NPFL: Pre-season tournament will get clubs ready for CAF challenges – Owumi 

Chief Operating Officer of the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, Davidson Owumi, has said the pre-season tourney successful Jos volition supply Nigeria’s representatives successful CAF nine competitions with an perfect accidental to adequately hole for their continental campaigns.

League champions Rangers International, runners-up Rivers United, and President Federation Cup winners El-Kanemi Warriors are among the teams participating successful the pre-season tourney successful Jos.

The contention besides features 2 wildcard teams from the big state, Plateau United and Mighty Jets, portion Katsina United received a precocious invitation to regenerate Shooting Stars.

“Considering that our play would beryllium commencing a fewer days earlier the CAF nine matches, the NFF and NPFL resolved that it would payment the clubs to person their players enactment successful a competitory tourney to further deepen their fittingness and cohesion,” Owumi was quoted arsenic saying by the NPFL media.

The 2026/27 NPFL play volition footwear disconnected on Friday, August 28, 2026.

Defending champions, Rangers volition instrumentality connected Katsina United successful the opening fixture of the season.

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