OUR CITIES

Competing in the world’s first truly global league for football

Our inaugural Global Premier Football League cities were chosen using a variety of criteria: size, facilities, capacity, geographic spread, football culture. Here are the clubs that will play in each city.

Does your city host one of our inaugural clubs? What are the clubs named? Which global superstar(s) will play in a stadium near you?

Visit the Global Premier Football League Cities

Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES
Cairo
CAIRO
Dubai-Abu Dhabi
DUBAI-ABU DHABI
Hong Kong
HONG KONG
Istanbul
ISTANBUL
Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG
London
LONDON
Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES
Madrid
MADRID
Mexico City
MEXICO CITY
Munich
MUNICH
New York
NEW YORK
Paris
PARIS
Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO
Rome
ROME
Shanghai
SHANGHAI
Singapore
SINGAPORE
Paris
SYDNEY
Tokyo-Yokohama
TOKYO-YOKOHAMA
Toronto
TORONTO

Our 20 Cities

How did we do it?

How does anyone pick just 20 from the hundreds of world class locations around the world?

“There’s a big chunk of personal preference involved, of course,” explains Dwayne Barlow, Global Premier Football League (GPFL) founder. “I mean, where I would like to watch football plays a big part because this my thing. But we’ve also taken some specialist advice.”

The 2021 World’s Best Cities list, along with the updated 2022 version, were great places to start, continue and, almost finish. “There was some excellent info in these reports and, if anything, it reinforced what we initially thought about a number of our prospective locations. Go through the first 20-plus cities on the lists and you will certainly find fair few in the final mix.”

But we didn’t stop there. “We had to make sure to get a natural global spread of locations for our clubs, while also taking into consideration important aspects such as football culture and sporting infrastructure,” said Barlow.

“We also had a tricky choice regarding Moscow. Under normal conditions the Russian capital would have made the final 20 but, given the war, we just couldn’t touch them.”

Can you guess the lucky location that made it in at Moscow’s expense?

“In the end we think we’ve come up with a pretty solid group for our 20 GPFL locations. It’s a great mix and covers off everything we were looking for.”