IMC announces August 26 as 2023-24 Nigeria Premier Football League kickoff date

By Wale Mustapha

The Interim Management Committee, IMC has set 26th and 27th of August, 2023 as the commencement date for the new Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL season, Nigeriafootball.ng can report.

In a circular sent by the IMC’s communication department on Thursday, the participating clubs have also been charged to commence the process of their Club Licensing processes.

This is against the backdrop of the committee’s report to the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF which advised that clubs that qualified for the CAF Club competitions were invited to commence their procedures with the NFF in line with CAF Club Licensing Regulations 2022.

The League organisers in advising all participating clubs to take advantage of early completion of the process, warned that only clubs that has been licensed would be registered for the new season.

A memo by the IMC Head of Operations, Davidson Owumi informed the clubs to contact the NFF Licensing Managers, Mr. Nasiru Jibril and Queen U Otarakpo for further information on the club licensing procedure.

In a related development, the NPFL transfer window will open on Saturday, July 1 and close on September 1, 2023.

The clubs that qualified to represent Nigeria in CAF Club competitions are Enyimba International and Remo Stars for the CAF Champions League while Rivers United and Bendel Insurance will play in the CAF Confederation Cup.