Bosnia and Herzegovina women's football championship

Bosnia and Herzegovina women's football championship
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Confederation	UEFA
Founded	2001
Divisions	1
Number of teams	6
Level on pyramid	1
Domestic cup(s)	National Cup
International cup(s)	UEFA Champions League
Current champions	SFK 2000 Sarajevo (14th title) (2015–16)
Most championships	SFK 2000 Sarajevo (14 titles)
Website	NSFBiH.ba

The Bosnia and Herzegovina women's football championship (Bosnian: Ženska nogometna liga BiH) is the top level women's football league of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 2013 the league is united, before it was played in two separate groups, one being the Republika Sprska women's football championship, with the champion being decided in a play-off group.^[1]

The winner of the play-off qualifyies for a spot in the UEFA Women's Champions League.

The league draws basically no media attention in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There is very low funding for the clubs that often don't even have training fields.^[2]

History

Until 2013 the league was divided into the NFSBiH league and the league of the Republic of Srpska. The best two teams of the NFSBiH league qualified for a play-off in which the champion of the Republika Sprska women's football championship joined. The venue for the play-off was decided beforehand and it was played as three-team group.

Format

The teams play a double round robin after which the two best-placed teams advance to 3 team play-off group with the best placed club from Republika Srpska.

In 2014/15 eight teams play a triple round-robin for 21 matches in total.

2012–13 Teams

The 2012–13 season is played by the following six teams.^[3]

Sarajevo

Srebrenik

Tuzla

Zenica

Travnik

Orahovica

Locations of the Bosnian First League teams

Team	Home city	Home ground
SFK 2000	Sarajevo	Koševo II
ŽOFK Gradina	Srebrenik	Gradski stadion
ŽNK Čelik Zenica	Zenica	Kamberović polje
ŽNK Salt City	Tuzla	NK Mramor
ŽNK Mladost Nević Polje	Travnik	Mladost Nević Polje
ŽNK Orahovica 74	Donja Orahovica	Barice

List of champions

The list of champions^[4]

2001–02: NK Iskra Bugojno
2002–03: SFK 2000 (Sarajevo)
2003–04: SFK 2000
2004–05: SFK 2000
2005–06: SFK 2000
2006–07: SFK 2000
2007–08: SFK 2000
2008–09: SFK 2000
2009–10: SFK 2000
2010–11: SFK 2000
2011–12: SFK 2000^[5]
2012–13: SFK 2000
2013–14: SFK 2000^[6]
2014–15: SFK 2000
2015–16: SFK 2000^[7]

Title by team

Club	Titles
SFK 2000	14
Iskra Bugojno	1

References

↑ "National women's league launches in Bosnia and Herzegovina". UEFA. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
↑ Lejla Mazlic (16 September 2009). "Women's football teams ignored in B&H". HRH Sarajevo. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
↑ "Club list". nsfbih.ba. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
↑ Hans Schöggl (11 January 2010). "Bosnia-Hercegovina (Women) List of Champions". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
↑ "SFK 2000 won the championship again". NFSBiH. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
↑ http://sport033.com/nogometasice-sfk-2000-potvrdile-dominaciju-u-bih/
↑ "Nova titula za SFK Sarajevo 2000" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.

External links

Official Site of the Football Association of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Football in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina

National teams

Men:	Bosnia and Herzegovina U-21 U-19 U-17

Women:	Bosnia and Herzegovina U-19 U-17

League system

Men:	Premier League First League FBiH RS Second League FBiH RS

Women:	Bosnia and Herzegovina women's football championship

Domestic cups

Men:	National Cup Super Cup (discontinued) Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Cup Republika Srpska Cup

Women:	Bosnia and Herzegovina Women's Football Cup

Top level women's football leagues of Europe (UEFA)

Active	Albania Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

Defunct leagues	Azerbaijan Belgium & Netherlands Czechoslovakia East Germany Soviet Union

Top level women's association football leagues around the world

Africa (clubs)

Asia (clubs)

West Asia	Jordan Women's Football League (Jordan)

Central Asia	Kowsar Women Football League (Iran) Kyrgyzstan Women's Championship (Kyrgyzstan) Uzbek women's football championship (Uzbekistan)

South Asia	Indian Women's League (India) National Women Football Championship (Pakistan)

East Asia	Chinese Women's Super League (China PR) Chinese Taipei women's football championship (Chinese Taipei) Hong Kong Women League (Hong Kong) Nadeshiko League (Japan) WK League (Korea Republic)

Southeast Asia	W-League (Australia/New Zealand) Pertiwi Cup (Indonesia) PFF Women's League (Philippines) Thai Women's Premier League (Thailand) Vietnam women's football championship (Vietnam)

Europe (clubs)

North & Central America,
and the Caribbean (clubs)

North America	National Women's Soccer League (USA/Canada)

Caribbean	JFF/SDF Women’s League (Jamaica)

Oceania (clubs)

National Women's League (New Zealand)

South America (clubs)

Geography of women's association football

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