The 1XCup 2026 group stage continued on Wednesday, September 16, with three matches producing seven goals, including a dominant performance by Ajuwa FA as they went to the top of Group C. AUX FC secured a hard-fought 1–0 victory over ECAS FA in Group F with the only goal of the game coming in the 65th minute courtesy of Aron Ogodogbo with an assist from Arong Theophilus.
The narrow result reflected a closely contested encounter, with AUX doing enough to claim all three points while ECAS despite all their efforts failed to find an equaliser as the former held on to protect their advantage, with the victory thereby giving them an important boost in their bid to advance from the group.
In the second game of the day, Ajuwa FA went on a rampage as they delivered a commanding performance with an easy 4–0 destruction of 10-man Joy Cometh FC in Group C. Sunday Olamilekan Akanji let his team down as the goalkeeper picked up a red card as early as the 13th minute but Joy Cometh held on strongly until the 36th minute when the floodgates of goals opened for Ajuwa.
Hat-trick hero, Emeka Sylvester opened the scoring for Ajuwa and added a second goal in the 50th minute after which the striker got his third goal of the game in the 67th minute courtesy of Akor Stephen’s assist.
Bethel Israel put Ajuwa 4-0 ahead in the 71st minute after being set up by Diju Chidubem Victor as their team dominated the encounter and converted their chances clinically to register the biggest winning margin of Wednesday’s fixtures as the four-goal victory provides a significant lift to their campaign and demonstrates their attacking strength.