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The 2024–25 Nigeria Premier Football League is the 54th season of Nigeria's top-flight association football league, and the 35th since attaining professionalism and the first under the current name. The season commenced early on 31 August 2024 with the defending champions, Enugu Rangers hosting El-Kanemi Warriors. [1] [2]
The league was previously known as the Nigeria Premier League between 1993 and 2000, and between 2003 and 2013. [3] [4]It has also been known as the "Nigerian Premiership" (2000–2003); "Nigerian Professional League" (1990–1993); Nigerian National League - First Division (1979–1990) and "the (Nigerian) National League" or "Nigerian Football League" (1972–1979) and more recently "Nigeria ...
2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 23 June 2024. The 2023–24 Nigeria Premier Football League was the 53rd season of Nigeria's top-flight association football league, the 34th since attaining professionalism and the first under the current name. [ 3 ]
On matchday 35 of the 2023-24 edition of the NPFL, 44,000 people showed up for a game between Rangers International and rivals Enyimba FC at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, the best-attended match in the NPFL during that football season. [35] On 16th June 2024 under coach Fidelis Ilechukwu, Rangers won the 2023/2024 NPFL championship title after ...
El-Kanemi Warriors Football Club is a football team based in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. Their play ground is the El-Kanemi Stadium , Maiduguri. The club is on a positive rebound having gained promotion to the Nigeria Premier Football League in 2024 and doubling as the winners of the Federation Cup in the same year.
Enyimba Football Club, commonly known as Enyimba, is a Nigerian professional football club based in the city of Aba, Abia State which plays in the Nigerian Professional Football League. Their name means People's Elephant in Igbo language and is also the nickname used for the city of Aba. [ 2 ]
Sporting Lagos Football Club is a professional football club from Lagos, Nigeria founded in 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The club currently competes in the Nigeria National League . the second tier of Nigeria's football league system , [ 4 ] following relegation from the 2023–24 Nigeria Premier League .
Football is the most popular sport in Nigeria, and most people in Nigeria watch international football and support a club in a domestic league. A 2024 poll conducted by NOI Polls found that 67% of Nigerians watch football, and 86% of Nigerians watched Nigeria at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations , where Nigeria lost 2–1 to hosts Ivory Coast in ...