The Confederation of African Football has appointed Namibian official Antsino Twanyanyukwa as the referee for next week’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup final qualifying round first...
A football player of Nigerian origin, Christopher Chizoba Iyikwobe has been slammed a two-year worldwide ban from the game after a request by the Bangladesh Football...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA One of the obvious observations in the Nigerian professional league which clocks 33 years today is the lack of consistent scorers. In the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s path to a professional football league was formally paved at a meeting in Lagos on 27 April 1984. Sports Village Square recalls that...
Football in Togo enters a new era with the process of setting up the Professional Football League (LFPT) exactly 33 years after Nigeria began a professional...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA On this date, 12 May 1990, professional football kicked off in Nigeria after years of agitations. It kicked off with Stores’ home match with the...
The World football governing body, FIFA has opened investigations into complaints lodged by the Chilean Football Association on alleged falsification of documents granting Ecuadorian nationality to...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Today, 10 May 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the first time that a board of the Nigerian football governing body was sacked Government...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The ruling by the FIFA players’ status chamber that the Nigeria Football Federation should pay its sacked coach, Gernot Rohr the sum of $377,879.46 (N156.7...
The FIFA Appeal Committee ruled on Monday that the abandoned World Cup qualifier between Brazil and Argentina must be replayed after considering the appeals filed by...