Sporting Lagos have topped the Super 4 tournament to win the 2025/26 Nigeria National League NNL title at the Remo Stars stadium in Ikenne on Friday.
The privately owned Lagos-based club suffered a 1-0 loss to their fierce rivals also privately owned, but claimed the NNL title on superior goals difference.
The Super 4 pitted winners of the four different NNL conference together in a league format, and winner of Conference B Sporting Lagos, piped Conference A winners Inter Lagos to the title.
Hassan Bashiru scored the only goal of the match on seven minutes, slotting home an emphatic finish to give rays of hope to Inter Lagos. However, the rays dimmed as the match wore on as Sporting were resolute in defence and limited their opponents to long range efforts.
The hope was extinguished at the final whistle as Jeffery Buter’s Sporting Lagos lads dragged themselves over the line.
Both Sporting Lagos and Inter Lagos finish with same six points, but the former has four goals difference, compared to Inter’s two goals, and claimed their first ever NNL title on the final matchday of the Super 4 contest.
They take home the ?10,000,000 prize money in addition to the trophy.
It is the first league title won by Sporting Lagos since its creation in 2022.