compelled to campaign without the benefit of formal contracts, sign-on fees, bonuses or club-supplied playing equipment.[2] The team however continued to compete for honours up until the 1998 season but could not continue thereafter. Structural Challenges/Eventual Return The Club returned to the professional level in the summer of 2004 but was relegated at the end of that season. Tired of the long-running underachieving status of the Club, its Supporters Club, generally organised in Chapters and autonomous sub-units, came together in 2007 to start a vigorous and well-coordinated campaign for the return of the Club. They engaged in various rounds of consultations with many stakeholders, including with the owners of the Club and deployed a sustained media strategy which contributed to strengthening efforts of the Directors of the Club to revive and rejuvenate its fortunes. Stationery Stores FC thus returned to the Nigerian Professional League in the 2014 soccer season, buying up the slot of Union Bank FC. The Supporters also re-structured, setting up the first Football Supporters Trust in Nigeria, with a view to giving its members better representation in the Club and supporting the Club materially as well. The Club made a much-heralded return to the Nigerian Professional League in the 2014/2015 soccer season, whose star match was the twin fixture with one of its arch rivals and powerhouse of Nigerian soccer—3SC Football Club (aka Shooting Stars). In a tension-soaked encounter in Lagos, Stores beat Shooting by two unreplied goals. The team also campaigned in the internationally famous Copa Lagos Beach Soccer Tournament, where its match with the famed Barcelona FC was not only a sell-out and the star match, but was televised across the African continent to the delight of the fans of Stationery Stores FC beyond the shores of Nigeria. Faced by a completely different soccer environment than it was used to in its hey days, Super Stores FC would soon elect not to play any competitive match the following season in order to re-organise and restructure to enable it fit into the changes that have taken place in the said Nigerian football environment. This done, it returned to competitive soccer in the 2017/2018 soccer season, competing in the Federation (FA) Cup and impressing its numerous fans and soccer administrators as it won a string of games. Though it ended up not winning the Cup, it famously did not lose in open play. Consistent with its business