The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) has announced that it hopes to wrap up a new kit deal for all its national teams following the expiration of the contract it had with German sports kit manufacturer, Adidas. Despite the expiration of the contract, the Nigerian national teams have continued to use Adidas branded kits but this is only because the sports kit brand granted the NFF a window of grace until it concludes its search for a new kit sponsor.

Revealing that the body is contact with several potential sponsors, NFF Marketing Director, Idris Adama, insisted that the Super Eagles and other national teams remain great brands despite the current lack of a binding contract with a kit sponsor.

“Before the end of March-April, we should be able to launch something new into the market, we are working hard to get there and it will definitely happen because the Super Eagles and the other national teams are great brands in the world,” he said.

“Though the contract has come to an end, we have a grace period which we need to play around with and within the grace period we will still be wearing Adidas and within that period, we will get a new sponsor,” Adama also said.

Adama also revealed that despite the absence of the Super Eagles from the big stage of the AFCON, the national team remain an attractive proposition for many corporate partnerships. “Despite the fact we are not in at Africa Cup of Nations, we still remain the champions of Africa until a winner emerges from the ongoing tournament. We have a lot of companies across the globe that have expressed their interest to take over as kit suppliers, but we are carefully looking at the options we have. What we need now is a quality brand that we can partner with. It is also an advantage to that kit partner because we are the best thing that has happened to football in Africa”.

Adama suggested that the superiority of Nigerian teams makes it slighter difficult to reach a resolution insisting that with 10 teams to supply kits for, the numbers must be right from a financial point of view.

“In every business there should be financial valuation, we should be able to look at the financial position of what the partnership is going to look like and how it can be beneficial to both parties. We need kits for all the 10 national teams. Not every team in Africa has the number of teams that we have, so you should understand that the volume of kits we require from one single kit company is big,” Adama said.

The Super Eagles have previously had contracts with Nike and most recently with Adidas.