Flykite Productions, organisers of Naija Super 8, on Thursday announced new dates on which the two-stage inaugural edition of the football competition will be held.
According to the statement issued by Flykite Productions this afternoon , the zonal-play offs, initially scheduled to be held from 1-3 June at Eket Township, will now be held at the same venue from 23-25 June.
The statement gave the new dates for the tournament proper at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Lagos as 7-16 July.
Flykite Production explained that the date shifts were inevitable because of the unexpected extension of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season.
“The need to
find new dates became necessary after the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), which
licensed Naija Super 8, communicated to us that the ongoing football season
faces inevitable extension.
“We are most
grateful for the timely communication, which has afforded us the time to shop
for and find new dates on which both stages of the competition will be held. We
appreciate the difficulty the unplanned extension of the league season must
have imposed on the NFF,” Flykite Productions said in the statement.
Relatedly,
the voting process for the competition, managed by Deloitte, ended on 16 May.
The outcomes are being expected and they will determine the 12 teams that will
participate in the zonal play-offs. According to the tournament’s eligibility
format, two teams with the highest numbers of public votes in each of the
country’s six geo-political zones, will qualify for the play-offs, which will
see each zonal pairing go head-to-head to in a single elimination match to
determine which goes into the finals in Lagos.
The six
teams that emerge from the play-offs will be joined in the finals by two
wildcard teams to be determined by the organisers.
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