League Management Company (LMC) said League leaders Plateau United won’t be crown champions should the 2019-2020 NPFL season is canceled.
It would be recalled that the NPFL season was suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic and the Nigerian government isn’t keen on a return of Sporting anytime soon.
After round of 25 matches, Plateau remain on top of the log with 13 matches yet to be decided.
Sources have now revealed that the league governing body won’t be crowning the Abdul Maikaba’s team as champions should the season failed to continue.
Footballlive gathered that the league management company body won’t declare champions for the season just like Lobi Stars case in 2018 when the season also ended abruptly.
In addition the league management body won’t relegate any team to the lower division and also no team will be joining the elite division from Nigeria National League, which means the League was halted.
However CAF competitions representatives will be determined with a point per game format.
Anaedoonline.com reported that NPFL Framework and Regulations, the League Management Company (LMC) has scheduled an expanded meeting between the leadership of NFF, LMC, and NPFL Clubs for today, June 24, 2020 by 1pm via video conferencing (Zoom Meeting ).
A message from the LMC secretariat last night said both the LMC and the NFF may also invite some stakeholders as observers to the meeting.
“The Agenda is to discuss the Conclusion of the 2019/2020 NPFL Season as voted by the clubs and forwarded to the LMC,” the statement said.
The NFF President and other football leaders in the country are expected to be part of the meeting.
“All NPFL clubs Chairmen are expected to attend and if unavailable are to please nominate a proxy to represent the club to the LMC through the club owners before 10am of June 24, 2020.
On Sunday evening, 17 chairmen of Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) clubs voted that the 2019/20 season should come to an end with the top three clubs representing Nigeria at the CAF interclubs competition in the next season
A statement issued at the end of the voting session by the Executive Secretary of the Club Owners Association, Alloy Chukwuma, showed that only Rangers International of Enugu voted for the Super 6 option for the winners to emerge as well as the three clubs to represent the country in next season’s continental campaign. Akwa United of Uyo and Lobi Stars of Makurdi abstained from voting.
The 17 clubs also voted for neither promotion from the lower cadre nor relegation of any of the NPFL clubs.
The votes by the clubs chieftains was one of the four options tables by the League Management Company (LMC) on how to end the season disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
League leaders Plateau United won’t be crown champions should the 2019-2020 NPFL season is canceled.
It would be recalled that the NPFL season was suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic and the Nigerian government isn’t keen on a return of Sporting anytime soon.
After round of 25 matches, Plateau remain on top of the log with 13 matches yet to be decided.
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