Nigeria joins others for third World league forum

Nigerian Professional Football League is one of the global leagues attending the third world league forum in Fankfurt, Germany on November 23. 

Chairman of the league management company, Shehu Dikko, is already in the German city to participate in the meeting which among other agendas, undertake a review of the FIFA Semi-Formal Professional Football Stakeholders Committee and receive an update on meeting with FIFA President Gianni Infantino on October 5th.

According to the agenda circulated to participating leagues, the meeting will also receive a presentation from FIFA and FIFPro as well as produce the world football leagues final declaration of principles.

Dikko said the LMC would also pursue its global networking agenda to seek mutually beneficial partnership with other leagues and international football sponsors.

We will seek to consolidate on the gains of our previous participation which yielded the La-liga partnership and cast further to possibly secure new partnerships" Dikko said.

At a similar meeting in Paris, France last February, the LMC continued discussions which it had opened with La-liga culminating in the signing of the Technical and Commercial partnership between the Spanish and the Nigerian leagues.