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JPL best in the region
September 13, 2024
Owen Hill, CEO of Professional Football of Jamaica Limited (PFJL), said recent improvements in operations of the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League (JPL) has cemented the league as the best football competition in the Caribbean.
The JPL is set to kick off the 2024/25 season this weekend and Hill promises more excitement and drama for football fans in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region.
A new trend Hill has observed throughout the summer is the increased signings of regional talent who have made the JPL their destination league for the future.
He believes this trend will continue as the JPL clubs further their ambitions for success in regional competitions by recruiting the region's best talents.
"It is the number-one league in region, I can tell you that. The facts are there and the statistics show that," Hill stated.
"It gives the strength to the individual clubs and all of them have the ambition of winning the Caribbean Cup and getting very far in the Championship Cup and what we're seeing is a proliferation of that and strengthening of the clubs," he added.
A major change for this season will see the JPL return to three rounds of matches in the regular season, as opposed to two rounds which was used last season.
This will be the first time since the suspended 2019/2020 season that the JPL last played three rounds of regular season matches and will increase the number of games for each team from 26 up to 39.
Hill said the increase will provide greater opportunity for players to showcase their talent on the main stage, as well as bring more excitement for fans to come out and enjoy.
"As you can see, we'll keep building the league and building on our own strategic plans and trying to get it bigger and better. You'll have more games and that gives more opportunities to the players," he explained.
"Then you have stronger partnerships that encourage the clubs to perform more professionally. We have a wider pool of talent to deal with so what fans can expect is more excitement, jam-packed football and high intensity and quality games."
Match week one of the competition begins this Sunday.
