This year’s Federation Cup competition will kick off with the state preliminaries on Saturday April 5th, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said. The federation made this known in a press release signed by the Head of Federation Cup, Ruth David. The State finals are scheduled for Sunday, May 4th and will hold across the federation. While the play-off matches will be played on May 14th and 15th, the draw for the national finals will hold in Abuja on May 29th.
Ms. David said the deadline for the submission of the 2014 Federation Cup licenses remains March 31st. “Late submission of licenses are allowed from the 1st – 11th of April, 2014 but will attract a fine of N300,000 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira Only) by the defaulting club(s),” she said in the statement.
According to the timetable for this year’s competition, the round of 64 matches will hold across 32 centers between July 2nd and 3rd, with the round of 32 matches taking place a week later and the round of 16 games to be played on July 16th and 17th. The quarter finals are slated for July 23rd, with the semi finals to follow on July 30th. The Grand Finale of this year’s Federation Cup competition has been scheduled for Sunday, August 3rd.
