NNL Kick Off To Be Determined At The Annual General Assembly - COO

  NNL Kick Off Date Will Be Determined At The Annual General Assembly - COO By Sampson Adedeji The 2020/2021 Nigeria National League (NNL) kick off date will be determined at the end of the League's Annual General Meeting on Saturday, BSNSports.com.ng can report. This was confirmed by the Chief Operating Officer, COO, of the NNL, Emmanuel Adesanya while speaking exclusively with BSN Sports on Thursday. "The number of football clubs that will participate in this season's NNL depends on the teams that complete their registration ahead of the kick off." He began. "And the kick off date will be determined at the end of Saturday Annual General Assembly." He concluded. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) had announced January 16th 2021 as the kick off date for the new Nigeria National League (NNL) season but the kick off date The country second tier league has was last played in December 2019 and was unable to resume in 2020 due to the outbreak of Coronavirus among other reasons. some circumstances. In a separate interview, Oyekunle Oyeleye, Acting General Manager of Crown FC, Ogbomosho, said the leaguee sshould kick off a week after the AGM meeting. The 2020/2021 AGM of the league will be held at Abakaliki this weekend, so, hopefully, January 25 we should kick off. But it is still subject to ratification at the meeting, that is where we are also going to ratify the approved draws. As soon as the fixtures are out, the league is as good as kicking off," Acting General Manager of Crown FC, Oyekunle Oyeleye told Punch correspondent. Media officer of Bendel Insurance Kehinde Osagie also corroborated his comments. , “We don’t really know when the league will resume until we get the draws. It is after the outcome of the Annual General Meeting on January 15th that we will know if really the league is ready to kick off," he stated. The draw for the new league season is scheduled for this weekend.