Liberian National County Meet

The Liberian National County Sports Meet is the top knockout county tournament of the Liberian football inaugurated in 1956. It is an annual sporting festival organized and hosted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in collaboration with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The event is primarily a platform intended to forge national unity and reconciliation in Liberia.

The National County Sport Meet is the most watched football tournament across Liberia, with over 1.5 million football fans tuning in to listen over Radio, watching live from different Liberian online football sources, and also visiting the various stadiums in which the games can be played.

Competition format
Beginning in November, the competition proceeds with a group stage of 15 teams, divided into four groups, with the first three groups carrying four teams and the last group carrying three. Each team plays every member of its group, and the team with the highest point and the runners-up in each group will then proceed to the next round while the other team will be eliminated.

For the next stage which is the quarter final, and onwards, the draw is entirely random, without association protection. The tournament is usually played within the period of one month; it only exceeds that when there are circumstances.

List of winners

 * 1956 : Maryland County
 * 1969 : Grand Cape Mount County
 * 1974 : Grand Kru County
 * 1977 : Grand Kru County
 * 1978 : Nimba County
 * 1979 : Nimba County
 * 1985 : Grand Kru County
 * 1987: Grand Kru County
 * 1989: Grand Gedeh County
 * 1990: Grand Bassa County
 * 2004 : Gbarpolu County
 * 2007 : Rivercess County
 * 2008 : Bong County
 * 2009 : Bomi County
 * 2009/10 : Nimba County
 * 2010/11 : Nimba County
 * 2011/12 : Margibi County
 * 2012/13 : Grand Cape Mount County
 * 2013/14: Grand Bassa County
 * 2014/15: N/A (*was cancelled due to the Ebola epidemic)
 * 2015/16: Grand Bassa County
 * 2016/17: Maryland County
 * 2017/18 : Montserrado County
 * 2018/19 : Bomi County
 * 2019/20 : Grand Kru County
 * 2020/21 : Lofa County
 * 2021/22 : Nimba County
 * 2022/23 : Nimba County
 * 2023/24 : River Gee County

History
In 1970, Sasstown Territory, now part of Grand Kru County, won the county meet, and Kru Coast Territory won it in 1974. Grand Kru County won the county meet four times. Some of the players in Sasstown at that time were Patrick Arthur, Anthony Wesseh, Tarpeh Roberts, Sylvester Red' Weah, Michael Tarplah, Anthony Sayon Nagbe, Experience Tony, Telemu,