Liberia Football Association back-to-back defending champions, Determine Girls, have arrived in Dakar, Senegal, ahead of the start of the CAF WAFU Zone A Women’s Champions League qualifiers.
The Liberian Women’s Football Champions arrived in the Senegalese capital on Thursday and Friday with a full squad, which includes Liberian female superstar player Angeline Kieh, who will be making a return to her former club on a loan spell.
Determine Girls are making their fourth attempt at qualifying for the prestigious CAF Women’s Champions League.
The Club, backed by Cassell Kouh, the owner of LFA men’s champions FC Fassell, have long dreamt about setting records not only in Liberia but on the African continent.
Kouh, in recent interviews with journalists, said he will ensure Determine Girls become the first women’s football club from Liberia to compete at the final of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Women’s Champions League.
Determine Girls FC officials have supported his quest by recently infusing into their squad some brilliant talents they believe can make that history to be written.
The players themselves seem to be upbeat about the prospect of playing at the CAF Women’s Champions League final stage for the first time, as they have put in all they have to get prepared for the qualifiers in Dakar beginning Tuesday.
Club President, Hawah Grace Weah, popularly known as Master Queen, has been rallying the players and technical team to complete their 2024/2025 football league season by qualifying for the biggest women’s club football showpiece in Africa.
Determine Girls FC’s dominance of the Liberia Football Association Women’s league for the past years has become a testament that they should be competing with the elite clubs not only in the Subregion or WAFU Zone, but on the continent and elsewhere.
This, Club head Coach Robert Lartey believes he can build on to get the girls in the final round of the CAF Women’s Champions League for the first time.
Coach Lartey, in a brief chat with this station, said they have arrived in Dakar with a specific mission beyond just participating.
“This team have all the experience required to play at the CAF Women’s Champions League. We are not strangers to the qualifiers anymore. What we need and must do now is win a slot to where all the big women’s teams are playing in Africa, which is the Champions League,” coach Lartey noted.
The Liberian Women’s football champions will begin their qualifying campaign on Tuesday, August 8, 2025, with a clash against Sierra Leone Women’s league Champions, RAM Kamara KC, at the Abdoulaye Wade stadium from 19H00 GMT.
Liberians back home are wishing the team well in their quest to set that record that has eluded Liberian football clubs.