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Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Croatia - 2017/18 Treća HNL

The Croatian Third Football League (Treća hrvatska nogometna liga, or commonly Treća HNL or 3. HNL) is the third tier of the football league system in Croatia. The league was established in 1991 following the dissolution of the Yugoslav League. It is operated by the Croatian Football Federation.

The teams are divided into three divisions: West, East and South, competing in a double round-robin format. At the end of each season, the bottom teams are relegated to the regional leagues while the winners of each league are either promoted directly to Druga HNL or enter a two-legged playoff to gain promotion.

Subdivisions are organized geographically and composed of the following Croatian counties:

Treća HNL West

City of Zagreb (Grad Zagreb)
Karlovac County (Karlovačka županija)
Krapina-Zagorje County (Krapinsko-zagorska županija)
Sisak-Moslavina County (Sisačko-moslavačka županija)
Zagreb County (Zagrebačka županija)
Lika-Senj County (Ličko-senjska županija)
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (Primorsko-goranska županija)
Istria County (Istarska županija)

Treća HNL East

Brod-Posavina County (Brodsko-posavska županija)
Osijek-Baranja County (Osječko-baranjska županija)
Požega-Slavonia County (Požeško-slavonska županija)
Vukovar-Syrmia County (Vukovarsko-srijemska županija)
Bjelovar-Bilogora County (Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija)
Koprivnica-Križevci County (Koprivničko-križevačka županija)
Međimurje County (Međimurska županija)
Varaždin County (Varaždinska županija)
Virovitica-Podravina County (Virovitičko-podravska županija)

Treća HNL South
- Zadar County (Zadarska županija)
- Šibenik-Knin County (Šibensko-kninska županija)
- Split-Dalmatia County (Splitsko-dalmatinska županija)
- Dubrovnik-Neretva County (Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija)

Geographic areas covered by the three 3.HNL divisions;

Orange - 3.HNL West,Blue – 3.HNL South,Green – 3.HNL East

The 2017–18 Treća HNL season is the 27th since its establishment. The league consists of three regional groups, Istok (East), Jug (South) and Zapad (West).

Treća HNL Istok (East)

NK Varteks

NK Cepin

Treća HNL Jug (South)

The third Croatian soccer league-south includes 16 clubs from the 4 southernmost Croatian counties. These are: Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Split-Dalmatia County, Šibenik-Knin County and Zadar County. There are 30 games with two rounds. At the end of each season, the best team will enter the 2nd HNL.

NK GOŠK - Dubrovnik 1919

BŠK Zmaj - Blato

Treća HNL Zapad (West)

3.HNL West in season 2017/18. is a competition for the third league Croatian soccer clubs. The league consists of 18 teams. It is played with a two-round system, meaning every team with every 2 times. The total number of players is 34. The season started on August 25th] 2017, and the last round is scheduled on May 26, 2018. The first of three teams of this league if they had a license to enter in 2.HNL has direct entry. The last two teams drop in 4. NL - Center Zagreb and 4. NL - NS Rijeka.

NK Vinogradar

Source: http://hns-cff.hr
https://www.facebook.com/3-HNL-Istok
http://www.nogometplus.net
https://www.facebook.com/3.HNLjug/
https://www.facebook.com/BSKZmaj/
http://www.nk-varteks.com
http://www.jaskadanas.hr

Monday, 30 April 2018

Ivory Coast - 2017/18 Ligue 1

The Ivory Coast Ligue 1 is the top division of the Fédération Ivoirienne de Football. it was created in 1960.

The 2017–18 Ligue 1 is the 59th season of top-tier football in Côte d'Ivoire. The league composes the fourteen best Ivorian clubs in the league. The season began on 14 October 2017.

Asec Mimosas celebrated its 26th title of champion of Ivory Coast

Africa Sports

Stade Boukake

Source: http://www.sport-ivoire.ci

https://www.facebook.com/Ligue1.Cote.Ivoire/

http://atoo.ci

Sunday, 29 April 2018

Northern Ireland - 2017/18 NIFL Championship

The Northern Ireland Football League Championship, known as the NIFL Bluefin Sport Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the second division of the Northern Ireland Football League, the national football league in Northern Ireland.

It was founded in 2008 as the Premier Intermediate League for members of the previous IFA Intermediate League that met the new stricter membership criteria, though was marketed as the IFA Championship. In 2009, it was extended to two divisions: Championship 1 and Championship 2 with promotion and relegation between the two. In 2013, the Championship and IFA Premiership were replaced by a single Northern Ireland Football League, independent of the Irish Football Association (IFA).

Under reforms agreed by the NIFL clubs in 2014, from 2016-17, Championship 1 acquired senior status, continuing as the NIFL Championship, while Championship 2 continued as the Premier Intermediate League, retaining its intermediate status

The 2017–18 NIFL Championship is the second season of the second-tier Irish League since gaining senior status

The 2017–18 NIFL Championship will consist of 12 teams. Warrenpoint Town were champions in the previous season and were promoted to the 2017–18 NIFL Premiership. The winners of the promotion pre-play-off, second-placed finishers Institute were defeated by Carrick Rangers in the Premiership play-off, therefore failing to achieve promotion.

The bottom team from the previous season, Annagh United was relegated to the third-tier NIFL Premier Intermediate League. They were replaced by Limavady United, winners of the Premier Intermediate League. In addition, second from bottom team from the previous season, Armagh City were relegated and replaced by third-tier runners-up Newry City A.F.C., against whom they lost a two-legged play-off.

Limavady United

During matches 1–22 each team played every other team twice (home-and-away).

During matches 23–32 each team played every other team in their half of the table twice (home-and-away).

Institute celebrate winning the Bluefin Sport Championship (

NIFL Premiership play-offs

The second and third-placed teams from the Championship, will take part in the Premiership pre-play-off. The winners will then play the second-bottom-placed team in the NIFL Premiership in the play-off.

NIFL Championship play-off

The eleventh-placed team from the Championship will play the runners-up from the 2017–18 Premier Intermediate League over two legs for one spot in the NIFL Championship.

Source: https://www.nifootballleague.com

https://twitter.com/OfficialNIFL

Belgium - 2017/18 First Amateur Division

The Belgian First Amateur Division is the third-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Belgian First Division B. It was created by the Royal Belgian Football Association in 2016, coming in at the third level and pushing all divisions one level down.

The Belgian First Amateur Division was created in 2016 following an overhaul of the Belgian football league system which saw the number of professional clubs reduced to 24. As a result, from the third level and below only amateur clubs remain.The two remaining levels above the Belgian Provincial leagues were reformed into three amateur levels, namely the Belgian First Amateur Division, the Belgian Second Amateur Division and the Belgian Third Amateur Division. As a result, the Belgian Provincial Leagues dropped to the sixth level of the league system.

The season is a regular round-robin tournament with 16 teams. The top four teams after the regular season play a promotion playoff in which they keep 50% of the obtained points during the regular season and the team with the most points after the playoff is promoted to the Belgian First Division B.

Regarding relegation, the bottom three teams are automatically demoted, while the team finishing in 13th place play a relegation playoff together with three teams from the Belgian Second Amateur Division with the playoff winner obtaining a spot in the following season's Belgian First Amateur Division.

The 2017–18 Belgian First Amateur Division is the second season of the third-tier football league in Belgium, as it was established in 2016. The fixtures are scheduled to be announced near the end of June 2017.

Lommel United was relegated from the 2016–17 Belgian First Division B after finishing last in the relegation play-offs. In the mid-season the team changed their name back to Lommel SK.
Knokke was promoted after winning the 2016–17 Belgian Second Amateur Division A.
Berchem Sport was promoted after winning the 2016–17 Belgian Second Amateur Division B.
Châtelet was promoted after winning the 2016–17 Belgian Second Amateur Division C.
Aalst won the Second Amateur Division promotion play-offs to obtain the final promotion spot.

Access conditions
Starting from the 2017-2018 season, technical and administrative criteria must be fulfilled by the clubs wishing to take part in this division 1,2:

- Have minimum 7 players under contract with the status "semi-professional".
- Have a stadium of at least 1,500 seats (of which at least 300 seats).
- Have a lot with dimensions of 100-105m long and 64-68m wide.
- Have lighting of at least 300 LUX (derogation to 200 LUX the first season)
- In another area, participants in this division are expected to receive € 50,000 per season from professional football TV rights.

Regular Season

Promotion Play Offs
The teams finishing in the top four positions entered the promotion play-offs. The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded up) before the start of the playoff. As Lommel were the only team which obtained a licence and qualified for the promotion play-offs, they were already certain of promotion even before the start of the playoffs.

Source: http://www.belgianfootball.be
http://football.sudpresse.be
http://www.sudinfo.be

Serbia - 2017/18 SuperLiga

The Serbian SuperLiga is a Serbian professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Serbian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Serbian First League (Prva liga Srbija, second Serbian football tier). The SuperLiga was formed during the summer of 2005 as the country's top football league competition in Serbia and Montenegro. Since summer 2006 after the secession of Montenegro from Serbia, the league only has had Serbian clubs.

The 2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga is the twelfth season of the Serbian SuperLiga since its establishment. The season began on 21 July 2017 and is scheduled to end on 19 May 2018. FK Partizan are the defending champions from the previous season.

The league consists of 16 teams: fourteen teams from the 2016–17 Serbian SuperLiga and two new teams from the 2016–17 Serbian First League. Mačva Šabac, the 2016–17 First League champion, joined SuperLiga for the first time in history. Runners-up Zemun joined the top level ten years after being relegated.

Regular season

Championship round
The top eight teams advance from the regular season. Points from the regular season are halved with half points rounded up. Teams play each other once.

Red Star Beograd (Crvena Zvezda)

Relegation round

The bottom eight teams from the regular season play in the relegation round. Points from the regular season are halved with half points rounded up. Teams play each other once.

Source: http://www.superliga.rs/
https://twitter.com/RedStarEnglish
http://mondo.rs/Sport/Fudbal

Saturday, 28 April 2018

Northern Ireland - 2017/18 NIFL Premiership

The Northern Ireland Football League (commonly abbreviated to NIFL), also known as the Irish League, is the national football league of Northern Ireland. It was formed in 2013 to assume independent collective management of the top three levels of the Northern Ireland football league system; namely the Premiership, Championship and NIFL Premier Intermediate League.

The 2017–18 NIFL Premiership (known as the Danske Bank Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the 117th season of the Irish League overall and the fifth as the Northern Ireland Football League. The season began on 11 August 2017 and is scheduled to conclude in May 2018.

The winner qualifies for the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League while the runner-up along with potentially the third-placed team and the play-off winners will qualify for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.

Twelve teams will compete in the 2017–18 NIFL Premiership. Portadown were relegated after finishing bottom of the 2016–17 NIFL Premiership and were replaced by Warrenpoint Town as the winners of the 2016–17 NIFL Championship.

Carrick Rangers finished second from bottom but retained their Premiership place after winning the promotion-relegation play-off against NIFL Championship promotion play-off winners Institute 5–2 on aggregate.

Linfield are the defending champions from the previous season.

Format
During matches 1–22 each team plays every other team twice (home and away).
During matches 23–33 each team will play every other team for the third time (either at home, or away).
During matches 34–38 each team will play every other team in their half of the table once. As this is the fourth time that teams play each other this season, home sides are chosen so that they will have played each other twice at home and twice away.

Crusaders win title

Play-offs

UEFA Europa League play-offs

Teams finishing fourth to seventh will take part in Europa League play-offs to decide one team who will qualify for next season's Europa League first qualifying round.

NIFL Premiership play-offs

Pre-play-off

The runners-up and third-placed teams from the Championship will take part (over two legs) in the Championship promotion pre-play-off.

Play-off

The eleventh-placed team from the Premiership will play the winners of the pre-play-off over two legs for one spot in the 2018–19 NIFL Premiership.

Source: https://www.nifootballleague.com/
http://www.itv.com

Jamaica - 2017/18 Red Stripe Premier League

The National Premier League, also known for sponsorship purposes as the Red Stripe Premier League, is the top division for men's association football in Jamaica. Contested between 12 clubs, the two lowest placed teams are relegated to their corresponding local second division league.

The 2017–18 Red Stripe Premier League is the highest competitive football league in Jamaica. It is the 44th edition of the competition. The regular season started on September 24, 2017. Arnett Gardens are the defending champions, having won their 5th title last season.

Maverley Hughenden and Jamalco finished 11th and 12th in last season's competition and were relegated to their respective regional Super Leagues, the KSAFA Super League and South Central Confederation Super League respectively.

At the end of last season, the champions of the four Super Leagues participated in a promotion playoff double round robin tournament. Cavalier and Sandals South Coast finished 1st and 2nd after the playoff and were promoted to the National Premier League for this season.