2019–20 PFF Women's League explained

Competition:PFF Women's League
Season:2019–20
Dates:27 July 2019 – 16 February 2020
Winners:De La Salle University
3rd title
Best Player: Anna Delos Reyes
League Topscorer: Isabella Bandoja
(30 goals)
Best Goalkeeper: Kimberly Pariña
Highest Scoring:Maroons 0–11 Far Eastern University
(20 October 2019)
Nomads 0–11 Far Eastern University
(15 December 2019)
Matches:90
Total Goals:394
Prevseason:2018
Nextseason:2023

The 2019–20 PFF Women's League season is the third season of the women's national league of the Philippines following the 2018 season.

De La Salle University is the defending champions.

Format

The league adopted a double round-robin format with a projected 90 matches to be played from July 27, 2019. The primary venue for the league's matches is the PFF National Training Centre in Carmona, Cavite. Matches will be usually held in the weekends with select matches to be held during the weekdays.[1] The league's first round ran until mid-October 2019[2] with the second round beginning on October 19, 2019.[3]

Though initially planned to last until December 2019,[1] the league season's duration was extended to the following year with the first matches of 2020 to be held on January 11, 2020.[4] The season ended in February 2020.[5]

Clubs

10 teams participated in the third season of the league with Maroons FC, Nomads FC, and Tigers FC. making their debuts. 2018 season participants, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle Zobel and OutKast decided not to enter for this season while Hiraya had a merger with Stallion to form Hiraya-Stallion F.C..[1]

Club / Team
De La Salle University
Far Eastern University
Stallion–Hiraya
Maroons
Nomads
Tigers
Tuloy
University of Santo Tomas
University of the Philippines

Venues

The following football venues has hosted league matches:

Results

Second round

Honors

Individual award[6]
Team

Notes and References

  1. News: Third season of the PFF Women's League kicks off July 27th . 26 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190726110706/https://sports.abs-cbn.com/football/news/2019/07/26/third-season-pff-women-s-league-kicks-july-27th-59437. 26 July 2019. ABS-CBN News . 26 July 2019.
  2. News: Montayre . Mia . La Salle set to defend PFFWL crown . 27 July 2019 . Tiebreaker Times . 27 July 2019.
  3. News: Montayre . Mia . UST, FEU close PFFWL first round with big wins . 23 October 2019 . Tiebreaker Times . 18 October 2019.
  4. News: Montayre . Mia . La Salle, UAAP teams close out year flexing muscles in PFFWL . 4 January 2020 . Tiebreaker Times . 22 December 2019.
  5. News: PFF Technical Department Lays Out Plans For 2020 . 24 January 2020 . Philippine Football Federation . 24 January 2020.
  6. News: De La Salle University Clinches Third Straight PFF Women's League Title . 17 February 2020 . Philippine Football Federation . 17 February 2020.
  7. News: Montayre . Mia . La Salle takes PFFWL three-peat . 20 February 2020 . Tiebreaker Times . 19 February 2020.