The Gibraltar Premier Division is a football league established by the Gibraltar Football Association (GFA) in 1905, and the top tier of football in Gibraltar. It originally contained eight member clubs, but it has grown over the years. In 1909 the league was split into two divisions between which clubs can be promoted and relegated at the end of each season. In the 2013–14 season, the Premier Division contained eight clubs with the Second Division containing 12 clubs. For sponsorship reasons it is known as the Argus Insurance Premier Division.
From the 2014–15 season, as a result of the territory's membership of UEFA, the champions will enter the first UEFA Champions League qualifying round, and the winners of Gibraltar's cup competition, the Rock Cup, will earn entry to the following season's UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. From the 2016–17 season, the league will get one more place in the Europa League qualifying round, for the runner up of the league.
The 2017–18 Gibraltar Premier Division will be the 119th season of the top–tier national football league in Gibraltar. The league will be contested by ten clubs beginning on 25 September 2017 and ending in May 2018.
The ten Premier Division clubs will play each other three times for a total of 27 matches each.The tenth-placed team in the league will be relegated and the ninth-placed team in the league will enter a playoff with the second-placed team from the Second Division for a place in the 2018–19 Premier Division.
The winner of the Premier Division this season will earn a place in the preliminary round of the 2018–19 Champions League, and the second–placed club will earn a place in the preliminary round of the 2018–19 Europa League.
The ninth-placed team from the Premier Division will have a play-off match with the second-placed Second Division club for a place in the 2018–19 Premier Division-
The ninth-placed team from the Premier Division will have a play-off match with the second-placed Second Division club for a place in the 2018–19 Premier Division-
At the conclusion of the previous season, Europa Point was relegated. As the champions of the Second Division, Gibraltar Phoenix earned promotion to the league this season. Manchester 62 earned the right to stay in the Premier Division by winning a playoff at the end of the previous season
Europa are the defending champions, having ended a fourteen-year winning streak for Lincoln Red Imps
Europa FC
All matches are played in Victoria Stadium
Source: https://www.gibraltarfa.com/
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