Enyimba Win Seventh NPFL Title

 

Enyimba finally has been crowned the champions of the Nigerian Professional Football League making it a record of seven titles and here are some stats of how the season has turned out. Final matches of the league would be played this weekend

Some quick stats about the NPFL, which is set to round off this weekend   

1. 1,300 yellow cards as well as 69 red cards have been recorded so far this season.

2. 789 goals have now been recorded in 369 this season - an average of 2 goals per game

3. Nasarawa Utd's Thomas Zenke scored the 220th away goal this season.

4. 220 away goals have been scored this season, representing 28% of the total number of goals scored.

5. Bayelsa Utd, FC Taraba & Kwara Utd technically relegated from League

6. Any one of the three can still join the already relegated three: Akwa Utd, Dolphins, Sharks, Rangers & Lobi Stars

7. Enyimba has won the league for the seventh time.

8. The biggest home wins this season are Warri Wolves 5-0 El-Kanemi Warriors (26 July 2015)

And Sunshine Stars 5-0 El-Kanemi Warriors (23 August 2015)

9. The biggest away wins this season are Heartland 0-3 Sunshine Stars (3 May 2015) and

El-Kanemi Warriors 1-4 IfeanyiUbah (21 June 2015).

10. Highest scoring match: Heartland 5-2 Nasarawa United

11. Longest winning streak: Enugu Rangers and

Warri Wolves each with four straight wins

12. Longest unbeaten run: Enyimba ten games

LEAGUE TABLE

# Team MP W D L F A D P

1 Enyimba 37 19 12 6 48 27 +21 69

2 Warri Wolves 37 18 9 10 57 28 +29 63

3 Giwa 37 17 12 8 44 39 +5 63

4 Wikki Tourist 37 17 9 11 43 36 +7 60

5 Nasarawa United 36 16 9 11 43 37 +6 57

6 Sunshine Stars 36 17 5 14 52 37 +15 56

7 Kano Pillars 37 16 7 14 45 37 +8 55

8 Heartland 37 16 5 16 44 39 +5 53

9 Shooting Stars 37 15 7 15 37 37 +0 52

10 Ifeanyi Uba 37 14 8 15 38 37 +1 50

11 Abia Warriors 37 15 5 17 38 43 -5 50

12 Lobi Stars 37 12 13 12 34 37 -3 49

13 El Kanemi Warriors 37 14 7 16 36 55 -19 49

14 Enugu Rangers 36 12 10 14 42 45 -3 46

15 Sharks 37 11 13 13 30 37 -7 46

16 Dolphins 37 11 11 15 36 38 -2 44

17 Akwa United 37 12 8 17 32 43 -11 44

18 Kwara United 37 11 6 20 30 46 -16 39

19 Taraba 36 9 9 18 29 42 -13 36

20 Bayelsa United 37 7 13 17 27 45 -18 34

Highest Goal scorers

1. Esosa Igbinoba (Nasarawa United) 15 goals

2. Gbolahan Salami (Warri Wolves) 14 goals

2. Tunde Adeniji (Sunshine Stars) 14 goals

2. Chisom Chikatara (Abia Warriors) 14 goals

5. Bright Ejike (Heartland) 13 goals

6. Mubarak Umar (Wikki) 12 goals

Week 38 matches

Heartland 16 : 00 El Kanemi Warriors

Shooting Stars 16 : 00 Dolphins

Nasarawa United 16 : 00 Giwa

Kwara United 16 : 00 Ifeanyi Uba

Abia Warriors 16 : 00 Sharks

Warri Wolves 16 : 00 Taraba

Sunshine Stars 16 : 00 Enyimba

Enugu Rangers 16 : 00 Bayelsa United

Akwa United 16 : 00 Lobi Stars

Wikki Tourist 16 : 00 Kano Pillars

Compiled by Adekunle Adewale