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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]
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]
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Një lojtar mund të federohet në emër të një klubi që merr pjesë në Kategorinë Superiore, ose Kategorinë e Parë, vetëm si lojtar profesionist (English: A player can be registered to a team participating in the Albanian Superliga or Albanian First Division only as a professional player)
Die BL ist der Zusammenschluss aller Fußballklubs der beiden höchsten Spielklassen des österreichischen Berufsfußballs. (English: The BL is the union of all the football clubs in the top two divisions of Austrian professional football.)
На каждое включенное в заявочный (дозаявочный) лист официальное лицо клуба, и каждого футболиста (спортсмена-инструктора) представляются: – трудовой договор (контракт) (English: For each enabled in the application sheet of official Club, and every player (athlete-instructor) are: – the labour agreement (contract))
A substantial proportion of the best players from all over the world will migrate from poor countries, from rich countries with no football tradition (like the USA and Japan) or from the less lucrative professional leagues like Belgium and Holland to the rich European competitions of Spain, Italy, England, Germany and to a lesser degree France.
Sa aplikantom za licencu upravlja na profesionalan način (English: The applicant for a license to run in a professional manner)
For the first time in the Premier League, from tomorrow July 23, 12 clubs, and 304 professional footballers, on the start of the 2016/2017 season
The league has not put out an official word on salary figures, other than to say that the league will be fully professional.
They will be joined by the six eligible members of the newly-sanctioned Division III professional circuit, USL League One.
We're a fully professional league," Short said. "This is not an amateur league. And it's important to note the USL platform is a proven professional model. We're not a league devised overnight. We've been in operation since the late '80s. As we've developed professional soccer in the United States, we've learned a lot and had a lot of success.
USL League One was originally called USL Division III, representing its position as the third tier of the professional soccer pyramid in the United States. Major League Soccer sits atop the US structure at the division 1 level, just as the Premier League does in England or La Liga in Spain.
„Na plně profesionální první ligu by se však v Česku peníze měly najít vždycky," shoduje se většina odborníků. (English: "However, in the Czech Republic, money should always be found in the fully professional first league," agrees most experts.)
Poloprofesionální úroveň začíná v krajských soutěžích, poté v divizích a Moravskoslezské a České fotbalové lize, ale zde už se také najdou týmy, které jsou takřka profesionální. Fotbalová národní liga je plně profesionální a 1. liga také. (English: Semi-professional level starts in regional competitions, then divisions and Moravian and Czech Football League, but there had also find teams that are almost professional. The Football National League is fully professional and the 1st league as well.)
Pro oba fotbalisty jde nejen o výkonnostní posun, ale také o vyšvihnutí se do plně profesionální soutěže. (English: For both footballers it is not only a performance shift, but also a rise to a fully professional competition.)
Tehdy to tady byl takový spíše rodinný klub. Byli tady místní kluci a vše klapalo. Druhá liga je již plně profesionální, i když už tehdy někteří měli profi smlouvu, ale určitě to nebylo na takové úrovni jako teď. (English: It was kind of a family club. There were local boys here, and everything was cracking. The second league is already fully professional, although some of them had a profi contract at the time, but it certainly was not at a level like now.)
Místopředseda fotbalového svazu Jaroslav Vacek koncem loňského roku také nadhodil možnost, že druhá fotbalová liga nemusí být v budoucnu plně profesionální. (English: Vice-chairman of the Football Association Jaroslav Vacek at the end of last year also suggested the possibility that the second football league may not be fully professional in the future.)
A youth player (under 18 years of age) who comes to the first team for the first time starts with the minimum wage, while a national team player can earn up to $40,000 per month.
Although the lowest salaries are usually equivalent to the minimum wage, footballers who have just reached the first team can earn from $800 to $1,000, depending on their importance in the team.
The competition was founded in 1960 and is open to all 92 clubs competing in the four fully professional tiers of English football (the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two).
Dagenham & Redbridge midfielder David Rainford has said he is more than happy to be the only part-time player in the Football League
La Ligue de Football Professionnel assure la gestion des activités du football professionnel en application et en conformité avec les règlements dela Fédération Française de Football, les dispositions de la convention conclue entre cette dernière et celle-là. (English: The Professional football league ensures the management of the activities of professional football in application and in accordance with the regulations of the French federation of Football, the provisions of the convention concluded between the latter and that one.)
The 36 fully professional teams from the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga from this season are automatically entered into the DFB Pokal.
Spielerstatus: In der 3. Liga sollen ausschließlich Vertragsspieler tätig sein (keine Amateure) (English: Player Status: In 3rd League player contract shall exclusively be active (no amateurs).)
Los Clubes Afiliados se obligan a: ... Celebrar contratos por escrito en el formato autorizado por la LIGA debiendo ser su contenido impreso con todos y cada uno de sus jugadores, cuerpo técnico, los cuales deberán ser registrados obligatoriamente en la Secretaría de la Liga. Requisitos que están regulados en el Reglamento de Registro de Jugadores y Cuerpos Técnicos de la Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional. (English: Affiliate Clubs are obligated to: ... Enter into written contracts in the format authorized by the LIGA, be your content printed with each and every one of your players, technical body, which must be registered with the Ministry of the league. Requirements that are regulated in the Regulation of Registration of Players and Technical Bodies of the National Professional Soccer League.)
El jugador Profesional debe considerar la práctica del fútbol como medio de vida. (English: The professional player must consider playing soccer a way of life.)
El promedio salarial en la Liga de Honduras es de 1,800 dólares hasta 18,000. (English: The average [monthly] salary in the Honduran League is $1,800 to $18,000.)
Minimum salary from the age of 24 (born in 1995) €42,477.00 gross (€27,290.00 net)
Minimum salary from the age of 24 (born in 1996) €28,783.00 gross (€19,977.42 net)
Minimum salary from the age of 24 (born in 1996) €26,664.00 gross (€18,670.84 net)
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The fledgling Philippines Football League (PFL) has completed the process of professionalizing its ranks after the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) has issued the permit and professional licenses on Tuesday.
In the previous top level competition, the UFL, blowouts were depressingly common. That was understandable since fully professional outfits like Global, Ceres, and Kaya regularly faced low-budget semi-professional clubs who could not possibly match them in terms of fitness or technical skill. But not with the PFL, where all 8 clubs needed to pass stringent Asian Football Confederation club licensing standards. Thus plenty of financial backing was a prerequisite for joining. Even the two new clubs, Ilocos United and Davao Aguilas, are well-funded. There are no cream puffs in this league, either on or off the pitch.
More than the financial aspect, getting the license needed to enter the PFL compels clubs to comply with very stringent criteria under sporting, infrastructure, personnel and administrative and legal requirements set by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
The clubs participating in the Philippines Football League will become professional clubs, compared to all other clubs under the PFF which are amateur clubs. According to FIFA definition, a professional player is one whose monthly income from playing football alone is sufficient to cover comfortable living expenses for one month while an amateur player is defined as one whose income from playing football alone is less than what is needed for comfortable living for one month.
Football is set to become a full professional sport in the country as the Games and Amusements Board sanctions the Philippines Football League and its eight pioneering clubs by issuing necessary permits and licenses today at its headquarters in Paseo De Roxas.
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profesionalna liga 1.SNL in pol prefesionalna liga 2.SNL (professional Slovenian First League and semi-profesional Slovenian Second League)
Nogometna zveza Slovenije je na svoji uradni spletni strani objavila obnovljen seznam nogometašev, s katerimi imajo prvoligaški klubi podpisane profesionalne pogodbe. (Football Association of Slovenia has published a list of players, with whom clubs have signed professional contracts on its website.)
Den genomsnittliga beräknade kostnaden för spelarlönen uppgick till 91.873 kronor per månad (English: The average cost of a player salary in Allsvenskan 2020 was 91.873 SEK per month (€8.800))
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The leaders of the First League pay their players about $4,000 a month [...] In other teams - about $1,000 [...] In the Second League, these amounts should be divided into two.
У змаганнях серед команд клубів ПФЛ мають право брати участь тільки команди професіональних клубів, що входять до складу ПФЛ (English: Only teams of professional clubs that are members of PFL can participate in PFL club competitions)
He signed with AC St. Louis of the USSF Division 2 Professional League, which was his first professional contract. He made his professional debut against the Portland Timbers on April 22, 2010.
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No Santos, o corte foi de 70% nos salários de todos no clube que recebem mais de R$6 mil, algo que atinge uma pequena parcela do elenco feminino. A maioria tem vencimentos concentrados abaixo desse valor e, portanto, não foi afetada.
[The FA's head of the professional women's game, Kelly] Simmons added: '...FA Women's Super League is the only fully professional women's league in Europe...'
The Japanese Football Association is planning to launch the country's first fully professional women's league in 2021-22. [...] All players in the new league will be professional. Each team must have a minimum of five players on 'A contracts' that have no limits on maximum salaries, and at least 10 players on 'B' and 'C contracts', that have salary caps.
increase the player minimum salary in 2017 to roughly $15,000. In 2016, the minimum salary was $7,200, a more modest increase from the starting minimum salary in 2013 at $6,000
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As the two teams lined up for their respective national anthems the American Samoans, resplendent in their crisp white and red kit, stood in line with hands on their hearts. This collection of amateurs, who kept on putting themselves in the firing line and kept on being beaten down, were back for more.
None of the top-tier domestic competitions in Oceania is fully professional.
In fact, our semi-professional team playing in the National Soccer League are a poor excuse for a sporting outfit.
He will arrive in Australia in November for the summer tennis tournaments during the NSL season, with the semi-professional league offering Ivanisevic an ideal testing ground for his soccer ability.
While some of the old NSL's big names might have been pulling in more than that, $85,0000 (sic) would be double the average salary picked up by most part-time and semi-professional players in the old league.
For the squad of 20 players, that averages $60,000 a player, which is the average full-time NSL contract. The average part-time NSL contract is $35,000
A professional soccer team based here would have the potential to fuel millions of dollars into our economy. This would be through accommodations for visiting teams and the other financial-driven elements that surround a home-based professional team.
কিন্তু পেশাদারির উন্নতি হলো কতটা? মোটা দাগে বললে কিছুই হয়নি। ক্লাবগুলো পেশাদার হওয়ার আশপাশ দিয়েই হাঁটেনি। অবকাঠামো উন্নয়নের নামগন্ধ নেই। একটা জিম পর্যন্ত বড় দলগুলো করেনি। মাঠবিহীন অবস্থাতেই রয়ে গেছে মোহামেডানের মতো দল। (English: But how much is the professional improvement? There is little to talk about. The clubs walk around the outskirts of becoming professional. There is no trace of infrastructure development. The big teams do not have a gym. Mohammedan remained without a ground as a team.)
"Last year at the annual Congress meeting we discussed the challenges we were having with night venues and shortage of referees and the competitions committee came up with a plan to implement Saturday afternoon matches to alleviate the stresses on infrastructure and administration of matches," Burgess told The Royal Gazette. A team will play one Saturday [afternoon] during the season, maybe two, but the only pushback we may see is from players who work on Saturdays. However, the schedule has been released far enough in advance for them to make consideration for that one Saturday.
The last time the National League took place was three years ago when Old Madrid won the championship contested as division one.
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.)
There is no serious league. The FA just organises a tournament for a few teams in order to get representatives into international club competitions.
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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.)
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.)
The top level of men's soccer here was rebranded as the Taiwan Premier League at the start of 2017. But it is still made up of just two semi-professional sides and amateur outfits.
It's at this point that I must give a salient piece of information, namely that Taiwan has no professional football league! Of the 39 players that have represented the national team in the last twelve months, just 9 play professional football for their club teams (1 in Belgium and 8 in China). The rest play in the half semi-professional, half amateur Taiwanese InterCity League.
"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.")
"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.)
Most of the Cook Islands selection players play in the local amateur league here on Rarotonga, however, the team will include three to four players currently playing in New Zealand and Australia.
[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.
Djibouti's football clubs generally perform very poorly in continental competitions, as well as its national side. Main reason for this is not only because of poor financial conditions in the country which led to the withdrawal of 2008 league champions, Socialite Immobiliere de Djibouti (SID) from the CECAFA Club Championship in the same year. The country has a huge shortage of quality sports infrastructure with only one recognized, international standard football stadium in the Stade du Vile located in the capital, Djibouti, which can seat around 10,000 spectators.
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.)
Then spoke the Minister of Youth and Sports, who explained the Government's desire to professionalize our football.
But the trophy lifting Eritrean footballers couldn't be as successful as they deserved in pursuing professional football careers for different reasons. Eritrea's expectation from the players, and specifically from Maitemenay star player Filmon Tsegay, who was a wonder kid in Europe, was very high. Lack of necessary facilities, infrastructures, encouragement, training, nutrition and largely the sports administration are some of the main cause for the weaknesses that followed.
There is no reason not to believe that by 2022, local premier league will be fully professional under his leadership.Alt URL
The situation is a result of bad management, and a lack of control and accountability in the management of clubs and football institutions," said Gabon's footballers' union (ANFPG).
The violence that was unleashed across the country in the early 1990s, and more than a decade of severe economic hardship that followed, had a devastating effect on domestic football. With certain few exceptions, the professional game disappeared from provincial Georgia for a lengthy spell. The stadia, far from seeing any sporting action or a caring hand, were looted of everything of any value, including wood, metal and glass. Whole stands disappeared. With this in mind, the pitiful state in which the vast majority of the provincial stadia appear today – the grandstands no longer able to provide any safe seating; the lounges from which the ComParty VIPs once followed the games, now lying in ruins; the pitches barely suitable for grazing cattle – might appear understandable at first glance. Yet the horrors of the not-too-distant past only tell half of the story. Better times and relative stability returned to Georgia following the 2003 'Rose Revolution'. Very gradually, people were able to turn some of their attention back to sports. Many provincial football clubs of old were reactivated, albeit mostly at an amateur level. Yet the condition of the majority of the venues continued to deteriorate, reaching a point where some of them, such as the once impressive central stadium of Chiatura (below), a mining town in northern Imereti region, have now been condemned to demolition as they were declared unsafe. All of this points towards problems that are rooted in the present, as much as they are in the past.
If a player is receiving GHC 500 or 1000 and that person has rent to pay and has a girlfriend or wife with kids its a difficult situation to combine. [...] If there can be sponsors that can help to introduce a base salary to cushion them to carry on their job without stressing the Ghanaian league will be one of the best.
La Asociación de Futbolistas Guatemaltecos velará por el bienestar de todos los futbolistas profesionales guatemaltecos, respetando las vías del diálogo y la comunicación eficaz con las autoridades, así como las vías legales que la legislación nacional establece. Reiteramos nuestro compromiso por aportar al desarrollo del verdadero profesionalismo de nuestro fútbol. (English: The Association of Guatemalan Soccer Players will ensure the welfare of all professional Guatemalan footballers, respecting the channels of dialogue and effective communication with the authorities, as well as the legal avenues established by national legislation. We reiterate our commitment to contribute to the development of the true professionalism of our football.)
وتأثرت بطولة الكأس جراء ذلك بعاملين مهمين، هما: رحيل أغلب اللاعبين المحترفين، ما أثر بشكل واضح على المستوى الفني للبطولة، وكذلك رحيل بعض نجوم الدوري للاحتراف الخارجي، ناهيك عن الإصابات التي بدأت تظهر على بعض اللاعبين بعد موسم ماراثوني. (English: The cup was affected by two important factors: the departure of most professional players, which clearly affected the technical level of the league, as well as the departure of some of the stars of the league for external professionalism, not to mention the injuries that began to appear on some players after the Marathon.)
وسعت تلك الأندية إلى تعزيز قوائمها بلاعبين محترفين ونجوم المنتخبات الوطنية فضلا على العناصر المحلية وفق طموحات مشروعة ومتعددة الأهداف لاسيما للفرق التي دخلت المنطقة الحمراء التي تنذر بمغادرة الأضواء والعودة إلى منافسات الممتاز. (English: These clubs sought to strengthen their lists of professional players and national team stars as well as local players according to legitimate and multi-goal ambitions, especially for the teams that entered the red zone, which threatens to leave the spotlight and return to the Premier League.)
Despite the improvements, the Iraqi Premier League is still considered a rather weak league with its clubs still underperforming in continental competitions, its last major achievement reaching the final of the Asian Champions Cup (now called the Asian Champions League) via Al Rasheed in the 1988/89 season, largely due to Uday's influence as owner/founder of the club. Some clubs still struggle financially and have inadequate equipment and facilities, which haven't been renovated since the Hussain regime
Most of the Jordanian football stars receive from their clubs 500 dinars [$700] per month, which is less than the wages of a car driver in the Gulf countries. This is of course after adjusting the salaries two years ago, which did not reach 300 dinars [$400] per month.
The modest salaries that Jordanian football players receive do not exceed the wages of the average employee, ranging from 500 Jordanian dinars ($700) to a maximum of 1,500 Jordanian dinars ($2,100), and few of them exceed that.
Not once have I argued that for the Kenyan Premier League to make a leap from its semi-professional status to a fully-fledged professional league, operations must be streamlined and structures set in place that will work independently and devoid of influence of the 'big man' or from whichever quarter.
In other words, in a Kenyan football Premiership that is almost fully professional, KDF footballing soldiers – in Ulinzi Stars – are actually amateur players; their business purely that of being soldiers.
Under this limit the players have amateur status. There are no professional or amateur clubs but clubs with professional and/or amateur players.
Clubs executives, who were already suffering under a semi-professional league system, had their say on the day. Youssef Abu Iskandar, the secretary of Kazma SC, expressed his grief for Kuwaiti Football by saying that it was a "sad decision". Kuwait Club, who alongside Qadsia, were thrown out of the AFC Cup semi-finals as a result of the ban, held the FA solely responsible too. Qadsia's manager at the time, Rashed Badeh called for everyone to "work to help save Kuwaiti Football".
Runājot par sastāvu, Kolidzejs atklāja, ka komanda būs pusprofesionāla, proti, daļai futbolistu būs kontrakti. (English: In terms of composition, Kolidzejs revealed that the team will be semi-professional, that is, some of the footballers will have contracts.)
Out of 100 players, about 57 players receive salaries between 500 and 1,000 dollars, 36 players between 1,000 and 1,500 dollars, and only seven players 1,500 dollars and above. [...] Many players resort to taking a second job besides football that supports their families and helps them to secure the living necessities for the whole month.
Still semi-professional with salaries of $1,500 per month, Lebanese domestic football has a more fragmented history than any of its Middle-East counterparts.
Liberia Football Association has finally demoted six teams from the amateur premiership to the 1st Division. The six teams, placed at the bottom of the league table, will compete in the LFA first division.According to the development plan of FIFA, all clubs participating in the local top flight must meet a number of requirements, including Club Office, training facilities, as well as salary structure, among others, something most of the Liberian premiership clubs lack.
The new president of the LFF vowed in his first statement to make sure the new league is very professional and of high competetion so that Libyan national team becomes more qualified and to make sure the ban on Libyan stadiums is lifted.
The football league in this country of 480,000 people is also semi-professional.
Due to the league's amateur status, it has never been easy for clubs to secure substantial sponsorship deals, mostly depending on the generosity of one single source. Last year, Ka I was in a similar situation, but eventually ended up with a new partner.
It's really difficult to get by when you play sport in general and football in particular," said Nomenjanahary. "It's an amateur game here. There's no exposure and no one comes to see the players. It's a tough situation and you have to fight to make a living from your sport and embark on a professional career. For a Malagasy person it's impossible to do that if you stay in Madagascar.
Among the population of 320,000, there are 2,000 registered footballers and more than 100 teams. Players and coaches, recruited from around the world, receive a competitive wage from clubs in the three-division semi-professional league – the envy of the region.
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.)
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.)
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.)
Other handicaps are the lack of facilities, the high cost of training instructors and the predominantly amateur status of the clubs that make up the national football league.
"We need to put some more emphasis on the development of facilities, we should design and implement school and community based youth programmes, develop a culture of professional coaching, work on our referees and officials and it is absolutely important that we bring women into the game," Riley suggested.
No club in Namibia has a professional set-up.
We have about 400 teams, 125 amateur clubs, and 8,200 players, all of whom are amateur, of course.
Malgré le statut d'amateur de ses footballeurs, depuis 1976, le Niger a réussi quelques exploits internationaux, entre autres, lors des éliminatoires de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA en 1982 où il s'est fait éliminer seulement en quarts de finale par l'Algérie qui allait ensuite se qualifier pour la Coupe du Monde. (English: Despite the amateur status of its footballers since 1976, Niger has achieved some international achievements, among others, during the qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup in 1982 where he was eliminated only in the quarterfinals by Algeria who would then qualify for the World Cup.)
North Korea has no professional league – all players are amateur
But given that everyone else in the squad remains isolated in the local, amateur league, their inclusion has been controversial in North Korea and Japan.
There is a semi-professional soccer league in Northern Ireland but the standard compared to the English and Scottish professional leagues is very poor and this is reflected in the atmosphere and attendance at local games.
There's a semi-professional football league in Oman that teams such as the Oman Club, Sidab and Quriyat participate in.
Sayyid Khalid has since tried to boost the game by launching the semi-professional Oman Mobile League, with a three-year deal signed with Oman Mobile.
The other 17 play in the semi-pro West Bank Premier League.
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.)
The semi professional soccer competition, the National Soccer League (NSL) has jumped leap and bound in the last four seasons.
The Papua New Guinea's semi-professional competition the National Soccer League is set to kick-off its 2015–2016 season on 14 November.
Despite inking a television deal, however, the UFL remains to be of semi-professional status. Olivares says, "Everyone in the UFL has [day] jobs, except the national players. It's not at a point where people are paid really well yet."
The league started as semi-professional tournament in 2009.
In the past, leagues such as the Philippine Football Federation Open Championship, the Filipino Premier League and La Liga have attempted to reach professional status.
After several years of severe instability which saw six clubs go to the wall, things have settled down. It is still a month-to-month struggle to make ends meet, even the more successful teams must make do with ten-month contracts, and the second tier is now a truncated eight-team league but clubs are staying afloat.
In truth, Bohemians and Bray are the only resolutely part-time operations with Limerick's status scaled back.
In developing countries like Rwanda what matters most is not the amateur football league status but the structure of youth soccer development.
Also in this season teams will play to qualify for the semi-pro football league that is currently being developed to start in 2006. Amory said the top five teams in the premier division will qualify automatically and playoff type of format will decide the last two spots.
In the early 2000's the SLFA had discussions with St. Lucian Premiere League Clubs and district teams about getting sponsors to finance an eight team semi-professional football league on the island. Initial talks were held but nothing materialized.
Yes, there are mitigating factors, such the unavailability of venues, the lack of a professional league, among others, but at least, there must be some structures in place to provide for the upward movement of the sport.
Segundo a nossa fonte, a Federação Santomense de Futebol, não cumpriu a formalidade para exigida pela CAF para a participação nas competições africanas, nomeadamente as condições internas para receber as equipas adversárias. (English: According to our source, the Football Federation Santomense, did not fulfill the formality required by the CAF for participation in African competitions, namely the internal conditions to receive the opposing teams.)
Si à la modestie des ressources financières allouées par l'Etat au ministère des sports (moins de 1% du budget national) s'ajoute la précarité des clubs sénégalais qui vivent encore dans l'amateurisme, en dépit des prétentions sur lesquelles surfent les responsables du football national qui prétendent avoir placé le Sénégal sur les rampes du semi-professionnalisme, les faits sont têtus et constants. La réalité dure et implacable. Le football sénégalais est à des années-lumière du football professionnel et même semi-professionnel. Ce ne sont pas les soupçons de salaire des joueurs et du staff technique, au demeurant très maigres, qui plus est irrégulièrement payés, qui doivent faire illusion. (English: If the modest financial resources allocated by the State to the Ministry of Sports (less than 1% of the national budget) is added the precariousness of Senegalese clubs still living in amateurism, despite the claims on which surfers national football who claim to have placed Senegal on the ramps of semi-professionalism, the facts are stubborn and constant. The reality is hard and relentless. Senegalese football is light years away from professional and even semi-professional football. It is not the suspicions of salary of the players and the technical staff, besides very meager, which is more irregularly paid, which must be illusion.)
Leslie Mathiot, representing his club, Foresters, as well as the other club members, said such gifts will greatly help them head in the right direction towards highest professionalism.
He went further to say that he is not challenging the authority of these clubs but they want to help them improve on their status, become efficient and professional football clubs in future. He also revealed to Awoko that players playing in the Premier League in this country still receive as little as one hundred twenty thousand Leones as monthly wage, and that 60% of the players don't even have any professional contract with their clubs, especially those in the provinces.
All TSL players are amateurs and their amateur contracts last only the season
Currently the clubs Somalia's eight-team top division are unable to pay their players mainly due to the civil strife that has beset the country for more than a decade.
Sadly however, no other club playing in the SPL boasts of any corporate deal. Perhaps this trend has a lot to do with the team spirit and performance. The two clubs with corporate sponsorship lead the table standings in the 2015/2016 season.
In a few words, there is an urgent need to re-organise the way football is run in Sudan. All the stakeholders – from officials to players – have to be a lot more professional, devoid of bias and sentiments, so the game in this country can again reach the dizzying heights of becoming an African football powerhouse.
Another problem faced by Sudanese football, of course, is the huge lack of competition in the league, with only two clubs contesting for the title. This lack of competitiveness will continue to hold back Sudanese football, and could even regress the popularity of the national league if the imbalance is not addressed. Sudan's Premier League and Football Association still rely heavily on government support, so this is a critical issue that must be addressed. If it continues, the SFA will need to start using alternative revenue streams, like continuing their broadcasting rights with Super Sport.
As Etaeta has noted, most of the Tahiti players are essentially amateur, though not without international experience.
Au cours du Congrès du 24 octobre, les participants adopteront les Statuts, le Code électoral, le Règlement du Congrès et le Code éthique. « Nous avons introduit quelques réformes pour amorcer un nouvel élan de notre football. Notamment l'alignement des ligues régions sur les régions administratives du Togo, la démarcation entre le football amateur et celui d'élite (d'où la création d'une Ligue de football d'Élite qui va plus tard laisser sa place à la Ligue professionnelle), l'intégration du football féminin ou encore la restructuration du Comité exécutif de la fédération et la mise en place d'un Tribunal arbitral national. Nous avons proposé ces textes, que nous espérons vont relancer le football dans notre pays, mais il revient au congrès de les adopter ou non », a-t-il concédé. Mais le président n'a pas perdu de vue que les textes ne produisent pas les joueurs mais créent des conditions pour le développement du football. (English: During the Congress of 24 October, participants will adopt the Statutes, the Electoral Code, the Congress Rules and the Code of Ethics. "We have introduced some reforms to start a new momentum for our football. In particular the alignment of the regional leagues on the administrative regions of Togo, the demarcation between amateur and elite football (hence the creation of an Elite Football League which will later give way to the League the integration of women's football or the restructuring of the Federation's Executive Committee and the establishment of a National Arbitral Tribunal. We have proposed these texts, which we hope will revive football in our country, but it is up to Congress to adopt them or not, "he conceded. But the president has not lost sight of the fact that the texts do not produce the players but create conditions for the development of football.)
There were not many teams! The Tonga Football Association (FA) actually used OFC/ FIFA money to buy uniforms for all the teams because they couldn't afford to buy themselves. Most players did not wear boots and of course no shin pads. Every Thursday night we would announce on the radio what time and who was playing who on Saturday. This was the only form of communication then. The games were mostly played in the Kings Palace – a ground right on the water front filled with patches of coral so you can imagine what this would do to the barefooted – if it rained there was no games because these were royal grounds we were playing on. Most Saturday's 1 or 2 teams would not show. If there was a death in the village – most weeks someone died – the village would be on mourning for 2 weeks honoring the dead. Or teams that got in their boat to come from the islands to play may not come because of rough seas.
When asked about the domestic league in Turkmenistan, Kurbanmamedov said that they have a semi-professional league
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The Provo Premier League (PPL) is the official 11v11 men's football league of TCIFA, catering to men of all ages, and includes the boys Academy team (U15-U17) on Providenciales. PPL occurs annually during the spring season.
Darvoqe, Birinchi ligada farm-klublarning ishtiroki qat`iy taqiqlanadi. Professional va yarim-professional klublarga ishtirok uchun ruxsat beriladi. (English: However, the participation of farm clubs in the first league is strictly forbidden. Professional and semi-professional clubs will be allowed to participate.)
The No10 is a student and, like the other 20 members of the Vanuatu squad, he is not a professional footballer, but he is still the only player among his compatriots with experience of playing in the OFC Champions League. Centre-back Jason Thomas is the only other player to have represented his country – an island with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants – at senior level. Most of the population earn a living through horticulture, and some of the players also help out their families with the work.
We are glad that this deal will increase the value for each club in the Super League, and this should assist the clubs to move towards the goal of being professional and self-sufficient business entities," he added.
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.)
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.
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.
"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.
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.)
The KNVB described the state of organised football in Sint Maarten as a "mess."
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.)
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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!
By and large, the league is part-time with a few notable exceptions
Despite the Frauen-Bundesliga being only semi-professional, the league remains competitive.
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)
Males can play professional soccer, they can earn money by playing soccer. But females can't.
Female players in Iceland are semi-professional – anyone who wants to make a living out of the game must go abroad.
Women's football may have gained popularity in some countries, but in Indonesia, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Iranian women tackle odds to earn place in football pitch that is still currently dominated by men.
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.
In Japan, where the semi-professional L-League (the 'Japan Ladies' Soccer League', now called the Nadeshiko League)...
Like the German and the French leagues, the 12-team Nadeshiko women's soccer league in Japan is best described as semi-professional.
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.
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.
However, some boys still ignore us, girls, do not pass the ball and act ignorant.
In contrast to the men's contracts and the sums they receive, 80% of the female players do not receive salaries.
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.'
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.
Just enogh to pay gasoline for the cars. Most players have no contracts at all.
In a 2009 study on the Toppserien, 24% of respondents were signed to a full-time professional contract, 39% to an amateur or part time contract, 1% on a loan contract and 37% to another kind of contract.
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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.
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.
The women's game in Scotland remains amateur – the players don't get paid.
Most of the players in Damallsvenskan are semi-professional
I hope it (Muang Thai Women's League) will become a professional league in the future.
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.
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
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Një lojtar mund të federohet në emër të një klubi që merr pjesë në Kategorinë Superiore, ose Kategorinë e Parë, vetëm si lojtar profesionist (English: A player can be registered to a team participating in the Albanian Superliga or Albanian First Division only as a professional player)
Die BL ist der Zusammenschluss aller Fußballklubs der beiden höchsten Spielklassen des österreichischen Berufsfußballs. (English: The BL is the union of all the football clubs in the top two divisions of Austrian professional football.)
На каждое включенное в заявочный (дозаявочный) лист официальное лицо клуба, и каждого футболиста (спортсмена-инструктора) представляются: – трудовой договор (контракт) (English: For each enabled in the application sheet of official Club, and every player (athlete-instructor) are: – the labour agreement (contract))
A substantial proportion of the best players from all over the world will migrate from poor countries, from rich countries with no football tradition (like the USA and Japan) or from the less lucrative professional leagues like Belgium and Holland to the rich European competitions of Spain, Italy, England, Germany and to a lesser degree France.
Sa aplikantom za licencu upravlja na profesionalan način (English: The applicant for a license to run in a professional manner)
For the first time in the Premier League, from tomorrow July 23, 12 clubs, and 304 professional footballers, on the start of the 2016/2017 season
The league has not put out an official word on salary figures, other than to say that the league will be fully professional.
They will be joined by the six eligible members of the newly-sanctioned Division III professional circuit, USL League One.
We're a fully professional league," Short said. "This is not an amateur league. And it's important to note the USL platform is a proven professional model. We're not a league devised overnight. We've been in operation since the late '80s. As we've developed professional soccer in the United States, we've learned a lot and had a lot of success.
USL League One was originally called USL Division III, representing its position as the third tier of the professional soccer pyramid in the United States. Major League Soccer sits atop the US structure at the division 1 level, just as the Premier League does in England or La Liga in Spain.
„Na plně profesionální první ligu by se však v Česku peníze měly najít vždycky," shoduje se většina odborníků. (English: "However, in the Czech Republic, money should always be found in the fully professional first league," agrees most experts.)
Poloprofesionální úroveň začíná v krajských soutěžích, poté v divizích a Moravskoslezské a České fotbalové lize, ale zde už se také najdou týmy, které jsou takřka profesionální. Fotbalová národní liga je plně profesionální a 1. liga také. (English: Semi-professional level starts in regional competitions, then divisions and Moravian and Czech Football League, but there had also find teams that are almost professional. The Football National League is fully professional and the 1st league as well.)
Pro oba fotbalisty jde nejen o výkonnostní posun, ale také o vyšvihnutí se do plně profesionální soutěže. (English: For both footballers it is not only a performance shift, but also a rise to a fully professional competition.)
Tehdy to tady byl takový spíše rodinný klub. Byli tady místní kluci a vše klapalo. Druhá liga je již plně profesionální, i když už tehdy někteří měli profi smlouvu, ale určitě to nebylo na takové úrovni jako teď. (English: It was kind of a family club. There were local boys here, and everything was cracking. The second league is already fully professional, although some of them had a profi contract at the time, but it certainly was not at a level like now.)
Místopředseda fotbalového svazu Jaroslav Vacek koncem loňského roku také nadhodil možnost, že druhá fotbalová liga nemusí být v budoucnu plně profesionální. (English: Vice-chairman of the Football Association Jaroslav Vacek at the end of last year also suggested the possibility that the second football league may not be fully professional in the future.)
A youth player (under 18 years of age) who comes to the first team for the first time starts with the minimum wage, while a national team player can earn up to $40,000 per month.
Although the lowest salaries are usually equivalent to the minimum wage, footballers who have just reached the first team can earn from $800 to $1,000, depending on their importance in the team.
The competition was founded in 1960 and is open to all 92 clubs competing in the four fully professional tiers of English football (the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two).
Dagenham & Redbridge midfielder David Rainford has said he is more than happy to be the only part-time player in the Football League
La Ligue de Football Professionnel assure la gestion des activités du football professionnel en application et en conformité avec les règlements dela Fédération Française de Football, les dispositions de la convention conclue entre cette dernière et celle-là. (English: The Professional football league ensures the management of the activities of professional football in application and in accordance with the regulations of the French federation of Football, the provisions of the convention concluded between the latter and that one.)
The 36 fully professional teams from the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga from this season are automatically entered into the DFB Pokal.
Spielerstatus: In der 3. Liga sollen ausschließlich Vertragsspieler tätig sein (keine Amateure) (English: Player Status: In 3rd League player contract shall exclusively be active (no amateurs).)
Los Clubes Afiliados se obligan a: ... Celebrar contratos por escrito en el formato autorizado por la LIGA debiendo ser su contenido impreso con todos y cada uno de sus jugadores, cuerpo técnico, los cuales deberán ser registrados obligatoriamente en la Secretaría de la Liga. Requisitos que están regulados en el Reglamento de Registro de Jugadores y Cuerpos Técnicos de la Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional. (English: Affiliate Clubs are obligated to: ... Enter into written contracts in the format authorized by the LIGA, be your content printed with each and every one of your players, technical body, which must be registered with the Ministry of the league. Requirements that are regulated in the Regulation of Registration of Players and Technical Bodies of the National Professional Soccer League.)
El jugador Profesional debe considerar la práctica del fútbol como medio de vida. (English: The professional player must consider playing soccer a way of life.)
El promedio salarial en la Liga de Honduras es de 1,800 dólares hasta 18,000. (English: The average [monthly] salary in the Honduran League is $1,800 to $18,000.)
Minimum salary from the age of 24 (born in 1995) €42,477.00 gross (€27,290.00 net)
Minimum salary from the age of 24 (born in 1996) €28,783.00 gross (€19,977.42 net)
Minimum salary from the age of 24 (born in 1996) €26,664.00 gross (€18,670.84 net)
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The fledgling Philippines Football League (PFL) has completed the process of professionalizing its ranks after the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) has issued the permit and professional licenses on Tuesday.
In the previous top level competition, the UFL, blowouts were depressingly common. That was understandable since fully professional outfits like Global, Ceres, and Kaya regularly faced low-budget semi-professional clubs who could not possibly match them in terms of fitness or technical skill. But not with the PFL, where all 8 clubs needed to pass stringent Asian Football Confederation club licensing standards. Thus plenty of financial backing was a prerequisite for joining. Even the two new clubs, Ilocos United and Davao Aguilas, are well-funded. There are no cream puffs in this league, either on or off the pitch.
More than the financial aspect, getting the license needed to enter the PFL compels clubs to comply with very stringent criteria under sporting, infrastructure, personnel and administrative and legal requirements set by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
The clubs participating in the Philippines Football League will become professional clubs, compared to all other clubs under the PFF which are amateur clubs. According to FIFA definition, a professional player is one whose monthly income from playing football alone is sufficient to cover comfortable living expenses for one month while an amateur player is defined as one whose income from playing football alone is less than what is needed for comfortable living for one month.
Football is set to become a full professional sport in the country as the Games and Amusements Board sanctions the Philippines Football League and its eight pioneering clubs by issuing necessary permits and licenses today at its headquarters in Paseo De Roxas.
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profesionalna liga 1.SNL in pol prefesionalna liga 2.SNL (professional Slovenian First League and semi-profesional Slovenian Second League)
Nogometna zveza Slovenije je na svoji uradni spletni strani objavila obnovljen seznam nogometašev, s katerimi imajo prvoligaški klubi podpisane profesionalne pogodbe. (Football Association of Slovenia has published a list of players, with whom clubs have signed professional contracts on its website.)
Den genomsnittliga beräknade kostnaden för spelarlönen uppgick till 91.873 kronor per månad (English: The average cost of a player salary in Allsvenskan 2020 was 91.873 SEK per month (€8.800))
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The leaders of the First League pay their players about $4,000 a month [...] In other teams - about $1,000 [...] In the Second League, these amounts should be divided into two.
У змаганнях серед команд клубів ПФЛ мають право брати участь тільки команди професіональних клубів, що входять до складу ПФЛ (English: Only teams of professional clubs that are members of PFL can participate in PFL club competitions)
He signed with AC St. Louis of the USSF Division 2 Professional League, which was his first professional contract. He made his professional debut against the Portland Timbers on April 22, 2010.
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No Santos, o corte foi de 70% nos salários de todos no clube que recebem mais de R$6 mil, algo que atinge uma pequena parcela do elenco feminino. A maioria tem vencimentos concentrados abaixo desse valor e, portanto, não foi afetada.
[The FA's head of the professional women's game, Kelly] Simmons added: '...FA Women's Super League is the only fully professional women's league in Europe...'
The Japanese Football Association is planning to launch the country's first fully professional women's league in 2021-22. [...] All players in the new league will be professional. Each team must have a minimum of five players on 'A contracts' that have no limits on maximum salaries, and at least 10 players on 'B' and 'C contracts', that have salary caps.
increase the player minimum salary in 2017 to roughly $15,000. In 2016, the minimum salary was $7,200, a more modest increase from the starting minimum salary in 2013 at $6,000
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As the two teams lined up for their respective national anthems the American Samoans, resplendent in their crisp white and red kit, stood in line with hands on their hearts. This collection of amateurs, who kept on putting themselves in the firing line and kept on being beaten down, were back for more.
None of the top-tier domestic competitions in Oceania is fully professional.
In fact, our semi-professional team playing in the National Soccer League are a poor excuse for a sporting outfit.
He will arrive in Australia in November for the summer tennis tournaments during the NSL season, with the semi-professional league offering Ivanisevic an ideal testing ground for his soccer ability.
While some of the old NSL's big names might have been pulling in more than that, $85,0000 (sic) would be double the average salary picked up by most part-time and semi-professional players in the old league.
For the squad of 20 players, that averages $60,000 a player, which is the average full-time NSL contract. The average part-time NSL contract is $35,000
A professional soccer team based here would have the potential to fuel millions of dollars into our economy. This would be through accommodations for visiting teams and the other financial-driven elements that surround a home-based professional team.
কিন্তু পেশাদারির উন্নতি হলো কতটা? মোটা দাগে বললে কিছুই হয়নি। ক্লাবগুলো পেশাদার হওয়ার আশপাশ দিয়েই হাঁটেনি। অবকাঠামো উন্নয়নের নামগন্ধ নেই। একটা জিম পর্যন্ত বড় দলগুলো করেনি। মাঠবিহীন অবস্থাতেই রয়ে গেছে মোহামেডানের মতো দল। (English: But how much is the professional improvement? There is little to talk about. The clubs walk around the outskirts of becoming professional. There is no trace of infrastructure development. The big teams do not have a gym. Mohammedan remained without a ground as a team.)
"Last year at the annual Congress meeting we discussed the challenges we were having with night venues and shortage of referees and the competitions committee came up with a plan to implement Saturday afternoon matches to alleviate the stresses on infrastructure and administration of matches," Burgess told The Royal Gazette. A team will play one Saturday [afternoon] during the season, maybe two, but the only pushback we may see is from players who work on Saturdays. However, the schedule has been released far enough in advance for them to make consideration for that one Saturday.
The last time the National League took place was three years ago when Old Madrid won the championship contested as division one.
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.)
There is no serious league. The FA just organises a tournament for a few teams in order to get representatives into international club competitions.
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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.)
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.)
The top level of men's soccer here was rebranded as the Taiwan Premier League at the start of 2017. But it is still made up of just two semi-professional sides and amateur outfits.
It's at this point that I must give a salient piece of information, namely that Taiwan has no professional football league! Of the 39 players that have represented the national team in the last twelve months, just 9 play professional football for their club teams (1 in Belgium and 8 in China). The rest play in the half semi-professional, half amateur Taiwanese InterCity League.
"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.")
"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.)
Most of the Cook Islands selection players play in the local amateur league here on Rarotonga, however, the team will include three to four players currently playing in New Zealand and Australia.
[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.
Djibouti's football clubs generally perform very poorly in continental competitions, as well as its national side. Main reason for this is not only because of poor financial conditions in the country which led to the withdrawal of 2008 league champions, Socialite Immobiliere de Djibouti (SID) from the CECAFA Club Championship in the same year. The country has a huge shortage of quality sports infrastructure with only one recognized, international standard football stadium in the Stade du Vile located in the capital, Djibouti, which can seat around 10,000 spectators.
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.)
Then spoke the Minister of Youth and Sports, who explained the Government's desire to professionalize our football.
But the trophy lifting Eritrean footballers couldn't be as successful as they deserved in pursuing professional football careers for different reasons. Eritrea's expectation from the players, and specifically from Maitemenay star player Filmon Tsegay, who was a wonder kid in Europe, was very high. Lack of necessary facilities, infrastructures, encouragement, training, nutrition and largely the sports administration are some of the main cause for the weaknesses that followed.
There is no reason not to believe that by 2022, local premier league will be fully professional under his leadership.Alt URL
The situation is a result of bad management, and a lack of control and accountability in the management of clubs and football institutions," said Gabon's footballers' union (ANFPG).
The violence that was unleashed across the country in the early 1990s, and more than a decade of severe economic hardship that followed, had a devastating effect on domestic football. With certain few exceptions, the professional game disappeared from provincial Georgia for a lengthy spell. The stadia, far from seeing any sporting action or a caring hand, were looted of everything of any value, including wood, metal and glass. Whole stands disappeared. With this in mind, the pitiful state in which the vast majority of the provincial stadia appear today – the grandstands no longer able to provide any safe seating; the lounges from which the ComParty VIPs once followed the games, now lying in ruins; the pitches barely suitable for grazing cattle – might appear understandable at first glance. Yet the horrors of the not-too-distant past only tell half of the story. Better times and relative stability returned to Georgia following the 2003 'Rose Revolution'. Very gradually, people were able to turn some of their attention back to sports. Many provincial football clubs of old were reactivated, albeit mostly at an amateur level. Yet the condition of the majority of the venues continued to deteriorate, reaching a point where some of them, such as the once impressive central stadium of Chiatura (below), a mining town in northern Imereti region, have now been condemned to demolition as they were declared unsafe. All of this points towards problems that are rooted in the present, as much as they are in the past.
If a player is receiving GHC 500 or 1000 and that person has rent to pay and has a girlfriend or wife with kids its a difficult situation to combine. [...] If there can be sponsors that can help to introduce a base salary to cushion them to carry on their job without stressing the Ghanaian league will be one of the best.
La Asociación de Futbolistas Guatemaltecos velará por el bienestar de todos los futbolistas profesionales guatemaltecos, respetando las vías del diálogo y la comunicación eficaz con las autoridades, así como las vías legales que la legislación nacional establece. Reiteramos nuestro compromiso por aportar al desarrollo del verdadero profesionalismo de nuestro fútbol. (English: The Association of Guatemalan Soccer Players will ensure the welfare of all professional Guatemalan footballers, respecting the channels of dialogue and effective communication with the authorities, as well as the legal avenues established by national legislation. We reiterate our commitment to contribute to the development of the true professionalism of our football.)
وتأثرت بطولة الكأس جراء ذلك بعاملين مهمين، هما: رحيل أغلب اللاعبين المحترفين، ما أثر بشكل واضح على المستوى الفني للبطولة، وكذلك رحيل بعض نجوم الدوري للاحتراف الخارجي، ناهيك عن الإصابات التي بدأت تظهر على بعض اللاعبين بعد موسم ماراثوني. (English: The cup was affected by two important factors: the departure of most professional players, which clearly affected the technical level of the league, as well as the departure of some of the stars of the league for external professionalism, not to mention the injuries that began to appear on some players after the Marathon.)
وسعت تلك الأندية إلى تعزيز قوائمها بلاعبين محترفين ونجوم المنتخبات الوطنية فضلا على العناصر المحلية وفق طموحات مشروعة ومتعددة الأهداف لاسيما للفرق التي دخلت المنطقة الحمراء التي تنذر بمغادرة الأضواء والعودة إلى منافسات الممتاز. (English: These clubs sought to strengthen their lists of professional players and national team stars as well as local players according to legitimate and multi-goal ambitions, especially for the teams that entered the red zone, which threatens to leave the spotlight and return to the Premier League.)
Despite the improvements, the Iraqi Premier League is still considered a rather weak league with its clubs still underperforming in continental competitions, its last major achievement reaching the final of the Asian Champions Cup (now called the Asian Champions League) via Al Rasheed in the 1988/89 season, largely due to Uday's influence as owner/founder of the club. Some clubs still struggle financially and have inadequate equipment and facilities, which haven't been renovated since the Hussain regime
Most of the Jordanian football stars receive from their clubs 500 dinars [$700] per month, which is less than the wages of a car driver in the Gulf countries. This is of course after adjusting the salaries two years ago, which did not reach 300 dinars [$400] per month.
The modest salaries that Jordanian football players receive do not exceed the wages of the average employee, ranging from 500 Jordanian dinars ($700) to a maximum of 1,500 Jordanian dinars ($2,100), and few of them exceed that.
Not once have I argued that for the Kenyan Premier League to make a leap from its semi-professional status to a fully-fledged professional league, operations must be streamlined and structures set in place that will work independently and devoid of influence of the 'big man' or from whichever quarter.
In other words, in a Kenyan football Premiership that is almost fully professional, KDF footballing soldiers – in Ulinzi Stars – are actually amateur players; their business purely that of being soldiers.
Under this limit the players have amateur status. There are no professional or amateur clubs but clubs with professional and/or amateur players.
Clubs executives, who were already suffering under a semi-professional league system, had their say on the day. Youssef Abu Iskandar, the secretary of Kazma SC, expressed his grief for Kuwaiti Football by saying that it was a "sad decision". Kuwait Club, who alongside Qadsia, were thrown out of the AFC Cup semi-finals as a result of the ban, held the FA solely responsible too. Qadsia's manager at the time, Rashed Badeh called for everyone to "work to help save Kuwaiti Football".
Runājot par sastāvu, Kolidzejs atklāja, ka komanda būs pusprofesionāla, proti, daļai futbolistu būs kontrakti. (English: In terms of composition, Kolidzejs revealed that the team will be semi-professional, that is, some of the footballers will have contracts.)
Out of 100 players, about 57 players receive salaries between 500 and 1,000 dollars, 36 players between 1,000 and 1,500 dollars, and only seven players 1,500 dollars and above. [...] Many players resort to taking a second job besides football that supports their families and helps them to secure the living necessities for the whole month.
Still semi-professional with salaries of $1,500 per month, Lebanese domestic football has a more fragmented history than any of its Middle-East counterparts.
Liberia Football Association has finally demoted six teams from the amateur premiership to the 1st Division. The six teams, placed at the bottom of the league table, will compete in the LFA first division.According to the development plan of FIFA, all clubs participating in the local top flight must meet a number of requirements, including Club Office, training facilities, as well as salary structure, among others, something most of the Liberian premiership clubs lack.
The new president of the LFF vowed in his first statement to make sure the new league is very professional and of high competetion so that Libyan national team becomes more qualified and to make sure the ban on Libyan stadiums is lifted.
The football league in this country of 480,000 people is also semi-professional.
Due to the league's amateur status, it has never been easy for clubs to secure substantial sponsorship deals, mostly depending on the generosity of one single source. Last year, Ka I was in a similar situation, but eventually ended up with a new partner.
It's really difficult to get by when you play sport in general and football in particular," said Nomenjanahary. "It's an amateur game here. There's no exposure and no one comes to see the players. It's a tough situation and you have to fight to make a living from your sport and embark on a professional career. For a Malagasy person it's impossible to do that if you stay in Madagascar.
Among the population of 320,000, there are 2,000 registered footballers and more than 100 teams. Players and coaches, recruited from around the world, receive a competitive wage from clubs in the three-division semi-professional league – the envy of the region.
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.)
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.)
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.)
Other handicaps are the lack of facilities, the high cost of training instructors and the predominantly amateur status of the clubs that make up the national football league.
"We need to put some more emphasis on the development of facilities, we should design and implement school and community based youth programmes, develop a culture of professional coaching, work on our referees and officials and it is absolutely important that we bring women into the game," Riley suggested.
No club in Namibia has a professional set-up.
We have about 400 teams, 125 amateur clubs, and 8,200 players, all of whom are amateur, of course.
Malgré le statut d'amateur de ses footballeurs, depuis 1976, le Niger a réussi quelques exploits internationaux, entre autres, lors des éliminatoires de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA en 1982 où il s'est fait éliminer seulement en quarts de finale par l'Algérie qui allait ensuite se qualifier pour la Coupe du Monde. (English: Despite the amateur status of its footballers since 1976, Niger has achieved some international achievements, among others, during the qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup in 1982 where he was eliminated only in the quarterfinals by Algeria who would then qualify for the World Cup.)
North Korea has no professional league – all players are amateur
But given that everyone else in the squad remains isolated in the local, amateur league, their inclusion has been controversial in North Korea and Japan.
There is a semi-professional soccer league in Northern Ireland but the standard compared to the English and Scottish professional leagues is very poor and this is reflected in the atmosphere and attendance at local games.
There's a semi-professional football league in Oman that teams such as the Oman Club, Sidab and Quriyat participate in.
Sayyid Khalid has since tried to boost the game by launching the semi-professional Oman Mobile League, with a three-year deal signed with Oman Mobile.
The other 17 play in the semi-pro West Bank Premier League.
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.)
The semi professional soccer competition, the National Soccer League (NSL) has jumped leap and bound in the last four seasons.
The Papua New Guinea's semi-professional competition the National Soccer League is set to kick-off its 2015–2016 season on 14 November.
Despite inking a television deal, however, the UFL remains to be of semi-professional status. Olivares says, "Everyone in the UFL has [day] jobs, except the national players. It's not at a point where people are paid really well yet."
The league started as semi-professional tournament in 2009.
In the past, leagues such as the Philippine Football Federation Open Championship, the Filipino Premier League and La Liga have attempted to reach professional status.
After several years of severe instability which saw six clubs go to the wall, things have settled down. It is still a month-to-month struggle to make ends meet, even the more successful teams must make do with ten-month contracts, and the second tier is now a truncated eight-team league but clubs are staying afloat.
In truth, Bohemians and Bray are the only resolutely part-time operations with Limerick's status scaled back.
In developing countries like Rwanda what matters most is not the amateur football league status but the structure of youth soccer development.
Also in this season teams will play to qualify for the semi-pro football league that is currently being developed to start in 2006. Amory said the top five teams in the premier division will qualify automatically and playoff type of format will decide the last two spots.
In the early 2000's the SLFA had discussions with St. Lucian Premiere League Clubs and district teams about getting sponsors to finance an eight team semi-professional football league on the island. Initial talks were held but nothing materialized.
Yes, there are mitigating factors, such the unavailability of venues, the lack of a professional league, among others, but at least, there must be some structures in place to provide for the upward movement of the sport.
Segundo a nossa fonte, a Federação Santomense de Futebol, não cumpriu a formalidade para exigida pela CAF para a participação nas competições africanas, nomeadamente as condições internas para receber as equipas adversárias. (English: According to our source, the Football Federation Santomense, did not fulfill the formality required by the CAF for participation in African competitions, namely the internal conditions to receive the opposing teams.)
Si à la modestie des ressources financières allouées par l'Etat au ministère des sports (moins de 1% du budget national) s'ajoute la précarité des clubs sénégalais qui vivent encore dans l'amateurisme, en dépit des prétentions sur lesquelles surfent les responsables du football national qui prétendent avoir placé le Sénégal sur les rampes du semi-professionnalisme, les faits sont têtus et constants. La réalité dure et implacable. Le football sénégalais est à des années-lumière du football professionnel et même semi-professionnel. Ce ne sont pas les soupçons de salaire des joueurs et du staff technique, au demeurant très maigres, qui plus est irrégulièrement payés, qui doivent faire illusion. (English: If the modest financial resources allocated by the State to the Ministry of Sports (less than 1% of the national budget) is added the precariousness of Senegalese clubs still living in amateurism, despite the claims on which surfers national football who claim to have placed Senegal on the ramps of semi-professionalism, the facts are stubborn and constant. The reality is hard and relentless. Senegalese football is light years away from professional and even semi-professional football. It is not the suspicions of salary of the players and the technical staff, besides very meager, which is more irregularly paid, which must be illusion.)
Leslie Mathiot, representing his club, Foresters, as well as the other club members, said such gifts will greatly help them head in the right direction towards highest professionalism.
He went further to say that he is not challenging the authority of these clubs but they want to help them improve on their status, become efficient and professional football clubs in future. He also revealed to Awoko that players playing in the Premier League in this country still receive as little as one hundred twenty thousand Leones as monthly wage, and that 60% of the players don't even have any professional contract with their clubs, especially those in the provinces.
All TSL players are amateurs and their amateur contracts last only the season
Currently the clubs Somalia's eight-team top division are unable to pay their players mainly due to the civil strife that has beset the country for more than a decade.
Sadly however, no other club playing in the SPL boasts of any corporate deal. Perhaps this trend has a lot to do with the team spirit and performance. The two clubs with corporate sponsorship lead the table standings in the 2015/2016 season.
In a few words, there is an urgent need to re-organise the way football is run in Sudan. All the stakeholders – from officials to players – have to be a lot more professional, devoid of bias and sentiments, so the game in this country can again reach the dizzying heights of becoming an African football powerhouse.
Another problem faced by Sudanese football, of course, is the huge lack of competition in the league, with only two clubs contesting for the title. This lack of competitiveness will continue to hold back Sudanese football, and could even regress the popularity of the national league if the imbalance is not addressed. Sudan's Premier League and Football Association still rely heavily on government support, so this is a critical issue that must be addressed. If it continues, the SFA will need to start using alternative revenue streams, like continuing their broadcasting rights with Super Sport.
As Etaeta has noted, most of the Tahiti players are essentially amateur, though not without international experience.
Au cours du Congrès du 24 octobre, les participants adopteront les Statuts, le Code électoral, le Règlement du Congrès et le Code éthique. « Nous avons introduit quelques réformes pour amorcer un nouvel élan de notre football. Notamment l'alignement des ligues régions sur les régions administratives du Togo, la démarcation entre le football amateur et celui d'élite (d'où la création d'une Ligue de football d'Élite qui va plus tard laisser sa place à la Ligue professionnelle), l'intégration du football féminin ou encore la restructuration du Comité exécutif de la fédération et la mise en place d'un Tribunal arbitral national. Nous avons proposé ces textes, que nous espérons vont relancer le football dans notre pays, mais il revient au congrès de les adopter ou non », a-t-il concédé. Mais le président n'a pas perdu de vue que les textes ne produisent pas les joueurs mais créent des conditions pour le développement du football. (English: During the Congress of 24 October, participants will adopt the Statutes, the Electoral Code, the Congress Rules and the Code of Ethics. "We have introduced some reforms to start a new momentum for our football. In particular the alignment of the regional leagues on the administrative regions of Togo, the demarcation between amateur and elite football (hence the creation of an Elite Football League which will later give way to the League the integration of women's football or the restructuring of the Federation's Executive Committee and the establishment of a National Arbitral Tribunal. We have proposed these texts, which we hope will revive football in our country, but it is up to Congress to adopt them or not, "he conceded. But the president has not lost sight of the fact that the texts do not produce the players but create conditions for the development of football.)
There were not many teams! The Tonga Football Association (FA) actually used OFC/ FIFA money to buy uniforms for all the teams because they couldn't afford to buy themselves. Most players did not wear boots and of course no shin pads. Every Thursday night we would announce on the radio what time and who was playing who on Saturday. This was the only form of communication then. The games were mostly played in the Kings Palace – a ground right on the water front filled with patches of coral so you can imagine what this would do to the barefooted – if it rained there was no games because these were royal grounds we were playing on. Most Saturday's 1 or 2 teams would not show. If there was a death in the village – most weeks someone died – the village would be on mourning for 2 weeks honoring the dead. Or teams that got in their boat to come from the islands to play may not come because of rough seas.
When asked about the domestic league in Turkmenistan, Kurbanmamedov said that they have a semi-professional league
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The Provo Premier League (PPL) is the official 11v11 men's football league of TCIFA, catering to men of all ages, and includes the boys Academy team (U15-U17) on Providenciales. PPL occurs annually during the spring season.
Darvoqe, Birinchi ligada farm-klublarning ishtiroki qat`iy taqiqlanadi. Professional va yarim-professional klublarga ishtirok uchun ruxsat beriladi. (English: However, the participation of farm clubs in the first league is strictly forbidden. Professional and semi-professional clubs will be allowed to participate.)
The No10 is a student and, like the other 20 members of the Vanuatu squad, he is not a professional footballer, but he is still the only player among his compatriots with experience of playing in the OFC Champions League. Centre-back Jason Thomas is the only other player to have represented his country – an island with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants – at senior level. Most of the population earn a living through horticulture, and some of the players also help out their families with the work.
We are glad that this deal will increase the value for each club in the Super League, and this should assist the clubs to move towards the goal of being professional and self-sufficient business entities," he added.
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.)
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.
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.
"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.
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.)
The KNVB described the state of organised football in Sint Maarten as a "mess."
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.)
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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!
By and large, the league is part-time with a few notable exceptions
Despite the Frauen-Bundesliga being only semi-professional, the league remains competitive.
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)
Males can play professional soccer, they can earn money by playing soccer. But females can't.
Female players in Iceland are semi-professional – anyone who wants to make a living out of the game must go abroad.
Women's football may have gained popularity in some countries, but in Indonesia, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Iranian women tackle odds to earn place in football pitch that is still currently dominated by men.
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.
In Japan, where the semi-professional L-League (the 'Japan Ladies' Soccer League', now called the Nadeshiko League)...
Like the German and the French leagues, the 12-team Nadeshiko women's soccer league in Japan is best described as semi-professional.
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.
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.
However, some boys still ignore us, girls, do not pass the ball and act ignorant.
In contrast to the men's contracts and the sums they receive, 80% of the female players do not receive salaries.
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.'
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.
Just enogh to pay gasoline for the cars. Most players have no contracts at all.
In a 2009 study on the Toppserien, 24% of respondents were signed to a full-time professional contract, 39% to an amateur or part time contract, 1% on a loan contract and 37% to another kind of contract.
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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.
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.
The women's game in Scotland remains amateur – the players don't get paid.
Most of the players in Damallsvenskan are semi-professional
I hope it (Muang Thai Women's League) will become a professional league in the future.
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.
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