NIGERIA

Nigeria senior team head coach Eric Chelle has made recent changes to the Nigeria senior team squad for the upcoming AFCON qualifiers in September, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal. Nigeria will participate in the AFCON 2027 qualifiers by opening their campaign at home against Madagascar on the 25th, before traveling to meet Guinea-Bissau in Morocco four days later. Chelle’s roster was …

Austrian LASK winger Moses Usor has for the first time received an invitation to the Nigerian senior team for the upcoming AFCON qualifying matches later this month, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal. Nigeria will participate in the AFCON 2027 qualifiers by opening their campaign at home against Madagascar on the 25th, before traveling to meet Guinea-Bissau in Morocco four days later. …

Nigeria’s U-20 women’s team booked a place in the quarter-finals of the ongoing U-20 World Cup with an empathic 3-0 victory over England in the round of 16, reports OwnGoalNigeria.com. Nigeria wasted no time taking the lead through Tosin Rafiu in the 8th minute and were shocked soon after when England were awarded a penalty but Christiana Uzoma saved it …

There has been a dramatic turn in the battle over who will be the next president of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal. The position became vacant following the resignation of the NFF board led by Ibrahim Musa Gusau, meaning that elections scheduled for September will not take place. The National Sports Commission (NSC) proposed a normalization …

Coach Éric Chelle also made public on Thursday his list of 24 players who will face the Russian senior men’s team in a friendly match scheduled at the Nizhny Novgorod stadium on Tuesday, October 6. The team will be led by captain Wilfred Ndidi, with star forward Moses Simon, goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali, defenders Bright Osayi-Samuel and Benjamin Fredricks, midfielder Raphael …

Coach Éric Chelle has included captain Wilfred Ndidi, goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali, defender Semi Ajayi, midfielder Alex Iwobi, forwards Victor Osimhen, Ademola Lookman and Moses Simon in his 24-man squad for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Madagascar and Guinea Bissau, both within the next 12 days. The Super Eagles host Madagascar’s Barea at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo …

FC Midtjylland striker Stanley Iheanacho, 21, has been called up to the Nigerian senior team for the first time for the friendly match against Russia, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal. The striker was drafted in as a late replacement for Al Qadsiah’s newly signed winger Sani Suleiman, who is currently injured and will not be available for the October 6 match …

Nigeria senior national team coach Eric Chelle has picked Czech Republic Pardubice defender Emmanuel Godwin for a place in his under-23 team and possibly the Super Eagles. We can exclusively reveal that Chelle received good reports on the 21-year-old from his scouts over the weekend as they monitored Banik Ostrava defender Abdullahi Bewene. It was Godwin who took the praise …

He is the same man who many believe helped create the disaster we face today; the same man who, allegedly driven by personal interests and his well-documented disagreement with the then NPL president, Chief Oyuki Obaseki, popularly known as “The Moving Train”, weakened the leagues by taking away their voting rights and handing them over to the 37 FA presidents …

1xBet has introduced its 2up feature, which allows qualified users who place selected winning bets to receive a payout if their chosen team takes a two-goal lead during a match, regardless of the final result. Under the terms of the feature, a qualifying bet can also be settled if the selected team ultimately wins the match. The 2up feature is …