‘NPFL-Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation Super Cup’s N100m prize money solely for winner’

The Nigeria Professional Football League’s (NPFL) Interim Management Committee (IMC) has clarified that the prize money for the winner of the NPFL-Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation pre-season tournament remains the N100million presented to Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC).

IMC Head of Operations, Davidson Owumi, made the clarification following a statement from 3SC alluding to a sharing understanding among the four clubs that participated in the tournament.

“Whatever MoU was entered into by the clubs remains their arrangement as the sponsors, Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation, were clear that the N100 million was for the winner and had gone ahead to announce a further N30m for the runner-up, Enyimba International,” the IMC official said.

He said it is the prerogative of the clubs to make any arrangements they so wish to enter into, “but the fact remains that the sponsors would be paying the N100m to Shooting Stars as was officially announced.”

This clarification is coming on the heels of a statement attributed to the management of Shooting Stars purporting “to clear the air on the prize money of the just concluded NPFL-Dozy Mmobuosi Super Cup Football Tournament.”

The statement alleged that “contrary to the belief that 3SC got the whole N100 million being the winner of the four-team tourney, we wish to state that the club only got N50 million as the champions.”

The IMC, however, affirmed that the sponsor is keeping to its side of the partnership terms and conditions, which is providing the N100 million prize money, the N2 million for the MVP and Highest Goal Scorer at N1 million each and the N10 million appearance fee for each of the four clubs.