The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season continues with a Friday night game in Benin City where Bendel Insurance play hosts to Gombe United from 5:30pm. The match is live on StarTimes and NPFL-Live. The referee for the game is Saheed Babayanju Here are other match officials appointed for this matchweek. There will also be…
By George Akpayen The last matchday in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) threw up amazing talking points and even recorded surprises among the fixtures. We look back at major highlights of Matchday 23. TWIST AND TURNS AT THE TOP Matchweek 23 ran for four consecutive days and it offered us the chance to see…
Rangers International midfielder, Ugochukwu Ugwuoke is back to full training after a knee surgery he underwent five months ago. Information from the Club’s media has it that the player rejoined team mates in training after they returned from Kaduna where they claimed all three points in the 2-0 win over hosts, Niger Tornadoes. Ugwuoke has…
By Promise Etim In what could be the defining moment of a turbulent season, 2021 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) winners, Akwa United FC of Uyo, notch their hopes of beating the drop with the 3-1 thumping of eight-time champions, Enyimba of Aba on Monday. It was the first match for the Uyo-based side determined…
Rivers United have been applauded for reaching the quarter finals of the 2023/24 CAF Confederation Cup following a 2-1 defeat of Dreams FC of Ghana in the last group fixture in Uyo. Rivers United finished second behind the Ghanaian side on same points but on inferior goals deficit with Club Africain of Tunisia dropping to…
By Akintunde Akinsemola It was all to play for in the final game of the 2024 NPFL Youth League between Rivers United and Katsina United as the two U-17 sides locked horns for the first prize. Rivers United won 4-2. The Rivers United boys came into the game on the front foot and looked to…
We go into the 23rd matchday of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season. Here are the match officials appointed for Matchweek 23. There will be six LIVE matches all together for this gameweek on NPFL-Live and StarTimes. Catch the matches live this Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, March 2, 2024 KWARA UNITED v RIVERS UNITED…
By George Akpayen Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) title-holders Enyimba climbed to the top of the standings following a 4-0 thrashing of Gombe United at the Enyimba Stadium in Aba on Thursday. In a matchday that produced 25 goals in total, the People’s Elephant dismissed their opponents despite having 21 goal attempts including 12 on…
Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) on Friday issued a practice directive to clubs reminding on existing protocols for post-match media engagement by their Technical Heads. In a memo with the heading, Participation of Coaches at Post Match Conferences, the NPFL Chief Operating Officer, Davidson Owumi said strict adherence to the guidelines is imperative developing and…
Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye has charged Rivers United players to sustain the country’s resurgence in African football by winning with needed goals margin in their last group match of the CAF Confederation Cup. The Nigerian flag bearers square up against Dream FC of Ghana in a must-win fixture…