The Pakistan Football Federation League ( ur, پاکستان فٹ بال فیڈریشن لیگ ; abbreviated: PFFL), also known as the 'B' Division League, is a Pakistani semi-professional league for men's

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departments and clubs which are in the Pakistan football league system, and is the country's second-tier semi-professional football competition. Contested by 18 departments and clubs, it operates on a system of

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with the top-tier

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. Each season, the two top-finishing teams from the PFFL's club phase and the departmental phase are automatically promoted to the

, and the winner of the final between club phase and departmental phase is crowned as the PFF League champion.

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is the only club to have won the PFF League two times - their first in 2005–06 and the second in 2013–14. Current champions,

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are the only club to gain promotion to

after just one season in the PFF League, as they were relegated at the end of 2013–14 and won the PFF League in 2014–15. Baloch Quetta F.C. (club phase) and Masha United (departmental phase) are the current champions.

History

PFF League was founded in the 2004 to serve as the second division for the newly re-branded

. The league's name was originally planned as 'National League Division B'. Its inaugural season was won by

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and Pakistan Public Works Department were the runners-up. Baloch Quetta is the team that has spent the most time in the PFF League, a total of 9 nine seasons. In February 2020, after six years,

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announced the 2020 edition of the PFF League to be held across 4 cities (

Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in south-west of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of th ...

Faisalabad Faisalabad (; Punjabi/ ur, , ; ), formerly known as Lyallpur (Punjabi, Urdu: لائل پور), named after the founder of the city, but was renamed in 1977 in honour of late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. It is the 3rd largest city of Pakis ...

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, and

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). In 2021, the

signed a partnership with Global Soccer Ventures to launch the Pakistan Football League (PFL), a franchised based football league which will be the main and sole professional football league of Pakistan and will be the country's first tier professional football league within the Pakistan football league system - the PFL will be independent of the semi-professional PPL (current Tier 1) and PFFL (current Tier 2).

Promotion

The teams which win the PFF League are promoted to the

, the first division of Pakistani football.

Structure of the league

The league comprises more than 10 teams with club teams playing in the club leg while the departmental clubs which play through department phase group stages. Winner from both the phases earns promotion to upcoming season of

and face each other in the finals to determine the winner of PFF League.

Names

2020 clubs

Results

Champions and runners-up

Relegated teams (from PPL to PFFL)

Notes

References

{{SAFF Football Football leagues in Pakistan Football competitions in Pakistan 2004 establishments in Pakistan