{"id":21706,"date":"2025-04-26T23:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21706"},"modified":"2025-04-26T23:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:33:35","slug":"lalitpur-crowned-nsl-champions-second-time-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/lalitpur-crowned-nsl-champions-second-time-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalitpur crowned NSL champions second time in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, April 26: Lalitpur City Football Club has defeated Pokhara Thunders 2-1 to become the Nepal Super League (NSL) football tournament champions for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>In the final match of the tournament held at local Dasarth Stadium in Tripureswar, Kathmandu, Lalitpur City FC defended the title it won last year remaining undefeated throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions took the lead through Emoha Ejekele, who scored a header in a cross pass delivered by Manoj Rai in the 42nd minute of the first half.<br \/>\nSudil Rai of Pokhara Thunders made it 1-1 in the 64th minute of the match, pouncing on the failed saved by Lalitpur goal keeper Jeffrey Baltus, who could not clear a close strike from Stephen Samir Benong.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the 74th minute, Papa Eboyou of Lalitpur made it 2-1, utilizing a beautiful cross from first goal scorer Emoha inside the d-box. The match ended at 2-1 in favour of Lalitpur.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Lalitpur City FC won a cash prize of Rs. 8 million along with the championship trophy and medals, while Pokhara had to be contend with Rs. 3 million in prize money, along with the runners-up medal and trophy.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third edition of the Nepal Super League, a franchise-based football tournament involving teams named after different cities. Kathmandu, Chitwan, Dangadi, Butwal and Jhapa are other city teams competing in the tournament.<br \/>\nThe NSL is organized by Nepal Sports and Events Management (NSEM) in collaboration with the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 26: Lalitpur City Football Club has defeated Pokhara Thunders 2-1 to become the Nepal Super League (NSL) football tournament champions for the second year in a row. In the final match of the tournament held at local Dasarth Stadium in Tripureswar, Kathmandu, Lalitpur City FC defended the title it won last year remaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21709,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions\/21709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}