Mass withdrawals, walkovers rock Aiteo Cup

Date: 2022-08-12

The ongoing 2022 Aiteo Cup competition has been hit with several club withdrawals as its reaches the quarter-final stage, The PUNCH reports.

Speculations are rife that the teams were protesting the Nigeria Football Federation's nomination of Kwara United of Ilorin for the CAF Confederation Cup, which is usually allotted to the winners of the Aiteo Cup.

Kwara United, who placed fourth in the NPFL last season, were listed as the country's second representatives in the CAF Confederation Cup, as the NFF sought to beat the deadline of its clubs representatives to the Confederation of Africa.

Niger Tornadoes, who defeated Dreams FC, Enyimba and Green Beret in the preliminary rounds, walked over Lobi Stars of Makurdi, who failed to show up for their quarter-final clash in Jos on Wednesday.

Kogi United also walked over Kano Pillars — who also didn't show up in Makurdi — and were scheduled to face the winners of the clash between Wikki Tourists and Nasarawa United, but both the Solid Miners and the Tourists failed to turn up in Kaduna, which sealed Kogi United's place in the final of the competition next Wednesday.

Kogi United will now play the winners of the semi-final tie between Niger Tornadoes and Heartland.

Heartland defeated Enugu Rangers 4-1 in a penalty shoot-out after regulation time ended goalless on Thursday morning, the media officer of the Naze Millionaires Solomon Onu told The PUNCH.

This was after both clubs refused to dress up for the clash in Ilorin a day earlier.

Heartland had edged Dakkada and Katsina United in their previous rounds of the competitions.

This year's finals of the Aiteo Cup for both men and women's events hold at the Samson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa August 17.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

General Hospital     Unicontinental Construction Company     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Ilorin Durbar     Allocation     Centre For Digital Economy     Dauda Adesola     Muritala Olarewaju     Orisa Bridge     SAPZ Project     New Nigeria People’s Party     Logun     Shoprite     Abdulraheem Olesin     Memunat Monsuma     NAWOJ     Monsurat Omotosho     Haliru Yahaya     Kazeem Oladepo     Lawal Olohungbebe     Riskat Opakunle     Segun Abifarin     IESA     Mamatu Abdullahi     NNPP     General Hospital, Ilorin     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Abdulazeez Uthman     Voices Of Tomorrow     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Yemi Osinbajo     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Sunday Fagbemi     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Oluwole Dupe     Olaiya Lawal     Jebba     Kale Ayo     Yaru     Umar Ayinla Saro     Oke-Oyi     Sadiq Buhari     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Dele Belgore     Ishaq Oloyede     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Hajj     Yakubu Dogara     Charles Ibitoye     Fareedah Dankaka     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Afetu Of Alabe     Abdulazeez Arowona     Sarah Alade     Hassan Taiye Salam     Muhammed Akanbi     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Okala Baba     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Shonga     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Elekoyangan     Yoonus Lawal     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Ibrahim Abiodun     Jani Ibrahim     Temi Kolawole     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Buari Edun     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Kannike     Offa Metropolitan Club     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Sardauna Of Ilorin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Olaitan Buraimoh     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Haliru Yahaya     Bank Of Industry     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Fatimat Saliu     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Salary     Lawal Jimoh     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Erubu     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Ibrahim Mashood     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Iliasu     Fatai Olodo     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     SGBN     Kwara-SAPZ Project     TETFUND     Shuaib Olarongbe     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Kwara South     Tunji Olawuyi     Vasolar     Ilorin     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Gbemisola Saraki     Nigerian Correctional Service     Agbarere     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Abatemi-Usman     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Ishaq Oloyede     BIR     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Bayo Lawal     Durosinlohun Atiku     Ojo Fadumila     Iyeru Grammar School     Sidikat Akaje     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Kolo     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Yoruba     Amosa     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Aisha Buhari     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Ilota     Muazam Nayaya     Kwara Restoration Project     Oniye     LABTOP     Alfa Belgore     Ogidi-Oloje     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Olomu     Ganmo     SSA Youth     TESCOM     Arinola Lawal     HICA     Rasaq Jimoh     Muhammed Abdullahi     Mohammed Yisa     Aisha Gobir     Kwara State Geographic Information Service