Football: FFSL Super League to kick off from February 17

Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) will make history with the launching of its first-ever professional football league competition -- the Super League, from February 17 at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo. 
 
The Super League competition has been the talk of the town among all of the Sri Lankan football fraternity for the past few months and has been restructured on a few occasions, to suit the current health and safety guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 
Super League will be a great initiative for the development of the Sri Lanka team, as well as for the top-tier clubs to step into the professional football industry with commercial and economic benefits.  
 
FFSL has selected ten top-tier clubs through a strict club licensing criterion on par with international standards. 

These clubs are now shaping up their operations to transform into vibrant professional entities, similar to European football clubs. 
 
Although the original format was designed with the home and away concept consisting of 90 games in a round-robin system, the format had to be changed due to the health guidelines and safety purposes. 

The FFSL has rearranged the format to a single leg-based format, where the competition will be limited to 45 games, with nine games per club.