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European Leagues
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European Leagues (EL) is a sports organisation within association football created for growth of professional football in Europe.[2]
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Formation | 6 June 2005[1] |
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Headquarters | Nyon, Switzerland[1] |
Membership | 26 European professional football leagues |
Official language | English, French, German |
Chairman | Claus Thomsen |
Managing Director | Jacco Swart |
Website | europeanleagues![]() |
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Its members are the professional football leagues organisations[1] of 31 countries: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Latvia, Ukraine, and Serbia.[3] In addition, there are seven associate leagues representing some of these countries as well as Turkey.