Zenith Bank/Delta Principals’ Cup: Eight teams on parade as 2024 edition starts in two centres

Zenith Bank/Delta Principals’ Cup:

Eight teams on parade as 2024 edition starts in two centres

*October 16 now official Kick-Off date

The 2024 edition of the Delta State Principals’ Cup competition starts in two centres tomorrow in the state with eight teams expected to be in action for the Match Day 1 duties.

This is the 7th edition of the annual youth developmental competition, which is a collaboration between Delta State Government and Zenith Bank Plc.

In the fixtures released by the organisers, Hideaplus Limited, St Thomas College will take on Trinity College in the only match of the day at Ibusa.

The Oruchi centre will host three games starting with the encounter between Okpanam High School and Noble Academy.

Oruchi C/S will tango with Skyset just as Unity School will clash with Marble Hill also in Oruchi.

The Branch Head, Zenith Bank PLC, Asaba, Dr. Ifeanyi Attama, last week revealed that there was a huge increase in the number of entries for the football competition.

The competition has witnessed remarkable surge of participating schools from 167 in the maiden edition to 615 schools in this edition.

Dr. Attama said Zenith Bank was proud that talents were discovered in the previous editions,

CEO of Hideaplus, organisers of the event Tony Pemu, however revealed that the official Kick-Off match of the competition has been confirmed to take place on Wednesday October 16 at St. Patrick School in Asaba.

“We are retaining out timeline with all the matches at various stages but the Kick off involves so many logistics and that is why we are having it now on October 16,” Pemu said.

The final of the Principals’ Cup is billed to take place on November 7 at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba.