3SC, ABS, Wikki Tourist and Kwara Utd join 28 other teams in the Nigerian National League to battle for promotion to the Nigerian Premier League
The Jan 25th of January has been scheduled for the kick-off of the 2013/2014 Nigerian Premier League Season, a total of 32 teams will go head to head has they all seek promotion into Nigeria’s Top flight.
The Nigeria National League has announced the full list of clubs that will be participating in the second tier of Nigerian football this season. Giwa FC, FC Taraba, Abia Warriors and Crown FC have all been promoted to the Nigeria Professional Football League, another set of four teams have also been promoted to the NNL from the third tier, while relegated teams from the Nigerian Professional Football League(NPFL) have all been thrown into the mix with all existing NNL teams to make a total number of 32 teams.
Relegated NPFL teams, Kwara utd and Wikki Tourist have been placed in group A while their other NPFL counterpart Shooting Stars and Abubakar Bukola Saraki are in group B.
Group A
Nigerian Prisons FC
Kwara United F.C.
FRSC FC
Ranchers Bees
DSS
Kaduna FC
Teap FC Abuja,
Mighty Jets of Jos
Spotlight FC
Sokoto United FC
Plateau United FC
Kogi-United FC FC
Adamawa United FC
Jigawa Golden Stars FC
Wikki Tourist FC
Niger Tornadoes FC
Supreme Court FC.
Group B
Akwa Starlets FC
Abia Comets FC
Remo Stars FC
Gabros International FC
Prime FC
C.O.D United Football Club FC
Gateway United FC
Unicem Rovers FC
MFM International FC
Union Bank FC
First Bank FC
Canaan FC
3SC
ABS FC
Bendel Insurance FC
Go-round FC.
The Nigeria National League as announced at the congress last Thursday will start January 25 2014.
Babatunde Abidoye