By Alhaji Suleiman Jao
The most exciting football competition in the Nigerian collegiate space, the Higher Institutions Football League (HIFL), has announced the date for the commencement of qualifiers for the new season to start on Monday, June 6, 2022.
HIFL,an annual football competition between higher institutions in Nigeria has been a core platform through which teams Varsity teams from across the country compete against each other for various rewards and most importantly to improve their skills.
The 2022 HIFL season which gets under way with the qualifying matches to be played across four regional zones compete for a place at the round of 16 of the most prestigious league.
The University of Benin, (UNIBEN) , University of Lagos (UNILAG) and The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) have been confirmed as the host venues to some qualifying matches. while the fourth Zonal region is still being decided to hold either in Bayero University Kano (BUK) or Kogi State University (KSU).
While the total number of registered teams are yet to be made official , about fifty Universities had declared Intention to participate in this year's edition.
The pre-league qualifying games to be played across all zones will determine the schools to join the super four (UNN Lions, FUTMINNA Transformers, AAUA Luminaries, and UNIMAID Desert Warriors) from the 2021 season in the round of 16.
University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Ahmadu Bello University, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Kogi State University (KSU), Benue State University, The University of Ibadan (UI), the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Lead City University, and the University of Nigeria (UNN) are some of the higher institutions believed to have submitted their forms of participation.
Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Summit University, Offa, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, are likely to make their HiFL debut in the 2022 season.
UAM Tillers of the University of Agriculture, Maiduguri, emerged winners of the first season of the HiFL Men Championship in 2018. UNICAL Malabites from the University of Calabar claimed the 2019 title, and UNIMAID Desert Warriors from the University of Maiduguri emerged champions of the 2021 season after beating AAUA Luminaries from the Adekunle Ajasin University in a thrilling final in Lagos.
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