The club is owned and run by the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA).

Ports Authority play their home games at the National Stadium in Freetown.

They have won the Sierra Leonean FA Cup competition on two consecutive times in 1990 and 1991.

In 1996, Ports Authority became the first and only Sierra Leonean football club to reach the quarter-final of CAF Confederation Cup.

The three fired were the technical director of the team, Akie Noah, head coach Abu Bakarr Kamara and one of his assistants, Mohamed Kamara (Ahmed Central).