Country Bosnia and Herzegovina Founded 1994 Level on pyramid 1 | Confederation UEFA Number of teams 12 Relegation to 2 | |
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The Premier Futsal League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Premijer futsal liga Bosne i Hercegovine) is the top-level futsal league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The competition is organized by the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Formation and history
The Premier League was founded in 2013. Prior, since 1994, there were two leagues, one of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of Republic of Srpska with best teams from both taking part in playoff to crown national champion. Later, after UEFA decided to help Bosnia and Herzegovina FA to establish nationwide league played in whole country, the league itself was started in 2013, along with Women's football league (also assisted by UEFA).
Format
12 teams take part in the competition. The league is played in two phases. In first phase teams play each other once in 11 rounds. Top six teams qualify to Championship stage while bottom six teams qualify to Relegation stage. In both second phase stages teams play each other twice so there are 21 rounds (11+10) total. Top team of Championship stage is crowned champion while bottom two teams of Relegation stage are relegated.
In first two seasons of Premier league, there was only one phase with round-robin home and away format. Top team after 22 rounds was crowned champion.
If relegated teams comes from Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, they will play in First league of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina next season; otherwise, if team comes from Republic of Srpska entity, it will take part in First league of Republic of Srpska next season. Relegated teams could be both from same entity. Champions of entity leagues get promotion to Premier league.
Winner of the competition qualifies to the next season's UEFA Futsal Cup. Best result in the competition by a team from Bosnia Herzegovina was achieved in 2013-14 edition when Tango Sarajevo reached Elite round (best 16 teams of the competition).
Champions
Listed below are the champions of competition before the league was unified; results up to 2012-13 season.
Listed below are the champions of unified championship.
2016-17 teams
Eight teams are representing Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina while four are representing Republic of Srpska.
Nine teams with 4th season in the competition have never been relegated.
† title holder
‡ promoted