FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland. The women's national team is known as the Sierra Queens. Troubled decade: 2010s The 2010s have proven to be a decade of turmoil for the sport in Sierra Leone. The outbreak of Ebola in western Africa resulted in the Confederation of African Football instituting a ban preventing Sierra Leone, as well as Liberia and Guinea, from playing home games within the country beginning in August 2014; only after Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free was the ban lifted in December 2015. (Liberia's ban ended in September 2015, and Guinea's in January 2016.) From 2013 to the middle of 2016, there were two FA Cups and one league season. In June 2014, allegations were made that two football officials and a national under-20 coach fixed two matches, in 2008 and 2009. There is also ongoing dissatisfaction harboured by fans and teams against the SLFA, headed by Isha Johansen. On 9 December 2015, the National Sport Council decided to dissolve the SLFA's executive committee. The SLFA, however, refused to accept the decision. Attendance is low at SLFA-organised games, even one where entry was free. 11 of 14 of the premier league teams formed a breakaway league that ended in early 2016; it also failed to attract large crowds. Six premier league teams boycotted the 2016 FA Cup. On 7 September 2016, SLFA President Isha Johansen, Vice President Brima Kamara and Secretary General Christopher Kamara were jailed by the Anti-Corruption Commission for failing to provide reports regarding the SLFA's financial statements and the use of money. The trio were released after posting bail. FIFA defended the SLFA in a letter, stating, "FIFA has no reason to suspect there has been misuse of funds that FIFA has provided to the SLFA", having audited the SLFA's accounts earlier in the year. References