Liga de Elite (; ), previously known as Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol, is the top division of the

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, created in 1973. The league features local players and professional foreign players. Due to the lack of football fields in Macau, most matches are played at the Estádio Campo Desportivo. As with

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, the league is separate from the mainland Chinese football league system. The league is generally played between January and July of each calendar year.

History

In the inaugural 2014 edition,

Lam Pak Grupo Desportivo de Lam Pak (Traditional Chinese: 藍白, meaning blue white, the club colours) is a Macau professional football club, which plays in the town of Macau. They play in the Macau's first division, the Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Fu ...

Lam Ieng Lam Ieng is a Macau football club, which plays in the town of Macau. They played in the Macau's first division, the Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol Liga de Elite (; ), previously known as Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol, is the top ...

and

Kuan Tai Kuan Tai (Traditional Chinese: 關帝文化) is a Macau football club, which plays in Macao. The team have been withdrawn from the Macau's first division, the Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol Liga de Elite (; ), previously known as Campe ...

all forfeited from the First Division before the start of the competition. Lam Pak and Lam Ieng withdrew due to the lack of backing from sponsors and Kuan Tai cited budget issues and could no longer afford to pay some of its players. To solve the problem of three sudden vacancies, the

clarified that the two clubs that were relegated in 2013, Kei Lun and MFA Development, were invited to remain, and an additional third team would come from the Second Division. After careful consideration by the MFA, no team from the Second Division was picked, being deemed not competitive enough for the First Division.

Previous season

Ten teams contested the

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. Gala and

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were promoted from last season's

2ª Divisão de Macau Campeonato da 2ª Divisão do Futebol, is the second division of the Associação de Futebol de Macau, Macau Football Association, created in 2005. As with the Hong Kong First Division League, it is separate from the mainland Chinese football le ...

Previous winners

Winners were: *1949: Polícia *1950: Sporting de Macau *1951–60: ''unknown'' *1962: Sporting de Macau *1963: Sporting de Macau *1964: Hong Lok *1965: Macao Post Office *1965–72: ''unknown'' *1973: Polícia *1974–84: ''unknown'' *1985: Wa Seng *1986: Hap Kuan *1987: Hap Kuan *1988: Wa Seng *1989: Hap Kuan *1990: Hap Kuan *1991: Sporting de Macau *1992:

*1993: Leng Ngan *1994:

*1995: GD Artilheiros *1996: GD Artilheiros *1997:

*1998:

*1999:

*2000: Polícia *2001:

*2002:

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*2003:

*2004:

*2005: Polícia *2006:

*2007:

*2008:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

: Ka I *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

: Ka I *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: Ka I *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

: Benfica de Macau *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

: Benfica de Macau *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

: Benfica de Macau *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

: Benfica de Macau *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Chao Pak Kei MUST CPK Football Team, simply known as MUST CPK (), is a Macanese professional football club which currently competes in the Liga de Elite. History MUST CPK Football Team Football Team was established in 2008 by Stephen Chow, Inacio Hui and Ken ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

: Benfica de Macau - non oficial championship due to covid *

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

: Benfica de Macau

Champions

Best player

* The edition of the 2022 championship, two best player was chosen.

Top goalscorers

Record season goalscorers

* 5 times ** William Carlos Gomes (2014, 2015, 2018, 2019,2024) * 4 times ** Carlos Leonel (2016, 2017, 2020, 2021)

Most goals by a player in a single season

: * 41 goals: ** William Carlos Gomes (

Most goals by a player in a single game

: * 8 goals: ** William Carlos Gomes (

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) 1–12 against

Hang Sai Hang Sai () is a Macanese professional football club which currently competes in the Liga de Elite. History In 2017, Hang Sai won the 2ª Divisão de Macau Campeonato da 2ª Divisão do Futebol, is the second division of the Associação de ...

, 16 June

All-time goalscorers

Multiple hat-tricks

;Most hat-tricks in a single season: * 24 hat-tricks (

). ;Most hat-tricks by a player in a single season: * 7 hat-tricks ** Carlos Leonel (

References

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