The battle for Nigeria’s single ticket to the 2022 CAF Women’s Champions League begins Monday, May 16, with all the six top Premiership clubs geared up to clinch the single slot to represent Nigeria at the WAFU B qualifier and also emerge the 2021/22 league champions.
According to the format of the fixtures, the six teams will play in a round robin league with winners amassing the highest points and goals for and against, to become the season’s Champions.
In the first match of the day which will kickoff at 10 am, four-time champion, Bayelsa Queens will slug it out against seven-time champions, Rivers Angels at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, in what has been tagged the “Mother of all battles.”
In the second match of the opening day,
two-time champions, Nasarawa Amazons will battle against newcomers, Naija Ratels FC at the University of Benin, Ugbowo Campus Sports Complex at 1pm,
While the third match will be held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, as five-time champions, Delta Queens set to lock horns with two-time qualifiers, Edo Queens of Benin City by 4 pm.
The results of these cracking openers will go a long way at setting the pace of this year’s Super-Six.
All the clubs coaches are all aiming to win the title, as Delta Queens’ Dan Evumena, Naija Ratels’ Oloowokere, Bayelsa Queens’ Moses Aduku, Nasarawa Amazons’ Theophilus Danjuma, and Edo Queens’ Wemimo Matthew, are all poised to do their states and club proud by winning the title.
The pre-match meetings for Monday’s matches were held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, as the clubs were taken through the new rules of the game.
The chairperson of the NWFL, Aisha Falode, noted Sunday afternoon that, the best women football Referees in the country have been carefully selected to officiate all the matches of the Super-Six, so as to get great results.
Each of the six teams will observe a bye in three days from 17th to 19th May, as two matches will be played on 17th May at the University of Benin, two games on 18th May at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium and two other games on 19th May at the University of Benin, Ugbowo Campus.
While matchday-five on 20th May would see the return of three matches schedule at the University of Benin, Ugbowo Campus and the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium.
May 21st, will be the only Full Rest Day for all the teams, and resume for the final league matches on May 22nd at different venues yet to be decided by the NWFL Secretariat, as the three games must be played simultaneously to avoid any form of manipulations by any of the teams.
The First Vice president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, arrived in Benin City on Saturday, ahead of the NWFL Premiership Super Six kick off on Monday.
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