The First Professional Football League is a Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Bulgarian football league system, it serves as the country's primary football competition. The league determines the champion of Bulgaria and contested by fourteen teams it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the second tier of the Bulgarian football league pyramid, the Second League. First League was formed during the summer of 2016 with the restructure and rebranding the name of the top division of Bulgarian football.