EPFL: the European Association of Professional Football Leagues becomes "European Leagues"

"The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) has approved change of name and corporate identity. Going forward the Association will now be called European Leagues. The decision required a statutory change which was approved at the Association’s Congress in Edinburgh (SCO) today (Friday, 06/04/2018)," announced the organisation at the end of the congress on 06/04/2018.

"The EPFL acronym was a little bit cumbersome and not reflecting our DNA as competition organisers so changing to European Leagues makes complete sense for us and hopefully for the wider football community," said Lars-Christer Olsson (SWE), president of the association.

"More importantly this process of changing our name and corporate identity has given us the opportunity to reassess and reaffirm who we are and what do we stand for. Each Member League has today signed our new Manifesto," added Lars-Christer Olsson.

"The reality is that the rich are getting richer, we are determined to stop it" (LC Olsson, European Leagues)

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