Top 10 Nigeria Football News Sites – Only The Best Sites Listed

“Nigeria football news sites” is no longer a search string that returns confusing results. There are now a good number of blogs and websites dedicated to the coverage of Nigerian football locally and internationally.

With the growing interest in our local Nigerian football catching up to the coverage of stellar Nigerian talent playing outside Africa, it is important for many fans of the Super Eagles, the NPFL, or individual players like Victor Osimhen and Victor Boniface to get accurate reportage, transfer news, tournament news, and matchday previews.

These are the Top 10 Nigeria football news sites in no particular order.

List of Top Nigeria Football News Sites

From sites that cover solely Nigerian players abroad and in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), to sites that cover the Nigeria national football team and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the Nigeria football news sites in this list are treasure troves of everything Nigerian football.

Goalball Live

Goalball Live is a subsidiary of North Star Media that covers Nigeria football news in its entirety. It employs a dedicated team of writers and reporters whose job is to show the beautiful side of football in the country with its coverage of the NPFL and actions of the NFF. The writers of Goalball Live also put out lists, opinion posts, and informative articles surrounding players, teams and tournaments. It also reports on the latest football happenings around Africa making it a pan-African website.

List of Top Nigeria Football News Sites

Goal.com

Goal.com is the number one soccer news sites in Nigeria 24/7. Whichever club or country you support, they are your perfect football source.

The site is arguably one of the biggest sports blogs in Nigeria – if not the biggest – with over 530 reporters on the ground in more than 50 countries, to get closer to the action.

They pride themselves in creating original content at the source to deliver the news from the leagues, teams and players that matter.

No wonder over 64 million football fans trust Goal.com to keep them ahead of the game.

Goal remains first of the top ten football sites!

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Completesportsnigeria.com

Complete Sports Nigeria is the country's number one all-sports everyday newspaper where you'll find Super Eagles of nigeria latest news and so much more!

It was first published in December 1995 and is the most widely-read sports publication in the country according to All Media and Product Survey (AMPS) research, 2008 and 2009.

Complete Sports is published by Complete Communications Limited (CCL). CCL is the oldest and longest-running sports publishing group in Nigeria that was established in 1984 but incorporated as CCL in 1987.

They are arguably the most visited news websites in Nigeria in terms of sports.

The group had also, up to that time, published Sports Souvenir, Nigeria’s first weekly sports newspaper (1984), Climax magazine (1988), Complete Football International (1994) and Complete Football Extra (1995).

Brila.net

Brila was founded by frontline sportswriter, analyst and presenter, Dr Larry Izamoje. The Nigeria foremost sports news house has grown into a strong establishment with a dynamic online presence and the Brila audio-visual App to reach sports fans wherever, anytime, every time.

The site serves breaking sports news, sports radio, lifestyle, live scores, betting tips, and much more, with its headquarters in Lagos.

Brila FM has branches in the key cities of Abuja, Kaduna and Onitsha.

Their radio station operates on the 88.9 FM frequency.

They also have an online TV on YouTube and Google Plus which is founded on the energetic, no-holds-barred, entertaining and authoritative approach that stands them out.

You can connect with them on these social media: Facebook (Sports Radio Brila FM), Instagram (@889BrilaFM), Twitter (@BrilaFM889).

Soccernet.ng

This site prides itself as Nigeria's no. 1 football website that delivers fresh contents to readers every day.

Soccernet.com.ng is the winner of 2014 Sports Blog of the year at Nigerian Blog Awards.

They are able to get that accolade because according to them they work all day and night writing and reporting trending football stories from Nigeria and Beyond and never sleep!

Despite focusing on Nigerian football news content, Soccernet receives visitors from over 150 countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Portugal, Spain and so on.

Owngoalnigeria.com

This site aims to help provide Nigerians and lovers of Nigerian football an outlet to know the latest happenings about the Nigerian domestic league and Nigerian football in general.

Owngoalnigeria was launched on January 7th 2016 with only three writers, but they have since expanded, with as many as ten writers contributing on a daily basis.

The style of their reporting, which is mainly focused on the news as they break or even before they become public knowledge has endeared the sports site to the football-loving people of Nigeria, and lovers of Nigerian football.

Presently, Owngoalnigeria is rated among the top news site in Nigeria with over 350,000 unique visitors monthly from their monthly total visitors of a little over 750,000.

Footballlive.ng

When it comes to Nigeria premier league news, in short, any Nigeria football news, this is the blog to beat.

On this site you can read the Latest Nigeria Football News, updates from Nigerian footballers abroad, Super Eagles News, and the Latest Football News in Nigeria.

Footballlive has all the comprehensive and current gist of the activities of Nigerian players at home and Abroad, on the continent and in international leagues, including happenings around the Nigerian Football Federation and the Nigerian Professional Football League.

The blog also trails the big stars and prodigies of the best leagues around the world and gives her visitors all the latest controversies surrounding the players. Footballlive’s Editor-In-Chief is Olusola Jide-Ojo.

Allnigeriasoccer.com

This website is widely regarded as Nigeria's most trustworthy voice on the transfer market and Nigerian players based overseas.

Allnigeriasoccer.com started publication in 2010 and has broken quite a lot of transfer stories.

They try their best in unearthing Nigerian professional players and bringing them to the knowledge of the Nigeria Football Federation and coaching staff.

The blog is one of the few African publications constantly cited by the leading European Sports Media, including Marca, Tipsbladet, Sports Express as well as Fanatik.

This blog as far as I'm concerned is one of the greatest Nigerian football websites.

Scorenigeria.com.ng

This site is headed by Samm Audu, a Mass Communications graduate from the University of Nigeria Nsukka.

Audu was the pioneer Editor of Nigeria’s leading all-sports daily newspaper Complete Sports Nigeria in December 1995.

He was also Editor of KickOff Nigeria Magazine and FourFourTwo Nigeria.

This award-winning journalist equally headed kickoffnigeria.com for several years and has worked with Pan African News Agency (PANA), Goal.com International, MTNFootball.com and Africanfootball.com

Scorenigeria.com.ng claims to be bold, fearless and factual.

They provide the best of Nigerian football news, gossips, celebrity lifestyle, intrigues, and behind-the-scenes gist.

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Sportinglife.ng

Sporting Life is one of the top news sites in Nigeria committed to reporting sports in a refreshing style.

The site boast of a team of experienced journalists, and are the first choice for informative and analytical real-time sports news, reports, views, Lifestyle and many more.

The blog covers local, national and international sporting events and serves all the details needed.

Sporting Life is powered by Vintage Press Limited.

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