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European Leagues (EL) is a sports organisation within association football created for growth of professional football in Europe. [2]Its members are the professional ...
The league became affiliated with UEFA in 1954. [8] Since the 2014–15 season, 10 teams compete in the division. The teams finishing in the bottom two places are relegated to the Albanian First Division and are replaced by the champions of each of that league's two groups. Clubs and locations as of 2024-25 season:
The Big Five refers to the association football markets of England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France.As of 2025, they are the five European leaders in size and popularity of the main domestic football leagues – the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 respectively in men's football, and the Women's Super League, Frauen-Bundesliga, Liga F, Serie A, and Première Ligue ...
Organising body: J.League; known as the J.League from 1993 to 1998 before becoming a two-division league, and as J.League Division 1 from 1999 to 2014. J2 League: 2nd-tier league: Organising body: J.League; known as J.League Division 2 until 2014 J3 League: 3rd-tier league: Organising body: J.League Japan Football League: 4th-tier league
This list attempts to show those sports leagues for which all players and teams are paid to play. In other words, these players can be considered to play their chosen sport as their profession . Some leagues do not pay well enough to allow players to use them as their primary or only source of income, but because the players are paid, it is ...
The top eight teams from the league phase receive a bye to the round of 16, while the teams ranked 9th to 24th contest the knockout play-offs with the winners advancing to the round of 16. The teams ranked 25th to 36th in the league phase and the losers of the play-offs are eliminated from the competition. [66] The final is played at a neutral ...
Five of the UEFA national teams, Germany, Italy, France, England and Spain, have won 12 out of 22 FIFA World Cups for Europe. These five nations also make up the so-called «Europe's Big Five», consisting of Spain's La Liga, England's Premier League, Germany's Bundesliga, Italy's Serie A and France's Ligue 1. [20]
Defunct top level football leagues in Europe (22 C, 43 P) Top level women's association football leagues in Europe (32 C, 50 P) A. Kategoria Superiore (5 C, 8 P)