May 16, 2026
Odegbami
The 2025/2026 Nigerian Professional Football League season rounds off May 24, 2026. It would have been this weekend but postponed to allow Federation Cup matches hold.
However, it’s been 36 years since the mission to lift Nigerian football was embarked upon from where it was for 30 years after Independence.
It was in 1990 that professional football started in Nigeria. It was domiciled by the decree that set it up in the Nigerian Football Association but was run by a semi-independent body called the Nigerian Professional Football League. Its original mission was to take Nigerian football to the highest levels in global football.
