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The Puerto Rico Soccer League or PRSL is an association football league in Puerto Rico founded in 2008 and the first unified football league in the island's history. . Association football had been growing in popularity in recent years, and this was an attempt to further develop the game on
The Puerto Rico soccer league system is a series of soccer leagues based in Puerto Rico. Sometimes erroneously called the Puerto Rican soccer pyramid , teams and leagues in the United States are not linked by the system of promotion and relegation typical in soccer elsewhere.
The Liga Puerto Rico (LPR) is an amateur football competition organized by the Puerto Rican Football Federation. It is the top division football league on the island. The champion qualifies to participate in the Caribbean Club Shield each season. [1] [2]
The league was founded on July 25, 2009 as the second division of the Puerto Rico Soccer League (PRSL), which was at that time the first division league of Puerto Rico.The Liga Nacional de Fútbol originally had 16 teams that were put into two groups of 8 (East Division and West Division) for the regular season.
A new domestic cup tournament, the Copa Luis Villarejo, was inaugurated and involved teams from the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Puerto Rico (LNF), the second tier Puerto Rico Soccer League (PRSL), as well as Puerto Rico FC of the North American Soccer League (NASL), a second tier league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation.
The 2008 Puerto Rico Soccer League season is the first season that the league has been held. It had eight teams playing and the top four teams advanced to the PlayOffs cup, where semi-final matches were played to determine the teams moving to the championship game.
The 2020–2021 Liga Puerto Rico was to be the third season of the Liga Puerto Rico, the top tier soccer league on the island. Metropolitan FA were the reigning champions because of their 2018–19 Liga Puerto Rico championship. [1] The 2019–2020 season was abandoned in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and no new champion was named.
The 2008 Puerto Rico Soccer League Playoffs is the first year the tournament has been held. It is the championship of the Puerto Rico Soccer League. The format is set up for the top 4 teams from the league playing in the Tournament. These teams play in the Semi-finals with the winner of each match going on to the Championship game.