He spent a season with Edwards before he moved to Europe and joined the Cyprus First Division club Nea Salamina FC in 2006.

[1] The next year he moved to Apollon Limassol and he helped the team to win the 2009–10 Cypriot Cup, scoring also the opening goal of the final.

Mustapha 'Haji' Bangura is the second Sierra Leonean player to sign for Aris Limassol after Gibrilla Julius Wobay who joined them on a season loan from Romanian side Universita Craiova.

[2] He thus became the fourth Sierra Leonean to play in the Serbian highest level after Kelfala Marah, Medo and Lamin Suma.

[3] On 11 March, in the round 26 of the SuperLiga, Bangura scored his first goal with a header in the 91st minute of the game against Vojvodina.