Ndidi, Ozo partner fanbants to make fantasy football reality in Africa

It’s no longer just about cheering for your team or rooting for your favourite player to score a match-winning goal. A good weekend watching football can now put you right at the center of the action. You can now be the manager of your very own team every match week.

Fantasy football makes being a fan more fun and interactive. Being able to do this for African fans is one of the reasons Wilfred, one of the best midfielders in the English Premier League and a key part of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, has joined Founder and CEO, Fola Folowosele as an investor in FanBants.

“I’m very excited about FanBants’ approach,” said Wilfred.

“When I get involved in projects like this, I look to work with really great business partners. For me, all the boxes were checked. Fola is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has extensive experience in the business of sports having worked at Nike, the top sports brand in the world.

Ozo on the other hand is an icon in the sports and entertainment space in Africa”. Other backers of FanBants include Eric Idiahi (Chairman Tangerine Africa), Shola Akinlade (CEO Paystack), Yasmin Belo-Osagie (Partner Metis Capital), Lamide Adeosun, Vivek Aswani, Andres Bilbao (Co-founder Rappi) among others.

FanBants puts every football fan where they want to be – as managers of their own team. They get to create a fantasy team based on real players and matches going on that week, which they enter into competitions on the FanBants platform. They earn points based on the real-life performance of their selected players and can track their fantasy team’s performance on the leaderboard. At the end of every match week, winners get cash and/or prizes depending on the competitions they entered. And perhaps even more