Nairobi City Stars
The Nairobi City Stars (NCS ) is a Kenyan football club from Kawangware in Nairobi, the since 2005 in the Kenyan Premier League ( KPL), the premier league Kenya plays. Play their home games, the club from the Hope Centre.
History
The club was founded as Kawangware slum Football Club. In the 2000 season played Kawangware FC in the Central Zone Mini League and from 2001 in the National Super League, the second division of Kenya newly established. 2002 were promoted to the KPL. Because of the higher financial expense in the KPL, the association of World Hope International Kenya was taken. 2003, however, they were relegated as second to last in the league. 2004 the club was renamed to World Hope FC and went on again.
The second attempt in the top flight was successful. The club finished the 2005 season off on the seventh and won the President's Cup. As a result, World Hope FC qualified for the CAF Confederation Cup in 2006, where he was eliminated in the first round against the Ugandan club Uganda Revenue Authority SC. The association remained the next few years in the league midfield and was taken over ( in Sports Ambassadors ) during the 2008 season on October 16 by AIS Kenya; the reason were difficulties in the payment of salaries. Former international Musa Otieno, who played before that for the Cleveland City Stars, was vice president and after the season in December, the club was renamed Nairobi City Stars. The club was thus a sister club of the Cleveland City Stars, for Otieno played verge. In 2009 she reached the sixth place in the KPL the best season result.
2010 was a sale of the club to 4.5 million K. Sh. to Danish investors in the room, but had the charge of the City Stars just before a final conclusion of it back. The investors then took the AC Nakuru ( Nakuru AllStars present ) in the second division.
In the following years, the association was found only in the lower third of the table. So in 2013, when the NCS finished the season in 14th place, three points clear of the relegation zone. January Koops, who came as the interim coach the club in September, did not renew after last season's game and his contract in January 2014, the Nigerian Ndubuisi Ofwoku Robinson was hired as the successor to a contract for one year.
Achievements
- President's Cup 2005