The 2019 Bhutan Premier League was the eighth season of unified league, rebranded as the Bhutan Premier League (previously the ''Bhutan National League''), the top national football competition in Bhutan, having replaced the A-Division in

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. The

Bhutan Football Federation The Bhutan Football Federation ( Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྐང་རིལ་ཚོགས་སྡེ།) is the governing body of football in Bhutan, controlling Bhutan national football team, Bhutan women's national football team and B ...

implemented a new league structure for this season. The top division is named Bhutan Premier League (BPL) and has featured ten teams across the country. The second division is named

Bhutan Super League The Bhutan Super League, previously known as the Thimphu League and Bhutan A-Division, was the men's football league in Bhutan. Until 2012, it was the lone national top division. Between 2013 and 2020, it was played as the second division and th ...

(BSL) and has featured nine teams across the country, replacing Thimphu League as qualifying competition for the Premier League. The lowest division is named Dzongkhag League where teams play in their respective districts (Dzongkhags) to gain promotion to the Super League.

Super League

The Bhutan Super League was played from April to June, in single round-robin format, featuring nine teams: five teams from

Thimphu Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's '' dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient capital ci ...

, one team from Paro, one team from

Phuentsholing Phuntsholing, also spelled as Phuentsholing ( dz, ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་), is a border town in southern Bhutan and is the thromde, administrative seat of Chukha District. The town occupies parts of both Phuentsholing Gewog and ...

and two teams from the Bhutan Football Federation Academy.

Regular season

Playoffs

First semi-final

Second semi-final

Third semi-final

Final

Premier League

The Bhutan Premier League began in June and ended in November, in double round-robin format, featuring top five teams of the

2018 Bhutan National League The 2018 Bhutan National League was the seventh season of the Bhutan National League, the national football competition in Bhutan, having replaced the A-Division in 2013. Again, the Thimphu League provides the qualifiers from Thimphu, with the ...

and top five teams of the 2019 Bhutan Super League. Since

were dissolved, they were replaced by Phuentsholing United.

Teams

;From 2018 Bhutan National League *

Transport United Transport United Football Club is a Bhutanese professional football club based in Thimphu that competes in the Bhutan Premier League, the top level of Bhutanese football. The club was founded in 2001 and plays at the Changlimithang Stadium. T ...

* Paro * Thimphu City * Ugyen Academy * Phuentsholing United (replaced

which were dissolved) ;From 2019 Bhutan Super League * High Quality United * Druk Stars * BFF Academy U-19 *

Druk United Druk United FC was a Bhutanese football club from Thimphu and based at the Changlimithang Stadium, which played in the Bhutan Premier League, the top division of Bhutanese football. History 2002 to 2012 Druk United's first recorded inst ...

* Paro United

Personnel and kits

League table

References

External links

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Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...