The Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) Club Owners’ Chairman/Team Managers Association has admonished their esteemed members to work assiduously hard to meet up the requirements for participation in the upcoming 2020/2021 NWFL Premiership season due to kick-start on Wednesday, December 09, 2020.
The NWFL management team on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at the Abuja, FCT corporate office unrolled the programmes as well as conditions and requirements each of the 16 participating teams must meet to be eligible to participate in the upcoming league season.
Part of the guidelines requires the clubs to ensure that they have a playable pitch and meet up with the demands of COVID-19 protocols, players licensing, documentation, Domestic Transfer Matching System (DTMS), medicals and Insurance, among other things.
The NWFL Club Owners’ chairman, Matilda Otuene-Onyiloha said though the guidelines look daunting it appears to be necessity given the new normal brought about by the global coronavirus pandemic.
“We want to encourage our members to work very hard towards meeting the guidelines set out by the league body for participation in the upcoming 2020/2021 NWFL Premiership season.
“The time we found ourselves makes the guidelines somehow tough but overall it’s a necessity that will benefit every one of us.
“I have confidence in our members to meet the guidelines once they put their minds on it.
“We believe in the sanctity of the league and equally believe in growing the domestic league to the level it enjoys in other advanced countries.
“The novel coronavirus virus has introduced what is now known as new normal we all have a duty to abide its dictate.
“We must do our best to make sure the upcoming 2020/2021 NWFL Premiership season turns out brilliantly good for every one of us.
“We must do our very best to support the league body in their march to make the league spot on especially now there is something bigger to play for at the continent by the champions,” said Otuene-Onyiloha.
The 2020/2021 NWFL Premiership season has been tentatively slated to commence on Wednesday, December 09, 2020 with 16 teams participating. It will be a 30-week straight league format.
