By Amaechi Agbo

The much expected 2018/19 Nigeria Women Football League, NWFL has been postponed by one week.

The postponement was announced on Monday in a circular signed by the Chief Operating Officer of the league, Ayo Abdulrahaman who said the postponement was necessary following the failure of five of the Premier league Clubs to register for the season.

The clubs that are yet to register include defending champions Bayelsa Queens of Yenagoa, Dream Stars of Lagos, the Invincible Angels of Gboko, Heartland Queens of Owerri and Abia Angels.

Announcing the postponement, the management expressed its determination to avoid such ugly situation but lamented that all efforts deployed to prevent the postponement were unsuccessful.

“The league have made several efforts to forestall this kind of scenario, but we have not received any response from all the clubs who also failed to pay up their outstanding which is a pre-requisite for registration participation.

“Subsequently, the board is poised to take a hard stand by postponing the kick-off of the 2018/2019 Women Premier League by a week.

“By this postponement, all clubs that are unable to pay the outstanding as contained in the attached document latest by Friday, the 19th of July,2019 shall be expunged from the league, and a fresh draw shall be conducted by the NWFL Secretariat to accommodate only the clubs that are compliant,” the statement read.

The 2018/19 NWFL league was to kick off on July 17 but with the one week postponement, the league will now commence on the 24^th of July, 2019.