The Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal (Professional Football League), also known by its acronym LPF, is a Romanian governing body that runs the Liga I, the top professional division of the Romanian football league system.

The first football organizational system was Colegiul Divizionar A ("Divisional College A"), founded on 5 October 1970 and led by Mircea Angelescu.

On 10 October 1992, the name of the organization was changed into "Professional Football A Division League", with Mircea Angelescu acting as president, Dumitru Dragomir as vice-president and Daniel Lăzărescu as general secretary.

On 30 September 1996, Dumitru Dragomir was elected president, a position held for twenty years.

In December 1997, it was decided that LPF would organize the national league starting with the 1997–98 season.