Skip to main content

Checkout how teams gain promotion from lower division to the Premier League

The Nigeria National League (NNL) is the second tier of league football in the country. It was formerly known as National Division 1 in the 1990’s.

However, from 1997-2011, the NNL was divided into two groups- 1A for teams based in the northern and 1B for teams in the southern region.

READ ALSO: How many goals did Olivier Giroud score for France at World Cup?

At the end of the matches, the top two clubs from each division are promoted to the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), for the preceding campaign.

However, during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 campaigns the divisions were increased to four with eight teams each, with the winners from each division promoted to the NPFL.

Four clubs from each division are then relegated to the less-glamorous amateur first division.

Since 2012 the league reverted to two divisions of sixteen. But in 2015 campaign, it returned to four divisions of eight teams.

READ ALSO: NAIJ.com upgrades to Legit.ng

However, with the leadership crisis that rocked the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) last year, the NNL have ruled no club will be relegated.

On the other hand, eight clubs - Gombe Utd, Kogi Utd, Kada City, Real Stars, Bendel Insurance, Delta Force, 3SC and Remo Stars took part in a Super 8 tournament to determine four that will gain promotion to NPFL.

Thus at the NNL Congress it was agreed that the 2018/2019 season will be played in an abridged format involving 4 divisions.

Interestingly, in the NPFL no team will be relegated to the NNL but four teams from the NNL will be promoted, meaning there will be an abridged league format of two divisions of 12 teams with the champions to be decided through a Super 4 playoff.

PAY ATTENTION: Become a member of the leading sports Facebook group 'Naija Football Fan Zone'

Six clubs will be relegated to the NNL for the 2019/2020 campaign with only two gaining promotion to formally return to the NPFL to a 20-team league format.

NAIJ.com (naija.ng) -> Legit.ng We have updated to serve you better.

Football Transfers That Shocked The World | Legit.ng TV

Source: Legit.ng



from Nigeria News today & Breaking Naija news ▷ Read on LEGIT.NG 24/7 http://bit.ly/2CpPMCr
via EDUPEDIA24/7

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

N2.5bn Fraud: You Have Case To Answer, Appeal Court Tells Suspended NBC Boss, Kawu

The Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Ishaq Kawu. The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, has dismissed an appeal filed by the suspended Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, Dr Moddibbo Kawu, challenging the decision of the Federal High Court, to dismiss the no-case submission he filed at the lower court. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission had charged Kawu, Lucky Omoluwa (late Chairman of Pinnacle Communications Ltd) and Dipo Onifade, Chief Operating Officer of the same company, before Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo-Giwa, on a 12-count charge of money laundering. Is'haq Modibbo Kaw THISDAYLIVE The suspended NBC boss and his co-accused then approached the appellate court to reverse the judgment of the Federal High Court. The appellate dismissed the no-case submission filed by Kawu and his co-accused and held that they had an explanation to give when he elected to facilitate the payment of ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Buhari’s Legacy Of Recessions By Fredrick Nwabufo

Fredrick Nwabufo ‘Why always Buhari?’ As it was in 1984 under General Buhari, so it is in 2016 and 2020 under President Buhari? Is it by the unfortunate hands of kismet that recession hits Nigeria every time Buhari takes charge of the country’s affairs? If the recession of the 80s under Buhari was a conspiracy by economic and political factors, to what do we attribute that of his first coming as a civilian President — and now in his second coming? Why does pestilence scourge the land, hunger ravage the population and lives lost malevolently when Buhari presides over the country? Why always Buhari? Buhari’s undoing is his wonted predilection for hierarchising ethnicity, religion and loyalty above competence. Since 1999, no President has obtrusively shown a more nepotistic aspect than Buhari. It is unarguable that the President arrays the most competence-challenged cabinet ever in the chronicle of governance in Nigeria. Yes, a recession cabinet. Fredrick Nwabufo Here is a cabin...
Post a Comment
Read more

TYPES OF DRAMA II

Comedy: We use the words 'comedy' and comic to describe something that is funny in our everyday lives. These include a joke or a fantastic story that is full of nonsense, or an absurd appearance that makes us giggle, smile or laugh. Comedy is not inherent in things or people but the way things/people are perceived. Comedy is a deliberate presentation of events/experiences drawn from real life but not the same with real life. We should therefore not expect dramatic comedy to be the same as real life. Generally, the plays have good endings or resolutions, so when a play ends happily, we refer to it as comedy. In most comedies, the principal characters begin in a state of opposition either to one another or to their world or both. By the end of the play their opposition .is replaced by harmony. Aristotle in-.his “Poetics” insisted that in tragedy men are shown “better than they are”, while in comedy “worse than they are”. For him it is an artistic imitation of men of inferi...
Post a Comment
Read more