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Sporting Lagos, promoted to the Nigeria's elite League NPFL this year, generates over three million naira on Matchdays.
The total amount of money that the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) newly promoted club, Sporting Lagos generates every matchday has been revealed.
The Club chairman, Godwin Enakhena revealed this in an interview with the ICIR after the club was promoted from the country’s second division league, known as Nigeria National League (NNL) to the NPFL.
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He also disclosed how the club has been making economic fortunes from the Nigerian league.
He said, "Sporting Lagos is a baby of 16 months. You have to crawl before you start running. The good thing about it is that Shola Akinlade (owner of Sporting Lagos) has bought a club in Denmark, which means every year, as a matter of policy – has happened this year – a minimum of 2-3 best players in Sporting Lagos will be going to Denmark."
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This is the beginning of a bigger window to a bigger European market, so this is the number one side of the business.
"Number 2, during match day, I never thought it would happen in my lifetime in the NNL, not even if in the premier league, some person would come and pay N500,000 to come and see our games.
"I never thought that some person would pay N500,000. We have seven booths at the Onikan stadium. Inside the booth, there is a TV, AC, choice of wine and food. If you put N500,000 by 7 booths, that is N3.5M from the booths, that is minus sponsorship, gate tickets and souvenirs. It is one step at a time, and we will surely get there.
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"You can only sustain it (football club) by doing business. You find out that government club if they play, you will not find anybody at the stadium; they don’t care, but Sporting Lagos, without people at the stadium, then what are we doing?."
Sporting Lagos are the champions of the maiden edition of the Naija Super 8 pre-season tournament.
Sporting defeated Remo Stars 4-2 via penalty shootout following a dramatic 1-1 draw in normal time to become the first ever club to win the preseason tournament.
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