The Pakistan Football Federation’s 8th PFF League (2011, 2nd Division), featuring departmental, clubs and regions will kick off on Tuesday today with matches being played at four centers of the country: Karachi, Sahiwal, Lahore and Islamabad. Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) will be taking on Gawadar Port Authority (GPA) in the opening match of the league at the Karachi’s Korangi Baloch Football Ground. The following departmental and club teams are participating in the PFFL, 2nd Division.
The departmental teams are: Railway, PTV, Pak Steel, SSGC, PPWD, GPA, ZTBL, HEC, Ashraf Sugar Mill Bahawalpur and Macca Flour Mills Faisalabad. The club teams are: Wohaib FC Lahore, University FC Faisalabad, Baloch FC Quetta, Afghan Sports FC Quetta, Chaman FC Chaman, Young Blood FC Sahiwal, Mansab FC Kharan and FATA. It is pertinent to mention here that at the end of PFFL-2011, 2nd Division one team from departmental leg and one from club leg i.e. two finalist of PFFL, 2nd Division will be promoted to Pakistan Premier Football League-2012 (PPFL). Similarly, the two teams that finished at the bottom of PPFL-2011 will be relegated from PPFL to PPL, 2nd Division. Top two teams that won the 1st and 2nd place in the PFFL-2011, 2nddivision will be promoted to PPFL.
