The 2024/2025 Nigeria National League (NNL), season will begin on Saturday, November 30, with debutants, Abakiliki FC doing battle with Madiba FC of Lagos in the Southern Conference group B cracker at the Pa Ngele stadium at the Ebonyi state capital city
The games which has been dedicated as the Star Match of the new season by the organizers of the NNL league will however be the only match of the weekend, with the remaining matches fixed for next weekend.
Other teams in the group include Solution FC, Rovers FC, First Bank FC, Osun United, Gateway United, Kun Khalifat FC, ABS FC, and Sporting Lagos.
Madiba, which was among the team’s that finished top at the end of last season’s 2023/2024 NNL narrowly missed promotion to the elite NPFL league, after it failed to excel at the NNL Super 8 Champions promotional tournament in Enugu
The Star Match h hosts, Abakaliki FC was formed in October 2024 by the Ebonyi State Government, with former executive board member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and immediate past chairman of the NNL board, senator Obinna Ogba, as its chairman