“In our country, a strange designation of football divisions has developed. RPL, FNL, PFL. In my understanding, these abbreviations did not take root among the masses. It is quite difficult to explain to ordinary people why the former Second League is called PFL, that is, the Professional Football League. And what, the Premier League - is it not professional? ” - quotes Solovyov kp.ru.
According to him, the logic should be traced in the names of the divisions. He noted that there are variants of names for the system of divisions: “Major League - First League - Second League” and “National League - Development League - League of Regions”. At the same time, the RFU intends to conduct sociological research in the country in order to understand what is best to do in this situation.
“To the new names, I think we will come to the season-2021/22. This is necessary including from the point of view of end-to-end marketing. It is no secret that the FNL has no sponsors except bookmakers. The RPL has only recently appeared Tinkoff, and before that, there were also not a large number of partners. Although it is worth paying tribute to the RPL - they did a lot of work to change, ”added Solovyov.
Earlier, Valery Gazzayev proposed renaming the Russian Football Cup to the President’s Cup.