The Serie A Femenina de Ecuador is the highest amateur league of women's football in

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. The competition is organised by the

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. Until 2013, the tournament was played by divisional selections and not clubs. After a restructuring in 2013 clubs contest the league title. The winner qualifies to the

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. As of 2014 all teams are amateur and do not pay their players, the only exception is Rocafuerte which pays small amounts of money.

History

The national championship was announced and first held 2006. It is open to representative teams of all

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and not to clubs. In the first edition fifteen regions entered a team and eventually the Guayas selection finished on top of the Pichincha selection to become the first champions. In 2013 the league was restructured and is only played by clubs since then. 16 teams were divided into four groups of four. The top two advance and then form two groups of four. The top two teams advance to the semi-finals. For the 2014 season, the twelve best placed teams of the 2013 season will build the first league while the four last placed teams will play in a new second division. Those divisions are called Serie A and Serie B and both start the 2014 season with twelve teams. By 2014 the FEF committed to apply seminars by

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on female tournaments, on referees, coaching, directive, and players. The 2016 season had to be postponed, because of monetary problems. Because of that the second stage was delayed until January 2017.http://www.futbolecuador.com/site/noticia/la-primera-etapa-del-campeonato-femenino-concluye-la-proxima-semana/73307 The top four team of each of the two groups qualified to the second stage.

2014 teams

Serie A consists of twelve teams: * Cruz del Sur - Tena * Cumandá - Puyo * Espuce - Quito * Grupo Siete - Montecristi * Las Palmas - Santo Domingo * LDU Amateur - Quito * Quito FC - Quito * Rocafuerte - Guayaquil * Siete de febrero - Babahoyo * Unión - Babahoyo * Unión Española - Guayaquil * U. San Francisco - Quito

List of champions

Below is the list of all champions.

References

External links

Federation website
{{CONMEBOL women's leagues Football leagues in Ecuador

Recurring sporting events established in 2006 Women's sports leagues in Ecuador