Nigeria Football
BET9JA NNL Congress Approves 36 Team Format For New Season.
The Congress of Bet9ja Nigeria National League have adopted a 36 Team Format for the 2017/2018 Football League season which is expected to start in the first weekend of March.
The new 36 team format will replace the 32 team format formerly in use.
And the abridged league format will feature sixteen (16) teams from the North and South who will justle for action.
The teams are divided into groups A and B in both the North and South, with two teams to emerge from each group for a freshly adopted Super eight(8) that will be played in a neutral ground.
Boss of Bet9ja NNL, Honourable Chidi Ofor Okenwa said the essence of the new format is ensure that worthy representatives were promoted to the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL.