In a recent review of the 2024/25 season, the Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Otunba Gbenga Elegbeleye passed a vote of confidence in the performance of the referees and called for a sustenance of the improvement in the 2025/2026 season, which runs from 22 August 2025 to 24 May 2026. During an interactive session with journalists, Elegbeleye …

Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) clubs have been pointed in the direction of the forthcoming Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF) as an organic scouting ground for players. While endorsing the festival, scheduled to hold from 1 to 8 April in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, NPFL Chairman, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye said he is specifically excited by the Festival Ambassadors initiative, …

Seeking to continually improve the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) ecosystem, the NPFL Board, on Tuesday in Abuja, held a workshop on integrating football and education leveraging on technology. In collaboration with an international sports management agency, V Agency Sports Management, the workshop was led by the CEO of the Hungary based agency, Alexandra Végh. In his presentation at the …

The Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye will be delivering a presentation at an event that seeks to strengthen the integration of football and education in the country. Also billed to attend the event as the special guest of honour is the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau In attendance also will be …

Matches of the second stanza of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) will be played with the official match balls produced by Prostar Sports. This followed the delivery of the first batch of the match balls from Prostar Sports to the NPFL. NPFL Chairman, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye noted that negotiations for the partnership dragged beyond the first stanza because both …

Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye has congratulated the 30 players called to camp by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to face Ghana in the African Nations Championship qualifiers. Head Coach Augustine Eguavoen invited the 30 players to camp as part of preparations to ensure the qualification of the Super Eagles B for next year’s …

The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has indefinitely withdrawn the 2024-2025 licences of 143 players who were newly transferred by the affected clubs. Clubs affected include Abia Warriors (23 players), Kwara United (20), Enyimba (18), Bayelsa United (18) and Akwa United (17). Others are Lobi Stars (15), Plateau United (14) and El-Kanemi Warriors (13) and Katsina United (5). The sanction, …

Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has reached an understanding with a China-based company to establish a presence in the Chinese market and attract investments from the Asian country and also promote closer ties between the league in both countries. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Wednesday at NPFL corporate headquarters in Abuja, which mandates Hunan Galaxy Global Trade …

Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye has sent a solidarity message to the Chairman and Management of Doma United over the road accident involving their contingent on their way home from the NPFL Matchday 35 fixture in Owerri, played on Sunday. Elegbeleye, who put a call through to the club Chairman, Alhaji Suleiman Umar, expressed …

The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has reiterated that the broadcast rights deal signed with StarTimes was not just the only offer it received at the time, but the best negotiated partnership that came after over six years of the league not shown on television. In response to a publication that suggested that the NPFL snubbed an offer of $11 …