoke |
| 27 Sep J6 | Warri Wolves (A) | 0-1 | none |
| 30 Sep J2 | Enyimba (A) | 2-4 | Adam Mustapha, Johnmark Atule |
| 4 Oct J7 | Nasarawa United (H) | 0-0 | none |
| 7 Oct J3 | Kano Pillars (H) | 0-0 | none |
| 11 Oct J8 | Kun Khalifat (A) | 0-2 | none |
| 16 Oct J9 | Ranchers Bees (H) | 3-1 | Desmond Ojietefian, Damilola Akinola, Qamar Adegoke |
| 25 Oct J10 | Ikorodu City (A) | 2-2 | Taofeek Otaniyi, Desmond Ojietefian |
| 1 Nov J11 | Abia Warriors (H) | 4-1 | Damilola Akinola, Sodiq Ibrahim 2, Issa Yusuf |
Eleven games. Fifteen points.
At home, four wins and two draws, 11 goals for, three against. On the road, four defeats and a 2-2 draw at Ikorodu City. Five scored, 12 conceded. Only Kwara United, Enyimba and Ranchers Bees share that single away point, and Ranchers Bees lost 3-1 at Adamasingba on 16 October. The table is bunched, which makes the away problem costly, because fifth-placed Nasarawa United have 17 points and 13th-placed Ikorodu City 14, so the eight clubs from second to ninth are all within three points above them while Enugu Rangers lead on 21. Nine sit above them.
Sodiq Ibrahim leads with three. Two came at 42 and 45 minutes in the 4-1 win. The Guardian's preview listed six summer arrivals, and Issa Yusuf is one of them. He missed a penalty against Ranchers Bees on 16 October, then scored the 90th-minute fourth against Abia Warriors on 1 November 2026.
Salisu Yusuf and the squad he inherited
Salisu Yusuf took over weeks before the season started, and the club's statement, reported by The Gazette on 14 August 2026, said Nurudeen Aweroro had left by “a mutual agreement”. No terms were given. Yusuf previously worked as a Super Eagles assistant, has coached Nigeria's Under-23 side and has worked at Enugu Rangers, Kano Pillars and Nasarawa United.
That preview said the squad “still looks like a work in progress”.
Last season Shooting Stars finished third with 60 points from 38 matches, and returned to continental football. Then came an exit. A quick one. Lucky Emmanuel scored in the 26th minute on 5 September 2026 to beat CS Sfaxien 1-0 in the first leg, but Sfaxien won the return 2-0 in Tunisia and went through 2-1 on aggregate.
All six league home games this season were staged at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Adamasingba, listed by Sportmonks as Adamasingba Stadium, starting with the 2-1 win over Inter Lagos on 28 August 2026. Other grounds in the division are covered in our guide to NPFL clubs and stadiums.
Shooting Stars players salary: what is public
Individual wages at Shooting Stars? Not public.
The 2023 version of this page claimed pay of up to ₦300,000 a month, and ₦500,000 for a few players. The club does not publish contracts and we found no credible figure for any named player in 2026, so both old figures are gone, being unsourced, three years old and far below the new floor.
In June 2026, National Sports Commission chairman Shehu Dikko said no registered NPFL player would earn less than ₦2m a month from the 2026/27 season. “Players must earn a living wage,” he said, as recorded in our report on the highest-paid NPFL coach, which also notes that no minimum was announced for coaches. We found no Shooting Stars statement on how the club applies it. For pay across the division, see our guide to the highest-paid players in the Nigerian league.
For scale, ₦2m equals 4,000 regular tickets at the ₦500 charged for the opener against Inter Lagos.
Barau on Sunday, and the honours behind the badge
Round 12 brings Barau against Shooting Stars on Sunday 8 November 2026, kick-off 15:00 UTC according to Sportmonks. Barau are seventh. Sixteen points. Seven of their 11 games have ended level. A draw would double the visitors' away tally. Home to Bendel Insurance follows on 15 November, then a visit to Enugu Rangers on 22 November.
The badge still carries weight. Records list five league titles, the last in 1998, eight Nigerian FA Cup wins between 1959 and 1995, and a 1976 African Cup Winners' Cup. That is a long way from mid-table. The club began as WNDC Ibadan.
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