M.League

M.League

File:M.League Logo.jpg
Founded	18 October 2025
Country	United Mandaran States
Confederation	CMFA
Divisions	M1 League M2 League
Number of teams	24
Level on pyramid	1-2
League cup(s)	Confederation Cup
International cup(s)	IFCF Champions League IFCF Challengers Cup CMFA Champions League
Current champions	TBD (2026)
TV partners	Various
Current: 2026 M1 League 2026 M2 League

The Mandaran Professional Football League (Pemecutan Malay: Liga Sepakbola Profesional Mandara) commonly shortened to M.League is the men's association football league in United Mandaran States. It is responsible to organize the country's major professional league including M1 and M2 League. It is established in 2025 after the unification of the countries in Mandaran area to become United Mandaran States. The first season set to be launch in 2026.

History

Rumor of the unification of the 8 countries within Mandaran region have long been circulated. It was one of the most anticipated events, but it will also bring a huge change in the existing conditions of each of the country involved especially in term of sports. Association football as the most popular sports in the area is hoped to bring a warm breeze in time of the unification. The organizing bodies of the 8 countries seat together within AMFA (All-Mandaran Football Association) to discuss the future plan of the united country league system. After weeks of brainstorming, a new league system is agreed by all members including the establishment of Mandaran Professional Football League or commonly known as M.League. The league aim is to push the transformation of football clubs within Mandaran to become a professional club. Until the creation of M.League, only clubs from Pemecutan league that have become professional with some from Soracana Islands. While clubs from other countries are mostly semi-pro.

Clubs and divisions

As the league will represent United Mandaran States in regional and international competitions, 2 divisions are officially made. This to cover any possible qualified competitions. The first division is M1 League, it is the top-level association football league in the country. The clubs within this league will qualify to CMFA Champions League, IFCF Champions League and IFCF Challengers Cup. The second division is M2 League where the clubs have the chance to enter IFCF Liga B Champions Trophy.

The organizers decide to place 12 clubs per division for starter with a possibility of enlargement in the future. The number is seen as a reasonable number for a good competition and for club development. For starter, the organizer gives allocation slots to each state association. Pemecutan get the largest slots with 7 for the fact that most of their clubs are already a professional club. Cakranegara and Toluiwa shared the second most slots with 5 because of their active participation in international competitions where they are a regular entry of FFI sanctioned competitions. Manguwirajya and Soracana Islands are given 2 slots each as their club have had participated in international competitions although not as much as the other 3. While Petang Islands, Rarungan and Gili Anakan are both get 1 slot each because of their lack of international performance. Each state association is given their freedom to allocate the slot to which club. Pemecutan, Cakranegara and Toluiwa give their slots to the clubs based on their latest league result. Soracana Islands, Manguwirajya and Petang Islands give their slots to the best performance club as their clubs join in Pemecutan league. Rarungan and Gili Anakan give their slot to the club that is the most prepared to become professional.

Promotion and relegation

Each season, the league will consist of 2 phases. The first phase is the regular season where each club will play twice, one at home and one away against each of the other clubs. At the end of the regular season, the league is split into top 6 or known as Champions Section and lower 6 or Relegation Section. The club once again play twice, one at home and one away against each of the other clubs in their section. But the clubs from the Relegation Section cannot passed into the Champions Section despite having a higher point. In the end of the second phase, the leader of the table comes out as the champion while the bottom place is automatically relegated to the lower division. In the case of M2 League, they will be relegated to their respected state league. The second bottom place will be entering a play-off match to determine whether they are being relegated or retain their position in the league. The play-off system is adopting Pemecutan play-off system where 2nd to 4th position in M2 League are qualify to the play-off. They will compete in 3 stages play-off where the final stage is when they are playing against the 11th place of M1 League. For M2 League bottom play-off, the 11th place will be playing against the runner-up of Mandara National Championship to determine whether they will be relegated or not.