Sidama won an early Penalty on 25 minutes dispatched by Desta Yohannes, a lead they took to halftime. Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, also known as Ethiopia Nigd Bank signed many top Stars following their promotion and one of those brought in was St George Striker, Addis Gidey. Dire Dawa City got on the score sheet 5 minutes later to go into halftime 1-2 down to the Bankers. Ethiopia Nigd was further ahead in the second half when Basiru Umar scored their 3rd goal. Carlos Damtew would give Dire Dawa hopes of salvaging a point when he scored in the 94th minute but it was too little, too late and it will finish Dire Dawa 2-3 Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.
