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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by taiocol: 9:24pm On Nov 28, 2015

CFCfan:
I would also suggest that:
- clubs be mandated to provide ambulance service on match days, and medical insurance for the players.

- A league minimum wage of N80,000/month should be set. This excludes the separate medical insurance package.

- The LMC should renegotiate the broadcast rights with Super sport, mandating a weekly highlight show to be broadcast by a terrestrial channel.

According to the Lmc its 150k from 2017

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by Nobody: 9:47pm On Nov 28, 2015

taiocol:
According to the Lmc its 150k from 2017

That's even better!

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by Kenechi1: 9:52pm On Nov 28, 2015

What is your twitter handle

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by vodkat: 9:57pm On Nov 28, 2015

A football economy

It is not entirely clear what the total size of the Premier League economy is, but its income tax and national insurance contribution alone is thought to be worth more than £1.3 billion per year to the British government.

Some of the revenues flowing into the game come from places like Abu Dhabi (Sheikh Mansour has spent upwards of £1 billion on Manchester City) and Russia (Roman Abramovich may have spent a similar amount on Chelsea) – important injections into the British economy over the 22 years since the Premier League’s inception.

Yet it is television that has had the most profound effect. Lightning-fast growth has seen domestic broadcast revenues grow from £633,000 per game, when the first deal with BSkyB was struck back in 1992, to £6.53m today.

On top of this, overseas broadcasting rights bring in vast revenues too. For instance, in 2013, NBC in the United States paid US$250m for the right to show Premier League games for three years.

As a result, the league is now broadcast in 212 countries around the world, with a cumulative audience of almost 5 billion people per season. This means that around 70% of the total population of the world’s televised sport market watches Premier League games, while nearly one third of all Premier League viewers are now thought to be in Asia.

Each live Premier League game can have a global audience of more than 12m people, which greatly exceeds viewership of Italy’s Serie A (4.5m), Spain’s La Liga (2.2m), and Germany’s Bundesliga (2m). This popularity is reflected in the sums paid for domestic television contracts: the Premier League’s £3 billion again dwarfing the Serie A (£721m), La Liga (£511m) and Bundesliga (£417.4m) deals.

For Premier League clubs, the financial health of the league has brought a revenue windfall. For example, in the 2013/2014 season, champions Manchester City received payments totalling nearly £98m from the league. Even Cardiff City, who finished the season in last place and were featured on TV the joint-fewest times, said goodbye to top-flight football with almost £64m.

But money received directly from the league only makes up one portion of a club’s income. Global exposure has meant a commercial bonanza and there are now four Premier League clubs in the top ten of Deloitte’s global football money league. This is compared with two from Spain, two from Italy and one each from Germany and France. Forbes ranks Manchester United the third most valuable sports team in the world, at $2.81 billion, just ahead of the New York Yankees.

Cashing in

Inevitably, players who make their way into the Premier League benefit too. Salaries have spiralled upwards to the point where even mediocre players at middling teams are earning several million pounds a year. Last season the likes of Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie, Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero all reportedly earned more than £200,000 each week.

Such salaries buy a lot of sports cars and fancy meals in Merseyside and Manchester, important injections into the local economies of the towns and cities where Premier League clubs are located.

Yet it is not just the Premier League, its clubs and their players who benefit. In 2012, Visit Britain claimed that around 900,000 tourists had attended a football game during visits to Britain in the previous year, 40% of them coming simply to watch football. While here, it is estimated that the football tourists spent £706m, or the equivalent of £785 per fan – which is £200 more than an average visitor to Britain normally spends.

This is not just a national-level phenomenon either, it has a tangible impact upon the towns and cities where Premier League clubs are located. Football contributes upwards of £330 million to the economy of Greater Manchester every year and the city’s two major clubs are thought to have an equivalent advertising value of £100m a year.

And there is a societal benefit too; the Premier League has invested £157m into community activities such as its Creating Chances initiative that works with hospitals, charities and other cultural organisations.

By any standards, surely the Premier League is a roaring success?

The flipside

The mind-boggling sums of money would tend to suggest so. But the league is criticised and derided by critics such as the Guardian’s David Conn and the Sporting Intelligence website for perpetuating greed, sanitising a once-proud social institution, destroying the heart and soul of English football, and creating a football elite that has excluded and alienated too many people.

While the world marvels at the globally televised spectacle the Premier League has become, critics refer to the “Prune Juice Effect”: as the TV money flows in, so it flows out again, most notably on transfer fees and salaries. While the likes of van Persie and Aguero no doubt make some economic contribution to their local area the lasting benefits are questionable. Just how much money leaks out of the UK to other countries is a serious question; after all, people who earn millions tend to have very good accountants.

Former Chelsea and Netherlands player Winston Bogarde still serves as the poster boy for Premier League waste and excess. Reputedly paid £2m a season by the London club, he played just nine times in four years with the Blues and quickly disappeared back to the Netherlands at the end of his contract.

Premier League prune juice
Back in 2000, some commentators warned that “wage inflation threatened the future of football”, yet salaries have still continued to rise. When the Premier League began in 1992, the average weekly salary of a player in England was £1,755. By the time Bogarde signed for Chelsea in 2000, this figure had risen to £11,184. Now, the average Premier League salary is £31,000 per week.

Indeed, wages for the league as a whole hit £1.78 billion last season. Worryingly, wages also rose above 70% of club turnover for the first time.

Trickling down?

This level of expenditure has not only fuelled wage and transfer inflation in English football’s top-flight but also further down the country’s league structure. This trickle-down effect has caused severe problems for many of English football’s clubs. Indeed, work carried out by John Beech shows there have been 168 club “insolvency events” since the league was founded in 1992. If the Premier League is the pinnacle of English football, then there is a very long, unstable and precariously positioned tail.

It is also bitterly ironic that, while Wayne Rooney pulls in £250k per week, Citizens UK has identified that it would take a cleaner 13 years to earn that amount. The attitude of pampering the players and the boardroom and squeezing the rest extends right down even to the internship programmes some clubs have been accused of abusing. In one case, a club advertised a year-long, full-time post – no salary, no expenses, long and unsociable hours, with a need for the successful candidate to use their own car for work purposes.

Priced out

Broadcast revenues may be flooding in, but fans of the Premier League continue to suffer. Ahead of the new season, some clubs have dramatically increased ticket prices. Newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers and Burnley have increased the price of their highest-priced season tickets by 38% and 37% respectively; the cheapest Arsenal season ticket is now £1020.

Overall, ticket prices are up almost 7% this season. This almost keeps track with the 8% increase in player salaries, but is far above the average 2.5% pay rise for UK workers.

So the game is less affordable than ever, and Premier League grounds are increasingly gentrified and greying. Football at the highest level is no longer a spectator sport for the young working classes, and the game is losing touch with its roots.

Even TV isn’t the cheap option it once was. To watch live Premier League matches at home, fans must pay at least £40 per month (or £460 per year). This isn’t just bad for those who can’t afford it, or who chose to put their money elsewhere – it is bad for all of us.

The strong league comes at a cost to the national team too. In 1992, Premier League starting line ups featured just 11 foreigners. Now, they make up 70% of the players. The lack of opportunities for local players has a knock-on effect: following England World Cup debacle, the team has fallen to 20th place in FIFA’s rankings, the lowest position in almost two decades.

So, what’s the Premier League worth? In the same way as consumers and critics might struggle to determine an appropriate measure of value for Marmite, so too will many people struggle to decide whether the league is actually worth it or not.

As you look around when you are next at a Premier League game, the millionaires in front of you and the lesser mortals sat next to you have helped make the league a commercial and global phenomenon. The problem is, those on the field may well be spending their cash in Bogota and Brasilia rather than Birmingham and Bristol. While those sat behind you may be really struggling to justify how much they pay to continue being fans.

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by delvinmaya(m): 10:11pm On Nov 28, 2015

crownprince102:
100% private ownership with strict financial guidelines to avoid bankrupt. No private will be ready to share ownership with the state government.

Dear Sir, I sent you an email. I would like it if you could reach back to me Sir. It's very important. Regards

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by famousroland(m): 10:57pm On Nov 28, 2015

Wow! nice idea

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 7:49am On Nov 29, 2015

Kenechi1:
What is your twitter handle

@EmperorOlamz

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 7:53am On Nov 29, 2015

MrImole:
...brilliant!

Did you school in ABU?

LOL...... No Great Ife

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 7:56am On Nov 29, 2015

tobimillar:
I don't share your believe...

Two things... the entertainment industry is doing too well, what LMC should do is to encourage clubs to use a popular musical star to draw crowd.

I may not want to watch akwa utd vs lobi stars at first, but if olamide is singing 1hour before the match, I will buy the ticket and watch the match as a bonus. With time, interests will be developed in the local league.

Then Nigerian TV stations need to help propagate this matches. NTA can have a sport station just for local league instead of showing premiership all t time

Bro...... we share the same idea, i explained this in one of the editions. Music stars should be used as a bait to bring fans to the stadia.

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 9:20am On Nov 29, 2015

delvinmaya:
Dear Sir, I sent you an email. I would like it if you could reach back to me Sir. It's very important. Regards

We should be connected now....... You can easily reach me via email. Thanks

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by gemale(m): 12:28pm On Nov 29, 2015

FINALLY!!! Som1 trying 2 speak sense & propose solutions 2 problems beseting our league instead of D prevalent herd mentality most of us r guilty of by totally forsaking d npfl instead of brainstorming 2 c hw our league can grow . Whether we lyk it or not, it's our league & nobody can help us improve it except ourselves. Unfortunately I abstained 4rm following d league until last season & honestly I was encouraged by d earnest efforts by d LMC
2 make d league beta. D quality of D officiating stepped up as was evident as dere was a higher incidence of away victories. Security was a little bit beta bt dere is still a lot of room 4 improvement as dere were still few cases of fan violence & assault of persons. However d LMC needs 2 focus more on d welfare of players & club officials next season. It is really disheartening & embarrassing dt players of some clubs had 2 go on strike just 4 their plight of unpaid salaries 2 b noticed. Isn't it d height of wickedness 2 owe a player up 2 3 months wages? Wt wld he survive on? Doesn't it make him susceptible 2 D use of nefarious individuals like match fixers which would further mess up d league? As u, mathematical odegbami, adokiye amiesimaka & oda well meaning Nigerians have bin saying state government as 2 relinquish club ownership 2 D private sector. Meanwhile LMC has 2 establish a contingency account 2 take care of dis issue of non payment of salaries while heavily penalizing d clubs. A portion of D monies 2 b paid 2 D clubs shld b set aside 2 fund dis account. D rest shld b sourced 4rm donations made by corporations & fans. Government shld legislate laws dt wld allow various degrees of tax concessions 2 businesses dt own clubs in d professional leagues or sponsor certain aspect of D club's finances. Communities shld also b vigorously encouraged 2 adopt clubs.

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by justiz5(m): 2:27pm On Nov 29, 2015

crownprince102:
The 2014 Nigeria Professional Football League season has come to a close with Enyimba crowned the champion for the record 7th time. A lot was seen in the just concluded season, reasonable increase number of away win, fair officiating, fabulous goals, somewhat peaceful spectators, broken records and a lot of wonderful display. Going by what was seen this season in the NPFL, you tend to discover the league has everything it takes to become a world class if the right things are put in place. Having been a keen follower of the NPFL for some period of time and someone who is seriously interested in the growth of Nigerian football, I‘ve sat down closely to look inward into the league and some developed ones around the world for comparison and at the end, I‘ve brought out a “childish” master plan or should I call it a blueprint of how the NPFL can be transformed into a world class league within the shortest possible time. This article will be in editions, parts, episodes or chapters whichever way you wish to take it, please bear with me. Let me also use this medium to congratulate league champion Enyimba, league cup winner Akwa United and the LMC for successful completion of the just concluded NPFL season. I also congratulate the new sport minister, Solomon Dalung for his appointment and I wish him best of luck in running the ministry.

Before I commence, let me briefly take you into the history of the league. The Nigerian football league was founded in 1972, 12 years after Nigeria gained independence from Britain, though the nation had been involved in football right before independence. Political instability and civil war were major factors the country don’t have a soccer league before 1972. The league started with 6 teams which include Mighty Jets of Jos, Rangers International of Enugu, Western Nigeria Development Company, Ibadan (now Shooting Stars S.C), Spartans of Owerri (now Heartland F.C) and Vipers of Benin (now Bendel Insurance F.C). It was rechristened “professional league” in 1990 with the goal to modernize and develop the game in the country and to make clubs self-sufficient. A decree at the time stipulate clubs should be run as a limited liability companies and governed by constituted board of directors, cultivate youth teams and own it own stadium within 5 years of registration. In order to assist club achieve this stated goals, all 56 professional clubs at the time were given 5 years tax moratorium on all income ranging from 1990 to 1995. This was aimed to aid them achieved those goals in the time interval given to them and to develop the league into a world class.

Browsing through the stated decree above, you and I tend to discover the league body present at the time was more than ready to build a professional and world class league. Today, 25 years after, we can all see the deplorable state of our league, no Nigerian club has a stadium of it own, privately owned club hardly exist in the league. The league has been faced with a lot crisis such as improper management, bad officiating, crowd trouble, even match fixing scandal after the 1990 innovation failed. The failure of clubs to meet the stipulated goals can also be blamed on political instability during the period, June 12 crisis precisely. Political instability can be said to be the major cause of the stunted growth in Nigerian football in the 90s. The league is manage today by the League Management Company (LMC), which came on board in 2012 due to the failure of the Nigerian Football League (NFL), the body managing the league before then. The LMC also has came up with a lot of innovative plan to build the league from the scrap, the body has introduced new innovations like the Wonder Goal Award, bonuses for away win, bonus for fans attendance and a lot of constructive plan for the league. The LMC have also secured a $34 million Television right deal with Super Sport and Title sponsorship with telecommunication giant, Glo. We must confess the LMC is working!

Though, the performance of the LMC has been fabulous and incredible, the development of the league under their watch seems quite slow, and going on this pace, it will take over a decade or two to build a good and sustainable soccer league which we are the rest of Africa can be proud of. A league that will be characterized with proper management, world class facilities, stable calendar, peaceful and passionate fans, adequate organisation, financial buoyancy and best quality soccer stars around the world. A league we can proudly call the best in Africa and on of the best in the world and no single individual on earth will doubt. A league the rest of Africa and the world would term “the African league”. Indeed, we can have one in our great nation. We are the giant of Africa and the nation with the largest economy on the continent, but, ladies and gentlemen, we all have a role to play, a major one indeed. Good People, Great Nation.

Today, the English Premier League is regarded by absolute majority of football fans around the world as the best league in the world due to it financial buoyancy and competitiveness, it is the most watched and most followed football league all over the world with broadcast in 212 countries to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people, more than half of the population of the earth. The average stadium occupancy is 92% with an average attendance of 35,363, the second highest in any professional football league in the world behind the German Bundesliga. The Premier League is currently sponsored by Barclay bank in a deal worth £40 million a year and thus officially known as the Barclay Premier League. Sky sports and BT sports are the league TV partner with deals worth billions of pound yearly for both domestic and international right. The league gains billions of pounds annually on both local and international Television broadcast due to worldwide interest of football fans in the league. The premier league has also attracted a lot of foreign talents in Europe and around the world and it is the only soccer league today that has a team that has fielded starting line-up without a citizen of the country involve and a team that fielded 11 players of different nationalities in it starting line-up. All these achieve achievement didn’t came to be in a twinkle of an eye, it went through rigorous process with great commitment and belief. Do you know that the English football was once in shamble?

Despite significant success in European football during the 1970s and early 1980s, the late ‘80s marked a low point in English football. Their were a lot of crumbling stadia, poor facilities, hooliganism, and the worst, English clubs were banned from European competition for 5 years following the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985. The English football league was well behind the Italian Serie A and the Spanish La Liga in almost everything ranging from attendance, revenues, etc. Several top English player move abroad to find greener pasture, a rare case nowadays. It only took the English FA and the government of United Kingdom to put their heads together and find a solution to the challenges. A report on safety standard known as Taylor report which proposed expensive upgrades of stadiums, making them all-seater was published in January 1990. The British government led by “iron lady”, Margaret Thatcher issued a grant worth over £200 million for stadium renovation and upgrades. A new league was established which commenced in 1992 after several agreements was reached by clubs and the FA which was rechristened “Premier League”. Fans attendance started growing, broadcast and sponsorship revenue rose till it became what we have today as the best and most financially buoyant soccer league on earth.

In building a world class league in Nigeria, we have to follow the same trend in a different dimension. The first step needed to be taken is to order State government to relinquish powers of operating football clubs. This looks quite easy but seems to be one of the hardest steps we have to take. To make State government relinquish power is quite difficult, did you as why? Operating a football club is by far the easiest and most unquestionable way of embezzling funds by state government officials. Do you know that all NPFL clubs are operated with the least of 500 million naira per annum? Are you surprised? You wonder why players are owed wages and not even paid high wages. Government relinquishing powers to operate clubs will create avenue for private hands to come in and invest bountifully into the league. The question is how do we generate the interest of the private sector to invest in into the league? How do we make them feel investing in the league has more benefit than elsewhere. There is only one way in generating interest of private individuals to invest the football league; putting the right and necessary facilities in place. The aim of all private investors is to make reasonable amount profit or fulfilment of his interest. The LMC under capable hands needs to create enabling environment for private investors, both local and foreign, for them to invest in the league and achieve their interest. Creating a cordial relationship with them and aiding them in achieving their interest is vital for the growth and development of the league. As we move further, we will explain more on how to create influx of local and foreign investors.

To build a world class league in Nigeria, we have to follow the steps taking by the British Government in the early 90s, the League Management Company and the Nigerian Football Federation in collaboration with the National Sport Commission and the new sport minister should request for a grant worth at least $500 million from the federal government for stadia upgrades across the 36 states and the federal capital territory. The sum sounds amazingly crazy and incredibly outrageous, oh yes! I agree with you no one in government would be ready to offer such sum and see it perish mysteriously, not even at this time the country is encountering economic crisis. Did I mention earlier that today the British government generates over £3 billion pounds a year on taxes, football tourism, etc? They only invested £200 million pound 24 years ago and today it earns them huge revenue, good global picture and respect amidst nations. Do you know the Nigerian government can generate back this huge fund back in 10 years or less through taxes generated from clubs only, not considering the later increase in revenue? The mathematical and statistical analysis will be done as we progress, the societal benefit and communal gains will also be given a look. As I‘ve said earlier, this article will be in edition, parts or episode, just stay calm and wait for the next edition of this article. To my humble reader, thanks a lot.

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by justiz5(m): 2:48pm On Nov 29, 2015

crownprince102:
The 2014 Nigeria Professional Football League season has come to a close with Enyimba crowned the champion for the record 7th time. A lot was seen in the just concluded season, reasonable increase number of away win, fair officiating, fabulous goals, somewhat peaceful spectators, broken records and a lot of wonderful display. Going by what was seen this season in the NPFL, you tend to discover the league has everything it takes to become a world class if the right things are put in place. Having been a keen follower of the NPFL for some period of time and someone who is seriously interested in the growth of Nigerian football, I‘ve sat down closely to look inward into the league and some developed ones around the world for comparison and at the end, I‘ve brought out a “childish” master plan or should I call it a blueprint of how the NPFL can be transformed into a world class league within the shortest possible time. This article will be in editions, parts, episodes or chapters whichever way you wish to take it, please bear with me. Let me also use this medium to congratulate league champion Enyimba, league cup winner Akwa United and the LMC for successful completion of the just concluded NPFL season. I also congratulate the new sport minister, Solomon Dalung for his appointment and I wish him best of luck in running the ministry.

Before I commence, let me briefly take you into the history of the league. The Nigerian football league was founded in 1972, 12 years after Nigeria gained independence from Britain, though the nation had been involved in football right before independence. Political instability and civil war were major factors the country don’t have a soccer league before 1972. The league started with 6 teams which include Mighty Jets of Jos, Rangers International of Enugu, Western Nigeria Development Company, Ibadan (now Shooting Stars S.C), Spartans of Owerri (now Heartland F.C) and Vipers of Benin (now Bendel Insurance F.C). It was rechristened “professional league” in 1990 with the goal to modernize and develop the game in the country and to make clubs self-sufficient. A decree at the time stipulate clubs should be run as a limited liability companies and governed by constituted board of directors, cultivate youth teams and own it own stadium within 5 years of registration. In order to assist club achieve this stated goals, all 56 professional clubs at the time were given 5 years tax moratorium on all income ranging from 1990 to 1995. This was aimed to aid them achieved those goals in the time interval given to them and to develop the league into a world class.

Browsing through the stated decree above, you and I tend to discover the league body present at the time was more than ready to build a professional and world class league. Today, 25 years after, we can all see the deplorable state of our league, no Nigerian club has a stadium of it own, privately owned club hardly exist in the league. The league has been faced with a lot crisis such as improper management, bad officiating, crowd trouble, even match fixing scandal after the 1990 innovation failed. The failure of clubs to meet the stipulated goals can also be blamed on political instability during the period, June 12 crisis precisely. Political instability can be said to be the major cause of the stunted growth in Nigerian football in the 90s. The league is manage today by the League Management Company (LMC), which came on board in 2012 due to the failure of the Nigerian Football League (NFL), the body managing the league before then. The LMC also has came up with a lot of innovative plan to build the league from the scrap, the body has introduced new innovations like the Wonder Goal Award, bonuses for away win, bonus for fans attendance and a lot of constructive plan for the league. The LMC have also secured a $34 million Television right deal with Super Sport and Title sponsorship with telecommunication giant, Glo. We must confess the LMC is working!

Though, the performance of the LMC has been fabulous and incredible, the development of the league under their watch seems quite slow, and going on this pace, it will take over a decade or two to build a good and sustainable soccer league which we are the rest of Africa can be proud of. A league that will be characterized with proper management, world class facilities, stable calendar, peaceful and passionate fans, adequate organisation, financial buoyancy and best quality soccer stars around the world. A league we can proudly call the best in Africa and on of the best in the world and no single individual on earth will doubt. A league the rest of Africa and the world would term “the African league”. Indeed, we can have one in our great nation. We are the giant of Africa and the nation with the largest economy on the continent, but, ladies and gentlemen, we all have a role to play, a major one indeed. Good People, Great Nation.

Today, the English Premier League is regarded by absolute majority of football fans around the world as the best league in the world due to it financial buoyancy and competitiveness, it is the most watched and most followed football league all over the world with broadcast in 212 countries to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people, more than half of the population of the earth. The average stadium occupancy is 92% with an average attendance of 35,363, the second highest in any professional football league in the world behind the German Bundesliga. The Premier League is currently sponsored by Barclay bank in a deal worth £40 million a year and thus officially known as the Barclay Premier League. Sky sports and BT sports are the league TV partner with deals worth billions of pound yearly for both domestic and international right. The league gains billions of pounds annually on both local and international Television broadcast due to worldwide interest of football fans in the league. The premier league has also attracted a lot of foreign talents in Europe and around the world and it is the only soccer league today that has a team that has fielded starting line-up without a citizen of the country involve and a team that fielded 11 players of different nationalities in it starting line-up. All these achieve achievement didn’t came to be in a twinkle of an eye, it went through rigorous process with great commitment and belief. Do you know that the English football was once in shamble?

Despite significant success in European football during the 1970s and early 1980s, the late ‘80s marked a low point in English football. Their were a lot of crumbling stadia, poor facilities, hooliganism, and the worst, English clubs were banned from European competition for 5 years following the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985. The English football league was well behind the Italian Serie A and the Spanish La Liga in almost everything ranging from attendance, revenues, etc. Several top English player move abroad to find greener pasture, a rare case nowadays. It only took the English FA and the government of United Kingdom to put their heads together and find a solution to the challenges. A report on safety standard known as Taylor report which proposed expensive upgrades of stadiums, making them all-seater was published in January 1990. The British government led by “iron lady”, Margaret Thatcher issued a grant worth over £200 million for stadium renovation and upgrades. A new league was established which commenced in 1992 after several agreements was reached by clubs and the FA which was rechristened “Premier League”. Fans attendance started growing, broadcast and sponsorship revenue rose till it became what we have today as the best and most financially buoyant soccer league on earth.

In building a world class league in Nigeria, we have to follow the same trend in a different dimension. The first step needed to be taken is to order State government to relinquish powers of operating football clubs. This looks quite easy but seems to be one of the hardest steps we have to take. To make State government relinquish power is quite difficult, did you as why? Operating a football club is by far the easiest and most unquestionable way of embezzling funds by state government officials. Do you know that all NPFL clubs are operated with the least of 500 million naira per annum? Are you surprised? You wonder why players are owed wages and not even paid high wages. Government relinquishing powers to operate clubs will create avenue for private hands to come in and invest bountifully into the league. The question is how do we generate the interest of the private sector to invest in into the league? How do we make them feel investing in the league has more benefit than elsewhere. There is only one way in generating interest of private individuals to invest the football league; putting the right and necessary facilities in place. The aim of all private investors is to make reasonable amount profit or fulfilment of his interest. The LMC under capable hands needs to create enabling environment for private investors, both local and foreign, for them to invest in the league and achieve their interest. Creating a cordial relationship with them and aiding them in achieving their interest is vital for the growth and development of the league. As we move further, we will explain more on how to create influx of local and foreign investors.

To build a world class league in Nigeria, we have to follow the steps taking by the British Government in the early 90s, the League Management Company and the Nigerian Football Federation in collaboration with the National Sport Commission and the new sport minister should request for a grant worth at least $500 million from the federal government for stadia upgrades across the 36 states and the federal capital territory. The sum sounds amazingly crazy and incredibly outrageous, oh yes! I agree with you no one in government would be ready to offer such sum and see it perish mysteriously, not even at this time the country is encountering economic crisis. Did I mention earlier that today the British government generates over £3 billion pounds a year on taxes, football tourism, etc? They only invested £200 million pound 24 years ago and today it earns them huge revenue, good global picture and respect amidst nations. Do you know the Nigerian government can generate back this huge fund back in 10 years or less through taxes generated from clubs only, not considering the later increase in revenue? The mathematical and statistical analysis will be done as we progress, the societal benefit and communal gains will also be given a look. As I‘ve said earlier, this article will be in edition, parts or episode, just stay calm and wait for the next edition of this article. To my humble reader, thanks a lot.

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by delvinmaya(m): 5:58pm On Nov 29, 2015

crownprince102:
We should be connected now....... You can easily reach me via email. Thanks

I still have been unable to reach you via nairaland email Sir. If there is another means by which I can reach across to you Sir, please let me know. Regards!

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 9:52pm On Nov 29, 2015

delvinmaya:
I still have been unable to reach you via nairaland email Sir. If there is another means by which I can reach across to you Sir, please let me know. Regards!

my mail is Haryor500@gmail.com

you can contact me via the mail. Thanks!

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by Nobody: 10:03pm On Nov 29, 2015

League management company contacts

Website: Npfl.Ng
Twitter: @LMCNPFL

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by Nobody: 8:40pm On Dec 05, 2015

Taar.... This thread has already met a dead end.

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 11:57am On Dec 08, 2015

Weselion:
Taar.... This thread has already met a dead end.

No bro..... seems the mods are not interested in giving any publicity. The 2nd edition was posted the next day after this edition but hasn't made front page till date. In few days, I look forward to post this on Naij.com. Thanks.

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Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 12:00pm On Dec 08, 2015

delvinmaya:
I still have been unable to reach you via nairaland email Sir. If there is another means by which I can reach across to you Sir, please let me know. Regards!

I already sent you my email but I'm yet to be contacted by you

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 6:31pm On Dec 23, 2015

vivianblog1:
N i c e One Dear That's Lovely ..... One Nigeria Great Nation From Vivian Gist

saw it on ur blog........ Thanks for dat.

Can u assist in publishing the next edition of the article?

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by crownprince102(op): 6:40pm On Dec 23, 2015

Allwility:
OP kwontinue na...the right people are reading this. That I assure you.

i hope so........ I already completed the article. It's of 12 editions butr NL is not taken it to the fp.

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by tck2000(m): 12:38am On May 13, 2019

crownprince102:
i hope so........ I already completed the article. It's of 12 editions butr NL is not taken it to the fp.

12 Editions and you didn't post them on Nairaland huh

....Thank God i am following you.You are really brilliant.Though it's 4 years now but PLEASE post them,you never know who could read this.P.S-i'm waiting.

Re: Making NPFL A World Class League; A Masterplan (1) by tck2000(m): 4:22pm On Aug 05, 2019

crownprince102:
my mail is Haryor500@gmail.com
you can contact me via the mail. Thanks!

Do you still use this?

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