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[Zarbli]

Tigers vs Emperors
Zarbli's All-Star Game V

Duke League V is over and Romans have the crown. It's once again time for another all-awesome all-thirlling Zarblese All-Star Game, gathering the best players of the Duke League!

It's a clash of titans, the fight of the heavy weights, it's Tigers vs Emperors!


Tigers
Tigers' team is chosen from clubs from the North-East (Asia FC, Balance, Cross SC, Mountain Chain, Polar Zenith and TFC) and West (Billiard, Cannibals, Coconut Trees and Romans) regions.

This year Tigers had at its disposition players from Romans, Polar Zenith and Cannibals, top 3 clubs on DL-V.

TIGERS' 11

Emperors
Emperors' team is composed of players from the Center (Drooler, Lichen, Lunar, Union and Warriors) and South (Battle, Bloodthirsty Killers, Knights and Pyramid AC) regions' clubs.

It's the first time that Emperors had to choose amongst teams that didn't make the Top 3 in the season's DL.

EMPERORS' 11

The Match

Colizeu Masimis, in Colosseum, received 75,602 football fans for the Tigers vs. Emperors V. For the first time the game took place in a Tigers venue, so almost everyone was supporting the white side.

Jenio Aladin and Ernie Milestone, both midfielders from Romans, were the best men in the match, conducting with maestry the Tigers squad. Aladin made the pass for Bandebola Norman to strike the first, and Milestone himself put the ball in Mia Mumia's goal in the second half. Ivan Otehiveu's goal wasn't enough to bring Emperors back to the game.

Tiger won 2-1, the first victory for the West/North-East side.

Duke Award
Season's MVP

Jenio Aladin, Roman's veteran and skillful midfielder.

[Iron Coast (Ancient)]

hi

[Virabia]

8 v.league Standings

    Team                       P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Laufston Town             38  17  10  11  65  47  +18  61 SBCC
  2 Vonghurst Capitols        38  18   7  13  62  56   +6  61
  3 CD Vonghurst              38  17   9  12  61  44  +17  60
  4 Freeville Pioneers        38  15  14   9  54  44  +10  59 SBCC
  5 Portsham City             38  17   8  13  64  60   +4  59
  6 F.C. Negroe Pride         38  16  10  12  57  47  +10  58 SBCC
  7 Mount Charlie             38  17   6  15  44  44   +0  57 SBCC
  8 Damst Hill Ducks          38  16   8  14  69  59  +10  56
  9 Southham United           38  17   4  17  50  47   +3  55
 10 Prentsholme Town          38  14  11  13  51  55   -4  53
 11 F.C. Baxton               38  14  10  14  58  67   -9  52
 12 Atlético Knoxham          38  12  14  12  44  37   +7  50
 13 North Arch A.F.C.         38  14   8  16  34  37   -3  50
 14 Breckridge Nuggets        38  13  10  15  52  53   -1  49
 15 Ploughsholme Draft        38  12  13  13  53  59   -6  49
 16 Charleston Artillery      38  12  12  14  57  60   -3  48
 17 Beaverbury A.F.C.         38  10  13  15  38  54  -16  43
 18 Mukakke F.C.              38  10  11  17  42  64  -22  41
 19 Eastview Current          38  11   7  20  45  56  -11  40
 20 West Coast Ang            38   8  15  15  31  41  -10  39

Qualified For SRPD
Qualified For SRPD (depending on circumstances)

8 Division North Standings

    Team                    P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Mortingham City        34  16   8  10  32  23   +9  56 C
  2 -blank-                34  15  10   9  43  27  +16  55
  3 Ironclad Portsham      34  16   7  11  48  45   +3  55
  4 Damn Beavers           34  13  10  11  51  41  +10  49
  5 Westshire              34  13   9  12  52  41  +11  48
  6 Brent                  34  12  12  10  38  34   +4  48
  7 F.C. Mekke             34  12   8  14  43  47   -4  44
  8 Ethas Mustangs         34  11  10  13  38  43   -5  43
  9 Yodel Town             34   9  10  15  25  37  -12  37
 10 Quantum Oxham          34   9  10  15  31  46  -15  37
 11 South Plain Bison      34   9   9  16  41  61  -20  36
 12 Erk City               34  10   5  19  41  63  -22  35

8 Division South Standings

    Team                               P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Joe's Team                        34  20   6   8  51  29  +22  66 C
  2 Rayton Village                    34  18   4  12  50  40  +10  58
  3 Oscar Town                        34  14  10  10  44  42   +2  52
  4 Charlie Valley                    34  15   6  13  47  35  +12  51
  5 Freeville Lakers                  34  15   6  13  53  44   +9  51
  6 Ironwillow Sloars                 34  13  11  10  42  38   +4  50
  7 South Vonghurst Tigerlillies      34  14   8  12  50  48   +2  50
  8 Blick Mountaineers                34  14   7  13  40  38   +2  49
  9 Beaverbury Beavers                34  13   9  12  57  52   +5  48
 10 FK Little Baltica                 34  13   8  13  51  47   +4  47
 11 Knoxham Gold Rush                 34  10   8  16  29  40  -11  38
 12 Laketown Clippers                 34   3  11  20  11  47  -36  20

Thus the next Virabi delegation to the SRPD will be:

Laufston Town
Vonghurst Capitols
CD Vonghurst
Freeville Pioneers
Portsham City
_________________________
F.C. Negroe Pride

The teams that have failed to make it back to the SRPD are:

Silver Coast
Ithaca Big Red
Beaverbury A.F.C.
Atalanta B.C.

[Elemanu]

Elemanu Football league 838 (continued)

Round 17

Amori East Penguins 1-0 Kesser Skuas
   Amori West Orcas 0-1 Damasa Seals

The Penguins extended the unbeaten streak to ten games with a win over the Skuas in the Amori double-header, that also leapfrogged them over Kesser on the table. The Seals continued their great season with a win in the second match over the Orcas.

Round 18

Amori North Petrels 1-0 Amori East Penguins
       Damasa Seals 0-1 Kesser Skuas

The Petrels surprised the Penguins in the local derby, bringing their unbeaten streak to an end and hurting their chances for a place in the final. The Skuas fought hard to down the Seals an keep their finals hopes alive and make the last two weeks crucial for all teams.

Round 19

Amori East Penguins 2-0 Damasa Seals
Amori North Petrels 0-1 Amori West Orcas

In the Amori double-header, the Penguins finished their season with an unbeaten record against the reigning champions, giving them a share of the lead for the first time with the Seals. In the second match, it was battle for the bottom spot as well as a local derby, and the Orcas came away with a very hard-fought win.

Round 20

Amori West Orcas 1-0 Amori East Penguins
    Kesser Skuas 1-3 Amori North Petrels

In the local derby, the Orcas ensure that they wouldn't finish the season in last position, beating cross-town rivals the Penguins, who were hanging on the result of the match in Kesser. However, the Petrels spoiled the Skuas hopes for a maiden finals berth with massive three goal first half that Kesser couldn't overhaul.

National Standings

   Team                      P  W  D  L For  Ag  +/- Pts
 1 Damasa Seals             16  7  5  4  20  11   +9  26
 2 Amori East Penguins      16  7  5  4  13   8   +5  26
 3 Kesser Skuas             16  7  3  6  31  28   +3  24
 4 Amori West Orcas         16  4  5  7  24  30   -6  17
 5 Amori North Petrels      16  4  4  8  12  23  -11  16

It would be a repeat of last year's finals, as the Seals and the Penguins finished equal on points, and only Damasa's superior goal difference giving them first position on the table. The Skuas finished their impressive first season in third, unlucky in their last match to not play in the finals. The other two Amori teams rounded off the table with the Orcas avoiding finishing in last for the second year.

Top Scorers

Annabelle Quisenberry  17  (Skuas)
Ryan Fredette          12  (Orcas)
Paul Madrigal          10  (Seals)

[Andossa Se Mitrin Vega]

Unexpected Merger Delays League Start

Earlier today Jurillo Hai’chui, Commissioner of the Vegan Fuborii Liaga called an impromptu press conference to make a very huge announcement that both surprised and pleased VFL fans all over the Empire. Let’s listen in to what he had to say…

“I know that most of you are wondering just what this could be about with the scheduled start of the VFL season less than two weeks out. I will get to that shortly, and I also thank all of you for showing up with such a lack of notice on my part, but events have happened that need to be discussed now - not tomorrow as many of you have voiced that you would prefer.

Last season, we decided that it was in the best interest of the league to allow the transfer of Vegan players to foreign markets as well as to allow VFL clubs to sign foreign players as well. It only took one season to see the fruits of what that change meant. Vegan players have been a hot commodity on the transfer market thus increasing the international level of interest in our newly reformed domestic league. A few international players have begun to show up here as well, though that will be more evident in the upcoming season. The best example of what these players can mean tgo our league would be in Stonengarten UH where two Ursine keepers have elevated the club into the ranks of the elite. Keep your eyes open as Vegan 4th Quad has also just made a move that should make them a side to be reckoned with as well.

But now for the reason for this press conference - the reason each of you is here. The start of the VFL season has officially been delayed by one month. This delay is of the utmost importance as the VFL has just finalized a deal granting the league a majority ownership in the struggling, but very popular Sylvanae Football Association. This is a move that we did not anticipate making, but several connected links to the SFA, that also made their bids to remain a part of what would become of that league made the deal one we could not refuse. The delay will allow us time to reset the fixtures and integrate the SFA into our new league before the start of the AI3 season.

Marketability was the key to this deal becoming a reality. The VFL has not used sponsorship in its system before but with Sabre Inc of the Sylvanaes Queendom being a central focus point in the negotiatons, something our more socialist way of doing things is not completely used to, sponsorships for the new 4 tier league will be announced along with the restructure of the VFL in just a moment. With corporate sponsorships from the likes of Sabre Inc (D&S) and Yumbo Jumbo (ASMV) the marketability of the new league will soar to heights unkown to us before this merger. So now down to the basics of what you all want to see at this point…

First of all the VFL as we know it will no longer exist. In its place will be the new Sylvanae-Vega Liaga Fuborii.

The SVLF will be comprised of all 48 VFL clubs and the 16 new SFA clubs divided into four tiers of 16 clubs each. Each tier will play a double round robin as well as play one match with each club from the other three tiers for a total of 78 matches that make up the SVLF season. Considering the massive length of the new season, each club can now carry up 35 players although the standard 11+5 system will still be used on a per match basis. The extra players will allow clubs to rest players more often as the compete twice a week for 36 weeks.

The top tier of the SVLF will now be known as the Yumbo Jumbo Champion’s Tier

Team
1 White Hall Faeries
2 Errion Vega FK
3 Stonengarten UH
4 Vegan 4th Quad
5 Cherry Blossom Faeries
6 Sarii Falcione
7 Sarii Carrington
8 Sa Aln FK
9 Carrington FK
10 Tobia Sarud
11 FK Kelsey
12 Erda Khaza
13 Elmwood Sprites
14 Woodlands Sylphs
15 Sarii EV
16 Tapia Reis

The second division will now be know as the Sabre Inc Executive Tier.

Team
1 Waterfall Mists
2 Millsport FK
3 Kunei Carr
4 Willow Springs Sprites
5 Lakewood Pixies
6 Turin-Kelsey
7 FK Alariz
8 Meldinburg UH
9 Errion Vega Polii
10 Meldinburg FK
11 Sa'una Vega
12 Falcione FK
13 Thryvist UH
14 Tierwood Rainbowflies
15 Isla De Marte
16 Radience Sarud

The third division will now be known as the Irildur Compar Primary Tier.

Team
1 Malachi Ifreet
2 Meldinburg Sarud
3 Vega Dras
4 Shady Vale Satyrs
5 Sarii TR
6 Uza Uzi Sarud
7 Undermountain UH
8 Waterlilly Wraiths
9 Stonengarten Sarud
10 Sarii Alariz
11 Jaris Sarud
12 Hegdellin Acai
13 Eros GS
14 Shadowood Elves
15 Shalerix FK
16 Crystal Falls Fury

And the fourth division will be known as the Islands Coffee Co Secondary Tier.

Team
1 Qualim Vega
2 Misty Shores Waves
3 Irildur Compar
4 Redwood-Maple Marauders
5 Misii Eversol
6 Lai-Una Reisi
7 Fir Boughs Brownies
8 Mujak 926
9 Parthenon Rivii Atur
10 Kuri Kurii
11 Triarii Rivii
12 Piossa Juhinx
13 Tronjheim
14 Spruce Haven Wyverns
15 Tel49
16 Ominus Hera
Clubs can move up and down the Tiers as each is decided upon final ranking. The top 16 ranked clubs following the current season will comprise the Champion’s Tier for the next season.”

With all the new information given us now, just what does it all mean for the VFL, or SVLF now I suppose? We will simply have to wait and see. But it does open us up to a new, virtually untouched 3 billion plus market as well as make available a ton of quality Elven players to be signed. That can not be a bad thing.

[Rejistania]

This is the Sikenian Daily bringing you the final results from the newly re-founded Heven'het Sekhika Rejistaniha!

The H1SR exists again as result of the re-founding of the Asene Sekhika Rejistaniha. The first season of the Rejistanian league went surprisingly well. The country where the Karela came from was never known for its will to all-out-attack. It seems merely that in a chaotic country like the tani (where people tend to say that they don't have organized crime because Rejistanis never manage to organize anything), it is satisfying to see that at least the defense works well-organized.

The tildes and helkus
Many of the names in the H1SR sound familiar, but not only is the similarity often deceiving, but so is the dissimilarity. The seleken* lasane** Si~ltati~rkidate Xkora has never changed its name but the new transliteration for the seleken language means that they were formerly known as Sijitalaririkimidateme Xkora. The Hetkalian team Hetaki Hetkali (the offensive from Hetkali) are however a newly founded team and the name does only reference the no longer existing Hetkali Hetaki (offensive Hetkali).

The title for the most helkus in the name however goes to the second league where Si~lki~rha~e Sidekhir played in the Kisut division. It was the only title the selekens could reach. Next season, they will play in the H3SR. Si~ltati~rkidate Xkora of course was the runner up.

The Karela
Rejistanis karela, this is an expectation people will have. There cannot be a H1SR without Karela, right? Not quite, the fact that the H1SR saw only 13 scoreless draws in their first season shows that this is changing. Actually, the quality differences between some of the leagues made some results possible which would be liked even in Somewhereistonia. Somewhereistonians should however avoid matches of Karela Lines and Inkatil Inxaril. Especially when they are playing each other. These teams still play a quite good Sistenha Karela. As did Shetamai Divensi in the Kisut (western) division of the H2SR (before you say 'well, duh' please take into account that the H2SR Jya (eastern) team Jatujatu Divensi did not quite live up to its name and was the team which scored the most goals in its Divisasi***). Here are some of the matches which might destroy the reputation of Rejistania as karelan nation:

MD3: Karela Lines 4-1 Kalisimu Salan
MD6: TAHAI! 6-1 Jinhes Lines
MD6: TAHAI! 4-2 Hetaki Hetkali
MD7: Kalisimu Salan 4-2 Inkatil Inxaril
MD7: Aetaila Seli 4-2 Sike Veran
MD11: Ltianhama Kimi 3-3 Jinhes Junis
MD15: Sike Veran 4-2 Kalisimu Salan
MD16: Jinhes Junis 1-8 Hetaki Hetkali
MD19: Sen-La-Sa~o Relekhati 6-1 Kalisimu Salan
MD19: Sikane Sekhika 3-3 Ltianhama Kimi
MD20: Aetaila Seli 0-7 Sikane Sekhika
MD20: Kalisimu Salan 4-2 Ltianhama Kimi
MD22: Sike Veran 3-3 Aetaila Seli
MD24: TAHAI! 6-0 Aetaila Seli
MD26: Na~ovi Sekhika 0-5 Sikane Sekhika
MD27: Najajara Ynu 3-3 Hetaki Hetkali
MD28: Aetaila Seli 5-1 Kalisimu Salan

(and that are just the matches which had either more than 5 goals or at least 5 goals for one team or involved Karela Lines rejecting Sistenha Karela and engaging in pwning)

The Vuvuzelas
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The Derbies
Hanin'ja Hades, Lines'ja Junis, Matix'ja Matix, Karela'ja Hetaki. These terms refer to some of the most (in)famous rivalries in rejistanian soccer. Hanin Sekhika vs Hades Lavamje could make KaMaRi kali feel like a city at war. Police riding elephants tried to keep the situation from becoming violent. Often without much success. Jinhes Lines, the team traditionally associated with the immigrated Majuveda* and Seleken* and Jinhes Junis, the team traditionally associated with the native Lajik* and Inkaje* had infamous confrontations, one, is said to be one reason behind the Lajik uprising. Matix Veran vs Matix Omeh has a history ranging back to the time before both clubs were even founded even though both teams are from the same ethnic background. Due to the performance of some of these teams, a few of these derbies had to be fought in the H2SR this time. Some, like Hetlasane vs Hetaki or Hades vs Hanin could no longer happen because the teams did not meet each other in the same league. Others emerged from the fragmentation and the regional leagues. Like Ltianhama Kimi vs Si~ltati~rkidate Xkora or Sike Veran (Iknel****) vs Aetaila Seli (Xentira****).

Since neither Sike nor Aetaila have any concept of how defense works, the matches between the 2 ended with 6 goals. In Aetaila, the match ended 4:2, in Sike, the match ended 3:3. Sikenian coach Syku Ameri explained the result of the first match by "The pitch had more hills than the entire area of Sike!"

The unpronouncable Lajik team Ltianhama Kimi (if you want to try: /l_=ti:?an"ha:ma: ki:"mi:/) could not prevail against the similarly unpronouncable Si~ltati~rkidate Xkora (if you want to try this: /si_ht_dat_di_Lkidat_de s`ko:"xa:/ Or if you are really good, pronounce xkora as /s`=koRa_L/ like Seleken do). In Selekenia, the Whites lost 0:2 (thereby once again refuting the claim that more than 1 goal in one rejistanian domestic match does not happen). They got their revenge when they met in Ltianhama: In the 87th minute, striker Kinmulasik Nta-Vu reached the 1:0 for the home team. The Ltianhamese needed these 3 points badly since they were fighting relegation.

Jinhes Lines defeated Jinhes Junis in a 2:1 thriller on matchday 15. The rematch on the last day of the league ended in a hard-fought 1:1.

The results

Team                         P   W  D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Sikane Sekhika              30  20  5   5  55  13  +42  65 TQCC
  2 Karela Lines                30  18 10   2  37  12  +25  64  GC
  3 Najajara Ynu                30  15  8   7  34  27   +7  53   GC
  4 TAHAI!                      30  16  3  11  52  32  +20  51   GC
  5 Sike Veran                  30  13  8   9  38  32   +6  47
  6 Sen-La-Sa~o Relekhati       30  11  7  12  36  34   +2  40
  7 Jinhes Lines                30  11  6  13  29  33   -4  39
  8 Hetaki Hetkali              30  11  5  14  52  52   +0  38
  9 Hades Lavamje               30   9 10  11  29  29   +0  37
 10 Jinhes Junis                30   9  9  12  32  40   -8  36
 11 Aetaila Seli                30   9  9  12  34  53  -19  36
 12 Si~ltati~rkidate Xkora      30   8  9  13  20  30  -10  33
 13 Na~ovi Sekhika              30   8  9  13  28  43  -15  33
 14 Ltianhama Kimi              30   8  6  16  30  39   -9  30
 15 Inkatil Inxaril             30   7  9  14  20  34  -14  30
 16 Kalisimu Salan              30   8  5  17  36  59  -23  29

Even though Karela Lines defeated 1:0 Sikane on the last matchday, they were behind too much to actually change anything. However, for Karela, it was a matter of honor and they fought hard during the match.

Sikane Sekhika once again reached the league title. The team from a small town in the north, which is not known for anything but their soccer team has the best record in the H1SR. However, internationally, no one recognizes the name of the team while Karela Lines is (in)famous in many places.

Xentiranites Inkatil and Kalisimu Salan will move down into the H2SR Kisut.

The H2SR

The 2nd league is split up into a a kisut and a jya divisasi. Kisut means west and the divisasi contains KaMaRi, the Minokaje areas, parts of the Xentira and the island of Sumumusumu. Jya (pronounced /z`aI"a:/ or yai-AH) contains the Hetkali, Sike and most of the south and, of course, the east coast.

While the Divisasi Kisut supposedly contains the Sumumusumu island, few matches took place here. The Estadije Shetemai of Shetemai Divensi was not deemed to be safe for H1SR matches and thus during the renovations the team played its home games in Tamii kali in the Estadije Ines of the mainland team Tamii Iniukaela.

Kisut Standings

    Team                        P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 KaMaRi Iknel               30  21   5   4  51  18  +33  68 SBCC
  2 Hanin Sekhika              30  20   5   5  64  32  +32  65 SBCC
  3 Maharis Maru               30  18   3   9  43  21  +22  57
  4 Liia Lines                 30  14  10   6  34  21  +13  52
  5 Matix Omeh                 30  15   7   8  32  22  +10  52
  6 Riandu Redy                30  12  14   4  30  20  +10  50
  7 Shetemai Divensi           30  12   8  10  22  19   +3  44
  8 Sanhedi Seli               30  13   4  13  30  29   +1  43
  9 Shiakyl Sekhika            30  12   5  13  35  30   +5  41
 10 Desnike Sekhika            30   8  15   7  22  20   +2  39
 11 Itivanax Xkora             30  10   5  15  25  46  -21  35
 12 Halakeke Redy              30   8  10  12  21  37  -16  34
 13 Matix Veran                30   6   8  16  19  33  -14  26
 14 Mikedi Veran               30   7   3  20  13  33  -20  24
 15 Si~lki~rha~e Sidekhir      30   5   7  18   9  33  -24  22
 16 Lahar Lasane               30   1   7  22   5  41  -36  10

It is not surprising that the winner is a KaMaRian team. KaMaRi Kali's city league used to be the haditera of high-quality soccer.
The takilan match of the season thus did involve a KaMaRian team: Hanin Sekhika 6-3 Halakeke Redy

It might be a relief for non-selekens who want to pronounce the actual names of teams that /zi_hki_Lh@ zi:dekkix/ reaches the next league. However Ntekhik Sekhika and Uikaesaila Ynu will prevent the pronouncability of this divisasi next year.

Yja~eina Kimi will be cross-promoted into the divisasi after 2 jya teams relegated from the H1SR.

Jya Standings

    Team                    P   W  D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Itamil Itera           30  21  7   2  37   6  +31  70  SBCC
  2 Kalixalka Junis        30  20  6   4  48  14  +34  66  SBCC
  3 Jatujatu Divensi       30  19  5   6  73  28  +45  62
  4 Msedaril Makin         30  19  4   7  46  17  +29  61
  5 Inotu Yri              30  17  8   5  55  16  +39  59
  6 Miharil Maru           30  16  6   8  31  13  +18  54
  7 Sike Sekhika           30  14  4  12  42  33   +9  46
  8 Xanumil Xalki          30   9  8  13  51  53   -2  35
  9 Yja~eina Kimi          30   9  5  16  22  37  -15  32
 10 Kalisimu Kaletri       30   7  8  15  23  39  -16  29
 11 Hetlasane Hetkali      30   7  8  15  30  51  -21  29
 12 Nahelik Xkora          30   7  7  16  22  33  -11  28
 13 Sikane Simu            30   7  5  18  30  54  -24  26
 14 Miharil Sekhika        30   7  5  18  16  44  -28  26
 15 Vihekasali Viki        30   8  2  20  32  89  -57  26
 16 Najajara Sekhika       30   5  8  17  35  66  -31  23

There were two very unkarelan moments in this divisasi and one did involve the team Jatujatu Divensi, which name would make anyone with a bit of knowledge of Rejistanian or access to a dictionary or just a skill to determine loan words in rejistanian orthography to assume that they were a haditera of Karela.
Vihekasali Viki 6-4 Najajara Sekhika
Jatujatu Divensi 8-1 Xanumil Xalki

Of course, with 40 scoreless draws in bith divisasis, good karelan defensive discipline was still very much a way to success.

The disappointment in this Divisasi was Hetlasane, which was hindered by, to put it bluntly, inept management and blind referees*****. And how Itamil, a Xentiran team from a city known for its chemical industry and favelas could get promoted is anyone's guess. With Manashandi Maru and Riaela Sekhika, a worthy team from the east coast and Riaela will reach the H2SR in the next season.

* a rejistanian people
** rejistanian word for 'team'
*** While the word 'heven' refers to a vertical subdivision (1st league vs 2nd league), the word Divisasi refers to a horizontal division (2nd league, western divisasi vs 2nd league estern divisasi)
**** both terms refer to the center of the rejistanian island, but Iknel is the part of it, which belongs to the city of Sike and is urban, not mainly rural and also has literacy rates above 80%.
***** No one has accused this author of objectivity recently.

[Elemanu]

Championship Final 838

VS

Zach Zucchini: ...and it looks like we might go into extra time in this thrilling final, with just two minutes left in injury time.
Tom Tomato: Certainly looks that way Zach, though we see the Penguins with the ball pushing up Damasa Football Park, desperate to win this.
Zach: Elsie Gillenwater has broken free of her defender Chandra Moos, and midfielder Mathew Thresher has seen her and sends a long pass her way...
Tom: Gillenwater has the ball, Moos is catching up to her, Gillenwater shoots and...
Zach: Roxie Oldenkamp saves!
Tom: She saves but she doesn't waste anytime kicking it long...
Zach: Paul Madrigal sees the ball and gets to it first...
Tom: Was he offside?
Zach: No, he's fine, it's one on one with Penguins defender Allan Friedt, he beats him...
Tom: Erik Novy will save it, Novy will save it...
Zach: No! GOAL! Madrigal has scored against the best goal keeper in all of Elemanu and GOAL!
Tom: The Penguins are devastated! One minute left, and it looks like the only win Damasa will have against Amori East this year will be in the only game that really counts!
Zach: Gillenwater is bringing the ball back to the centre, desperate to restart the game, but there is less than a minute to go!
Tom: She's still waiting for the Seals to get back into position, waiting, and there's the whistle.
Zach: Can the Penguins get the equaliser, or is it all over?
Tom: Gillenwater to Thresher, Thresher to Torbert, Torbert to Chaparro, back to Torbert...
Zach: Torbert is tackled and... the ref waves it away! Damasa has the ball, they pass back to Oldenkamp and it's all over!
Tom: There's just seconds left and the Seals are just passing the ball, they won't give it away. We're just waiting for the whistle here.
Zach: The Penguins must be devastated, this is twice they have lost the final to the Seals, in Amori last year, Damasa this year.
Tom: And that's the whistle! It's all over!
Zach: Damasa Seals have done it again, after a fantastic season, they have made it two championships in a row.
Tom: Erik Novy was not expecting that goal, not prepared, and he's given it away to Damasa.
Zach: Gillenwater has to be regretting a lot this season, only seven goals under her belt in seventeen games, she has not been able to score at all this year.
Tom: There's a lot of regrets here, but the Seals are overjoyed, all their hard work has paid off and it is two in a row for Damasa!
Zach: Will take a break and be back in a minute.

Damasa Seals 1:0 Amori East Penguins
(Madrigal 92)

Top Scorer
Annabelle Quisenberry (Skuas) 16 goals

Top Keeper
Erik Novy (Penguins) 0.53

[Rejistania]

Persons of the Season

Goalie Nijia Rala only had to reach behind himself 6 times. In Somewhereistonia this would be in one game (and still would be a mark of excellence), but in the H2SR Jya this was in one season. Of course, this was in the same league where Kalisimu Kaletri and Nahelik Xkora did not relegate because, believe it or not, there were worse teams, but it still shows a remarkable archievment despite that. This makes Nijia Rala the Goalie of the year in the H2SR!

Intika Kansu of TAHAI! receives the goalie of the year title in the H1SR. He was worth this because his team was not a karelan team which prevents any chances for either team early but because he actually was challenged in his time in the H1SR. His quick reflexes and his good jukani'tan made the 24 year old Majuvedian an outstanding player, not only on national but probably even on international level.

Defender of the year in the H2SR was Hanin Sekhika player Kansu Syku. Despite the unfortunate own goal in the match against Sanhedi Seli (which Hanin lost 1:2), the KaMaRian was a valuable player in many matches of the maybe oldest still existing rejistanian soccer team. Kansu once stated about the incident "It is funny. They talk about the goal which happened due to me, not the many which did not happen due to me."

Defender of the year in the H1SR is Karela's Kielx Tanha. The Nen defender showed remarkable skill in the home of defense. Even though Karela had some embarrassing moments in this season (like conceding against Kalisimu), he saved the 0 often with technique, speed and a remarkable overview over the game.

Midfielder of the year in the H2SR is Iknel player Ti Y. The KaMaRian is most remarkable not for his talent on the pitch, but for his integrity. He tends to mention when something was seen incorrectly even when it leads to a disadvantage of his team.

Midfielder of the year in the H1SR was Sikane's Syku Alik. The skillfull, 20 years young impressed the fans and newspapers compare him to the Xkeliko Susu of mythic times. And that is not only because he worked for Internal Revenue before becoming a professional.

Striker of the year in the H2SR was Jatujatu Divensi's Kiliel I Xa~ela. Does it suffice to mention that he was one of the main forces behind the trouncing of Xanumil Xalki (8:1) and the 2nd installment of it to the tune of 6:0? He is considered to be 'responsible for more goals than all of Karela Lines' by the Na~ovi National. However this is not quite true. The real number is slightly lower.

Striker of the year in the H1SR was Syly Kansu of the team Sikane Sekhika. His speed earned him the nickname Tilkane (mouse), but whoever coined it must have thought of the mouse that roared, not your average field mouse. And he did roar. Not literally of course. His best feat in this season was a Jenji Y-like match in which he was substituted in in the 80th minute when Ltianhama Kimi was leading 3:0 and levelled the score with 3 beautiful goals.

Coach of the year was Ltianhama Kimi's Inik Ka-Loa. Yes, Ltianhama did finish only one place above relegation, but because of the skirts. For those of you who were unaware of it. Inik promised his team that if they would get at least one point against the at that time 1st placed Karela Lines, he would come to the next match in a skirt. Ltianhama played valiantly and managed to score against the team which is seen as the haditera of defense. Since the match ended 1:1, he kept his promise and arrived to the next match in a pink skirt and a pink blouse with silver stars. And SLS R was also prevented from trouncing the Lajik team, thus he arrived in the same getup to the match against the team which would go on to win the league, Sikane Sekhika. And reach another draw. Only the match later against Kalisimu Salan, he decided to wear jeans and tshirt because 'this match needs more than a draw'. And Ltianhama lost. Since it requires cojones and rokan'tan to look like a fairy on national television, he deserves this award.

[Adihan]

Season 26

Season 26 saw the expected league restructuring and renaming of the three divisions of professional football in Ad’ihan. The old Premier Division became the Major League, still with 18 teams playing 34 games a season; the Second Division became the Prime League with 14 teams playing 39 games; and the Third Division became the Minor League taking in four new foreign feeder teams, with its 16 teams playing 30 games.

The AFF also announced the introduction of head-to-head results as the second tiebreaker after goal difference but before goals scored in deciding league position ties. Games won has also been added, as the final tiebreaker, if teams are still tied after goals scored.

A new cup tournament was also announced for the 16 teams not involved in the AFF League Cup. The 12 foreign feeder teams and four B/II teams of higher-division teams will now take part in the AFF Second Team Trophy, playing a direct knockout tournament for the trophy.

The four new foreign feeder teams are:
Hawks Sporting Academy of Somewhereistonia: Caernvill Hawks (Caernvill Point)
CF Outineau of Kelssek: CF Outineau-MPA or CF OMPA (Mont-Pluie)
Athletic Stanza of Unitopolis: FC KR Stanza Blitzkrieg (Kinney Road)
Oblast Rangers of Sorthern Northland: Stanley Rangers (Stanley)

AFF Challenge Trophy
The annual preseason friendly tournament was played between three teams this season: last season's Silver Plate winners Hatton Town, the reigning league champions Tallyn Rovers, and reigning League Cup champions Northtown United. Tallyn and Northtown played out a 1–1 draw in the opening game, and Northtown drew their second game with Hatton by the same margin, meaning the trophy winners would be decided on the last day. Hatton Town made up for losing the league title from their grasp last season by thumping Tallyn 6–1 to retain the Challenge Trophy.

AFF Silver Plate — United Islands Major League halfway point
    Team                       P   W  D  L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Grand Arsenal             17  11  1  5  31  27   +4  34
  2 Hatton Town               17   8  6  3  32  15  +17  30
  3 Northtown Utd             17   8  5  4  27  26   +1  29
  4 Tallyn Rovers             17   7  7  3  22   9  +13  28
  5 Mountbatten Junction      17   8  4  5  33  21  +12  28
  6 South Barrier Utd         17   7  7  3  21  14   +7  28
  7 Oldbridge City            17   7  4  6  26  25   +1  25
  8 Protectorate United       17   6  6  5  19  17   +2  24
  9 County Stanley            17   7  3  7  10  11   -1  24
 10 Kinney Road               17   5  8  4  10   8   +2  23
 11 Southcast Town            17   5  6  6  12  12   +0  21
 12 Altsend                   17   4  8  5  18  21   -3  20
 13 Coastal County FC         17   4  6  7  10  19   -9  18
 14 Pilminster Rovers         17   4  5  8  10  14   -4  17
 15 Island Athletic           17   4  5  8  21  38  -17  17
 16 Harley County FC          17   4  4  9  17  23   -6  16
 17 Djei Sporting Club        17   3  7  7  14  23   -9  16
 18 Navon Beach               17   3  4 10  20  30  -10  13

Hatton Town failed to defend their Silver Trophy, falling four points short of new midseason champions Grand Arsenal. At the bottom, Djei SC and Harley County FC, newly promoted teams both, were tied on 16 points filling the two of the bottom three slots, with Navon Beach propping up the foot of the table.

Major League

    Team                       P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Hatton Town               34  20  10   4  70  28  +42  70  C/TQCC
  2 Tallyn Rovers             34  19  12   3  57  19  +38  69  JUST
  3 Grand Arsenal             34  17   6  11  60  52   +8  57  JUST
  4 Oldbridge City            34  15   8  11  56  46  +10  53  JUST
  5 Protectorate United       34  14  11   9  46  38   +8  53  JUST
  6 Mountbatten Junction      34  14   9  11  51  43   +8  51
  7 Kinney Road               34  13  12   9  24  17   +7  51  JUST
  8 County Stanley            34  13  12   9  23  18   +5  51
  9 Southcast Town            34  13  11  10  29  24   +5  50
 10 South Barrier Utd         34  13  10  11  36  35   +1  49
 11 Northtown Utd             34  12   9  13  43  50   -7  45
 12 Pilminster Rovers         34  11   6  17  28  29   -1  39
 13 Djei Sporting Club        34   9  11  14  35  44   -9  38
 14 Coastal County FC         34   9  11  14  18  31  -13  38
 15 Altsend                   34   6  15  13  28  44  -16  33
 16 Navon Beach               34   8   7  19  42  61  -19  31  R
 17 Harley County FC          34   7   9  18  27  42  -15  30  R
 18 Island Athletic           34   4   9  21  30  82  -52  21  R

In a turnaround, Hatton Town had a strong second half of the season, earning 10 more points in their final 17 games than they had in their first 17 games to win the inaugural Major League with 70 points. However, it was an incredibly close race to the end, with defending champions Tallyn Rovers pushing them all the way to the last day of the season. Tallyn finished one point off, with 41 points in the second half of the season. At the bottom, Harley County go straight back down, and are joined by Navon Beach and Island Athletic, as both Djei SC and Coastal County survived the drop. Hatton Town do the double with an incredible 6–4 extra time win (3–3 after 90 minutes) over Kinney Road in the AFF League Cup final, with the latter team qualifying for the Joint Unified System Tournament playoffs for their efforts.

Prime League

    Team                          P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 CF Mont-Pluie                39  24   7   8  66  32  +34  79  C/P/SBCC
  2 Flitton Rangers              39  17  13   9  31  20  +11  64  P/SBCC
  3 Ad’ihan Military Forces      39  15  13  11  42  34   +8  58  P/SBCC
  4 T’chéy Park                  39  15  12  12  31  21  +10  57
  5 Olympique Protectorat        39  17   5  17  64  51  +13  56
  6 Dullham Town FC              39  14  14  11  58  52   +6  56
  7 Airport City FC              39  16   7  16  47  47   +0  55
  8 AFC Hatton                   39  14  11  14  39  49  -10  53
  9 Dalinn Wanderers             39  14   8  17  57  57   +0  50
 10 Flitton City                 39  11  15  13  25  29   -4  48
 11 Union FC                     39  12  12  15  37  47  -10  48
 12 Interior FC                  39  11  11  17  39  44   -5  44
 13 Raästur Council              39  10  11  18  34  51  -17  41  R
 14 Riverston Golden Tigers      39   9   9  21  33  69  -36  36  R

Minor League

    Team                            P   W  D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Junction B                     30  19  8   3  69  32  +37  65  C
  2 CF Mont-Pluie II               30  19  6   5  66  18  +48  63
  3 Protectorate Utd B             30  20  3   7  75  31  +44  63
  4 Riverston Town                 30  17  8   5  43  23  +20  59  P/SBCC
  5 Oldbridge City B               30  17  6   7  77  36  +41  57
  6 Oldbridge Sabres               30  17  6   7  49  32  +17  57  P
  7 CS 1093 MN                     30  16  6   8  45  31  +14  54
  8 Dullham and Oldbridge          30  13  7  10  46  38   +8  46
  9 Trünri Council                 30  12  9   9  36  32   +4  45
 10 RCU Dz’ai                      30  11  6  13  38  38   +0  39
 11 Sémoy Panthers                 30   7  7  16  31  56  -25  28
 12 Port Stanley Tiger Sharks      30   6  9  15  27  53  -26  27
 13 Caernvill Hawks                30   6  5  19  22  67  -45  23
 14 FC KR Stanza Blitzkrieg        30   5  4  21  21  65  -44  19
 15 Stanley Rangers                30   4  4  22  17  64  -47  16
 16 CF Outineau-MPA                30   2  4  24  20  66  -46  10

The Riverston Golden Tigers, feeder team of Cafundéu's SC Lasft, had become the first foreign feeder team to be promoted into the top two divisions of Ad’ihani football, but failed to survive their first season in the second flight. Raästur County, another of last season's promoted teams, were also relegated back to the Minor League, but Union FC and Interior FC both survived the drop. Meanwhile, Oldbridge Sabres, the feeder club of Vephrese team Mylfe, are the second foreign feeder team to make it out of the third flight of Ad’ihani football.

AFF League Cup
Round One
Dullham and Oldbridge 3-4 Dullham Town FC (replay; original result 0–0)
Altsend 0-1 Coastal County FC
Kinney Road 1-0 T’chéy Park (replay; originally 0–0)
Oldbridge City 2-1 Riverston Town
County Stanley 1-2 Grand Arsenal
Island Athletic 0-3 Mountbatten Junction
Interior FC 1-2 Hatton Town
Olympique Protectorat 3-2 Djei Sporting Club (replay; originally 1–1)
Airport City FC 1-2 Protectorate United
Navon Beach 0-2 Pilminster Rovers (replay; originally 2–2)
Flitton City 0-4 Flitton Rangers
AFC Hatton 2-1 Dalinn Wanderers
Union FC 0-2 Southcast Town
South Barrier Utd 1-3 Tallyn Rovers
Ad’ihan Military Forces 1-2 Northtown Utd
Harley County FC 0-4 CF Mont-Pluie

Round Two
Dullham Town FC 0-3 Coastal County FC
Kinney Road 3-2 Oldbridge City
Grand Arsenal 3-4 Mountbatten Junction
Hatton Town 5-1 Olympique Protectorat
Protectorate United 1-3 Pilminster Rovers
Flitton Rangers 3-0 AFC Hatton
Tallyn Rovers 0-2 Southcast Town (replay; originally 1–1)
Northtown Utd 0-2 CF Mont-Pluie

Quarterfinals
Coastal County FC 0-2 Kinney Road
Mountbatten Junction 2-3 Hatton Town
Flitton Rangers 0-1 Pilminster Rovers (replay; originally 0–0)
Southcast Town 2-1 CF Mont-Pluie

Semifinals
Pilminster Rovers 0-1 Kinney Road
Southcast Town 0-5 Hatton Town

FINAL
Kinney Road 3-3 Hatton Town (4-6 AET)

AFF Second Team trophy
First Round
Sémoy Panthers 0-1 RCU Dz’ai
Caernvill Hawks 0-2 CS 1093 MN
Raästur Council 0-3 Junction FC B
Oldbridge City B 2-0 Stanley Rangers
CF Outineau-MPA 0-1 Riverston Golden Tigers
FC KR Stanza Blitzkrieg 2-1 Trünri Council
CF Mont-Pluie II 4-1 Port Stanley Tiger Sharks
Oldbridge Sabres 0-1 Protectorate United B

Quarterfinals
Oldbridge City B 1-0 Protectorate United B
Riverston Golden Tigers 1-1 RCU Dz’ai (1-1 AET, 1-3 PKs)
CS 1093 MN 2-0 FC KR Stanza Blitzkrieg
Junction FC B 1-0 CF Mont-Pluie II

Semifinals
Oldbridge City B 2-1 CS 1093 MN
RCU Dz’ai 2-2 Junction FC B (3-2 AET)

Final: RCU Dz’ai 2-0 Oldbridge City B

Season 24

University League Championship
    Team                            P   W  D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Technical Institute at Dalinn        17  13  2   2  31  11  +20  41  C/IUCC
  2 Technical Institute at Hatton        17   9  5   3  17  10   +7  32  IUCC
  3 Altsend Southern University          17   9  4   4  26  18   +8  31  IUCC
  4 Stanley College                      17   8  5   4  33  19  +14  29
  5 City of Ad’ihan University           17   8  5   4  18  10   +8  29
  6 University of Science and Maths      17   8  3   6  27  21   +6  27
  7 L'Uni Dz’ai                          17   7  5   5  21  17   +4  26
  8 Hatton Medical College               17   7  5   5  18  20   -2  26
  9 Navon Beach University               17   7  4   6  17  15   +2  25
 10 Dullham Technology University        17   6  5   6  18  22   -4  23
 11 Dalinn College of Journalism         17   6  3   8  16  19   -3  21
 12 Flitton University                   17   5  5   7  16  19   -3  20
 13 University of Grand Island           17   5  5   7  15  18   -3  20
 14 Sports Development College           17   5  4   8  15  19   -4  19
 15 L'Uni française du Modna Nord        17   3  9   5  18  21   -3  18
 16 Frontier College                     17   5  1  11  16  22   -6  16
 17 Foreign Studies College Ad’ihan      17   2  4  11  11  29  -18  10
 18 University of Riverston              17   0  6  11  14  37  -23   6

QUALIFIERS
TQCC: Hatton Town (other slots to be decided)
GC: Slots to be decided
SBCC: CF Mont-Pluie, Flitton Rangers, Ad’ihan Military Forces, Riverston Town
IUCC: Technical Institute at Dalinn, Technical Institute at Hatton, Altsend Southern University

[Virabia]

The Vonghurst Star
SRPD Preview

It's no secret that the Virabi fooball season is one long-tough affair. From the kick off of the state championships to the final whistle of the Premier Division it's a lot of games. However, due to the addition of Amserica to the SRPD this season, the number of teams Virabia was allowed to field was slashed to six. However, with the pending arrival of Toyur, that could go down to five. The end result of this is that VFA has been allotted fewer Globe Cup places. Som,ething critics of the SRPD say will hinder the VFA's upward movement through the ranks of the UICA (which means more spots in the tournaments). However, Brett Sampson and the VFA remained adamant in their stance to keep Virabia in the SRPD citing that it gives players a wider range of experience than what could be accomplished by a Virabi teams only league.

Eitherway, with out any further ado: Our Guide to the Virabi teams that will be in the next SRPD.

Vonghurst Capitols
They have traditionally been Virabia's strongest team. Taking the innaugrual v.league title and coming in the top three in both editions of the SRPD, which has made them the Virabi Representative in both Champions Cups' where Virabia have been represented in. They also had a thrilling 4-1 win over Atlético Jutense in the Aeropag Football Invitational on their way to a respectable sixth place finish. However, some are saying that their days of success may be near the end as cross-town rivals CD Vonghurst look to be the next big Vonghurst Club.
Manager: Corin Peterson
Place in v.league: 2nd
Formation:3-4-3
First XI: Wilson, Felipe, Fax, Giddings, Christopher, Abbot, Lùpè, Grant, Allsworth, Conquest, Sanchez
Stadium: Feldhome Stadium (Cap: 21,000) (Temporary relocation as Capitol Arena is renovated)

Projection: 3rd (GC)
Kit:

CD Vonghurst
Originally created with the sole purpose of filling a Virabi slot in the SRPD, it was never thought that CD Vonghurst would ever do well. Their first season supported this claim as they were relegated from the SRPD. However, with a strong performance in both the state championships and the v.league they earned their place back in the SRPD. Where they were able to avoid relegation. However, given the re-organiziong of the SRPD they had to earn their place back. Something they've done in flying colours by winning the Vonghurst City Champonship and coming in a respectable third. They look to continue this spell of good luck given the caliber of the team, they are our pick to win the SRPD.
Manager: Luis Fernandez
Place in v.league: 3rd
Formation:3-3-4
First XI: Marcò, Juarèz, Negròn, Toledo, Làmo, Gomez, Sanches Gaona, Amador, Heredia, Pèdro, Sanchez
Stadium: Estadio Norte Del Vonghurst (Cap: 57,000)

Projection: 1st (TQCC)
Kit:

Portsham City
So far it's been a wonder as to why this team have done so well. In the SRPD they have constantly finished around the middle of the table and only getting into UICA competitions once. However, some say that their form is improving and that they could finish in the top 5-6. However, with managerial issues and a couple players who want to leave the club, the team will probably finish 10th.
Manager: Jack Maguire
Place in v.league: 5th
Formation:4-4-2
First XI: Beck, Sullivan, Hayes, Gojon, Hines, Abed, Hernàndez, Smith, Gasly, Silas, Menchaca
Stadium: Seaview Stadium (Cap: 48,000)

Projection: 10th
Kit:

Laufston Town
Despite a strong shoing in the v.league and their state championship Laufston Town probably doesn't have what it takes to make it far in the SRPD. Expect them to barely avoid relgation. However, some are saying that if Reyes and Maldonado can have a good season up front and end up working together instead of fighting, they could find themselves doing pretty good for themselves.
Manager: Keith Maddox
Place in v.league: 1st
Formation:4-3-1-2
First XI: Albertson, Clarke, Jackson, Klomsky, Terrazas, Edo, Okanzo, McDonald, Lennon, Ross, Maldonado, Reyes
Stadium: Lobo's Stadium (Cap: 3,000)

Projection: 18th (Relegated)
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Freeville Pioneers
Every league is bound to have their suprise teams and given the squad and recent form of the Freeville Pioneers look to be that team. While some media outlets are putting them at the bottom of the league. We at the Vonghurst Star are saying that this defensive squad will do well in the top flight and not only avoid relegation but also gain a Globe Cup place.
Manager: Jack Mundon
Place in v.league: 4th
Formation: 5-4-1
First XI: Green, Maassen, Maguire, Roenke, Tilling, Uhler, Jacobs, Harvey, Walker, Clinton, Ronaldson
Stadium: Galaxy View Park (cap: 1,000)

Projection: 7th (GC)
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((OOC: This is not complete... more will be added))

[TGWTGLand]

The 4 Star Petrol City League preview

BTH AC No one embodies the offensive minded play of TGWTGland Footy more than the the Blistered Thumb Hill Athletic Club. the BSP Media sponsored team, known as the Red & Blues should again dominate. Look out for new Forward Geo Rodgers to make an impact of the bench.

Julian St FC The Surprise champs of last year, The Panda's are going to be a force to reckon with this year too. New GK Luc' Debries should be an upgrade over the retired John Cook. If the team gets into a shootout look for the skills of Tony Baxter to help them out massively.

Reality Ink & Dye FC The newest franchise in the City League, Reality FC is also one of the best defensive teams the "Four Amigo's" of Harvey Finevoice, Joey Kidd, Benson Munro and Pollo Botski make one of the nastiest and toughest Defensive fronts in the City league.

AwesomeTown FC Steady and ture Awesome FC has been the only team in the City leagues 12 years of existence to make the playoffs ten times. With new transfer Gilles Robinson at Forward, the Satalites should make play offs again.

Buck FC Buck FC is another young team looking to move up in the world. Forward Glenn Boss should help them achieve that. but the still need more offense to push into the playoffs. Still the Greenbacks could play havoc on the leagues establishment

Spoony AC Now that Julian St has made it big, it's Spoony AC's turn to get out of the doldrums of the City League. It's up to attack Midfielder Clint Dossage and new Transfer. B.E. Thompson to lead the Reapers to the promised land.

PawDugan Sports Club PSC has forward Josh Blockard back , but Defenders Don Carlos and Pete Bennelli have transferred out of Country. So the Notes aren't expected to do any better.

Gamer United Face it, GU Stunk last year. An abysmal 3 wins really showed the lack of D on the team and it's expiremental "Nine Forwards Formation" Now running a tradtional 3-3-4 with Matt Kliffton tranferring from Speed_Way team Talledega United, things may be looking up.

[Lithatrius]

MATCHDAY 1

Karsta 2-0 Hassmyra
Litslunda 6-0 Tilberga
Varmsetra 1-0 Isatra
Orresta 0-2 Ashagen
Ortagarden 5-3 Tortuna
Svana 0-2 Halla
Nordanby 1-2 Bjurhovda
Akesta 1-1 Ramsta

MATCHDAY 2

Tilberga 1-3 Karsta
Isatra 0-1 Hassmyra
Ashagen 1-3 Litslunda
Tortuna 1-1 Varmsetra
Halla 1-2 Orresta
Bjurhovda 1-2 Ortagarden
Ramsta 2-2 Svana
Akesta 0-1 Nordanby

MATCHDAY 3

Karsta 2-0 Isatra
Tilberga 1-0 Ashagen
Hassmyra 0-0 Tortuna
Litslunda 0-1 Halla
Varmsetra 1-0 Bjurhovda
Orresta 0-0 Ramsta
Ortagarden 0-1 Akesta
Svana 1-0 Nordanby

MATCHDAY 4

Ashagen 0-3 Karsta
Tortuna 1-1 Isatra
Halla 1-1 Tilberga
Bjurhovda 1-1 Hassmyra
Ramsta 1-1 Litslunda
Akesta 1-0 Varmsetra
Nordanby 1-2 Orresta
Svana 0-1 Ortagarden

MATCHDAY 5

Karsta 2-2 Tortuna
Ashagen 1-2 Halla
Isatra 0-2 Bjurhovda
Tilberga 0-3 Ramsta
Hassmyra 0-1 Akesta
Litslunda 1-1 Nordanby
Varmsetra 0-1 Svana
Orresta 1-1 Ortagarden

MATCHDAY 6

Halla 0-1 Karsta
Bjurhovda 2-1 Tortuna
Ramsta 1-0 Ashagen
Akesta 1-1 Isatra
Nordanby 2-0 Tilberga
Svana 1-1 Hassmyra
Ortagarden 0-1 Litslunda
Orresta 0-0 Varmsetra

MATCHDAY 7

Karsta 2-0 Bjurhovda
Halla 0-2 Ramsta
Tortuna 0-1 Akesta
Ashagen 2-2 Nordanby
Isatra 1-2 Svana
Tilberga 1-2 Ortagarden
Hassmyra 3-8 Orresta
Litslunda 2-0 Varmsetra

MATCHDAY 8

Ramsta 0-1 Karsta
Akesta 0-0 Bjurhovda
Nordanby 1-1 Halla
Svana 1-0 Tortuna
Ortagarden 3-0 Ashagen
Orresta 2-0 Isatra
Varmsetra 1-1 Tilberga
Litslunda 4-0 Hassmyra

LLE Team            P  W  D  L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Karsta          8  7  1  0  16   3  +13  22
  2 Litslunda       8  5  2  1  18   4  +14  17
  3 Ortagarden      8  5  1  2  14   8   +6  16
  4 Orresta         8  4  3  1  15   8   +7  15
  5 Akesta          8  4  3  1   6   3   +3  15
  6 Svana           8  4  2  2   8   7   +1  14
  7 Ramsta          8  3  4  1  10   5   +5  13
  8 Bjurhovda       8  3  2  3   8   8   +0  11
  9 Halla           8  3  2  3   8   8   +0  11
 10 Nordanby        8  2  3  3   9   9   +0   9
 11 Varmsetra       8  2  3  3   4   6   -2   9
 12 Hassmyra        8  1  3  4   6  17  -11   6
 13 Tilberga        8  1  2  5   5  18  -13   5
 14 Tortuna         8  0  4  4   8  13   -5   4
 15 Ashagen         8  1  1  6   6  15   -9   4
 16 Isatra          8  0  2  6   3  12   -9   2

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MATCHDAY 1

Slandrom 0-2 Storm
Hasselback 1-3 Flatnor
Bredsdal 1-0 Vastersjon
Kryta 2-1 Loke
Marieby 2-0 Lilnaset
Solberg 2-1 Tramsta
Vallbacken 0-0 Ostbyn
Sorviken 0-2 Bieka
Angsta 1-1 Sonner
Kyrka 1-2 Valisved

MATCHDAY 2

Flatnor 0-0 Slandrom
Vastersjon 1-1 Storm
Loke 1-2 Hasselback
Lilnaset 0-1 Bredsdal
Tramsta 0-1 Kryta
Ostbyn 1-2 Marieby
Bieka 2-0 Solberg
Sonner 1-1 Vallbacken
Valisved 1-0 Sorviken
Kyrka 2-0 Angsta

MATCHDAY 3

Slandrom 1-0 Vastersjon
Flatnor 1-1 Loke
Storm 1-0 Lilnaset
Hasselback 2-0 Tramsta
Bredsdal 1-0 Ostbyn
Kryta 1-1 Bieka
Marieby 2-0 Sonner
Solberg 0-0 Valisved
Vallbacken 0-2 Kyrka
Sorviken 1-2 Angsta

MATCHDAY 4

Loke 1-1 Slandrom
Lilnaset 2-0 Vastersjon
Tramsta 1-1 Flatnor
Ostbyn 1-0 Storm
Bieka 0-0 Hasselback
Sonner 0-0 Bredsdal
Valisved 2-0 Kryta
Kyrka 0-0 Marieby
Angsta 1-1 Solberg
Sorviken 1-0 Vallbacken

MATCHDAY 5

Slandrom 1-3 Lilnaset
Loke 1-0 Tramsta
Vastersjon 2-1 Ostbyn
Flatnor 1-4 Bieka
Storm 0-0 Sonner
Hasselback 1-1 Valisved
Bredsdal 2-0 Kyrka
Kryta 2-1 Angsta
Marieby 1-2 Sorviken
Solberg 0-1 Vallbacken

MATCHDAY 6

Tramsta 1-1 Slandrom
Ostbyn 2-0 Lilnaset
Bieka 1-0 Loke
Sonner 1-0 Vastersjon
Valisved 1-0 Flatnor
Kyrka 0-2 Storm
Angsta 0-3 Hasselback
Sorviken 0-2 Bredsdal
Vallbacken 1-1 Kryta
Solberg 0-0 Marieby

MATCHDAY 7

Slandrom 0-2 Ostbyn
Tramsta 1-0 Bieka
Lilnaset 1-2 Sonner
Loke 1-2 Valisved
Vastersjon 3-0 Kyrka
Flatnor 1-0 Angsta
Storm 2-3 Sorviken
Hasselback 3-3 Vallbacken
Bredsdal 2-0 Solberg
Kryta 2-0 Marieby

MATCHDAY 8

Bieka 0-2 Slandrom
Sonner 4-1 Ostbyn
Valisved 2-0 Tramsta
Kyrka 2-2 Lilnaset
Angsta 1-1 Loke
Sorviken 0-0 Vastersjon
Vallbacken 2-0 Flatnor
Solberg 1-1 Storm
Marieby 0-1 Hasselback
Kryta 0-1 Bredsdal

LL2 Team            P  W  D  L For  Ag +/- Pts
  1 Bredsdal        8  7  1  0  10   0 +10  22
  2 Valisved        8  6  2  0  11   3  +8  20
  3 Hasselback      8  4  3  1  13   8  +5  15
  4 Bieka           8  4  2  2  10   5  +5  14
  5 Kryta           8  4  2  2   9   7  +2  14
  6 Sonner          8  3  4  1   9   6  +3  13
  7 Storm           8  3  3  2   9   6  +3  12
  8 Marieby         8  3  2  3   7   6  +1  11
  9 Vallbacken      8  2  4  2   8   8  +0  10
 10 Ostbyn          8  3  1  4   8   9  -1  10
 11 Sorviken        8  3  1  4   7  10  -3  10
 12 Flatnor         8  2  3  3   7  10  -3   9
 13 Slandrom        8  2  3  3   6   9  -3   9
 14 Vastersjon      8  2  2  4   6   7  -1   8
 15 Kyrka           8  2  2  4   7  11  -4   8
 16 Lilnaset        8  2  1  5   8  11  -3   7
 17 Solberg         8  1  4  3   4   8  -4   7
 18 Loke            8  1  3  4   7  10  -3   6
 19 Angsta          8  1  3  4   6  12  -6   6
 20 Tramsta         8  1  2  5   4  10  -6   5

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MATCHDAY 1

Vale 0-1 Kalhell
Skarholmen 1-1 Hisby
Hallunda 2-0 Kista
Sommarstad 1-0 Vartan
Parksidan 0-1 Jarfalla
Tallkrogen 1-1 Kalvesta
Botkyrka 0-2 Villorna

MATCHDAY 2

Hisby 0-1 Vale
Kista 0-2 Kalhell
Vartan 3-2 Skarholmen
Jarfalla 4-1 Hallunda
Kalvesta 1-3 Sommarstad
Villorna 1-1 Parksidan
Botkyrka 1-1 Tallkrogen

MATCHDAY 3

Vale 1-1 Kista
Hisby 1-3 Vartan
Kalhell 0-1 Jarfalla
Skarholmen 1-0 Kalvesta
Hallunda 0-2 Villorna
Sommarstad 0-2 Botkyrka
Parksidan 1-0 Tallkrogen

MATCHDAY 4

Vartan 1-0 Vale
Jarfalla 2-0 Kista
Kalvesta 0-1 Hisby
Villorna 2-2 Kalhell
Botkyrka 3-1 Skarholmen
Tallkrogen 2-1 Hallunda
Parksidan 1-1 Sommarstad

MATCHDAY 5

Vale 1-2 Jarfalla
Vartan 2-1 Kalvesta
Kista 0-1 Villorna
Hisby 1-1 Botkyrka
Kalhell 1-0 Tallkrogen
Skarholmen 0-1 Parksidan
Hallunda 1-1 Sommarstad

MATCHDAY 6

Kalvesta 1-1 Vale
Villorna 1-0 Jarfalla
Botkyrka 2-1 Vartan
Tallkrogen 1-3 Kista
Parksidan 0-3 Hisby
Sommarstad 7-2 Kalhell
Hallunda 2-2 Skarholmen

MATCHDAY 7

Vale 0-1 Villorna
Kalvesta 2-2 Botkyrka
Jarfalla 1-1 Tallkrogen
Vartan 0-0 Parksidan
Kista 1-0 Sommarstad
Hisby 1-0 Hallunda
Kalhell 1-1 Skarholmen

MATCHDAY 8

Botkyrka 2-0 Vale
Tallkrogen 1-1 Villorna
Parksidan 0-1 Kalvesta
Sommarstad 0-0 Jarfalla
Hallunda 3-2 Vartan
Skarholmen 0-0 Kista
Kalhell 1-1 Hisby

LL3 Team            P  W  D  L For  Ag +/- Pts
  1 Villorna        8  5  3  0  11   4  +7  18
  2 Jarfalla        8  5  2  1  11   4  +7  17
  3 Botkyrka        8  4  3  1  13   8  +5  15
  4 Vartan          8  4  1  3  12  10  +2  13
  5 Sommarstad      8  3  3  2  13   8  +5  12
  6 Hisby           8  3  3  2   9   7  +2  12
  7 Kalhell         8  3  3  2  10  12  -2  12
  8 Parksidan       8  2  3  3   4   7  -3   9
  9 Hallunda        8  2  2  4  10  14  -4   8
 10 Kista           8  2  2  4   5   9  -4   8
 11 Skarholmen      8  1  4  3   8  11  -3   7
 12 Tallkrogen      8  1  4  3   7  10  -3   7
 13 Kalvesta        8  1  3  4   7  11  -4   6
 14 Vale            8  1  2  5   4   9  -5   5

[Qazox]

After the Quarentine, the A-League returned with the additon of Yorkshire and Saint Nash, who were added in 1985. As such the Qazox Cup was a full 16-team tourney and the league's schedule was extended from 26 to 30 games.

TEAM              W-L-T  Pts
Gothika          16-6-8   56
New Bruxen       17-9-4   55
Bruxen           16-10-4  52
Vogg City        16-12-2  50 
Lorax City       15-13-2  47
Qazox City       14-12-4  46
Pika City        14-16-0  42
Lake Porter City 13-14-3  42
Cuidad de Iguana 12-13-5  41 
Kibbutz          13-16-1  40 
SaxerVilla       12-14-4  40
Graverville      12-15-3  39
Saint Nash       11-13-6  39 
Fromburg         12-16-2  38
Yorkshire        10-15-5  35
Rockport         10-19-1  31

Note: Pika City becomes first A-League team not to draw a match all season.

1986 Qazox Cup
FINAL @ Pika City: Pika City 4- Fromburg 1

Pika City becomes the first team to win back-to-back Qazox Cups since the 1897-98 Fromburg Aston team of the old QFL.

[Lithatrius]

MATCHDAY 9

Karsta 1-1 Akesta
Ramsta 1-0 Nordanby
Bjurhovda 1-0 Svana
Halla 1-1 Ortagarden
Tortuna 0-2 Orresta
Ashagen 0-3 Varmsetra
Isatra 1-2 Litslunda
Tilberga 2-0 Hassmyra

MATCHDAY 10

Nordanby 0-2 Karsta
Svana 2-0 Akesta
Ortagarden 1-1 Ramsta
Orresta 1-0 Bjurhovda
Varmsetra 1-1 Halla
Litslunda 4-0 Tortuna
Hassmyra 0-0 Ashagen
Tilberga 1-1 Isatra

MATCHDAY 11

Karsta 3-1 Svana
Nordanby 0-2 Ortagarden
Akesta 0-2 Orresta
Ramsta 1-0 Varmsetra
Bjurhovda 0-3 Litslunda
Halla 1-0 Hassmyra
Tortuna 3-0 Tilberga
Ashagen 1-1 Isatra

MATCHDAY 12

Ortagarden 1-1 Karsta
Orresta 0-2 Svana
Varmsetra 3-0 Nordanby
Litslunda 3-0 Akesta
Hassmyra 0-1 Ramsta
Tilberga 1-1 Bjurhovda
Isatra 2-2 Halla
Ashagen 0-1 Tortuna

MATCHDAY 13

Karsta 3-0 Orresta
Ortagarden 0-1 Varmsetra
Svana 0-2 Litslunda
Nordanby 3-2 Hassmyra
Akesta 2-0 Tilberga
Ramsta 3-1 Isatra
Bjurhovda 0-1 Ashagen
Halla 0-0 Tortuna

MATCHDAY 14

Varmsetra 1-0 Karsta
Litslunda 1-1 Orresta
Hassmyra 1-3 Ortagarden
Tilberga 0-5 Svana
Isatra 0-0 Nordanby
Ashagen 0-2 Akesta
Tortuna 1-2 Ramsta
Halla 0-1 Bjurhovda

MATCHDAY 15

Karsta 2-1 Litslunda
Varmsetra 1-0 Hassmyra
Orresta 3-0 Tilberga
Ortagarden 0-0 Isatra
Svana 3-2 Ashagen
Nordanby 1-1 Tortuna
Akesta 2-1 Halla
Ramsta 1-0 Bjurhovda

MATCHDAY 16

Hassmyra 1-1 Karsta
Tilberga 2-3 Litslunda
Isatra 0-2 Varmsetra
Ashagen 0-1 Orresta
Tortuna 1-4 Ortagarden
Halla 0-0 Svana
Bjurhovda 1-5 Nordanby
Ramsta 1-1 Akesta

LLE Team             P   W  D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Karsta          16  11  4   1  29   9  +20  37
  2 Litslunda       16  11  3   2  37  10  +27  36
  3 Ramsta          16   9  6   1  21   9  +12  33
  4 Orresta         16   9  4   3  25  14  +11  31
  5 Ortagarden      16   8  5   3  26  14  +12  29
  6 Varmsetra       16   8  4   4  16   8   +8  28
  7 Svana           16   8  3   5  21  15   +6  27
  8 Akesta          16   7  5   4  14  13   +1  26
  9 Halla           16   4  7   5  14  15   -1  19
 10 Bjurhovda       16   5  3   8  12  20   -8  18
 11 Nordanby        16   4  5   7  18  21   -3  17
 12 Tortuna         16   2  6   8  15  26  -11  12
 13 Tilberga        16   2  4  10  11  36  -25  10
 14 Ashagen         16   2  3  11  10  26  -16   9
 15 Hassmyra        16   1  5  10  10  29  -19   8
 16 Isatra          16   0  7   9   9  23  -14   7

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MATCHDAY 9

Slandrom 0-0 Sonner
Bieka 2-0 Valisved
Ostbyn 1-3 Kyrka
Tramsta 1-1 Angsta
Lilnaset 0-2 Sorviken
Loke 3-2 Vallbacken
Vastersjon 1-0 Solberg
Flatnor 2-1 Marieby
Storm 0-0 Kryta
Hasselback 0-4 Bredsdal

MATCHDAY 10

Valisved 0-2 Slandrom
Kyrka 1-1 Sonner
Angsta 4-1 Bieka
Sorviken 0-0 Ostbyn
Vallbacken 4-2 Tramsta
Solberg 0-0 Lilnaset
Marieby 1-1 Loke
Kryta 0-1 Vastersjon
Bredsdal 2-1 Flatnor
Hasselback 2-0 Storm

MATCHDAY 11

Slandrom 2-1 Kyrka
Valisved 1-2 Angsta
Sonner 1-1 Sorviken
Bieka 0-1 Vallbacken
Ostbyn 1-1 Solberg
Tramsta 1-0 Marieby
Lilnaset 0-1 Kryta
Loke 2-1 Bredsdal
Vastersjon 0-1 Hasselback
Flatnor 0-0 Storm

MATCHDAY 12

Angsta 2-1 Slandrom
Sorviken 2-2 Kyrka
Vallbacken 0-1 Valisved
Solberg 1-1 Sonner
Marieby 2-2 Bieka
Kryta 1-0 Ostbyn
Bredsdal 3-0 Tramsta
Hasselback 1-1 Lilnaset
Storm 0-2 Loke
Flatnor 0-2 Vastersjon

MATCHDAY 13

Slandrom 1-1 Sorviken
Angsta 0-3 Vallbacken
Kyrka 0-0 Solberg
Valisved 0-1 Marieby
Sonner 0-1 Kryta
Bieka 0-1 Bredsdal
Ostbyn 0-2 Hasselback
Tramsta 0-2 Storm
Lilnaset 1-1 Flatnor
Loke 0-0 Vastersjon

MATCHDAY 14

Vallbacken 1-1 Slandrom
Solberg 4-0 Sorviken
Marieby 2-3 Angsta
Kryta 1-1 Kyrka
Bredsdal 2-1 Valisved
Hasselback 1-1 Sonner
Storm 1-0 Bieka
Flatnor 0-1 Ostbyn
Vastersjon 2-1 Tramsta
Loke 0-1 Lilnaset

MATCHDAY 15

Slandrom 0-0 Solberg
Vallbacken 1-2 Marieby
Sorviken 0-0 Kryta
Angsta 2-2 Bredsdal
Kyrka 0-2 Hasselback
Valisved 1-2 Storm
Sonner 1-1 Flatnor
Bieka 0-0 Vastersjon
Ostbyn 1-1 Loke
Tramsta 1-0 Lilnaset

MATCHDAY 16

Marieby 0-1 Slandrom
Kryta 0-1 Solberg
Bredsdal 3-0 Vallbacken
Hasselback 2-0 Sorviken
Storm 1-2 Angsta
Flatnor 0-1 Kyrka
Vastersjon 1-1 Valisved
Loke 1-2 Sonner
Lilnaset 2-2 Bieka
Tramsta 1-1 Ostbyn

LL2 Team             P   W  D  L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Bredsdal        16  13  2  1  28   6  +22  41
  2 Hasselback      16   9  5  2  24  14  +10  32
  3 Kryta           16   7  5  4  13  10   +3  26
  4 Valisved        16   7  3  6  16  15   +1  24
  5 Vastersjon      16   6  5  5  13  10   +3  23
  6 Storm           16   6  5  5  15  13   +2  23
  7 Angsta          16   6  5  5  22  24   -2  23
  8 Sonner          16   4 10  2  16  13   +3  22
  9 Slandrom        16   5  7  4  14  14   +0  22
 10 Bieka           16   5  5  6  17  16   +1  20
 11 Vallbacken      16   5  5  6  20  20   +0  20
 12 Marieby         16   5  4  7  16  17   -1  19
 13 Solberg         16   3  9  4  11  11   +0  18
 14 Loke            16   4  6  6  17  18   -1  18
 15 Kyrka           16   4  6  6  16  20   -4  18
 16 Sorviken        16   4  6  6  13  20   -7  18
 17 Ostbyn          16   4  5  7  13  18   -5  17
 18 Flatnor         16   3  6  7  12  19   -7  15
 19 Lilnaset        16   3  5  8  13  19   -6  14
 20 Tramsta         16   3  4  9  11  23  -12  13

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MATCHDAY 9

Vale 2-1 Tallkrogen
Botkyrka 2-0 Parksidan
Villorna 2-1 Sommarstad
Kalvesta 1-0 Hallunda
Jarfalla 1-0 Skarholmen
Vartan 1-0 Kalhell
Kista 0-1 Hisby

MATCHDAY 10

Parksidan 1-0 Vale
Sommarstad 0-1 Tallkrogen
Hallunda 1-0 Botkyrka
Skarholmen 2-2 Villorna
Kalhell 1-1 Kalvesta
Hisby 2-5 Jarfalla
Kista 0-2 Vartan

MATCHDAY 11

Vale 2-0 Sommarstad
Parksidan 1-1 Hallunda
Tallkrogen 1-0 Skarholmen
Botkyrka 2-0 Kalhell
Villorna 1-1 Hisby
Kalvesta 1-0 Kista
Jarfalla 0-2 Vartan

MATCHDAY 12

Hallunda 0-1 Vale
Skarholmen 1-2 Sommarstad
Kalhell 2-1 Parksidan
Hisby 0-0 Tallkrogen
Kista 3-1 Botkyrka
Vartan 3-0 Villorna
Jarfalla 1-0 Kalvesta

MATCHDAY 13

Vale 1-1 Skarholmen
Hallunda 1-1 Kalhell
Sommarstad 1-2 Hisby
Parksidan 0-1 Kista
Tallkrogen 0-1 Vartan
Botkyrka 1-4 Jarfalla
Villorna 0-1 Kalvesta

MATCHDAY 14

Kalhell 2-0 Vale
Hisby 0-1 Skarholmen
Kista 1-0 Hallunda
Vartan 2-0 Sommarstad
Jarfalla 2-2 Parksidan
Kalvesta 1-1 Tallkrogen
Villorna 0-2 Botkyrka

MATCHDAY 15

Vale 1-1 Hisby
Kalhell 1-1 Kista
Skarholmen 1-0 Vartan
Hallunda 0-0 Jarfalla
Sommarstad 2-2 Kalvesta
Parksidan 1-1 Villorna
Tallkrogen 0-1 Botkyrka

MATCHDAY 16

Kista 1-0 Vale
Vartan 1-1 Hisby
Jarfalla 4-2 Kalhell
Kalvesta 0-0 Skarholmen
Villorna 1-0 Hallunda
Botkyrka 2-2 Sommarstad
Tallkrogen 0-1 Parksidan

LL3 Team             P  W  D  L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Jarfalla        16 10  4  2  28  13  +15  34
  2 Vartan          16 10  2  4  24  12  +12  32
  3 Botkyrka        16  8  4  4  24  18   +6  28
  4 Villorna        16  7  6  3  18  15   +3  27
  5 Hisby           16  5  7  4  17  17   +0  22
  6 Kista           16  6  3  7  12  15   -3  21
  7 Kalhell         16  5  6  5  19  23   -4  21
  8 Kalvesta        16  4  7  5  14  16   -2  19
  9 Parksidan       16  4  6  6  11  16   -5  18
 10 Sommarstad      16  4  5  7  21  22   -1  17
 11 Skarholmen      16  3  7  6  14  18   -4  16
 12 Vale            16  4  4  8  11  16   -5  16
 13 Tallkrogen      16  3  6  7  11  16   -5  15
 14 Hallunda        16  3  5  8  13  20   -7  14

[Cafundeu]

CAFUNDELENSE LEAGUE RESULTS
Season 19

THE SAME OF EVER REVIEW OF CAFUNDÉU’S LEAGUE SYSTEM – Cafundéu’s league is composed of 5 divisions of 20 teams. All the divisions have the same style:

-1st phase: All the clubs play each other 2 times(home and away). It’s called “primeiro turno”. The winner of this phase it’s the first placed at the end of the league.

Tiebreakers: points, number of wins, goal difference, goals scored, yellow cards.

-2nd phase: The 8 best placed teams in the 1st phase play in a knockout stage. The 1st plays the 8th (Game A), the 2nd plays the 7th(Game B), the 3rd plays the 6th(Game C) and the 4th plays the 5th (Game D). They play two games(home and away). The winner continues. In case of draw, the team with better performance in the 1st phase wins. Then, the winner of the game A plays against the winner of game D, and the winner of game B plays the winner of game C(semifinals) with the same rules. Then, the winners play the final using the same rules.

-3rd phase: The winners of the 1st and 2nd phase play each other in one game in neutral ground. In case of draw, there’s extra time and penalties. The winner is the Cafundéu champion.

Promotion and Relegation: In all the leagues 4 teams get relegated. They are the 4 worst teams of the 1st phase. The promoted teams are the 3 best teams of the 1st phase and the best team of the 2nd phase(note that the champion of the 2nd phase can be already promoted in the 1st phase, so the best placed team that still wasn’t promoted will be promoted (the one which reached the final or the semifinal of the 2nd phase).

Orange: Division champions
Blue: promoted
Red: relegated
Purple: winner of 1st phase (if lost the grand final)
Green: winner of 2nd phase (if lost the grand final)

Special cases:

Silver: qualified for the TQCC
Brown: qualified for the Globe Cup

1st Division Past winners (since the entrance of Cafundéu in the NS World Cup -before that, there were many champions in competitions with different formats):

Competition History:

Edition        Champions                 Grand Final opponent
Season 1   -   Atlético Jutense          Ranca Toco
Season 2   -   Cafundó do Juta           (none)
Season 3   -   Petardos S/A              SC Lasft
Season 4   -   Petardos S/A              Clube Imperial
Season 5   -   Dunboor FC                Petardos S/A
Season 6   -   A.F.F.                    Cafundó do Juta
Season 7   -   Petardos S/A              Dunboor FC
Season 8   -   Cafundó do Juta           Petardos S/A
Season 9   -   Clube Imperial            (none)
Season 10  -   Dunboor FC                Clube Imperial
Season 11  -   Ranca Toco                (none)
Season 12  -   Ranca Toco                Cafundó do Juta
Season 13  -   Petardos S/A              Ranca Toco
Season 14  -   A.F.F.                    Petardos S/A
Season 15  -   Cafundó do Juta           Atlético Jutense
Season 16  -   Petardos S/A              (none)
Season 17  -   Petardos S/A              Dunboor FC
Season 18  -   Atlético Jutense          Cafundó do Juta

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In nineteen games, many things can change in a competition as difficult as the CCFM Primeirona. But, in this season, the battle for the first phase leadership ended restricted to the same three clubs that ended on the top positions after the first half. Petardos S/A, Dunboor FC and América were divided only by a minimal difference in points, and a single matchday could make changes in their championship situations. In the end, after the remaining matches of the Cafundelense First Division, Dunboor FC emerged triumphant, thanks to their excellent style of football that combined a good defence with the mentality of always looking for the victory and avoiding draws. Even though four points may not seem very much after thirty-eight games, this difference over Petardos S/A surely is quite an achievement.

As Cafundó do Juta was guaranteed a TQCC position as current champions of the international tournament, only more two positions were available, for the second and third placed. So, these positions ended being the consolation prizes for Petardos S/A and América in the first phase of the Primeirona, as they were looking to lead the entire stage. But, for América, this spot didn’t come easily. In the last matchdays, they lost precious points and were under serious threat of both Ranca Toco and Clube Comercial, both which were pretty close of the desired TQCC place. Luckily for the Devils, the good campaign in the first half ended helping them to guarantee the third position, and aim better performances in the second phase, as the title still could be won. As for Petardos, it was a good campaign by the Billionaires, and confidence was high for the second phase.

The Globe Cup positions then ended going to the two that had very good campaigns in the second half, and were very close to the TQCC: Ranca Toco and Clube Comercial. Both of them improved their positions from the last report, especially the Sarrafeiros, as Ranca Toco was in an intermediate position, a shame for such a traditional club. TQCC champions Cafundó do Juta came right after in a much disappointing performance, but at least will go to the international competition. And, finally, the last GC spot ended going to Porto Lacruz, which only won this thanks to the number of wins tiebreaker, avoiding the massive surprise that Eldorado would have done if qualified to the Globe Cup. At least Eldorado managed to get into the top eight. The same cannot be said of the current champions Atlético Jutense, the biggest disappointment of the season, which had its title hopes ended early.

A club that couldn’t repeat the good performance of the first nineteen matches was Rio Bonito. Recently promoted, they were fourth, but didn’t keep the excellent position and fell down to tenth. Anyway, they were never threatened by the relegation zone, and in the end this campaign will be one to be proud of. SC Lasft comes right after in eleventh, a team that could get a good recovery and escape the relegation zone. The others close to SCL in the standings just kept their positions: Atlético Insular, Clube Imperial and Central United never seemed to have many chances of reaching the top positions, and neither were too close of the relegation zone. In the end, a boring campaign for them, but campaigns that keep them in the Primeirona and in the intermediate positions. There are some clubs that should get satisfied by that.

And finally we reach the point of the battle against relegation, which is always an interesting one to follow, unless you are a supporter of one of the teams involved. This season, Varzeano was seen as the worst club of the Primeirona and… they escaped relegation. With a united squad and good tactical awareness, they did a fine job. Other club that got close of the relegation zone but escaped was Bandeirantes, thanks to their great young talents. But four clubs didn’t have the same luck: Galáxia returns to the Segundona, one more time. Internacional, after many seasons on the top tier, gets relegated too. Khalmar-Tijhus never looked able to keep themselves in the Primeirona. And the fourth club is A.F.F. With a successful history, the club now approaches its darkest moment, and for the first time ever will not compete in the Primeirona.

CAFUNDÉU’S FIRST DIVISION:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Dunboor FC                38  23   4  11   75   40   35   73  1st – TQCC
   2  Petardos S/A              38  21   6  11   83   56   27   69  TQCC
   3  América                   38  19   6  13   66   55   11   63  2nd/C – TQCC
   4  Ranca Toco                38  17  12   9   53   37   16   63  GC
   5  Clube Comercial           38  17  11  10   82   58   24   62  GC
   6  Cafundó do Juta           38  18   5  15   81   70   11   59  TQCC
   7  Porto Lacruz              38  17   8  13   78   62   16   59  GC
   8  Eldorado                  38  16  11  11   67   55   12   59
   9  Atlético Jutense          38  17   6  15   85   78    7   57
  10  Rio Bonito                38  16   9  13   64   70   -6   57
  11  SC Lasft                  38  15  11  12   54   46    8   56
  12  Atlético Insular          38  15   8  15   59   59    0   53
  13  Clube Imperial            38  14  11  13   63   70   -7   53
  14  Central United            38  14  10  14   38   40   -2   52
  15  Varzeano                  38  13   9  16   65   70   -5   48
  16  Bandeirantes              38  12   9  17   46   57  -11   45
  17  Internacional             38  10  10  18   45   61  -16   40  R
  18  A.F.F.                    38   9   8  21   58   93  -35   35  R
  19  Galáxia                   38   8  10  20   36   67  -31   34  R
  20  Khalmar-Tijhus            38   4   6  28   42   96  -54   18  R

For the second phase of the league, the favourites were the three leaders after the end of the first stage, as these were the clubs that presented good performances during the entire competition. But Ranca Toco reached this point of the competition with high morale and Cafundó do Juta’s squad was feared by an entire world. Therefore, no one had the courage to rule these two clubs out of the competition. In the end, the favourites won their quarterfinal disputes. América did great in overcoming Cafundó do Juta, while Dunboor FC suffered inexplicable difficulties against Eldorado, which put their entire team under some critics. Petardos S/A did the expected against Porto Lacruz, winning the two matches, while Ranca Toco overcame Clube Comercial in very open matches, in which any of the clubs could have proceeded.

The semifinals presented a tough confrontation between Ranca Toco and Dunboor FC. After playing badly against Eldorado, the Lions did well in holding the Sarrafeiros for a draw in the Presídio. But they surely weren’t expecting to be defeated at their own home in the second leg, and to be eliminated by Ranca Toco after winning the first phase. The other match involved a true rivalry, between two clubs from Lasft. The two games involving América and Petardos S/A were the hottest of the entire competition. In the first leg, América took advantage of some defensive mistakes of the Billionaires to take an important win, one that gave the Devils enough advantage to proceed even after losing the second game, and reaching the final of the second phase. With Dunboor FC out, the championship would only be decided in a Great Final.

Quarter-Finals – 1st Leg:

(8)                 Eldorado     2-1     Dunboor FC               (1)
(7)             Porto Lacruz     0-1     Petardos S/A             (2)
(6)          Cafundó do Juta     1-1     América                  (3)
(5)          Clube Comercial     3-2     Ranca Toco               (4)

2nd Leg:

(1)               Dunboor FC (3) 2-1 (3) Eldorado                 (8)
(2)             Petardos S/A (4) 3-1 (1) Porto Lacruz             (7)
(3)                  América (2) 1-0 (1) Cafundó do Juta          (6)
(4)               Ranca Toco (6) 4-2 (5) Clube Comercial          (5)

Semifinals – 1st Leg:

(4)               Ranca Toco     0-0     Dunboor FC               (1)
(3)                  América     3-1     Petardos S/A             (2)

2nd Leg:

(1)               Dunboor FC (0) 0-2 (2) Ranca Toco               (4)
(2)             Petardos S/A (3) 2-1 (4) América                  (3)

Final 1st Leg:

(4)               Ranca Toco     2-2     América                  (3)

Final 2nd Leg:

(3)                  América (3) 1-0 (2) Ranca Toco               (4)

The final match didn’t have any of the two leaders of the league, and was seen as surprising and anti-climactic by many. But América and Ranca Toco had squads with similar levels. Even if someone claims that they were weaker than Petardos/Cafundó/Atlético/Dunboor, the so-famous Elite Four, the fact is that they had defeated these same clubs in order to reach the final of the second phase, and they played great football in the two matches of this final. The first game had many changes in the lead, and both teams were close to the victory. In the end, the draw seemed a suitable result. In the second confrontation, América could take advantage of the better campaign in the first phase and tried to hold the draw. When Ranca Toco attacked in order to take the win, América counterattacked superbly, and guaranteed the phase title.

So, with América winning the second phase, we had the Grand Final between Dunboor FC and the Devils. Although Dunboor had a better performance during the entire league, winning the first phase, the latest form of América was more positive. It was difficult to point out a favourite in this game, with the experts dividing opinions about this issue. And the game proved that such a prediction was impossible to make. The game was great, and América was the first to score with Vroon, who had the luck of having the ball hit his chest and entering the net. In the second half, even with all the efforts of Dunboor to score, Aavik received an excellent pass inside the area, dribbled Maximus and shot with strength to increase the lead. Batoré even scored for the northern team, but it was already too late: América secured the win… and the title of the Primeirona.

THE GRAND FINAL:

DUNBOOR FC 1x2 AMÉRICA

Place: Estádio Rei Albieri Van Tocco, Cafundó do Juta.
Attendance: 209,553 people.
Climate: rainy, 21ºC.
Time: 22:00 Cafundelense time.
Referee: Ornell Jordan (Central State).
Assistants: Sílvio Couto and Válter Altair Menseguez (both from Central State).
POTM: Nico Lewton (América).

DUNBOOR FC: Tejera; Farina, Batoré, Maximus and Kirkpatrick; Hawker, An Pilrip (Pascoal 57’), Miguel Silva and Morose (Leivinha 68’); Anwamanë (Zeca 80’) and Antonovich.
Coach: Javier Sanchez.

AMÉRICA: Murilo; Rodríguez, Farison and Reeves; Lewton, Mané (Esquerdinha 63’), Salivani, Cook and Vroon; Saavedra (Tite 83’) and Audette (Aavik 45’).
Coach: Edgar Gastão.

Goals:DUB: Batoré 77’.
AME: Vroon 18’ , Aavik 71’.

Yellow Cards: Farina, Kirkpatrick and An Pilrip (DUB); Farison and Mané (AME).

Once again, our brilliant photographer managed to take exclusive pictures of the Season 19 Grand Final of the Cafundelense League, which can be seen on: http://img130.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=aavikcommemorates.jpg (check the link for images of the game!)

AMÉRICA WINS THE LEAGUE!

Oh, that was a surprise. Not that América is a bad team, but because people were expecting a title for one of the so-called Elite Four clubs, which didn’t happen even after Dunboor FC and Petardos S/A lead the first phase. Also, América isn’t a truly traditional club, but a younger one that became a top side. Now the Devils conquer their first Primeirona title, for the excitement of their fans. Without doubt, this is the best moment of the team so far, winning such a competitive league against teams that were supposed to be superior. With this, América also can claim to be the second most successful team of Lasft, overcoming SC Lasft, which is already a nice thing. As for the runner-ups, the end of the season may be disappointing to Dunboor FC, as the title was very close for them. But the team once again proved its strength, and may do well in the international competitions.

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Other details of the first division:

Pure Gold 24kt Ball (best player) history:

Edition        Player             Nation            Team
Season 1   -   Ganz Ijak          Cafundéu          Petardos S/A
Season 2   -   Selan Mataitai     Ariddia           Petardos S/A
Season 3   -   Anormal            Cafundéu          SC Lasft
Season 4   -   Ganz Ijak          Cafundéu          Petardos S/A
Season 5   -   Jorge Shockey      Az-cz             Petardos S/A
Season 6   -   Caj Ilmari         Squornshelous     Cafundó do Juta
Season 7   -   Viggo Haakana      Squornshelous     Petardos S/A
Season 8   -   Laborious Hawk     Valanora          Petardos S/A
Season 9   -   Alex               Cafundéu          Clube Imperial
Season 10  -   Ikles Razov        Valanora          Dunboor FC
Season 11  -   Marossi            Cafundéu          Ranca Toco
Season 12  -   Lyle Dylandy       Dancougar         Petardos S/A
Season 13  -   Hubert             Cafundéu          Ranca Toco
Season 14  -   Silveira           Cafundéu          A.F.F.
Season 15  -   Jeong Jihun        Daehanjeiguk      Cafundó do Juta
Season 16  -   Laborious Hawk     Valanora          Petardos S/A
Season 17  -   Danny Adams        Candelariasian    Petardos S/A
Season 18  -   Marco Aurélio      Cafundéu          Atlético Jutense

Best Player:
1st – Jeremy Kirkpatrick (Dunboor FC)
2nd – Nico Lewton (América)
3rd – Laborious Hawk (Petardos S/A)
4th – Martin Tejera (Dunboor FC)
5th – Frank Vroon (América)

Pure Gold 18kt Boot (top goalscorer) history:

Edition        Player             Nation             Team               Goals
Season 1   -   Ganz Ijak          Cafundéu           Petardos S/A          31
Season 2   -   Heitor             Cafundéu           A.F.F.                25
Season 3   -   Lennie Newton      Wentland           Petardos S/A          33
Season 4   -   Roy Hartenholm     Capitalizt SLANI   Dunboor FC            28
Season 5   -   Aristóteles        Cafundéu           Atlético Insular      23
Season 6   -   Lennie Newton      Wentland           Petardos S/A          25
Season 7   -   Saulo              Cafundéu           Clube Imperial        30
Season 8   -   Flecha             Cafundéu           Cafundó do Juta       33
Season 9   -   Laborious Hawk     Valanora           Petardos S/A          30
Season 10  -   Hubert             Cafundéu           Atlético Insular      27
Season 11  -   Norbert Fiero      Kura-Pelland       Ranca Toco            30
Season 12  -   Hubert             Cafundéu           Ranca Toco            26
Season 13  -   Kiso Night         Valanora           Petardos S/A          27
Season 14  -   Ikles Razov        Valanora           Petardos S/A          33
Season 15  -   Jeong Jihun        Daehanjeiguk       Cafundó do Juta       32
Season 16  -   Ikles Razov        Valanora           Petardos S/A          30
Season 17  -   Danny Adams        Candelariasian     Petardos S/A          27
Season 18  -   Matt Lynch         Sarzonia           Cafundó do Juta       28

Top Goalscorer:
1st – Laborious Hawk (Petardos S/A) – 30 goals
2nd – Rafael Nunes (Cafundó do Juta) – 27 goals
3rd – Wanderley (Petardos S/A) – 25 goals
4th – Ken Antonovich (Dunboor FC) – 25 goals
5th – Ian Sinclair (Atlético Jutense) – 24 goals

*in case of draw, the player with less games played stays in front of the others

This season the prize for best player had to be between Dunboor FC, América and Petardos S/A, the three clubs that performed much better than the others. But, in the end, Dunboor FC was the club that did a good job for most rounds, even losing the final. So, thanks to the system of average ratings, a Dunboor FC player won the prize of best player. And, as the team’s defence was much praised, the prize ended going to a defender. Not the first or the second time this happens, but such a thing is a rarity in the Cafundelense league. Jeremy Kirkpatrick ended being the symbol of the team’s defence, a decision that was seen as controversial by some because of Martin Tejera’s positive influence in Dunboor’s good campaign. As for the second placed, Nico Lewton was clearly the leader of the champion side, so the choice couldn’t be another.

As for the top goalscorer of the league, there were some clubs that were very offensive, scoring many goals during the competition. Petardos S/A and Cafundó do Juta were the two most offensive clubs, and therefore ended having the two top goalscorers. For the Billionaires, the ever-present in the list of best players Laborious Hawk, who for the second time wins the prize. In second, representing the team from the capital, we have Rafael Nunes, probably one of the few players from that squad who had a good season after the TQCC title. Behind them there is Wanderley, who had a fine season in his return to the Cafundelense League. And, to end the analysis of the prizes, just some comments on the prize of best coach, which can be seen below: obvious choice to select the champion coach as the winner, don’t you think?

Best Goalkeeper:
1st – Martin Tejera (Dunboor FC)
2nd – Melkezedeck (Ranca Toco)
3rd – Marinho (SC Lasft)
4th – Dacil Taniquentar (Petardos S/A)
5th – Murilo (América)

Best Defender (full-backs and centre-backs):
1st – Jeremy Kirkpatrick (Dunboor FC)
2nd – Batoré (Dunboor FC)
3rd – Ricky Archer (Ranca Toco)
4th – Stephanie Farison (América)
5th – Laurens Cassou (Central United)

Best Midfielder (defensive and offensive):
1st – Nico Lewton (América)
2nd – Laborious Hawk (Petardos S/A)
3rd – Frank Vroon (América)
4th – Jordan Hawker (Dunboor FC)
5th – Tegan Nash (Clube Comercial)

Best Attacker:
1st – Rafael Nunes (Cafundó do Juta)
2nd – Wanderley (Petardos S/A)
3rd – Ryan McAllister (Clube Comercial)
4th – Ken Antonovich (Dunboor FC)
5th – Rosário (Rio Bonito)

Best Coach:
1st – Edgar Gastão (América)
2nd – Javier Sanchez (Dunboor FC)
3rd – Alfonso Di Angelo (Petardos S/A)
4th – Connor Mengucci (Eldorado)
5th – Manuel Padaria (Rio Bonito)

Teams of the season:

First team:

-----------------------------------Tejera(DUB)--------------------------------
-----Cassou(CUT)-----Kirkpatrick(DUB)-----Archer(RCT)-------Batoré(DUB)-------
-----------------------------------Lewton(AME)--------------------------------
---------------Vroon(AME)---------------------------Hawker(DUB)---------------
------------------------------------Hawk(PSA)---------------------------------
--------------------Rafael Nunes(CJU)-----Wanderley(PSA)----------------------

Coach: Edgar Gastão (AME).

Second team:

------------------------------Melkezedeck(RCT)------------------------------
-----Farina(DUB)-----Farison(AME)-----Bruno Pinto(PSA)----Nelsinho(RCT)-----
--------------------------------Turco(ELD)----------------------------------
---------------Cook(AME)------------------------S.Reeves(PSA)---------------
---------------------------------Nash(CCO)----------------------------------
--------------------McAllister(CCO)-----Antonovich(DUB)---------------------

Coach: Javier Sanchez (DUB).

Third team:

------------------------------Marinho(SCL)------------------------------
-----Villalobos(CCO)----Diniz(PLA)----Tonhão(RCT)----Rodríguez(AME)-----
---------------Rodney(RCT)------------------Kabir(CJU)------------------
----------------------------Miguel Silva(DUB)---------------------------
----------Sinclair(AJU)-------Rosário(RBO)-------Dão(VAR)---------------

Coach: Alfonso Di Angelo (PSA).

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2nd Division Past Winners:

Competition History:

Edition        Champions                 Grand Final opponent
Season 1   -   CR Submiria               EC Elville
Season 2   -   Clube Comercial           Supersônicos
Season 3   -   Clube Imperial            Forças Armadas
Season 4   -   Galáxia                   (none)
Season 5   -   Petrol                    Globo Multimedia
Season 6   -   Pernetas EC               São José
Season 7   -   CR Submiria               (none)
Season 8   -   Central United            (none)
Season 9   -   São José                  Porto Lacruz
Season 10  -   Serrano                   Aliança
Season 11  -   CR Submiria               Rio Bonito
Season 12  -   SC Lasft                  (none)
Season 13  -   Khalmar-Tijhus            (none)
Season 14  -   Metropolitano             Engenheiro Peres
Season 15  -   Cruzeiro do Sul           Galáxia
Season 16  -   Atlético Insular          (none)
Season 17  -   Galáxia                   Eldorado
Season 18  -   Rio Bonito                Bandeirantes

The Segundona started with the expectations centered on two clubs: Atlético Central and São Jorge. After the first nineteen games, the first took the lead, while the second seemed well positioned on the promotion zone. But, in the remaining matches, it was São Jorge that could do a better job, and finish in front of all the opponents of the division. Atlético managed to keep the good form, and finished in second, enough to grab one of the automatic promotion spots. As for the third placed club, it ended being a surprise. Grêmio was doing a fine job in the first half of the Segundona, as it was supposed to be a mid-table club… and the team did even better in the second half, jumping to third and getting the promotion, surprising everyone. São José, which was in second after nineteen games, ended out of the immediate promotion area.

The top 8 positions continued being disputed, with CR Submiria and EC Elville, traditional teams of the country, reaching the second phase comfortably. Behind them, a tough fight for the remaining positions in this group. Tons of clubs had the chance to finish inside the top eight, and nothing was decided until the final whistle in the last matchday. Cruzeiro do Sul and Serrano were the teams prized in the end, defeating rivals União Trabalhadora, Coríntios Jutense and Clube dos Banqueiros. As for the battle against relegation, an unmotivated Aliança finished in the bottom, without never been able to leave the relegation zone. As for the other positions, no really traditional or famous clubs got relegated: we had Palestra, Engenheiro Peres and Sambarilove. It is true that the last two had played in the Primeirona, but were far from having strong squads.

CAFUNDÉU'S SECOND DIVISION:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  São Jorge                 38  19  12   7   90   65   25   69  1st/P/C – SBCC
   2  Atlético Central          38  20   7  11   81   69   12   67  P - SBCC
   3  Grêmio Lux                38  18  10  10   67   56   11   64  P – SBCC
   4  São José                  38  18   9  11   70   58   12   63
   5  CR Submiria               38  19   5  14   83   61   22   62
   6  EC Elville                38  18   8  12   68   61    7   62  2nd/P – SBCC
   7  Cruzeiro do Sul           38  17   7  14   68   60    8   58
   8  Serrano                   38  16   9  13   74   64   10   57
   9  União Trabalhadora        38  15  12  11   51   53   -2   57
  10  Coríntios Jutense         38  16   8  14   49   46    3   56
  11  Clube dos Banqueiros      38  17   4  17   68   65    3   55
  12  Tênis Clube               38  13  11  14   66   67   -1   50
  13  Santa Cruz do Norte       38  11  15  12   39   42   -3   48
  14  SC Carnavalesco           38  12   8  18   64   71   -7   44
  15  Penders                   38  12   8  18   56   70  -14   44
  16  Metropolitano             38  11  10  17   55   72  -17   43
  17  Sambarilove               38  11   8  19   63   73  -10   41  R
  18  Engenheiro Peres          38   9  12  17   65   72   -7   39  R
  19  Palestra                  38   9  10  19   42   65  -23   37  R
  20  Aliança                   38   8   9  21   47   76  -29   33  R

The predictions for the second phase followed the ones of the first phase: São Jorge and Atlético Central to dominate. Well, in the quarterfinals this really happened, with the clubs taking the advantage over their opponents and easily proceeding. About the other matches, the lower seeds ended producing upsets, eliminating São José from promotion chances. In the semifinals, São Jorge dispatched CR Submiria, while another upset happened, this time a bigger one: in the semifinal dispute between Atlético Central and EC Elville, the traditional club from the Juta State managed to defeat the current Emperor’s Cup runner-ups, managing to reach the second phase final thanks to that. This was a major surprise for those following the Segundona, as Atlético Central was believed to be a serious contender for the trophy.

2nd Phase:

2nd phase – Quarterfinals first leg:

(8)                  Serrano     2-2     São Jorge                (1)
(7)          Cruzeiro do Sul     0-1     Atlético Central         (2)
(6)               EC Elville     5-1     Grêmio Lux               (3)
(5)              CR Submiria     3-0     São José                 (4)

Second Leg:

(1)                São Jorge (5) 3-2 (4) Serrano                  (8)
(2)         Atlético Central (3) 2-1 (1) Cruzeiro do Sul          (7)
(3)               Grêmio Lux (4) 3-3 (8) EC Elville               (6)
(4)                 São José (0) 0-0 (3) CR Submiria              (5)

Semifinals First Leg:

(5)              CR Submiria     1-3     São Jorge                (1)
(6)               EC Elville     2-0     Atlético Central         (2)

Second Leg:

(1)                São Jorge (5) 2-1 (2) CR Submiria              (5)
(2)         Atlético Central (1) 1-0 (2) EC Elville               (6)

Final 1st Leg:

(6)               EC Elville     4-2     São Jorge                (1)

Final 2nd Leg:

(1)                São Jorge (3) 1-1 (5) EC Elville               (6)

Once again the Segundona ended having the same confrontation in both the second phase final and the Grand Final. EC Elville reached the second phase final to play against the first phase winners, São Jorge, and thanks to an excellent first leg result won the phase. This led to a rematch in the decisive game, played in Ranca Toco’s stadium. The referee controlled well a game that had the potential to be violent, thanks to his experience with last season’s Segundona Grand Final, which he whistled too. In the end, São Jorge managed to transform the game into a one-sided one in the second half, after a very equal first half. With three goals, the team from the former Olympic City achieved the Segundona title, avoiding any possibility of an upset, which would be if EC Elville had won instead. São Jorge’s solid campaign was at last rewarded.

THE GRAND FINAL:

SÃO JORGE 3x0 EC ELVILLE

Place: Presídio, Carandirú City.
Attendance: 70,580 people.
Climate: clear, 26ºC.
Time: 18:30 Cafundelense time.
Referee: Said Quirino (Lasft State).
Assistants: Diogo Andrades and Merovíngio Calixto Ferreira (both from Lasft State).
MOTM: Nalin Agmerin (São Jorge).

SÃO JORGE: Antunes; Cesinha (Tavinho 67’), Mandrake, Nenê and Benedito; Wilson, Poulsen (Massari 77’), Altraan and Agmerin; Chiquinho and Leco (Dênis 67’).
Coach: Amado Gouveia Cobra.

EC ELVILLE: Yuri; Júnior Soldado, Juhamera, Renato and Biin-Jaria; Kevin (Manivela 69’), Sêneca (Phillips 53’), João Poste and Wellington; Cone and Kelthraag (Isidoro 85’).
Coach: Valdir Murchid.

Goals:SJO: Chiquinho 60’/64’ , Mandrake 88’.

Yellow Cards: Nenê (SJO); Juhamera, Renato and Cone (ELV).

SÃO JORGE WINS THE SECOND DIVISION!

As said, the possibility of an upset was destroyed by São Jorge’s dominant win in the Grand Final, and the supporters of the Dunbooritano club could commemorate the successful run at the Segundona. Even though this may not be one of the most prestigious trophies of the country, this may be the best the team can get, so this season will be really a remarkable one in the team’s history. About the future plans, this time São Jorge’s aim will be to stay at the Primeirona for a longer time than they did the first time they got promoted. With some promising players in the squad, especially the two Yaforites who came for free, São Jorge has the basis of what can become a solid squad, one good enough to stay in the top division. Of course, they won’t be the only one investing to stay in the Primeirona, so they have to be cautious.

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3rd Division Past Winners:

Competition History:

Edition        Champions                 Grand Final opponent
Season 1   -   Tio João                  União Trabalhadora
Season 2   -   Marinha                   SC Carnavalesco
Season 3   -   Galáxia                   (none)
Season 4   -   Royal Pollvogarad         América
Season 5   -   SC Carnavalesco           Sambarilove
Season 6   -   Metropolitano             Marinha
Season 7   -   Porto Lacruz              São Jorge
Season 8   -   Nacional da Cruz          Aliança
Season 9   -   Carandirú                 Ferroviário
Season 10  -   Mocidade                  União
Season 11  -   Dínamo de Natal           Engenheiro Peres
Season 12  -   Internacional             (none)
Season 13  -   Petrol                    Santa Cruz do Norte
Season 14  -   Agreman FH                Nacional da Cruz
Season 15  -   Eldorado                  (none)
Season 16  -   Clube dos Banqueiros      Pernetas EC
Season 17  -   Aliança                   Palestra
Season 18  -   Atlético Central          (none)

The Terceirona has its share of fans. This is because there are some promising clubs stuck in this tier of the CCFM league, while there are other traditional teams which are having some bad moments in their history. Therefore, we can always find some nice games in the Third Division. This season, the first phase of the division ended with a narrow victory of São Longuinho, one of these promising clubs, ahead of both Coqueiros and Pernetas EC, which are part of the group of traditional teams. All three won the immediate promotion, while other five qualified for the second phase in pursuit of the last spot. Detail to Dínamo, which had a good run in the Emperor’s Cup, and Agreman FH, which is another traditional team wishing to return to the top divisions. Amongst the relegated clubs there was Carandirú, local rival of Ranca Toco.

THIRD DIVISION:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  São Longuinho             38  20   7  11   64   42   22   67  1st/P/2nd/C
   2  Coqueiros                 38  19   8  11   73   52   21   65  P
   3  Pernetas EC               38  17  13   8   44   28   16   64  P
   4  Nova Éden                 38  19   6  13   76   59   17   63
   5  Nacional Cruz             38  17  11  10   56   44   12   62  P
   6  Dínamo                    38  17  11  10   52   40   12   62
   7  Santo Expedito            38  18   5  15   62   53    9   59
   8  Agreman FH                38  18   4  16   61   59    2   58
   9  Ferroviário               38  16   8  14   47   48   -1   56
  10  Real Jaçanã               38  15  11  12   61   55    6   56
  11  Vitória de Espinal        38  14  14  10   66   53   13   56
  12  SC Haja Coração           38  15   8  15   64   63    1   53
  13  Esportivo Jutense         38  14   9  15   63   63    0   51
  14  Tabajara                  38  11  17  10   36   32    4   50
  15  Desportiva                38  11  15  12   41   46   -5   48
  16  Tio João                  38  12   5  21   50   70  -20   41
  17  Espinalense               38   9  10  19   46   73  -27   37  R
  18  Mocidade                  38   9   9  20   52   74  -22   36  R
  19  Carandirú                 38   8   9  21   31   58  -27   33  R
  20  Pico da Neblina           38   7   8  23   34   67  -33   29  R

2nd Phase:

Second Phase – Quarterfinals First Leg:

(8)               Agreman FH     0-2     São Longuinho            (1)
(7)           Santo Expedito     1-1     Coqueiros                (2)
(6)                   Dínamo     0-0     Pernetas EC              (3)
(5)            Nacional Cruz     0-0     Nova Éden                (4)

Second Leg:

(1)            São Longuinho (4) 2-0 (0) Agreman FH               (8)
(2)                Coqueiros (2) 1-2 (3) Santo Expedito           (7)
(3)              Pernetas EC (1) 1-1 (1) Dínamo                   (6)
(4)                Nova Éden (0) 0-2 (2) Nacional Cruz            (5)

Semifinals First Leg:

(5)            Nacional Cruz     1-1     São Longuinho            (1)
(7)           Santo Expedito     1-3     Pernetas EC              (3)

Second Leg:

(1)            São Longuinho (2) 1-0 (1) Nacional Cruz            (5)
(3)              Pernetas EC (6) 3-2 (3) Santo Expedito           (7)

Final 1st Leg:

(3)              Pernetas EC     0-1     São Longuinho            (1)

Second Leg:

(1)            São Longuinho (7) 6-2 (2) Pernetas EC              (3)

SÃO LONGUINHO WINS THE THIRD DIVISION!

The second phase didn’t present upsets. São Longuinho, for example, could easily reach the final after two victories over Agreman FH and a narrow but comfortable result over Nacional Cruz. The other finalist was Pernetas EC, which defeated the potential upset Dínamo and later eliminated the lower seed which managed to defeat Coqueiros: Santo Expedito. In the end, these two teams were really the favourites to win the trophy, and the second phase final between these two clubs was much awaited by the fans of the Terceirona, which we admit are not many. Pernetas EC wanted to win the second phase to have the title chance in the Grand Final, but São Longuinho didn’t allow this to happen: two wins, one by a humiliating result for the opponents, concluded the Terceirona with the title going to São Longuinho.

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4th Division Past Winners:

Competition History:

Edition       Champions            Edition        Champions
Season 1  -   Interior             Season 10  -   Internacional
Season 2  -   Galáxia              Season 11  -   Nova Éden
Season 3  -   Sambarilove          Season 12  -   Cruzeiro do Sul
Season 4  -   Vila Velha           Season 13  -   SC Haja Coração
Season 5  -   Porto Lacruz         Season 14  -   Bandeirantes
Season 6  -   São Jorge            Season 15  -   Esportivo Jutense
Season 7  -   Serrano              Season 16  -   Independência
Season 8  -   Pico da Neblina      Season 17  -   São Longuinho
Season 9  -   Cosmopolita          Season 18  -   Santo Expedito

The Quartona, or Fourth Division of the CCFM league. Not popular, without really famous clubs… well, we can always try to find some fun in it. And, if the technical level may not be the same of the higher divisions, at least its first phase was extremely disputed: three clubs tied for first! Associação Imobiliária, thanks to the number of wins, won the phase, while the other two won the immediate promotion spots.

FOURTH DIVISION:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Associação Imobiliária    38  20   6  12   77   62   15   66  1st/P/2nd/C
   2  Teatro Seta               38  19   9  10   78   56   22   66  P
   3  Império                   38  19   9  10   61   44   17   66  P
   4  Petrol                    38  16  16   6   63   40   23   64
   5  Vila Velha                38  17  12   9   72   61   11   63
   6  Templo Maior              38  17  11  10   70   54   16   62  P
   7  Peladeiros                38  16  10  12   53   52    1   58
   8  Real Ouro Branco          38  15  12  11   55   49    6   57
   9  Faculdade de Medicina     38  16   8  14   62   54    8   56
  10  Imperatriz                38  15  11  12   53   38   15   56
  11  Amigos do Pebolim         38  15  11  12   58   66   -8   56
  12  Aldeia Vigiah             38  13  17   8   62   56    6   56
  13  Beira-Mar                 38  13  11  14   60   58    2   50
  14  Estrela da Manhã          38  13   9  16   54   60   -6   48
  15  Mondragon Warriors        38  11  12  15   44   51   -7   45
  16  Acadêmicos                38   9  12  17   55   70  -15   39
  17  Boiadeiros                38  10   8  20   59   83  -24   38  R
  18  Independência             38   9  11  18   59   69  -10   38  R
  19  Miragaia FC               38   5  11  22   36   72  -36   26  R
  20  Supersônicos              38   5   8  25   28   64  -36   23  R

2nd Phase:

Second Phase – Quarterfinals First Leg:

(8)         Real Ouro Branco     2-3     Associação Imobiliária   (1)
(7)               Peladeiros     1-3     Teatro Seta              (2)
(6)             Templo Maior     2-0     Império                  (3)
(5)               Vila Velha     0-0     Petrol                   (4)

Second Leg:

(1)   Associação Imobiliária (3) 0-0 (2) Real Ouro Branco         (8)
(2)              Teatro Seta (6) 3-1 (2) Peladeiros               (7)
(3)                  Império (1) 1-1 (3) Templo Maior             (6)
(4)                   Petrol (0) 0-1 (1) Vila Velha               (5)

Semifinals First Leg:

(5)               Vila Velha     0-2     Associação Imobiliária   (1)
(6)             Templo Maior     3-2     Teatro Seta              (2)

Second Leg:

(1)   Associação Imobiliária (6) 4-3 (3) Vila Velha               (5)
(2)              Teatro Seta (4) 2-2 (5) Templo Maior             (6)

Final 1st Leg:

(6)             Templo Maior     1-0     Associação Imobiliária   (1)

2nd Leg:

(1)   Associação Imobiliária (2) 2-1 (2) Templo Maior             (6)

ASSOCIAÇÃO IMOBILIÁRIA WINS THE FOURTH DIVISION!

In the second phase people were expecting for the top three clubs of the first phase to keep winning, but Templo Maior upset Império de Flores at the quarterfinals. Teatro Seta was the next on the list to lose to the sixth seed, and phase winners Associação Imobiliária faced Templo Maior in the final. Thanks to the advantage of the better campaign, Associação defeated Templo Maior and won the Quartona.

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5th Division Past Winners:

Competition History:

Edition       Champions            Edition        Champions
Season 1  -   Democratas              Season 10  -   Cruzeiro do Sul
Season 2  -   Braguinha               Season 11  -   SC Haja Coração
Season 3  -   Nova Éden               Season 12  -   Desportiva
Season 4  -   Porto Lacruz            Season 13  -   Bandeirantes
Season 5  -   Cosmopolita             Season 14  -   Grêmio Lux
Season 6  -   Pico da Neblina         Season 15  -   Vitória de Espinal
Season 7  -   Mocidade                Season 16  -   Supersônicos
Season 8  -   Nova Éden               Season 17  -   Império de Flores
Season 9  -   Associação Imobiliária  Season 18  -   Templo Maior

Here the Quintona is… a bunch of unknown teams, fighting to become known. Mixed with some formerly known teams that are fighting to avoid being completely forgotten. The Fifth Division of the CCFM this season had a clear dominant squad, the one of Universitário. With twelve points of advantage over Legião de Srieth, they easily won the first phase of the competition.

FIFTH DIVISION:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Universitário             38  23  11   4   87   49   38   80  1st/P/C
   2  Legião de Srieth          38  20   8  10   83   54   29   68  P/2nd
   3  Moto Clube                38  19  10   9   60   49   11   67  P
   4  Grande Cassino            38  17  14   7   78   51   27   65  P
   5  Montes Negros             38  19   5  14   64   58    6   62
   6  Clube do Conde            38  15  10  13   58   53    5   55
   7  Dunbooritano              38  15   9  14   56   56    0   54
   8  Massaranduba FC           38  15   8  15   59   54    5   53
   9  Alfândega                 38  15   7  16   65   73   -8   52
  10  Forças Armadas            38  12  16  10   52   47    5   52
  11  Novo Milênio              38  14   9  15   38   45   -7   51
  12  Sport Clube               38  13  11  14   59   59    0   50
  13  EC Melhorais              38  14   6  18   66   79  -13   48
  14  Royal Pollvogarad         38  12  11  15   38   41   -3   47
  15  Zeca Futebol              38  13   7  18   63   68   -5   46
  16  Praias Belas              38  13   2  23   39   57  -18   41
  17  União                     38   9  14  15   58   63   -5   41  R
  18  Arranhacéu                38   9  13  16   39   54  -15   40  R
  19  Tropicália                38  10   8  20   35   60  -25   38  R
  20  Guaraense                 38   9   9  20   50   77  -27   36  R

2nd Phase:

Quarterfinals First Leg:

(8)          Massaranduba FC     1-3     Universitário            (1)
(7)             Dunbooritano     0-2     Legião de Srieth         (2)
(6)           Clube do Conde     2-1     Moto Clube               (3)
(5)            Montes Negros     4-2     Grande Cassino           (4)

Second Leg:

(1)            Universitário (7) 4-0 (1) Massaranduba FC          (8)
(2)         Legião de Srieth (5) 3-2 (2) Dunbooritano             (7)
(3)               Moto Clube (1) 0-0 (2) Clube do Conde           (6)
(4)           Grande Cassino (4) 2-0 (4) Montes Negros            (5)

Semifinals First Leg:

(4)           Grande Cassino     3-2     Universitário            (1)
(6)           Clube do Conde     2-5     Legião de Srieth         (2)

Second Leg:

(1)            Universitário (3) 1-1 (4) Grande Cassino           (4)
(2)         Legião de Srieth (8) 3-1 (3) Clube do Conde           (6)

Final 1st Leg:

(4)           Grande Cassino     0-1     Legião de Srieth         (2)

2nd Leg:

(2)         Legião de Srieth (2) 1-1 (1) Grande Cassino           (4)

The Grand Final:

(P1)           Universitário     2-1     Legião de Srieth        (P2)

UNIVERSITÁRIO WINS THE FIFTH DIVISION!

In the second phase, the dominance of Universitário was threatened after the team lost to Grande Cassino, which would then get the last promotion spot. But this was just until the Grand Final was played. It was a true fight between the two best clubs of the division without doubt, and Universitário managed to take the title, avoiding the shame that would be to be so dominant in the first phase for nothing.

Teams invited for the fifth division: Real Fronteira, XXV de Maio, Conglomerado EC and Naval.


International competitions - qualified teams (in order):

TQCC:
América
Dunboor FC
Petardos S/A
Cafundó do Juta

GC:
Ranca Toco
Clube Comercial
Porto Lacruz

SBCC:
São Jorge
Atlético Central
Grêmio Lux
EC Elville

Stadiums:

TQCC
- Estádio Rei Albieri Van Tocco, Cafundó do Juta (cap. 210,001)
- Maracatuzão, Dunboor (cap. 135,000)
- Arena Multiuso Dra. Veiga, Astari (cap. 100,000)

SBCC:
- Presídio, Carandirú City (cap. 75,000)
- Vale do Imperador, Haja Coração (cap. 55,000)
- Novo Olímpico Imperial, São Jorge (cap. 70,000)

[Estresse Intenso]

RESULTS OF LANDAU INSTITUTE'S AND ESTRESSE INTENSO'S LEAGUES

The games of these leagues don't appear on the worldwide television (only in local channels), nobody knows which are the main players. But these leagues exist.

LAIFÓDI RESULTS - SEASON 11

Previous champions:
Season 1 -  Psychiatrists
Season 2 -  Psychiatrists
Season 3 -  Neurologists
Season 4 -  Neurologists
Season 5 -  Psychiatrists
Season 6 -  Psychiatrists
Season 7 –  Psychiatrists
Season 8 –  Neurologists
Season 9 -  Neurologists
Season 10 - Psychiatrists

Previous runner-ups/third placed/fourth placed:
Season 1 -  Neurologists/Cardiologists/Pulmonologists
Season 2 -  Neurologists/Oncologists/Orthopedists
Season 3 -  Psychiatrists/Otorhinolaryngologists/General Practicioners
Season 4 -  Oncologists/Psychiatrists/Otorhinolaryngologists
Season 5 -  Neurologists/Pulmonologists/Orthopedists
Season 6 -  Oncologists/Neurologists/General Practicioners
Season 7 –  Neurologists/Orthopedists/Dermatologists
Season 8 -  Psychiatrists/Surgeons/Pulmonologists
Season 9 –  Psychiatrists/Surgeons/Otorhinolaryngologists
Season 10 - Neurologists/Oncologists/Pulmonologists

Previous last placed:
Season 1 -  Cytopathologists
Season 2 -  Sleep Doctors
Season 3 -  Occupational Medicine
Season 4 -  Osteopathic Doctors
Season 5 -  Researchers
Season 6 -  Insane Doctors
Season 7 –  Researchers
Season 8 –  Massage Therapists
Season 9 –  Massage Therapists
Season 10 - Intellectuals

First, the Landau Institute league, called Láifódi. The Laifódi (Landau Institute Football Dispute) involves all the teams from inside the place, including teams composed by doctors, patients or simple workers of the Institute. All the teams play each other twice and, in the end, the team with more points win the league. Simple. There is no relegation, as there isn't a second division. The war hasn't affected the league, as the Landau Institute is being well defended, and maybe because even with the Institute falling, most of the facilities are located underground, so the games can be played without problems.

The final positions were the following (top 2 to TQCC, 3rd, 4th and 5th to Globe Cup):

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Psychiatrists            138  98  20  20  446  203  243  314  C - TQCC
   2  Neurologists             138  93  23  22  434  192  242  302  TQCC
   3  Surgeons                 138  93  16  29  372  224  148  295  GC
   4  Urologists               138  84  30  24  338  201  137  282  GC
   5  Dermatologists           138  82  26  30  328  206  122  272  GC
   6  Orthopedists             138  78  32  28  304  178  126  266
   7  Pulmonologists           138  78  30  30  307  208   99  264
   8  Oncologists              138  77  27  34  289  182  107  258
   9  Physical Trainers        138  75  31  32  321  219  102  256
  10  Toxicologists            138  77  24  37  312  201  111  255
  11  General Practitioners    138  75  27  36  287  151  136  252
  12  Gynaecologists           138  74  30  34  241  167   74  252
  13  Endocrinologists         138  74  30  34  213  140   73  252
  14  Plastical Surgeons       138  67  35  36  208  129   79  236
  15  I. T. Patients           138  67  31  40  283  226   57  232
  16  Proctologists            138  62  41  35  186  133   53  227
  17  Pediatricians            138  64  34  40  246  180   66  226
  18  Pharmacists              138  62  38  38  272  232   40  224
  19  Hepatologists            138  60  43  35  195  146   49  223
  20  Cardiologists            138  59  43  36  183  124   59  220
  21  Speech-language          138  62  33  43  276  253   23  219
  22  Gastroenterologists      138  59  37  42  235  199   36  214
  23  Otorhinolaryngologists   138  55  49  34  182  143   39  214
  24  Infectiologists          138  61  27  50  274  237   37  210
  25  Immunologists            138  58  35  45  210  192   18  209
  26  Neurosurgeons            138  58  34  46  251  257   -6  208
  27  Stable Patients          138  57  37  44  201  180   21  208
  28  Scientists               138  57  33  48  164  155    9  204
  29  Monks                    138  58  29  51  212  192   20  203
  30  Doctor Assistants        138  55  38  45  155  149    6  203
  31  Psychologists            138  57  31  50  185  164   21  202
  32  University Students      138  53  43  42  152  139   13  202
  33  Anesthesists             138  54  38  46  165  142   23  200
  34  Veterinaries             138  55  32  51  235  217   18  197
  35  Audiologists             138  53  33  52  206  189   17  192
  36  Nephrologists            138  49  41  48  185  180    5  188
  37  Obstetricians            138  47  39  52  186  200  -14  180
  38  Security                 138  47  37  54  229  242  -13  178
  39  Hypnotherapists          138  47  37  54  260  284  -24  178
  40  Dentists                 138  47  35  56  217  236  -19  176
  41  Haematologists           138  42  48  48  130  156  -26  174
  42  Physios                  138  45  35  58  208  246  -38  170
  43  Epidemiologists          138  43  39  56  131  160  -29  168
  44  Acupuncturists           138  47  26  65  219  279  -60  167
  45  Nutritionists            138  43  34  61  202  250  -48  163
  46  Priests                  138  42  36  60  201  269  -68  162
  47  Vascular Surgeons        138  42  34  62  175  223  -48  160
  48  Optometrists             138  40  39  59  203  246  -43  159
  49  Gravediggers             138  40  36  62  205  253  -48  156
  50  Administrators           138  35  44  59  134  186  -52  149
  51  Rheumatologists          138  37  37  64  190  260  -70  148
  52  Geriatricians            138  38  32  68  186  271  -85  146
  53  Radiologists             138  37  35  66  209  286  -77  146
  54  Genetic Scientists       138  35  41  62  124  193  -69  146
  55  General Pathologists     138  35  39  64  115  173  -58  144
  56  Osteopathic Doctors      138  34  36  68  139  217  -78  138
  57  Chiropractors            138  34  33  71  143  257 -114  135
  58  Researchers              138  33  34  71  157  248  -91  133
  59  Insane Doctors           138  35  26  77  233  382 -149  131
  60  Sleep Doctors            138  27  49  62  107  162  -55  130
  61  Phrosthesis Producers    138  32  32  74  115  193  -78  128
  62  Herbalists               138  32  31  75  192  261  -69  127
  63  Nurses                   138  33  26  79  184  304 -120  125
  64  Homeopathy Followers     138  23  56  59   93  148  -55  125
  65  University Workers       138  29  33  76  125  229 -104  120
  66  Cytopathologists         138  27  36  75  120  222 -102  117
  67  Massage Therapists       138  25  37  76  143  250 -107  112
  68  Cured Patients           138  25  35  78  120  215  -95  110
  69  Intellectuals            138  27  26  85  166  324 -158  107
  70  Occupational Medicine    138  27  22  89  175  334 -159  103

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ESTRESSE INTENSO'S COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP

Previous champions:
Season 1 -  Academia Acropolis
Season 2 -  Escritórios Macedo
Season 3 -  Academia Acropolis
Season 4 -  Academia Acropolis
Season 5 -  Camisa Dez
Season 6 -  Academia Acropolis
Season 7 -  Camisa Dez
Season 8 –  Camisa Dez
Season 9 –  AUGECC No.1
Season 10 - Outpost Athletic

As noted in the report of the country league in Estresse Intenso seasons ago, the Eternal War in the country changed all the structure of the league. Now there isn't relegation or promotion, the teams that wish to play the league enter, in a first-come policy of the organizers, an independent group with love for football. Even in the middle of chaos, this group is able to manage to guarantee the security of the players and a more-or-less friendly attitude of the teams in the game. Thanks to this, the league survived, with a small structure change.

As it became impossible for teams to travel a lot without getting its players killed, and even more diffcult for teams to constantly play against their enemies, now the Country Championship has a preliminary stage with four divisions, each representing one of the four major groups of Estresse Intenso: Office Buildings, Gangs, Local Citizens and Foreigners. They play with the same format of the former main league of Estresse Intenso, with top two going to the last stage, when these eight teams play each other twice, to finally determine the champion of the country. The inaugural season of the new style worked well, and applicants are already being accepted for the next edition.

Top 4 win a chance to dispute the SBCC, the only international competition available for them (as the TQCC and GC are reserved for Láifódi teams). See the final standings of the league:

OFFICE BUILDINGS' DIVISION – Standings:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  AUGECC No.1               54  32  10  12  126   77   49  106
   2  Banco Econômico Code-A    54  23  14  17  103   81   22   83
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   3  Canfudea Factory          54  22  12  20   85   81    4   78
   4  Sorthern Airways Hangar   54  22  12  20   73   76   -3   78
   5  Chronowire Tower          54  20  18  16   79   74    5   78
   6  Landsberg Central Office  54  20  14  20   89   87    2   74
   7  Samseong's Local Home     54  17  19  18   72   75   -3   70
   8  Cygnus Central Command    54  17  15  22   93  104  -11   66
   9  Syndicate Union           54  14  14  26   75  108  -33   56
  10  Fadron Pizza's Kitchen    54  12  14  28   48   80  -32   50

GANGS' DIVISION – Standings:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Godfather Alliance        54  26  11  17  116   99   17   89
   2  Kyyaaaahh!                54  23  14  17   86   75   11   83
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   3  Chainsaw Killers          54  23  14  17   92   83    9   83
   4  Bonde do .38              54  22  15  17   97   89    8   81
   5  Boom-Bang-Crash           54  22  13  19   70   57   13   79
   6  Underground Animals       54  21  14  19   65   69   -4   77
   7  Red Command               54  17  20  17  101   98    3   71
   8  Skull Eaters              54  20   9  25  104  110   -6   69
   9  Urban Crawlers            54  14  13  27   75   99  -24   55
  10  Doom Carriers             54  13  15  26   81  108  -27   54

LOCAL CITIZENS' DIVISION – Standings:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Academia Acropolis        54  26  15  13   85   59   26   93
   2  Outpost Athletic          54  28   8  18  108   83   25   92
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   3  Camisa Dez                54  29   3  22  123  111   12   90
   4  Government Officials      54  25   9  20  103   86   17   84
   5  Rioting Survivors         54  20  14  20   71   65    6   74
   6  AOHC Shelter              54  20  11  23  104  113   -9   71
   7  Citizens' Alliance        54  18  15  21   83   88   -5   69
   8  Unidos de Vila Feliz      54  17  18  19   73   81   -8   69
   9  Monarchists               54  15  10  29   79  119  -40   55
  10  Prophets of Space         54  13  15  26   69   93  -24   54

FOREIGNERS' DIVISION – Standings:

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  United Mercenaries        54  30  13  11  129   77   52  103
   2  For Urizen                54  29  13  12  134   95   39  100
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   3  Pirates of Grammar Strait 54  28   7  19   95   81   14   91
   4  Isla Pilsen               54  23  18  13  115   95   20   87
   5  Black Market Kings        54  21   9  24   71   75   -4   72
   6  Humanitarian Forces       54  17  19  18   79   80   -1   70
   7  NewsSources Staff         54  17  18  19   60   70  -10   69
   8  World Renegades           54  19   8  27   66   89  -23   65
   9  Alien Emissaries          54  11  13  30   89  125  -36   46
  10  Mujeongbu                 54  11  10  33   75  126  -51   43

FINAL ROUND – Final Results

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  AUGECC No.1               14   7   3   4   31   26    5   24  C/SBCC
   2  Kyyaaaahh!                14   7   3   4   27   23    4   24  SBCC
   3  Academia Acropolis        14   6   4   4   37   31    6   22  SBCC
   4  Outpost Athletic          14   6   3   5   28   24    4   21  SBCC
   5  Banco Econômico Code-A    14   6   1   7   22   23   -1   19
   6  Godfather Alliance        14   5   3   6   25   29   -4   18
   7  For Urizen                14   5   0   9   28   41  -13   15
   8  United Mercenaries        14   4   3   7   21   22   -1   15

So the qualified for international competitions are:
TQCC: Psychiatrists; Neurologists
GC: Surgeons; Urologists; Dermatologists
SBCC: AUGECC No.1; Kyyaaaahh!; Academia Acropolis; Outpost Athletic

Stadiums for international competitions:
TQCC: Wide Aterro Sanitário, Limbo (cap. 80,000) - version of the traditional Aterro Sanitário stadium with more area available for spectators
GC: The Trench, Neblina (cap. 50,000)
SBCC: Sector-Delta Sporting Field, Landau Institute (cap. 0)

[Candelaria And Marquez]

cont. from here

CMSC XXXIX Matchday Nine… Continuing our retrospective of this most perverse of seasons, what with most of it having happened already and us drip-feeding you the scores on account of other Thynges somewhat holding our collective interests at the moment… and KT Hotspur spent the ninth round of matches putting five goals past Lyle Gwyther in the Green Island goal.

O-kay…

This wasn’t a great day to be Kasper Grinius, putting a fine comedy own-goal between Gwyther’s legs after seven minutes, carded for elbowing young Damien Rass in the chops after ten, and sent off for precisely the same offence barely three minutes later. The Spur were two-nil up just three minutes after that, and three-nil up before the half-hour was out. Green Island rallied somewhat after that, but breaking down the home side thereafter proved beyond them, with Vladimir Kūks clearly needing a lengthy period of first-team football somewhere before he can prove an genuine alternative to Ben Clayton, out injured for this encounter, and the midfield quintet of C&M stars appearing exhausted by their international excursions.

The GIZ pushed on during the second half, but Grinius’ absence left a sizable hole that Ben Young was perhaps mistaken not to fill by bringing on another central defender and the champions were twice caught out in the final twenty minutes. The defeat leaves them in twelfth place – an increasingly insurmountable-looking twelve behind the valiant, inexplicable, high-flying Knights.

It was a bad weekend all round for Vanorian interests in the CMSC, with Turkish suffering a memorable defeat at home to their own northern progeny; Turks’ Club’s mixture of youth, Dancougan experience and random ruskmoris (that’s not a spelling error, it’s actually quite a clever play on words) proving increasingly impressive in the top-flight as they moved up to seventh position. Oh, and Port of Clotaire also lost. In Bove.

Have we raised the matter of how in-and-out the Harpies are away from home before? Really? Oh, how boring we must be.

Albrecht FC took a competent enough victory in El din, however, to help stop the season (or at least the Apertura) from becoming a two-horse race between the casino city’s finest and second-finest. Good for them.

AFC MN Smith 2-1 Port of Clotaire (Budden 48, Simpson 68; Arrigorriagakoa 77)
Albrecht Turkish 1-2 Turks’ Club (Cabrera 80; Wetl 35, Stone 42)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-0 Cathedral City (Pembace 78)
Caires City 1-0 McDonald SC (Gorrie 64)
El din Marbles 0-2 Albrecht FC (Nakatsuru 54, Hamizi 78)
KT Hotspur 5-2 Green Island (Grinius og 7, Maxwell 16, Rass 22, Rataran 72, Clayton 82; Pond 39, Raviranjan 87)
Marquez-Onwere 0-1 Tenderville United (Rau 10)
Mayo Valley 0-3 Caires Sports (Muniz Allman 20, Dariegan 68 and 87)
NAPPC 1-2 Radyukevich CSC (Irin’lur 3; Kennedy-Workington 7, Narquelie 11)

Matchday Ten… Green Island. Seriously, kids, pull your fingers out. Ten goals in ten games? Six draws? What’s the matter with you all?

Perhaps it really is as simple as losing any remaining element of surprise, because they’re doing absolutely nothing differently to last season in terms of outlook, and the only change in personnel for the two-all draw at home to Tenderville this Saturday was the introduction of Zachary Hoye for the suspended Grinius, a usually reliable young man who pulled a horrible ricket in the opening few minutes to hand Tico a chance to tuck away a simple finish for the visitors. The vastly more experienced Dave Hollow clearly had Ben Young out-thought, with Ab Rau marking the manager’s daughter out of the game for all but a crucial strike on the half-hour. On a smidgen of youthful naivety from Van Braam and David Douglas saved Gwyther from a Rosasharn-style nightmare during the second period, meanwhile, while Puc van Staatsel was largely untroubled. In taking a point, the GIZ got away with murder here, and on this evidence it’s very hard to see them making a recovery.

Some of the other big guns are showing signs of just that, however, with Caires Sports giving up their first set of three points this term at home to Turkish, the PoC snatching victory in Khatib-Gassett after a late Turks’ Club rally, and Albrecht FC extremely unlucky to be held to a point apiece at a resilient but not yet especially pulse-quickening Radyukevich. MarquezOW are certainly not among that number, however, looking wholly listless in going down one-nil at home to fellow strugglers Mayo Valley. With Telemans’ assistant Michael Bailey having stepped up to the manager’s job at The Wall, many fans appear resigned to the idea that Mayo are simply coasting to relegation – but at this rate they’ll have a serious threat to their status as the top-flight’s worst outfit in the form of the naranja. Booed off after both halves, Blanco da Cruz has promised to ring the changes – but how often can he promising that before he feels jabby, jabby fingers between his shoulder blades?

Elsewhere, ten man NAPPC took three vital points against a still disappointing Catedral, and the El din Marbles are still quite good.

Arrigo Portuguese 2-2 Caires City (Ramón 4, Pak 42; East 46, Gorrie 66)
Caires Sports 0-2 Albrecht Turkish (Cabrera 6, va Drake 29)
El din Marbles 3-2 AFC MN Smith (Macanás 48 and 55, Borrás 82; Vine 90, Hai’Hunda 90+2)
Green Island 2-2 Tenderville United (Young 30, Robertson 85; Tico 7, Paterson og 44)
Marquez-Onwere 0-1 Mayo Valley (Szatmári 44)
McDonald SC 2-1 KT Hotspur (Naysmith og 33, García 58; Rass 70)
NAPPC 2-0 Cathedral City (Dotos 33, Irin’lur 85)
Radyukevich CSC 0-0 Albrecht FC
Turks’ Club 2-3 Port of Clotaire (Stone 33, Thomas 61; Sánchez García 12, Hamblett 17, Hooper 84)

Matchday Eleven… Messers Blanco da Cruz and Bailey, you are tits. Utter, bloody tits. I go and give that whole great spiel, and both go and take big, albeit one-nil, victories. Grr, people. Grr.

These results did prompt a couple of comforting, no-shit-Sherlock, statements however.

1., Turkish are woefully inconsistent.

2., Green Island are woefully woeful.

Against the former, MarquezOW’s Sorthern boss handed starts to Robert Wilkinson, Jamie Small, seventeen year-old winger Aitor Riesgo and, somewhat more implausibly, teenage goalkeeper Freya Ondrasek, with Leroy Nghiem returned to the bench from whence he came. It can surely only have been to give the Sorthern international a metaphorical clip around the ear, but on Ondrasek’s showing it might yet end up lasting for a goodly while yet, with the young lady utterly immense in the face of Carlos Cabrera and Samson Patris and Bavent (all three of them) although, admittedly, it’s still not all that difficult to look immense at that particular partnership, which really hasn’t taken off yet. The visitors clung onto Ishmael Van Dyke’s second-half screamer to record only their second victory of the season.

A feat equalled by Mayo Valley – their own second victory, and second victory in a row at that – after taking three more points away from an utterly dispirited Green Island in the Bakeries derby (it’s an inbred joke… o!, the droll Candelariasian sense of humour). Elsewhere, Caires City led the table on Saturday after comfortable disposing of NAPPC in the kind of pleasingly boring ninety minutes that any potential champions – and they finally are definitely that again, you really can’t argue otherwise – before being leapfrogged once more by their dockside compatriots.

Who, after sticking four past Ivan Volodinsk at Turks’ Club, are now also the CMSC1’s highest scorers.

W. T. F?

AFC MN Smith 3-1 Radyukevich CSC (Budden 16, Bocchetti 73, T. Dunphy 85; Kennedy-Workington 39)
Albrecht Turkish 0-1 Marquez-Onwere (Van Dyke 57)
Caires City 2-0 NAPPC (Wilkinson 2, East 25)
Caires Sports 4-2 Turks’ Club (Valinial 16, Dariegan 20, Reuberson-Mohammed 83, Alsheris 88; Mirnyi 11, Wetl 76)
Cathedral City 1-2 Albrecht FC (Valdez 7; Morrison 12, Hamizi 34)
KT Hotspur 2-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Clayton 67, Tiller 76; Anderson 63)
Mayo Valley 1-0 Green Island (Sheppard 69)
Port of Clotaire 2-1 El din Marbles (Sánchez García 9, Hamblett 42; Živkovic 46)
Tenderville United 1-1 McDonald SC (Van Patten 13; Subudhi 21)

Matchday Twelve… Does no-one want to get themselves sent off in the Clotaire derby anymore? It’s just no fun these days. Tadhg Ó Lorcáin got himself cautioned for a rather knee-high tackle on Fintan Shannon (there’s probably a blood feud going back half a dozen generations somewhere in there), but that was about your lot. Seriously, people, we’ve got a product to flog, here! The multiverse wants blood and guts on occasions such as this, surely?

Anyway, Port of Clotaire won, and moved into second as a result – a telling indication of the division’s competitiveness this term, given the Harpies’ otherwise continuing poor form away from home. Radyukevich drop nine points behind them into ninth, but it’s hard to see Swann pulling the plug on Wayne Davis any time soon despite the Krytenian owner’s considerable ambitions for the club, given the horrible injury crisis the Jukos continue to suffer through. Though Alexandre De Rham and Shane Graham gave fine accounts of themselves against the PoC, the club desperately need any two of Williams, Connah and Soriano back fit – not to mention Damon Parker, currently shaking off a niggly ankle problem.

Elsewhere, Albrecht FC came from behind to beat Caires City four-one (we do not talk about that scoreline, alright?), with the Errant Knights’ increasingly slow central defence properly caught out for the first time this season. The Scorpions did have Joe Hayter stretchered off, however, leaving seventeen year-old Enrico Corradini, the precocious son of himself, as the club’s only recognised fit right-back. Other nasty-looking injuries (we appear to have reached that point of the Apertura at last) saw Tenderville’s Adriaan vaaan Braam and MN Smith ‘keeper Daniele Lanchini out for the foreseeable.

The latter’s first-half toddle-off gave sub custodian Lee Brown the chance to be outclassed by Catedral forward Calvin Castillo, joining up with the side after Catherina FC bounced out of the Globe Cup at the hands of our very own Arrigo Portuguese. He promptly got a hat-trick, but the Cats still only managed a point at home, which doesn’t bode especially well, really.

Albrecht FC 4-1 Caires City (Tekeste 35, Nakatsuru 44, Morrison 73, Bekker 90+3; East 18)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-0 Tenderville United (Wilkinson 45)
Caires Sports 1-0 Marquez-Onwere (Valinial 72)
Cathedral City 3-3 AFC MN Smith (Castillo 34 and 47 and 73; Per’itur 45+1, Hai’Unda 48, Simpson 52)
Green Island 0-3 Albrecht Turkish (Johnson 1, Robinson 19, Raviranjan og 27)
McDonald SC 1-1 Mayo Valley (Subudhi 18; Szatmári 26)
NAPPC 1-1 KT Hotspur (Ellad 47; Tiller 18)
Radyukevich CSC 0-1 Port of Clotaire (Hamblett 56)
Turks’ Club 1-0 El din Marbles (Madrid 58)

Matchday Thirteen… Green Island drew a game. Hold me, Eleanor, I feel as faint as owt.

Even at home, that probably constituted a good result against Caires Sports, who needed a late chip from young Majorheily-Orinova to earn the point that keeps them three clear of Albrecht FC and Caires City. For the champions, such lofty goals have long since evaporated – now, and with their Globe Cup campaign finally fizzling out at the semi-final stage, only top-flight survival can provide a worthy objective.

In truth, they were fortunate even to get a draw here; with Jenny utterly outclassing Jhanna, only a couple of lucky Ben Clayton scuffs catching out S’toris and Lyle Gwyther at the other end needing to out-do himself to keep out Dariegan three or four times during the second half. Had the visitors not opted to have an exhausted Valinial start from the bench, they more than likely would have won with ease. Utterly, utterly bizarre.

Elsewhere, the only real surprise saw NAPPC win bragging rights in the Nethertopian derby – but it’s not much in the way of bragging rights, with the Dragons resting half their ahead of the Chaaa… ahead of the Champi… pio… cha… ahead of the TQCC Fi… fi…

Don’t make me say it. Please. For the love of God.

Arrigo Portuguese 2-1 Mayo Valley (Ramón 2, Diniz 15; Sheppard 21)
Albrecht Turkish 2-0 McDonald SC (Robinson 47, Patris and Bavent 64)
Caires City 2-1 AFC MN Smith (Gorrie 26, Azam 50; D. Dunphy 50)
El din Marbles 2-1 Radyukevich CSC (Pavoni 44, Hastings 48; McDermott 64)
Green Island 2-2 Caires Sports (Clayton 7 and 41; Muniz Allman 45+1, Majorheily-Orinova 88)
KT Hotspur 0-1 Albrecht FC (St. Louis 20)
Marquez-Onwere 0-0 Turks’ Club
NAPPC 1-0 Tenderville United (Irin’lur 32)
Port of Clotaire 0-0 Cathedral City

Matchday Fourteen… Thank Christ for that; they lost. And got a beating from Albrecht FC ‘pon their almost triumphant return to the Home of the Dragon. That’ll teach ‘em. Bloody froggy upstarts, riding on our coattails. I “Bah!” at them. BAH!, I say!

Their national team’ll be going further than us in the World Cup next.

Bah.

Anyway, Green Island actually won a match this weekend, albeit against MarquezOW. The GIZ’ll be alright, last week’s hysteria aside, and should grab a consolation Globe Cup place, really, before the Apertura is out. As for the naranja though, it’s starting to look as though the unthinkable could be anything but. Another change of personnel, another defeat, don’t-know-what-you’re-doings from travelling supporters and amused Green Island fans alike… it’s becoming an embarrassment. Marquez-Onwere haven’t been relegated from the CMSC1 since their creation. During the International Era, they sit alongside the Albrecht giants, the PoC and, for some reason, KT Hotspur as the only ever-presents. They have rather more than half a season to rally, but the signs really don’t look good.

Elsewhere, Caires Sports are juuuust starting to look a little wobbly, needing to come back from two down at home to McDonald just to take a point; while Port of Clotaire won a rollicking good contest against Caires City to keep the race for the Apertura title, and the TQCC qualifying positions, wide open as we enter the final few weekends of the year. That was thoughtful of them.

AFC MN Smith 1-1 KT Hotspur (Budden 45+1; Martinez 75)
Albrecht Turkish 1-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Wilkinson og 68)
Caires Sports 2-2 McDonald SC (A. Davies 42, Muniz Allman 52; Kenroe 30, Subudhi 33)
Cathedral City 0-1 El din Marbles (Nixon 19)
Green Island 1-0 Marquez-Onwere (Brayton 80)
Mayo Valley 0-1 NAPPC (Gaynor og 53)
Port of Clotaire 3-2 Caires City (Hamblett 12, Fuller 38, Andrews 48; Lagorio 7, East 64)
Tenderville United 0-3 Albrecht FC (Morrison 34 and 66, Corradini 83)
Turks’ Club 2-2 Radyukevich CSC (Mirnyi 37, Segura 67; Kennedy-Workington 33, Shannon 45)

Matchday Fifteen… Yes. Yes, hmm. Not good. Don’t like the look of these EKGs at all, Miss Majorheily-Orinova. You see that, there? That’s a proper wobble, that is, dear me… Alright, whip your top off for me and let’s have a feel around. I’m sure we can get to the root of your problems in no time, bwap-bwap-bwap-bwap-bwap.

Actually, Miss Majorheily-Orinova isn’t the root of Caires Sports’ ‘problems’ at all, largely because they don’t have any. Sure, they got their arses handed to them by Arrigo Portuguese this weekend, in a five-one defeat that left them as the most leaky defence in the top six (who are these creatures, and what have they done with our Yaforites, godsdamnit?!), but they were only CMSC2 play-off winners, you know. Results like these have to be expected. They were never going to be league leaders forever.

Albrecht FC, on the other hand, could be. After another three-nil win they’re just starting to have that look, even after Corradini pulled up in the warm-up and Torrealba was forced to switch to a 3-6-1. Wonky as it was, the Scorpions soon adapted and blitzed Mayo Valley during the second half. They duly went top, and it wouldn’t be a shock if they declined to relinquish that post for the remainder of the season.

Turkish, meanwhile, continue to lack the necessary consistency to challenge for the very top, and went down one-nil in Peregrinus City – with NAPPC daintily moving ahead of Tenderville United in the table as a result. Sitting on seventeen points, the TQCC finalists are actually fourth from bottom now, six points clear of Catedral.

Oh, and have we mentioned that MarquezOW really are awful this term?

MarquezOW really are awful this term.

AFC MN Smith 1-0 Tenderville United (Budden 18)
Albrecht FC 3-0 Mayo Valley (Kouakou Kouamé 49, Hamizi 55, Bekker 81)
Arrigo Portuguese 5-1 Caires Sports (Galindo 4, Álvarez 36 and 65, Ramón 40, Pak 67; Muniz Allman 71)
Caires City 2-1 El din Marbles (Wilkinson 40, East 89; Jiménez 9)
Green Island 1-0 Turks’ Club (Kūks 55)
KT Hotspur 1-0 Port of Clotaire (Rataran 5)
NAPPC 1-0 Albrecht Turkish (Prescott 47)
Marquez-Onwere 0-2 McDonald SC (Kenroe 48, García 52)
Radyukevich CSC 2-1 Cathedral City (Williams 41, Scarborough 80; Rivas 85)

Matchday Sixteen… And so, gentle Sarah, we reach the capital city clásico, a match ultimately lit up by a superbly athletic and unforgivably dangerous, neck-high tackle by Turkish full-back Reuben Faulkner on the still curiously named Scorpions ‘keeper Arian a short way into the second half. Faulkner, a Hoxton boy to his socks, was clearly overcome by the experience of his first senior derby but received his straight red with good grace, while his Krytenian counterpart was likewise gracious enough about having his head very nearly taken clean off, and the ensuing punch-up after Arian was stretchered away into the dark heart of the TSS only lasted about ten minutes before Brian Myers managed to put a stop to it, which is pretty good going. Well done, everyone. Medals a-plenty.

As for the actual match, should anyone care, it ended a draw; Turkish coming back into the game from a deserved Nakatsuru curler down once reduced to ten minutes, with Darren Robinsons chipping Armand Zamora from close range. Indeed, the home side rather enjoyed life as a 3-4-2, and – knowing Mannasuch – you wouldn’t entirely put it past the elf to send his side out like that next week an’ all. It’s not as though they have any other spare right-backs, after all. Apart from Sparling Ogbonnaya, a sixteen year-old who we’re all pretty sure is actually about twenty-seven despite what it says on his passport, which is probably a terribly racist and stereotypical typical thing to say about this orfunned refugee but also, alas, almost certainly accurate. Bleedin’ shit, he’s massive, man.

Anyhoo, that point – and sadly for those who get a kick out of tildes – left the top four places all wrapped up, at least as far as the Apertura and TQCC qualification goes. So a thorough well done to Caires Sports, who probably have a group stage place in the bag an’ all, despite being held at home by NAPPC, with their neighbours suffering a thorough beating at the hands of Radyukevich – who had Patrick Williams, Manuel Soriano and Damon Parker all back, and my word it showed – and Port of Clotaire being well beaten by the Champions’ Cup fina… fi… finalii… by Tenderville United.

In other news… how soon they fall. Less than a year after clinching an extraordinary league title, Ben Young appears set to offer his resignation at Green Island, with the GIZ completely clueless as they were dumped two-one by McDonald. The defeat formally left the champions without a chance of bouncing back to a Globe Cup place (although that might have been the case a week or two back, to be honest… maths is yucky) and looking, if anything, even more pitiful than Marquez-Onwere.

Elsewhere, because I’m fairly sure we haven’t mentioned them at all this season, Will Medlin’s youthful MN Smith continue to quietly do quite well, while their striker Alex Budden continued his belated transformation into a top-class goalscorer with a brace against Mayo Valley. At this rate, we may even have an actual Candelariasian winning the Golden Boot, although messers Dariegan, Hamizi, Subudhi and Tico would have something to say about that.

AFC MN Smith 2-0 Mayo Valley (Budden 9 and 79)
Albrecht Turkish 1-1 Albrecht FC (Robinson 60; Nakatsuru 35)
Caires Sports 2-2 NAPPC (Dariegan 10, Muniz Allman 50; Izorigor 3 and 66)
El din Marbles 2-0 KT Hotspur (Madrid 21, Hastings 29)
Marquez-Onwere 1-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Van Dyke 33)
McDonald SC 2-1 Green Island (Kenroe 71, Andryan 45+1; Young 49)
Radyukevich CSC 4-2 Caires City (Narquelie 32 and 46, Scarborough 71, Shannon 90+1; Wilkinson 11, Gorrie 82)
Tenderville United 4-1 Port of Clotaire (Tico 15 and 19 and 41, Douglas 46; Hamblett 11)
Turks’ Club 1-2 Cathedral City (Hanson 25; Estévez 42, Castillo 56)

Matchday Seventeen… Aaand another trophy for the Scorpions. With thirty-seven points, another Apertura pot gets added to the cabinet with a very confident victory over a gently outclassed Caires Sports. At this stage, in all honestly, it’s rather hard to see the country’s biggest club not going on to waltz their way to yet another title, because they showed in flashes this weekend – particularly when it came to the lovely passing move that ended in their third goal of the afternoon – that they still have several more gears to find during the second half of the season. The Knights, for their part, really did give their all – and, as fantastically as they’ve done this season, it just wasn’t quite enough.

And meanwhile, with Caires City and the PoC both taking only a point apiece at home against sides in the bottom three, it’s not at all clear where the challenge to Torrealba’s rule is going to come from. Perhaps Turkish, mind, who deigned to put out eleven men in Bove and were rewarded with a Carlos Cabrera hat-trick and three Globe Cup confirming points. The Marbles and Radyukevich will join them, which is probably just about right.

As for the rest of the division, it’s quite tight, you know? All of two points separate eighth from fifteenth as it stands, with two of Marquez’s traditional powerhouses now showing worrying signs of imminent marooning. Never mind. Onward!

AFC MN Smith 2-3 Albrecht Turkish (Budden 27, Simpson 60; Cabrera 10 and 24 and 82)
Albrecht FC 3-1 Caires Sports (Corradini 18, Hamizi 31, Nakatsuru 60; Dariegan 20)
Arrigo Portuguese 0-1 Green Island (Young 54)
Caires City 1-1 Cathedral City (Gorrie 12; Castillo 5)
El din Marbles 2-1 Tenderville United (Nixon 59, Macanás 71; Tico 61)
KT Hotspur 2-2 Radyukevich CSC (H. Collins 24, Salt 48; Narquelie 27, O’Riordian 90+3)
McDonald SC 2-2 Turks’ Club (Andryan 8, Subudhi 45+1; Stone 8, Endekov 84)
NAPPC 0-0 Marquez-Onwere
Port of Clotaire 1-1 Mayo Valley (Fuentes 18; Gordon og 38)

CMSC XXXIX Apertura Standings
 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Albrecht FC               17  11   4   2   35   13   22   37  TQCC
   2  Caires Sports             17   9   5   3   33   24    9   32  TQCC
   3  Caires City               17   9   4   4   31   23    8   31  TQCC
   4  Port of Clotaire          17   9   3   5   28   21    7   30  TQCC
   5  Albrecht Turkish          17   8   4   5   22   15    7   28  GC
   6  El din Marbles            17   8   4   5   21   17    4   28  GC
   7  Radyukevich CSC           17   6   6   5   23   25   -2   24  GC
   8  AFC MN Smith              17   6   4   7   28   28    0   22
   9  Green Island              17   5   7   5   16   20   -4   22
  10  McDonald SC               17   5   7   5   19   25   -6   22
  11  NAPPC                     17   5   6   6   13   13    0   21
  12  Arrigo Portuguese         17   6   3   8   20   24   -4   21
  13  KT Hotspur                17   5   5   7   17   18   -1   20
  14  Turks’ Club               17   4   8   5   22   24   -2   20
  15  Tenderville United        17   5   5   7   20   26   -6   20
  16  Cathedral City            17   3   6   8   13   19   -6   15
  17  Marquez-Onwere            17   3   4  10   10   20  -10   13
  18  Mayo Valley               17   2   3  12    7   23  -16    9

The T4S CMSC2

CMSC2 XXXIX Apertura Standings
    Team                       P   W  D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Gamboa FC                 19  15  1   3  37  10  +27  46  SBCC
  2 Ironside-Talinger         19  13  4   2  28   7  +21  43  SBCC
  3 Webley Stadium            19  12  7   0  24   8  +16  43  SBCC
  4 Candelaria Arsenal        19  12  4   3  29  13  +16  40  SBCC
  5 Brayton Town              19  11  5   3  29  19  +10  38
  6 Candelaria-Allemali       19  12  1   6  34  18  +16  37
  7 Albrecht Independent FC   19   8  6   5  16  15   +1  30
  8 Magnus United             19   7  7   5  24  22   +2  28
  9 Abiodun North             19   7  5   7  22  20   +2  26
 10 Castillo FC               19   7  4   8  22  22   +0  25
 11 Fallon United             19   6  7   6  27  28   -1  25
 12 Dyce FC                   19   6  5   8  17  25   -8  23
 13 Castellano Hills          19   5  4  10  14  29  -15  19
 14 Deportivo María           19   5  3  11  17  28  -11  18
 15 San Juan                  19   5  3  11  20  36  -16  18
 16 Melin & Nader             19   3  7   9  12  19   -7  16
 17 Sloane Wanderers          19   4  4  11  19  29  -10  16
 18 Melin Professionals       19   2  6  11  10  21  -11  12
 19 Blackwell Island          19   2  5  12  19  32  -13  11
 20 Alvery Blades             19   1  6  12  15  34  -19   9

UICA Confirmation

TQCC24 ~ Albrecht FC, Caires Sports, Caires City, Port of Clotaire
TQCC24 Stadium ~ Tristar Songstress Stadium, Albrecht [cap. 88,200]
GC21 ~ Albrecht Turkish, El din Marbles, Radyukevich CSC
GC21 Stadium ~ Solidarity Stadium, Albrecht [cap. 66,200]
SBCC21 ~ Gamboa FC, Ironside-Talinger, Webley Stadium, Candelaria Arsenal
SBCC21 Stadium ~ The White Palace, Rose of Sharon [cap. 41,472]

Matchday Eighteen… Onto the Clausura, then, which we’ll hurry through Bekkside style because there’s a World Cup only just around the corner, you know, and everyone’s most excited about that; and this weekend Port of Clotaire proved that they really can get it together away from Fortress Harper when they want to, and when the opposition are suitably rousing. In this instance, Albrecht Turkish – with man-of-the-match honours clearly going to Tim Larkin, as the Harpies’ youngest midfielder tends to be known by ignurrent northerners. Ó Lorcáin has performed only in flashes so far this term, but pulled the home side’s experienced defence apart this weekend, with only Van Linschoten standing between Turkish and an embarrassing drubbing. Despite the eventually modest two-one scoreline, the Solidarity faithful still declined to show anything like either quality as the full-time boos rang out, and those ten points on the league leaders look a pretty hefty tally for this work-in-progress side to make up. Especially considering there are only eight between themselves and Turks’ Club down in fourteenth.

Strong performances from the Caires clubs keep up both their challenges, meanwhile, but Green Island took three steps forward – a very comforting three-nil win in Peregrinus City – and more than a potential one or two back after Lyle Gwyther, after struggling with an inflamed… bowel, or something, I wasn’t really paying attention, all season opted to succumb to doctors advice and have an op now lest he miss out on a place in C&M inevitably all-conquering World Cup finals squad. Twenty-three year-old sub keeper Steve Evans really is no replacement. One really must feel for the poor dears…

Albrecht Turkish 1-2 Port of Clotaire (Patris and Bavent 73; Hamblett 44, Sánchez García 67)
Caires Sports 4-1 AFC MN Smith (Akhraan 6, Reuberson-Mohammed 45 and 72, Dariegan 90+1; Budden 34)
Cathedral City 0-0 KT Hotspur
Marquez-Onwere 1-1 Albrecht FC (Brown 47; Tekeste 73)
Mayo Valley 1-1 El din Marbles (Williams 48; Macanás 52)
McDonald SC 2-2 Arrigo Portuguese (Kenroe 17, Froggatt 45+1; Álvarez 19, Castro 27)
NAPPC 0-3 Green Island (Clayton 18 and 27, Kūks 22)
Radyukevich CSC 2-0 Tenderville United (Kennedy-Workington 18, Williams 28)
Turks’ Club 1-2 Caires City (Segura 58; Gorrie 6 and 65)

Matchday Nineteen… …except for the fact that this Saturday they went and held Albrecht FC to their second draw in a row; Evans et al playing out of their skin in the face of a late onslaught after Jhanna Young’s only significant effort of the match resulted in the first-half equaliser. Any delusions of grandeur have long since been swept away from Ben Young’s side, with fancy tactics forgotten about and a general policy of lumping it up to Ben Clayton whenever possible installed. It’s the way forward, we reckon. Pashun! Yuuurh!

It helped that George Morrison, who can be really rather rough for one of those limp-wristy types, earned himself a straight red with ten minutes to play for an ugly assault on Raviranjan’s left knee, which buckled in a most unpleasant manner but appears to have miraculously survived in one piece; but a point’s a point. The GIZ’re up to the heady heights of eighth now.

Elsewhere, the genuinely big game as far as the title race goes saw the more experienced Sortherners of the PoC get one over the early pace-setters of Caires Sports, but there really wasn’t much in it and no-one seems prepared anymore to formally write them out of the running. At the other end of the table, Tenderville took three points in their ‘other’ derby, of sorts, against a ten-man Catedral side – with Fran Russell’s job with the Cats now clearly under threat. Quite how he was ever expected to return El din’s biggest club to a status worthy of that moniker with a signings policy based around becoming as Hispanic as possible is anyone’s guess but, after another listless display concluding with the cheap surrender of a late winner to the increasingly Drunn-who? Dragons goalscorer Tico, a striker who, we feel, would have garnered much more in the way of respect from the Candelariasian media and public if he still used a surname that included not only a flicky thingy over an A but a curly wossname under the C as well. You don’t give up that sort of heritage without a fight, in these parts.

AFC MN Smith 4-2 Marquez-Onwere (Budden 3 and 90, Fraenkel 41, Hai’Unda 85; Nenov og 48, Gómez 56)
Albrecht FC 1-1 Green Island (Morrison 8; Young 33)
Caires City 4-1 KT Hotspur (Agostinho 16, East 37 and 84, Lagorio 80; N. Collins 48)
El din Marbles 2-2 Albrecht Turkish (Madrid 34, Pavoni 70; O’Neil 36, Patris and Bavent 58)
Mayo Valley 1-4 Radyukevich CSC (Szatmári 81; Narquelie 15, Parker 27 and 34, Williams 48)
McDonald SC 2-1 NAPPC (Subudhi 3 and 45+1; Izorigor 36)
Port of Clotaire 2-0 Caires Sports (Hooper 36, Sánchez García 90)
Tenderville United 3-2 Cathedral City (Tico 17 and 90, Rau 27; Higuain 4, Guaman 81)
Turks’ Club 3-3 Arrigo Portuguese (Hanson 32, Thomas 59, Mirnyi 90; Ramón 73, Diniz 90, Álvarez 90+3)

Matchday Twenty… Okay, it’s officially official – no-one in the top four can win more than a couple of games in a row. Let’s even stop pretending there are any trends worthy of the name.

This weekend’s most notable match, therefore, was Radyukevich’s late victory in a five-goal thriller with Turkish, one that lifts the Jukos right back into the running the snatch a very first Champions’ Cup campaign. Where could they be right now, had they not been afflicted with quite so many injury nightmares during the Apertura, I ask myself. As yet, I do not appear to have been forthcoming with a definitive answer, but it’s probably the weather.

Elsewhere, Green Island now appear to have lost holding midfielder Steve Newman until after the World Cup. Somebody upon high really doesn’t want this lot to win again.

Albrecht FC 3-2 McDonald SC (Davies og 25, Nakatsuru 44, Hamizi 59; Van Aulen og 39, Subudhi 49)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-1 NAPPC (Ramón 32; Izorigor 52)
Caires Sports 2-0 El din Marbles (Valinial 66, Muniz Allman 90+1)
Cathedral City 4-1 Mayo Valley (Delara 22, Higuain 34, Castillo 45+2 and 78; Lilja 79)
Green Island 2-0 AFC MN Smith (Grinius 21, Newman 75)
Marquez-Onwere 1-1 Port of Clotaire (Brown 62; Ó Lorcáin 29)
Radyukevich CSC 3-2 Albrecht Turkish (Johnson og 14, Parker 16, Scarborough 90; Cabrera 35 and 87)
Tenderville United 3-1 Caires City (Tico 30, Holtz 32, Van Patten 43; Wilkinson 48)
Turks’ Club 1-0 KT Hotspur (Wetl 11)

Matchday Twenty-One… This one was the weekend in which Fran Russell did indeed get the chop from Catedral, after a three-nil hammering in Hoxton. He shall not, all things considered, be mourned – for one thing, he’s young and talented enough to get another spin on the managerial merry-go-round before too long. We don’t know who’ll be replacing him yet. Frankly, if we’re being entirely honest, we don’t especially care.

At this point, following an entirely unsurprising but still professional victory in Hodgehill, we should probably spare a word for Dionísio; the Cafundelense-born, former C&M international and Caires City legend who, having challenged unexpectedly for the title during his first season as Errant Knights boss has bounced back from subsequent mehness to forge an attractive, tactically unpredictable side making the most of its talented youngsters, with Eric East an absolute find and natural partner for Gorrie, and Harvey Wilkinson starting to show, on a regular basis, just why he’s going to prop up the Big Blues left for a decade to come.

And, after consulting a random word generator, that word shall be: Sporophyll. Well done to everyone concerned.

AFC MN Smith 2-3 McDonald SC (Budden 4, Lockyer 45; Andryan 9, Subudhi 51, Kenroe 55)
Albrecht Turkish 3-0 Cathedral City (Randjelovic 12, Cabrera 21, Robinson 50)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-2 Albrecht FC (Galindo 5; William 46, Kouakou Kouamé 79)
Caires Sports 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (Valinial 85; Kennedy-Workington 13)
El din Marbles 1-2 Marquez-Onwere (Madrid 86; Riesgo 83, Collado 89)
KT Hotspur 2-2 Tenderville United (Rass 18, Tiller 49; Holtz 19, Van Patten 81)
Mayo Valley 0-2 Caires City (East 6, Masters 72)
NAPPC 1-0 Turks’ Club (Izorigor 79)
Port of Clotaire 1-0 Green Island (Arrigorriagakoa 80)

Matchday Twenty-Two… Diniz, Diniz! Oh with your eyes so blue! Diniz Diniz! I’ve got a crush on you! André Diniz! I’m so in love with yoo-oo-oo-oo-ooo…!

Because we just don’t get enough doo wop in NS Sports these days but, alas, like all crushes, Arrigo Portuguese’s love affair with the former Cafundelense international hath come to a jarring end. He be gorn, as far as can be told, and it would appear that Smait Pembace has gone with him, or at least been dropped into the reserves or… summat. Why, we cannot say. We do not know. What we can tell you is that Diniz absolutely hasn’t got Pembace’s sixteen year-old sister pregnant, or been attacked by a fox, so frankly we couldn’t care less.

The Portuguese board hasn’t rested upon their laurels after all this, however, announcing the arrival of two shiny new Rushmoris – Wayne Ullrich, the powerhouse Pocoan striker, and José David Gómez, a Sargossan winger, would you believe it, who’s somehow contrived not to end up at the Marbles. Truly, the end-times are upon us.

Anyhoo, they both started, both played well, and Portuguese took three points in Bove. D’you want an open-top bus ride, or summat? Just be thankful you Mid-table Marías even got a mention.

Elsewhere, Fernando Molina – the outgoing manager of Castellano Hills (someone has to be) and, and this is where it gets complicated kid, no relation whatsoever to Cathedral City bench-warming striker Fernando Molina – settled into his new role as manager of Cathedral City with a two-one win over Caires Sports, of all people. City and Turkish drew one apiece meanwhile, leaving the Scorpions to extend their lead at the top to five points.

AFC MN Smith 2-3 Arrigo Portuguese (Bocchetti 44, Simpson 73; Ramón 18, Anderson 45 and 76)
Albrecht FC 2-0 NAPPC (Hamizi 45, Nakatsuru 75)
Caires City 1-1 Albrecht Turkish (East 34; Patris and Bavent 47)
Cathedral City 2-1 Caires Sports (Castillo 48, Guaman 74; Dariegan 52)
Green Island 1-1 El din Marbles (t’son o’Henry 45+1; Jiménez 19)
Mayo Valley 0-2 KT Hotspur (Rass 19, Nilsson 27)
McDonald SC 0-4 Port of Clotaire (Hooper 8 and 47, O’Airmeadhaigh 18, Hamblett 26)
Radyukevich CSC 1-0 Marquez-Onwere (Stewart og 56)
Turks’ Club 0-1 Tenderville United (Rau 82)

CMS Cup Last Thirty-Two… And, because absolutely no-one demanded it, let’s take a belated look in at the early stages of the nation’s premier knock-out tournament.

First Round Proper
Chapon FC 2-0 Guerreros de Agujero
Gómez United 2-0 Fallon Town
Lower Wessaxontown Magicians 1-1 Vo FC
~ Replay: Vo FC 4-0 Lower Wessaxontown Magicians
Sinjun City Alliance 2-0 Atlético San Cristóbal
Club Atlético Fasnia 2-0 Etienne United
Lesperance Knights 0-2 Lo de Gato
Gentle Rangers 0-0 Albery City Wasps
~ Replay: Albery City Wasps 1-0 Gentle Rangers
Korslund 2-3 Abiodun South
Bulent GBC 3-1 Scruggs Picking Sharks
Cleal Beck 2-0 Estrellas Brilliantes
New Taylor Road 1-2 Nyton Thistle
Vegaipala Steelworks 1-1 Jolburg United
~ Replay: Jolburg United 2-1 Vegaipala Steelworks
Ordway Town 1-1 Stanley SC
~ Replay: Stanley SC 1-1 Ordway Town (1-1 AET) (Stanley SC wins 3-1 on penalty kicks)
Korslund Millers 1-0 MSS Scorpions
Hanlon Warbirds 4-0 Los Realejos Storks
Club Marquez 2-1 Catherin FC

Second Round
Maidment SC 0-1 Khatib FC
Stanley SC 1-1 Thoth Town SC
~ Replay: Thoth Town SC 2-0 Stanley SC
Cleal Beck 2-1 Caires FC
Albery City Wasps 1-1 Saurin I.A.
~ Replay: Saurin I.A. 2-1 Albery City Wasps
Riverton Olympic 2-1 Jolburg United
Nyton Thistle 2-0 Preece Town
Marquez Athletic 6-1 Club Atlético Fasnia
Sinjun City Alliance 1-0 Swords of Bass
Di Alfonso Phoenix 1-1 Gómez United
~ Replay: Gómez United 0-2 Di Alfonso Phoenix
Abiodun South 3-0 Bulent GBC
Onwere University 0-2 Newport Island
Condory Bantams 2-1 Lo de Gato
Club Marquez 1-1 Vo FC
~ Replay: Vo FC 3-1 Club Marquez
Hanlon Warbirds 1-1 Dublynne Raiders
~ Replay: Dublynne Raiders 1-1 Hanlon Warbirds (1-1 AET) (Dublynne Raiders wins 5-4 on penalty kicks)
Korslund Millers 0-2 Club Atlético Lugar
Chapon FC 2-4 Miranda FC
Arrigo C.d.F. 1-0 C.G.y.F.d.C.d.L.T.
The New Saints 0-2 Bass FC
Starless City Nationals 1-2 Liverpool Knights
Exeter Trident 4-4 Nader FC
~ Replay: Nader FC 2-1 Exeter Trident

Third Round
Dublynne Raiders 1-1 Marquez Athletic
~ Replay: Marquez Athletic 1-2 Dublynne Raiders
Thoth Town SC 3-4 Saurin I.A.
Cleal Beck 2-2 Nyton Thistle
~ Replay: Nyton Thistle 1-1 Cleal Beck (1-1 AET) (Nyton Thistle wins 3-0 on penalty kicks)
Riverton Olympic 3-4 Club Atlético Lugar
Sinjun City Alliance 1-1 Di Alfonso Phoenix
~ Replay: Di Alfonso Phoenix 4-1 Sinjun City Alliance
Liverpool Knights 0-0 Vo FC
~ Replay: Vo FC 2-2 Liverpool Knights (3-3 AET) (Liverpool Knights wins 4-2 on penalty kicks)
Khatib FC 4-2 Miranda FC
Abiodun South 0-0 Condory Bantams
~ Replay: Condory Bantams 3-1 Abiodun South
Newport Island 3-2 Arrigo C.d.F.
Nader FC 2-1 Bass FC

Fourth Round
Alvery Blades 0-0 Nader FC
~ Replay: Nader FC 2-1 Alvery Blades
Caires Sports 2-0 Dublynne Raiders
Melin Professionals 1-0 Candelaria Arsenal
Fallon United 1-0 Melin & Nader
Candelaria-Allemali 3-1 Saurin I.A.
San Juan 0-1 Castillo FC
Club Atlético Lugar 3-1 Liverpool Knights
Brayton Town 4-2 Dyce FC
Magnus United 0-1 Albrecht Independent FC
Ironside-Talinger 0-0 Webley Stadium
~ Replay: Webley Stadium 2-0 Ironside-Talinger
AFC MN Smith 3-0 Abiodun North
Gamboa FC 1-2 Sloane Wanderers
Di Alfonso Phoenix 0-2 Deportivo María
Khatib FC 2-1 Condory Bantams
Nyton Thistle 1-0 Newport Island
Blackwell Island 1-0 Castellano Hills

Not that I give a figgin, but the key results saw Caires City come back from an early goal down to thump Albrecht Turkish; holders Port of Clotaire struggle against Matt Sampson’s Brayton Town before Muscat hauled Sánchez García off the bench to score a late brace; defeated finalists McDonald win well at a disinterested and dispirited KT Hotspur; another traditionally strong cup side join the Spur among the fallen giants with MarquezOW ousted by Green Island in a replay; Tenderville United – no longer automatic favourites, with Champions’ Cup glory now suddenly also in their sights – ease past the Melin Professionals; and actual favourites Albrecht FC (or their reserve side, technically) take Nader FC apart.

A thought should be spared for Nyton Thistle, the last amateur side left in the competition, who might have expected something a tad more exciting than Albrecht Independent FC at home and were pretty comprehensively beaten by the visiting Indies’ youthful outfit under God’s Power Adekunde and his assistants Barry Adekunde and Zachary Adekunde; energetic seventeen year-old midfielder Georgette Edwards proving the star and a noteworthy name for the future, one feels.

Albrecht FC 4-0 Nader FC (Khan 41, Bekker 43 and 60, Abdurrachman 66)
Webley Stadium 1-0 Cathedral City (Robinson 6)
El din Marbles 1-1 NAPPC (Pavoni 29; Ellad 82)
~ Replay: NAPPC 0-1 El din Marbles (Macanás 49)
Blackwell Island 0-1 Radyukevich CSC (McDermott 55)
Port of Clotaire 3-0 Brayton Town (Walker 32, Sánchez García 90 and 90+3)
Melin Professionals 0-2 Tenderville United (Douglas 7, Gaggioli 39)
Club Atlético Lugar 1-1 Deportivo María (Ovelar 4; Vilca 44)
~ Replay: Deportivo María 1-1 Club Atlético Lugar (1-2 AET) (Forsyth 57; Rodríguez 33 and 70)
Nyton Thistle 1-3 Albrecht Independent FC (Ramkin 70; Chapman 33, Johnson 61, Edwards 85)
Arrigo Portuguese 3-0 Mayo Valley (Pembace 12 and 27, Teteo 84)
Caires Sports 3-1 Turks’ Club (Valinial 17, Endekov og 32, Reuberson-Mohammed 37; Stone 4)
Castillo FC 1-0 Khatib FC (Green 69)
Caires City 4-1 Albrecht Turkish (Gorrie 65 and 86, Agostinho 88, Qiu og 90; Robinson 6)
KT Hotspur 1-3 McDonald SC (Rass 47; Munir 63, Kenroe 67, Froggatt 75)
Marquez-Onwere 2-2 Green Island (Gómez 41, Riesgo 70; t’son o’Henry 53, Robertson 73)
~ Replay: Green Island 1-0 Marquez-Onwere (Clayton 85)
Candelaria-Allemali 2-1 AFC MN Smith (Eddison 47, Fox 68; Dotchev og 52)
Fallon United 0-0 Sloane Wanderers
~ Replay: Sloane Wanderers 2-1 Fallon United (Annison 61 and 81; Tomlinson 41)

Matchday Twenty-Three… So, back to the league and Portuguese’s revival didn’t last especially long, but they can consider themselves unlucky to come up against a Port of Clotaire sides having one of their little turns. The home side’s youngish second-choice ‘keeper Alejandro Salinas (Romero was out nursing couple of fractured fingers) has to take the bulk of the blame, if any is to be apportioned, for his part in the six-three scoreline, but this was simply classic Harpies. O’Airmeadhaigh in particular looked right back to his form of last season, and this result will hand the PoC a major boost as we move into the title run-in.

‘Tis just a pity that, with this being the last league game before the World Cup an’ all, they won’t have an opportunity to cling on to that momentum. MarquezOW will be a side similarly aggrieved, after giving their best performance of the season in a solid victory over Catedral.

The Caires derby, meanwhile, was a quality affair this time around – two sides bubbling with confidence and willing to try just about anything. It was, suitably enough, a two-all draw – one that does neither club’s title ambitions much good, but will just about keep both sets of supporters satisfied as they put their feet up and switch on the telly for a month.

Albrecht FC 1-0 Turks’ Club (Tekeste 42)
Arrigo Portuguese 3-6 Port of Clotaire (Pak 14, Ullrich 36, Álvarez 40; Andrews 4, O’Airmeadhaigh 28 and 49, Ó Lorcáin 36 and 64, Hamblett 48)
Caires City 2-2 Caires Sports (Gorrie 55, Murray 86; Masters og 30, Muniz Allman 64)
El din Marbles 3-2 McDonald SC (Nixon 15 and 50, Živkovic 67; Kenroe 14 and 80)
KT Hotspur 1-2 Albrecht Turkish (N. Collins 28; Randjelovic 89, Qiu 90+4)
Marquez-Onwere 3-1 Cathedral City (Van Dyke 24, Brown 72, González Mateo og 80; Castillo 71)
Mayo Valley 0-1 Tenderville United (Van Patten 82)
NAPPC 1-3 AFC MN Smith (Irin’lur 6; Budden 43, Lockyer 62, Vine 90+2)
Radyukevich CSC 1-1 Green Island (Parker 68; Aldren 80)

CMS Cup Last Sixteen… But, before that happens… ‘tis the CMS Cup. Which featured the grand total of zero away wins this mid-week, fact fans.

Most of the results could be considered expected – Albrecht FC, the jammy sods, getting semi-pro Atlético Lugar at the TSS and cruising on through; Caires City getting their second tough fixture in a row and on this occasion succumbing to the PoC’s ever mentionable home record; the clash between the much-of-a-muchness Marbles and Jukos going to form with the home side taking it at La Canica; and Green Island enjoying a rare easy fixture against Outlien rivals Sloane Wanderers – with the only upset registered by Albrecht Independent.

Making the step up from Nyton Thistle to Tenderville never looked beyond Adekunde’s kids, with the visitors registering a well-earned, high-scoring draw in Nethertopia before taking the Dragons back to the Army Ground and handing them a rather heavy defeat – the youthful strike partnership of Johnson Chapman and Ryan Papageorgiou doing most of the damage and making their side look like a decent outside shout to push into the CMSC2 play-offs come the close of the season.

Joining them in the final eight from the second tier are Castillo FC, who needed a late goal to break the deadlock to avoid a tiresome replay against CandelariaAM.

Caires Sports 3-0 McDonald SC (Muniz Allman 38, Majorheily-Orinova 43, Alex Davies 47)
Port of Clotaire 2-1 Caires City (Fuller 50, Hamblett 56; González 7)
El din Marbles 3-1 Radyukevich CSC (Macanás 1 and 49, Madrid 28; Williams 31)
Albrecht FC 3-0 Club Atlético Lugar (Bekker 4, Kouakou Kouamé 68, Pound 79)
Green Island 2-0 Sloane Wanderers (Clayton 21, Von Strassenberg og 39)
Webley Stadium 0-0 Arrigo Portuguese
~ Replay: Arrigo Portuguese 1-0 Webley Stadium (Gómez 31)
Tenderville United 3-3 Albrecht Independent FC (Holtz 18, Gaggioli 33, Tico 59; Haacke og 29, Chapman 39, Papageorgiou 53)
~ Replay: Albrecht Independent FC 3-1 Tenderville United (Chapman 6, Papageorgiou 45, Michael 66; Van Patten 70)
Castillo FC 1-0 Candelaria-Allemali (Aldanondo 90+3)

Matchday Twenty-Four… And back. I think. Possibly. Don’t anyone look now, but I think I might be in one piece.

*checks*

Yup.

Well.

Well.

Wasn’t that a curious World Cup break, hm?

Although, of course, I suppose details thereof have only just begun leaking out to you foreign types, haven’t they? Oh well. No need to rabbit on about it all here, is there? The important thing is, there’s a season to finish before… before we all find out what happens next. Apparently, some of yous might notice some sort of difference in the frequency of matches, but… we’re just going to carry on regardless. There’s still league and cup titles to fight for and, while it’s hard to really get especially enthused about either anymore, life goes on, doesn’t it? For most people, anyway.

And, y’know, every cloud has a silver li… actually, maybe that’s not such a great turn of phrase, under the circumstances, but… Anyway, point is, the little delay after the World Cup finals means that everyone’s back, including all the elves and that, at least until the Vahala or the Oxen or the DBC start up again so… Everyone’s here. Most everyone, anyway.

As for the football itself, following the silences and such, it wasn’t a stunner that Green Island went down one-nil at home, even to the likes of Cathedral City, with the Cats moving out of the bottom three on goal difference as a result; NAPPC dropping -1 beneath them and into trouble. Mayo Valley are, of course, completely gone and were well beaten by Turks’ Club, while MarquezOW remain among the bookies’ three favourites to make the drop after being pretty much taken apart by City.

And the rest of what is looking pretty definitively like the top four all won, with the Jukos and Turkish slipping up. On the latter account, Tenderville were comfortable winners at a slightly worse-for-wear Solidarity Stadium, and bounded up the table into seventh place as a result.

AFC MN Smith 1-2 Albrecht FC (Hai’Unda 60; Nenov og 28, Hamizi 83)
Albrecht Turkish 1-3 Tenderville United (Patris and Bavent 45; Tibbets 4, Tico 28 and 68)
Caires Sports 2-0 KT Hotspur (Alsheris 41, Valinial 88)
El din Marbles 2-4 Arrigo Portuguese (Macanás 9, Živkovic 22; Pak 28, Ullrich 36, Gómez 61 and 76)
Green Island 0-1 Cathedral City (Guaman 28)
Marquez-Onwere 1-3 Caires City (Gómez 71; González 7, Gorrie 29, Wilkinson 41)
McDonald SC 2-2 Radyukevich CSC (Andryan 13, Bastard 75; Parker 32, Kennedy-Workington 52)
Port of Clotaire 1-0 NAPPC (Ó Lorcáin 45+2)
Turks’ Club 4-0 Mayo Valley (Gaynor og 13 and og 55, Cotton 51, Mirnyi 82)

Matchday Twenty-Five… The top two should have met at a Tristar Songstress Stadium seating very nearly ninety thousand animated supporters this weekend… but, for one reason and another, it was actually half-full and the game played amid a strangely downbeat atmosphere. A pity, but that’s Stuff for you.

Anyway, it probably wasn’t a terrible tragedy given that the home side were second best by quite some margin; a paceless defence – with left-back Daniel Stride, in for the suspended captain St. Louis, targeted in particular – successfully outthought by the PoC’s liquid attack.

Movement! Seamless transitions between the defence, midfield and attack! Flank swapping! Variation! Yes, that’s the stuff, chaps. If only you weren’t all bloody Sortherners.

Anyhoo, it was as sexy as hell and the Harpies’ victory drew them back to within two points of the Scorpions. Elsewhere, the Knights had a particular bad day at the office, although it’s no surprise that Tenderville United have looked comfortably better than their post-WC rivals, given both the boost to their morale that was Nethertopia’s campaign therein, and the fact that their country wasn’t… didn’t…

Well, anyway. Biiig win for the Dragons. NAPPC only picked up a point at home to the Marbles, however, and remain firmly stuck in relegation trouble. The visitors to Peregrinus City, for their part, should face a tactical rejig with Miguel Ángel Madrid ruled out for the remainder of the reason, while Radyukevich’s top four hopes took a blow with defeat at home to a rejuvenated Portuguese and the knowledge that Fintan Shannon will join Madrid on the casualty list – the centre of defence being just about the last area that the Jukos can afford to pick up crocks. Nic Young and his medical staff need firing, and soon. This is just getting silly now…

AFC MN Smith 2-1 Turks’ Club (Vine 36, Per’itur 56; Cotton 47)
Albrecht FC 1-3 Port of Clotaire (Tekeste 55; Hamblett 7, Hooper 41, Sánchez García 80)
Caires City 2-1 Green Island (Gorrie 1 and 79; Clayton 35)
Cathedral City 1-0 McDonald SC (Castillo 68)
KT Hotspur 0-1 Marquez-Onwere (Oliveira Tavares 3)
Mayo Valley 0-2 Albrecht Turkish (Cabrera 21, O’Neil 79)
NAPPC 2-2 El din Marbles (Irin’lur 31, Beender 39; Macanás 18, Díaz García 33)
Radyukevich CSC 1-2 Arrigo Portuguese (Connah 58; Ullrich 25, Álvarez 53)
Tenderville United 5-2 Caires Sports (Peithner og 6, Gaggioli 10, T’saar og 28, Van Braam 45, Tico 66; Alsheris 77, A. Davies 90+3)

Matchday Twenty-Six… Port of Clotaire have a single league title to their name, and a couple of CMS Cups. Could they now, however, be on the verge of becoming the sixth club to take CMSC1 honours during the International Era? IS Robert Moyes’ faith in Winston Muscat – which, against all the odds, has lasted for longer than squad players like Dan Smith and Palazuelo Mercer have even been alive – finally about to be repaid with the biggest prise of them all apartfromtheTQCC,buteveryoneknowstheleagueisyourbreadandbutter,right?.

Possibly. Juuust possibly.

At the very least, this weekend’s fixtures left goal difference as the only separator between the top two, with the PoC inching nervously past MN Smith and Albrecht FC held by a resilient Marbles side; the handy combination of Macanás and Jiménez up front causing the Scorpions no end of problems and keeping them lodged in their own half for much for much of the game. It wouldn’t be the first time that Albrecht FC have fallen apart during the Clausura – indeed, in the ten seasons since the move to eighteen teams and the introduction of the system for purposes of UICA qualification, the Scorpions have won the secondhalfoftheseason trophy just once, in XXXI, when Caires City went on to lift the overall title. By contrast, they’ve been Apertura winners four times, not counting this year’s edition, but went on to lift the CMSC1 trophy only once after those occasions. It’s a record that will surely start to play on their minds.

With the Knights and Errant Knights only picking up points in extremely winnable games, meanwhile, it’s hard not to suggest that we’re looking at a two-horse race from this point forth.

Albrecht FC 1-1 El din Marbles (Hamizi 59; Nixon 70)
Caires Sports 1-1 Mayo Valley (Dariegan 68; Johansson 14)
Cathedral City 2-2 Arrigo Portuguese (Castillo 54, Delara 70; Darby 5, Gómez 78)
Green Island 0-1 KT Hotspur (Rass 5)
McDonald SC 2-2 Caires City (Subudhi 25, Lodge 78; Logan og 17, Gorrie 54)
Port of Clotaire 2-1 AFC MN Smith (Ó Lorcáin 16, Arrigorriagakoa 24; Hai’Unda 28)
Radyukevich CSC 2-1 NAPPC (Parker 17, Kennedy-Workington 88; De Opper 45+1)
Tenderville United 1-0 Marquez-Onwere (Van Patten 2)
Turks’ Club 5-3 Albrecht Turkish (Hanson 5, Cotton 43, Wetl 78 and 90+1, Faulkner og 88; va Drake 49 and 58)

Matchday Twenty-Seven… And then this… this was the weakened that Port of Clotaire took an overall lead for the first time this season.

Their victory came courtesy of a by-the-numbers encounter with probably-just-about-good-enough-to-stay-up Turks’ Club, notable only for Tom Wetl’s entirely-against-the-run-of-play opener for the visitors from a ludicrously tight angle – such that it matters, but the stringbean striker appears to belatedly becoming a rather useful CMSC1 player – and a subsequent collector’s item in the form of a nactual hat-trick from Wetl’s rather more accomplished Harpies equivalent Jamie Hamblett.

But they moved to the top thanks to – would you Adam and Steve it? – Radyukevich. In better times, the Jukos would have merrily thrown their match (but in a terribly stylish and winsome kind of way, naturally) against the Scorpions if they had reason to suppose it might play a major role in avoiding putting their uncouth neighbours in the box seat to take glory, but standards, alas, are not what they were. There’s no pride any more, dearest Lucy. Never mind all the deaths and that, it’s precisely this sort of thing that’s sending us to hell in a handbag.

That and small children offering free lemonade to passers by on hot July afternoons, obviously. The traitors.

So instead, without any sense of decorum or appreciation for the way things should be, Radyukevich went to the TSS full of hope and promptly won. A fine display from an increasingly confident Cockburn Wu (and, to be fair, it’s hard not to end up a self-assured young man if you’re prepared to keep that Christian name and both a) be a goalkeeper, and b) pretend that it’s pronounced Co-burn) kept out Fahmi Hamizi, along with an excellent stand-in performance from Sergio Bianchi in place of Shannon, and a couple of smart counters involving bloody loads of irritatingly grinning Krytenians ended with the five thousand year-old, there I said it, nyaaah Narquelie putting away a brace of nice finishes.

And that twas a result that shakes things up a bit all round for, with Caires Sports well beaten in Hoxton, Radyukevich moved into the top four. Not that it really matters a jot, meanwhile, but Tenderville moved up into fifth after a late victory over the poor old GIZ (five points above the relegation zone… don’t count it out), while the Marbles stay just about in touch with the following pack after twice coming back from behind to win in Bove.

AFC MN Smith 2-3 El din Marbles (González og 39, Vine 60; Nixon 49 and 62, Hastings 64)
Albrecht FC 0-2 Radyukevich CSC (Narquelie 35 and 90+1)
Albrecht Turkish 3-1 Caires Sports (Calabrese 3, Randjelovic 27, Patris and Bavent 51; Wilson 70)
Caires City 2-2 Arrigo Portuguese (Agostinho 10, Masters 78; Ramón 19, Castro 49)
Cathedral City 3-2 NAPPC (Delara 24 and 59, Castillo 82; Ellad 30 and 40)
KT Hotspur 0-1 McDonald SC (Subudhi 70)
Mayo Valley 2-2 Marquez-Onwere (Sheppard 28, Warren 36; Van Dyke 30, Riesgo 60)
Port of Clotaire 3-1 Turks’ Club (Hamblett 40 and 70 and 77; Wetl 9)
Tenderville United 3-2 Green Island (Grinius og 28, Douglas 42, Van Braam 90+2; Robertson 9 and 75)

CMS Cup Quarter-Finals… Well, if Green Island are going to get a boost from anything before the season’s out, this should help – a five-two win, albeit at lower-league opposition, to book their place in the last four.

They join Albrecht FC, whose jamminess in this year’s competition continued when they drew Castillo FC from the pot, Portuguese and, just about, the PoC.

And no doubt all those games, including a couple of replays, were all very exciting for those who turned up. Lots of goals, certainly. But it’s still only the cup…

ONWARD!

Port of Clotaire 2-2 El din Marbles (Hastings og 6 and og 78; Pavoni 88, Jiménez 90+1)
~ Replay: El din Marbles 1-1 Port of Clotaire (1-1 AET) (Port of Clotaire wins 2-0 on penalty kicks) (Macanás 16; Ó Lorcáin 12)
Castillo FC 1-2 Albrecht FC (Márquez 54; St. Louis 23, Nakatsuru 57)
Caires Sports 2-2 Arrigo Portuguese (J’dankor 8, T’saar 54; Ramón 2, Anderson 23)
~ Replay: Arrigo Portuguese 2-0 Caires Sports (Gómez 58, Anderson 65)
Albrecht Independent FC 2-5 Green Island (Hitchens 10, Noble 80; Whistler 2, t’son o’Henry 12, Pond 24, Clayton 50, Kūks 83)

[Candelaria And Marquez]

LOCUST Football Championship [Pre-IUCC 29]



Albrecht Conference

 Pos  Team                                   P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  New Hall, Albrecht                    30  21   5   4   62   26   36   68*
   2  Liverpool Hills Girls Grammar School  30  18   6   6   67   41   26   60*
   3  People’s College, Albrecht            30  15   7   8   53   34   19   52*
   4  St. Mary’s College, Albrecht          30  15   7   8   54   44   10   52
   5  Bove University                       30  15   6   9   67   42   25   51
   6  University College, Albrecht          30  16   3  11   44   38    6   51
   7  Gifton College, Albrecht              30  11  10   9   41   41    0   43
   8  McMillan Institute of Technology      30  11   6  13   34   40   -6   39
   9  Royal College of Albrecht             30  11   5  14   51   58   -7   38
  10  National College of Medicine          30  10   6  14   40   44   -4   36
  11  Mathieu’s College, Albrecht           30  11   3  16   37   53  -16   36
  12  University of Lexaton                 30   8  10  12   28   39  -11   34
  13  Rupert Haining College, Albrecht      30   8   9  13   25   39  -14   33
  14  New College, Albrecht                 30   5  11  14   32   45  -13   26
  15  Lippey University                     30   5  10  15   24   49  -25   25
  16  Hoxton University of Technology       30   7   2  21   24   50  -26   23

Arrigo Conference

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Arrigo Harbour, UIGA      20  11   7   2   43   29   14   40*
   2  Arrigo Polytechnic        20   9   5   6   34   27    7   32*
   3  Ciudad Española, UIGA     20   7   5   8   35   27    8   26
   4  Lalla Bay University      20   7   5   8   25   33   -8   26
   5  Rasgones del Ángel, UIGA  20   5   9   6   24   28   -4   24
   6  El Matthews, UIGA         20   3   5  12   18   35  -17   14

Onwere Conference

 Pos  Team                                  P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Onwere University College of Arts    18  10   1   7   38   25   13   31*
   2  Royal College, Onwere University     18   6   6   6   19   26   -7   24*
   3  Onwere University Political College  18   6   5   7   25   25    0   23
   4  Onwere Johnson College               18   6   4   8   23   29   -6   22

North Candelaria Conference

 Pos  Team                                    P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Gassett College of Sports Development  18  10   5   3   36   16   20   35*
   2  University of Saurin                   18  11   2   5   34   24   10   35*
   3  University of Webley                   18   9   4   5   28   17   11   31*
   4  Caires Metropolitan University         18   9   3   6   28   20    8   30
   5  C&M Open University [Wikeley]          18   8   4   6   29   21    8   28
   6  Carpenter University-College           18   6   7   5   14   16   -2   25
   7  Candelaria Teaching College            18   6   4   8   14   23   -9   22
   8  Clotaire School of Arts & Science      18   4   7   7   20   24   -4   19
   9  East Roma Community College            18   3   3  12   17   42  -25   12
  10  Khatib William Collins University      18   2   5  11   13   30  -17   11

South Candelaria Conference

 Pos  Team                                          P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  National Maritime Warfare School             18  10   6   2   27   15   12   36*
   2  University of Vo                             18  11   2   5   27   18    9   35*
   3  Allemali University                          18   8   6   4   14   11    3   30*
   4  Orchard College of Learning                  18   8   4   6   18   17    1   28
   5  Brayton & Darby College of Higher Education  18   7   6   5   21   17    4   27
   6  Pearson Hills School of Art & Science        18   7   4   7   19   20   -1   25
   7  LSBSCD, USEC                                 18   5   5   8   13   15   -2   20
   8  Preece Institute for Research Science        18   5   2  11   15   23   -8   17
   9  Catherin College                             18   2   8   8   10   17   -7   14
  10  Hanlon Institute of Higher Education         18   3   5  10   15   26  -11   14

Marquez & the Outliers Conference

 Pos  Team                                   P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Universidad de Melin                  18  12   4   2   27   13   14   40*
   2  Universidad de Castillo               18  10   3   5   23   12   11   33*
   3  National Institute for Stellar Study  18   9   4   5   25   19    6   31*
   4  Zapata School of Tertiary Education   18   8   6   4   28   19    9   30
   5  University of El din                  18   7   6   5   28   21    7   27
   6  University of Sloane                  18   5   5   8   23   23    0   20
   7  Evreten Plas o’ Ssotapel              18   5   4   9   24   36  -12   19
   8  Catholic University of Pastrana       18   4   5   9   15   26  -11   17
   9  Universidad de Chapon                 18   4   4  10   24   36  -12   16
  10  Instituto Tecnológico de Nader        18   3   5  10   16   28  -12   14

Knockout Stages

First Round
Universidad de Melin 1-0 Arrigo Polytechnic
Liverpool Hills Girls Grammar School 1-1 National Institute for Stellar Study (2-2 AET) (National Institute for Stellar Study wins 4-2 on penalty kicks)
Gassett College of Sports Development 2-1 Allemali University
University of Vo 0-1 University of Saurin
Onwere University College of Arts 0-1 Universidad de Castillo
Arrigo Harbour, UIGA 3-0 University of Webley
New Hall, Albrecht 2-0 Royal College, Onwere University
National Maritime Warfare School 2-0 People’s College, Albrecht

Quarter-Finals
Arrigo Harbour, UIGA 1-0 National Institute for Stellar Study
National Institute for Stellar Study 2-1 Arrigo Harbour, UIGA (3-1 AET)
Aggregate: Arrigo Harbour, UIGA 2-3 National Institute for Stellar Study

Universidad de Melin 3-1 New Hall, Albrecht
New Hall, Albrecht 2-1 Universidad de Melin
Aggregate: Universidad de Melin 4-3 New Hall, Albrecht

Universidad de Castillo 0-1 Gassett College of Sports Development
Gassett College of Sports Development 1-0 Universidad de Castillo
Aggregate: Universidad de Castillo 0-2 Gassett College of Sports Development

University of Saurin 2-0 National Maritime Warfare School
National Maritime Warfare School 1-0 University of Saurin
Aggregate: University of Saurin 2-1 National Maritime Warfare School

Semi-Finals
National Institute for Stellar Study 0-0 Universidad de Melin
Universidad de Melin 2-1 National Institute for Stellar Study
Aggregate: National Institute for Stellar Study 1-2 Universidad de Melin

Gassett College of Sports Development 4-3 University of Saurin
University of Saurin 0-0 Gassett College of Sports Development
Aggregate: Gassett College of Sports Development 4-3 University of Saurin

Grand Final

Universidad de Melin 1-1 Gassett College of Sports Development (1-1 AET) (Gassett College of Sports Development wins 4-3 on penalty kicks)

Third-Place Play-Off

National Institute for Stellar Study 3-1 University of Saurin

IUCC29 Qualification

1) Gassett College of Sports Development
2) Universidad de Melin
3) National Institute for Stellar Study

[Krytenia]

SEASON THREE: SOME BIG TRANSFER NEWS

"He may be a cock, but he's our cock"
Yes, ladies and gents, Ousevale Borough have parted with the (surprisingly small) sum of ten million argentals to wrest Valrauncion from Soldarian FC of Valanora; the transfer will take place at the end of the current EPL season, and in time for the new season of the Liga Calania.

Espy to Jhanna?
Rumours abound that another Valanoran, Espy va Drake, is on his way to the Liga to wear the red of Iskara Daii. The Starblaydi club is expected to have to compete with Nethertopian heavyweights Tenderville United to grab that particular signature, though.

[The Babbage Islands]

FFB Premier League Season 30

It only took two seasons at the top level for Belgium FC's international stars to claim a Premier League banner for owners Chip and Kirsten Woods. They won the league by eight points over Dover City, who claimed the second TQCC berth. Globe Cup slots went to last season's champions Greenville Rovers and a game Wye Celtic eleven that have finished third or fourth every season since promotion but haven't broken through to the Champions' Cup yet.

Allison Salamida, goalkeeper for Belgium FC and the two time World Cup champions from Cassadaigua, was a near-unanimous first choice as Most Valuable player. Top scorer honours were divided between midfielder Kelli Alder of Belgium and veteran striker Qiao Zhibang of Dover City. The Rookie of the Year honour was claimed by 19-year-old defender Ronald Dennis of OGC Nancy.

FFB Premier League Season 30

    Team                       P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Belgium FC                30  18   9   3  64  29  +35  63
  2 Dover City                30  16   7   7  57  35  +22  55
  3 Greenville Rovers         30  14   9   7  45  29  +16  51
  4 Wye Celtic                30  13   8   9  42  30  +12  47
  5 Capital AC                30  12   9   9  35  29   +6  45
  6 Southland FC              30  11  10   9  34  33   +1  43
  7 OGC Nancy                 30   9  14   7  28  24   +4  41
  8 Viktoria Baden            30   9  11  10  38  39   -1  38
  9 Real Santa Catalina       30   8  13   9  17  24   -7  37
 10 South Side AC             30   8  11  11  33  39   -6  35
 11 FK Maribor                30   9   6  15  29  45  -16  33
 12 Cardiff FC                30   8   9  13  38  47   -9  33
 13 Four Towers               30   8   9  13  24  35  -11  33
 14 Bloomfield National       30   8   9  13  46  46   +0  33
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 15 West Scoville Tigers      30   7   9  14  27  47  -20  30
 16 Red Devils FC             30   7   7  16  30  56  -26  28

FFB Championship Series Season 30

Led by the dominating performance of strikers Lambert Stetter and Karl Snorrasson, Lehi FC cruised to their first-ever promotion to the Premier League. They stood six points clear of Gernsback United in second with a superb +37 goal differential over 30 matches.

FFB Championship Series Season 30

    Team                         P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Lehi FC                     30  18   6   6  66  29  +37  60
  2 Gernsback United            30  17   3  10  56  47   +9  54
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  3 West Scoville Athletic      30  16   4  10  29  20   +9  52
  4 Real Valencia               30  12  10   8  33  27   +6  46
  5 Windsor FC                  30  13   7  10  42  43   -1  46
  6 Blue Ridge FC               30  12   9   9  28  23   +5  45
  7 Great Falls Cymru           30  12   8  10  30  31   -1  44
  8 Charleston FC               30  12   6  12  44  36   +8  42
  9 North Fork FC               30  11   8  11  38  36   +2  41
 10 Sporting Boulder            30  11   8  11  48  38  +10  41
 11 The Orange                  30  10   7  13  39  45   -6  37
 12 Forest Park Rangers         30   9   8  13  35  47  -12  35
 13 FC Green Star               30   7  11  12  30  46  -16  32
 14 Parisian                    30   9   3  18  22  39  -17  30
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 15 FK Tesla                    30   8   6  16  27  47  -20  30
 16 Dover FC                    30   7   8  15  24  37  -13  29

UICA Tournament Berths:
TQCC: Belgium FC, Dover City.
Globe Cup: Real Santa Catalina (Islands Cup holders), Greenville Rovers, Wye Celtic.
Series B Champions Cup: Lehi FC, Gernsback United, West Scoville Athletic, Real Valencia.

CSBCC Venue Nomination: The U.F.O. (Universal Football Oval) in Cardston, Gibson, bids to host the Chronowire Series B Champions' Cup final. An all-seater, retractable-roof stadium seating nearly 40,000, The U.F.O. is justly famed for its combination of futuristic styling and outstanding amenities.

FFB Second Series Season 30

A quiet season in the Second Series was nonetheless decided on the final round of play, with Handcarters squeezing past Baden 98 with a 1-0 away win at Centralia whilst The 98 were held to one point by Fylkir.

FFB Second Series Season 30

    Team                        P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Handcarters                30  16   8   6  34  20  +14  56
  2 Baden 98                   30  16   7   7  36  22  +14  55
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  3 Fylkir                     30  14   9   7  34  31   +3  51
  4 FK Verdurbo                30  15   4  11  39  34   +5  49
  5 Tardis FC                  30  13  10   7  40  29  +11  49
  6 Brigham City Pioneers      30  12  11   7  49  28  +21  47
  7 Cardston FC                30  13   7  10  37  31   +6  46
  8 Gimnastic                  30  12   7  11  38  29   +9  43
  9 Xianggang FK               30   9  10  11  25  26   -1  37
 10 AC Santa Catalina          30   9  10  11  23  27   -4  37
 11 Charleston United          30   7  15   8  21  23   -2  36
 12 Centralia FC               30   9   5  16  33  47  -14  32
 13 Moroni Blue                30   8   7  15  31  44  -13  31
 14 Three Rivers Pilots        30   7  10  13  25  39  -14  31
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 15 FK Kabe                    30   6   8  16  20  38  -18  26
 16 Far Point Islanders        30   5  10  15  16  33  -17  25

FFB Third Series Season 30

The story in the Third Series was not so much the victory of Moroni White or the advancement of Futbalo-Libereco, but rather the performance of the four new professional clubs. UMFK finished just two points back of the White and one point away from promoting in their first season of play. Fourth and fifth places were also taken by newcomers Ysbeilwyr Caerdydd and Zarahemla All-Sport.

FFB Third Series Season 30

    Team                      P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts
  1 Moroni White             30  16   7   7  43  27  +16  55
  2 Futbalo-Libereco         30  16   6   8  48  33  +15  54
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  3 UMFK                     30  16   5   9  47  30  +17  53
  4 Ysbeilwyr Caerdydd       30  12  11   7  31  24   +7  47
  5 Zarahemla All-Sport      30  13   8   9  34  33   +1  47
  6 Moundsville AC           30  13   6  11  38  39   -1  45
  7 Hooligans                30  12   6  12  32  27   +5  42
  8 SV Knizia                30  11   8  11  21  21   +0  41
  9 Atletico Valencia        30  10  10  10  24  24   +0  40
 10 Wright FC                30  11   7  12  21  24   -3  40
 11 Golden FC                30  10   9  11  31  37   -6  39
 12 AS Paris                 30   9  10  11  22  26   -4  37
 13 La Movado                30   8  10  12  19  22   -3  34
 14 FK Waringhien            30   8   8  14  19  29  -10  32
 15 Longview FC              30   8   6  16  17  32  -15  30
 16 Urbana FC                30   3  11  16  13  32  -19  20

Islands Cup XIX

The nineteenth Islands Cup, first to feature no byes and no home-pitch preferences, delivered a fair share of upsets en route to a final matching traditional contenders.

Real Santa Catalina won their second straight Cup after a thrilling 1-0 victory over Wye Celtic. Both clubs reached the final after being pressed to extra time (and penalty kicks in Real's case) in the semifinal matches.

The first round saw Premier League top three Belgium FC, Dover City, and Greenville Rovers all sent packing by unheralded sides. Yet by the time of the quarterfinals form had again started to take hold, with four Premier League clubs vanquishing four upstarts in that stage.

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Islands Cup XIX (after season 30)

Opening Round

Zarahemla All-Sport 0-2 Wye Celtic
FK Kabe 1-0 Handcarters
Golden FC 0-1 Dover FC
West Scoville Athletic 0-1 Wright FC
Urbana FC 1-0 Southland FC
Great Falls Cymru 1-0 Viktoria Baden
Real Santa Catalina 2-1 Red Devils FC
Moundsville AC 1-2 La Movado
Tardis FC 1-0 Windsor FC
Moroni White 0-1 SV Knizia
Three Rivers Pilots 1-0 Charleston United
Ysbeilwyr Caerdydd 1-3 Fylkir
FC Green Star 1-1 Far Point Islanders (1-1 AET, 3-5 PKs)
Hooligans 1-2 Lehi FC
Xianggang FK 1-0 Belgium FC
Four Towers 1-0 Baden 98
Charleston FC 0-2 Atletico Valencia
West Scoville Tigers 0-0 AS Paris (1-0 AET)
OGC Nancy 2-0 Gernsback United
FK Waringhien 0-2 Bloomfield National
Brigham City Pioneers 1-2 The Orange
Dover City 1-3 AC Santa Catalina
Futbalo-Libereco 1-4 UMFK
Longview FC 3-1 FK Maribor
Centralia FC 0-2 South Side AC
Gimnastic 2-1 Capital AC
Moroni Blue 0-3 Forest Park Rangers
North Fork FC 2-2 FK Tesla (3-2 AET)
Greenville Rovers 1-1 Blue Ridge FC (1-1 AET, 0-3 PKs)
Cardston FC 0-3 Cardiff FC
Real Valencia 1-3 Sporting Boulder
Parisian 0-2 FK Verdurbo

Round of 32

Four Towers 1-0 Far Point Islanders
Wright FC 1-0 Urbana FC
South Side AC 2-2 Wye Celtic (2-3 AET)
Blue Ridge FC 2-0 UMFK
Forest Park Rangers 1-4 Tardis FC
Lehi FC 2-0 Three Rivers Pilots
FK Verdurbo 0-2 FK Kabe
Bloomfield National 1-3 Dover FC
North Fork FC 4-1 The Orange
La Movado 0-1 Real Santa Catalina
Atletico Valencia 1-0 Gimnastic
Fylkir 3-3 Great Falls Cymru (3-3 AET, 3-2 PKs)
Longview FC 0-0 OGC Nancy (0-1 AET)
West Scoville Tigers 1-0 AC Santa Catalina
Cardiff FC 0-0 Xianggang FK (1-1 AET, 0-3 PKs)
SV Knizia 1-1 Sporting Boulder (1-2 AET)

Round of 16

North Fork FC 3-3 Wright FC (5-3 AET)
Wye Celtic 1-0 OGC Nancy
Dover FC 1-1 Tardis FC (1-1 AET, 1-0 PKs)
Blue Ridge FC 1-0 Atletico Valencia
Xianggang FK 0-2 Sporting Boulder
Lehi FC 0-1 West Scoville Tigers
Four Towers 1-1 FK Kabe (1-1 AET, 4-1 PKs)
Real Santa Catalina 1-1 Fylkir (2-1 AET)

Quarterfinals

Four Towers 3-1 Sporting Boulder
Dover FC 0-1 Real Santa Catalina
West Scoville Tigers 1-0 Blue Ridge FC
Wye Celtic 2-1 North Fork FC

Semifinals

Wye Celtic 0-0 Four Towers (1-0 AET)
Real Santa Catalina 1-1 West Scoville Tigers (1-1 AET, 2-1 PKs)

Final

Real Santa Catalina 1-0 Wye Celtic

(OOC: Domestic league scheduling runs on a RL calendar not synced to the international season.)

[Delaclava]

For the first time ever, Delaclava is entering teams into the IUCC competitions! Here, the final 16 round and onward are shown, of the DNAA tournament.

Round of 16
(1) University of Catherina 1-1 (16) Zombaan University (1-1 agg)
(16) Zombaan University 0-5 (1) University of Catherina (1-6 agg)

(8) Arana State University 1-1 (9) Irisbenis State University (1-1 agg)
(9) Irisbenis State University 0-0 (8) Arana State University (0-0 AET, 1-1 agg, 1-3 PKs)

(4) Columbia University 0-1 (13) Quinniville Institute of Technology (0-1 agg)
(13) Quinniville Institute of Technology 0-0 (4) Columbia University (1-0 agg)

(5) Fanuk College 2-0 (12) Hatcher College (2-0 agg)
(12) Hatcher College 3-1 (5) Fanuk College (3-1 AET, 3-3 agg, 0-3 PKs)

(3) St. James University 6-1 (14) Laurelum University (6-1 agg)
(14) Laurelum University 0-2 (3) St. James University (1-8 agg)

(6) Sterlington University 3-1 (11) Straka State University (3-1 agg)
(11) Straka State University 1-2 (6) Sterlington University (2-5 agg)

(7) Hess University 0-1 (10) Southern University of Rextaria at Mersatha (0-1 agg)
(10) Southern University of Rextaria at Mersatha 1-0 (7) Hess University (2-0 agg)

(2) Valhalla University 3-1 (15) Baxter University (3-1 agg)
(15) Baxter University 4-3 (2) Valhalla University (5-6 agg)

Quarterfinals
(1) University of Catherina 2-0 (8) Arana State University (2-0 agg)
(8) Arana State University 1-1 (1) University of Catherina (1-3 agg)

(13) Quinniville Institute of Technology 1-1 (5) Fanuk College (1-1 agg)
(5) Fanuk College 1-1 (13) Quinniville Institute of Technology (2-1 AET, 3-2 agg)

(3) St. James University 4-1 (6) Sterlington University (4-1 agg)
(6) Sterlington University 0-1 (3) St. James University (1-5 agg)

(10) Southern University of Rextaria at Mersatha 3-2 (2) Valhalla University (3-2 agg)
(2) Valhalla University 1-0 (10) Southern University of Rextaria at Mersatha (2-0 AET, 4-3 agg)

Semifinals
(1) University of Catherina 5-0 (5) Fanuk College (5-0 agg)
(5) Fanuk College 2-5 (1) University of Catherina (2-10 agg)

(3) St. James University 0-5 (2) Valhalla University (0-5 agg)
(2) Valhalla University 1-1 (3) St. James University (6-1 agg)

3rd Place Playoff
(5) Fanuk College 0-2 (3) St. James University

Finals
(1) University of Catherina 5-2 (2) Valhalla University

University of Catherina, Valhalla University, and St. James University are chosen to represent Delaclava at the next IUCC competition.

[Krytenia]

SEASON THREE: PART ONE

And so, here we go. Thirty teams means twelve more weeks to the season, and a whole new bevy of confusingness when it comes to determining the UICA spots. Thanks, Jesselton FA.

Anyhoo, without further ado, here's...

Matchday One
Ah, now there's some familiarity amongst all the newly new newness. Ousevale Borough smashing the tar out of someone. Step forward hapless Hallad Reavers, blasted aside 5-1. OK, so there's still another 171 points to play for, but still, it's nice to start properly. Yes, Telecontarë, I'm looking at you.

Results:
Avidia United 0-0 Putatan
Beckton Supermarine 2-1 Kolombong
Caledon Simpson 0-2 Sembulan
Casuals Osteria 1-1 Likas
Caversham 1-1 Inanam
Cedrus Soundgardia 0-0 Kepayan
Corinthian Spirits 1-0 Telecontarë
Emberton Reds 4-3 Tabeck FC
FC Farça 0-1 Stanton Town
Foxchester Raiders 3-1 Royal Emberton
Hallad Reavers 1-5 Ousevale Borough
Internashionale 1-1 Bradwell Saints
Iskara Daii 1-1 New Cefn Albion
Jhanna City 2-1 Beverington Hawks
Malta Lines 0-1 Mercia Bromham

Matchday Two
Ousevale go nap for the second time in a row, as Messrs Willem, Ireland, and the somehow-getting-the-fans-to-warm-to-him Valrauncion fill their boots against a woefully bad Farça. Mercia Bromham make the Daii look like amateurs, and Sembulan lead the southern charge in fourth place after beating the Eagles. So much for the Jesseltonian sides being "a bit off this level".

Results:
Beverington Hawks 1-0 Internashionale
Bradwell Saints 1-4 Foxchester Raiders
Kepayan 5-1 Caledon Simpson
Kolombong 2-1 Inanam
Likas 0-1 Beckton Supermarine
Malta Lines 2-0 Jhanna City
Mercia Bromham 4-0 Iskara Daii
New Cefn Albion 1-0 Hallad Reavers
Ousevale Borough 5-0 FC Farça
Royal Emberton 2-2 Emberton Reds
Putatan 0-1 Caversham
Sembulan 2-0 Avidia United
Stanton Town 0-2 Corinthian Spirits
Tabeck FC 2-0 Cedrus Soundgardia
Telecontarë 1-0 Casuals Osteria

Matchday Three
Well, that's me shut up then. Again. Ousevale fail to net five the one time they need to, and in a sudden burst of Takilan Chaos Theory go down by the odd goal in nine. Foxchester take no such chances, netting six past Beverington without reply, and the Raiders go top. Mercia and Corinthian Spirits, meanwhile, keep up their 100% records, and Caversham beat fellow new boys Kolombong to rise to the heady heights of seventh.

Results:
Avidia United 2-4 Kepayan
Beckton Supermarine 1-1 Telecontarë
Caledon Simpson 0-1 Tabeck FC
Casuals Osteria 2-2 Stanton Town
Caversham 2-0 Kolombong
Cedrus Soundgardia 1-3 Royal Emberton
Corinthian Spirits 5-4 Ousevale Borough
Emberton Reds 3-0 Bradwell Saints
FC Farça 0-1 New Cefn Albion
Foxchester Raiders 6-0 Beverington Hawks
Hallad Reavers 0-4 Mercia Bromham
Inanam 1-1 Likas
Internashionale 2-0 Malta Lines
Iskara Daii 4-1 Jhanna City
Putatan 2-2 Sembulan

Matchday Four
Foxchester win their match, but lose their lead, as their one-nil victory over the notoriously stingy Malta Lines is counteracted by Mercia nabbing a septet against the quite literally pointless FC Farça. Oh, to be a Midlander...

Elsewhere, normal service is resumed as Ousevale score five and win handsomely, whilst the Spirits' win over New Cefn ensures there's still three teams on maximum points.

Results:
Beverington Hawks 1-3 Emberton Reds
Bradwell Saints 0-1 Cedrus Soundgardia
Iskara Daii 4-0 Internashionale
Jhanna City 1-2 Hallad Reavers
Kepayan 4-1 Putatan
Likas 1-2 Kolombong
Malta Lines 0-1 Foxchester Raiders
Mercia Bromham 7-0 FC Farça
New Cefn Albion 1-3 Corinthian Spirits
Ousevale Borough 5-0 Casuals Osteria
Royal Emberton 0-1 Caledon Simpson
Sembulan 0-1 Caversham
Stanton Town 1-0 Beckton Supermarine
Tabeck FC 1-1 Avidia United
Telecontarë 3-0 Inanam

Matchday Five
I hereby claim today to be "Starblaydi Choke Day". Corinthian Spirits didn't so much lose their 100% record as have it robbed from them and then set fire to whilst they stood helpless. OK, so you were playing Mercia Bromham, but...seven-one?!?

Foxchester also whimpered to a heavy defeat, and the team in second is...now, this can't be right...

...dear God, it is right. It's Kepayan, who beat Sembulan two-nil to keep ahead of Emberton Reds on goal difference.

Results:
Avidia United 1-2 Royal Emberton
Beckton Supermarine 1-3 Ousevale Borough
Caledon Simpson 0-1 Bradwell Saints
Casuals Osteria 2-1 New Cefn Albion
Caversham 1-1 Likas
Cedrus Soundgardia 3-1 Beverington Hawks
Corinthian Spirits 1-7 Mercia Bromham
Emberton Reds 2-1 Malta Lines
FC Farça 0-5 Jhanna City
Foxchester Raiders 1-4 Iskara Daii
Hallad Reavers 0-2 Internashionale
Inanam 2-2 Stanton Town
Kolombong 0-4 Telecontarë
Putatan 0-2 Tabeck FC
Sembulan 0-2 Kepayan

Matchday Six
The usual suspects (and Kepayan) are all making their way towards the top end of the table...except Iskara Daii, who lost their consistency sometime around the middle of Season One and are still looking for it. A four-one mullering at the hands of Emberton Reds keeps them tenth, whilst Kepayan and Mercia Bromham both win at a canter to keep the top three as is.

Results:
Beverington Hawks 3-0 Caledon Simpson
Bradwell Saints 1-1 Avidia United
Hallad Reavers 3-2 Foxchester Raiders
Internashionale 2-0 FC Farça
Iskara Daii 1-4 Emberton Reds
Jhanna City 1-2 Corinthian Spirits
Kepayan 2-0 Caversham
Malta Lines 2-0 Cedrus Soundgardia
Mercia Bromham 5-1 Casuals Osteria
New Cefn Albion 2-0 Beckton Supermarine
Ousevale Borough 12-0 Inanam
Royal Emberton 3-1 Putatan
Stanton Town 1-0 Kolombong
Tabeck FC 1-2 Sembulan
Telecontarë 1-0 Likas

Matchday Seven
OK, this season is officially crazy. Farça, after six defeats on the bounce, suddenly remember how to play football, and win. By a mile. On the wrong end of a four-nil beating are Foxchester, who did lead the table a few weeks ago, and now it's Putatan on the bottom. Still, could be worse; Kolombong hosted the Tigers, and shipped nine as Ousevale bounced up to third.

The Reds slip from third to fifth after losing to Hallad - Hallad! - five-two, whilst Kepayan and Mercia both win and let the teams behind squabble amongst themselves.

Results:
Avidia United 1-3 Beverington Hawks
Beckton Supermarine 0-2 Mercia Bromham
Caledon Simpson 0-1 Malta Lines
Casuals Osteria 2-0 Jhanna City
Caversham 1-1 Telecontarë
Cedrus Soundgardia 0-5 Iskara Daii
Corinthian Spirits 3-1 Internashionale
Emberton Reds 2-5 Hallad Reavers
FC Farça 4-0 Foxchester Raiders
Kepayan 3-1 Tabeck FC
Kolombong 0-9 Ousevale Borough
Inanam 0-0 New Cefn Albion
Likas 1-0 Stanton Town
Putatan 1-2 Bradwell Saints
Sembulan 0-0 Royal Emberton

Matchday Eight
Right-o. Flat matchday this, with Mercia winning, Kepayan also winning (at the Isserson, no less!) and Ousevale laying waste to another defence without climbing above third (this week: Likas).

Still, there's FC Farça to surprise us. Fresh from a win against the Raiders, it's a creditable draw against the Reds. Fan-dabby-bloody-dozie.

Results:
Beverington Hawks 0-0 Putatan
Bradwell Saints 1-2 Sembulan
FC Farça 2-2 Emberton Reds
Foxchester Raiders 4-1 Corinthian Spirits
Hallad Reavers 2-3 Cedrus Soundgardia
Internashionale 1-5 Casuals Osteria
Iskara Daii 2-0 Caledon Simpson
Jhanna City 1-0 Beckton Supermarine
Malta Lines 0-2 Avidia United
Mercia Bromham 3-0 Inanam
New Cefn Albion 5-1 Kolombong
Ousevale Borough 7-1 Likas
Royal Emberton 0-2 Kepayan
Stanton Town 2-3 Telecontarë
Tabeck FC 3-0 Caversham

Matchday Nine
Telecontarë. Conspicuous so far by their absence from the top three...but maybe a change is in the air. Valrauncion came to his old club for the first time in the white of Ousevale, but the man with 4 on his back could not inspire three points for the Tigers, and two points dropped. Kepayan took full advantage against Bradwell, Mercia mulched Kolombong, and the gap yawns open just that bit wider.

Results:
Avidia United 0-5 Iskara Daii
Beckton Supermarine 2-0 Internashionale
Caledon Simpson 1-1 Hallad Reavers
Casuals Osteria 0-1 Foxchester Raiders
Caversham 1-0 Stanton Town
Cedrus Soundgardia 1-0 FC Farça
Corinthian Spirits 1-4 Emberton Reds
Inanam 2-1 Jhanna City
Kepayan 3-1 Bradwell Saints
Kolombong 1-7 Mercia Bromham
Likas 2-1 New Cefn Albion
Putatan 1-0 Malta Lines
Sembulan 1-2 Beverington Hawks
Tabeck FC 0-2 Royal Emberton
Telecontarë 1-1 Ousevale Borough

Matchday 10
And it's a perfect ten from Mercia, as they get thirty points out of thirty with victory over Likas. The surprise, though, is they are only two points clear at the top; Kepayan are also still unbeaten, with only one draw blotting their copybook. Beverington Hawks were their latest victims. Sembulan, meanhile, may have dipped to twelfth, but are still six points clear in the race for a Globe Cup spot thanks to Kepayan's top three position.

Results:
Beverington Hawks 0-2 Kepayan
Bradwell Saints 3-2 Tabeck FC
Corinthian Spirits 2-6 Cedrus Soundgardia
Emberton Reds 2-1 Casuals Osteria
FC Farça 2-1 Caledon Simpson
Foxchester Raiders 0-1 Beckton Supermarine
Hallad Reavers 1-1 Avidia United
Internashionale 1-0 Inanam
Iskara Daii 6-1 Putatan
Jhanna City 3-1 Kolombong
Malta Lines 0-0 Sembulan
Mercia Bromham 4-1 Likas
New Cefn Albion 3-2 Telecontarë
Ousevale Borough 4-1 Stanton Town
Royal Emberton 0-1 Caversham

Current table and provisional UICA positions:

Team                     P  W  D  L For  Ag  +/- Pts
 1 Mercia Bromham          10 10  0  0  44   4  +40  30
 2 Kepayan                 10  9  1  0  27   6  +21  28
 3 Ousevale Borough        10  8  1  1  55  10  +45  25
 4 Emberton Reds           10  7  2  1  28  17  +11  23
 5 Iskara Daii             10  7  1  2  32  12  +20  22
 6 Telecontarë             10  5  3  2  17   9   +8  18
 7 Foxchester Raiders      10  6  0  4  22  15   +7  18
 8 Caversham               10  5  3  2   9   8   +1  18
 9 Corinthian Spirits      10  6  0  4  21  28   -7  18
10 New Cefn Albion         10  5  2  3  16  11   +5  17
11 Cedrus Soundgardia      10  5  1  4  15  17   -2  16
12 Sembulan                10  4  3  3  11   9   +2  15
13 Royal Emberton          10  4  2  4  13  12   +1  14
14 Tabeck FC               10  4  1  5  16  15   +1  13
15 Beckton Supermarine     10  4  1  5   8  11   -3  13
16 Beverington Hawks       10  4  1  5  12  18   -6  13
17 Internashionale         10  4  1  5  10  16   -6  13
18 Jhanna City             10  4  0  6  15  16   -1  12
19 Casuals Osteria         10  3  2  5  14  19   -5  11
20 Stanton Town            10  3  2  5  10  15   -5  11
21 Hallad Reavers          10  3  2  5  15  22   -7  11
22 Bradwell Saints         10  3  2  5  11  18   -7  11
23 Malta Lines             10  3  1  6   6   9   -3  10
24 Likas                   10  2  3  5   9  19  -10   9
25 Avidia United           10  1  4  5   9  19  -10   7
26 FC Farça                10  2  1  7   8  25  -17   7
27 Inanam                  10  1  4  5   7  26  -19   7
28 Putatan                 10  1  3  6   7  20  -13   6
29 Kolombong               10  2  0  8   8  35  -27   6
30 Caledon Simpson         10  1  1  8   4  18  -14   4

[Rejistania]

Burns'he: "shi'liley aikee'mee TAHAI!"

The Virabi defender Henry Burns, formerly assigned to the club Brent was signed by the H1SR club TAHAI! for an undisclosed sum of money. The virabi will the the 1st foreign player in the rejistanian leagues since the ASR was refounded. Manager Kansu I Sy was happy that the foreigner decided to take the risk and enter into the nation and the TAHAI! 'story of non-failure'. "I am very hopeful that Burns'he will help us reaching for the title of the league. Our issue was that we lost matches in the defense far too often. Burns'he will help us solve this issue, I am certain."

Others raised the issue how the player will fare in a country where no one speaks his language well and where the culture differs quite a bit from the virabi one. Selit Alax of the radio station Tihire1 predicted the player leaving culture shocked and frustrated about 'these freaky Rejistanis' within 2 months. Burns'he's future teammate Kitila Hsen (not related to the legendary player Kadu) stated that he and the rest of the team was aware of the cultural differences and willing to attempt to bridge them. He also joked that 'we won't sacrifice babies to Karelakansa when it would disturb his sleep.'

The Virabi himself sounded confident and even read rejistanian from a cheatsheet. With rather odd pronunciation but quite understandably: "Xe'isin 'milhan jilih. TAHAI! mi'aru lasane'het dimis. Xe'lelej yri'mi TAHAI!" (I am happy to play here. TAHAI! is an interesting team. I hope for TAHAI!'s success.)

[The Babbage Islands]

It's time for a quick look at some Babbage football action in other parts of the world.

Congratulations to Bumblebee defender Jerry (Jeremy) Kirkpatrick of Dunboor FC on winning the Gold Ball as the top player in the Cafundeu first division! I guess his full name is Jeremy, that's how he's known in Cafundeu. I've always known him as Jerry. Either way he's one tough defender who doesn't always get full credit on the national team with its attacking style. With his club he was dominant enough to get the selectors to look past the scorers for a change. Well done! By the way, Bumblebee manager Ganz Ijak was the first winner of the Gold Ball and the first player to win it twice.

Dunboor lost the league championship final eight to America, who in turn carry two Babbage internationals in their starting 11. Kudos to Orson Cook and Phyllis Reeves on their championship.

It looks like we'll have a presence in Paripana football soon. A Babbage partnership, Paripana Group LLP, put together a bid to form a club in the northern coastal city of Geleling for play in the Paripana Elite League. Although the bid lost out, the partners are still going forward with plans only slightly reduced in scale and Klubo de Akordo will enter play in the Lontorikan association, one of the minor associations in Paripana's complex scheme. The club will probably change its name to something German to better fit in, but that has not yet been confirmed.

A number of player contracts have been signed, and a new 36,000 seat all-seater is under construction. Some early signings include former Babbage internationals Carson Whittaker and Walt Smith and Sportgirls/Four Towers player Debra Brady. Lead partners include two BX Index listed firms, Grokworks and UBIS, plus the sport management firm I Fotbolta Hlutafelag of Kopavogur. (Disclosure: I own a 1/33rd interest in Paripana Group.)

The UICA tournament fields are starting to fill with hopefuls from all over the world. It looks like The Babbage Islands will send Belgium FC and Dover City to the TakilQuip Champions' Cup and Real Santa Catalina, Greenville Rovers and Wye Celtic to the Globe Cup. I'll be back in the Globe Cup with Clube Comercial, feeling good about our chances to go deep.

Smile!

[Valanora]

Continued from here.

Matchday Thirty-Eight

Hondo gets a consolatory victory but United has already won the title, Quel'Thalas gets a draw and gets relegated, while Kareen gets a point to secure their spot in the next Globe Cup with Mar Sara looking once again to miss out with the now dreaded playoff with Ibini FC coming up. Soldarian will be ruing the Hondo victory as well, with Ibini looking even stronger this season and a legitimate shock to beat the Soldars over two legs and send them to the Globe Cup and Vyinta its' first representative into the TQCC.

Also next season will mark the largest representation of the capital in the topflight, with five teams (Raynor City United, Raynor City FC, Rolalas FC, Soldarian FC, and Turmondale United), with all four current clubs surviving and Raynor City FC making its first ever appearance in the topflight of Elven football.

Hondo FC 1-0 Raynor City United (Hardsworth 51')
Rolalas FC 2-0 Wexax United (Dlartholryl 24' 39')
Quel'Thalas FC 1-1 Club ESF (Dlarlynnas 7'; Soro 39')
Travesian AS 0-2 Soldarian FC (Lemos 30', Zetaback 61')
FC Wexax 1-2 Juavi FC (Rojas 31'; Narésiel 21' 39')
Kareen FC 1-1 FC Therathor (Yrauval 51'; Wildwind 81')
Club Valanora 0-2 FC Capri (Duran 10' 83')
AC Valanari 1-1 Char Sara FC (Eleneth 54'; Cripas 90')
Turmondale United 0-2 SC Rinaldi (Edinho 14' 58')
SC Ianisle 0-2 Mar Sara FC (Peng 12', Zizzn 28')

Premiership Standings

Ps  Team                     P   W   D   L   GF  GA  +/- Pts
  1 Raynor City United      38  22   9   7   91  53  +38  75     Champions
  2 Hondo FC                38  21   8   9  102  54  +48  71     TQCC
  3 Soldarian FC            38  22   4  12   86  59  +27  70     GC
  4 FC Capri                38  21   4  13   87  74  +13  67     GC
  5 Kareen FC               38  17  10  11   49  49   +0  61     GC
  6 Mar Sara FC             38  17   9  12   58  59   -1  60
  7 AC Valanari             38  17   8  13   66  52  +14  59
  8 Club ESF                38  17   8  13   82  68  +14  59
  9 Juavi FC                38  17   7  14   75  69   +6  58
 10 FC Therathor            38  16   8  14   69  65   +4  56
 11 Wexax United            38  15   8  15   65  57   +8  53
 12 FC Wexax                38  12  14  12   53  59   -6  50
 13 Turmondale United       38  11  15  12   37  46   -9  48
 14 Rolalas FC              38  14   5  19   48  68  -20  47
 15 Club Valanora           38  12   8  18   66  84  -18  44
 16 SC Rinaldi              38  11  10  17   52  62  -10  43
 17 SC Ianisle              38  10   8  20   53  81  -28  38
 18 Quel'Thalas FC          38  10   7  21   62  93  -31  37     Relegated
 19 Char Sara FC            38   9   7  22   62  79  -17  34     Relegated
 20 Travesian AS            38   5  11  22   52  84  -32  26     Relegated

Star League Standings

Playoff: Straightdale FC 4-3(0-2) Everlin FC

Ps  Team                    P   W   D   L  GF  GA  +/- Pts
  1 AC Hartdale            38  21   8   9  51  37  +14  71     Champions
  2 Raynor City FC         38  20  10   8  78  50  +28  70     Promoted
  3 Straightdale FC        38  19  11   8  60  36  +24  68     Playoff
  4 Everlin FC             38  18  10  10  60  50  +10  64     Playoff
  5 FC Travesian           38  16  11  11  49  47   +2  59
  6 AS Sharala             38  13  16   9  39  27  +12  55
  7 AC Zul'Atun            38  15  10  13  65  60   +5  55
  8 Vaharia FC             38  15   7  16  66  69   -3  52
  9 Baysleef FC            38  13  11  14  62  56   +6  50
 10 FC Monaven             38  14   8  16  45  46   -1  50
 11 FC Longview            38  13  11  14  53  54   -1  50
 12 Turmondale FC          38  12  13  13  50  46   +4  49
 13 Gladerial United       38  14   7  17  79  80   -1  49
 14 Manavawi Athletic      38  13   9  16  36  37   -1  48
 15 FC Vernad              38  11  15  12  40  44   -4  48
 16 Sharala AC             38  12  11  15  39  44   -5  47
 17 DC Aulian              38  14   2  22  51  63  -12  44
 18 Arouw United           38  11   8  19  30  46  -16  41     Relegated
 19 FC Vamas               38  10  10  18  42  63  -21  40     Relegated
 20 AS Everlin             38  10   4  24  58  98  -40  34     Relegated

Green League Standings

Playoff: Oliviena United 2-0(1-0) AS Soldar

Ps  Team                   P   W   D   L  GF  GA  +/- Pts
  1 AS Zul'Daratar        38  22   6  10  80  56  +24  72     Champions
  2 Turbani FC            38  21   7  10  61  45  +16  70     Promoted
  3 Oliviena United       38  19   9  10  46  31  +15  66     Playoff
  4 AS Soldar             38  19   5  14  59  47  +12  62     Playoff
  5 FC Quel'Mathar        38  18   7  13  66  54  +12  61
  6 Cartmot Pride         38  16   9  13  59  60   -1  57
  7 AC Goldsan            38  16   8  14  68  63   +5  56
  8 AC Cartmot            38  15  11  12  40  37   +3  56
  9 Athletic Rolalas      38  16   7  15  77  55  +22  55
 10 AC Stormguard         38  15   8  15  63  61   +2  53
 11 FC San Diromia        38  15   7  16  67  67   +0  52
 12 Erran FC              38  14  10  14  44  45   -1  52
 13 Bree FC               38  14   9  15  41  45   -4  51
 14 Mar Sara AC           38  12  12  14  73  72   +1  48
 15 RC Rikana             38  13   9  16  53  58   -5  48
 16 Quel'Tir United       38  13   8  17  36  53  -17  47
 17 Char Sara United      38  12   7  19  40  47   -7  43
 18 FC Rosenthal          38  11   9  18  60  76  -16  42     Relegated
 19 FC Silvershire        38  10   7  21  44  71  -27  37     Relegated
 20 RC Durmosa            38   8   7  23  50  84  -34  31     Relegated

Blue League Standings

Playoff: Zul'Daratar FC 1-3(1-1) AS Zul'Atun

Ps  Team                  P   W   D   L  GF  GA  +/- Pts
  1 RC Ispan             38  21   6  11  87  58  +29  69     Champions
  2 AS Char Sara         38  21   5  12  83  60  +23  68     Promoted
  3 Zul'Daratar FC       38  18   9  11  63  62   +1  63     Playoff
  4 AS Zul'Atun          38  17  11  10  61  42  +19  62     Playoff
  5 Ironwind United      38  15  14   9  30  27   +3  59
  6 Arouw FC             38  17   7  14  55  55   +0  58
  7 SC Longview          38  16   9  13  73  57  +16  57
  8 SC Quintal           38  14  11  13  58  59   -1  53
  9 RC Vahama            38  12  15  11  56  48   +8  51
 10 Aras United          38  12  15  11  43  41   +2  51
 11 Zanabia City         38  14   9  15  61  64   -3  51
 12 FC Suax              38  14   8  16  52  55   -3  50
 13 RC Elunita           38  13  10  15  54  60   -6  49
 14 DC Kilai             38  13   8  17  56  55   +1  47
 15 Inter Gladerial      38  12  10  16  60  65   -5  46
 16 SC Soldar            38  13   7  18  56  80  -24  46
 17 Erran United         38  12   8  18  57  79  -22  44
 18 AS Solqual           38  12   7  19  54  68  -14  43     Relegated
 19 AC Rosenthal         38  10  10  18  48  61  -13  40     Relegated
 20 FC Solqual           38   9  11  18  50  61  -11  38     Relegated

Rose League Standings

Playoff: Yolan FC 3-2(1-2) Mar Sara United

Ps  Team                     P   W   D   L  GF  GA  +/- Pts
  1 AS Juavi                38  27   4   7  95  49  +46  85     Champions
  2 Quel'Thalas United      38  19  10   9  69  41  +28  67     Promoted
  3 Yolan FC                38  19   5  14  80  55  +25  62     Playoff
  4 Mar Sara United         38  16  14   8  70  48  +22  62     Playoff
  5 AC Port Swell           38  16  12  10  48  48   +0  60
  6 AS Rikana               38  12  17   9  44  39   +5  53
  7 DC Bree                 38  15   8  15  47  45   +2  53
  8 AS Vaharia              38  13  14  11  42  44   -2  53
  9 AC Jumangas             38  14  11  13  43  48   -5  53
 10 AC Rinaldi              38  15   7  16  54  47   +7  52
 11 Suax United             38  13  11  14  66  71   -5  50
 12 DC Liogan               38  13  10  15  43  49   -6  49
 13 FC Kilai                38  14   7  17  40  49   -9  49
 14 AC Therathor            38  12  11  15  43  54  -11  47
 15 AS Aras                 38  10  14  14  42  53  -11  44
 16 DC Quel'Tir             38  11  11  16  29  45  -16  44
 17 RC Jumangas             38  11  10  17  33  45  -12  43
 18 FC Melikkiaz            38  11   7  20  42  56  -14  40     Relegated
 19 RC Quel'Mathar          38  10   8  20  49  72  -23  38     Relegated
 20 AC Durmosa              38   9   9  20  56  77  -21  36     Relegated

Violet League Standings

Playoff: AS Zul'Atun 4-1(3-1) Monaven United

Ps  Team                 P   W   D   L  GF  GA  +/- Pts
  1 AS Capri            38  23  10   5  63  29  +34  79     Champions
  2 AC Ispan            38  22   9   7  43  22  +21  75     Promoted
  3 AS Zul'Atun         38  20  10   8  57  36  +21  70     Playoff
  4 Monaven United      38  17  14   7  37  20  +17  65     Playoff
  5 Stormguard FC       38  20   5  13  51  38  +13  65
  6 AC Raynor City      38  18   9  11  59  51   +8  63
  7 Valanari FC         38  18   6  14  48  35  +13  60
  8 FC Ispan            38  16  12  10  58  47  +11  60
  9 DC Melikkiaz        38  16   7  15  40  42   -2  55
 10 RC Ianisle          38  14  11  13  41  42   -1  53
 11 RC Liogan           38  13  12  13  38  41   -3  51
 12 AS Quel'Mathar      38  12  10  16  43  45   -2  46
 13 Travesian FC        38  12  10  16  26  37  -11  46
 14 Turbani City        38  10  10  18  34  51  -17  40
 15 AS San Diromia      38  10   9  19  34  48  -14  39
 16 AC Vernad           38   9  12  17  32  53  -21  39
 17 AC Ironwind         38   8  14  16  33  45  -12  38
 18 DC Vamas            38   9   8  21  40  57  -17  35
 19 DC Vaharia          38   9   7  22  36  53  -17  34
 20 Port Swell FC       38   7   9  22  33  54  -21  30

V-League Standings

GC Playoff: Ibini FC 4-1(1-1) Mar Sara FC
TQCC Playoff: Ibini FC 2-1(0-1) Soldarian FC

Ps Team                 P   W   D   L  GF  GA  +/- Pts
 1 Ibini FC            28  17   2   9  55  43  +12  53     Champions
 2 AS Peravova         28  14   4  10  50  44   +6  46
 3 RC Mercanthum       28  10   9   9  27  23   +4  39
 4 AC Asarnova         28  11   6  11  44  46   -2  39
 5 FC Espalya          28  10   6  12  41  40   +1  36
 6 AC Tasmuarand       28   9   7  12  40  41   -1  34
 7 Ursona FC           28   9   7  12  37  45   -8  34
 8 Samarga United      28   6  11  11  38  50  -12  29

End of Season Awards

Manager of the Year
Talfadornen Shatathonel - Kareen FC

Player of the Year
Faeron Soldarian - Raynor City United

Striker of the Year
Aidan Kuu - Raynor City United

Midfielder of the Year
Faeron Soldarian - Raynor City United

Defender of the Year
Lathenbarnen Elensumé - Kareen FC

Best XI
GK: Airdion Orsumé - Kareen FC
CB: Lathenbarnen Elensumé - Kareen FC
CB: Garir Aeravir - Turmondale United
RCB: William Vaughan - Raynor City United
RW: Vincas Taska - Raynor City United
MC: Faeron Soldarian - Raynor City United
AMC: Artulcdhron Zetaback - Soldarian FC
LW: Tanmaeduil Lanethlhûn - Soldarian FC
ST: Lucas Hearts - Hondo FC
ST: Darko Soro - Club ESF
ST: Aidan Kuu - Raynor City United

International Qualifiers
TQCC: Raynor City United, Hondo FC, Ibini FC
GC: Soldarian FC, FC Capri, Kareen FC
AFI: Hondo FC

International Stadia Bids
TQCC: Artani (74,000), Mar Sara, The Battleground (78,000), Raynor City
GC: The White Fortress (70,000), Gladerial
SBCC: Hatire Memorial (60,000), Capri