GTI Asset Management and Trust Limited, a major partners of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), has announced that the champions of Nigeria’s elite football league would from next season receive N150 million and a giant trophy, while second and third-place finishers would be handsomely rewarded financially.
Announcing the upward review of the prize money for the winners of the 2023/2024 season on Thursday, the Head of Media and Publicity of GTI/The Nigeria Football Fund (TNFF), Mr. Andrew Ekejiuba said that the emergence of GTI into the country’s football ecosystem had paved the way for elite club football to thrive.
Ekejiuba said: “The NPFL is all about the players and GTI felt they should receive a large chunk of the dividends that comes to the league to appreciate their efforts.
“Therefore, the 2023/24 season will see an upward review of their prize money from N100 million to N150 million for the winners, while the second and third-placed teams will receive financial rewards for their efforts.
“This became necessary in order to add more monetary value to the league and end the mass movement of our best legs to obscure leagues as a result of poor remunerations.”
He stated that the successful hosting of last season’s NPFL play-offs and the just-concluded Naija Super 8 pre-season tourney at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena Onikan, Lagos, has clearly demonstrated that the upcoming NPFL season was going to be keenly contested with massive followership for each of the 20 clubs expected to do battle.
“This is a clarion call GTI is making to individuals, philanthropists and Corporate Nigeria to take advantage of the ongoing revolution that elite club football is witnessing in the country and invest in them”.
