Pillars go 1 up against Sunshine.
Dolphins still leading Bukola 1-0.

After one year and 8 days, the NPL, the world's longest running league finally comes to an end.

FT Scores:
Bukola Babes 0 vs Dolphins 1
Kano Pillars 1 vs Sunshine Stars 0.
Dolphins are the champions.

The world's longest league indeed. Not so happy, I wanted Sunshine Stars to win the league. i hope they get their acts right and begin the next seeason asap , and a title sponsor.

Relegated:
Plateau United
JUTH
Crown FC
Zamfara United

^^^^ ohhhhh. Plateau united gave a good fight. I wanted them to remain in the league. The others are worthy to play in the lower division

JUTH are a yoyo club, they'll be back.

Phewww. Finally! I lost interest in d league. Thank God it is over. Waiting for the next batch.

No Prize Money For Dolphins . .

http://www.kickoff.com/news/25509/no-prize-money-for-nigeria-league-champions-dolphins-fc.php


[quote][/quote]Dolphins FC are unlikely to get any prize money for winning the Nigerian Premier League title.

The Nigerian Premier League, without a sponsor, have been running the league on a shoe-string budget, and were forced to borrow from the NFF to prosecute the last four fixtures of the season.

No prize-money was announced at the start of the competition, and none has been paid out for over six years despite previous sponsorship to the tune of nearly N1 billion.

Acting Executive Secretary Tunji Babalola told KickOffNigeria.com that the board will decide what the champions will get.

"The board will have to meet and decide what the prize money will be considering our current situation and the fact that we have to also pay prize money to the winners of the Super Four," he said.

Previous winners like Enyimba, Ocean Boys and Bayelsa United were all told they would get a prize money of N5 million, out of the sponsorship fee of around N900 million paid by Glo.

Only Ocean Boys were paid, back in 2006.

As long as it's Baribote that's there, the new league season is going to be as useless as late last season.

So what has been happening to the money? Who dey chop am? I thought this season had MTN as sponsor?

^^^

Nah, until next season, MTN was not to pay any sponsor bills. Glo was responsible and didn't pay.

its a shame the way thing are going on in Nigeria, who ever is the league president or chairman they should ensure that we have a very competitive league next season; they can setup a strong technical department specially for the league to be headed by someone that have managed any of the top 10 leagues in the world, so that they can help structure the league to become better and ensure that every month the coaches undergo short courses to help them also; then the players should be encouraged to take evening class for English, Economics and Mathematics, so that they will be usefull for themselves in the future

There's controversy over who finished as top scorer.
Jude Aneke of Kaduna United finished with 20 goals but Ibrahim Ajani of Sunshine Stars was also awarded a goal that was hitherto not awarded him which now puts him on 20 goals.
As it stands, we don't know finished top scorer.

Teams that qualified to play on the continent:
Dolphins - champions league(league champions)
Sunshine Stars - champions league(2nd place)
Heartland - confederation cup( federation cup champions)
Warri Wolves - confederation cup(3rd place)
Kano Pillars - WAFU Cup(4th place)

so whn would next season start now that the calendar is now in an awkward situation

^^^

Starts by January 2012.

Wikki Tourist won the national league superfour and got a prize gift of 500k from the NFF.

the League Starts 7th January 2012

Bukola Babes is now to be known as ABS FC(Abubakar Bukola Saraki FC)

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time to open a new thread for the next season?

Fresh news and transfers?

Who is the title sponsor for next season anyway, are they still in court

Dis Guy:

time to open a new thread for the next season?

Fresh news and transfers?

Who is the title sponsor for next season anyway, are they still in court

we do not need a new thread for next season because this thread was not created for one season either, it's all about our league and until it reaches 100 pages, i don't think we can have a new one.

fresh transfer? well that's kinda hard to follow right now except you can help us out.

the new sponsor is total football which is like a front for mtn, so it's mtn that's the new sponsor now.

League resumes tomorrow

2011/2012 Season, Week 1 results:

Dolphins 1 – 0 Sunshine Stars
New man, Adamu Mohammed came on as a substitute to
nod home the winner for title holders, Dolphins five minutes
from time. The champions start off the season in
fourth place while last
season's runners-up,
Sunshine Stars are 16th after games on the opening day.


Enugu Rangers 0 – 0
Warri Wolves
Goalkeeper Ambrose Vanzekin
and Ike ThankGod put up solid performances to stop Okey Emordi's men from picking all points. The result reflects the same scoreline in this
corresponding fixture last season.


Kwara United 0 – 0 Ocean Boys
Ocean Boys have started the season on a bright note. But
coach Samson Unuanel will have to thank goalkeeper Ospino Egbe for his heroics within the stick against Kwara United in this tie.
Both teams find themselves in the top half after this Day One's goalless draw.


Wikki Tourists 1 – 0 Heartland
Heartland's woes on the road continue after Victor Yakubu's 24th minute goal sealed a happy return for Ladan Bosso as head coach of Wikki.
Heartland are in 14th position after matchday one while Wikki sit in sixth.


Enyimba 2 – 0 ABS FC
Playmaker Josiah Maduabuchi scored the first goal of the season when he put former champions, Enyimba in front in the 1st minute of this game. New boy, Nzube Anazemba made the points safe for the Peoples Elephant with 10 minutes to time, as new head coach, Austin Eguavoen watched from the stands with first-team coach, Abdu Maikaba taking charge in the
interim. Enyimba start the season on top of the log.


Kano Pillars 1 – 0 Niger
Tornadoes
.
In this northern derby, Kano Pillars had to wait till after the hour-mark before Nazifi Ammani scored what turned out to be the winner. Ammani ensured that Baba Ganaru's men are in the top five after Week 1 while Tornadoes in the lower half of the standings.


3SC 2 – 1 Sharks
Festus Allen got a second half scare on his debut as 3SC head coach when attacking winger Bright Ejike scored inside two minutes of the restart for the visiting Blue Angels. But new signing from Ijebu United, Talabi Joshua Olamakinde's screamer on 72minutes caught goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa off guard to draw 3SC level. Substitute Osagona Ighodaro, another new boy, punished the Blue Angels on 84 minutes to hand Allen's men all points to put them third on the log.

Other results:

Rising Stars 0 – 0 Akwa
United


Gombe United 2 – 0 Lobi Stars.

honeric01:

we do not need a new thread for next season because this thread was not created for one season either, it's all about our league and until it reaches 100 pages, i don't think we can have a new one.

fresh transfer? well that's kinda hard to follow right now except you can help us out.

the new sponsor is total football which is like a front for mtn, so it's mtn that's the new sponsor now.

Some completed transfers:

Cletus Itodo(Sunshine) - Dolphins

Gbenga Okunowo - Sunshine

Jude Aneke(Kaduna Utd) - Warri Wolves

More on completed transfers:

Chigozie Johnson: Enyimba to Warri Wolves

Ikechukwu Gabriel: Pillars to Warri Wolves

Gbolahan Salami: 3SC to Enyimba

Register on www.mocliq.mobi, recharge your Mo’cliq account, win airtime by playing fun games and withdraw into your phone account.

http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria/news/120119/Nine_NNL_clubs_in_trouble


Nine NNL clubs in trouble
by George Akpayen 19 January 2012, 09:50

Nine Nigeria National League (NNL) sides stand the risk of being thrown out of the 2011/2012 season.

The clubs are Bendel Insurance, Nasarawa United, FC Abuja, Adamawa United, Gateway FC, Juth, Prime FC, Ranchers Bees and Plateau United.

The sides are alleged to owe their players and coaches outstanding salaries and signing-on fees.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has directed the NNL to take appropriate action against the sides before the season kicks off on February 4.

The NFF in its letter to the second tier of the Nigerian league body stated that the nine clubs are yet to comply with the directives of the players' welfare and arbitration committee of the federation.

The NNL secretary, Ayo Rahaman confirmed receipt of the letter from the NFF.

“We have just received a letter from the NFF warning that these clubs should not be allowed to participate in the league unless they settle all their outstanding debt to players and coaches. And we are going to comply with the directives if the affected clubs fail to pay up before February 4th, when the league is expected o kick off,” he stated.

The NFF Players' Welfare and Arbitration Committee passed the decision on the nine clubs since June 7, 2011 to pay up outstanding wages and contract fees of their players and coaches.

Any update on the team from Lagos? how are they faring, are they in the NNL?

Lagos does not have a team.

^^

Bridge Boys FC

@Dis Guy and afam4eva, COD is another lagos club but in second division, nice website they have. http://www.codunitedfc.com (rccg club)