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European Professional Football Leagues

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Formation
  
6 June 2005

Website
  
Official website

Headquarters
  
Nyon, Switzerland

Motto
  
Great Football makes Great Things

Membership
  
29 European Professional Football Leagues

Official language
  
English, French, German,

European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) is a sports organization within football (soccer) created for growth of professional football in Europe.

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Its members are the professional football leagues organisations of 24 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Ukraine, and Serbia. In addition, there are seven associate leagues representing some of these countries as well as Turkey.

History

Created in 1997, originally under the name Association of the European Union Premier Professional Football Leagues (EUPPFL).

Members

Members of EPFL in 2015:

Former

Former EPFL members:

  • Bulgarian Professional Football League (2007–2012, withdrew)
  • Association of 1. SNL (2006–2012, changed object action)
  • Professional Football League of Ukraine (1997–2008, replaced)

    • References

    European Professional Football Leagues Wikipedia
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