Soccer Leagues

FIFA encourages soccer league member states to have one, as these leagues are most helpful in the development of the game in that country. Whether it is Asia or Africa, Europe or Americas or Australia, there are a number of leagues that are now a part of the soccer family.

The English Premier League, also known as the Barclay’s Premier League, is the professional league for the soccer clubs in England. It is the top level of the English football league system. The premier league has at the moment twenty clubs in it. The league is following the promotion and relegation system. The league was mainly founded in 1992. The defending champion of the league at the moment is Manchester United. The league season lasts from August to May, with each team playing thirty eight matches each. South Carolina High School Youth Soccer League is a non profit organization. The purpose behind making this organization is to develop and promote the game of soccer among the children of under nineteen years of age living in South Carolina. The league also organizes a tournament among the teams which are its part.

The Mexican soccer league system is made up of four levels of leagues. These are Primera División de México, Primera División A, Segunda and Tercera División. The First division is made up of eighteen teams, which comes against each other in two tournaments. Champion of this league takes part in the CONCACAF Champion. Primera A is composed of 24 teams. They also play two tournaments every year, Apertura in the autumn and the Clausura in the spring. The best team of the two tournaments is promoted to First Division and the worst is relegated to the Second division. In the Second and Third divisions the teams play to take part in the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The relegated team from the second division goes to the third one. However, as the third division is the lowest tier of the league therefore no one is relegated from it.

Working for both men and women the Pacific Coast Soccer League (PCLS) is the soccer league of the Pacific Northwest states of USA and Western Canada. It is recognized by FIFA and USSF as a third Division League. It, however, is behind three divisions behind MLS, USL First and Second Division. It is considered equal to the USL Premier Development League and the National Premier Soccer League. The league was founded in 1930 however; it was later merged into other lower leagues. The present PCSL was separated from them in 1995 to constitute a separate league.

Each year the Delta Youth Soccer League kicks off its season in April. In the developmental age gorups like the under six and eight students the players are usually assigned by the schools. However, in the under ten and above groups the players are selected by the coaches. Every one who is being selected gets a chance to play on one team or another. There are a number of soccer leagues which are working with various names in different parts of the world like: the NAPA Youth Soccer League, a league working in Australia, the Blue Mountain Soccer League etc. These leagues are doing a great service to promote the game in their particular areas and countreis. The more the soccer is played the more it chances there will be for the better players, with extra ordinary skills. Such players will come forward to serve their country.