Kelssek Football League

Kelssek Football League

Number of teams	46
Levels on pyramid	1–3
Relegation to	All-Kelssek Soccer League
Domestic cup(s)	Patriotes Cup
International cup(s)	Champions’ Cup Globe Cup Series B Champions’ Cup

The Kelssek Football League (French: Ligue de football kelssekienne) is a professional league for soccer clubs which is the highest level of competition in Kelssek. The league consists of three divisions, the KFL Championship (Championnat), the National (Ligue nationale), and the Association (Association de la LFK), which is played in two geographical zones. The competition is governed by the national federation, Football Kelssek.

Each season the bottom three clubs of the Championship are relegated to the National division. Replacing them are the winners and runner-up of the National and the winners of a tournament among the teams placing third to sixth. The bottom three clubs of the National division are relegated to the Association while the two regional winners are promoted along with the winner of the playoffs contested between the second and third-placed teams of each region.

Media coverage

KFL Championship matches are televised nationally in Kelssek on the TV12 broadcast network, on Twelve local affiliates, the NSN cable channels, and in French on SRK-Télé and SportVu. Broadcasting rights revenue is evenly divided among teams. The traditional time slot for the most-anticipated live match each week is TV12's Saturday Soccer, which has been broadcast on Saturdays at 4pm Coastal Time since 1983.

International competitions

The winners of the KFL qualify for the UICA Champions’ Cup and the teams placing second through fourth qualify for the Globe Cup. The top four teams of the KFL National qualify for the Series B Champions’ Cup.

Burnaby SC is the most successful KFL club on the world stage, recognized as the UICA Kelssekian Club of the Century for reaching the Globe Cup group stage twice.

Clubs

KFL Championship

Correct as of season 61

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
ASC Arvika	Arvika	Community Stadium	34,700
Burnaby SC	Burnaby	Stadium Konoha	54,500
Clayquot City	Clayquot	Kanard Park	32,600
Colwynian Vale	Colwyn	Ironworkers Road	22,600
Coquitlam United	Coquitlam	Maillardville Park	20,300
CF Les Castors	Outineau	Place Saint-Luc	20,200
CF Outineau	Outineau	Parc de la Crémazie	37,800
CS Saint-Rémy	Saint-Rémy	Stade Intersat	36,900
CF Saint-Richard	Saint-Richard	Stade Michel-Beaulieu	19,400
FC Novonaya	Novonaya	Griffin Park	39,200
Hamiltonian Cambria	Hamilton	B.A. Johnston Field	27,400
Kingstown Athletic	Kingstown	Larkhamfield	28,800
Kirkenes FC	Kirkenes	Exhibition Place	38,600
Langlois Océanic	Langlois	Stade de la Pacifique	26,800
Latrobe AFC	Latrobe	Macquarie Docklands	55,700
Mazinaw Vanorian	Mazinaw	Crowchilds	18,100
Shearwater FC	Breton	Kingswharf	40,500
Strathcona Internationals	Vickery	Bowreach	27,300
Torbay Thunder	Torbay	Armidale Plain	10,300
Trenton AC	Trenton	Northcoast Telecom Stadium	18,400
NGSA Ulyanof	Ulyanof	Stadium of the Stars	44,600

Selected lower-division clubs

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Kawarthas District	Llandewi	Redmord Point	16,500
Metropolitan FC	Mineru	Swangard	21,500
North York FC	Kirkenes	Portedowns Park	26,400
Port City FC	Dartmoor	Dartmoor Community Stadium	10,700
Sitka Valley FC	Pembina	Varsity Stadium	29,200

Major rivalries

• Burnaby SC vs. Kirkenes FC: The symbolic West-East rivalry. While not having the historical baggage and violence of the Outineau-Kirkenes rivalry, this takes on a cultural dimension just the same with Burnaby SC representing the rugged, free-thinking, mountaineer spirit against Kirkenes's conservative, commercial, cultural elites.
• CF Outineau vs. CS Saint-Rémy (Battaile du Beaulac)
• Langlois Océanic vs. CF Saint-Richard (Derby du sel): Fought between the two major cities of the Beaulac coast, pits the underdog Saint-Richard club with its emphasis on developing local youth gars de chez nous, against the cosmopolitan money-spending Langlois club.
• CF Outineau vs. Kirkenes FC (War of the Crowns/Guerre des Couronnes): This contemporary rivalry is driven by many of the divisions that fuelled the historical war its name references: sectarian, linguistic, and cultural.
• Burnaby SC vs. Coquitlam United (Lakeland Derby)
• Clayquot City vs. Latrobe AFC (Battle of Etnier)

Recent seasons

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Third place
50	Burnaby SC	Langlois Océanic	Clayquot City
51	CF Outineau	North York	Kirkenes FC
52	Burnaby SC	Coquitlam United	Kirkenes FC
53	Latrobe AFC	Clayquot City	Burnaby SC
54	Burnaby SC	Castors d'Outineau	Langlois Oceánic
55	CS Saint-Rémy	Latrobe AFC	Kirkenes FC
56	Langlois Océanic	Burnaby SC	ASC Arvika
57	Langlois Océanic	CS Saint-Rémy	CF Outineau
58	Burnaby SC	CS Saint-Rémy	Latrobe AFC
59	Strathcona Internationals	CF Outineau	Langlois Océanic
60	CF Outineau	Kirkenes FC	Burnaby SC
61	CS Saint-Rémy	Kirkenes FC	Burnaby SC

KFL National

KFL Association

Historical development

From season 49 to 59, the Championship had 18 clubs and the National Division was played in two regional leauges. The bottom two teams of the Championship were relegated to the National division and the winners of each National Division region were promoted to the Championship. The National Divison was expanded by four clubs from season 53.

The Championship expanded to 20 teams from season 60, adopting its current format, and the National Divison became KFL National with the regions abolished. A third division was added, the KFL Association, with two regions.