page_title: NWFL Premiership
section_title: Renaming
hierarchical_section_title: NWFL Premiership / Renaming
caption_attribution_description: English: Added Image
context_page_description: The NWFL Premiership is the top level league for women's association football in Nigeria. It is the women's equivalent of the men's league, the Nigeria Professional Football League. The Nigeria Women Football League organizes the Nigeria Women Premier League and the Nigeria Women Pro-league. In November 2017, Aisha Falode was elected chairperson of the league board, and was officially designated in January 2017.
context_section_description: On 5 March 2020, the Nigeria Women Football League, the governing body of professional women's association football in Nigeria headed by Aisha Falode announced the re-branding of the women's league, by unveiling a new logo and renaming the three tiers of the league under the tutelage of the NWFL.
  With the rebranding, the Nigeria Women Premier League will now be known as the NWFL Premiership, the second tier league known as NWFL Championship (formerly NWFL Pro-League) while the third tier division becomes the NWFL Nationwide (formerly NWFL Amateur League).
caption: The old NWFL logo
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