James Joseph Younghusband is a Filipino professional footballer who plays as a right midfielder or striker for Philippines Football League club Ceres–Negros and the Philippines national team.
Anton Edward Quimson del Rosario is an American-born Filipino footballer who plays as a right back or centre back for PFL club Global Cebu and formerly for the Philippines national team.
Stephan Markus Cabizares Schröck is a Filipino professional footballer who plays for Philippines Football League (PFL) club Ceres–Negros and captains the Philippines national team. He plays mainly as a midfielder, though earlier in his career he played mostly as a full-back and has also been deployed as a winger.
Association football is a developed sport in the Philippines, played by amateur and professional Filipino football clubs. The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is the governing body of international football in the country.
Kaya Futbol Club–Iloilo is a Filipino professional football club based in Iloilo City. They play in the Philippines Football League, the highest tier of Philippine football. The club has won one UFL cup and one Copa Paulino Alcantara. The club has also competed in the AFC Cup.
Green Archers United Futbol Club, formerly known as Alabang Grins Futbol Club, is a professional association football club based in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. The team plays in the Philippines Football League, the top-flight association football league in the Philippines.
Japan Philippines Voltes Marikina Football Club, formerly known as Manila All-Japan Football Club and commonly known as JP Voltes Football Club, was an association football club based in the city of Marikina, Philippines which competed in the Philippines Football League, the highest level of Philippine club football at the time of the league's existence. The team consists of Japanese and Filipino players. It is one of the founding members of the United Football League in 2009, where the team played in UFL Division 2 and later in the only division of the league following the merger of UFL Division 1 and 2 in 2016.
The Philippine Air Force Football Club is a Filipino professional football club whose players are officers, enlisted personnel, and civilians of the Philippine Air Force. The club currently competes in the Philippines Football League, the top tier of Filipino club football.
Global Makati Football Club is a professional football club based in Makati, Metro Manila, that currently plays in the Philippines Football League (PFL), the top flight of Philippine club football. The club has won four league titles, two UFL Cups, one UFL FA Cup, and one PFF National Men's Club Championship. They have also participated in the AFC Cup three times.
Stallion Laguna Football Club is a Filipino professional association football club based in Biñan, Laguna that competes in the Philippines Football League, the top division of Filipino football.
Patrick Phillip Bravo Deyto is a Filipino professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Thai club Suphanburi and the Philippines national team.
The Philippines Football League, commonly known as PFL, is a Filipino professional association football league, sanctioned by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF). It is the Philippines' highest level of men's club football, surpassing the United Football League (UFL), which was previously the de facto top-tier league in the country.
The 2017 Philippines Football League was the inaugural season of the Philippines Football League (PFL), the professional football league of the Philippines. The league was officially launched on 21 April 2017 at Shangri-La at the Fort in Taguig, while the first match of the season was played on 6 May. The PFL replaced the Metro Manila-based United Football League (UFL), which served as the country's de-facto top-level football league from 2009 to 2016. The league was made up of 8 clubs: 6 from the UFL and 2 expansion teams. Each club played the others four times, twice at their home ground and twice at that of their opponents', for 28 games. The teams that finished the season in the top four entered a playoff tournament to determine the league's champion.
The Ilocos United Football Club was a Filipino football team based in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. The team played in the inaugural season of the Philippines Football League (PFL), the highest level of Philippine club football. As part of the league, the team played its home games at the Quirino Stadium in the nearby town of Bantay.
Dylan Alain Lucienne Escalana De Bruycker is a Filipino professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Philippines Football League club Ceres–Negros and the Philippines national team.
The 2018 Philippines Football League was the second season of the Philippines Football League (PFL), the professional football league of the Philippines. The season started on 3 March and concluded on 25 August. The league was contested by six teams from last season's eight, after Meralco Manila and Ilocos United withdrew before the season began. The postseason playoffs were discontinued due to the introduction of the Copa Paulino Alcantara, the domestic cup tournament which was held after league. Thus, the PFL became a pure quintuple round-robin tournament where each club played the others five times—each club playing 25 games.
The 2018 season was Kaya F.C.–Iloilo's 2nd season in the Philippines Football League (PFL), the top flight of Philippine football. In addition to the PFL, the club also competed in the Copa Paulino Alcantara.
The 2018 Copa Paulino Alcantara was the first edition of the Copa Paulino Alcantara, the domestic football cup competition of the Philippines. The competition started on September 1, 2018 and concluded on October 27, 2018, with Kaya–Iloilo winning the inaugural tournament after defeating Davao Aguilas 1–0 in extra time.
The Copa Paulino Alcantara, also known as the PFL Cup, is an annual football tournament in Philippines, sanctioned by the Philippine Football Federation. The cup's first iteration began on September 1, 2018. It replaced the PFF National Men's Club Championship and the UFL Cup as the country's top domestic cup tournament.
The Philippine Premier League (PPL) was a short-lived top-flight association football league in the Philippines sanctioned by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF). It was intended as a successor league to the Philippines Football League (PFL) which ran for two seasons. The first and only PPL season only had a single match day on April 27, 2019 before it was folded after the PFF withdrew its sanction of the league.
