Association of European Professional Football Leagues

The European Professional Football Leagues ( EPFL , Association of European professional leagues ) is a 1997 Association of European Union Premier Professional Football Leagues ( EUPPFL ) established association of professional European leagues associated with currently 28 and full members; Only the association that organizes the highest league in a country can be full members, but associations from lower leagues only can acquire associated membership. It has been based in Nyon , Switzerland , since 2004 .

The association was founded in 1997 on the initiative of the English Premier League and the Italian Lega Nazionale Professionisti with the aim of giving the clubs and leagues involved more influence on the football policy that affects them. In 2005 the EUPPFL was converted into the EPFL ; at that time 14 professional leagues were full members. In the following years, more and more associations were accepted, including in 2006 the English Football League for the first time a lower-class association as an associated member.

Members

Surname	status	accession	country	comment
Balgarska Profesionalna Futbolna Liga	Full member	2007	Bulgaria
DFL German Football League	Full member	founding	Germany
Jelen Super League	Full member	2010	Serbia
Division forums	Full member	founding	Denmark
Ligue Professionnelle de Football	Full member	founding	Belgium
Austrian Football Bundesliga	Full member	founding	Austria
Premier League	Full member	founding	England
Veikkausliiga	Full member	founding	Finland
Ligue de Football Professionnel	Full member	founding	France
Superleague Ellada	Full member	founding	Greece
Lega Nazionale Professionisti	Full member	founding	Italy
Eredivisie	Full member	founding	Netherlands
Norsk Toppfotball	Full member	2007	Norway
Ekstraklasa	Full member	2007	Poland
Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional	Full member	founding	Portugal
Premjer League	Full member	2007	Russia
Scottish Premier League	Full member	founding	Scotland
The Football League	Associated	2006	England
Združenje 1st SNL	Full member	2006	Slovenia
Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional	Full member	founding	Spain
Föreningen Svensk Elitfotboll	Full member	founding	Sweden
Swiss Football League	Full member	2005	Switzerland	Was a founding member of the EUPPFL in 1997, but has since left
Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal	Full member	2009	Romania
Welsh Premier League	Full member	2007	Wales
Premjer-Liha	Full member	2008	Ukraine	was founded in 2008, until then the Profesionalna futbolna liha was a full member
Profesionalna futbolna liha	Associated	2007	Ukraine	Full member until the foundation of Premjer-Liha in 2008.
Union of the Professionels de Football Club	Associated	2008	France
Federatie Betaald Voetbal Organizations	Associated	2008	Netherlands
Professional futbolnaja league	Associated	2007	Russia
Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico	Associated	2007	Italy

See also

• World Leagues Forum

Web links

• Official site of the EPFL (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ History. (No longer available online.) In: epfl-europeanleagues.com . EPFL, 2008, archived from the original on January 6, 2010 ; Retrieved December 16, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.