Sequel to the crowd disturbances and harassment of match referees in one of the fixtures of MatchDay4 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Championship Playoff, Kano Pillars FC has been fined N8 million and its captain, Rabiu Ali banned from all NPFL activities and matches for a period of 12 matches. Supporters sympathetic to…

Oriental neighbours, Enyimba of Aba and Enugu Rangers will kick off this year’s Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) Super Six Championship in Lagos on June 4, the League Management Company (LMC) has announced. Rangers won Group A of the abridged league, while Enyimba placed third behind Lobi Stars of Makurdi. But this competition is the…

The League Management Company (LMC) yesterday descended on El Kanemi Football Club of Maiduguri over the alleged hooliganism that trailed their 2-2 draw with Go Round in the Nigerian Professional League (NPFL) last week. At the end of the Match Day 17 fixture in Maiduguri, some people suspected to be supporters of El Kanemi Warriors…

In football-loving countries world over, the establishment and management of clubs is done by private entities, whose motive of ownership is good return on investment in the beautiful game.

Hooliganism between supporters of rival football clubs is not unique to Nigeria. But its destructive effect seems to be more visible in the nation’s league...

When Junior Lokosa picked up the first ever Eunisell Boot Award at the Nigerian Professional Football League’s (NPFL) 2017/18 season highest goal scorer with 19 goals, even he did not envisage the career-defining boost it would have on him in the last couple of months For his performance in Nigeria’s top football league, the 25-year-old…

The League Management Company (LMC) yesterday descended heavily on former Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) champions, Plateau United for alleged acts of hooliganism, which marred their Week One game against FC IfeanyiUbah in Jos at the weekend.

The long awaited Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) will finally kick off on Sunday following the conclusion of the Nigerian National League (NNL) Super Eight Play-Off in Aba.

Former International, Felix Owolabi, has expressed sadness over the continued postponement of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), saying it would make fans lose interest in the local league and undyingly shift focus on the established foreign ones. The League Management Company (LMC) had set December 1 as the initial date for the 2018/2019 Nigerian…

Nigeria’s remaining representative in African inter-club competitions, Enyimba of Aba will leave Lagos today for Abidjan for the reverse leg of its CAF Confederation Cup tie with Williamsville FC.

The League Management Company (LMC) is studying the reports by the match commissioner and other officials to ascertain what actually happened during Monday’s Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) match between Heartland and Plateau United. There were reports after the game at the Dan Anyiam Stadium that the match officials and some Plateau United players were…

The League Management Company (LMC) has imposed a three-point deduction on Sunshine Stars of Akure, Ondo State, in an unprecedented application of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Framework and Rules.