FYR Macedonia - 2017/18 First League (Prva Liga)

The Macedonian First Football League (Macedonian: Прва македонска Фудбалска Лига, Prva Мakedonska Fudbalska Liga; also called Macedonian First League, 1. MFL and Prva Liga) is the highest professional football competition in the Republic of Macedonia. It is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Macedonian football league system and has been operating for about twenty years since the 1992–1993 season. It is organized by the Football Federation of Macedonia (FFM).

The 2017–18 Macedonian First League is the 26th season of the Macedonian First Football League, the highest football league of Macedonia. The fixtures were announced on 25 July 2017. It began on 12 August 2017 and is scheduled to be end on 20 May 2018. Each team will play the other sides four times on home-away basis, for a total of 36 matches. Vardar are the defending champions, having won their tenth title in 2016–17.

Vardar the actual champion

Source: http://www.macedonianfootball.com/
             http://ffm.mk
             https://fkvardar.mk

Angola - 2017 Segundona

Gira Angola aka Segundona is the 2nd division of Angolan football (soccer). It is organized by the Angolan Football Federation and gives access to Angola's top tier football division Girabola.

The 2017 Gira Angola is the 22nd season of the second-tier football league in Angola. The season will run from 9 July to October 2017.

The league comprises 2 series, one 4 and the other 5 teams, the winner of each series being automatically promoted to the 2018 Girabola while the runners-up of each group will contest for the third spot. At the end of the regular season, the three series winners will play a round-robin tournament to determine the league champion

All teams in each group play in a double round robin system (home and away).

Group A
Cabinda Province         Sporting Clube Petróleos de Cabinda
Bengo Province           Domant FC de Bula Atumba
Uíge Province            Atlético Sport Kalonji Dragão
Lunda-Sul Province       Futebol Clube Ajuda Social

Group B
Huambo Province          Clube Desportivo Ferrovia
Benguela Province        Grupo Desportivo Jackson Garcia (Benguela)
Cunene Province          Evale Futebol Clube
Bié Province             Vitória Atlético Club
Cuando Cubango Province  Futebol Clube Casa Militar

Grupo A
 1.Domant FC            5  2  3  0  5- 1  9 promoted
 2.Sporting de Cabinda  5  1  3  1  3- 3  6 play-off
 3.ASK Dragão           5  1  1  3  4- 7  4
 FC Ajuda Social        3  1  1  1  2- 3  4 [WITHDREW]

Grupo B
 1.FC Casa Militar      8  7  0  1 18- 6 21 promoted
 2.GD Jackson Garcia    8  6  0  2 13- 7 18 play-off
 3.CD Ferrovia          8  4  0  4 15-14 12
 4.Evale FC             7  1  0  6  8-16  3
 5.Vitória AC           7  1  0  6  3-14  3

Final 
Domant FC - FC Casa Militar     3-1   



Play off
First leg : Sporting Cabinda 5-1 Jackson Garcia
Second leg: Jackson Garcia   2-1 Sporting Cabinda

NB: Sporting Cabinda promoted.

Domant FC de Bula Atumba

Futebol Clube Casa Militar

Sporting Cabinda

Source: https://desporto.sapo.pt/
             https://en.wikipedia.org/

Belarus - 2017 Vysheyshaya Liga

The Belarusian Premier League or the Vysheyshaya Liga is the top division of professional football in Belarus, and is organized by the Belarusian Football Federation. The number of teams in the competition has varied over the years from as high as 17 (1992–93 season) to as low as 11 (2012). As of 2016, the league includes 16 teams. Each team plays every other team twice during the course of the season. At the end of the season two teams are relegated to the Belarusian First League, and two are promoted from the First League to replace them.

BATE Borisov are the current champions and most successful team, with 13 titles.

The 2017 Belarusian Premier League is the 27th season of top-tier football in Belarus. The season began on 1 April 2017 and is scheduled to conclude on 25 November 2017. BATE Borisov are the defending champions, having won their 13th league title last year.

The bottom two teams from the 2016 season, Granit Mikashevichi and Belshina Bobruisk, were relegated to the 2017 Belarusian First League. They were replaced by Gomel and Dnepr Mogilev, champions and runners-up of the 2016 Belarusian First League respectively.

BATE Borisov win 12th Belarus title in a row with 96th minute goal

Source: http://football.by/

Tunisia - 2017/18 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

The 2017–18 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Tunisian Professional League) season is the 92nd season of top-tier football in Tunisia. The season calendar was drawn on July 24. The competition started on August 15.

A total of 14 teams will contest the league, including 11 sides from the 2016–17 season and three promoted from the 2016–17 Ligue 2. US Monastir and Stade Tunisien obtained promotion after winning their punultimate game of the season, while CO Médenine won the promotion playoff against AS Marsa. The three teams replaced the five teams that were relegated to 2017–18 Tunisian Ligue 2 in order to reduce the number of teams from 16 to 14.

L’Espérance Sportive de Tunis the last champion 

Esperancé beat Al Faisaly and won the 2017 Arab Championship

Source: http://www.ftf.org.tn/
             http://www.kawarji.com

Austria - 2017/18 Erste Liga

The Austrian Football First League (German: Erste Liga) is the second highest professional division in Austrian football. It contains ten teams and is run in the same fashion as the Austrian Bundesliga. The champion of the league is promoted into the Bundesliga, the 9th has to play relegation against a team from one of the three regional leagues and the last placed team is directly relegated from the First League into the regional leagues. The league is currently known as the Sky Go Erste Liga for sponsorship reasons.

The destination of the bottom club of the First League depends upon which Land of the Federal Republic it is a member, joining one of the Regionalligen (or regional leagues) in the east, center or west of the country. The three regional league champions have to play a home and an away relegation game with the 9th of First League for two slots in the First League. Participation in the professional First League is conditional on their licensing by the fifth senate of the federal league. If the license is refused for economic reasons, one team fewer will be relegated.

The 2017–18 Austrian Football First League will be the 44th season of the Austrian second-level football league.  

SV Guntamatic Ried

SC Wiener Neustadt

FC Liefering

FC Wacker Innsbruck

Source: http://www.bundesliga.at

Hungay - 2017/18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (OTP Bank Liga)

The Nemzeti Bajnokság, "National Championship") is the Hungarian professional league for association football clubs. The league is currently known as the OTP Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons, and it is the highest level of professional league since its inception in 1901. UEFA currently ranks the league 29th in Europe.

Twelve teams compete in the league, playing each other twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, the top team enters the qualification for the UEFA Champions League, while the runner-up and the third placed, together with the winner of the Hungarian Cup enters the UEFA Europa League qualification round. The bottom two clubs are relegated to Nemzeti Bajnokság II, the second-level league, to be replaced by the winner and the runner up of the NB2.
The 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, is going to be the 119th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons. Honvéd are the defending champions having won their fourteenth Hungarian championship last season. As in the previous season, 12 teams compete for the championship title, playing 33 rounds. The fixtures were published on 14 July 2017.

On 20 June 2017, the rounds were drawn by the Hungarian Football Federation. The 33 rounds will be divided into two parts. 19 rounds will be played in 2017 and the remaining 14 in 2018.

In the first 22 rounds each team plays against every other team home-and-away in a round-robin format. In the remaining 11 rounds, the first six placed teams from the previous season will play six matches at home and five matches away, and the remaining six teams will play five matches at home and six matches away.

MTK and Gyirmót finished the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I in the last two places and thus were relegated to NB II division.

The two relegated teams were replaced with the top two teams in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II, champion Puskás Akadémia and runner-up Balmazújváros, each having the required licence for top-division play.

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

The players of Budapest Honved celebrate the winning of the last championship after the Hungarian OTP Bank

Source: http://en.mlsz.hu/

             http://www.futballista.hu/

Switzerland - 2017/18 Swiss Super League

The 2017–18 Swiss Super League (referred to as the Raiffeisen Super League for sponsoring reasons) is the 121th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland and the 15th under its current name and format. Basel are the defending champions.

A total of 10 teams compete in the league: the 9 best teams from the 2016–17 season and the 2016–17 Swiss Challenge League champion Zürich. The season is scheduled to start on the weekend of 22-23 July 2017 and end on 19 May 2018.

Source: http://www.sfl.ch/

Paraguay - 2017 Copa TIGO-Visión Banco

The División Profesional de la Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol also known as the Primera División  or due to sponsorship reasons Copa TIGO is the top-flight professional football league in Paraguay. Currently, there are 12 teams in the first division.The most successful club is Olimpia, with 40 championships. 

The 2017 División Profesional season (officially the 2017 Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons) is the 83rd season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay.

The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 115th official championship of the Primera División, called "Mario Agustín Sapriza Nunes", and the first championship of the 2017 season. It began on February 3 and ended on June 24.

The Apertura 2017 champion was Libertad

The Campeonato de Clausura will be the 116th official championship of the Primera División, called "Centenario del Club General Díaz - Dr. Hassel Aguilar Sosa", and the second championship of the 2017 season. It began on July 21 and will end on December 10

Source: http://www.lanacion.com.py
             http://www.apf.org.py

Poland - 2017/18 II liga

II liga (Druga Liga, is a Polish football league that sits at the third tier of the Polish football league system. Until the end of the 2007–08 season II Liga referred to a league at the 2nd tier, although this changed with the formation of the Ekstraklasa as the top level league in Poland. Currently, II liga is below I liga and above III liga.

Since the 2014/15 season there is one group making up the II Liga unlike in previous seasons when there were two groups (West and East). The league consists of 18 teams. Two first teams win promotion to the I Liga. Teams from places 15–18 are demoted to the III Liga. Teams will play 34 league queue after 9 matches (including 306 meetings) in two rounds: autumn and spring.

The top three places in the final table will be rewarded with a promotion to the first division, the 4th team will play in the play-offs for the entrance to the second level. The last four teams will drop to the third division.

Wisla Pulawy

Olimpia Elblag

Source: http://www.90minut.pl

             http://www.2ligapolska.pl/

             http://www.gol24.pl/2-liga/

             http://kswislapulawy.pl/

Finland - 2017 Kakkonen

Kakkonen or II divisioona is the third level in the league system of Finnish football 

A total of 36 teams will contest the league divided into three groups, Lohko A (Group A), Lohko B (Group B) and Lohko C (Group C). 25 returning from the 2016 season, two relegated from Ykkönen and nine promoted from Kolmonen. The champion of each group and the best runner-up will qualify to promotion matches to decide which two teams get promoted to the Ykkönen. The bottom three teams in each group will qualify directly for relegation to Kolmonen. Each team will play a total of 22 matches, playing twice against each team of its group.

KTP and FC Jazz were relegated from the 2016 Ykkönen, while FC Honka and IF Gnistan were promoted to the 2017 Ykkönen.

The league divided into 3 groups of 12 teams. Each club plays the others in its group twice. The group winners and the best second place team have a chance of winning one of two promotion places to Ykkönen after a four team playoff. The bottom three teams in each group 10, 11 and 12 will be relegated to Kolmonen.

Runner-up teams

At the end of the season, a comparison is made between the runner-ups. The best runner-up will qualify to promotion matches.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Klubi 04	22	12	8	2	60	19	+41	44	Promotion Playoffs to the Ykkönen
2	MuSa	22	14	2	6	44	18	+26	44
3	GBK	22	14	4	4	47	23	+24	46

Promotion play-offs

Group winners and the best runner-up played two-legged ties. Team pairs will be drawn and the two winning teams will be promoted to the Ykkönen for season 2018

Group winners
Lohko A (Group A): KTP
Lohko B (Group B): FC Viikingit
Lohko C (Group C): AC Kajaani

The best runner-up
Klubi 04

Source: http://www.weltfussballarchiv.com
             https://en.wikipedia.org/

Venezuela - 2017 Primera Division

The Primera División  is the top-flight professional football league of Venezuela. It was created in 1921 and turned professional in 1957. It's organized by the Federación Venezolana de Fútbol.

The 2017 Primera División season is the 36th professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league. Zamora were the defending champions, but did not qualify to the Serie Final, after being eliminated by Monagas in the quarter-finals of the Torneo Apertura and by Deportivo Lara in the quarter-finals of the Torneo Clausura.

The Torneo Apertura was the first tournament of the season. The regular season started on 28 January and finished on 21 May 2017.

The Torneo Clausura is the second tournament of the season. The regular season started on 15 July and finished on 29 October 2017.

Monagas was the champion "Torneo Apertura"

Source: http://www.federacionvenezolanadefutbol.org
             http://www.pasionxeldeporte.com
             https://solovenex.com/