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NPFL: LMC Picks September 23 As Kick Off Date For 2022/2023 Season

The Nigeria Professional Football League campaign for the 2022/2023 season has tentatively been scheduled to begin on 23 September 2022 across the federation reports Prime Business Africa.

The NPFL is Nigeria’s version of the Premier leagues across Europe with Rivers United recently emerging the champions after 38 league games – the first in their history.

The NPFL is administered by the League Management Committee (LMC).

According to a release Saturday evening by the LMC, all games are billed to hold on weekends so as to accommodate inter-continental fixtures and Cup competitions in midweeks.

The NPFL general assembly of the LMC and club owners will hold on September 16 just before the season commences.

The league will go on mid-season break after week 19 matches on 27-28 January, 2023.

Inspection of stadiums and facilities for the match venues will hold from August 27 through September I, 2022.

Rivers United won the 2021/2022 NPFL season after dethroning former champions, Akwa United.

The LMC announced tentative kick-off and ending dates for 2023/2024 season with commencement date slated for 20th August, 2023 and concluding date on May 19, 2024.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.