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Is the new MLS Next Pro considered a FPL? It's launching this year as a Div 3 league in the US. Majority of the teams will be B teams of the MLS clubs that played in the FPL USL Championship (2nd tier) and USL League One (3rd tier) that are moving over to this new league, as well as some independent pro clubs. It's being touted as a fully pro league, not a reserve division. The rosters will include players on all professional contracts, but also allow for youth players from the team's academy to make some (limited) appearances. RedPatch (talk) 23:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have looked to find information about salaries in the league, but thus far I have not been able to come up with anything other than that the league ostensibly does not have a salary cap. Given how little information is out there right now and how little the league has said about anything, I think it should not be included for now. Jay eyem (talk) 16:32, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing official yet, but anecdotally a professional player in the USL Championship has said early indications are that salaries for MLS Next Pro are comparable to USL League One, which are only nominally lower than the USL Championship. Worth waiting for more info, but teams that were USL Championship a few months ago have very similar rosters and similar calibre of professional players. UncleTupelo1 (talk) 16:36, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I second what Jay is saying. There's a lot of grey right now. The Athletic published a piece last month that notes a few points (since this is paywalled I'll try my best to include cites to non-paywell versions for each point). Firstly, not only is there no salary cap but there is neither a minimum nor a maximum salary for players. Second, team's will be comprised of 35 roster slots; 1-24 are for professional players and slots 25-35 are for amateur players. That last bit sticks out since to fit FPL, doesn't a team need to be fully comprised of professional players? I know reserve teams sometimes get exceptions but this could be 1/3rd a roster. Plus, those amateur roster rules would apply to independent teams like Rochester New York FC, right? ColeTrain4EVER (talk) 17:19, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

USL Championship also has the caveat of being able to play Academy players so I dont really think that should be the cutoff if that is where the hesitation lies. And there is a minimum number of professional players needed on the field at all times. Jstreeter2 (talk) 22:23, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The league has started, any updates on its status? There are a bunch of player articles already created solely after their debut in this league. BlameRuiner (talk) 15:00, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No changes as far as I can tell. MLS has not been forthcoming about the wages in this league and I don't see a reason to add MLS Next Pro to this list. I think a lot of those articles could safely be nominated for deletion, especially since the major changes at Wikipedia:Notability (sports) were instituted. Jay eyem (talk) 03:28, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The new WP:FOOTBALL guideline stopped mentioning players since the mega-RfC that brought it to its demise. I tried to update the lead here (diff) and got reverted with a "nope" (diff). GiantSnowman, care to elaborate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilaz (talk • contribs)

Because your edit does not align with the context of the discussions that led to the entries on this page, and saying otherwise is both unhelpful and inaccurate? The lede can be updated once we have consensus about NFOOTBALL, but picking out the one bone that's left from the carcass and saying "Ok this is Fido now" isn't good logic. Alyo (chat·edits) 06:37, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The RFC and closure seem contentious and divisive and it's implementation is still being discussed, so we can wait a bit to see what settles down before updating this sub-sub-page. --SuperJew (talk) 06:40, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This can no longer be ignored, since it is being cited incorrectly by people not aware of the change. I have removed incorrect sentences from the lead. agtx 17:16, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I know this page is historical (even though very well sourced page still can be helpful for many things on Wikipdias or eventually creatling new article "list of association football lkeagues) but I would like to ask why according to this page Fiji is fully proffestional since 20's, meanwhile Scottish second tier is not since 20's? I can not believe. Is anyone who has sources how much earn respectivelly football players in second tier in Scotland and how much at Fiji? Dawid2009 (talk) 12:08, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to the sources provided, the Scottish championship had a non-professional team join in 19-20, meaning they are not fully professional after that season. Conversely, the Fiji league began to be fully professional in 2020. Alyo (chat·edits) 15:45, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why there is Sri Lanka Champions League but not Sri Lanka Super League on the list? Dawid2009 (talk) 12:30, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Probably because the Champions League was added before 2018, when the Super League was formed. Alyo (chat·edits) 15:46, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The first professional league season is established in Iraq, in cooperation with La Liga. Surely this is the right moment to include Iraq in the list of professional leagues right? You can find more info here https://twitter.com/hassaninmubarak/status/1715874852739920132 https://twitter.com/lovinbaghdad/status/1715986536636756319 Suren01 (talk) 09:22, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The page is no longer relevant anyway and has been deprecated following an RfC which resulted in notability of football players being decided soley by WP:GNG. --SuperJew (talk) 09:25, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]