The 2019 Nigeria women Football League gets kick off date as 16 teams set to battle for honor in the new abridged League

The  2019 Nigeria Women Football League ,NWFL will begin on the 17th of July,2019. The date was revealed in a communique released after the Annual General meeting of the League's stake holder held in Abuja.

The League, which will be an Abridged format this season, comprises 16 teams with 4 teams in a group. The group will proceed to play in the Championship playoffs to determine the winner of the league while the last teams across the four groups will play in the championship relegation playoffs.

The communique further revealed that the winner of the league will proceed on tour of Spain as part of the bilateral agreement between Laliga and NWFL to international friendlies.

The league went on break since last year after the FIFA world cup in Russia and the abridged format will make for the lost time according to the communique.

The groups at a glance

Group A

Rivers Angels

Osun Babes

Delta Queens

FC Robo

Group B

Dream Stars Ladies

Heartland Queens

Adamawa Queens

Edo Queens

Group C

Bayelsa Queens

Sunshine Queens

Nasarawa Amazons

Jokodolu Babes

Group D

Confluence Queens

Abia Angels

Invincible Angels

Ibom Angels

Eunisell to reward Mfon,Sunusi tonight

Mfon udoh and Ibrahim Sunnusi will be rewarded for their effort as the highest goal scorers at the NPFL 2019 regular season in a gala to be held in Lagos tonight tagged #Eunisellboot19.

Both players scored 10 goals each for Akwa utd and Nassarawa utd respectively. The players  will smile home with the highest goal scorer gong as well as two million Naira for their effort as  each goal is rewarded with #200,000. 

The award is organised by eunisel to promote marksmanship as goals define the game .

According to the company's 

Managing Director, Mr. Chika Ikenga  said, “Our logic is simple; both players deserve to be rewarded for their performances. The eligibility to be awarded the Eunisell Boot, is based on the most goals scored and both players satisfy that basic requirement." 

The 2019  NPFL season was an abridged season in which each teams played twenty two matches and Akwa utd benefited from Mfon Udoh's goal as they top Group B to make it the Championship playoff  that was held in Lagos while sunusi's 10 goals ensured that Nasarawa escaped relegation in the keenly contested relegation battle which saw an unprecedented 8 teams relegated.

AFCON2019 : NIGERIA 1-0 GUINEA :Nigeria first to reach AFCON 2019 Round of 16

 

Nigeria became the first country to make it to the knockout rounds of the ongoing 32^ndAfrica Cup of Nations finals in Egypt on Wednesday evening, as Kenneth Omeruo’s well –placed header from a Moses Simon’s corner kick earned all three points against Guinea at the Alexandria Stadium.

 

A below –par first half gave way to a lively second half, during which Odion Ighalo, who earned all the three points for Nigeria after coming on as a substitute against Burundi on Saturday, could have scored if the Guinean defenders had not checkmated Ahmed Musa’s pass from a swift counter-attack, and Alex Iwobi forced a smart one –handed save from Guinea’s goalkeeper Ibrahim Kone from a snap shot.

 

The result means that for the first time since the AFCON finals (also staged in Egypt), Nigeria won their two matches of the finals.

 

At the beginning, the Syli Nationale were more business-like, working three shots on target including one that rattled Daniel Akpeyi, before Moses Simon fired wide over the bar when he freed himself from the right.

 

Coach Gernot Rohr rested captain Mikel Obi and William Ekong, with Chukwueze also benched for Simon and Ighalo starting in place of Paul Onuachu. Yet, the Super Eagles did not look intensely creative in the first half hour and it was largely the organization of Kenneth Omeruo, Leon Balogun, Chidozie Awaziem and Ola Aina at the back that ensured a barren scoreline at the interval.

 

Iwobi had movement and endeavour but gave the ball away severally, and Ighalo must have punched himself after side-netting with Musa waiting eagerly to raze the net from close range in the 32^nd minute. Earlier, Ighalo had, with a poor first touch, fumbled a good pass from Musa after the latter’s run down the left, and Iwobi also wasted another excellent pass by the pacy deputy captain.

 

The Super Eagles need only a draw from their last match of the group phase against Madagascar on Sunday to finish top of the group and remain in Alexandria for their Round of 16 fixture.