In 2023, the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) will have its 11th anniversary. The football league was the best in Africa and rated higher than the Scottish league when the outlawed League Management Company (LMC) took over its management in 2012.
However, 11 years after that outstanding start, the league lacks a realistic calendar, is unable to retain top talents, and the coaching has devolved into a bygone era with administrators who are little more than the current governor’s puppets.
The 2021/22 season ended on 17 July 2022, and the 2023 season, abridged because of time and the political season, is set to begin on 8 January 2023, with just one game.
