N100m Prize Money For NPFL Winner

Chairman of the Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Professional Football League, Gbenga Elegebeleye, has disclosed that the next NPFL champions will pocket a cash prize of N100million, while also giving details of how the abridged season will play out.
“We promised to give support to the clubs through our sponsors, and we will do that. Remember we had a four-team pre-season tournament, each of the clubs were given N10million as participation package and the winner got N100million. So, what we say, we do and the winner of this season again, will get N100million.
“Mind you, N50million was promised to Rivers United that won the league last season and it has not been paid, so we will not promise what we will not do and we are ready to give Nigerians the best gift,” Elegbeleye said during a radio interview.
Elegbeleye also gave further details about the prosecution of the season, insisting that the draw for the abridged season will be held on Wednesday and will be live on television.
“It will be a live draw on television and we will finalise arrangements with the TV station soon. You know we are just starting now and the league has been off TV for a while.
“We are going to have like three pots for the draw. We don’t want to have a north vs south arrangement. All the teams will play where they find themselves but we will make sure clubs from the same states will not play themselves,” he noted.
He also assured that the IMC will be transparent in dealings with match officials and erring clubs.