European Leagues European Leagues European Leagues (EL) is a sports organization within association football created for growth of professional football in Europe. Its members are the professional football leagues organisations of 24 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Ukraine, and Serbia. In addition, there are seven associate leagues representing some of these countries as well as Turkey. Created in 1997, originally under the name Association of the European Union Premier Professional Football Leagues (EUPPFL). The name was changed from European Professional Football Leagues
Slovak football clubs in European competitions a score of 1.500 during the 2012–13 European campaign, Slovakia is ranked by UEFA as the 26th best association in Europe out of 54 - down one place from 48th the previous season. <section end=firstroundmatch /> Slovak football clubs in European competitions Slovak football clubs have participated in European football competitions since 1956. Before 1993 Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia, therefore Slovak teams represented this country and did not always have a spot in European competitions. "All statistics and records are accurate as of 30 September 2018." For the 2014–15 UEFA competitions, the associations were allocated places according to