NWFL Premiership season gets Kickoff date.

The League ended abruptly last season due to time factor as it concerned the WAFU Zone B qualifiers of the inaugural edition of the Women’s CAF champions league.

Hence, the new season of the Nigeria Women Football top tier League, NWFL Premiership 2021/2022 will start in December 2021 and end in May 2022 to adjust to the WAFU-B Qualifiers.

This was announced during the 2021 NWFL annual Congress meeting which held in Lagos on Wednesday.

The season which will kickoff on December 8, will follow an abridged format with the qualified 14 clubs shared into two groups of seven clubs each, of the Southern zone and Northern zone.

The season will be rounded off by the Super-6 competition. Three teams from each of the zone will qualify to play a Super-6 playoffs to determine the Champions for the season.

The NWFL chairperson has revealed that, the hosting of the Super-6 will go round all the Premiership Clubs and interested clubs and/or State should indicate interest of host.

There are only four clubs in the Northern zone which will be joined with three Southern teams to complete a group of seven. From the North are Nasarawa Amazons, Confluence Queens, Naija Ratels and Adamawa Queens and they will be joined by Pelican Stars, Osun Babes and Edo Queens to make a complete group.

The remaining seven teams are put together to make up the Southern zone; Rivers Angels, Royal Queens, FC Robo Queens, Delta Queens, Sunshine Queens, Abia Angels, and Bayelsa Queens.

GROUP A:
Adamawa Queens
Confluence Queens
Edo Queens
Osun Babes
Pelican Stars
Naija Ratels
Nasarawa Amazons

GROUP B:
Abia Angels
Bayelsa Queens
Delta Queens
Rivers Angels
Robo FC
Royal Queens
Sunshine Queens.

The Week One Fixtures:
Group A –
Confluence 🆚 Pelican Stars
Naija Ratels 🆚 Osun Babes
Adamawa Queens 🆚 Edo Queens
Nasarawa Amazons – drawn bye

Group B-
FC Robo 🆚 Abia Angels
Delta Queens 🆚 Rivers Angels
Sunshine Queens 🆚 Bayelsa Queens
Royal Queens – drawn bye

Rivers Angels emerged as Champions of the 2020/2021 NWFL Premiership season at the Super Six which took place at Dipo Dina International Stadium, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State to pick a ticket for the Inaugural TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Champions League to be hosted by Egypt.