Babatunde wins Airtel Top 8 Golden Boot; sets record as the highest scoring winner

The Nigerian striker underlined his status as one of the complete strikers in the country by bagging 8 goals in Airtel Top 8 competition.

Babatunde Adepoju has been named Airtel Top 8 Golden Boot winner after topping the scorers chat.

After being deemed as a surplus at Mighty Wanderers within the season, Babatunde joined the People's team.

Fittingly, the Airtel Top 8 Golden Boot winner recorded his first hat-trick of the season in all competitions by scoring 4 goals against the former club, Wanderers.

He is the first player to score more than 5 goals in the competition since it was inaugurated in 2017.

In the inaugural year, Khumba Ng'ambi was the first Airtel Top 8 Golden Boot winner with 3 goals, then Joseph Kamwendo won the award in 2018 with 2 goals, and later Khuda Muyaba bagged 2 goals.

In an interview with Babatunde, he attributed the achievements to how Nyasa Big Bullets is organised.

He said "the quality at Bullets in anything they do is making my job easy,".

Below is the full list of top goal scorers.

Babatunde Adepoju 8 goals
Stain Davie 3 goals
Binwell Katinji 1 goal
Blessings Tembo 1 goal
Clement Nyondo 1 goal

Fablo Kapinde 1 goal
Frank Banda 1 goal
Hassan Kajoke 1 goal
Innocent Tanganyika 1 goal
Lanjesi Nkhoma 1 goal
Llyod Njaliwa 1 goal
Mark Fodya 1 goal
Martin Masoatheka 1 goal

Patrick Macheso 1 goal
Paul Phiri 1 goal
Vincent Nyangulu 1 goal
William Thole 1 goal
Zebron Kalima 1 goal

Super League of Malawi (Sulom) will todag handover the Mazda Demio vehicle to Nyasa Big Bullets midfielder Chimwemwe Idana who has been voted as the 2020/21 TNM Super League Player of the Season.

Sulom have confirmed the development in a statement issued yesternight.

According to Sulom the ceremony will take place at Ndirande Community Centre.

The Player of the Season is also based in Ndirande.

Bullets are the champions

Southern Region Football Association (SRFA) says the 2021/22 football season will commence in February.

SRFA Chairperson Raphael Humba has confirmed the development in an interview with Owinna.

Meanwhile, the associations executive committee is meeting with stakeholders to postmortem the 2020/21 season.