EPFL - About Us - Who We Are

Role & Objectives

The EPFL must:

Be the strategic lead for professional football in Europe.
Foster cooperation, friendly relations and unity between Member Leagues and Associate Member Leagues.
Consider Social Dialogue issues at a European level and where appropriate act as a social partner.
Endorse and protect the specificity, identity and autonomy of professional football within the Europe and the world.
Facilitate the collection and exchange of information between Member Leagues and Associate Member Leagues.
Organize exhibitions, conferences, training courses and other collective events relating to the promotion of Professional Football.

Unity

The EPFL is committed to foster unity within its Members and the football world in order to create synergies for and its stakeholders on all football matters.

Professionalism

The EPFL is committed to provide a framework to enhance and promote professionalism for and among its members, by enhancing cooperation and constructive relations with both members and stakeholders.

Reformism

The EPFL is committed to address all major information trends to face the huge challenges of a changing sporting, economic, legal and political landscape.

The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) is an association governed by Swiss law, founded in 2005 and based in Nyon, Switzerland. It traces its origins back to the founding in 1997 of the EUPPFL (Association of European Union Premier Professional Football Leagues). Originally composed by 12 members, nowadays comprises 30 Members and Associate Members across Europe.

With strategic vision and clear notion of responsibility, the EPFL has generated new internal and external dynamics and synergies, and engaged itself in all key issues facing professional football and by acting as the common voice of Professional Football Leagues in Europe on all matters of common interest.

The EPFL is composed of a General Assembly of Members (legislative body), the Board of Directors (executive body), the EPFL Administration (administrative body) and the Committees (advisory bodies).

In line with the objective of promoting knowledge sharing and facilitating the exchange of information between Members and Associate Members and relevant stakeholders, the EPFL launched a Cycle of Conferences on “The Future of professional Football in Europe”.

These Conferences provide an excellent platform for updates about the value of football...More >