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{{short description|Association football league of Puerto Rico}}
{{Infobox football league
| name       = Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Puerto Rico
| logo       = Liga Nacional de Futbol de Puerto Rico.png
| pixels     = x150px
| country    = {{PUR}}
| confed     = [[CONCACAF]]
| founded    = {{Start date and years ago|2009|7|25}}
| folded     = 2016
| relegation = None
| levels     = [[Puerto Rican football league system|1]]
| teams      = [[#Clubs|6]]
| domest_cup =
| confed_cup = [[CFU Club Championship]]
| champions = [[Criollos de Caguas FC|Criollos de Caguas]] (1st title)
| season =
| most successful club = [[Puerto Rico Bayamón|Bayamón]]; [[Maunabo Leones]]<br/ >(2 titles each)
| tv =
| website =
| current = [[2020 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Puerto Rico|2020 season]]
}}
The '''Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Puerto Rico''' ('''LNF''') was the first division [[association football]] league of [[Puerto Rico]] sharing D-1 status with [[Puerto Rico Soccer League]]. The LNF was founded on July 25, 2009 and the 2015 season featured six teams.
==History==
The league was founded on July 25, 2009 as the second division of the [[Puerto Rico Soccer League]] (PRSL), which was at that time the first division league of [[Puerto Rico]]. The Liga Nacional de Fútbol originally had 16 teams that were put into two groups of 8 (East Division and West Division) for the regular season.
The inaugural year began with [[Yabucoa Borikén]] taking on [[Maunabo Leones]], as well as [[San Juan United]] taking on [[Club Deportivo Gallitos]]. Both games were held in [[Yabucoa, Puerto Rico|Yabucoa]]. The Playoffs final had [[Maunabo Leones]] winning over [[Bayamón FC]].
In 2010, the league size was increased to 21 teams divided into four divisions. The playoffs mixed the top teams in each division together.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://futbolboricua.blogspot.com/2009/07/arranca-la-liga-nacional-de-futbol.html|title=Blogger}}</ref>
During the 2011 season, there were 17 teams and the separate divisions were merged into one division.<ref>[http://www.liganacionalpr.com/ LNFPR] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304212501/http://www.liganacionalpr.com/ |date=2012-03-04 }}</ref>
In 2012, the league became the first division football league of Puerto Rico upon the folding of the [[Puerto Rico Soccer League]].
==Clubs==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Team !! City !! Stadium !! Cap. !! Seasons in LNF !! Manager
|-
! style="background:navy;" colspan="7"| [[LNF|<span style="color:white;">Liga Nacional de Futbol de Puerto Rico</span>]]
|-
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Bayamón|Bayamón FC]] ||[[Bayamon, Puerto Rico]] || [[Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium]]|| 22,000 || 2009–2013, 2015–present || [[Francisco Arias (football manager)|Francisco Arias]]
|-
| [[Criollos de Caguas FC]] || [[Caguas, Puerto Rico]] ||  [[Asociación Central de Balompie]] || 1,200 || 2009–present ||{{flagicon|PUR}}  [[Steven Estrada]]
|-
| [[FC Leones]] || [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]] || [[Estadio Francisco Montaner]] || 11,537 || 2011–present || -
|-
| [[Guayama FC]] || [[Guayama, Puerto Rico]] || [[Cancha de Balompié]]|| 1,000 || 2012–present || -
|-
| [[Tornados de Humacao]] || [[Humacao, Puerto Rico]] || [[Nestor Morales Stadium]] || # || 2012–present ||{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Eloy Ubaldo Martínez Soto]]
|-
| [[Yabuco FC]] || [[Yabucoa, Puerto Rico]] || [[Pista Atlética Adán Fonseca]] || # || 2014–present || -
|-
| [[Academia Quintana]] || [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]] || [[Hiram Bithorn Stadium]]  || 18,264 || 2009–2011, 2013, 2016–present || {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Vitor Hugo Barros]]
|-
| [[Spartans FC Puerto Rico|Spartans FC]] || [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]] ||  || # || 2016–present || -
|-
| [[Metropolitan FA]] || [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]] ||  || # || 2016–present || -
|-
| [[Mirabelli SA]] || Puerto Rico || || # || 2016–present || -
|-
| [[Puerto Rico United]] || [[Aguada, Puerto Rico]] || [[Aguada Stadium]] || 4,000 || 2016–present || [[Raimundo C. Gatinho]]
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Giant]] || Puerto Rico ||   || # || 2016–present || -
|-
| [[Isabela Soccer Club]] || [[Isabela, Puerto Rico]] || [[Pista Francisco "Paco" Dumeng]] || # || 2016–present || -
|-
| [[Maunabo Leones|Leones de Maunabo]] || [[Maunabo, Puerto Rico]] ||  || # || 2016–present || -
|-
|}
==Former clubs==
*Aguilas Añasco (2010)
*Atlético Parque FC (2010)
*[[Club Deportivo Gallitos]] (2009–10)
*[[Club Yagüez]] (2009–10)
*Conquistadores de Guaynabo (2011)
*[[Gigantes de Carolina FC]] (2010)
*[[Guayanilla Pumas]] (2009–11)
*[[High Performance FC]] (2009–10)
*[[Real Atlantico]] (2011)
*Roberto Cofresí (2010–11)
*[[San Juan United]] (2009)
*[[Spartans FC Puerto Rico]] (2009)
*Sport for Nations (2010)
*[[Yabucoa Borikén]] (2009–10)
==See also==
{{Portal|Puerto Rico|Soccer}}
*[[Puerto Rico Soccer League]]
*[[List of Puerto Rican football champions]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/p-ricochamp.html Puerto Rico - List of Champions], RSSSF.com
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