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The Liga Puerto Rico (LPR) is an amateur football competition organized by the Puerto Rican Football Federation. It is the top division football league on the island. The champion qualifies to participate in the Caribbean Club Shield each season. [1] [2]
Founded in 2018, Liga Puerto Rico is the FPF sanctioned first division football league in Puerto Rico. The team has 8 clubs as of the 2023 Apertura. Clubs range from semi-professional to Amateur. The winner of the league earns a berth in the following CFU Club Championship.
The 2023–24 Liga Puerto Rico season, is the league's fifth season of Liga Puerto Rico. It is the league's second season to be divided into two championships—the Apertura 2023 and the Clausura 2024—each in an identical format and each contested by eight teams. The season is played round robin style, with the top four 4 making playoffs.
The league was founded in 2008 starting with 8 teams. The first president of the league was Mike Roca.Over the past few years football has grown throughout the island and is among the top sports in Puerto Rico, behind baseball, basketball, boxing, and volleyball.
Owing to its unique status in relation to the United States of America, the governance of football on Puerto Rico has been different from the traditional format.On May 14, 2008, the federation announced the creation of the Puerto Rico Soccer League, the first unified league in the history of the island's football, [2] although it folded in 2011.
The Puerto Rico American Football League (PRAFL) is a semi-pro American football league in Puerto Rico. The PRAFL is the highest level of competition in Puerto Rican American football league pyramid, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football. Its eight current teams, which are located in eight separate cities.
The league was founded on July 25, 2009 as the second division of the Puerto Rico Soccer League (PRSL), which was at that time the first division league of Puerto Rico.The Liga Nacional de Fútbol originally had 16 teams that were put into two groups of 8 (East Division and West Division) for the regular season.
The 2020–2021 Liga Puerto Rico was to be the third season of the Liga Puerto Rico, the top tier soccer league on the island. Metropolitan FA were the reigning champions because of their 2018–19 Liga Puerto Rico championship. [1] The 2019–2020 season was abandoned in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and no new champion was named.