NPFL 2015/16 Season to Kick off February 21 – LMC

The League Management Company (LMC) on Tuesday released a comprehensive calendar of activities for the 2015/16 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season. The calendar provides two rounds for the Super 4 tournaments and a kick-off date of February 21 for the regular season which will end on October 2. The LMC said that the new calendar of activities, was drawn up based on usual consultations with participating clubs and proposed fixtures of the Nigeria Football Federation’s (NFF) Federation Cup. “We have following various consultations been properly guided to streamline the activities of the NPFL, the NFF Federations Cup as well as CAF competition dates,” the LMC stated. It further explained that “provision has been made for the NFF Club Licensing compliance and cutoff dates inserted to ensure compliance by clubs as required by CAF.” The first round of the NPFL Super 4 will hold in Kaduna from January 20-24 while the second round will be played in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State from February 1-5. “The rationale for the two rounds of NPFL Super 4 is to get our clubs that will be playing on the continent to play at least six competitive games from the two tournaments to sufficiently prime them to reasonable match fitness. The tournament will as usual be played on a round-robin structure.” The preliminary rounds of the CAF Club competitions will hold on the weekend of February 12-14. The LMC also gave a February 10 deadline to all clubs to ensure the settlement of any overdue payments to players and coaches arising from the 2014/15 season and or provide an acceptable financial guarantee instruments to secure the payments as well as a tentative payment plan from the club’s proprietors.