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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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