The chairman of the Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), Gbenga Elegbeleye has revealed that the new champions of the league ahead of the 202/2023 season will receive N100m cash prize reward.
Elegbeleye subscribed that every activity of the body will be done in total honesty, transparency to the public with all sense of responsibility and truthfulness.
“We promised to give support to the clubs through our sponsors, and we will do that. Remember we had a four-team pre-season tournament, each of the clubs were given N10m as participation fee and the winner got N100m. So, what we say, we do and the winner of this season again, will get N100m.”
“Mind you, N50m was promised to Rivers United that won the league last season and it has not been paid, so we will not promise what we will not do and we are ready to give Nigerians the best gift,” Elegbeleye said.
He also assured that the IMC will be transparent in dealings with match officials and erring clubs.
“Our own pact is that sponsors will pay the referees directly, so that we will eliminate the chances of owing referees or referees doing the bidding of home teams and any club that is found wanting of crowd violence will not be subjected to monetary fines but three points will be deducted from them. We have to change the narrative so we can have a better league,” Gbenga Elegbeleye said.
It will be noteworthy to know that the league as confirmed by the IMC chairman for the 2022/2023 NPFL season will begin on January 8, 2023 with the abridged version.
Also confirmed is the draws for the new season which will be held on Wednesday, December 28, 2022.
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