NFF Constitutes Interim Board For Beach Soccer and Futsal Leagues

The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation has constituted an interim committee saddled with the organization of beach football and futsal leagues in the country.

This was part of the decision reached at it’s Executive Committee meeting held Saturday, July, 11, 2026 at the Best Western Plus Hotel, Asaba, the Delta State Capital.

According to a communique issued after the meeting the board is composed of Mr. Mahmud Hadejia (Chairman); Mr Dele Gbajumo (Member); Hon. Nkopuye Ukpe (Member);l and Mr. Abdul-Nasir Adamu Senchi (Member).

Others members are ; Prof. Victor Madubuiko (Member); Alhaji. Mohammed Bukar Alau (Member); Miss Onome Ebi (Member) and Mr. Saraki Rasheed Oladimeji will serve as Chief Executive Officer, while the Chief Operating Officer will be appointed by the General Secretary.

The Committee also expressed deep appreciation to the Federal Government, through the National Sports Commission, for the special intervention fund that is being committed to the Nigeria Premier Football League to shore up the league’s profile, boost its commercial value and engineer a robust football economy for Nigeria.

While noting the promise by the Government to extend similar intervention to the Nigeria Women Football League, the Committee passionately appealed to the Government, through the NSC, to extend support to the Nigeria National League (NNL) and the Nigeria Nation-Wide League One (NLO) as well.

Similarly, the board hailed the pronouncement by the National Sports Commission that it is ready to provide full support to the NFF for the strict enforcement of the Club Licensing regulations, and to shun any attempt by any Club to circumvent any of the provisions in the regulations.  

While commending the move by the National Sports Commission and the Nigeria Football Federation to put in place a Welfare Committee for the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons’ participation at the 14th Women Africa Cup of Nations taking place in Morocco 26th July – 16th August 2026, the Committee charged the girls to go all out and make Nigeria proud by not only winning a ticket to next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Brazil, but also retain the trophy for a record-extending 11th triumph in African football’s flagship women’s competition.

In the same vein, they challenged the U-20 girls, Falconets, to set for themselves a target of becoming the first Nigeria team to win the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup when they participate in the final tournament in Poland in September and directed the Secretariat to ensure adequate preparations for the girls ahead of the competition, even as it reminded the team that Nigeria has won silver medals on two occasions from the competition, in 2010 and 2014.

The Executive Committee also congratulated the U-17 Women National Team, Flamingos, for qualifying for this year’s FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup finals following a 5-3 defeat of their Beninese counterparts in Lome, Togo on Saturday.

The board while expressing delight at the restoration of Nigeria back to the CAF A-License Convention by the Confederation of African Football, challenged Nigerian coaches to take advantage of the several windows of opportunities presented by the many programmes organized by the NFF to continue to update, upgrade and renew their knowledge of the game, and allow the impact of their improvement be felt across the various domestic leagues and competitions.

The communique noted that the Committee commended the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for accepting that Nigeria hosts this year’s CAF Ordinary General Congress and the CAF Awards Ceremony, just as it hailed CAF President Dr. Motsepe and the entire continental football house leadership for the opportunity given to Nigeria to host two of the Confederation’s most important events.

Finally, the board expressed appreciation to the Executive Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori and his administration for accepting to host this year’s President Federation Cup grand finale, and for the hospitality extended to participants.