Trinidad: Professional Football League... aka PFL I know you were just dieing to find out what our league was called... P.S. Holland: Eredivisie
IPL - IRAN PRO LEAGUE IPL II aka dasteh 2- Iran's 2nd division IPL III aka dasteh 3- Iran's 3rd division 16 teams in each league for info on teams and standings and history check out www.persianleague.com
Then below the Nationwide League Divisions I, II and III is the Conference then below that is the North league and south league, below that is....
Australia: Was the National Soccer League (NSL), but that has now been abolished and all the clubs kicked out and required to submit bids for inclusion next season in what will be the Australian Premier League (APL)
Canada Tier 1: None, altho' there is talk of MLS maybe expanding to one or more Canadian cities after 2005. Tier 2: "A-League" -Presently 5 Canadian cities (Montreal, Toronto, Calgary , Edmonton, Vancouver) in 16 team USL league, the 5 teams having heir own additional competition called the "Voyageurs" Cup. The Canadian portion is referred to , tongue-in-cheek, as the "Eh-league", given the Canadian penchant for that particular interjection, eh. Tier 3 (supposedly): 1. "Canadian Professional Soccer League"- an Ontario Regional semi-pro league. All four words in the name are debatable. Has it's own "Canada Open" Cup competition with a few central Canadian amateur teams. Run like a banana republic. 2. "Pacific Coast Soccer League"- a small British Columbia semi-pro league, with a few American teams in next-door Washington State. Amateur Leagues- with Provincial champions, meeting in a Canadian Championship every year. Development Leagues- of various types, such as the USL "Professional Development League" with two teams in Canada. The last truly Canadian soccer league was the "Canadian Soccer League" in the late 80's and early 90's, which folded because of travel costs and other problems. There, don't that just jar your pickles?
More Suitable League Names Barclaycard still sponsoring the premiership next year? Isn't the Nationwide league (Divisions 1, 2, 3) becoming the Coca-Cola League next year? Scotland's League is officially called "The Bank of Scotland Premier League". Any other leagues in the world named after sponsers? I was thinking that maybe the leagues need more appropriate names. England "The Longball-and-Chase League" Germany "The Ugly Kit League" Italy "The Dive and Whine League" France "The Englsh Feeder League" Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Martinique and a few dozen others: "The French Feeeder Regional Leagues" Portugal "The Porto Foodchain league" Spain "The Pro-Real Ref's League" Scotland "Two Firms and Assorted Street Vendors League" Japan "The Ripped-Off Team Name League" Brazil "The We're-Still-Figuring-Out-How-to-Set-Up-a-League League" Argentina "The Chaos League" USA "The Fond Adu League" (formerly "The Auld Onion Bag League") Ghana "The Without Further Adu League" Canada "The United States and Branch Plants League" Australia "The Apply Now League" New Zealand "The Applied For League" South Korea "The White Elephants for Red Devils League" North Korea "The Train to Nowhere League" India "The Goa and West Bengal League" Pakistan "The Non-Cricket League" Mexico "The Teams for Hire League" Cuba "The Not Good Enough To Get a Chance For Asylum League" Northern Ireland "The Backdoor to the Champions League Qualifying League" Wales "The Not Good Enough To Be In The Nationwide League" Finland "The Teams With Funny Names League" Costa Rica "The Urine Bag League" Qatar "The Foreign Mercenary League" Saudi Arabia "The We-Hold-Your-Passport League" Ireland "The AhWell-Nidder-Celtic-Nor-Liverpool-Are-On-TV League" Nigeria "The Share-Your-Players-In-African-Competition League" Maldives "The We-Tied-Korea! League" Faeroe Islands "The ScareTheScots League" Netherlands "The We-Don't-Practice-Penalty-Kicks-Because-We're-Neurotic- Cocky-Bastards League" Belgium "The Dog Poop League" Trinidad and Tobago "The Jack Warner Bribery And Skim-Off League" Dominica "The San Antonio Spur League" Haiti "The Miami Non-Boat Arrival League" Tahiti "The French Don't Want Our Players League" American Samoa "The Aussie Ego-Boost League" Caymen Islands "The Tax Haven League" Switzerland "The Schizophrenic Split-Level Dual Season League" Israel "The It's Really Safe to Play Here League" Turkey "The We're Really In Europe League" Cyprus "The We're Really Really in Europe, But We Don't Act Like It League" Belarus "The Things Are So Bad We're Thinking of Rejoining Russia League" Papua New Guinea "The We're Not Aboriginies Mate League" Luxembourg "The Now We're the Worst in Europe League" Malta "The We're the Only Real Catholics Left League" South Africa "The Witch Doctor League" Morocco "The We're Not A Target League"
The Che Guevera League Well, according to fifa.com, there is some sort of domestic national championship set-up. http://www.fifa.com/en/display/article,71134.html Whether it is much of a league, I'm afraid to guess. They do produce fairly good soccer players somehow. They have been playing soccer there for a long time. The first international match I attended were the two June, 1967 Olympic Qualifying matches in Edmonton, Canada v. Cuba (won by Cuba). Cuba was also the first "CONCACAF" country to qualify for the World Cup Tournament besides Mexico and the US (1938, France).
Oh I know that they play soccer a lot, I have family over there. And I knew about the national squad, but I had no idea that they had a domestic league. Good to know. If all else fails I can become a nationalized Cuban and play on the national team. Just kidding lol.
Spain's La Liga... The League... very clever... Actually it's the LFP (Liga de Futbol Profesional) which encompasses the 1st and 2nd A Divisions. The 2B and below are the.. well... Puerto Rico has a league called Liga Mayor de Futbol Profesional... ripping off Spain and the MLS AT THE SAME TIME!!! Cuba should have a league... let me guess... Fideliga!!!