We want to devote this article to a rather famous football organization. If you do not know the decoding of the abbreviation FNL, the composition and history of this association, then we hasten to provide comprehensive information. Let's start with a general acquaintance.
What is FNL?
We are talking about the association of football professional clubs. What is FNL? This is the National Football League, a non-profit association that is part of the Russian Football Union, a public organization whose goal is to popularize and develop football sports in the Russian Federation. Today, there are 20 clubs in the FNL.
Starting from the 2011-2012 season, it is the National Football League that is responsible for holding the Championship of the Russian Federation among the teams of clubs included in it. Recall that this is the second most important all-Russian tournament in this sport. Its winners are already in the Premier League, and retired - in the second division.
Since March 7, 2011, the President of the FNL has been Igor Efremov, a Russian futsal player and footballer. During his sports career, he played both for the capital “Spartak” and for the CIS national futsal team.
The current champion of the FNL today is the Moscow club Dynamo. Title Sponsor in 2015-2016 made by FONBET. Partners:
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Association History
Having learned what FNL is, let's get acquainted with the most important events in the history of the league. It began in December 2010 when the Russian Football Union (RFU) decided to terminate the contract with the Professional Football League (today it is responsible for the third most important competition in Russian football - the competition of the second division) for hosting games between the teams of the first and second divisions.
December 13, 2010 is the official founding date of the Football National League. The decision to create the FNL was made at a conference in which the clubs of the first division and the president of the RFU took part.
In March 2011, a general meeting was organized with the participation of teams included in the FNL. There, the rules of the 2011-2012 season were adopted, the official information partner, the emblem of the football league were approved, the necessary changes were made to the list of members, etc. On March 5 of the same year, the newly-made organization announced the start of media accreditation, wishing to cover the matches held by the association under the acronym FNL.
About the composition of FNL
Thus, Football nat. The league at the end of 2010 was formed of 20 clubs. The following year they gained the right to speak in the Championship of the Russian Federation among the teams of the first division.
The movement pattern is simple:
- Teams that occupy 2 first places in the championship move to the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). This is an association of professional clubs of the Higher Division, which also coordinates the holding of the championship of the Russian Federation in this sport.
- Teams that occupy the last places (their number varies from the number of clubs participating in the competitions) are already moving to the second division.
- Instead of the listed teams, the FNL members are the clubs that took the last 2 places in the Premier League tournaments, and the clubs that are winners of the 5 zones of the second division.
- Voluntary withdrawal from the FNL of teams faced with financial difficulties is also allowed.
Clubs that take 3rd and 4th place in FNL matches each play 2 transitional matches with teams that are in 13th and 14th place of the Premier League. The one who wins the total points in both competitions participates in the Russian Football Championship. And the losers in the next season will fight for victory in the first division.
FNL teams
What is FNL? First of all, these are clubs of this association. The founders are 4 - Siberia, Baltika, Shinnik and Yenisei. In the entire history, 48 clubs were members of the National Football League:
- Arsenal from Tula;
- "Alania" from Vladikavkaz;
- "Anji" from Makhachkala;
- "Vanguard" from Kursk;
- "Angusht" from Nazran;
- Baltika from Kaliningrad;
- "Baikal" from Irkutsk;
- "Volgar" from Astrakhan;
- "Volga" from N. Novgorod;
- Dynamo from St. Petersburg;
- Dynamo from Bryansk;
- Dynamo from Moscow;
- "Yenisei" from Krasnoyarsk;
- "Pearl-Sochi";
- Zenit 2 from St. Petersburg;
- "Wings of the Soviets" from Samara;
- KAMAZ from Naberezhnye Chelny;
- "Kuban" from Krasnodar;
- Luch-Energia from Vladivostok;
- "Mordovia" from Saransk;
- Metallurg-Kuzbass from Novokuznetsk;
- Neftekhimik from Nizhnekamsk;
- Orenburg
- "Olympian" from N. Novgorod;
- Petrotrest from St. Petersburg;
- "Rotor" from Volgograd;
- Sakhalin from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk;
- "Falcon" from Saratov;
- "Salute" from Belgorod;
- SKA-Khabarovsk
- Spartak Nalchik
- "Siberia" from Novosibirsk;
- Spartak-2 from Moscow;
- "Torpedo" from Vladimir;
- "Tambov";
- “Torpedo” from Armavir;
- "Tosno" of the Leningrad region;
- "Tom" from Tomsk;
- Torpedo from Moscow;
- "Tyumen";
- Ufa
- "Ural" from Ekaterinburg;
- "Torch" from Voronezh;
- Khimki;
- "Chemist" from Dzerzhinsk;
- "Chernomorets" from Novorossiysk;
- "Shinnik" from Yaroslavl.
Participants of the season 2017-2018
Having examined the decoding of the FNL, in conclusion, we will present the teams that will compete in the league in the 2017-2018 season:
- "Vanguard" from Kursk;
- Baltika from Kaliningrad;
- "Volgar" from Astrakhan;
- Dynamo from St. Petersburg;
- "Yenisei" from Krasnoyarsk;
- Zenit 2 from St. Petersburg;
- "Wings of the Soviets" from Samara;
- "Kuban" from Krasnodar;
- Luch-Energia from Vladivostok;
- "Olympian" from N. Novgorod;
- Orenburg
- "Rotor" from Volgograd;
- "Siberia" from Novosibirsk;
- Spartak-2 from Moscow;
- "Tambov";
- "Tom" from Tomsk;
- "Tyumen";
- "Torch" from Voronezh;
- Khimki;
- "Shinnik" from Yaroslavl.
That's all we wanted to tell you about FNL. The history and composition of the association is quite interesting information for acquaintance.