Youth Development

Switzerland-based Nigerian youth football coach Adeyemi Adedeji Anthony has offered an emphatic endorsement of the NFF’s simultaneous appointments of Abdu Maikaba and Eboboritse Uwejamomere, saying the double selection places the future of Nigerian youth football in safe hands. When a coach working within European youth football systems validates appointments made by the NFF’s youth football […]

Eboboritse Uwejamomere has described his appointment as Golden Eaglets head coach as the realisation of thirteen years of deliberate preparation, taking charge of a programme that has failed to qualify for three consecutive FIFA U-17 World Cups and three editions of the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations. When the Nigeria Football Federation handed Eboboritse Uwejamomere

Abdu Maikaba has wasted no time putting his technical structure in place after his appointment as Flying Eagles head coach, naming three backroom staff members as the Nigeria U-20 side prepares to resume camp in Abuja on Sunday ahead of July’s WAFU B U-20 Boys Championship. The machinery of Nigerian youth football is moving again.

Nigeria’s Falconets have been seeded into Pot 2 for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup group stage draw, which takes place on Friday at the EC1 Cultural Centre in Lodz, Poland, alongside USA, Canada, Colombia, Mexico and New Zealand. The Falconets will know their group stage opponents by Friday evening after FIFA confirmed their

Cas Jordan Fakolujo is a young goalkeeper with Nigerian and English heritage. He has just signed with Fulham’s Under-9 academy. His family was there to witness it. And Nigerian football has another young name to file away for the future. Cas Jordan Fakolujo has officially joined the Fulham FC Under-9 academy, becoming the latest young

Noah Ajayi is 17 years old, 188cm tall, and has just finished his debut scholarship season at Manchester United with seven goals. His father is Nigerian. Nigeria should be paying very close attention. Noah Ajayi brought his 2025/26 Manchester United Under-18 season to a close in the most fitting way possible, scoring twice in a