{"id":2428,"date":"2023-11-16T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nnl-ejects-gateway-united-malumfashi-fc-from-national-league\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:07:36","slug":"nnl-ejects-gateway-united-malumfashi-fc-from-national-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nnl-ejects-gateway-united-malumfashi-fc-from-national-league\/","title":{"rendered":"NNL ejects Gateway United, Malumfashi FC from national league"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigeria National League (NNL) has ejected Gateway United and Malumfashi FC from the division.<\/p>\n<p>The league body took the decision after both clubs failed to comply with the terms and conditions of entry and participation for the 2023\/2024 season as stipulated in the codified rules and regulations of NNL.<\/p>\n<p>NNL Chief Operating Officer, Dr Ayo Abdulrahman stated that they arrived at the decision after exhausting several waivers granted to the clubs to enable them participate in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The development Abdulrahaman strongly noted also means that Gateway United and Malumfashi forfeit their status as professional clubs in the NNL.<\/p>\n<p>Gateway United was housed in Conference B alongside Solution FC of Awka, Trade Safe of Lagos, Osun United, Ijebu United Int\u2019l Lagos, Crown Football Club, FC ONE Rocket Abat, Giant Brillars of Enugu and Ikorodu City of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Malumfashi was in Conference B with Sokoto United, City Football Club of Abuja, Adamawa United, Kebbi United, Jigawa Golden Stars, Sporting Supreme of Abuja and Mailantarki Football Club also of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>NNL ejects Gateway United, Malumfashi FC from national league<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria National League (NNL) has ejected Gateway United and Malumfashi FC from the division. The league body took the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4289,4290,15,2036,160],"tags":[4292,4291,180,2040,201,305],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gateway-united","category-malumfashi-fc","category-news","category-nnl","category-sport","tag-gateway","tag-malumfashi","tag-news","tag-nnl","tag-sport","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}