Lithuania - 2017 A Lyga

The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by LFF (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Futbolo Federacija). League size has varied between 8 and 12 teams over the past few years; from 2016 season, the league features 8 teams. The season usually kicks off in late March/early April every year; because of the harsh climate there are no games in the winter.

The 2017 A Lyga is the 28th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 3 March 2017 and is scheduled to end on 19 November 2017.

Žalgiris Vilnius are the defending champions having won fourth consecutive league title the previous year.

A total of eight teams will be contesting the league, including six sides from the previous season, one promoted from the 2016 LFF I Lyga and the winners of the 2016 A Lyga Relegation play-offs.

Utenis managed to withstand against I Lyga runners-up Palanga in the play-offs and for the 3rd consecutive season continue to play in the A Lyga.

2015 LFF I Lyga champions FK Lietava changed they name to FK Jonava after received permission from Lithuanian Football Federation.

Kauno Žalgiris were relegated at the end of 2016 season and replaced by 2016 LFF I Lyga champions Šilas. It was going to be a debut in the top tier for Kazlų Rūda team.

Before the beginning of the season, newcomers Šilas were accused of match-fixing during a 2017 Virsligas Winter Cup match with FS METTA. Soon after Lithuanian Football Federation started an investigation to determine validity of these claims. At the time all club trainings and friendly matches were revoked.On 24 February, club chairman Audrius Raškauskas announced, that players received a permission to look for the new clubs while Šilas most probably will withdrew from the league into lower divisions of Lithuanian football.

On 24 February 2017 Lithuanian Football Federation announced that Šilas withdrew from the league and will be replaced by last year participants Kauno Žalgiris, who were only non-participating team, which received a valid license for A Lyga

The following eight clubs are participating in the 2017 season.

Relegation Play Off

The 7th placed team will face the runners-up of the 2017 LFF I Lyga for a two-legged play-off. The winner on aggregate score after both matches will earn entry into the 2018 A Lyga.

   28 October 2017             Banga        1-2      Stumbras

    4  November 2017         Stumbras   3-0      Banga

Stumbras won 5–1 on aggregate.

Source: http://lff.lt/varzybos/a-lyga/

             http://lietuvosfutbolas.lt

             http://alyga.lt/

             http://www.fkbanga.lt

Greenland - 2017 Coca-Cola GM

The Greenlandic Football Championship (Greenlandic: Angutit Inersimasut GM, Danish: Grønlandsmesterskab i fodbold), known as the Coca-Cola GM for sponsorship reasons, is the premier football competition in Greenland. It was established in 1954 and since 1971, it has been organised by the Football Association of Greenland.

Due to the geography of Greenland, the championship typically has three phases. The first phase consists of matches between clubs from the same town, the second consists clubs that are geographically close to each other (local phase). The winners of this phase play in the national championship. The latest winner of the championship is Inuit Timersoqatigiiffiat-79, winning the trophy in 2017.

The 2017 Coca Cola GM was the 47th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Qeqertarsuaq from August 5 to 12. It was won by Inuit Timersoqatigiiffiat-79 for the first time.

Yo can find information over all matches here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Greenlandic_Football_Championship
http://www.rsssf.com/tablesg/groenl2017.html

Inuit Timersoqatigiiffiat-79

Source: http://www.rsssf.com
             cnn.com
             http://gbu.gl/

Ireland - 2017 Premier Division

The League of Ireland Premier Division (Irish: Príomhroinn Sraith na hÉireann), also known as the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division, is the top level division in both the League of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland football league system. The division was formed in 1985 following a reorganisation of the League of Ireland. St. Patrick's Athletic and Bohemians are the only current League of Ireland clubs never to have been relegated from the Premier Division. Since 2003 the Premier Division has operated as a summer league.

The 2017 League of Ireland Premier Division is the 33rd season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The league began on Friday 24 February 2017 and will conclude on 27 October 2017. Fixtures were announced on 9 December 2016.

The Premier Division consists of 12 teams. Each team plays each other three times for a total of 33 matches in the season.

Limerick, the 2016 First Division champion and Drogheda United, winners of the promotion/relegation playoffs, were promoted to the league, both bouncing straight back after having been relegated the previous season.

On 22 December 2016, the Football Association of Ireland announced that the league would be restructured into two 10-team divisions from the 2018 season onwards, one of the recommendations made in the 2015 Conroy Report. This meant the cancellation of the promotion/relegation playoff and relegation at the end of the 2017 season of 3 teams, with only the champions of the First Division promoted in return.

Teams

Table

On 17 October, Cork City won the title after a 0-0 draw at home to Derry City

Source: http://www.sseairtricityleague.ie/
             https://www.independent.ie

Austria - League system

The Bundesliga is the highest national league-club competition in Austria. It has ten teams, as does the second tier is the First Division (Erste Liga). The third tier consists of three parallel divisions which are the regional leagues (Regionalliga). These cover the different regions of Austria as follows: the East (Regionalliga Ost), which comprises teams from Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland; the Central (Regionalliga Mitte), featuring teams from Styria, Carinthia, Upper Austria, and East Tyrol; and the West (Regionalliga West), competed for by teams from Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg. The fourth tier is the state league (Landesliga), with the 2. Landesliga as the fifth tier in Lower Austria and Vienna. Most states have 7 to 10 official tiers, but in Vienna unofficial tiers exist under the normal tiers. They are not organized by the ÖFB, but theoretically the champions of these tiers can promote to the official ÖFB-tiers.

Below shows how the current system works.

Source: http://www.oefb.at

Ghana - 2017 Premier League

The 2017 Ghanaian Premier League is the 61st season of top professional association football in Ghana. The season began on 12 January. Wa All Stars are the defending champions coming off their first league title.

The Ghanaian Premier League comprises 16 sides, of which the bottom three will be relegated to the Division One

PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS ADUANA STARS TO BE CROWNED ON NOVEMBER 5, 2017

The Premier League Board (PLB) has decided that Premier League champions, Aduana Stars will be crowned during a special coronation match in Dormaa Ahenkro on November 5, 2017.

Source: http://ghanasoccernet.com

Iceland - 2017 Úrvalsdeild

The 2017 Úrvalsdeild karla, also known as Pepsi-deild karla for sponsorship reasons, was the 106th season of top-flight Icelandic football. Twelve teams contested the league, including the defending champions FH, who won their eighth league title in 2016.

The season began on 30 April 2017 and concluded on 30 September 2017.

The 2017 Úrvalsdeild was contested by twelve teams, ten of which played in the division the previous year and two teams promoted from 1. deild karla. The bottom two teams from the previous season, Fylkir and Þróttur Reykjavík, were relegated to the 2017 1. deild karla and were replaced by KA and Grindavík, champions and runners-up of the 2016 1. deild karla respectively.

Each team will play home and away once against every other team for a total of 22 games played each.

Valur  Íslandsmeistarar 2017

Source: http://www.ksi.is
             http://www.nordiskfootball.fr/

Faroe Islands - 2017 Premier League

The 2017 Faroe Islands Premier League (also known as Effodeildin for sponsorship reasons) was the 75th season of top-tier football in the Faroe Islands. Víkingur Gøta successfully defended their first Faroese title from the previous season. The season began on 12 March 2017 and ended on 20 October 2017.

The bottom two teams from the 2016 season, B68 Toftir and AB, were relegated to the 2017 1. deild. They were replaced by EB/Streymur and 07 Vestur, champions and runners-up of the 2016 1. deild respectively.

Prior to the start of the 2017 season, TB were merged with the other two clubs from the island of Suðuroy: FC Suðuroy and Royn Hvalba. The new club will get a new name for the 2018 season, but for the 2017 season the club will be called TB/FC Suðuroy/Royn.

Each team plays three times (either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away) against every other team for a total of 27 matches each

League Table

Vikingur won effodeildin

Source: https://faroefootball.blogspot.com.es/

             http://www.vikingur.fo/

             http://www.faroesoccer.com/

Austria - 2017/18 Football Bundesliga

The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA. Since Austria stayed in sixteenth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2015–16 season, the league gained its first spot for the UEFA Champions League.

The 2017–18 Austrian Football Bundesliga is the 106th season of top-tier football in Austria. Red Bull Salzburg are the defending champions.

SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz

SK Rapid Wien

FC Red Bull Salzburg

FC Flyeralarm Admira

LASK

FK Austria Wien

Source: http://www.bundesliga.at

Belgium - 2017/18 Jupiler Pro League

The Belgian First Division A is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Following the 2015–16 season it was renamed from the Belgian Pro League (officially known as Jupiler Pro League. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Belgian First Division B. Seasons run from late July to early May, with teams playing 30 matches each in the regular season, and then entering play-offs 1 or play-offs 2 according to their position in the regular season. Play-offs 1 (also known as the title playoffs) are contested by the top 6 clubs in the regular season, with each club playing each other twice. Play-offs 2 (also known as the Europa League playoff) are contested by teams ranked 7 to 15 in the regular season, divided in two groups of 6 teams playing each other twice (three teams from the Belgian First Division B also take part in playoff 2). The team finishing in 16th place is relegated. As of 2014 the league was sponsored by AB InBev, brewers of Jupiler beer, and officially known as Jupiler Pro League, the sponsor name for the 2016–17 Belgian First Division A is still unknown.

The 2017–18 Belgian First Division A is the 115th season of top-tier football in Belgium. The season began on 28 July 2017 and will conclude in May 2018. The fixtures were announced in early June 2017. 

You can download the calender 2017-18 Pro League here

Anderlecht are the defending champions

Source: http://www.sport.be

Estonia - 2017 Meistriliiga

The 2017 Meistriliiga (known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) is the 27th season of the Meistriliiga, the top level of the Estonian football system. The season began on 3 March 2017 and ends on 4 November 2017.

FCI Tallinn are the defending champions. The champions underwent a name change between the seasons having been known as Infonet from 2011 to 2016.

Teams

A total of 10 teams will contest the league, including 8 teams from the 2016 season. Tarvas were relegated after a winless season. Their spot was taken by Esiliiga champions Tulevik, making an immediate return after their 2015 relegation.

In the relegation play-off Pärnu Linnameeskond successfully defended their league spot by defeating challengers Maardu Linnameeskond, but on 11 January 2017 Pärnu Linnameeskond, a union of football clubs from Pärnu, broke up. Vaprus, one of the three clubs that had formed Linnameeskond, took over the league spot.

Each team plays every opponent four times, twice at home and twice away. A total of 180 matches will be played, with 36 matches played by each team.

Source: Estonian Football Asociation

Latvia - 2017 SynotTip Higher League

Latvian Higher League  also known as SynotTip Higher League for sponsorship reasons with SynotTip, is a professional football league and the top tier of association football in Latvia. Organised by the Latvian Football Federation, Higher League is contested by 8 clubs. The new season kicks off in mid-March of every year, and runs until early November.

The League has changed sponsors for several times. From 2005 until 2011, the league was sponsored by the telecommunications operator LMT, naming the league LMT Virslīga. In 2012 the league was reorganised in partnership with the NGO "Latvijas Futbola virslīga", adopting the NGO's name. Before the current season in March 2013, the league signed a sponsorship deal with the microfinancing company SMScredit.lv and acquired its name SMScredit.lv Virslīga.In March 2016, it was announced that the Virslīga would be sponsored by SynotTip on a three-year contract.

The 2017 Latvian Higher League is the 26th season of top-tier football in Latvia. Spartaks Jūrmala are the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous season. The season began on 10 March 2017 and is scheduled to conclude on 4 November 2017; the relegation play-offs will take place afterwards.

Teams

The bottom-placed team from the 2016 season, BFC Daugavpils, were directly relegated to the 2017 Latvian First League. They were replaced by Babīte, champions of the 2016 Latvian First League.

The seventh-placed team from the 2016 season, FS METTA/LU, retained their top-flight spot for the 2017 season by defeating 2016 First League runners-up, AFA Olaine in the play-offs.

Babīte was removed from the league on 22 June 2017 after the Latvian Football Federation received a notice from UEFA's Betting Fraud Detection System for 6 separate games involving Babite. All the results for Babīte games were invalidated and do not count for the standings.
Each team will play the other seven teams home-and-away twice, for a total of 28 games each

Source: http://synottipvirsliga.lv

Barbados - Premier League 2017

The 2017 Barbados Premier League (officially the Digicel Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the 71st season of the highest tier of football in Barbados. UWI Blackbirds are the defending champions, coming off their first league title.

The Premier League is the top football league in Barbados. It was created in 1947 and is headed by the Barbados Football Association. Ten teams participate in this league. 

The 9th- and 10th-placed teams are relegated to Barbados Division One. All teams play their games at the Barbados National Stadium in Bridgetown.

 Neighbourhood Care Pharmacy Weymouth Wales are the 2017 Digitel Premier League champions

Source: www.barbadosfa.com