Eligibility and integrity
Eligibility you can defend.
Nigerian leagues lose credibility to age-cheating and double-registration. Some have paid to build bespoke facial-recognition systems just to fight it. On Egen Games eligibility is native: per-division rules, a verification ladder, one athlete per club per season, and an audit trail on every decision. You stop policing rosters by hand and start trusting the table.
The real cost
The expensive problem you keep paying to solve
Age-cheating and double-registration are not edge cases in Nigerian sport, they decide trophies. Leagues have spent real money building facial-recognition systems from scratch, hiring people to cross-check rosters, and still ended seasons in dispute. That is money and credibility spent fighting a problem the platform should already handle. On Egen Games, it does.
What you get
Integrity built into registration, not bolted on after
Every rule below is checked before an athlete ever plays. Eligibility is settled at roster lock, so the fixtures you generate are already clean.
Age, enforced by date of birth
Each division carries a date-of-birth cutoff, not a guess. An athlete who falls outside the band cannot be added to a roster in that division. The cutoff is the rule, applied the same way for every club.
Gender category rules
Divisions declare their gender category and the platform holds it at registration. No quiet swaps, no mixed entries where the rules do not allow them.
A verification ladder
Set how much proof a division needs. A community fixture might accept a school attestation, while a national final demands federation-confirmed documents. You set the rung, the platform requires it.
One athlete per club per season
Double-registration is blocked at roster lock. An athlete belongs to one club for the season, so the same player cannot be quietly fielded by two teams.
An audit trail on every override
When an operator overrides a check, the reason and the actor are recorded. Overrides are append-only, so anyone reviewing later sees exactly who allowed what and why.
Minors safeguarded by default
Athletes who are minors are not publicly searchable without guardian consent. Their records exist for the competition without exposing children to the open web.
The verification ladder
As much proof as the moment demands
You do not need national-final scrutiny for a community fixture, and you cannot accept a casual attestation when a title is on the line. The ladder lets each division ask for exactly the proof it warrants.
School attestation
For community and entry-level divisions, a school or club attests to an athlete age and identity. Enough proof to run a clean local competition without slowing anyone down.
Documented verification
As stakes rise, a division can require uploaded documents that confirm date of birth and identity. The athlete clears the bar once, and the record carries forward through the season.
Federation-confirmed for finals
For national finals, eligibility can require federation-confirmed documents. The toughest verification sits exactly where it matters, on the results that crown a champion.
When it is contested
A challenge process, not a shouting match
Rivals and operators can raise an eligibility challenge against a roster entry, and it is handled through a defined process with a record at every step. Every override is logged with a reason and an actor, so a contested decision can be reviewed on evidence rather than argued over a group chat.
Minors stay protected throughout. They are never publicly searchable without guardian consent, so safeguarding holds even while a challenge is in motion.
Operator applications are open
Run a league no one can question
Bring your competition to a platform where eligibility is enforced before kickoff and defensible after the whistle. Tell us about your league and we will get you set up.