The Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal (''Professional Football League''), also known by its

acronym An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase. Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of words, as in ''NATO'' (''North Atlantic Treaty Organization''), but sometimes use syllables, as ...

LPF, is a Romanian

governing body A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken ge ...

that runs the

Liga I The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

, the top professional division of the

Romanian football league system The Romanian football league system, also known as the football pyramid, refers to the system in Romanian club football that consists of several football leagues bound together hierarchically by promotion and relegation. The first three leagues ar ...

. Its current president is

Gino Iorgulescu George "Gino" Iorgulescu (born 15 May 1956) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He is the current chairman of the Romanian Professional Football League. Club career Gino Iorgulescu was born on 15 May 1956 in ...

, elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017.

History

The first football organizational system was ''Colegiul Divizionar A'' ("Divisional College A"), founded on 5 October 1970 and led by Mircea Angelescu. Until 1990, the "Divisional College A" was formal, but without notable decisions. During the 1990s many changes were implemented, reflected in the new names of the organization, "Divisional Team's League A", "National Football League", "Professional Club's League", etc. On 10 October 1992, the name of the organization was changed into "Professional Football A Division League", with Mircea Angelescu acting as president,

Dumitru Dragomir Dumitru "Mitică" Dragomir (born May 30, 1946) is a former president of the Romanian Professional Football League from 1996 until 2014. Before that, he served as the president of Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea, Olt Scorniceşti, FCM Braşov, and Vict ...

as vice-president and Daniel Lăzărescu as general secretary. On 22 January 1993, the name of the organization became "Professional Football League of Romania", and on 13 October 1993, the

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—then named ''Divizia B''—club's members were included. On 30 September 1996, Dumitru Dragomir was elected president, a position held for twenty years. The headquarters has been located on 47 Mihai Eminescu Street since February 1997. In December 1997, it was decided that LPF would organize the national league starting with the 1997–98 season. In November 2013,

replaced Dragomir as the president of the organization.

References

External links

Official website
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