Another round of crisis has hit Nigerian football. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), which is due to elect a new leadership 30 September after witnessing delay, has smashed the hammer on the League Management Company, incorporated by the NFF in 2012 in place of the Nigeria Football League. A statement on Friday by the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry …

Participating clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) have been reminded that only those that submitted for the club licencing process within the stipulated time frame would be registered to play in the 2022/23 season. Chief Executive Officer of the League Management Company (LMC), Davidson Owumi also told the clubs that arrangements had been concluded for stadium and facilities …

Brighton manager Graham Potter is well positioned to replace Thomas Tuchel, who was shown the exit door at Chelsea early on Wednesday, few hours after losing the club’s first UEFA Champions League fixture to unfancied Dinamo Zagreb. Potter has been given permission by the Seagulls to talk with Chelsea. Tuchel, the German, was coach of French champions Paris Saint-Germain where …

For the second time in a row, Nigeria’s Super Eagles B failed to qualify for the 2022 African Nations Championship to be staged in Algeria, which will however be stage in January next year in four cities. As they did in the qualifiers for the inaugural edition of the competition for home-based players in 2009 which they won 3-2 aggregate, …

A rash of unilateral and illegal termination of players contracts by teams in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) has drawn the ire of the League Management Company (LMC) which issued a circular last week, resolving to resolve all outstanding cases brought to its attention. The circular to clubs was signed by the LMC Chief Executive Officer, Davidson Owumi who …

English Premier League clubs have shattered their record for summer transfer window spending, according to analysis from sports finance experts Deloitte. Gross spending by the 20 Premier League teams stood at £1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) on Thursday, surpassing the 2017 record of £1.43 billion spent by English clubs in the close-season window. It is also more than the £1.44 billion …

As soon as the air raid sirens had stopped, Shakhtar Donetsk’s players ran out onto the pitch for their final training session on Monday before Ukraine begins an extraordinary new season of its national football league. As Ukrainian soldiers battle Russian forces in the east and south, Shakhtar are due to play Metalist 1925 from the embattled eastern city of …

For the second time since they reached the final in Canada 2014, Nigeria’s Falconets failed to advance beyond the first knockout phase – the quarterfinals of the FIFA U20 Women’s Cup. Against popular predictions, the team crashed to The Netherlands 0-2 on Sunday (earlier hours of Monday back home). Nigeria had exited at the same stage in the last edition …

By Ojomu Idowu, Sportspro News Akwa United’s lack lustre performance last season will not be repeated  in the coming season, coach Deji Ayeni has assured. Winners of the Nigeria Professional Football League for the first time in their history the season before, Akwa United not only failed to defend their title in the recently-ended season at No 9 with 25 …

Nigeria’s Falconets have reached the quarterfinals of FIFA World Cup U20 Women’s World Cup for the fifth time in the 10 editions of the tournament. The girls did that in style in the early hours of Thursday by achieving a perfect result at the group phase beating Canada 3-1 after overcoming France and Korea Republic by a lone goal each …