By Mohammed Fajah Barrie BBC Sport, Freetown

Leone Stars like Mohammed Kallon might have nowhere to stay

The move means that the Leone Stars, and visiting international sides, will have nowhere to stay in Freetown until the dispute is settled.

The Sierra Leone Football Association denies owing any money, but the hoteliers say they are $65 thousand dollars short.

They say the ban will not be lifted until the money has been paid.

"The SLFA owes us a lot and it's clear that they don't want to settle the bills and because of this we've completely run out of patience with them," Hotel spokesman Umaru Jalloh told the BBC.

If the disupte lingers on until the middle of the year, then it could disrupt the Leone Stars opening qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup and Nations Cup.

Nigeria, South Africa and Equatorial Guinea are scheduled to visit during the campaign.

Nahim Khadi says the SLFA does not owe any money

The President of SLFA has denied that the organisation owes any money to the hoteliers.

"I am aware of the hotel ban that has allegedly been placed on us", Nahim Khadi said.

"But I want it known that we, the SLFA, owe nothing to the hotels, as they are claiming".

He said if the hotels were owed money, they should contact the sponsors, who he said were responsible for settling the bills.

"They should go and ask Africell [a local telecoms company] for their money," he said.

"It was their responsibility as sponsors for the Leone Stars matches that incurred the bills to settle the bills."

Africell has rejected the notion that it has any bills still to pay.

"Africell should be kept out of this issue because it has nothing to do with it," the company's chief commercial officer Joe Amara Bangali Jr. told the BBC.

"It was not our responsibility to pay the hotel bills in question.

"We made sure that all the sponsorship arrangements, including finances, were fulfilled."