In a fitting return to its roots, the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) has announced that Ikenne, Ogun State, will host the 2025 NWFL Premiership Super Six Tournament. The championship-deciding event will run from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 17, 2025, at the Remo Stars Stadium—home turf of one of the league’s breakthrough teams, Remo Stars Ladies.
This marks the first time Ikenne will host the elite women's football playoff, and it comes full circle for Remo Stars Ladies, who just two years ago secured promotion to the Premiership at the same venue during the 2023 NWFL Championship.
A Homecoming with History
A couple days ago, social media buzzed at the coronation of the Remo Stars (their male counterparts) as NPFL champions, marking a return of the trophy to the South West after two decades—but the gods aren't done smiling on Ikenne just yet. In an official release, the league body announced the playoffs would return to the same stadium where the male team secured the win that crowned them champions.
Now, the road winds back to the south west as the blue side of Ikenne will welcome Nigeria’s top women’s clubs in a round-robin battle for national glory—and a coveted ticket to the 2025 CAF Women’s Champions League qualifiers. History also has it that this move ends a 4-year wait for the return of the Super Six to the South West since the 2021 edition was held in Ijebu Ode.
Speaking on the announcement, the NWFL Chairperson, Ms. Nkechi Obi, described Ikenne’s selection as both strategic and symbolic. “This is a significant opportunity to further stimulate the revival of women’s football in the state—fondly remembered as host of the inaugural Women’s Africa Cup of Nations finals in 1998,” she said.
“Last year, we hosted the competition in Yenagoa, South South, and now we’re excited to bring it to Ikenne in the South West, in line with our Women Football Rising agenda to spread elite women’s football across every region of Nigeria.”
The Championship Playoffs will involve the top three teams from both groups in the current abridged 2024/25 season and five teams already punched their tickets as we enter the final gameweek this Wednesday.
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