Russian amateur soccer league

The Russian amateur football league ( Russian Любительская футбольная лига / Ljubitelskaja futbolnaja league ; Lover or amateur - football -Liga or short ЛФЛ LFL ) is since 2003 the highest level of playing Russian football organized under the the Russian Professional Football Association's operation ( Premjer League , 1st Division , 2nd Division ), currently the fourth division. In ten championships roughly corresponding to the boundaries of the federal districts , one promoted to the 2nd division and thus to professional football is played. The dominance of Central Russia in Russia in general and in Russian football in particular is also evident here: Moscow and Moscow Oblast are the only federation subjects , each with their own top amateur league, the other federation subjects of the Central Circle form two other leagues, the Golden Ring and the the economic region of Central Black Earth , or Black Earth for short .

• center
  • Moscow
  • Moscow Oblast (mostly in two parallel seasons with a playoff between the top placed)
  • Golden ring
  • Black Earth ( Russian Центра́льно-Чернозёмный экономи́ческий райо́н )
• Northwest
• Siberia
• Urals and West Siberians
• far East
• south
• Volga

Web links

• Homepage of the LFL (Russian)