The International Federation of Football History and Statistics has rated the Nigerian football league, known as the Globacom Premier League, as the fourth strongest league on the continent for 2013.
It also rated the Spanish La Liga as the best in the world during the same period under review.
The Tunisian league was rated Africa’s best, followed by those of Egypt, Morocco and then Nigeria. Mali, South Africa, Algeria, Angola, Cameroon and Ghanaian held the other spots in the top ten.
Despite the loss of their two most powerful clubs in the semi-final of the year’s UEFA Champions League, La Liga was still voted the strongest league, while the English Premier League is ranked second. The German Bundesliga, which has the two finalists of the 2013 UEFA Champions Leagues in Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, was rated third best, beating off the Italian Serie A and the Brazilian league to fourth and fifth respectively.
