Atume Doosuur of Edo Queens enters the NWFL Premiership Super Six as the league’s leading scorer after the close of the regular season, holding a two-goal advantage over Rivers Angels striker Abasiofon Uwah with five decisive round-robin matches still to play.
The Golden Boot race heading into the NWFL Premiership Super Six is a story of a frontrunner who has made the award her own over 18 regular-season matchdays, and the challengers who have refused to concede the race until every match is played. Atume Doosuur finished the Edo Queens’ regular season campaign on 12 goals, a return that placed her at the summit of the scoring charts and delivered the kind of sustained productivity that coaches and clubs build their title ambitions around.
Abasiofon Uwah of Rivers Angels sits two goals behind on 10, close enough to overturn the deficit over five Super Six games but far enough back to require Doosuur to go through a genuine dry spell for the arithmetic to shift. FC Robo Queens’ Oluwakemi Adegbuyi completed a strong late surge to end the regular season on eight goals, keeping herself within realistic distance and giving Robo Queens an individual scoring narrative to carry into the playoff alongside their club ambitions.
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The Full Scoring Picture Ahead Of The Super Six
| Player | Club | Goals (Regular Season) |
|---|---|---|
| Atume Doosuur | Edo Queens | 12 |
| Abasiofon Uwah | Rivers Angels | 10 |
| Oluwakemi Adegbuyi | FC Robo Queens | 8 |
| Ajakaye Opeyemi | FC Robo Queens | 6 |
| Rafiu Tosin | FC Robo Queens | 6 |
| Hembafan Ayatsea | Nasarawa Amazons | 6 |
| Ifeanyi Kindness | Bayelsa Queens | 6 |
| Ifeoma Damian | Adamawa Queens | 6 |
| Onajite Winner | Abia Angels | 6 |
FC Robo Queens also have two other players in the six-goal group in Ajakaye Opeyemi and Rafiu Tosin, underlining the attacking depth that has made them one of the more threatening clubs in the Super Six field. Nasarawa Amazons’ Hembafan Ayatsea, Bayelsa Queens’ Ifeanyi Kindness, Adamawa Queens’ Ifeoma Damian and Abia Angels’ Onajite Winner all finished the regular season on six goals, a cluster that confirms how competitive the league’s frontline talent has been throughout the campaign even if none currently threatens the top three.
What The Super Six Format Means For The Race
The NWFL Premiership Super Six is played in a round-robin format, with each of the six participating clubs facing the other five once. That gives every player five more matches to add to their tally, which means the Golden Boot remains genuinely open. Doosuur could theoretically be overtaken by Uwah across five games if the Rivers Angels striker finds consistent form while Doosuur goes through a quiet phase, and Adegbuyi’s gap to the top is bridgeable if Robo Queens produce the kind of attacking performances that drove their regular season.
The Super Six clubs for the 2025-26 season are Bayelsa Queens, Rivers Angels and Edo Queens from Group A, plus FC Robo Queens and Nasarawa Amazons from Group B, with the sixth qualifier also confirmed from the regular season standings. The format rewards consistency above all else, which is a quality Doosuur has demonstrated throughout the campaign, and arriving at the Super Six as leading scorer is a psychological advantage that is hard to dismiss.
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Edo Queens: Defending Champions With A Point To Prove
Doosuur’s form has been central to Edo Queens’ wider ambitions this season. The Benin City-based club are the defending NWFL Premiership champions, having won their first-ever league title in the 2023-24 season Super Six held in Yenagoa. They followed that domestic triumph with a WAFU-B regional championship and a fourth-place finish at the 2024 CAF Women’s Champions League in Morocco, establishing themselves as one of the most complete women’s club sides on the continent.
Retaining the title would represent back-to-back championships, a mark of consistency that only the most organised and well-resourced clubs in Nigerian women’s football have managed. The last time the NWFL Premiership produced consecutive champions was Rivers Angels, who dominated the early years of the Super Six format. Doing it in a season where the field also includes Bayelsa Queens, Nasarawa Amazons and Robo Queens, all of whom are genuine title threats, would make Edo Queens’ achievement considerably more significant than a simple repeat.
Uwah And Adegbuyi: The Pressure Is On Them To Close The Gap
For Abasiofon Uwah and Oluwakemi Adegbuyi, the Super Six is essentially a sprint. Rivers Angels have the pedigree and the continental experience to push hard in the round-robin, while Robo Queens’ Adegbuyi finishing with eight goals after what the article describes as a strong late surge suggests a player peaking at precisely the right moment. A striker who comes into form in the final stretch of a campaign carries momentum that can be difficult to arrest, and Adegbuyi’s four-goal deficit to Doosuur is not insurmountable across five games.
Uwah’s challenge is more manageable on paper. A two-goal difference across five matches against the same opponents Doosuur faces is the definition of an achievable target. But Doosuur will not be standing still, and the Edo Queens attack has the structure and support to keep feeding their leading scorer in high-quality positions.
As reported by FootballInNigeria.com.ng, the 2025-26 NWFL Premiership Super Six promises to be one of the most competitive editions of the playoff format since its introduction in 2021, with the Golden Boot race, the title race, and the continental qualification spots all carrying significant weight heading into the decisive round-robin. Fans tracking the individual and collective battles can use the Bet9ja odds page to follow the Super Six from start to finish.
📌 Did You Know?
- The NWFL Premiership Super Six was introduced in 2021 as the league’s championship playoff format, replacing the previous system of crowning the group-stage table toppers as champions. Since its introduction, no club has won the title twice in succession.
- Edo Queens won their first-ever NWFL Premiership title at the 2023-24 Super Six, held in Yenagoa. Before that breakthrough, the club had been NWFL regular-season group winners without managing to convert that consistency into a championship at the playoff stage.
- Rivers Angels were the first Nigerian women’s club to participate in the CAF Women’s Champions League, entering the inaugural edition of the competition in 2021 and helping establish a template for Nigerian club representation in continental women’s football.
- The NWFL Premiership is divided into two groups during the regular season, with the top three clubs from each group qualifying for the Super Six. The Super Six is then contested as a single-group round-robin, with every team playing every other team once, meaning five matches each to decide the champion.
- FC Robo Queens, whose strikers Oluwakemi Adegbuyi, Ajakaye Opeyemi and Rafiu Tosin all feature in the top scoring charts, are based in Lagos and have produced some of the most technically accomplished attacking play in the NWFL across recent seasons, regularly supplying players to the Super Falcons youth teams.
- Nasarawa Amazons, one of the Super Six qualifiers from Group B, are among the most historically consistent clubs in Nigerian women’s football, having won the NWFL title multiple times in the pre-Super Six era and remaining one of the most organised clubs in the North Central region.
- Bayelsa Queens won the 2024-25 NWFL Premiership Super Six at the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne, defeating their rivals in a dramatic final day that came down to goal difference. It was the club’s second Super Six title following their inaugural championship in 2022.
