The second season of the Trinidad and Tobago Premier Football League (TTPFL) tier one will kick off on November 24, according to a release issued by the T&T Football Association (TTFA) on Monday.
The season will run from November 2023 to May 2024, with two transfer window periods. The first transfer window opened on Monday and will close on December 19. The TTPFL's second transfer window will span from February 1 to February 29, 2024.
After a three-year hiatus in local professional football mainly due to covid19, a revamped TTPFL tournament began with a bang on March 10, 2023, with a 12-team TTPFL tier one. A gripping league season saw Defence Force, AC Port of Spain and La Horquetta Rangers in a three-team battle for league supremacy in the 22-game campaign.
It was the Army/Coast Guard combination which came out victors on the final day of the season on June 24 as they beat AC POS by a 2-1 margin at the Arima Velodrome, to win the league title by a single point.
Defence Force weren't done there though, as they doubled up on their league title by getting a stunning 5-3 win over Terminix La Horquetta Rangers in the TTPFL Knockout Cup final on July 15 – with lanky forward Brent Sam registering a hat-trick.
Sam finished as the knockout competition's top scorer with a whopping nine goals. Nineteen-year-old Soca Warriors attacker Nathaniel "Natty" James finished as the league's top scorer with 15 goals as he helped Tiger Tanks Club Sando to a third-place finish in the league, after Rangers faded badly.
Sando contested the Concacaf Caribbean Club Shield tournament where they finished third. Both AC POS and Defence Force were placed in the same group of the Concacaf Caribbean Cup tournament. However, neither was able to advance past the group stage of the tournament.
Tobago's 1976 FC Phoenix were crowned champions of the inaugural TTPFL tier two, as they got an exciting 2-1 win in the playoff final over Petit Valley/Diego Martin United at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago on October 10. Phoenix went through the season with an impressive unbeaten record and also finished atop the table after ten league matches.
SOURCE: T&T Newsday
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