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This page is part of the WikiProject on Football and provides a list of known fully professional leagues, and also those that are known to not be fully professional.

The lists are currently incomplete and some entries are lacking sources. Players who have not played in a fully professional league listed below may meet Wikipedia's General notability guideline. Failing to meet the criteria in this guideline means that notability will need to be established in other ways. See Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines.

If the source indicating the status is in a PDF document or other long article, please indicate the page number or sub-section. If the source is not in the English language please list the foreign-language text that confirms the fact, and provide an English-language translation.

Of FIFA's 211[1] current member associations, 210 have men's leagues which are currently included in this list. Liechtenstein does not have its own national league.[2]

What is a "fully professional" league?

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A fully professional league is one in which virtually all[quantify] adult players are paid a salary that they can live on and do not need additional sources of income.[3] This salary should be a living wage in the nation where the league is based, and preferably around or above the average or median national wage. The professionalism of the league should also extend to sufficient contact hours, and facilities, equipment, expenses and other support as necessary to allow full-time pursuit of the sport.[4]

List of fully professional leagues

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Men's leagues

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Former countries

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Women's leagues

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See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force/Leagues § Active top-division leagues and national championships

Top level leagues which are not fully professional

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Men's leagues

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Associated to FIFA confederations

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Non-FIFA

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Women's leagues

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See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force/Leagues § Active top-division leagues and national championships

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References

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  232. ^ "Boubacar Yago, secrétaire administratif de la ligue de football professionnel : " Nous travaillons pour l'avènement d'un football professionnel au Faso "" [Boubacar Yago, administrative secretary of the professional football league: "We are working for the advent of professional football in Burkina Faso"]. sidwaya.bf. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2017. Il y en aura. Nous allons travailler à l'avènement du football professionnel. Nous n'avons pas encore atteint le football professionnel. C'est certain que quand nous allons amorcer ce football professionnel il y aura forcement un cahier des charges parce que n'importe qui ne viendra pas exercer dans cette catégorie. (English: There will be some. We will work towards the advent of professional football. We have not yet reached professional football. It is certain that when we are going to start this professional football there will necessarily be a specification because anyone will not come to practice in this category.)
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  239. ^ "CENTRAFRIQUE: La ligue de football de Bangui se dote d'un nouveau président" [CENTRAL AFRICA: Bangui football league acquires new president]. centralafricanrepublicnews.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017. Ce championnat amateur avec 12 équipes s'est terminé péniblement depuis plus de six mois et le leader, As Tempête Mocaf, n'a pu participer à la Ligue africaine des champions organisée par la Confédération africaine de Football, faute de moyens financiers. En manque de sponsors, la compétition ne subsiste que grâce aux subventions de l'Etat et de la Fédération centrafricaine de Football. Aucune grande entreprise de la place ne finance un club du championnat. (English: This amateur championship with 12 teams ended painfully for more than six months and the leader, As Tempête Mocaf, could not participate in the African Champions League organized by the African Football Confederation, for lack of financial means. In lack of sponsors, the competition remains only thanks to the subsidies of the State and the Central African Federation of Football. No big company in the place funds a championship club.)
  240. ^ "Les Sao, 30 ans plus tard" [Sao, 30 years later]. afrik-foot.com. Archived from the original on 18 June 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017. Notre problème majeur est financier. Nous n'avons pas de moyens, pas de subventions, pas de sponsors et du coup rien n'est fait pour la formation. Le championnat se joue en deux étapes. La première est le championnat régional qui regroupe les équipes de la même préfecture. Et puis, il y a le championnat national. Une sorte de tournoi entre les 14 champions des 14 préfectures. Sur un plan individuel, le footballeur tchadien est paresseux, physiquement très limité. Il tient difficilement les 90 minutes de jeu mais par contre il est discipliné et persévérant. (English: Our major problem is financial. We have no means, no subsidies, no sponsors and suddenly nothing is done for training. The championship is played in two stages. The first is the regional championship which brings together teams from the same prefecture. And then there is the national championship. A kind of tournament between the 14 champions of 14 prefectures. On an individual level, the Chadian footballer is lazy, physically very limited. He has difficulty 90 minutes of play but he is disciplined and persevering.)
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  244. ^ "Comores et bien plus encore" [Comoros and much more]. fr.fifa.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2017. "C'est un instrument essentiel pour une gestion professionnelle du championnat comorien", estime Mshangama Monaward, chargé de l'administration de ce système pour la FCF. "Jusqu'à maintenant, toutes les équipes pouvaient présenter n'importe quel joueur, personne ne pouvait vérifier s'il faisait partie du club ou non. Désormais, avec les licences qu'on ne peut falsifier, les arbitres peuvent refuser les joueurs non inscrits".Plus de 700 joueurs de première division ont déjà reçu leur licence, en attendant d'étendre le programme aux divisions inférieures. Pour cette première année de mise en place, la licence est fournie gratuitement par la fédération, "pour que les joueurs adoptent le système" explique Msahazi Soilihi, administrateur de la FCF. "Mais l'an prochain, la licence sera payante et on peut également imaginer un contrat de sponsoring sur la carte, ce qui en fera une double source de revenus pour la fédération". (English: "It is an essential instrument for the professional management of the Comorian Championship," said Mshangama Monaward, who is in charge of the administration of this system for the FCF. "Until now, all the teams could present any player, no one could check if he was part of the club or not. For now, with the licenses that can not be falsified, the referees can refuse the players not registered." More than 700 first-division players have already received their license, while waiting to extend the program to the lower divisions. For this first year of implementation, the license is provided free by the federation, "for players to adopt the system," says Msahazi Soilihi, administrator of the FCF. "But next year, the license will pay off and we can also imagine a sponsorship deal on the card, which will make it a dual source of revenue for the federation.")
  245. ^ "Championnat national de football : enfin un compromis entre la Fécofoot et ses clubs affiliés" [National Football Championship: finally a compromise between Fécofoot and its affiliated clubs]. adiac-congo.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2017. "Le contrat est une convention qui lie les deux parties: l'une appelée employeur et l'autre employée. C'est vrai que nous avons un petit problème concernant notre football. C'est un football amateur. Etant donné que nous avons certaines équipes qui ont des joueurs professionnels, donc nous sommes dans le semi professionnalisme. Le contrat permet, non seulement de protéger le joueur, mais aussi le club qui dépense beaucoup d'argent pour ce dernier", a ajouté Jean Didier Elongo. (English: The contract is an agreement that binds both parties: one called the employer and the other employee. It is true that we have a small problem concerning our football. It's an amateur football. Since we have some teams that have professional players, so we are in semi professionalism. The contract not only protects the player, but also the club that spends a lot of money for the latter," added Jean Didier Elongo.)
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  247. ^ "Cuba's soccer defectors hunt for respect in the United States". theguardian.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017. [Cuban players] are a little different; they have a little flair but they also have a work rate. They all have an ability to play but they're changing styles. One thing they've got to get used to is training. Down there it is not a professional league. The level of commitment is there for the national team but not necessarily for the league because it's still amateur and they don't push every day.
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  252. ^ "Corti: "Si el fútbol salvadoreño quiere trascender, deben entender que fuerzas básicas no son gasto sino inversión"" [Corti: "If Salvadoran football wants to transcend, they must understand that basic forces are not spending but investment"]. elsalvador.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017. La calidad del jugador salvadoreño y lo profesional que es. Es muy profesional. Te tenés que bancar, estar en un equipo que pasan dos meses y no te pagan, que las infraestructuras para entrenar son muy malas. Entonces, lo que más rescato de este fútbol es al jugador salvadoreño. Lo bueno que son técnicamente y les falta potenciar más.Habría que mejorar en las infraestructuras de los equipos, los estadios, jugar en un horario adecuado. En el fútbol no se saca ventaja jugando a las 3:00 de la tarde o con el pasto alto ... son cositas para ir mejorando.Aquí si tenés que viajar, en general en todos los equipos, y a veces pedís un bus de mejor calidad, te dicen: 'Y para qué'. Todo 'para qué y por qué'. Uno dice: "Vamos a concentrar". Y te responden: 'Y para qué'. Y no es así. Si queremos que el fútbol salvadoreño crezca hay que empezar a hacer esas cosas. (English: The quality of the Salvadoran player and how professional he is. It is very professional. You have to bank, be in a team that spend two months and do not pay you, that the infrastructures to train are very bad. So, what I rescue most from this football is the Salvadoran player. The good that they are technically and they lack to harness more. It would have to improve in the infrastructures of the equipment, the stadiums, to play in a suitable schedule. In football you do not take advantage playing at 3:00 in the afternoon or with high grass ... they are things to improve. Here you have to travel, in general in all teams, and sometimes you ask for a better bus quality, they tell you: 'And for what?' All 'for what and why'. One says: "Let's concentrate." And they answer: 'And for what?' And it is not like that. If we want Salvadoran football to grow, we have to start doing those things.)
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  306. ^ "Football Et Salaire : L'inégale Équation" [Football And Salary: The Unequal Equation]. bamada.net. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2017. Mais plus proche de nous, les conditions dans lesquelles évoluent les joueurs du championnat nationale restent misérables. Le constat est sans appel au niveau des clubs où les jeunes pousses progressent sans rien attendre en retour. Selon Baba Cissouma, président de l'Union des journalistes sportifs du Mali (UJSMA), les salaires sont aléatoires dans les clubs de première division car ils dépendent de plusieurs facteurs. Seydou Sow, premier vice-président de l'AS Réal, explique que le terme salaire n'est pas approprié pour le football amateur au Mali. Les joueurs perçoivent plutôt des indemnités de déplacement et des primes de match, qui varient selon le nombre de matchs remportés. Au FC Bakaridjan et à l'AS Réal, ces primes varient entre 20 000 et 30 000 francs CFA par joueur. (English: But closer to us, the conditions under which the players of the national championship are still miserable. The report is without appeal at the club level where the young shoots progress without expecting anything in return. According to Baba Cissouma, president of the Union of Sports Journalists of Mali (UJSMA), salaries are random in first division clubs because they depend on several factors. Seydou Sow, Senior Vice President of AS Réal, explains that the term salary is not appropriate for amateur football in Mali. Instead, players receive travel allowances and match bonuses, which vary according to the number of matches won. At FC Bakaridjan and AS Real, these bonuses vary between 20,000 and 30,000 CFA francs per player.)
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  308. ^ "Fédération mauritanienne de football (FFRIM) : On affiche les ambitions" [Mauritanian Football Federation (FFRIM): We show the ambitions]. kassataya.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2017. Il faut dire cependant que le premier défi de l'équipe qui a pris le destin du football national est de réussir un championnat à quatorze équipes avec les exigences nouvelles, aussi bien la règlementation nationale que le standard Fifa de la licence professionnelle. (English: It must be said however that the first challenge of the team that took the destiny of national football is to succeed a championship with fourteen teams with the new requirements, both the national regulations and the standard Fifa professional license.)
  309. ^ "Mauritius Professional Football League : adieu à la professionnalisation ?" [Mauritius Professional Football League: goodbye to professionalization?]. sport.defimedia.info. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017. La saison 2016–2017 de la Mauritius Professional Football League a été calamiteuse. Beaucoup de problèmes sont survenus durant cette saison au niveau des finances de cette organisation. Durant les derniers mois du championnat, le MPFL avait eu de gros soucis pour pouvoir payer les salaires des joueurs. Certains ont dû attendre presque un mois pour percevoir leur salaire du mois de mai. L'ex-entraîneur de La Cure Sylvester SC, du Curepipe Starlight et du Club M, Sarjoo Gowreesunkur, est d'avis que les organisateurs de la ligue professionnelle se sont mis en position délicate. « Ce qui se passe aujourd'hui est le résultat d'une mauvaise gestion et de favoritisme. La MPFL a voulu tout géré. Au début, j'étais à 200 % pour la mise sur pied de la ligue professionnelle. Toutefois, certains dirigeants n'ont pas tenu leur parole et les choses ne se sont pas déroulées comme prévu. Il faut désormais trouver une nouvelle formule et inciter les compagnies privées à s'intéresser au football, comme c'est le cas avec la ligue de la FMSC. Le football deviendrait ainsi semi-professionnel pour éviter de tomber dans l'amateurisme », souligne Sarjoo Gowreesunkur. (English: The 2016–2017 season of the Mauritius Professional Football League has been calamitous. Many problems occurred during this season in the finances of this organization. During the last months of the championship, the MPFL had big problems to be able to pay the salaries of the players. Some had to wait almost a month to receive their salary in May. The former coach of Cure Sylvester SC, Curepipe Starlight and Club M, Sarjoo Gowreesunkur, believes that the professional league organizers have put themselves in a delicate position. "What is happening today is the result of mismanagement and favoritism. The MPFL wanted everything managed. At first, I was 200% to set up the professional league. However, some leaders did not keep their word and things did not go according to plan. We must now find a new formula and encourage private companies to take an interest in football, as is the case with the league of the FMSC. Football would become semi-professional to avoid falling into amateurism," says Sarjoo Gowreesunkur.)
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  331. ^ "Columna: El Despertar del Futbol Panameño" [Column: The Awakening of Panamanian Soccer]. panamafutbol.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017. Pero las proyecciones hacia una completa estructura profesional de nuestro futbol la estamos observando poco a poco. No solamente son los ingresos por parte de los clubes los cuales marcan una nueva era en nuestro futbol. El profesionalismo de nuestras ligas esta siendo mejorado con el gran apoyo de la Fepafut y FIFA con los diferentes proyectos de GOAL y PERFORMANCE los cuales están destinados a desarrollar plenamente su potencial en todas las áreas en las que se requiere rendir a un nivel óptimo en la gestión del fútbol del país. (English: But the projections towards a complete professional structure of our football we are watching little by little. Not only are the revenues from the clubs which mark a new era in our football. The professionalism of our leagues is being improved with the great support of Fepafut and FIFA with the different projects of GOAL and PERFORMANCE which are destined to fully develop their potential in all the areas in which it is required to perform at an optimum level in the management of the country's soccer.)
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  388. ^ "Bier, vis en reggae" [Beer, fish and reggae]. indehekken.net. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2017. Spelers komen doorgaans uit voor het team van de wijk waarin zij geboren of opgegroeid zijn. Dit zorgt er voor dat de talentvolle spelers redelijk gelijk verdeeld over de teams uitwaaien. Hierdoor ontstaat er een intieme band tussen de spelers en de supporters. De laatste jaren wordt de competitie vooral gedomineerd door SV Juventus uit de wijk Antriol en Real Rincon, de grootste club van Rincon. Vlak daarachter komen SV Estrellas uit de wijk Noord Salina en SV Uruguay, die net als SV Juventus ook uit de wijk Antriol komt. (English: Players usually play for the team in the neighborhood where they were born or raised. This ensures that the talented players are spread equally across the teams. This creates an intimate bond between the players and the supporters. In recent years, the competition has been dominated mainly by SV Juventus from the Antriol and Real Rincon district, Rincon's largest club. Right behind them are SV Estrellas from the North Salina and SV Uruguay district, which, like SV Juventus, also comes from the Antriol district.)
  389. ^ Nagulendran, Santokie (21 December 2016). "French Guiana: A Colonial Fiefdom, Now Exporting Footballing Fairytales". footballparadise.com. Football Paradise LLP. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017. The majority of the French Guiana squad are not full-time professional players; they either play locally in the amateur French Guianese league known as the "French Guiana Honor Division", or the players who do play in France often play in lower division football, which is not professional.
  390. ^ "Le football guadeloupéen, condamné à stagner ?" [Guadeloupean football, doomed to stagnate?]. sofoot.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  391. ^ "Kiribati – Fighting for FIFA membership". footballoceania.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  392. ^ Abaurrea, Nate (14 July 2017). "Wake Up Time for Sputtering Yanks: USA vs. Nicaragua Preview". Soccer Nation. Lococo Sports, Inc. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017. The last time we envisioned the U.S. winning in a landslide was Wednesday night, when a spirited group of amateur all-stars from the Martinique Championnat National took U.S. Soccer to a cliff edge of humiliation.
  393. ^ "Outcasts! The Lands That FIFA Forgot: North Mariana/Niue". outcast-book.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2017. "Niue has been associate members since the early 90's but they are too small that they will never be able to satisfy FIFA membership requirements and they will always be an associate member," adds Mr Nicholas. "In fact recently it is noted there is no football development and we may therefore take them off our membership register.
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  395. ^ "Salaires : dans les coulisses du foot péi" [Wages: Behind the scenes of football]. reunion.orange.fr. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  396. ^ "Football. Une nouvelle identité pour le District de Saint-Martin" [Soccer. A new identity for the District of Saint Martin]. sxminfo.fr. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017. Au-delà de cette évolution du "packaging" qui devrait contribuer, comme le souhaitent ses initiateurs, à une meilleure reconnaissance du football saint-martinois tant localement que lors des compétitions à l'extérieur, ce relooking témoigne surtout de la volonté des bénévoles et des acteurs associatifs de s'élever, se structurer, se "professionnaliser" afin de mieux coller aux besoins du territoire d'une part, et de participer à son rayonnement d'autre part. (English: Beyond this evolution of the "packaging" which should contribute, as its initiators wish, to a better recognition of football Saint-Martin both locally and in competitions outside, this makeover reflects above all the will of volunteers and associative actors to rise, to structure, to "professionalize" in order to better meet the needs of the territory on the one hand, and to participate in its outreach on the other.)
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  398. ^ "Tuvalu eye place in football family". fifa.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2017. First of all, it's the No1 sport there, almost everybody plays! Our season lasts between February and October. The Premier League consists of nine clubs. This year we've made a start on counting the number of people playing the game, but it's a tricky task and it must be understood that our Association relies totally on volunteer workers. We would need several full-time employees.
  399. ^ Menary, Steve (8 December 2011). "Zanzibar: Swimming against the tide". inbedwithmaradona.com. The Guardian Sports Network. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017. The football in the Zanzibar Premier League is nothing better than semi-pro with the players getting the same salary as a waiter in one of the many beach resorts
  400. ^ "Far away football: the South Atlantic Islands". thesefootballtimes.co. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018. The Ascension Island Football League features around six teams, including Inbetweeners, Two Boats United, and the reigning champions, VC Milan. It's the most popular sport on the island and the local newspaper, The Islander, includes match reports and analysis, while the Saint Helena Sentinel often dedicates a page to the Ascension league. Ascension Island's population may be meagre, but driven by determination and a love for the game, their teams continue to arrive at the Longbeach football pitch every Saturday to find it invaded by tortoises or flooded. In true British fashion, they carry on nevertheless.
  401. ^ "The Current State of the Crimean Premier League". futbolgrad.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2018. While the big clubs, Tavriya and Sevastopol are able to pay monthly wages of up to €2,500, most players are at best semi-professional. The president of the Crimean Football Union, Yuri Vetokha—a former manager with the Russian company Norilsk Nikel, which also sponsors the Russian Football Union—has admitted, however, that most players at the two top clubs "make around 20,000 to 50,000 roubles ($300 to $700) a month." The vice-president of the CFU Aleksandr Krasilnikov told Tribuna "Now many of the top players have to deliver pizzas in the evenings [to sublement their wages]." Many of the top players have therefore left, and almost all the players who aren't playing for Tavriya or Sevastopol are more or less amateurs.
  402. ^ a b "Футбол в "ДНР-ЛНР": Патриотично, независимо, печально" [Football in "DNP-LNR": Patriotically, independently, sadly]. 112.ua. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  403. ^ "Donetsk People's Republic wants to play Ukraine at football". newsweek.com. Archived from the original on 6 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018. I think that the first barrier which we must leap is conducting a friendly match between a DNR team and LNR," he said. "I am a realist. I do not dream, I set myself challenges. The challenge now is to have a self-sufficient DNR championship, which would include youth, child and senior teams. It would also be interesting if a collective senior Ukrainian side approached us, for us to play a friendly game with them," Mishin said. "If necessary I would be ready to step in myself.
  404. ^ "Far Away Football: The South Atlantic Islands". thesefootballtimes.co. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017. Football on the islands has been dwindling over the last decade. The Falkland Islands Football League – the governing body for football on the islands – gave up on the league in 2011 when there were just four teams competing. The Falkland dream is not yet over as hope prevails that the league will recommence and signify a return to organised football on the Islands. The FIFL are hoping to receive a grant from the Falkland government for an artificial football pitch as the facilities currently available are not ideal. High winds and extreme winters make grass pitches difficult to maintain.
  405. ^ "FSMFA History". FMSFA. Archived from the original on 18 May 2006. Retrieved 23 December 2017. There are approximately 150 adult players in the Federated States of Micronesia; approximately 500 youth players, three volunteer referees and five amateur coaches. None of the players, coaches or referees are professional. There are no professional clubs in the country.
  406. ^ "Football On Top Of The World: Greenland's Improbable Quest for Relevance". bleacherreport.com. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017. As the tournament is usually played on grass, the GBU stage a training camp in Denmark to acclimatise before setting off for the Games. That means 21 days away. Some players, like Frederick Funch, a nursery worker in Nuuk, were allowed time off. Others were not and lost their jobs. Ghebrelul explained: "Two years ago, a lot of our players did not have a job when they came back. This time, we talked to the employers. They said it was OK to go away for 14 days but not 21 days. They would have to find someone else to do the job. So some players did not have jobs again this time when they went back."
  407. ^ "Isle of Man FA Launches Third Grassroots Football Survey". isleofmanfabeta.thefa.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2018. The Grassroots Football Survey offers unparalleled insight into the amateur game on the Isle of Man providing a platform for those directly involved in the game to give feedback using an online poll. Across the England, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, 28,750 and 30,161 people – including; players, coaches, referees, staff and general volunteers – demonstrated a commitment to improving football at a grassroots level by completing the 2015 and 2016 versions of the survey respectively.
  408. ^ "Mayotte : Le siège de la Ligue de football perquisitionné" [Mayotte: The headquarters of the Football League raided]. zinfos974.com. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2017. La Ligue mahoraise de football a connu de graves difficultés financières qui ont failli entrainer sa liquidation pure et simple. L'ancien directeur général des services a été entendu sur les abus commis par la structure et a été placé en garde-à-vue. Les enquêteurs ont retrouvé des notes de restaurant de 6.000 euros et des billets d'avion payés par la Ligue. (English: The Mahoran Football League has experienced serious financial difficulties that nearly resulted in its liquidation pure and simple. The former Director General of Services was heard about the abuses committed by the structure and was placed in custody. The investigators found restaurant notes of 6,000 euros and air tickets paid by the League.)
  409. ^ "Raising the profile of football in Micronesia is a challenge, Steve Menary". worldsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2017. Today, with the phosphate gone, Nauru is broke. Crowds of several hundred watch games of Aussie Rules at Nauru's one and only sports stadium, but organized football has fallen apart and Nauru's chances of ever playing football at the Pacific Games, the main regional competition, are remote. Rayong Itsimaera, Nauru's minister for sport, says: "We hope to see Nauru become a regular member of the FIFA family, but the main obstacles are no qualified personnel to organise training programs at junior and senior level, and changing people's interest from other popular sports."
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  412. ^ "Futbol, Kıbrıs'ı birleştirecek mi?" (in Turkish). Sputnik News. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  413. ^ "The country forced to use crowdfunding to play a tournament". worldsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017. Mitchell has since taken football into schools and set up a league, and although expats still make up 80 per cent of the players, Africans, Japanese, Nepalese and Taiwanese players all feature. Palau's Bangladeshi community has even fielded its own side in the five-team league, which was last won by Taj. All matches take place at the national track-and-field arena in the main commercial centre of Koror.
  414. ^ "Maiden Somalia football league Puntland State concludes". futaa.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2018. Now that the first official football league was done, the teams are prepared to continue from there. They know how to secure sponsorships to be able to cover all their needs next year. But Somali Football Federation president, Abdiqani Said Arab, pledged that the SFF will continue its development programs in the region adding that other necessary facilitation to help continuation of the maiden football league will also continue.
  415. ^ "The exciting future of football on the island of Saint Helena". outsideoftheboot.com. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018. Despite the popularity of the English Premier League, islanders retain their enthusiasm for the Saint Helena Football League. It may only be an amateur league, but it is fiercely contested and supporters are always to be found on the island's only football pitch: Francis Plain.
  416. ^ "FOOT : Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, le foot venu du froid" [OOT: Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the foot of the cold]. leparisien.fr. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2017. Les plus jeunes, encore lycéens, et les quelques « privilégiés » auxquels les employeurs ont accordé un congé en pleine période d'activité regagneront, eux, leur terre outre-Atlantique, où les attend le début d'un long et rude hiver. Fini le foot jusqu'à l'été prochain. « Parfois, on a la chance d'avoir des printemps cléments, on peut espérer commencer à taper dans le ballon début mai, explique le portier de l'ASM, Olivier Morel (28 ans), employé aux services techniques de la collectivité. Autrement, il nous reste le futsal et le hockey à Saint-Pierre. A Miquelon, on joue sur rollers car on n'a pas de patinoire. (English: The youngest, still high school students, and the few "privileged" to whom the employers granted a leave in full period of activity will return, them, their ground overseas, where the wait for them the beginning of a long and harsh winter. No more football until next summer. "Sometimes we have the chance to have nice springs, we can hope to start beating the ball in early May, says the ASM gatekeeper, Olivier Morel (28 years), employed in the technical services of the community. Otherwise, we still have futsal and hockey in St. Pierre. In Miquelon, we play on skates because we do not have an ice rink.)
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  418. ^ "Football's Twilight Zones". patmcguiness.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2017. In a recent short communication with Pat's Football Blog, Ms. Perez stated that: "Soccer is played socially on Tokelau – socially as in a few kids kicking around a ball; not necessarily a soccer ball." Despite the fact that a quick scouring of Wikipedia turned up two teams – Hatava and Mataleve – Ms. Perez said that "there are no soccer teams on Tokelau, formal or informal..There is no formal structure of a Tokelau Football Association.
  419. ^ "Micronesia is struggling to keep the game afloat, writes Steve Menary". worldsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2017. The French colony of Wallis & Futuna played in the Pacific Games on half-a-dozen occasions – even finishing fifth in 1987 – but have not entered since 1995. Along with Palau, Tokelau and Nauru, the OFC wants to make contact with the football authorities in Wallis & Futuna...but, unfortunately, they don't even have their phone number!
  420. ^ "The W-League's Next Steps, Part 2: Becoming the best in the world". ESPN. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020. The W-League is the third-longest-running women's football league in the world.A crucial factor in the future direction of the W-League is the fact that Australia's top three professional leagues -- the A-League, the W-League and the Y-League -- are currently being "unbundled" from FFA; a process of untangling legal and financial ties in order for the leagues and clubs to stand on their own as private enterprises.This unbundling process offers Australia to become truly world-leading in the women's club football space by establishing a fully professional, standalone, financially independent women's league.
  421. ^ Radbourne, Lucas (8 April 2020). "W-LEAGUE HIT HARDEST WITH PLAYERS INELIGIBLE FOR JOBKEEPER PAYMENTS". The Women's Game. Retrieved 8 April 2020. Given the W-League is semi-professional and the majority of W-League players are necessitated to have other forms of part-time employment, many players will be hit twice, as they may be ineligible for JobKeeper payments across both jobs.
  422. ^ "New era for professional female footballers in Australia as FFA, Clubs and PFA deliver significant pay rise for players". Professional Footballers Australia. 11 September 2017. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017. Under the new two-year agreement, all players, other than those on scholarships, are guaranteed a minimum retainer of at least $10,000 for the coming season and $12,200 for the 2018/19 season, with no prescribed maximum cap on any one player's retainer. The average retainer for Westfield W-League Players is expected to rise from $6,909 to $15,500 for Season 2017/18.
  423. ^ "Increase in incomes of Chinese women football players in 2016". Yutang Sports. 28 December 2018. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2020. The average monthly income of Chinese Women's Super League and Women's China League players were: below 5,000 Yuan in 4 teams, accounting for 25%; between 5,000 Yuan and 10,000 Yuan in 9 teams, accounting for 56%; over 10,000 Yuan in 3 teams, accounting for 9%.
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  428. ^ Bajkowski, Simon (8 April 2016). "How much do women footballers earn? WSL salaries explained". Manchester Evening News. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017. The majority of the league players are full-time... Seven WSL sides [out of 10 in the league] can claim to have absolutely all of their players training on a full-time basis.
  429. ^ "Hayes: I want to change the pub conversation". FIFA. 24 March 2016. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2017. We're finishing our third full season as WSL teams and everybody is fully professional. It's grown at such a rate that it's sometimes hard to keep up with it!
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  431. ^ "Is Division 1 Féminine ruining the French national team? The answer will shock you". All for XI. 5 September 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2020. By and large, the league is part-time with a few notable exceptions
  432. ^ Draper, Emily (25 May 2016). "The Frauen-Bundesliga in Europe: Typical German efficiency or lucky superpowers?". Unusual Efforts. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2017. Despite the Frauen-Bundesliga being only semi-professional, the league remains competitive.
  433. ^ "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΟ∆ΟΣΦΑΙΡΙΚΗ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝ∆ΙΑ" (PDF) (in Greek). epo.gr. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2013. Τις διατάξεις του Κ.Α.Π. ΕΡΑΣΙΤΕΧΝΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΩΝ όπως τροποποιήθηκε και ισχύει σήµερα (English: The provisions of CAP Amateur championships as amended and currently in force)
  434. ^ "Women's football in Hong Kong: still a long way to go". The Yong Reporter. 6 November 2019. Archived from the original on 19 November 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2020. Males can play professional soccer, they can earn money by playing soccer. But females can't.
  435. ^ Jonsdottoir, Sigridur (July 2016). "Equal measure". When Saturday Comes (353): 27. Female players in Iceland are semi-professional – anyone who wants to make a living out of the game must go abroad.
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  437. ^ "Women's World Cup Final Big, Except in Indonesia". JakartaGlobe. 19 July 2011. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2020. Women's football may have gained popularity in some countries, but in Indonesia, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
  438. ^ "What's it like to be a female football player in Iran?". Al Jazeera. 27 November 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2020. Iranian women tackle odds to earn place in football pitch that is still currently dominated by men.
  439. ^ "Why are there no women in Iraq's football stadiums?". openDemocracy. 7 January 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2020. Young women also fear their reputation would be 'spoiled' for entering a male-dominated public place. A visit to a football stadium could end up with them being labeled as 'no good' by our conservative society.
  440. ^ Martinez, Dolores; Mukharji B., Projit (16 December 2008). Football: From England to the World. Routledge. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-415-48061-1. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. In Japan, where the semi-professional L-League (the 'Japan Ladies' Soccer League', now called the Nadeshiko League)...
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  442. ^ "Women's football in Jordan makes goals, rolls towards bright future". The Jordan Times. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2020. I hope that in the future, women's football and men's football will be equal — financially, with the fans, everything. I don't want to have anything less in women's football than in men's football.
  443. ^ "Women football in Kuwait seeking a better future". Kuwait News Agency. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2020. Some 19 years have passed since the formation of the Kuwaiti women football team and despite this progressive fact, the squad's various participations in regional and international competitions have been marred by defeats and disappointments due to the lack of preparation and planning.
  444. ^ "Female Football A Gender Equalizer in Kyrgyzstan". InDepthNews. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2020. However, some boys still ignore us, girls, do not pass the ball and act ignorant.
  445. ^ Abi Faraj, Faten (20 May 2017). كرة القدم للسيدات في لبنان "مهمشة"... 10 سنوات على اطلاقها ولا تزال "فقيرة" [Women's football in Lebanon is "marginalized" ... 10 years since its launch and it is still "poor"]. An-Nahar. Retrieved 14 February 2021. In contrast to the men's contracts and the sums they receive, 80% of the female players do not receive salaries.
  446. ^ "Rabia's Free Kick - Women's soccer in Lebanon". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. 16 February 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2019. However, he is pessimistic that women's soccer will ever be professional in Lebanon: 'If there are no sponsors, it will remain a leisure time activity.'
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  448. ^ "FIFA grants USD 500,000 to support development of women's football in Mongolia". Montsame. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2020. We also plan to make contract with coaches working with women's teams to give monthly salary of up to MNT 500,000 [$175] for a year.
  449. ^ "Opslag kan de doelpuntenmaakster wel vergeten". nrc.nl. 22 February 2017. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Just enogh to pay gasoline for the cars. Most players have no contracts at all.
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  451. ^ "Football United: Women's Football In Pakistan Has Progressed But There Is Still A Long Way To Go". Goal. 13 February 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2020. Social obstacles, inadequate infrastructure, improper coaching and lack of support in a male-dominated society are major reasons that don't allow the game of the world to strengthen its roots among the female masses and develop at grass-root level.
  452. ^ Reyes, Jaelle Nevin (6 November 2016). "PFF Women's League kicks off Nov. 12". The Manila Times. Archived from the original on 7 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016. According to PFF General Secretary Edwin Gastanes, this season (inaugural 2016–17 season) will be monumental as they consider it as the preparation in their bid to establish a bigger amateur women's league in the future.
  453. ^ "Scotland women's football team on brink of big time". The Scotsman. 30 March 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2016. The women's game in Scotland remains amateur – the players don't get paid.
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  455. ^ "Welcome to Sweden!" (PDF). Spelarföreningen Fotboll i Sverige. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2017. Most of the players in Damallsvenskan are semi-professional
  456. ^ "13–0: The scoreline that shook the 2019 Women's World Cup". CNN. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2020. I hope it (Muang Thai Women's League) will become a professional league in the future.
  457. ^ "Women's soccer may be growing in popularity but the game is still fighting for stable footing". Irish Examiner. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2020. The top five countries to 'adequately pay' their players – enough to cover the expenses incurred from playing – include Germany, Uzbekistan, England, Sweden and the US. But 20 to 30% of players in those countries reported that they were not paid enough.
  458. ^ "Làm thế nào để tuyển nữ Việt Nam không còn bị 'chị đại' châu Á cho 'ngửi khói'?" [How to recruit Vietnamese women to no longer be "smelly" by Asian 'big sisters'?] (in Vietnamese). Thanh Niên. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2020. On average, each of the aforementioned provinces has 100 female players, a total of only 600 female players are playing. With such a narrow area, there must be another way to expect the development of Vietnamese women's football at a high level