Ahead of the kickoff of the 2022/23 season of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) on Sunday, the league’s Interim Management Committee (IMC) will hold a public presentation of the take-off grants to the 20 clubs on Thursday in Abuja. The President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Musa Ibrahim Gusau and the leadership of the Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) …

Serie A winners AC Milan are considering making winger Ademola Lookman of Atalanta and the Super Eagles a potential transfer target for the summer, according to the Italian online publication Calcio Mercato Web. The Rossoneri will move for Lookman should Portuguese forward Rafael Leao leave San Siro amidst intense interest from potential clubs. The Nigeria international has been an inspiration …

Nigeria striker Taiwo Awoniyi is relishing his first English Premier League Man-of-the-Match Award following his outstanding performance in Nottingham Forest’s 1-1 draw against Chelsea on Sunday night. The former Liverpool man grabbed the headlines for Forest, getting 39.7 percent of the votes ahead of Ivorien defender, Serge Aurier, who scored the equaliser for Nottingham Forest. Awoniyi took to his Facebook …

Napoli have nominated Victor Osimhen’s goal celebration among the best for 2022. Osimhen has a lot to celebrate in 2022 after returning fully from a freak cheek fracture that required surgery and kept him out of the Africa Cup of Nations in January. The 24-year-old welcomed the birth of his first daughter in October and shortly after became the most …

Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a two-year deal with Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr. The forward was a free agent after his contract at Manchester United was mutually terminated. Ronaldo revealed in November that he turned down a £305 million Saudi Arabia move in the summer. The 37-year-old left Manchester United last month following an explosive television interview in which the forward …

If all goes according to plan, the group phase of the 2022/23 season of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) will end by 14th May 2023, enough time to registered qualified teams for the 2023/24 CAF club competitions. With the abridged season necessitating two groups, the top three teams in each group with feature in the Super Six to determine …

Thursday’s death of football legend Pelé has expected elicited reactions across the football world. Pelé was born and raised in the favelas of Tres Coracoes in Minas Gerais, Edson Arantes do Nascimento – he would become known as Pele at school, apparently because of the way he mispronounced the name of his favorite footballer, Bile – grew up in poverty …

Five clubs of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) – Rangers, Lobi Stars, Nasarawa United, Kwara United and Niger Tornadoes – have failed to meet the infrastructure requirements of the NPFL Club Licensing regulation and will be playing their home matches at venues approved by the Interim Management Committee (IMC). They could not provide up-to-standard stadium facilities to host matches. …

Football legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento (famously known as Pelé) is dead. Three-time World Cup winner, Pelé is widely considered to be football’s first global superstar. For some time, he has been treated for colon cancer, following surgery to remove a tumour in September 2021, and had required regular medical treatment. After being admitted back into hospital at the end …

Nigerian-German professional footballer, Karim Adeyemi made a public appearance in Ibadan, Oyo State on Boxing Day during a visit to Nigeria. The Borussia Dortmund forward was spotted at the Olubadan Stadium, where he watched his team, Adeyemi FC play a novelty match against Nigeria Professional Football League side, Shooting Stars of Ibadan. Shooting Stars won 1-0. According to The PUNCH, …