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[Vephrall]

International University Challenge Championship 27

Welcome to the twenty-seventh edition of the IUCC, the premier tournament for university football teams around the multiverse!

A total of 28 institutions from nine nations were entered into this year's tournament. The top-seeded team from each nation, in addition to defending champions Van Prooijen University, will receive a bye to the group stage. The remaining 18 teams will first participate in the qualifying stage. They will be drawn into six groups of three playing a double round robin; the winner of each group will proceed to the tournament proper, giving us a total of 16 teams. The group stage will consist of four groups of four playing a double round robin. The top two finishers in each group will proceed to the knockout stages.

Please note that there has been a minor adjustment to the ranking formula to accommodate the fact that not all group stages consist of the same number of matches.

Rankings by association prior to IUCC27 (bold = founding member; blue = IUCC27 participant; numbers in parentheses indicate change from previous edition (position, then points)):

1. Candelaria And Marquez - 142 (0/-2)
2. Academy Sporting Association [Paripana] - 138 (0/+8)
3. Vephrall - 115 (+2/-4)
4. Dancougar - 110 (0/-14)
5. Sorthern Northland - 78 (+2/+10)
6. Ad'ihan - 57 (0/-59)
7. West Zirconia - 47 (-4/-78)
8. Taeshan - 31 (0/+3)
9. The Babbage Islands - 6 (0/-16)
10. Unreal229 - 4 (0/-3)
11. Daehanjeiguk - 1.3 (0/-0.6)
12. Balida - 0.9 (0/-0.9)
13. Liventia - 0.05 (0/+0.09)

The qualifying group draw is as follows, with the highest-ranked teams at the top:

Group 1
University of Konila [ASA]
Markham University [WZI]
Saverhampton [TAE]

Group 2
University of Calamen [VPH]
Stanley University [WZI]
Mount Ceabring [TAE]

Group 3
National Maritime Warfare School [CAM]
Technical Institute at Dalinn [ADN]
Folenisa University [LEN]

Group 4
Arrigo Harbour, Universidad Isabela González de Arrigo [CAM]
Universität Heltzburg [SNO]
Sungsan Academy [HAN]

Group 5
Novaria Technical Institute [ASA]
Háskóllin í Vatnajavik [SNO]
Yongsan Academy [HAN]

Group 6
Bektys Technological Institute [VPH]
Stanley College [ADN]
Dover University [LEN]

The following teams have been granted byes to the group stage:

Gifton College, Albrecht University [CAM]
Woodruff Culinary Institute [ASA]
Sumbobor State University [VPH]
Van Prooijen University [ASA] (as defending champions)
Beningrad University of the Bleeding Obvious [SNO]
Technical Institute at Hatton [ADN]
Bradley University [WZI]
Air Force [TAE]
Yeonsei University [HAN]
Pardbo University [LEN]

Qualifying results will be posted Sunday; group stage and knockout results will be posted Monday.

[Commerce Heights]

Twenty-Second TakilQuip Champions’ Cup Final
@ Babel Spiral, Cânyon Abissal, Estresse Intenso

(SRG)               El Nacional  e 1–0    Raynor City United        (ESF)  (0–0 FT)

El Nacional becomes the first Sargossan winner of the TakilQuip Champions’ Cup.

Nineteenth VI Super Cup

(ESF)              Soldarian FC    1–0    AFC MN Smith              (CAM)
(CAM)              AFC MN Smith    1–2    El Nacional               (SRG)
(SRG)               El Nacional    1–2    Soldarian FC              (ESF)

                                    P    W   D   L   GF  GA   GD  Pts
1 Soldarian FC                ESF   2    2   0   0    3   1   +2    6
2 El Nacional                 SRG   2    1   0   1    3   3    0    3
3 AFC MN Smith                CAM   2    0   0   2    1   3   −2    0

Soldarian FC wins its second Super Cup title.

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Updated coëfficients are now available.

As there was no opposition to the change in format for the TakilQuip Champions’ Cup, the entry limits for the next season of UICA competition will be as follows:

TakilQuip Champions’ Cup 23: The number of teams allowed is determined according to league coefficients, with the following distribution:

• Associations ranked 1–3 (Cafundéu, Candelaria And Marquez, and Capitalizt SLANI) are allowed to enter four teams.
• Associations ranked 4–6 (Elves Security Forces, Vephrall, and Jasĭyun) are allowed to enter three teams.
• Associations ranked 7–28 (Ad’ihan, Aguazul, Estresse Intenso, Krytenia, Sargossa, Sorthern Northland, Septentrionia, Dancougar, West Zirconia, Taeshan, Nethertopia, Somewhereistonia, Daehanjeiguk, Pasarga, The Babbage Islands, Osarius, Valladares, The Weegies, Liventia, Queer Poco el Mono Ara, Carpathia and Ruthenia, and Unreal229) are allowed to enter two teams.
• Associations ranked 29 and below, and unranked associations, are allowed to enter one team.
• Special considerations:
  
  • El Nacional is assured a place as the title-holder. If it fails to qualify for one of Sargossa’s two places, Sargossa will be entitled to an additional place.
  • Élite League: Has seven places. Capitalizt SLANI must enter at least three teams, and Jasĭyun at least two.
  • Joint Unified System Trial: Has four places. Ad’ihan and Liventia each must enter at least one team.
  • Liga Calania: Has three places. Krytenia and Starblaydia each must enter at least one team.
  • Rushmore Overseas Football League: Has two places, which must be filled by teams from two separate associations. Nethertopian clubs are ineligible to qualify for the Champions’ Cup through the ROFL.

Globe Cup 20: Every association is allowed to enter three teams. Multiassociational leagues may enter six teams, of which no more than four may be from the same association.
Cygnus Series B Champions’ Cup 20: Every association is allowed to enter four teams. Multiassociational leagues may enter eight teams, of which no more than six may be from the same association.

The following association has failed to meet the requirement for evidence of results generated in the previous season, and must meet that requirement next season in order to enter UICA competitions:

• Kelssek

[Cafundeu]

Forgotten announcement remembered

The organizers of the Globe Cup, too worried with counting the money won during the latest edition of the competition, forgot to make a short announcement about the next edition, one that was already predicted: as the next edition is the 20th one, stadium applications will not be accepted, as the Globe Cup will keep the custom of having its final in Cafundéu each 10 editions. Therefore, the stadium of the next Globe Cup final will be the Maracatuzão, in Dunboor (cap. 135,000).

[Valladares]

Overseas Territories decide to play together. New multiassociational league to be formed.

Metropolis, VALLADARES and Navel Island, WHIRL ISLANDS (VP) - The Overseas Territories of Valladares, whose clubs do not belong to the VFA, have decided to create a regional football league with the blessing and assistance from the Valladar Football Association. This announcement, made in the city of Metropolis after a meeting with VFA autorities and delegates from the respective regional FA's (Whirl Islands, Nileville, Hobbes Citty, Bajo Nuevo and Normandie-Villenueve), was welcomed in the Overseas Territories, with no clubs playing in the valladar league system.

This new multiassociational league will be called the "Valladar Overseas Premier League", and will include twenty clubs from the Whirl Islands (WIFA), Nileville (NFA), Hobbes Citty (FHF), Bajo Nuevo (AFBN) and Normandie-Villenueve (FFNV), all of them Overseas Territories of Valladares. Four teams from every territory will participate in the first edition of this new league. The teams will be divided in four groups of five teams each, every group having one team from every association. In each group, the teams will play against each other twice, and the two teams with the most points in each group at the end of the season will qualify to the final Play-Off.

In the final Play-Off, the qualified teams will be drawn in the quarterfinals according to their place in their group, according to this: A1 vs. D2, B1 vs. C2, C1 vs. B2 and D1 vs. A2. The winners of these matches qualify to play the semi-finals and the final is contested by the winners of the semi-finals. Marcus Trent, High Commissioner of the Valladar Super League, established the following conditions for UICA qualification:

"For effects of UICA qualification for international tournaments and UICA regulations regarding multiassociational leagues, the VOPL would be allowed to enter one team to the TakilQuip Champions' Cup. For the Globe Cup, the VOPL may enter three teams, but the qualifying criteria for this competition have been not decided yet. The VOLC (Valladar Overseas League Commitee) and the VFA have not thought in a entry to the Series B Champions' Cup yet, since the Second Division may be established in the next season, according to the results of this very first experiment."

The Whirl Islands FA chairman, Gerard Montes, applauded the efforts made by the VFA and the FA's from the other Overseas Territories to create this league, and explained why the league was created: "Since we (the Overseas Territories) have separate FA's, our clubs have been not allowed to take part in club competitions of Valladares, despite we are -politically- part of Valladares. This new multiassociational league was created after seeing the success they have had in Paripana, Calania and Adi'han and Liventia. But we also have the need to show our players to the world, and we think the VOPL will help to the overall growth of sport in the Overseas Territories of Valladares. We only hope UICA understand this and welcome us to the international stage."

As said before, twenty clubs from five Overseas Territories will take part in the first edition of the Valladar Overseas Premier League. That said, the following teams will compete in the first edition of the VOPL:

From the Whirl Islands: Navel Sharks, FC Atlantis, Lagoon Red Diamonds and Narissa Dolphins
From Nileville: Serraville United, FC Serraville, Mont-Pluié FC and Georgetown FC
From Hobbes Citty: Castillo FC, Estrella Negra FC, Ivanhia CF and Ciudad Sillenia
From Bajo Nuevo: Port-Vieux FC, PetroVal, Halcones de Maracaibo and Valladar Navy FC
From Normandie-Villenueve: AS Saguenay, Stade Villenueve, Joliette FC and ASB Academy (AS Bezieres' feeder club)

[Toiletdonia]

Looking at the qualification requirements we will change who enters what and how.

Matchday 5
Toileten 2-1 Multon
Dale 3-0 Trioreo Rovers
Vale 0-0 Harbour
Leas 4-0 Lavatorian city
seven united 0-0 Liwilors
Sewermouth 4-2 Areabic Rovers
Leas Uni 2-0 Ale
AFC Vatalors 0-1 Trioreo Town

Matchday 6
Sewermouth 3-3 Toileten
seven united 2-2 Dale
Multon 0-7 Vale
Trioreo Rovers 2-4 Leas
Harbour 1-4 Cordian city rovers
Liwilors 1-1 Leas Uni
Areabic Rovers 2-2 AFC Vatalors
Ale 2-0 Trioreo Town

Matchday 7
Toileten 2-1 AFC Vatalors
Dale 2-3 Leas Uni
Vale 5-0 Sewermouth
Leas 2-2 seven united
Cordian city rovers 0-1 Multon
Lavatorian city 3-1 Trioreo Rovers
Trioreo Town 0-1 Liwilors
Ale 1-4 Areabic Rovers

Matchday 8
Ale 2-1 Toileten
Trioreo Town 1-1 Dale
AFC Vatalors 0-6 Vale
Leas Uni 0-2 Leas
Sewermouth 1-0 Cordian city rovers
seven united 2-2 Lavatorian city
Multon 1-0 Harbour
Liwilors 2-3 Areabic Rovers

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Vale                       7   6   1   0   35    6   29   19 TQCC
   2  Leas                       7   5   2   0   18    7   11   17 GC
   3  Sewermouth                 8   5   2   1   23   16    7   17 GC
   4  Multon                     8   5   0   3    8   11   -3   15 GC 
   5  AFC Vatalors               8   4   1   3   13   13    0   13 
   6  Areabic Rovers             8   3   3   2   20   20    0   12
   7  Leas Uni                   8   3   2   3   11   10    1   11
   8  Liwilors                   8   2   4   2    7    7    0   10
   9  Ale                        8   3   1   4   12   15   -3   10
  10  Dale                       7   2   3   2   13   12    1    9
  11  Lavatorian city            7   2   3   2   14   17   -3    9
  12  Toileten                   7   2   3   2   13   18   -5    9
  13  Cordian city rovers        7   2   2   3   19   16    3    8
  14  seven united               8   0   5   3    9   18   -9    5
  15  Trioreo Town               8   1   2   5    3   13  -10    5
  16  Harbour                    7   0   4   3    6   12   -6    4
  17  Trioreo Rovers             7   0   0   7    7   20  -13    0

Vale take top spot as usual they look set for another winning season and they will celebrate with a mad kit they say. Leas as usual take second place 2 points off top with Sewermouth on equal points but below on goal difference. Harbour in they're first season are 16th and look like they're going back were they came from. Rivals Trioreo Town and Trioreo Rovers both fill the other two places. Seven United teeter on the edge of relegation.

Matchday 5
AFC Mintos 2-0 Mouth city
Westbridge 2-0 Cordian city Athletic
Esto Rovers 2-1 AFC Schoolboys
Burghamton 2-1 North Strip
Lukkia Eastern 1-1 Team Lacot
Limpton 6-3 Moore City
Miloreo Town 0-4 Excritement
Peepeeton 2-1 Hampto Town
Dlesdren 3-2 Lukkia City

Matchday 6
Miloreo Town 1-5 AFC Mintos
Limpton 1-2 Westbridge
Mouth city 4-4 Esto Rovers
Cordian city Athletic 2-3 Burghamton
AFC Schoolboys 2-2 Lukkia Eastern
Team Lacot 2-1 North Strip
Moore City 1-1 Peepeeton
Excritement 3-1 Dlesdren
Hampto Town 3-1 Lukkia City

Matchday 7
AFC Mintos 1-0 Dlesdren
Westbridge 1-4 Peepeeton
Esto Rovers 2-1 Miloreo Town
Burghamton 0-1 Limpton
Lukkia Eastern 4-1 Mouth city
North Strip 0-1 Cordian city Athletic
AFC Schoolboys 1-1 Team Lacot
Lukkia City 3-1 Moore City
Hampto Town 1-1 Excritement

Matchday 8
Hampto Town 1-2 AFC Mintos
Lukkia City 1-2 Westbridge
Dlesdren 3-2 Esto Rovers
Peepeeton 3-0 Burghamton
Miloreo Town 0-0 Lukkia Eastern
Limpton 3-2 North Strip
Mouth city 3-1 AFC Schoolboys
Team Lacot 0-0 Cordian city Athletic
Moore City 4-0 Excritement

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  AFC Mintos                 8   5   2   1   16    8    8   17
   2  Dlesdren                   8   5   1   2   16   11    5   16
   3  Limpton                    8   5   0   3   20   16    4   15
   4  Esto Rovers                8   4   3   1   17   14    3   15
   5  Peepeeton                  8   4   2   2   12    6    6   14
   6  Team Lacot                 8   3   4   1    9    6    3   13
   7  Excritement                8   3   3   2   14   11    3   12
   8  Moore City                 8   3   3   2   20   19    1   12
   9  AFC Schoolboys             8   3   2   3   12   13   -1   11
  10  Mouth city                 8   3   2   3   14   16   -2   11
  11  Burghamton                 8   3   1   4    9   11   -2   10
  12  Westbridge                 8   3   1   4    9   13   -4   10
  13  Miloreo Town               8   3   1   4    7   14   -7   10
  14  Hampto Town                8   2   2   4   12   15   -3    8
  15  Lukkia Eastern             8   1   4   3   10   10    0    7
  16  Lukkia City                8   2   1   5   10   13   -3    7
  17  Cordian city Athletic      8   2   1   5   11   15   -4    7
  18  North Strip                8   1   1   6    9   16   -7    4

5 of the new teams are on the very bottom of the table. At the very top though are several new teams Dlesdren and Esto Rovers are at the very top of the table. This could be the beginning of 2 really good prem teams. Faves to win the title AFC Mintos surprise, surprise are top the table and look like they could be going up.

[Candelaria And Marquez]

Matchday Eighteen… Haloumi, mon braves, and willkommen home to the Clausura stage of CMSC XXXVIII.

It’s been an entertaining week or so since C&M exited the World Cup (and since the general populace in these parts actually found out about it, which came a little later), with much exciting to-ing and fro-ing coming to absolutely nothing. Therefore, contrary to what some silly Candelariasian people might’ve read; Turkish didn’t poach Zachary Telemans from Mayo Valley to replace the suddenly conspicuously absent Fabio Mannasuch, and the roof overhanging the Fred Michaels stand at Marlow Park, Zapata, absolutely didn’t spontaneously collapse when nobody was looking. Of course it didn’t. If it had, it’d still be a whole lot of rubble, which it clearly isn’t. Obviously.

Anywayhowsoever, the curious delay in the Candelariasian experience of the World Cup, along with… other stuff, means that we’ll be trundling along with the first few weekends of the Clausura as quickly as we can possibly get away with. Not as though they really matter much, after all…

This weekend: Turkish shrug off lack of Vanorians (they all went off on a caravanning holiday in the west of Candelaria, apparently, but should be back for next weekend) to thump poor old Webley; the GIZ didn’t, and slipped up at home to NAPPC with teenager Zachary Hoye failing to pick up Rubén Santos; the PoC suffered even more with a defeat in Rosasharn (and they don’t even have any of the pointy buggers; Caires City kept a clean sheet even in James Masters’ absence, against the Marbles, to go fifth; and McDonald beat Gamboa to move ten points clear of their fellow strugglers.

Albrecht Turkish 4-1 Webley Stadium (Robinson 17, Alexander 54, Czajkowski 73, Perna 80; Reynolds 16)
Arrigo Portuguese 3-0 Mayo Valley (Doramílton 4, Wilkinson 54, Oughton 64)
Caires City 1-0 El din Marbles (Gorrie 34)
Cathedral City 2-2 Marquez-Onwere (Guaman 71, Evandro og 90; Gatti 17, Smit 66)
Green Island 1-1 NAPPC (Clayton 49; Santos 37)
KT Hotspur 2-1 Port of Clotaire (Nilsson 74, Clayton 90+1; Sánchez García 9)
McDonald SC 2-1 Gamboa FC (Connah 36, Wanderley 45+1; Potter 62)
Radyukevich CSC 0-1 Albrecht FC (Tekeste 9)
Tenderville United 1-0 Ironside-Talinger (Van Braam 76)

Matchday Nineteen… Hmm… A difficult second week back for, well, just about everyone, with City and the Marbles the only ones to really gain anything very much and help reel back in the big four. Port of Clotaire really are still truly awful away from Harper Street, you know, while NAPPC’s chances of survival were given a boost with a big derby day victory – one that may well have claimed the Clausura of Tenderville’s Tim Holtz.

The best weekend was probably reserved for Ironside – who lost, and dropped into the bottom three as a result, but unveiled actual Starblaydi international striker Carnophin Narquelie before the match which is, one has to say, mildly exciting.

Onward!

Albrecht FC 0-0 Marquez-Onwere
El din Marbles 4-1 Port of Clotaire (Pavoni 33, Rosenthal 36, Herráez 64, Bachuijs 76; Hooper 85)
Gamboa FC 2-3 Caires City (Bell 26, Rojas 90+1; González 23 and 29, Williams 40)
Green Island 1-1 Cathedral City (Clayton 82; De Winter 49)
Ironside-Talinger 0-1 KT Hotspur (Makedonski 14)
Mayo Valley 1-0 Albrecht Turkish (Szatmári 75)
NAPPC 3-1 Tenderville United (Van Syle 36, González Rodríguez 55, Van Dyke 74; Night 23)
Radyukevich CSC 0-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Amate 46)
Webley Stadium 3-0 McDonald SC (Vey 28, Grey 70, Reynolds 79)

Matchday Twenty… T’was all about the big two this weekend – and it was Green Island who just got the better of their clash in Zapata, a victory to allow Ben Young’s motley crew to move back to four points clear at the top.

That do?

Albrecht Turkish 4-0 Radyukevich CSC (Robinson 45 and 65, Mihály 81, Calabrese 87)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-0 Marquez-Onwere (Oughton 47)
El din Marbles 1-3 Ironside-Talinger (Silva 34; Narquelie 1 and 77, Palmer 44)
Green Island 2-1 Albrecht FC (Clayton 4, Robertson 50; Tekeste 71)
KT Hotspur 0-2 NAPPC (Prescott 45+1, Van Dyke 76)
McDonald SC 0-2 Mayo Valley (Tillström 62, Davies og 78)
Port of Clotaire 0-0 Caires City
Tenderville United 4-2 Cathedral City (Night 20 and 86, Jans 43 and 88; Innisvale 36, Delara 70)
Webley Stadium 2-4 Gamboa FC (Vey 25, Robinson 72; Roberto 66 and 75, Bell 80, Newcastle 90+2)

Matchday Twenty-One… In a weekend that proved more than representative of the post-WC malaise currently affecting the big guns (or possibly the general standard of awe-inspiring competitiveness across the division, yes yes, alright), all three of the pacesetters failed to win – with both the Scorpions and Green Island going down at home.

But that was all music to the ears of Albrecht Turkish, who have returned from the break in exceptional form (apart from that there blip in Hodgehill, granted, but… look, don’t go on about it, speed is of the essence, here) and this weekend produced another big four-nil victory – crushing MarquezOW in their own back yard.

It was hard to characterise the game as men against boys, not when the naranja’s side was quite the more venerable, but last term’s runners-up were simply outplayed once again, and look like a team on their last legs. Sacking Blanco da Cruz is probably out of the question, even while they continue to squat uncomfortably in the bottom three, but the manager will surely be forced to react with another round of drastic changes after a woeful performance and result like this.

Or, alternatively, he could be sensible and stick with a tried and trusted set of players, who must surely come good eventually.

Nah, me neither. Expect a bunch of teenagers next week, for fans never boo the kids, do they? Even kids who aren’t good enough to get a look in at the DBC squad. Deary, deary, deary.

Meanwhile… someone give Mike Alvintzi a big sloppy kiss, please? How the hell McDonald are pushing for a Globe Cup berth I’ll never know.

Albrecht FC 0-3 Tenderville United (Van Patten 10 and 76, McKillop 78)
Cathedral City 1-0 KT Hotspur (Molina 9)
Ironside-Talinger 0-0 Port of Clotaire
Gamboa FC 0-1 Mayo Valley (Bell 12)
Green Island 0-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Amate 73)
Marquez-Onwere 0-4 Albrecht Turkish (va Drake 25, Bakker 61, Titenburg 70, Fishsnapperbottom og 85)
NAPPC 1-1 El din Marbles (Prescott 44; Palmer 34)
Radyukevich CSC 2-4 McDonald SC (Parker 16 and 50; Andryan 48, Wanderley 40 and 70 and 75)
Webley Stadium 1-1 Caires City (Robinson 51; Wilkinson 71)

Matchday Twenty-Two… Perhaps, this day, we have witnessed a sea change in the title race. Three points separate first from fourth and, though Green Island still lead the way, they sit atop the Albrecht giants by just a point.

That’s all thanks to this weekend’s clash in Hoxton: with a Turkish winner coming in the third minute of second-half stoppage time… and from a certain Espy va Drake.

The Vanorian’s superb strike, against the club for whom he will always be remember as a proper legend, cemented three worthy points for Mannasuch’s outfit, who are beginning to look like a worryingly sturdy unit once more. Partly, and ironically enough, that’s thanks to a series of slightly lesser displays from their talismanic new signing on the right, with va Drake no longer feeling responsible for dictating every moment of their play. Instead, Darren Robinson is emerging as one of the players of the season – finally, at the age of thirty, showing the ability that once made him one of the country’s hottest properties – while Mihály is growing into himself and Brandon Qiu looks a dead cert to be C&M’s first-choice left-back for the next decade. There’s juuuust a possibility they may be about to run away with the league now.

Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.

Elsewhere, Albrecht FC and the PoC both picked up three-nil away wins, while Cathedral City won the El din clásico to put a proper dent in the Marbles’ hopes of snaffling the fourth TQCC place.

Albrecht Turkish 3-2 Green Island (Raviranjan og 6, Robinson 41, va Drake 90+3; Aldren 11, Young 81)
Arrigo Portuguese 4-0 Tenderville United (Álvarez 8, Amate 35, Anderson 79, Oughton 83)
Caires City 5-2 Ironside-Talinger (Murray 1 and 9, Gorrie 12 and 21, Jackson 37; Sheppard 7, Narquelie 67)
Cathedral City 3-1 El din Marbles (Karatkevich 6, Innisvale 34 and 84; Pavoni 56)
KT Hotspur 0-3 Albrecht FC (Nakatsuru 1, Morrison 34, Vilito 73)
Mayo Valley 3-1 Webley Stadium (Subudhi 30, White og 67, Gaynor 83; Grey 65)
McDonald SC 1-4 Marquez-Onwere (Thompson 24; Gómez 31, Gatti 56, Oliveira Tavares 63, Smit 70)
NAPPC 0-3 Port of Clotaire (O’Airmeadhaigh 34, Andrews 56, Hamblett 73)
Radyukevich CSC 1-0 Gamboa FC (Gaggioli 84)

Matchday Twenty-Three… Ye-es… We’re not really very good at this predicty thing, are we? Turkish slip back down to fourth…

But my word, what a race! What a race! And don’t discount Caires City or Portuguese out of it either. Goshypoos!

Albrecht Turkish 3-3 Tenderville United (Robinson 45, Calabrese 61, Randjelovic 88; Van Braam 18, Reargold 44, Diakité 59)
Arrigo Portuguese 0-0 KT Hotspur
El din Marbles 2-3 Albrecht FC (Herráez 8, Pavoni 55; Mendez 7 and 18, Nakatsuru 24)
Gamboa FC 0-2 Marquez-Onwere (Oliveira Tavares 38, Stewart 82)
Green Island 2-0 McDonald SC (Aldren 50, Young 75)
Mayo Valley 0-3 Caires City (Gorrie 55, Murray 58 and 74)
NAPPC 1-1 Ironside-Talinger (Prescott 40; Sheppard 54)
Port of Clotaire 4-0 Cathedral City (Sánchez García 3, Jones 11, Hamblett 49 and 50)
Webley Stadium 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (Scott 69; Fox 44)

Matchday Twenty-Four… So, remember those heady days when our brave boys routinely packed up their troubles in their old kit bags, kissed their mothers and sweethearts goodbye (often killing two birds with one stone, if they’re from the Outliers or out west), and set out for a little tournament called the Di Bradini Cup? Remember how it made an absolute mess of the domestic season, with their clubs shorn of their best young players? Remember that, at all?

Well, it’s all happening again. Hastings, Robertson, Wilkinson, Van Patten, Qiu and a load of other useful players have all waved farewell for the foreseeable future (because we are going to go a long way in this competition, aren’t we? We always do…), and all bets are suddenly off again. A case in point – Green Island, for whom Ben Clayton looked lost alone up front without Ethan Robertson behind him, and who failed to get a finish past Gamboa’s Ivan Volodinsk (and there’s not many who can say that) and duly dropped from the top of the table.

Albrecht FC replaced them, with the Scorpions taking a vital home win against Port of Clotaire (have we mentioned how poor the Harpies have been on their travels this season?). With Caires City winning narrowly in Peregrinus City, the Errant Knights under Dionísio have pulled the PoC’s lead on them in the race for fourth down to just a point – but Shepherd and Wilkinson are going to be seriously missed from this point forth. Veterans Austin Neal and Nic Lloyd came in for them this weekend, but it’ll be a big ask for the poor old sods to manage an entire Clausura, if that’s what it comes to.

Elsewhere, Mayo Valley’s hopes of maintaining their place in the Globe Cup positions received a blow with a nasty looking injury to Toyur centre-half Gustav Johansson, while KT Hotspur’s routine defeat to Turkish sees Rosasharn’s finest in fifteenth place. Which they were last week too, to be fair, but it’s probably worthy of mention. If Webley and Gamboa are probably as good as down, the final place looks like being a fight between NAPPC, Ironside and the Spur.

And we still haven’t had a managerial sacking, yet. Hmm…

Albrecht FC 2-1 Port of Clotaire (Andrews og 22, Nakatsuru 25; Gordon 39)
Arrigo Portuguese 2-2 El din Marbles (Galindo 20, Anderson 54; Silva 54, Nixon 89)
Cathedral City 3-0 Ironside-Talinger (Delara 40, Guaman 45, Estévez 90+3)
Green Island 0-0 Gamboa FC
KT Hotspur 0-2 Albrecht Turkish (Randjelovic 12, Robinson 86)
Marquez-Onwere 2-1 Webley Stadium (Smit 34 and 86; Scott 56)
McDonald SC 2-0 Tenderville United (García 2, Kenroe 72)
NAPPC 0-1 Caires City (González 26)
Radyukevich CSC 2-1 Mayo Valley (McDermott 3, Scarborough 34; Szatmári 24)

CMS Cup Last Sixteen… Breaking up the monotony a bit, it’s the CMS Cup. Yaaaay!

The big game saw double-chasing Albrecht FC take a pretty comfortable win at the McNeil Bingo Arena, with Caires City unable to add to their solitary title back in XXXI. While Quentin Gorrie (weren’t they clever to pick him up, eh?) was a constant threat as usual, young centre-half Jake Bullingham – who can feel just a tad miffed for having been overlooked for DBC honours – performed most competently in place of the injured Gijs van Aulen for the Scorpions, and helped bring renewed succour to those keen to stress that Albrecht FC haven’t entirely lost the knack for bringing through actual Candelariasian youngsters over the last couple of years.

Green Island’s hopes of pushing for what would remain a wholly unexpected league title were probably given a further boost, meanwhile, when Albrecht Turkish and the PoC joined the Scorpions in the quarter-finals; the GIZ having been knocked out by City in the previous round. Otherwise, the make-up of the last eight is a trifle eclectic – the El din Marbles, who have a Globe Cup campaign to worry about, after all, going out to McDonald after a replay, while fellow top-flight neo-mainstays Mayo Valley sneaked past the Melin Professionals. Cathedral City, who last made the final in XXXII, suffering relegation the same season, must have reason to believe that a decent draw could help them through to the final once more – and give them another shot at a very first piece of proper silverware. CMSC2 titles don’t count, we reckon.

Four of the second tier clubs to have made it thus far drew each other – not a great result for ticket sales or telly money, in all honestly, but it gives the survivors a fantastic chance of creating a bit of club history. Suburban Arrigo side Castellano Hills, having put out Portuguese in the biggest match of their existence a few months earlier, will clearly be hoping to draw one of the big guns away for a nice financial boost… unless, of course, they actually care more about winning than money, in which case they’ll be crossing their fingers for Miranda FC at home and setting their sights on the semi-finals and beyond.

Caires City 0-2 Albrecht FC (Tekeste 14, Nakatsuru 76)
El din Marbles 1-1 McDonald SC (Silva 35; Andryan 68)
~ Replay: McDonald SC 1-0 El din Marbles (Andryan 42)
Albrecht Turkish 2-0 Castillo FC (Mihály 41, Calabrese 55)
Cathedral City 4-1 Gamboa FC (De Winter 23 and 37 and 88, Innisvale 28; Bell 11)
Miranda FC 2-2 Brayton Town (Warren 67 and 85; Upton 17, Thompson 88)
~ Replay: Brayton Town 0-1 Miranda FC (Howell 69)
Castellano Hills FC 2-2 Deportivo María (Raskin 47, Fernández 54; Sánchez 9, Vásquez 62)
~ Replay: Deportivo María 0-2 Castellano Hills FC (Fernández 12, Stoppard 71)
NAPPC 0-3 Port of Clotaire (Banks 36, Sánchez García 82, Garrett 84)
Mayo Valley 1-0 Melin Professionals (Lewis og 72)

Matchday Twenty-Five… Okay, with nine games to go I reckon we can call it. It’s one of those seasons, isn’t it? Doesn’t anybody want to win this thing?

Perhaps weary from their mid-week excursions, both Albrecht clubs only managed draws. Turkish’s in particular was extremely fortunate – Mannasuch declining to take off a virtually anonymous Espy va Drake in favour of removing captain Werner and sticking three up front, but he proved successful in taking a point in at the Marble Ground were none were surely deserved. An impressive early display from teenage full-back Donato Perna, starting in place of Qiu, played a major part in blunting the Marbles’, and Herráez’s, early runs down the flanks – without his regular interventions, Turkish would have surely lost this one inside the first half.

With victory, Green Island moved back top while Port of Clotaire continued to grip onto fourth – but a late injury to Brian Andrews, which could well keep the veteran Sorthern defender out of the rest of the season, wasn’t particularly helpful. Elsewhere, MarquezOW moved up to eleventh, both Nethertopian clubs won, and still no-one’s been sacked yet…

Albrecht FC 1-1 Ironside-Talinger (Hamizi 32; Narquelie 71)
Caires City 1-0 Radyukevich CSC (González 13)
El din Marbles 1-1 Albrecht Turkish (Silva 25; Patris and Bavent 73)
Gamboa FC 0-1 Tenderville United (Night 12)
KT Hotspur 1-0 McDonald SC (Collins 9)
NAPPC 3-1 Cathedral City (Torah og 30, Prescott 65, Van Dyke 75; Innisvale 72)
Port of Clotaire 2-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Fuentes 25, Sánchez García 27)
Webley Stadium 0-2 Green Island (Grinius 25, Aldren 77)
Mayo Valley 0-1 Marquez-Onwere (Smit 73)

Matchday Twenty-Six… In that desperate, ghoulish hunt for that first manager to lose his job this term, Victor Wildeman might well have been an obvious candidate. And, erm, he still might; for NAPPC certainly aren’t out of the woods just yet. It’s fair to say, though, that beating – nay, stuffing – Albrecht FC at the TSS helps their cause no end.

And doesn’t help the Scorpions’, obviously. Everything we said about Bullingham last time out should probably be taken back – he was godawful throughout, and frequently saved by the evergreen Harry Rosalia in goal – though he was by no means the only figure to blame for his side’s rather pathetic showing. In a wholly disjointed performance, what few chances the home team carved out were royally fluffed by Fahmi Hamizi, an utterly absent figure these past few weeks, while Kim Mihyeon did little better when thrown on for the second half. Not for the first time in his managerial career, Torrealba appeared somewhat clueless when forced to concede that his original set-up simply wasn’t working, and one couldn’t help but see the confidence fade out of the faces of this once supreme unit as the match ploughed on.

Oop north, meanwhile, Port of Clotaire and Turkish played out an enjoyable desmond; but the Harpies need more than just the odd point here and there and dropped to fifth behind Dionísio’s ascendant Caires City – who, five points behind Green Island, have to be considered contenders now, for all their missing talents and thin squad. The El din Marbles dropped to eleventh with defeat in Saurin – El Profesor’s men having one just once thus far during the Clausura in what is threatening to become a carbon copy of the second half of last season – while Webley picked up their fifth draw of the season on Ratos Island but could still be officially down and out inside a fortnight.

I think.

Albrecht FC 1-2 NAPPC (Kouakou Kouamé 79; González Rodríguez 14, Singer 25)
Arrigo Portuguese 2-1 Ironside-Talinger (Oughton 44, Álvarez 90+2; Seedorf 10)
Cathedral City 1-3 Caires City (Karatkevich 79; Lloyd 27, Williams 33, Zoric 87)
KT Hotspur 2-0 Gamboa FC (Martinez 14, Aitken 22)
Green Island 2-0 Mayo Valley (Young 66, Gaynor og 88)
Marquez-Onwere 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (Gatti 13; Parker 6)
McDonald SC 3-1 El din Marbles (Munir 7, Kenroe 45+1, Andryan 65; Davies og 35)
Port of Clotaire 2-2 Albrecht Turkish (Hooper 51, Hamblett 64; Calabrese 47, Bakker 57)
Tenderville United 1-1 Webley Stadium (Lewis 40; Jones O’Caomhain 47)

Matchday Twenty-Seven… Hi there, if you’re reading this having got lost en route to the Carlton Marine Science Center. Hello, those of you interested in the work of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo. Oyata kohomada? Or, indeed, your countryfolk from the Ceylon Motor Sports Club. Wotcher, thee of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers. Or perhaps you were planning to TOUCH, EXPLORE and PLAY at the Children’s Museum of South Carolina. You pervert. Or the Cleveland Metro Ski Council, of course. Howdy. Oh, and the Calgary Masters Swim Club, ar? Or perhaps you’re looking to invest in a cow, possibly in exchange for some magic beans, from the good people at Charlie Myerscough Show Cattle. And hey, if you’re from the Chicago Miniature Schnauzer Club, come on in! We don’t mind if you’re still smarting about the merger of the Midwest Schnauzer Club and the Miniature Schnauzer Club of Chicago. Between you and me, Susan Okoniewski, we reckon you’d made a way better President than that Lauri Sicurrela. She doesn’t really like miniature schnauzers anyway, she only turns up for the biscuits. Bet you wouldn’t discriminate against white miniature schnauzers either, would you Sooz?

The point is, chaps, we don’t care a button how you found the CMSC, we’re just glad you’re here now. Because gosh darn it, isn’t it just the best thing ever? Shucks, I reckon you good folks are hooked already, ain’t ya? And your schnauzers.

I mean, lookit this weekend, for example. Who’d’ve thunk it that Radyukevich would’ve gone to Zapata and got all three points against the league leaders? And they deserved it, too. No-one can really say with any straight face that they’re confident about who’s going to win, so we’re not going to make any predictions either.

One thing we can say for certain, though, is that… WE HAVE A SACKING! Yeah, baby! James Hannah, not for the first time in his career, is goooorrrrrn! Gamboa finally pulled the plug, Clayton Knight steps into a suitably shiny hotseat for the time being, and the bookies can finally pay out in the sack race. Are we all suitably relieved, then? You there, young lady from the Chamber Music Society of Colombo? Wibagayata passe oya mage kamarayata enna, you hear? We need to celebrate!

Elsewhere, Turkish and City both lost; the PoC and the Scorpions didn’t. East come, easy go.

Albrecht FC 2-1 Cathedral City (Tiller og 11, Hamizi 75; Karatkevich 87)
El din Marbles 3-2 Gamboa FC (Macanás 61, Erik Visser 63, Silva 66; Mirnyi 67, Bell 72)
Green Island 1-2 Radyukevich CSC (Kūks 16; Parker 35, McDermott 56)
Ironside-Talinger 2-1 Albrecht Turkish (Doswell 6, Le Tissier 9; Czajkowski 55)
Marquez-Onwere 3-0 Caires City (Gómez 52, Gatti 63, Souto Maior 65)
Mayo Valley 2-2 Tenderville United (Subudhi 40 and 89; Holtz 33, Night 55)
NAPPC 2-2 Arrigo Portuguese (Plettenberg 33, Van Dyke 81; Darby 47, Doramílton 88)
Port of Clotaire 4-0 McDonald SC (Logan og 14, Arrigorriagakoa 17 and 85, Sánchez García 49)
Webley Stadium 0-0 KT Hotspur

CMS Cup Quarter-Finals… Castellano Hills did indeed get a home tie against Miranda FC, and looked to the semi-finals and beyond. And duly lost one-nil.

Sooo… Miranda. We should probably talk about them, seeing as they’re into the semi-finals and all. Um. Ooh. Gosh. Well. Heavens. It’s, um, the eighth largest settlement on Marquez, with a roughly 80/20 split between Hispanics and Anglos, depending on your respective definitions thereof, and located roughly equidistantly between Arrigo and Onwere. Their local MP is Anna Medina, of the Marquez Nationalist Party. It has a bridge, which people are quite fond of. And, um. Ooh. Um. And a football team, they being Miranda FC, notable for not having a nickname and probably being relegated this year, back to the semi-pro regional divisions where, frankly, they probably belong. But it would take a hard man indeed to begrudge them this rare moment in the sun, and the chance to achieve the impossible. Even if they haven’t had to thus far beat a top-flight club to get here…

They could well be going up against McDonald SC, depending on the semi-final draw, and might just fancy their chances. They’d probably be mistaken to, mind, for the Dons look safe as houses in the league, could yet be on for a best ever finish of eleventh or higher and, having put out Catedral, now have a first ever cup final in their sights themselves. ‘Tis still a shame about those awful grey kits, mind.

But let us carper on to Thursday’s main event – Port of Clotaire versus Albrecht FC; the CMSC1’s highest goalscorers against its, um, third-best defence. Still its third-best defence, actually. On account of this game taking place in the cup, rather than the league. So, conceding six goals won’t actually affect their overall Goal Difference, should it come into play in six and a bit weeks time. Which is nice.

Simply put, Muscat got this one spot on, and Torrealba didn’t. With Sánchez García carrying a minor knock, the Sorthern manager opted to move away from his favoured 4-3-3 and add an extra man into the midfield; serial bench-warmer Alex Banks (a twenty-six year-old who, according to m’spreadsheet, was born in Ad’ihan, fact fans), starting in something of a free roll behind the front two. Double-teaming with Peter Jones, Banks ripped open Xavier Tekeste’s defensive frailties for all to see, while the painfully naïve defensive partnership on the right-flank of Joe Hayter and Jake Bullingham suffered fully at their hands. After Jamie Hamblett had tucked away a penalty, the Harpies race to a three-nil lead inside half an hour.

Torrealba reacted by hauling off Tekeste in favour of Kim Mihyeon before half-time, but the adjustment had only a limited effect; Kim pulling a goal back off Noah Garrett’s shin soon after the restart but Port of Clotaire restoring their three-goal lead moments after through an unaccustomed slip from William, the panic in his box affecting even the Cafundelense veteran. Four further goals in one of the least thrilling nine-goal matches you’re ever likely to see later, and Albrecht FC were well and truly chastened. Bouncing back from this is going to be a serious challenge.

Albrecht Turkish 2-0 Mayo Valley (Calabrese 47, Patris and Bavent 50)
Cathedral City 1-2 McDonald SC (Delara 65; Andryan 18, García 86)
Port of Clotaire 6-3 Albrecht FC (Hamblett 15, O’Airmeadhaigh 17 and 49, Hooper 25, Arrigorriagakoa 49, Jones 90+1; Garrett og 46, Hamizi 70, Gordon og 72)
Castellano Hills FC 0-1 Miranda FC (Warren 65)

Matchday Twenty-Eight… And bounce back they didn’t.

The fallout of sixthreegate saw a whole slew of players – including Go and Kouakou Kouamé – dropped by Torrealba for the weekend’s trip to Caires, but that simply meant that the manager had to put his trust in other, youngish, players who plainly weren’t up to the job. On a good day, Rhys Khan and Richard Mendez may well be top-flight players, but it’s not going to be for Albrecht FC, not in the long term. Defensively, the Scorpions looked much better – until Joe Hayter, inexplicably retained from the disaster at Harper Street, received a second yellow in as many second-half minutes for an inane foul on Hamblett and panic once again set in. In the ninetieth minute, City’s Agostinho cut in from his home out on the right and slashed a hopeful shot through a horribly threadbare box to take all three points.

The other leading contenders all had home games and all won three-nil, while Portuguese clung onto their vain hopes with victory at La Decimotercia. Cathedral City, for their part, must be careful to avoid letting their season slip into a relegation battle now that their CMS Cup hopes are over – just four points outside the bottom three, they could certainly be sucked right back in if Ironside suddenly realise that they’re supposed to be quite good, over the final few matches.

Albrecht Turkish 3-0 NAPPC (Robinson 3, De Opper og 31, Werner 69)
Caires City 1-0 Albrecht FC (Agostinho 90)
Cathedral City 0-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Torah og 59)
KT Hotspur 1-0 Mayo Valley (Makedonski 60)
Green Island 3-0 Marquez-Onwere (Pond 21, Clayton 25 and 53)
McDonald SC 2-1 Ironside-Talinger (Kenroe 9, Munir 79; Sheppard 68)
Port of Clotaire 3-0 Gamboa FC (Jones 39, Arrigorriagakoa 49, Hamblett 62)
Tenderville United 2-1 Radyukevich CSC (Reargold 53, Night 66; Parker 70)
Webley Stadium 1-1 El din Marbles (Jones O’Caomhain 45+1; Pavoni 79)

And, with six games remaining… let’s have an unnecessary updatey table! Yeah!

CMSC1 XXXVIII Following Matchday Twenty-Eight
 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Green Island              28  17   6   5   49   21   28   57
   2  Port of Clotaire          28  16   6   6   67   32   35   54
   3  Albrecht FC               28  16   5   7   45   26   19   53
   4  Albrecht Turkish          28  15   7   6   54   29   25   52
   5  Caires City               28  15   7   6   43   27   16   52
   6  Arrigo Portuguese         28  13   8   7   38   32    6   47
   7  Tenderville United        28  12   6  10   45   38    7   42
   8  Radyukevich CSC           28  10   8  10   38   40   -2   38
   9  El din Marbles            28  11   5  12   40   46   -6   38
  10  Mayo Valley               28  11   5  12   33   45  -12   38
  11  Marquez-Onwere            28  10   7  11   36   38   -2   37
  12  McDonald SC               28  12   1  15   39   54  -15   37
  13  KT Hotspur                28   8   9  11   16   25   -9   33
  14  NAPPC                     28   8   8  12   31   44  -13   32
  15  Cathedral City            28   8   7  13   42   46   -4   31
  16  Ironside-Talinger         28   7   6  15   26   45  -19   27
  17  Gamboa FC                 28   5   4  19   27   53  -26   19
  18  Webley Stadium            28   2   7  19   19   47  -28   13

Matchday Twenty-Nine… Yaay! Yaaaay! Again-again! Another sacking! Tubby huuuug!

Yes, t’was Ebbrell Klein and t’was not before time, and… that almost rhymes. As did that, actually. What hidden genius doth beat within me. With the cash that Ironside have spent and the decent squad that they’ve got, Talinger’s finest should at least be up in the Mayo/McDonald department, not five points from safety. Keeping Klein on was always going to be a brave choice, but now he appears set to follow the time-honoured route of young Candelarians into managerial obscurity following a brief few months in the sweltering uplands of the CMSC1. He shall not be mourned.

In his place, for the remainder of the season, came Edgar Carpegiani; Klein’s long-suffering assistant. The forty-six year-old former journeyman right-winger was instantly pitched into a six-point cauldron in Abiodun – where he came up against a fellow newcomer in the opposite dugout. Following a one-game spell from the Kura-Pellandi veteran Clayton Knight as Gamboa caretaker, the board unveiled Steven Williams as their new coach. The former C&M international, a robust centre-half with a heady total of seventy-one caps to his name, has effectively been Albrecht Turkish’s reserve team boss during his spell at Magnus United in the CMSC2 and will almost certainly be leading his new charges against his former wards in that division next year too, but the boost of a new manager at Wallpark Road was the last thing that the visiting Ironside team needed.

Ultimately, the points were shared – a result which lifted Ironside a point closer to NAPPC following the Nethertopians’ disappointing defeat to McDonald at home. Attempting the tough love approach, Carpegiani slammed his side’s inability to put away their chances – and as well he might, because any outfit with a striking partnership of a C&M and Starblaydi international really shouldn’t have any worries in that department – and cut a less than happy figure at the final whistle. This particular battle, one feels, is about to go right to the wire.

At the top, meanwhile, Albrecht Turkish are showing signs of beginning to slip away now, following their impressive earlier surge (*sniff*) and were held away at Catedral to leave them a somewhat daunting seven points off the lead. A lead still lead by Green Island, who snuck a one-nil win over Caires City – a forgettable result in a forgettable game, but exactly the sort of result they need if they are going to complete this little miracle and lift the title with this most inappropriately un-pointy of sides.

Albrecht FC, meanwhile, finally rallied from their recent travails to slam four past almost-arch-rivals Arrigo Portuguese, though the post-match news that Harry Rosalia will be out for the remainder of the season is less than joyful. Armand Zamora will at least be available from next weekend (no doubt we’ll be dissecting that little debacle at the first opportunity), but the loss of the elderly goalkeeper’s comforting presence will hit them hard during the title run-in.

Port of Clotaire, meanwhile, very nearly came a-cropper – and at home to Webley Stadium, no less, who took the lead inside twenty minutes at Harper Street and clung on in a ridiculously resilient fashion until the match’s dying moments. Only then did the Candelariasian-Taeshanese dam break to allow the Candelariasian-Sorthern tsunami to power through, take all three points in a two-one win, and condemn the Stads to a well-earned relegation. Still, it’s been kind of fun, their season in the top-flight, hasn’t it? Right? Memorable? No?

Albrecht FC 4-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Nakatsuru 29, Hamizi 31 and 81, Morrison 73; Pak 68)
Cathedral City 1-1 Albrecht Turkish (Tiller 32; Werner 38)
Gamboa FC 2-2 Ironside-Talinger (Bell 43, Price 55; Sheppard 47, Narquelie 61)
Green Island 1-0 Caires City (Clayton 7)
KT Hotspur 2-2 Radyukevich CSC (Rataran 20, Anderson og 48; Gaggioli 15, McDermott 65)
Marquez-Onwere 1-0 Tenderville United (Souto Maior 35)
Mayo Valley 3-2 El din Marbles (Szatmári 11 and 22, Hostetter 90; Pavoni 27, Macanás 87)
NAPPC 1-2 McDonald SC (Shannon og 59; Connah 22, Andryan 49)
Port of Clotaire 2-1 Webley Stadium (Sánchez García 87, Fuentes 90+1; Rodriguez 17)

Matchday Thirty… The Albrecht derby. It’s quite a big deal, you know.

And this weekend it was settled by one own goal at the Solidarity, following one horribly contentious free-kick and coming just before the extremely dubious failure to award Albrecht FC a nailed-on penalty. Mere inches away from the incident, referee Ted Garrido managed to neither book Fahmi Hamizi for diving nor sanction Alex Rafaela for his truly appalling tackle in the box, waving away all protests and leaving the Scorpions with a major chip on their shoulders which wasn’t, in all truthfulness, particularly unreasonable. The visitors had by far the better chances, dominated possession, had the most offensive chants and generally deserved to take at least a point – but, thanks largely to the ref, they left with nothing.

Superb performances from Jhanna Young and Toirdhealbharch O’Airmeadhaigh respectively gave Green Island and the PoC victories, meanwhile, to leave the capital city giants seven points off the lead. With four games to go, that’s just starting to look a little daunting – and both clubs could find themselves suddenly out of the race as soon as next weekend.

Elsewhere, Cathedral City welcomed back ½ of their defence and duly managed to keep McDonald down to just the two goals in El din; scoring four themselves and giving their survival hopes a major boost – indeed, the Cats are now just four points behind the freefalling Marbles. Quite why the Clausura has gone so terribly badly for Félix Barreto’s men is something of a mystery, though one might be tempted to suggest that he’s been coasting somewhat after Cassumba Domingos left his post with the Sargossan national team. Despite his robust denials to the contrary, he must surely have thought that the job was his own – now, of course, with a couple of other contenders entering the ring over recent weeks, even the Marbles job might not be his for much longer.

That, and the fact that Macanás, Silva and Erik Visser have absolutely zip in the way of chemistry, a fact painfully clear now that the panicking effect the trio had on opposition defences during the Apertura has well and truly worn off. Not for the first time over the past decade; local boy Luis Pavoni is pretty much keeping them alive right now. This week’s point in the Hilltop Stadium aside, relegation still isn’t impossible.

Probably. Can’t really be arsed to do the maths. So sue me, and all that.

Also, about how we know about the possibilities surrounding the Corsairs job despite the fact that the DBC group stage has only just ended and we haven’t even started the latest round of TQCC matches yet…? Just… just don’t ask. Please. You’d only end up tearing a hole in space/time, and that sort of thing can leave a mark even Barry Scott couldn’t hope to handle.

Elsewhere, Caires City also welcomed back a couple of key players and took three nervy but deserved points at home to Portuguese.

Of course, it’s nice that they’re back, all the kids. We’ve missed ‘em. But, well, you know what it’s like. They revert to type, they start leaving their clothes in a heap and stagger home in the wee small hours and start raiding the fridge, and you love them, of course you do, wouldn’t be without them, but you can’t help dropping the odd hint that it wouldn’t be unwelcome if they found themselves a nice girlfriend and got a flat somewhere, and maybe only visited at weekends or, or, you know, perhaps only once a month, or so? They could ‘phone, maybe. Perhaps.

Or, failing that, they could avoid getting knocked out in the first round of the bloody Di Bradini Cup.

Because honestly. Sargossa versus the Bear’s Arms? Well bugger that, we all say. Youth football is our game. Four points is four points, but still… we shouldn’t be going out and coming home that earlier. We’re us, for heaven’s sake. We’re special. We win things.

The Small Blues’ exit inevitably prompted a certain amount of hand-wringing – with the performance unfortunately coupled with a rather terrible five-nil defeat for the Under-17s against their Continental Rushmori counterparts. Fluke results like that come up from time to time, of course, but this one clearly hit home – with the CAMAFA under John Patience taking the unusual step of sacking the U17’s boss Robert Mitchell as soon as the wee ones had come home from their jaunt out on the continent. As a rule, in Candelariasian football, you don’t sack youth coaches for poor on-field results – player production and improvement is all the matters, not scorelines – and the CAMAFA’s new regime was duly criticised for their call in many of the papers, but the sacking would seem to represent something of a sea change in thinking down at Bower Street.

Why does this matter to you, I hear you cry?

It doesn’t, really. Except that, if the rumours are to be believed, the CAMAFA could well be on the verge of forcibly taking youth development back out of the hands of CMSC clubs and into the palm’s of the country’s university structure – a truly historic development that could well bring about something akin to civil war, were it to truly happen. What certainly appears clear is that the Big Blues could well be heading for a nasty little fallow period sometime around World Cup Fifty-Four, on the basis of the teenage talent currently on offer. Never mind the ‘golden generation’; last week’s starting eleven of Valentijn Serontein [GK, Volodiscow Resistance], Gary Andrews [DR, Port of Clotaire], Adam Foot [DC, Port of Clotaire], Aleph Jakubowski [DC, Candelaria Arsenal], Louie Thomas [DL, Sloane Wanderers], Jack Watson [MR, Maidment SC], Max Peterson [CM, Arrigo Portuguese], Darren Rass [CM, KT Hotspur], Salvatore Bocchetti [ML, AFC MN Smith], Fraser Challinor [FW, Candelaria-Allemali], and Finlay Fisher [FW, Albrecht FC], are now household names for all the wrong reasons and will carry this millstone with them for many a year to come. Is this what we have to look forward to, then?

Or maybe… maybe not even that…

A-ha. A-ha. A-hahahahahahahahahahahahaha….!!!

Bedtime, now, I think. Who’s with me, kids? Yaaaaaaay!

Albrecht Turkish 1-0 Albrecht FC (Go og 34)
Caires City 2-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Masters 18, Zoric 81; Amate 89)
Cathedral City 4-2 McDonald SC (Delara 37 and 42, Innisvale 44 and 50; Munir 28, García 44)
Green Island 3-0 Tenderville United (Young 3, Clayton 38, Aldren 58)
Ironside-Talinger 0-0 Webley Stadium
KT Hotspur 2-2 Marquez-Onwere (Clayton 10, Cummins 39; Smit 46, Gatti 59)
Mayo Valley 1-4 Port of Clotaire (Živkovic 34; Gaynor og 4, Hooper 50, O’Airmeadhaigh 78, Hamblett 89)
NAPPC 0-0 Gamboa FC
Radyukevich CSC 2-2 El din Marbles (Parker 15 and 18; Macanás 56, Silva 59)

Matchday Thirty-One… Let’s talk about Green Island for a bit.

Not for very long, because it’s Lights Out at half ten, and matron gets all spanky if she spots us on our laptops at this time of night, but it’s probably worth reiterating just what an exceptional job they’ve done this season under truly trying circumstances. With most of their biggest names having buggered off at the first sign of them not winning the title for once, and with Zapata still a somewhat uncomfy place to be right now (dear God, that one’s dragging, isn’t it?), everything was set up for a mid-table finish at best. How could a debutant manager, with no previous coaching experience whatsoever, expect to maintain the GIZ’s role as one of the archipelago’s most consistent forces?

And yet here they are. The Young family affair – Ben and cousin Robin in the dugout; daughter/niece Jhanna wearing the armband out on the pitch – are on the verge of completing a mini miracle. The production line of talent from this island remains exceptional: Jacob Pond adding more elements to his game out on the left seemingly with every passing match; Ethan Robertson becoming a one-touch beast behind the striker to rival any in the league; Steve Newman, far from a first-choice starter at the start of the season, now clearly one of the division’s best defensive midfielders and looking increasingly likely to join a whole slew of his colleagues in the next Big Blues squad. Kasper Grinius and Thankanion Elenelwa really are an exceptional partnership at the back. A the grey heavens only know why Turkish allowed Lyle Gwyther to leave just when the goalkeeper appears to be hitting the form of his life. No team in the league has a better spirit in the camp. And the title might very nearly be theirs.

Because it’s probably not going to be Albrecht FC’s now.

Where did it all go so wrong for the CMSC1’s best XI? Five defeats in the Clausura alone hasn’t helped, of course, but the Scorpions really have looked a shade of their XXXVII selves these last few months. As the clock wound down at the TSS this weekend, Nakatsuru and Hamizi had a blazing row – both ultimately received yellow cards for a bit of slap and tickle, and the nil-nil result against McDonald SC pretty much summing up their post-WC season. Nine points off the lead and with a vastly inferior goal difference, they now need the rest of the big guns to completely foul it up. It’s not going to happen. Albrecht FC are, for now at least, a gonner.

Albrecht Turkish aren’t, but they’re living dangerously all the same – a narrow win in Arrigo keeping them seven points from a first league title in six seasons. It looks like a huge ask, so does that leave Port of Clotaire as the only side now standing between the GIZ and a fourth title in five seasons?

Possibly… But Francesco Gaggioli had something to say about it.

The Radyukevich winger has certainly been one of the finds of the season. A CMSC2 starlet in his teenage days, he looked far from cut out for the top-flight last term but has emerged as the Jukos’ heartbeat. A Clotaire local, he’s another one who’ll have reason to hope for a call-up in a few months but his mission for now is to drag Wayne Davis’ men back into the Globe Cup – oh, and do whatever he can to stop their upstart, working-class neighbours from bringing glory to their city. Popping up in the box with minutes to spare, Gaggioli crushed the Harpies’ hopes of a vital derby day victory by nodding an equaliser past Karl John.

So, where does that leave us? Well, Green Island could wrap it up as soon as next weekend, if they win at home to the Marbles and the PoC fail to take all the points in Onwere against a resurgent MarquezOW. Turkish are at City, and may well only have a bid to retain their top four place left to play for by then.

The weekend after, it’s Port of Clotaire versus Green Island at Harper Street. Even victory there may not help the PoC’s cause much, for the GIZ have Ironside at home on the last day, which should be a doddle… right?

Don’t go anywhere, possums.

Albrecht FC 0-0 McDonald SC
Arrigo Portuguese 0-1 Albrecht Turkish (Robinson 14)
El din Marbles 0-1 Marquez-Onwere (Smit 26)
Gamboa FC 0-1 Cathedral City (Innisvale 30)
Green Island 1-0 KT Hotspur (Aldren 49)
Ironside-Talinger 0-4 Mayo Valley (Subudhi 28 and 48, Tillström 36, Smith og 64)
Port of Clotaire 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (Sánchez García 34; Gaggioli 86)
Tenderville United 1-1 Caires City (Pohl 55; Gorrie 30)
Webley Stadium 1-0 NAPPC (Scott 64)

CMS Cup Semi-Finals… And finally this evening, because Matron’s footsteps are getting ever louder, let us take a brief look in at the CMS Cup.

With the PoC and Turkish kept apart by the draw, it was pretty obvious what final we were going to get. Over in Arrigo, the Harpies easily dealt with Darren English’s Miranda; the Marquezian minnows finally facing a top-flight side and being found out for the frauds they are. FRAAAAAAUDS!

Meanwhile, over in Caires…

Well, well. Well. Well.

It was all looking so rosy for Turkish, one-nil up and coasting. But Saurin’s finest are made of sterner stuff – they have former Albrecht FC striker and third-highest CMSC1 International Era goalscorer Wanderley, for one thing, and a side of all-round admirably solidity. That they gave their soft southern rivals a real game was no surprise; that McDonald came from behind to win two-one wa–

Cave! Cave! Chiz, it’s matron! Quick, under the sheets, I…

Mungo? Is that you? Why’re you…? Gosh, Mungs, what’ve you got there, I..? Mungo… Mungo! Nooooooo!

Miranda FC 0-3 Port of Clotaire (Fuller 22 and 87, Arrigorriagakoa 56)
@ Estadio Nacional, Arrigo

McDonald SC 2-1 Albrecht Turkish (Wanderley 64, Andryan 72; Calabrese 13)
@ McNeil Bingo Arena, Caires

[Vephrall]

International University Challenge Championship 27

Qualifying results

GROUP 1

Markham Univ [WZI] 1-1 Saverhampton [TAE]
Saverhampton [TAE] 1-4 Univ of Konila [ASA]
Univ of Konila [ASA] 1-1 Markham Univ [WZI]
Saverhampton [TAE] 1-3 Markham Univ [WZI]
Univ of Konila [ASA] 4-0 Saverhampton [TAE]
Markham Univ [WZI] 0-3 Univ of Konila [ASA]

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Univ of Konila    [ASA]    4   3   1   0   12    2   10   10  Q
   2  Markham Univ      [WZI]    4   1   2   1    5    6   -1    5
   3  Saverhampton      [TAE]    4   0   1   3    3   12   -9    1

GROUP 2

Stanley Univ [WZI] 1-1 Mount Ceabring [TAE]
Mount Ceabring [TAE] 1-1 Univ of Calamen [VPH]
Univ of Calamen [VPH] 1-0 Stanley Univ [WZI]
Mount Ceabring [TAE] 0-1 Stanley Univ [WZI]
Univ of Calamen [VPH] 3-2 Mount Ceabring [TAE]
Stanley Univ [WZI] 1-5 Univ of Calamen [VPH]

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Univ of Calamen   [VPH]    4   3   1   0   10    4    6   10  Q
   2  Stanley Univ      [WZI]    4   1   1   2    3    7   -4    4
   3  Mount Ceabring    [TAE]    4   0   2   2    4    6   -2    2

GROUP 3

Tech Inst Dalinn [ADN] 2-0 Folenisa Univ [LEN]
Folenisa Univ [LEN] 2-4 Nat'l Maritime WS [CAM]
Nat'l Maritime WS [CAM] 2-0 Tech Inst Dalinn [ADN]
Folenisa Univ [LEN] 1-1 Tech Inst Dalinn [ADN]
Nat'l Maritime WS [CAM] 7-1 Folenisa Univ [LEN]
Tech Inst Dalinn [ADN] 0-3 Nat'l Maritime WS [CAM]

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Nat'l Maritime WS [CAM]    4   4   0   0   16    3   13   12  Q
   2  Tech Inst Dalinn  [ADN]    4   1   1   2    3    6   -3    4
   3  Folenisa Univ     [LEN]    4   0   1   3    4   14  -10    1

GROUP 4

Uni Heltzburg [SNO] 1-0 Sungsan Academy [HAN]
Sungsan Academy [HAN] 2-8 Arrigo Harb-UIGA [CAM]
Arrigo Harb-UIGA [CAM] 3-0 Uni Heltzburg [SNO]
Sungsan Academy [HAN] 1-4 Uni Heltzburg [SNO]
Arrigo Harb-UIGA [CAM] 5-0 Sungsan Academy [HAN]
Uni Heltzburg [SNO] 2-4 Arrigo Harb-UIGA [CAM]

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Arrigo Harb-UIGA  [CAM]    4   4   0   0   20    4   16   12  Q
   2  Uni Heltzburg     [SNO]    4   2   0   2    7    8   -1    6
   3  Sungsan Academy   [HAN]    4   0   0   4    3   18  -15    0

GROUP 5

Hásk í Vatnajavik [SNO] 2-0 Yongsan Academy [HAN]
Yongsan Academy [HAN] 0-1 Novaria Tech Inst [ASA]
Novaria Tech Inst [ASA] 5-0 Hásk í Vatnajavik [SNO]
Yongsan Academy [HAN] 0-2 Hásk í Vatnajavik [SNO]
Novaria Tech Inst [ASA] 2-0 Yongsan Academy [HAN]
Hásk í Vatnajavik [SNO] 1-3 Novaria Tech Inst [ASA]

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Novaria Tech Inst [ASA]    4   4   0   0   11    1   10   12  Q
   2  Hásk í Vatnajavik [SNO]    4   2   0   2    5    8   -3    6
   3  Yongsan Academy   [HAN]    4   0   0   4    0    7   -7    0

GROUP 6

Stanley College [ADN] 1-0 Dover University [LEN]
Dover University [LEN] 0-1 Bektys Tech Inst [VPH]
Bektys Tech Inst [VPH] 4-1 Stanley College [ADN]
Dover University [LEN] 2-2 Stanley College [ADN]
Bektys Tech Inst [VPH] 3-0 Dover University [LEN]
Stanley College [ADN] 0-4 Bektys Tech Inst [VPH]

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Bektys Tech Inst  [VPH]    4   4   0   0   12    1   11   12  Q
   2  Stanley College   [ADN]    4   1   1   2    4   10   -6    4
   3  Dover University  [LEN]    4   0   1   3    2    7   -5    1

Group stage draw

The 16 remaining teams were divided into four pots and drawn with the proviso that no two teams from the same association may be placed in the same group.

GROUP A
Arrigo Harbour, Universidad Isabela González de Arrigo [CAM]
University of Calamen [VPH]
Van Prooijen University [ASA]
Air Force [TAE]

GROUP B
Novaria Technical Institute [ASA]
Sumbobor State University [VPH]
Beningrad University of the Bleeding Obvious [SNO]
Yeonsei University [HAN]

GROUP C
Gifton College, Albrecht University [CAM]
University of Konila [ASA]
Technical Institute at Hatton [ADN]
Pardbo University [LEN]

GROUP D
Woodruff Culinary Institute [ASA]
National Maritime Warfare School [CAM]
Bektys Technological Institute [VPH]
Bradley University [WZI]

[Virabia]

Well, after years of not having any football league of note, some grew tired of having no top level club league, and thus between a consortium of players and fans the Player and Fan owned V.League started with only 8 clubs. As this was their first season many tteams struggled to get people to come out and watch. Teams ended up having to play in parks, and players often went with out pay. At the moment everyones still un-sure if the league will continue to operate for another season as some teams will be forced to fold, even before entering their respective international competitions that they've qualified for.

V.League Innagrual Season (A.Y. 6)

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Vonghurst Capitols        14   9   0   5   42   35    7   27
   2  Atalanta B.C.             14   9   0   5   37   34    3   27
   3  Beaverbury E.F.C.         14   8   0   6   38   30    8   24
   4  Espilon Psychic           14   8   0   6   43   38    5   24
   5  Beaverburry A.F.C.        14   7   0   7   43   50   -7   21
   6  Portsham City             14   6   0   8   35   34    1   18
   7  Tompkins United           14   5   0   9   33   39   -6   15
   8  Ithaca Big Red            14   4   0  10   25   36  -11   12

TQCC
GC
Folded

*Portsham City Qualified for the Globe Cup, but for financial reasons opted to compete in no international cup.
* Beaverburry A.F.C. Qualified for the Globe Cup (originally SBCC) but due to Financial Reasons they could not go to any international competition

It was a tough ride for the league and their future is uncertain, we will have to see what happens in the comming weeks as to what kind of future the league will have. However, if the league does not survive the two most financially secure teams (Vonghurst and Ithaca) are on the look for leagues that are willing to take two foreign teams on.

LEAGUE AWARDS:

Champion: Vonghurst Capitols
MVP: Marty Conquest, Forward, Atalanta B.C. (16 Goals 15 Assists)
GK of the Year: Max Wilson, Goalkeeper, Vonghurst Capitols (2 Clean Sheets 60 Saves)

Match Facts
Highest scoring match: Espilon Psychic 5-5 Beaverburry A.F.C. (5-5 AET) (Espilon Psychic wins 5-2 on penalty kicks) @ George Wallace Park (cap 200), Espilon, Anglaia
Largest home win: Espilon Psychic 5-0 Atalanta B.C. @ George Wallace Park (cap 200), Espilon, Anglaia
Largest away win: Beaverburry A.F.C. 0-5 Tompkins United @ Bayfront Fields (cap 195), Beaverbury, Anglorcia

[Delaclava]

And the Delaclava Premier League returns to provide the UICA competitions with teams once again. The two main stories are Steckholl trying to find a keeper to replace Petr Ollic, the Poconese goalkeeper who retired after his season in Delaclava, and the league getting even more competitive after a change in format allots only four UICA spots to Delaclava. The results:

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Steckholl United          60  32  14  14   90   63   27  110 TQCC
   2  South Harbor              60  28  17  15   72   61   11  101 GC
   3  Cleopatrana SC            60  28  15  17   95   68   27   99 GC
   4  Catherina FC              60  27  16  17   91   68   23   97 GC
   5  Blackwell                 60  26  16  18   91   74   17   94
   6  Tigers                    60  24  19  17   83   72   11   91
   7  Good Liz Walsh            60  27   9  24   92   87    5   90
   8  Metro Tirana              60  23  17  20   83   72   11   86
   9  First City                60  21  17  22   67   77  -10   80
  10  Rhodes                    60  22  13  25   72   80   -8   79
  11  Parakeet FC               60  22  11  27   64   74  -10   77
  12  Juegas                    60  19  17  24   70   78   -8   74
  13  Three Cities              60  18   9  33   67   96  -29   63
  14  Kings Club                60  15  17  28   61   81  -20   62
  15  Cavalry                   60  14  19  27   70   89  -19   61 Relegated
  16  Athens                    60  12  18  30   65   93  -28   54 Relegated

It's a repeat of last year's standings, and Steckholl takes the championship again! The fundamental qualification differences are that South Harbor only achieves participation in the Globe Cup, and Blackwell will be staying home. Athens enters the red zone at last, after a 60-year stretch in the Premiership, and Cavalry gets knocked down on the last day. The awards:

MVP: Geraldo Ayala, ST, Steckholl United
Top Goal Scorers: Geraldo Ayala, ST, Steckholl United and Simon De Braden, ST, Kings Club, 34 goals
Top Point Scorers: Ruben Hester, MF, Steckholl United and Alessandro Campeon Berrera, MF, Catherina FC, 85 points
Goalkeeper of the Year: Terrence Allatti, South Harbor
Most Improved Player: Peter Novotny, GK, Steckholl United
Coach of the Year: Hans Ullrich, Steckholl United

[Zarbli]

Zarblese League IV
Duke League IV Preview

After the shameful participation of all 9 Zarblese clubs in international cups (not one of them making into the group stage in any of the three competitions), Zarblese football fans are more than anxious for this season's league.

"You people have to understand, although we all love our football, we're far for being the greatest in the world as some of you seem to think", said an irritated Karlos Nudag, president of the Zarblese League. "We're a ridiculously young league in terms of international football, so don't expect we'll kill giants in the first years". When asked what he's gonna do about that, he said, as usual "I'm wonrking on it. I'm not a fool, you know?"

Guess we'll have to wait some years to see about that.

Transfers:

Tehorista Faluza           CM   Asia FC---------------->Bloodthirsty Killers
Xato Mohinder              CB   Asia FC---------------->Coconut Trees
Viet Vietkong	           DM   Asia FC---------------->Lichen
Nikolau Rasputin	   CM	Asia FC---------------->Sligdish
Kim Jon'il                 CM   Balance---------------->Bloodthirsty Killers
Obama Barak	           CB   Balance---------------->Knights
HRM Prince Migelito Treta  RWB  Battle----------------->Knights
Paula Rebote               FW	Billiard--------------->Coconut Trees
Joze Stalin		   CD   Bloodthirsty Killers--->Romans
Hanibal Lekter		   FW   Bloodthirsty Killers--->Warriors
Daniel Kraviniona	   FW   Bloodthirsty Killers--->Xegei
Kara Umano	           CM   Cannibals-------------->Cross SC
Bola Bola	           DM   Cannibals-------------->Knights
Lusiano Anjeliko	   DM   Cannibals-------------->Xegei
Bolero Ravel               DM   Classics--------------->Flame
Frederiko Xopan		   LB   Classics--------------->Romans
Krizam Zin	           CM   Coconut Trees---------->Cannibals
Antonio Tonian		   CB   Coconut Trees---------->Xegei
Glauber Glauberio	   CM   Cross SC--------------->Warriors
Juka Pirado                CM   Goyoreh---------------->Flame
Joze Zeloko		   FW	Goyoreh---------------->Mountain Chain
Obobo Ojoker		   Man. Goyoreh---------------->Xegei
Enrike Tudor	           LM   Knights---------------->Billiard
Frederiko Uetin            CB	Knights---------------->Bloodthirsty Killers
Luis Burbon		   GK   Knights---------------->Polar Zenith
Pedro Bragansa		   RWB	Knights---------------->Pyramid AC
Rok Ifen		   DM   Lichen----------------->Mountain Chain
Djeims Kirk	           GK   Lunar------------------>Knights
Beatris Naza		   RB   Lunar------------------>Watermen
Monte Everest	           CM   Mountain Chain--------->Asia FC
Klaudio Rifitou		   CM   Polar Zenith----------->Lunar
Hoberto Bobore		   FW   Polar Zenith----------->Pyramid AC
Duke Eskriba		   RM   Pyramid AC------------->Lunar
Eskriba Imotep	           CM   Pyramid AC------------->Billiard
Tamio Ieroglifo		   LM   Pyramid AC------------->Polar Zenith
Ioanes Konstatinus         CB   Romans----------------->Asia FC
Vitoria Termas		   LB   Romans----------------->Watermen
Nanme Sok	           FW   Sligdish--------------->Balance
Violeta Txibun		   CM   Sligdish--------------->Watermen
Jenio Dijin	           CM   TFC-------------------->Asia FC
Jeni Vadan	           RWB  TFC-------------------->Battle
Fabio Alves                CM   TFC-------------------->Cross SC
Patrisia Lierso            LB   TFC-------------------->Flame
Ursin Katatau	           CB   Union------------------>Balance
Erik Overmelio		   CM   Warriors--------------->Pyramid AC
Jak Bauer		   FW   Warriors--------------->Sligdish
Kamila Susule	           DM   Xegei------------------>Asia FC

Duke League IV 20 Clubs

Asia FC

Name in Zarblese: Azia FK
Nation: Igualibridis
Colors: Orange-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Tsuriaikoku Denwa Kaisha (telecom)
Venue: The Great Football Temple (60,000) (Orient, IG)
Squad: Nikolievitx; Xu, Hamlahamla, Konstantinus and Maome; Raxid (c), Susule, Everest and Dijin; Karazaua and Tamaxiro
Coach: M. Setung
Highlights: With an almost entirely new midfield and rising star Karazaua, Asia FC expects to repeat the great season they had last year. To be honest, it doesn't smell that good to me.
Expectations: High

Balance

Name in Zarblese: Igualibridi
Nation: Igualibridis
Colors: Red-Blue-Black-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Tsuriaikoku Denwa Kaisha (telecom)
Venue: In Iang Arena (30,000) (Korean Colony, IG)
Squad: Ho; Ximin, Katatau, Limubai and Kunglao; Xangtsun, Ion'no (C), Sangmi and Jon'il; Sok and Li
Coach: T. Kondo
Highlights: For this season, Balance has an all new, ambitious goal: not to fall to the Marquiss League. Oh, wait a second... this is no news at all!
Expectations: Low

Battle

Name in Zarblese: Bataliis
Nation: Kampis Batalidis
Colors: Red-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: 100 Bali (ammo)
Venue: Kazis Treta Stadium (85,000) (Battle, KB)
Squad: Magno; Vadan, Cezar, Uelinton and Kan; Uoxinton, Bonaparte (C) and Disisparta; Desecond, Otehiveu and Ros
Coach: A. Ogrande
Highlights: Battle's team is more mature and been showing a good football in the last matches. It doesn't look like much, but might be surprising.
Expectations: Curious

Billiard

Name in Zarblese: Biliar
Nation: Biliar
Colors: Red-White-Blue
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Fehduris Sports Casino (gambling)
Venue: Fehduris Sports Casino (105,000) (Vegas, BI)
Titles: 1 Duke League
Squad: Kasapa (C); Tako, Meza and Snuker; Sinuka, Oito, Imotep, Batevolta and Tudor; Gis and Nokanto
Coach: M. Manezin
Highlights: Billiard is but a shadow of its former, great team. With this squad, we cannot expect much from the first DL champions.
Expectations: Mid

Bloodthirsty Killers

Name in Zarblese: Asasini Sangnarii
Nation: Kampis Batalidis
Colors: Blood Red-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Faki Ginsu (knifes)
Venue: Matdordis Stadium (20,000) (Battle, KB)
Squad: Dabliubuxe; Tepes, Nardoni, Uetin and Doparke; Kruger, Manson (C) and Faluza; Jon'il, Vonhitxtofen and Matador
Coach: J. Oestripador
Highlights: Bloodthistry Killers are tired of being called "Billiard's Little Brother". They already won the Biliar Cup this season after years of Billiard domain, and have enforced their team in order to go a little higher in the table.
Expectations: Mid

Cannibals

Name in Zarblese: Kanibali
Nation: Kanibaldi
Colors: Green-White-Blue
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Leko (toys)
Venue: Leko Arena (90,000) (Tribe, KA)
Squad: Serjio; Kabelo (C), Lindio, Fera and Triangulo; Xuxo, Magran and Zin; Norman, Sohizo and Zangan
Coach: R. Bokan
Highlights: Canniblas still seems to be trying to get along with his #10 position. Let's see if former Coconut Trees Zin is up to the task.
Expectations: Hopeful

Coconut Trees

Name in Zarblese: Kokeri
Nation: Kanibaldi
Colors: Red-Black
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Parmaleitis (milk)
Venue: Westsea City Stadium (25,000) (Westsea, KA)
Squad: Velozo; Serjio, T. Karlos, Mohinder and B. Karlos; Sesampaio (C), Amarau, Ediuson and Rebote; Edimundo and Evair
Coach: V. Luxa
Highlights: Coconut Trees is being able to stablish themselves as a proper Duke League team instead of a Marquiss League visitor, much for everyone's surprise. Is that good enough for their crescent fan base?
Expectations: Mid.

Cross SC

Name in Zarblese: Krusis EK
Nation: Krusdis
Colors: Green-Yellow
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Abadia (beer)
Venue: Enkrusliadis Stadium (40,000) (Templar Castle, KR)
Squad: Glesio; Jozislei, Mixel, Jusikrei and Kreidston; Pafunsio (C), Paxeko, Umano and Alves; Negoveio and Omearania
Coach: B. Nevidz
Highlights: Cross SC didn't have anything much exciting going on since DL III, so we mustn't expect anything much exciting about their participation in DL IV either.
Expectations: Low

Flame

Name in Zarblese: Fogan
Nation: Piramidi
Colors: Orange-Brown-Grey
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: PretoBraix (oil)
Venue: Kazis Esfinjdis (101,000) (Flame City, PI)
Titles: 22 Krusdis Cup
Squad: Jilmar; Xarles, Breno, Topatudo and Lierso; Gama (C), Ravel, Nelio and Pirado; Nunes and Gauxo
Coach: E. Dozanjos
Highlights: Flame is back to the DL after a season in the Marquiss League and expects to stay in where they belong. With that team, I don't think much will happen.
Expectations: Low

Knights

Name in Zarblese: Kavaleri
Nation: Pauzis
Colors: Red-White-Black
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Tam-Tim (airlines)
Venue: Tam-Tim Stadium (70,000) (Pauzis City, PA)
Squad: Kirk; Treta, Barak, Uindsor (C) and Bola; Saxecoburg, Orleans, Habsburg and Romanov; Lohain and Avis
Coach: E. Deeitse
Highlights: Knights have changed almost all its defensive system from last season to this one, which might be a little scary for their fans. But the club is showing such a solid administration that we are inclined to think they know what they're doing.
Expectations: High

Lichen

Name in Zarblese: Likenis
Nation: Luadi
Colors: Red-Yellow-Green
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Simbiontis Negris (biochemicals)
Venue: Simbiozis Arena (27,000) (Lichen, LU)
Titles: 11 Luadi Cup
Squad: Algazul; Umus, Koifa (C) and Miselios; X. Ema, Vietkong, Sefalotorax, Seiva, F. Ema and Ifas; Pteridofita
Coach: G. Klorofila
Highlights: Lichen had an awesome run last season and the team feels secure enough to reapeat the dosage. Maybe a Globe Cup qualification? Certainly not a relegation.
Expectations: Mid/high

Lunar

Name in Zarblese: Luadis
Nation: Luadis
Colors: Purple-Yellow
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: AEZ (space research)
Venue: AEZ Complex (52,000) (Highport, LU)
Squad: Rifitou; Eza, Mir and Heimini; Eskriba, Iuri, Pontes (C), Gagari and Apolo; Brasoforte and Odrin
Coach: H. Solo
Highlights: Losing Kirk and Naza might be shocking enough for Lunar to make them fall from the skies. Things look ugly.
Expectations: Low.

Mountain Chain

Name in Zarblese: Kordlieris
Nation: Zenitis Polris
Colors: Brown-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Igluis Imovileris (real estate)
Venue: Kaver'dis Arena (33,000) (Northwall, ZP)
Squad: Andes; Imalaia, Roxozas and Alpes; Apeninos, Aiers, Ifen, Akonkagua (c) and Neblina; Piko and Zeloko.
Coach: G. Omenlivre
Highlights: Althouhg not much changed for Mountain Chain from last season to this, the team is been playing solidly. It cannot expect much, but should not expect too little as well.
Expectations: Mid

Polar Zenith

Name in Zarblese: Zenitis Polris
Nation: Zenitis Polris
Colors: Light Blue-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Igluis Imovileris (real estate)
Venue: The White Dome (94,000) (Zenith, ZP)
Titles: 1 Duke League
Squad: Burbon; Jetjin, Indiat, Texi and Btilke; Sanvi,; Dulgi( C), Pin and Alieno; Ieroglifo and Temitae
Coach: K. Zihoati
Highlights: Polar Zenith isn't been able to show us the football that won the DL II. But they are always dangerous.
Expectations: Mid/High

Pyramid AC

Name in Zarblese: KA Piramidi
Nation: Piramidi
Colors: Blue-Light Blue
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: PretoBraix(oil)
Venue: Marakanan (88,000) (New Cairo, PI)
Squad: Mumia; Bragansa, Papiro, Dezerto and Areia; Kamelo, Farao (C), Overmelio and Amonra; Duna and Bobore
Coach: R. Segundo
Highlights: After an awful DL II, Pyramid seems to have got things going on properly and had a way better run in the DL III. With important reinforcements in all areas of the team, we expect them to go even better this year.
Expectations: Promising

Romans

Name in Zarblese: Romadi
Nation: Kampis Senturiond
Colors: Red-Black
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Spartakus (sports events)
Venue Colizeu Masimis (77,000) (Colosseum City, KS)
Squad: Populeske; Kaligula, Titus, Stalin and Xopan; Nerus, Livius, Aladin (C) and Loukus; Iulius and Masimus
Coach: O. Augustus
Highlights: Even though Romans has not been very successful in the last few seasons, the changes in the defensive left side and experience of its players might make a positive difference this year.
Expectations: Mid/High

Sligdish

Name in Zarblese: Sligdix
Nation: Kanibaldi
Colors: Dark Blue-Yellow-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: ElisKiSilix (fast food)
Venue: Sligdix City Stadium (49,000) (Sligdish, KA)
Squad: Txuplexe; Txuplim, Katapou, Pimba (C) and Kazam; Bluft, Bargous, Tim and Rasputin; Bauer and Pou.
Coach: N. Katapimba
Highlights: Sligdish has brought heavy weights Nikolau Rasputin and Jak Bauer as reinforcements to try and stay in the DL for the next season. Their defense are very, very, very weak, though.
Expectations: Low

Warriors

Name in Zarblese: Geheri
Nation: Goi
Colors: Blue-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: 100Bali (ammonition)
Venue Tirazu Stadium (94,000) (Goyoreh, GO)
Titles: 1 Duke League
Squad: Mandemartelo; Balboa, Miki, Txartxhil and Maklein; Ualase (C), San, Nohis and Grauberio; Lekter and Leonidas
Coach: S. Miagi
Highlights: Crown Holder Warriors has the weight that every Crown Holder has on their shoulders. The team is strong and might be able to carry it. Maybe we can see the same team win the DL two times in a row for the first time.
Expectations: High

Watermen

Name in Zarblese: Agudi
Nation: Igualibridis
Colors: Turquoise-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Eris Aguridis (petshop)
Venue: Xamu Arena (28,000) (Eastern Water, IG)
Squad: O. Peixe; Naza, Namor, Akuamen and Termas; A. Peixe (C), Sereio, Txibun, Submarin and Baleia; Torpedo
Coach: J. Tritan
Highlights: Watermen was the best Zarblese club in international competitions this year, even if it was the Cygnus Series B Champions Cup, this give them some credit. It's almost a certainty that they will be able to stay at the DL for the next season.
Expectations: Mid/Low

Xegei

Name in Zarblese: Xegei
Nation: Klaskis
Colors: Pink-Light Blue-White
Jerseys and Logo
Sponsor: Santa (fashion)
Venue: Aiai Uiui Sports Arena (32,000) (Xegei, KL)
Squad: Semoa; Riki, Bornai and Tonian; Dovil, Anjeliko, Nega and Aiui; Bofe, Kravinios and Santa (C)
Coach: O. Ojoker
Highlights: Ojoker's new enterprise for this season is Xegei, the ever going down/going up Klaskis club. Let's see if the coach can do anything with the Pinkies different than what he has done previously with Goyoreh.
Expectations: Low


Previous Duke League Winners

I	Billiard (first title)
II	Polar Zenith (first title)
III	Warriors (first title)

[Vephrall]

Group stage results

Group A

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts  VPU Cal ArH AFc
   1  Van Prooijen Univ  [ASA]   6   4   1   1   12    7    5   13   -  0-0 2-1 4-1  Q
   2  Univ of Calamen    [VPH]   6   3   2   1   11    3    8   11  3-0  -  0-0 5-1  Q
   3  Arrigo Harb-UIGA   [CAM]   6   3   1   2    8    6    2   10  0-3 1-0  -  4-0
   4  Air Force          [TAE]   6   0   0   6    6   21  -15    0  2-3 1-3 1-2  -

Group B

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts  SSU NTI UBO Yeo
   1  Sumbobor St Univ   [VPH]   6   6   0   0   17    3   14   18   -  2-1 3-0 3-0  Q
   2  Novaria Tech Inst  [ASA]   6   3   0   3   16    7    9    9  0-2  -  3-0 4-0  Q*
   3  B'grad Bleeding Ob [SNO]   6   3   0   3   15   13    2    9  2-4 2-1  -  4-1  
   4  Yeonsei University [HAN]   6   0   0   6    3   28  -25    0  0-3 1-7 1-7  -

* Novaria Tech Inst advances over Bleeding Obvious on head-to-head goal difference (UBO 2-1 NTI, NTI 3-0 UBO)

Group C

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts  Kon Gif TIH Par
   1  Gifton College-AU  [CAM]   6   3   2   1   12    7    5   11  1-1  -  1-1 5-1  Q*
   2  Univ of Konila     [ASA]   6   3   2   1   12    6    6   11   -  2-3 2-1 3-0  Q*
   3  Tech Inst @ Hatton [ADN]   6   2   2   2   11    9    2    8  1-1 1-2  -  4-2
   4  Pardbo University  [LEN]   6   1   0   5    5   18  -13    3  0-3 1-0 1-3  -

* Gifton College ahead of Konila on head-to-head points (Gif 1-1 Kon, Kon 2-3 Gif)

Group D

.Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts  WCI NMW BTI Bra
   1  Woodruff Culinary  [ASA]   6   4   2   0   12    4    8   14   -  1-1 2-0 1-0  Q
   2  Nat'l Maritime WS  [CAM]   6   2   2   2    9    6    3    8  1-3  -  1-0 1-1  Q*
   3  Bektys Tech Inst   [VPH]   6   2   2   2    6    6    0    8  1-1 1-0  -  3-1
   4  Bradley University [WZI]   6   0   2   4    4   15  -11    2  1-4 0-5 1-1  -

* National Maritime Warfare advances over BTI on overall goal difference (head-to-head: NMW 1-0 BTI, BTI 1-0 NMW)

Quarterfinals
The quarterfinal draw proved rather unfortunate, with two Paripanan teams facing each other as well as two Seeandemian teams doing the same, while the other two matches were both Paripana-on-Vephrall affairs. We're not sure, but we think this may be the first time one association has had four teams in the final eight.

[ASA]             Van Prooijen University 0-2 Novaria Technical Institute         [ASA]
[CAM] Gifton College, Albrecht University 0-0 National Maritime Warfare School    [CAM]
                              Extra time: 0-0
                               Penalties: 3-0
[VPH]           Sumbobor State University 2-1 University of Konila                [ASA]
[ASA]         Woodruff Culinary Institute 1-0 University of Calamen               [VPH]

Semifinals

[ASA]         Novaria Technical Institute 2-0 National Maritime Warfare School    [CAM]
[VPH]           Sumbobor State University 0-1 Woodruff Culinary Institute         [ASA]

Final (@ Metropolitan Stadium, Commerce Heights, Paripana)
An all-Paripana final held in Paripana. That pretty much says it all about the current state of the competition.

[ASA]         Novaria Technical Institute 2-0 Woodruff Culinary Institute         [ASA]

Novaria Technical Institute has won the IUCC, keeping the trophy in Paripana and making the next final site once again the decision of the Academy Sporting Association.

* * * * *

This officially concludes the IUCC's sponsorship agreement with Samseong, which was in place for the last four editions of the tournament. Applications for sponsorship of International University Challenge Championships 28 through 31 will be accepted from now until shortly before IUCC28 commences. IUCC28 will begin approximately one week after the next round of UICA tournaments begins.

[Krytenia]

Twentieth Cygnus Series B Champions’ Cup — Final Venue Announcement

As agreed at the beginning of Cygnus' sponsorship, the 20th Series B Champions’ Cup Final will take place at the 105,000-capacity Cygnus Stadium in Bromham, Krytenia. Should Cygnus still be sponsoring the event at the time of the twenty-fourth final, this too will be held in Krytenia.

[Pasarga]

Season 1931

It was a sensational season for the clubs of Paulinthal, as CAP won their first title and Paulinthal FC won Super League 2 to secure their first ever season in the topflight. Meanwhile it was a bad year for the Stein-los, as all three of her clubs miss out on international competiton with Torgos and Paulinthal taking two spots each and Lunas sneaking into second on the last matchday. After such a dominating season a year ago, it may only be natural that the second city of Pasarga had an off year, but with the sudden rise in Paulinthal, Stein-los may need be wary that the west coast city dethrone them as the footballing capital of the country.

Super League

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  CA Paulinthal             30  17   8   5   62   34   28   59     Champions
   2  Peynol-Lunas              30  17   4   9   47   38    9   55     TQCC
   3  Galactica                 30  15   8   7   65   38   27   53     GC
   4  Santos Luega              30  16   3  11   58   51    7   51     GC
   5  Fetherdron United         30  15   5  10   53   47    6   50     GC
   6  Tanrısal                  30  12  11   7   64   44   20   47
   7  Club Stein-los            30  12   9   9   46   36   10   45
   8  Tulduroc United           30  13   5  12   29   30   -1   44
   9  Lunas FC                  30  12   6  12   40   47   -7   42
  10  Stein-los Turkish         30  11   5  14   48   49   -1   38
  11  Baskita FC                30   9   8  13   44   45   -1   35
  12  SC Sardin                 30  11   2  17   38   52  -14   35
  13  SC Troubalose             30   8   9  13   42   52  -10   33
  14  SC Filwarfin              30   8   9  13   55   71  -16   33
  15  FC Myrkan                 30   8   6  16   48   73  -25   30     Relegated
  16  Sardin United             30   5   4  21   25   57  -32   19     Relegated

Super League 2

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Paulinthal FC             30  19   6   5   80   44   36   63     Champions
   2  FC Felaton                30  18   2  10   60   39   21   56     SBCC
   3  Targas City               30  16   8   6   54   40   14   56     SBCC
   4  SC Myrkan                 30  15   8   7   40   26   14   53     SBCC
   5  Evenfar FC                30  13  10   7   49   37   12   49
   6  Celesthem FC              30  13   7  10   39   28   11   46
   7  RC Sardin                 30  12   9   9   53   43   10   45
   8  Aleine United             30  13   4  13   49   43    6   43
   9  Aleine FC                 30  11   8  11   37   36    1   41
  10  Cillinas FC               30  10   9  11   30   37   -7   39
  11  Targas United             30   8  14   8   34   33    1   38
  12  FC Belja                  30   8   8  14   42   51   -9   32
  13  Darom United              30   9   5  16   46   61  -15   32
  14  SC Dendros                30   7   8  15   47   66  -19   29
  15  Isnet'pa United           30   6   5  19   31   62  -31   23
  16  Tharg-calan               30   2   9  19   25   70  -45   15

[Candelaria And Marquez]

cont. from here...

Matchday Thirty-Two… With the round’s key games staggered over the weekend (and Monday night, which we tend to count as the weekend to avoid having to say the-weekend-and-Monday-night every day, which would be profoundly frustrating, wouldn’t it?), let us take them in chronila… cronon… chrolanonon… the order in which they took place.

Turkish arrived at a sleepy, Saturday-morning Bingo Hall knowing that, realistically, only victory over the Errant Knights would keep them in the title race. With Shawn O’Connell and James Masters one of the division’s most imposing defensive pairings, and Koviljko Randjelovic out with a groin strain, Mannasuch was clearly going to need to get a game out of Espy va Drake. Pushing the Vanorian out to the left, Turkish’s pricey new superstar was clearly sent out with a mission to exploit the youth of City right-back Warren Shepherd and, for the first ten minutes, the twenty-one year-old was given a proper run-around; va Drake left able to put in more than a couple of telling crosses that Calabrese was unfortunate not to get on the end of.

As Brandon Qiu and va Drake pushed forward ever further, however, and the Errant Knights’ right flank threatened to collapse; Mannasuch realised too late that he had made a costly oversight in leaving Agostinho all but free to roam wherever the Cafundelense pleased. While Quentin Gorrie will clearly win all the plaudits for City’s little revival this term, and Salvador González remains painfully underrated, their push towards the top four during XXXVIII has arguably been sparked by Agostinho’s rapidly improving form. Several years spent under Dionísio’s tutelage has improved the A.F.F. product’s game to no end, and Shepherd’s Di Bradini Cup counterpart on the opposite defensive flank would soon be offered a footballing lesson.

Agostinho scored on twenty minutes, a textbook give-and-go with González still leaving him with plenty to do but Qiu with no answer to his skills, and only thanks to Van Linschoten were the visitors not two or three behind soon after. Shepherd visibly grew in confidence as the half progressed, meanwhile, leaving va Drake increasingly frustrated and soon shifted back to the right.

A short way into the second period, Turkish earned a wholly unwarranted equaliser from a corner and began to retake the initiative – but that lad Gorrie isn’t a shoe-in for Young Player of the Season for no reason. His finish from Agostinho’s through-ball was hardly graceful – they never are with this boy, mind, although we won’t hold that against him – but his eighty-seventh minute winner none the less ended Turkish’s residual hopes and helped his club draw back level on points with their opponents.

Next up, on Saturday afternoon, were Port of Clotaire. Theoretically, the Harpies could get away with a defeat, providing the Marbles did something ridiculous in Zapata two nights later, but in practise only victory over MarquezOW was particularly likely to keep things alive. But this is a different naranja than the one swept aside by the PoC during the Apertura, with just three defeats during the second half of the season, and a far more threatening prospect.

With Amern S’toris out and nursing a knee injury, Muscat’s men understandably stuck with their 4-3-3 and set about sending an endless stream of hopeful efforts towards the home side’s second-choice goalkeeper. In retrospect, that was an extremely silly decision, for Leroy Nghiem is an extremely capable custodian and a Sorthern Northlandish native to boot, with plenty to prove against his innumerable countrymen in the visiting XI. Port of Clotaire were repeatedly left open at the back, with Souto Maior and yet another Sortherner, José María Gómez, taking full advantage either side of a Sánchez García equaliser.

Even away from home the PoC are made of sterner stuff, but the introduction of rather exciting youngster Benjamín Collado for Gatti proved the death of them; the teenager setting up Bas Smit in the final ten minutes to hand the visitors yet another defeat on the road.

And hand the title, all of a sudden, to this incredible Green Island side. The GIZ needed only to brush aside a crumbling Marbles team to take the league title, and the visitors to Zapata were duly encamped in their own area throughout the first half.

Buuuut… Oddly enough, it didn’t happen. Perhaps the occasion got the Green Island’s youngsters, knowing as they did that the trophy was already sitting ready in the bowls of Marlow Park for the game’s inevitable conclusion. Perhaps the Marbles’ defence, marshalled by Hastings and González, were simply having a good day. Either way, the GIZ took just a point in a goalless draw, and the title race clung on for just a little bit longer…

Mathematically, anyway.

Albrecht FC 2-0 Gamboa FC (Hamizi 22, Morrison 56)
Caires City 2-1 Albrecht Turkish (Agostinho 20, Gorrie 87; Mihály 56)
Cathedral City 0-0 Webley Stadium
Green Island 0-0 El din Marbles
KT Hotspur 2-3 Tenderville United (Aitken 18 and 53; Lewis, Night 70 and 90+1)
Marquez-Onwere 3-2 Port of Clotaire (Souto Maior 32, Gómez 45+1, Smit 83; Sánchez García 40 and 57)
McDonald SC 0-2 Arrigo Portuguese (Álvarez 18, Jukic 44)
NAPPC 0-1 Mayo Valley (Živkovic 14)
Radyukevich CSC 1-2 Ironside-Talinger (Williams 6; Sheppard 47 and 86)

Matchday Thirty-Three… And so, the nations’ eyes were glued on Fortress Harper Street, where the PoC entertained (if that’s the right turn of phrase, there) Green Island in a winner-takes-almost-all contest. The visitors would be awarded the trophy there and then, or after the ninety minutes at any rate, if they managed a draw or better; otherwise, it would go down to the final Sunday.

So Port of Clotaire had to win, they had to go for it, and when they properly go and go for it at home there’s really only going to be one outcome these days. Someone was going to earn a humiliating spanking. And those someones were Green Island.

Well I’m sorry, alright? I could make it a tad more tense, but we know you just look at the scores first and honest t’God, it was four-nil, for heaven’s sake. The champions-elect were simply taken apart, their weaknesses – naïve midfielders, elderly full-backs, stand-in goalkeeper – exploited in a manner that the rest of the league really should have managed over the last couple of years. But it took Muscat and his merry Sortherners, Candelariasian Sortherners, Sorthern Candelariasians, Sortherners by adoption and Jamie Hamblett to underline a definitive truth about XXXVIII: That whoever wins the CMSC1, they’re not very good.

Factotum.

‘Tis true, though, don’t protest for my benefit. One only need look at the points tally, for even if Green Island do ultimately win the major gong – and they still really should, you know – they’ll have done it with no more than seventy points, at best equalling the lowest total since the switch to eighteen teams. And don’t go kidding anybody that the general standard’s better than usual, because the TQCC has just happened again and we don’t even want to talk about that, unless we really have to. We’re not being all masochistic or anything, there’s no waily-waily-waily, woe is us, we’re in terminal decline, the streets are being taken over by biker mobs, the markets are crashing, we’re heading for a hung parliament, the apocalypse is nigh, lock up your daughters or cut your losses and sell them to the vicious criminal gangs operating in the shadows of our economy. No, we’re not going down that route. Not us. It’ll pick up. In many ways, it’s made things rather exciting. Just not, all things considered, actually that good.

All them pointy buggers buggering off didn’t help, of course. The buggers.

Anyway, where was we? Oh yes, four-nil. And well deserved it was.

And so, on the final day, Port of Clotaire need to win away at Tenderville and hope Green Island lose – yus, lose – at home – yus, at home – to Ironside – yus, Ironside. Slightly anticlimactic, but there we are.

At least Ironside still have something to play for, because only victory on the last day will keep them up now. Slumping to a late defeat at home to the naranja, the Irons look utterly shorn of the confidence boost presented by Narquelie’s arrival and would be deserved candidates for the drop, despite all the cash shelled out by Deacon Farley. The Pocoan is rightly less than chuffed with the ways things have gone this term, but they still have one last chance, with NAPPC two points ahead of them. They’d need a couple of miracles, but Zapata – if nowhere else in the Candelarias – is the kind of place you might just expect to find one.

KT Hotspur are safe bar the shouting, though it may well only come down to their superior goal difference following this weekend’s defeat to Caires City. The Errant Knights not only wrapped up the Clausura trophy with that result – not that anyone cares about that, of course, but it’s a nice little trinket to add to the cabinet (Work & Pensions, possibly) and bodes well for next season – but moved ahead of Albrecht FC into fourth.

They have the unlikely figures of Webley Stadium to thank for that; the Stads holding the Scorpions goalless at home. With both City and third-place Turkish having extremely easy-looking games on the final day, we must now face the possibility that the Tristar Songstress Stadium could well be without Champions’ Cup football next term, with its denizens travelling to Hodgehill next week to take on a Mayo Valley side still in with a chance of snaffling a debut Globe Cup campaign.

Elsewhere, the El din Marbles lost at home to Tenderville and sit behind their neighbours on goal difference. Based on the fact that Félix recently picked up a vote of confidence? Yeah, he’s gone, isn’t he? Laters, homegirl.

Albrecht Turkish 2-0 McDonald SC (Hamizi 51 and 56)
El din Marbles 1-2 Tenderville United (Macanás 22; Van Braam 9, Holtz 80)
Gamboa FC 3-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Mirnyi 15 and 33, Sneden 77)
Ironside-Talinger 1-2 Marquez-Onwere (Illés 43; Smit 69 and 78)
KT Hotspur 0-1 Caires City (Agostinho 26)
Mayo Valley 1-1 Cathedral City (Subudhi 84; Karatkevich 20)
NAPPC 0-0 Radyukevich CSC
Port of Clotaire 4-0 Green Island (Sánchez García 31 and 44, O’Airmeadhaigh 42, Garrett 54)
Webley Stadium 0-0 Albrecht FC

Matchday Thirty-Four… Shall we? Shall we? Oh go on, let’s. Just for a little while, though. It’s beginning to pall a tad.

Minute 1 ~ Woosh! Bang! Kpow! Bort! And, indeed, HOUSE!, for off we travel to the McNeil Bingo Arena where Wanderley, in what may well be his final league outing for McDonald SC (homesick, so we hear, the big lanky pussy) scores almost from the kick-off – the very kick-off, mister! – to put the Dons a goal up at Caires City. Which means that, with Albrecht FC still drawing in Hodgehill (they’ve had twenty-nine seconds, for heaven’s sake, how much longer do they need?), the Scorpions are back into fourth on goal difference.

Minute 3 ~ Boing! Pip! Fuckwit! West Zirconian’s Lewis Fox and Outlien native Ciaran Stockley square up after a horrible back pass from the former rolls into the back of the Radyukevich net to put Catedral one-nil up. It’s hardly a surprise, mind you, with the Jukos having nothing left to play for and the Cats still gunning to out-finish the Marbles. They really should win this one comfortably, even at the Hilltop.

Minute 4 ~ Ooh, and hold that thought… the utterly pointless, last-minute race between the El din clubs hots up with Luis Pavoni – but of course – nodding in a Marbles opener against KT Hotspur. Elsewhere, as it stands, Green Island are champions and Ironside are going down. Oh, and…

Minute 5 ~ …Albrecht FC aren’t going to be in the TQCC. Not if they carry on like this, anyway, with William – who’s really very good, you know – performing a passable impression of the callow sixteen year-old that first turned up at the Scorpions Academy to allow young Zoran Živkovic to power past him and put Mayo Valley a goal up. Zachary Telemans’ men still need NAPPC or Webley to do them a major favour if they want a Globe Cup place, but it’s a typically impressive start all the same… Someone big give Telemans a job, will you? It’s about bloody time.

Minute 7 ~ Oh, make a fool of me, why don’t you? I shall have the last laugh, fate. Just you wait and see… For now, however, Kim Mihyeon equalises and puts the Scorpions back in the Champions’ Cup driving sea–

Minute 8 ~ Stop doing that! Patrick Zoric takes a wander into the McDonald box and heads in Agostinho’s cross to give Caires City an early equaliser and put them back into fourth. Probably worth mentioning at this point that Albrecht Turkish could still ultimately be the ones to miss out, although they’d have to mess things up against Gamboa at the Solidarity, which obviously isn’t going to happen, right…?

Minute 9 ~ GOWON THEN, BITCH! Have Gamboa score now, why not!? Ruin my entire career; make me the laughing stock of the multiverse. DO IT!

Minute 10 ~ Teenager Austin O’Riordan equalises for Radyukevich. Not quite as thrilling, but there we go.

Minute 15 ~ And just when things looked set to settle down, Adriaan van Braam, which is a surprisingly fun name to say out loud, goes and throws an almighty spanner in the works. Brian Andrews and Noah Garrett have no answer to the young Nethertopian striker, who waltzes into the PoC penalty box and puts Tenderville one-nil up. The Harpies now not only need a huge helping hand from Ironside; they need to come back from behind themselves.

Minute 17 ~ And that, I think you’ll find, is that. Ethan Robertson nips past Sam Doswell, collects the ball from Jacob Pond, and knocks the ball in off the bar to put Green Island ahead. No miracles tonight; not at the top, and not at the bottom.

Minute 18 ~ Albrecht FC and Torrealba’s life could still be made less than jolly, though, with Turkish going quite some way to cementing their top three – and top two, currently – place with Espy va Drake giving them the lead over Gamboa.

Minute 21 ~ A second goal from Pavoni over KT Hotspur confirms a pretty dire season for the visitors to the Marble Ground. They’re staying up, barring rank stupidity elsewhere, but they really do seem to be a club going nowhere at the moment and a change of management has to be on the cards – with the Adamczyks already heard muttering that they should have kept up the tradition of promoting from within rather than picking up the ill-fated Ben Landry. Still one of the best defensive records in the country, mind you, but there’d’ve be blood spilled on the streets if it had been anything different.

Minute 24 ~ Francisco Manuel Sánchez García, now comfortably on course for the Golden Boot and the chance to completely mess up that nice infobox at the bottom of the CMSC wiki page with his stupid long name, gets on the end of a Will Hooper free-kick to equalise for the PoC. S’all academic while Green Island are leading, though.

Minute 28 ~ Well, that was easy, wasn’t it? Pond slices through the Gamboa “defence” like a knife through butter, the GIZ are two-nil up, and the title’s going back to Zapata. They deserve it, ultimately.

Minute 31 ~ And that man Živkovic does it again… Two-one for Mayo Valley, and Albrecht FC are looking fifth right between the eyes. Mind if I drop off for a bit, then? It’s been a long day, I’ve got a dental appointment at five, you know how it is.

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Minute 82 ~ GORRIE! Yes! Awake! Erm.

Minute 83 ~ Caires City two, McDonald one. Albrecht FC are fifth, and the inquest starts here I suppose. Green Island are three-nil up, meanwhile, and Ironside are down, down, deeper and down.

Albrecht Turkish 3-1 Gamboa FC (va Drake 17, Robinson 82, Calabrese 90; Delamater 47)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-0 Webley Stadium (Jukic 39)
Caires City 2-1 McDonald SC (Zoric 8, Gorrie 82; Wanderley 1)
Green Island 3-0 Ironside-Talinger (Robertson 17, Pond 28 and 70)
El din Marbles 3-1 KT Hotspur (Pavoni 4 and 21, Macanás 59; Clayton 88)
Marquez-Onwere 1-0 NAPPC (Fishsnapperbottom 61)
Mayo Valley 2-2 Albrecht FC (Živkovic 4 and 31; Kim 7, Nakatsuru 50)
Radyukevich CSC 1-1 Cathedral City (O’Riordan 10; Fox og 3)
Tenderville United 1-2 Port of Clotaire (Van Braam 15; Sánchez García 24, Hooper 40)

CMSC XXXVIII Final Standings
Pos  Team                        P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Green Island              34  21   7   6   57   25   32   70  CHAMPIONS/TQCC
   2  Port of Clotaire          34  20   7   7   82   39   43   67  TQCC
   3  Albrecht Turkish          34  19   8   7   63   33   30   65  TQCC
   4  Caires City               34  19   8   7   51   32   19   65  TQCC
   5  Albrecht FC               34  18   8   8   53   30   23   62  GC
   6  Marquez-Onwere            34  15   8  11   46   43    3   53  GC
   7  Arrigo Portuguese         34  15   8  11   43   42    1   53  GC
   8  Tenderville United        34  14   7  13   52   48    4   49
   9  Mayo Valley               34  14   7  13   45   54   -9   49
  10  Radyukevich CSC           34  10  13  11   45   48   -3   43
  11  El din Marbles            34  12   7  15   48   55   -7   43
  12  Cathedral City            34  10  11  13   50   51   -1   41
  13  McDonald SC               34  13   2  19   44   65  -21   41
  14  KT Hotspur                34   8  11  15   23   37  -14   35
  15  NAPPC                     34   8  10  16   32   49  -17   34
  16  Ironside-Talinger         34   8   8  18   31   57  -26   32  REL
  17  Gamboa FC                 34   6   6  22   33   61  -28   24  REL
  18  Webley Stadium            34   3  10  21   21   50  -29   19  REL

Players of the Season:

Golden Boot:

1st Francisco Manuel Sánchez García, Port of Clotaire, 19 goals
2nd Quentin Gorrie, Caires City, 18 goals
3rd Bas Smit, Marquez-Onwere, 17 goals

Players’ Player of the Season:

1st Francisco Manuel Sánchez García, Port of Clotaire
2nd Jhanna Young, Green Island
3rd James Masters, Caires City

Sportswriters’ Player of the Season:

1st Jhanna Young, Green Island
2nd Francisco Manuel Sánchez García, Port of Clotaire
3rd Darren Robinson, Albrecht Turkish

Young Player of the Season:

1st Quentin Gorrie, Caires City
2nd Brandon Qiu, Albrecht Turkish
3rd Darren Hastings, El din Marbles

Manager of the Season:

1st Ben Young, Green Island
2nd Winston Muscat, Port of Clotaire
3rd Mike Alvintzi, McDonald SC

Foreigner of the Season:

1st Will Hooper, Port of Clotaire
2nd Kasper Grinius, Green Island
3rd Dwier Titenburg Jr., Albrecht Turkish

Goalkeeper of the Season:

1st Cobus van Linschoten, Albrecht Turkish
2nd Amern S’toris, Marquez-Onwere
3rd Lyle Gwyther, Green Island

Defender of the Season:

1st Kasper Grinius, Green Island
2nd James Masters, Caires City
3rd Dwier Titenburg Jr., Albrecht Turkish

Midfielder of the Season:

1st Darren Robinson, Albrecht Turkish
2nd Francesco Gaggioli, Radyukevich CSC
3rd Jhanna Young, Green Island

Forward of the Season:

1st Bas Smit, Marquez-Onwere
2nd Greg Innisvale, Cathedral City
3rd Francisco Manuel Sánchez García, Port of Clotaire

Candelariasian of the Season:

1st Jhanna Young, Green Island
2nd Darren Robinson, Albrecht Turkish
3rd Luis Pavoni, El din Marbles

CMS Cup Final… An odd, somewhat anticlimactic cup final, that ultimately took place in a half-full Solidarity Stadium rather than down in Songstress where it was originally slated to be played.

We’re not, in all honesty, entirely sure why it was moved. Odd things like that happen all the time in these parts. You learn to live with it, really. There’s got to be a sensible explanation, certainly. What we’re absolutely sure of is that the Tristar Songstress Stadium’s biosynthetic pitch didn’t up and leave of its own accord after many unhappy months of being trampled over by sweaty men who would ultimately fail to lead the local team even into the top four, never mind retain their title. The pitch absolutely didn’t leave a note, and half of the Albrecht Met aren’t currently employed in a desperate search to track it down. Rumours that part of the penalty box next to the North Side is currently holed up in a kebab house and refusing to leave unless its demands are met are completely unsubstantiated. The fact that #runawaypitch is currently trending on Blatter proves nothing. Far too much time on their hands, the lot of them.

Anyway, as for the game itself… Well, Port of Clotaire won. Quite a lot, actually. Indeed, by the largest margin in the history of the CMS Cup Final.

Which is, quite possibly, fitting. Although I wouldn’t like to hazard a guess as to why.

Port of Clotaire 4-0 McDonald SC (Hamblett 20, Sánchez García 40, Jones 48, Fuller 73)
@ Solidarity Stadium, Albrecht

(Candelariasian) Fans’ Players of the Season:

Albrecht FC ~ William (DC)
Albrecht Turkish ~ Darren Robinson (AM)
Arrigo Portuguese ~ William Romero Fernández (GK)
Caires City ~ Agostinho (AMR)
Cathedral City ~ Siarhiej Karatkevich (DM)
El din Marbles ~ Luis Pavoni (AM)
Gamboa FC ~ Gabriel Bell (AM)
Green Island ~ Jhanna Young (AM)
Ironside-Talinger ~ Gerson Illés (DM)
KT Hotspur ~ Cullen Maxwell (DC)
Marquez-Onwere ~ Bas Smit (FW)
Mayo Valley ~ Manny Warren (ML)
McDonald SC ~ Nashroy Andryan (FW)
Port of Clotaire ~ Francisco Manuel Sánchez García (FW)
Radyukevich CSC ~ Francesco Gaggioli (MR)
Webley Stadium ~ Adam Robinson (MR)

The T4S CMSC2

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Turks’ Club               38  20  11   7   67   45   22   71  PROMOTED/SBCC
   2  AFC MN Smith              38  21   8   9   61   41   20   71  PROMOTED/SBCC
   3  Brayton Town              38  19  12   7   51   28   23   69  SBCC
   4  Candelaria-Allemali       38  21   6  11   64   42   22   69  SBCC
   5  Sloane Wanderers          38  19  10   9   61   41   20   67
   6  Caires Sports             38  20   7  11   48   29   19   67
   7  Melin & Nader             38  19   9  10   49   45    4   66
   8  Magnus United             38  16   7  15   61   52    9   55
   9  Castellano Hills FC       38  14  12  12   51   49    2   54
  10  Albrecht Independent FC   38  14   9  15   38   34    4   51
  11  Candelaria Arsenal        38  14   8  16   36   39   -3   50
  12  Castillo FC               38  14   8  16   41   46   -5   50
  13  Fallon United             38  13   6  19   50   62  -12   45
  14  Melin Professionals       38   9  16  13   41   51  -10   43
  15  Blackwell Island          38  10  12  16   49   62  -13   42
  16  Deportivo María           38  11   8  19   53   69  -16   41
  17  Abiodun North             38  10   8  20   31   41  -10   38
  18  Alvery Blades             38   7  14  17   27   50  -23   35
  19  Miranda FC                38   8  10  20   32   56  -24   34  REL
  20  Khatib FC                 38   4  13  21   40   69  -29   25  REL

CMSC2 Play-Offs

Caires Sports 0-1 Brayton Town
Brayton Town 0-2 Caires Sports
Aggregate: Caires Sports 2-1 Brayton Town

Sloane Wanderers 3-1 Candelaria-Allemali
Candelaria-Allemali 1-1 Sloane Wanderers
Aggregate: Sloane Wanderers 4-2 Candelaria-Allemali

Caires Sports 1-1 Sloane Wanderers (2-1 AET)
@ Tristar Songstress Stadium, Albrecht

The Regional Divisions

Patton-Carmichael Candelarian Premier League XXXVIII
 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Dyce FC                   33  18   9   6   56   30   26   63  PROMOTED
   2  Maidment SC               33  17  11   5   47   24   23   62
   3  Preece Town               33  18   6   9   68   49   19   60
   4  Thoth Town SC             33  13  13   7   48   42    6   52
   5  The New Saints            33  11  15   7   41   33    8   48
   6  Caires FC                 33  13   7  13   49   49    0   46
   7  Saurin I.A.               33  12   7  14   35   47  -12   43
   8  Exeter Trident            33   8  11  14   42   51   -9   35
   9  Liverpool Knights         33   7  13  13   32   35   -3   34
  10  Di Alfonso Phoenix        33   8  10  15   35   42   -7   34
  11  Dublynne Raiders          33   7  10  16   33   52  -19   31
  12  Alber City Wasps          33   6   8  19   39   71  -32   26  REL

The El Monstruo Verde Elite Championship XXXVIII
 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  San Juan                  33  18   7   8   57   39   18   61  PROMOTED
   2  Condory Bantams           33  17   8   8   52   29   23   59
   3  Riverton Olympic          33  16   8   9   41   25   16   56
   4  Arrigo C.d.F.             33  15   8  10   48   40    8   53
   5  Onwere University         33  15   7  11   51   41   10   52
   6  Nader FC                  33  13  11   9   33   35   -2   50
   7  C.G.y.F.d.C.d.L.T.        33  13   8  12   47   48   -1   47
   8  Swords of Bass            33  11  10  12   40   46   -6   43
   9  Newport Island            33  11   9  13   41   39    2   42
  10  Bass FC                   33   8   8  17   30   44  -14   32
  11  Club Atlético Lugar       33   9   4  20   36   52  -16   31
  12  Club Marquez              33   5   6  22   25   63  -38   21  REL

 Cristal Chemical Stragetic Candelarian Second League XXXVIII
 Pos  Team                          P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Starless City Nationals      33  21   7   5   47   23   24   70  PROMOTED
   2  MSS Scorpions                33  20   7   6   58   33   25   67
   3  Bulent GBC                   33  16  10   7   53   33   20   58
   4  Lesperance Knights           33  17   7   9   47   37   10   58
   5  Lower Wessaxontown Magicians 33  13  10  10   46   36   10   49
   6  Catherin FC                  33  13   5  15   41   36    5   44
   7  Abiodun South                33  12   5  16   43   55  -12   41
   8  Hanlon Warbirds              33  11   4  18   35   49  -14   37
   9  Scruggs Picking Sharks       33   9   9  15   32   43  -11   36
  10  Gentle Rangers               33   7  10  16   28   48  -20   31
  11  Cleal Beck                   33   7   8  18   24   44  -20   29
  12  Nyton Thistle                33   5  12  16   41   58  -17   27  REL

 Campeonato de la Doble Vidriera de la Élite XXXVIII
 Pos  Team                        P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Marquez Athletic           33  17   8   8   56   40   16   59  PROMOTED
   2  Guerreros de Agujero       33  17   7   9   52   32   20   58
   3  Gómez United               33  14  13   6   50   32   18   55
   4  Atlético San Cristóbal     33  15   9   9   41   30   11   54
   5  New Taylor Road            33  14   9  10   34   27    7   51
   6  Chapon FC                  33  13  12   8   38   34    4   51
   7  Estrellas Brilliantes      33  12   5  16   42   46   -4   41
   8  Club Atlético Fasnia       33  11   8  14   40   45   -5   41
   9  Korslund                   33   9  10  14   28   45  -17   37
  10  Fallon Town                33   8  10  15   25   34   -9   34
  11  Los Realejos Storks        33   8   9  16   24   36  -12   33
  12  Pranschke Island Athletics 33   7   6  20   20   49  -29   27  REL

The Tropica CAMAFA League Trophy

Riverton Olympic 1-1 Arrigo C.d.F. (2-2 AET) (Riverton Olympic wins 3-1 on penalty kicks)

[Qazox]

31 years ago, the last attempt at a Qazoxian football league failed. That league, the NEWQFL was founded in 1945, and was supposed to start in 1947. But after 6 years of failure to find sponsorships or stadium upgrades, that league failed to even play a game. In fact the last competitve professional football game in Qazox came on September 19th, 1928. That saw FC Fromburg defeat Qazox City 4-1 in the final Qazox Cup. The last champion was Deportivo Iguana. In fact, in 1955, the Qazoxian Senate banned all professional and collegiate sports leagues. Thankfully that ban was overturned in 1977, most likely due to the efforts of the QFA, who convinced the Senate that a professional league was needed in Qazox due to the recent failures of the national team at the World Cup. A recent quote from QFA President Yale Carborugh will explain better:

Our National team, while very good, have failed in high-level competitions due to the simple fact, other than the World Cup qualifers, they have little to no experience facing top-level competition. A new professional league will bring funding to the team, and Qazox will be better for it."

But for the first time in 50 years, there will professional football back in Qazox. The A-League, Qazox' latest football league has no ties to either the QFL or NEWQFL but most of the cities that had a QFL team will have an A-League team. The A-League will give 7% of all profits to the QFA, who are sponsoring the league.

The inaugural season, (1978) will feature 14 teams in 14 cities. No city will have more than one team and they will play a double round-robin schedule of 26 games. The Qazox Cup, an end of the season competition to determine the best team in Qazox, will return as well.The best record at the end of the Season will be declared the A-League Champion.

Teams playing in inaugural Season
Qazox City
Rockport
SaxerVilla
Lake Porter City
Pika City
Lorax City
Bruxen
Gothika
Fromburg
Cuidad de Iguana
Kibbutz
Graverville
Vogg City
New Bruxen

[Qazox]

TEAM             W-L-T  Pts
Qazox City       16-5-5  53 
New Bruxen       17-8-1  52 
Fromburg         15-8-3  48 
Kibbutz          14-8-4  46 
Gothika          14-10-2 44 
SaxerVilla       13-8-5  44 
Graverville      11-12-3 36 
Lorax City       10-10-6 36 
Pika City        11-14-1 34 
Vogg City        8-13 7  31 
Rockport         8-12-6  30 
Cuidad de Iguana 7-13-6  27 
Lake Porter City 6-17-3  21 
Bruxen           6-18-2  20

1978 Qazox Cup
FINAL @ Qazox City: SaxerVilla 3- Qazox City 1

[Andossa Se Mitrin Vega]

The Final Results for AI2 of then Vegan Fuborii Liaga are now in. Congrats to Errion Vega FK for yet another Championship, A major rule change will institute an eight team playoff to follow the AI3 season in each division. If the regular and tournament champions are not the same club, the two sides will face each other in a home/away series to determine the League and Divisional Champions.

As is always the case, the top bottom two sides from Tier 1 will face the top two sides from Tier 2 (bottom two in Tier 2 will face top two in Tier 3) for the right to compete in the higher division during the next season.

Championship Tier AI 2

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Errion Vega FK            60  26  19  15   83   63   20   97
   2  Tobia Sarud               60  25  17  18   57   54    3   92
   3  Sarii E.V.                60  25  14  21   84   75    9   89
   4  Stonengarten UH           60  24  17  19   67   60    7   89
   5  FK Kelsey                 60  23  18  19  104   96    8   87
   6  Sarii Falcione            60  23  18  19   74   69    5   87
   7  Sarii Carrington          60  23  17  20   99   87   12   86
   8  Isla De Marte             60  22  19  19   88   84    4   85
   9  Sa Aln FK                 60  24  13  23   80   79    1   85
  10  Carrington FK             60  24   9  27  111  103    8   81
  11  Erda Khaza                60  20  19  21   60   54    6   79
  12  Tapia Reis                60  23  10  27   94  115  -21   79
  13  Meldinburg FK             60  17  21  22   67   80  -13   72
  14  Radiance Sarud            60  19  14  27   73   83  -10   71
  15  Sa'una Vega               60  18  16  26   89  108  -19   70
  16  Meldinburg UH             60  16  15  29   42   62  -20   63

Sa’una Vega defeats Falcione FK 4-1 to avoid relegation to 2nd Tier

Millsport FK defeats Meldinburg UH 1-0 to move up to the Cha,pionship Tier for AI 3
Meldinburg UH is relegated to the 2nd Tier for AI 3.

2nd Tier AI 2

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Millsport FK              60  30  14  16   72   59   13  104
   2  Falcione FK               60  28  13  19  107   85   22   97
   3  FK Alariz                 60  27  14  19   80   73    7   95
   4  Errion Vega Polii         60  26  13  21   94   83   11   91
   5  Meldinburg Sarud          60  24  19  17   63   58    5   91
   6  Thryvist UH               60  23  21  16   99   86   13   90
   7  Kunei Carr                60  25  13  22  119  113    6   88
   8  Eros GS                   60  21  21  18   83   78    5   84
   9  Jaris Sarud               60  22  16  22   89   90   -1   82
  10  Vegan 4th Quad            60  20  20  20   82   70   12   80
  11  Sarii T.R.                60  22  11  27   78   85   -7   77
  12  Shalerix FK               60  20  15  25   76   79   -3   75
  13  Uza Uzi Sarud             60  20  14  26   56   71  -15   74
  14  Turin-Kelsey              60  17  17  26   66   82  -16   68
  15  Sarii Alariz              60  13  21  26   39   67  -28   60
  16  UnderMountain UH          60  12  18  30   54   78  -24   54

Qualim Vega defeats Sarii Alariz 3-2 to move up to 2nd Tier for AI 3 Sarii Alariz is relegated to 3rd Tier for AI 3.

MalachI Ifreet defeats Undermountain UH 5-1 to move into 2nd Tier for AI 3. Undermountain UH is relegated to 3rd Tier for AI 3

3rd Tier AI 2

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Malachi Ifreet            60  31  18  11  109   67   42  111
   2  Qualim Vega               60  30  11  19  118  108   10  101
   3  Hegdellin Acai            60  27  17  16   91   69   22   98
   4  Misii Eversol             60  23  20  17   55   47    8   89
   5  Irildur Compar            60  23  19  18  106   93   13   88
   6  Stonengarten Sarud        60  23  19  18   61   55    6   88
   7  Mujah 926                 60  23  15  22   83   84   -1   84
   8  Tel49                     60  21  19  20   64   59    5   82
   9  Piossa Juhinx             60  20  21  19   74   75   -1   81
  10  Ominus Hera               60  21  15  24   84   86   -2   78
  11  Parthenon Rivii Artur     60  20  17  23   79   87   -8   77
  12  Lai-una Reisi             60  19  20  21   72   81   -9   77
  13  Vega Dras                 60  16  22  22   49   47    2   70
  14  Tronjheim                 60  18  15  27   78   90  -12   69
  15  Kuri Kurii                60  15  16  29   58   76  -18   61
  16  Triarii Rivii             60  11  14  35   78  135  -57   47

[Toiletdonia]

Matchday 9
Toileten 5-1 Liwilors
Dale 3-1 Areabic Rovers
Vale 5-2 Ale
Leas 1-0 Trioreo Town
Cordian city rovers 2-2 AFC Vatalors
Lavatorian city 5-1 Leas Uni
Harbour 0-2 Sewermouth
Trioreo Rovers 1-4 seven united

Matchday 10
Dale 3-2 Toileten
Liwilors 2-6 Vale
Areabic Rovers 1-4 Leas
Ale 1-2 Cordian city rovers
Trioreo Town 0-2 Lavatorian city
AFC Vatalors 2-1 Harbour
Leas Uni 2-0 Trioreo Rovers
Sewermouth 2-2 Multon

Matchday 11
Toileten 3-5 Leas
Dale 2-2 Vale
Cordian city rovers 2-2 Liwilors
Lavatorian city 1-4 Areabic Rovers
Harbour 3-4 Ale
Trioreo Rovers 1-1 Trioreo Town
Multon 2-0 AFC Vatalors
seven united 0-1 Leas Uni

Matchday 12
Lavatorian city 1-1 Toileten
Cordian city rovers 1-1 Dale
Leas 1-1 Vale
Liwilors 1-1 Harbour
Areabic Rovers 3-1 Trioreo Rovers
Ale 0-2 Multon
Trioreo Town 0-0 seven united
AFC Vatalors 4-5 Sewermouth

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Vale                      11   8   3   0   49   13   36   27
   2  Leas                      11   8   3   0   29   12   17   27
   3  Sewermouth                11   7   3   1   32   22   10   24
   4  Multon                    11   7   1   3   14   13    1   22
   5  Areabic Rovers            12   5   3   4   29   29    0   18
   6  Dale                      11   4   5   2   22   18    4   17
   7  Leas Uni                  11   5   2   4   15   15    0   17
   8  AFC Vatalors              12   5   2   5   21   23   -2   17
   9  Lavatorian city           11   4   4   3   23   23    0   16
  10  Cordian city rovers       11   3   5   3   26   22    4   14
  11  Toileten                  11   3   4   4   24   28   -4   13
  12  Ale                       12   4   1   7   19   27   -8   13
  13  Liwilors                  12   2   6   4   13   21   -8   12
  14  seven united              11   1   6   4   13   20   -7    9
  15  Trioreo Town              12   1   4   7    4   17  -13    7
  16  Harbour                   11   0   5   6   11   21  -10    5
  17  Trioreo Rovers            11   0   1  10   10   30  -20    1

Vale as usual go top of the table but they are going head to head with Leas for the title. There most recent game reflects the season so far though a 1-1 draw. Sewermouth and Multon take the other globe cup spots. Multon used to be a low life team but as normal shocks happen. Sewermouth chase third for a second season running. Rivals Trioreo Town and Rovers look like they're going down together. Harbour look like they're going back were they came from.

Matchday 9
AFC Mintos 1-1 Moore City
Westbridge 1-1 Excritement
Esto Rovers 1-1 Hampto Town
Burghamton 0-1 Lukkia City
Lukkia Eastern 3-1 Dlesdren
North Strip 3-0 Peepeeton
AFC Schoolboys 0-1 Miloreo Town
Cordian city Athletic 4-2 Limpton
Mouth city 2-2 Team Lacot

Matchday 10
Westbridge 1-3 AFC Mintos
Moore City 4-2 Esto Rovers
Excritement 1-2 Burghamton
Hampto Town 2-0 Lukkia Eastern
Lukkia City 0-0 North Strip
Dlesdren 0-1 AFC Schoolboys
Peepeeton 2-1 Cordian city Athletic
Miloreo Town 2-1 Mouth city
Team Lacot 1-3 Limpton

Matchday 11
AFC Mintos 2-3 Burghamton
Westbridge 2-0 Esto Rovers
Lukkia Eastern 4-0 Moore City
North Strip 1-4 Excritement
AFC Schoolboys 3-1 Hampto Town
Cordian city Athletic 2-2 Lukkia City
Mouth city 0-2 Dlesdren
Limpton 1-1 Peepeeton
Miloreo Town 0-1 Team Lacot

Matchday 12
North Strip 3-1 AFC Mintos
Lukkia Eastern 2-2 Westbridge
Burghamton 3-0 Esto Rovers
Moore City 3-4 AFC Schoolboys
Excritement 4-2 Cordian city Athletic
Hampto Town 1-2 Mouth city
Lukkia City 0-1 Limpton
Dlesdren 1-1 Miloreo Town
Team Lacot 1-1 Peepeeton

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Limpton                   12   7   1   4   27   22    5   22
   2  AFC Mintos                12   6   3   3   23   16    7   21
   3  Dlesdren                  12   6   2   4   20   16    4   20
   4  AFC Schoolboys            12   6   2   4   20   18    2   20
   5  Excritement               12   5   4   3   24   17    7   19
   6  Peepeeton                 12   5   4   3   16   12    4   19
   7  Burghamton                12   6   1   5   17   15    2   19
   8  Team Lacot                12   4   6   2   14   12    2   18
   9  Miloreo Town              12   5   2   5   11   17   -6   17
  10  Moore City                12   4   4   4   28   30   -2   16
  11  Esto Rovers               12   4   4   4   20   24   -4   16
  12  Mouth city                12   4   3   5   19   23   -4   15
  13  Westbridge                12   4   3   5   15   19   -4   15
  14  Lukkia Eastern            12   3   5   4   19   15    4   14
  15  Lukkia City               12   3   3   6   13   16   -3   12
  16  Hampto Town               12   3   3   6   17   21   -4   12
  17  Cordian city Athletic     12   3   2   7   20   25   -5   11
  18  North Strip               12   3   2   7   16   21   -5   11

Limpton Look like they can go up for the first time. Faves for the title AFC Mintos look like they're going up to and will fightfor the title the whole way. New team Dlesdren are fighting for promotion also after they were kick off the top spot. AFC Schoolboy are in 4th but still in a chance for going up maybe in first. The 6 bottom teams are all new damn it but still next season OOC: We will divide the current rank for each team by ten to make Vale spot winning it.

[Sportgirls]

Sportgirls National League
SECOND SEASON

The success of the new Sportgirls domestic professional circuit was immediate, and the league expanded the rolls from five to seven teams and the season by 50% for season two. Each team represents one district of the nation. Since the entire country is essentially a small city-state with some extra agricultural lands outside the walls all matches are played at the Queen Ingebjørg Stadium near the city centre.

Schedules are quadruple round robin, with home team status not a factor in these circumstances. Four matches with each of the other six teams make for 24 matches in all. North Ward captured their second consecutive title, with the big story being surprising runs by last year's bottom side Greenfield to second and newcomers Bridgeview to the third spot. The other newcomers, Armoury, were bottom-dwellers for almost the whole campaign.

Most Outstanding Player honours fell to North Ward striker and scoring champ Courtney Lee, just ahead of midfield whiz Nicole Kelly of Greenfield and winger Samantha Thomas of Palace. Rookie of the Year was Bridgeview captain and attacking midfielder Barbi Barton.

UICA qualifications were extended to North Ward for the TakilQuip Champions' Cup and to Greenfield, Bridgeview, and Palace for the Globe Cup.

SNL Season 2

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  North Ward                24  12   8   4   46   31   15   44
   2  Greenfield                24  12   5   7   34   26    8   41
   3  Bridgeview                24  12   3   9   32   31    1   39
   4  Palace                    24   8   5  11   32   38   -6   29
   5  Harbour Town              24   8   5  11   31   38   -7   29
   6  Commercial                24   7   7  10   42   38    4   28
   7  Armoury                   24   5   7  12   36   51  -15   22

[The Babbage Islands]

FFB Premier League Season 28

Season 28 has been called the Year of Parity by some commenters. Certainly a strong mixture of traditional powers and newer faces led the way in the Premier League this season.

Greenville Rovers won their first league championship by four points over perennial powers Dover City. Newly-promoted Viktoria Baden showed ambition to renew the successes of a decade ago with a respectable fourth-place run. Wye Celtic continued to establish themselves as a top side, Real Santa Catalina and Bloomfield National remained strong, and Four Towers showed marked improvement from their Season 27 collapse.

Sportgirls native Kathy Dixon of Rovers became the first foreign player to take the MVP, and teenage teammate Veronika Hennicke was honoured as Rookie of the Year.

Premier League Season 28

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Greenville Rovers         22  12   6   4   46   32   14   42
   2  Dover City                22  11   5   6   45   33   12   38
   3  Wye Celtic                22   9   9   4   26   18    8   36
   4  Viktoria Baden            22  11   3   8   31   28    3   36
   5  Real Santa Catalina       22   9   5   8   31   24    7   32
   6  Bloomfield National       22   8   5   9   40   43   -3   29
   7  Four Towers               22   7   6   9   35   33    2   27
   8  Southland FC              22   7   6   9   39   49  -10   27
   9  South Side AC             22   7   5  10   26   39  -13   26
  10  West Scoville Tigers      22   7   4  11   29   31   -2   25
  11  Cardiff FC                22   5   9   8   28   35   -7   24
  12  Capital AC                22   4   7  11   28   39  -11   19

Belgium FC promote in; Capital AC relegate
Cardiff FC 0-1 Red Devils FC (Devils promote)

FFB Championship Series Season 28

Belgium FC continued their meteoric rise, finishing an astounding 17 points clear of second-place Red Devils FC. Both teams promote to the Premier League for Season 29 replacing Capital AC and Cardiff FC.

Championship Series Season 28

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Belgium FC                22  15   7   0   58   24   34   52
   2  Red Devils FC             22  10   5   7   31   29    2   35
   3  FK Maribor                22  10   3   9   34   30    4   33
   4  Sporting Boulder          22  10   3   9   37   34    3   33
   5  Great Falls Cymru         22   8   6   8   27   23    4   30
   6  Gernsback United          22   8   6   8   25   25    0   30
   7  Parisian                  22   9   3  10   29   40  -11   30
   8  West Scoville Athletic    22   8   3  11   27   28   -1   27
   9  FC Green Star             22   8   3  11   21   31  -10   27
  10  Blue Ridge FC             22   8   2  12   23   32   -9   26
  11  North Fork FC             22   7   3  12   27   34   -7   24
  12  Handcarters               22   6   6  10   24   33   -9   24

OGC Nancy promote in; Handcarters relegate
North Fork FC 3-1 Fylkir (North Fork stay up)

Tournament Berths:
TQCC: Greenville Rovers, Dover City.
Globe Cup: Belgium FC (Islands Cup XVII runners-up as Rovers are in TQCC), Wye Celtic, Viktoria Baden.
Series B Champions Cup: Red Devils FC, FK Maribor, Sporting Boulder, Great Falls Cymru.

NB: Nominations may change if another season concludes before the UICA entry deadline.

TQCC Venue Nomination: The Great Dome, Gernsback, capacity 61 522. The Great Dome has hosted numerous international sporting events of the first rank, including the third place match of World Cup 49. It is the home stadium for Four Towers, the highest-ranked Babbage club in UICA play.

FFB Second Series Season 28

Second Series Season 28

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  OGC Nancy                 22  11   5   6   30   17   13   38
   2  Fylkir                    22  12   2   8   30   25    5   38
   3  Charleston FC             22  10   5   7   37   29    8   35
   4  Baden 98                  22  10   5   7   28   24    4   35
   5  Windsor FC                22  11   2   9   26   30   -4   35
   6  Forest Park Rangers       22  10   3   9   36   32    4   33
   7  Brigham City Pioneers     22   8   6   8   26   22    4   30
   8  The Orange                22   7   6   9   29   33   -4   27
   9  Real Valencia             22   6   7   9   22   29   -7   25
  10  Gimnastic                 22   7   4  11   24   33   -9   25
  11  Charleston United         22   5   8   9   21   27   -6   23
  12  Xianggang FK              22   6   5  11   18   26   -8   23

Lehi FC promote in (Xianggang relegate)
Charleston United 4-1 Moroni White (United stay up)

FFB Third Series Season 28

Third Series Season 28

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Lehi FC                   22  14   5   3   33   22   11   47
   2  Moroni White              22  10   6   6   40   33    7   36
   3  Far Point Islanders       22   9   7   6   25   20    5   34
   4  Tardis FC                 22   9   7   6   32   29    3   34
   5  Dover FC                  22   9   6   7   27   24    3   33
   6  Cardston FC               22   8   8   6   32   27    5   32
   7  FK Tesla                  22   6  10   6   19   18    1   28
   8  Three Rivers Pilots       22   7   7   8   26   28   -2   28
   9  Centralia FC              22   7   2  13   37   44   -7   23
  10  Hooligans                 22   5   6  11   23   35  -12   21
  11  FK Verdurbo               22   4   8  10   27   31   -4   20
  12  Moundsville AC            22   3  10   9   23   33  -10   19

AC Santa Catalina promote in (Moundsville relegate)
FK Verdurbo 5-3 La Movado (Verdurbo stay up)

FFB Fourth Series Season 28

Fourth Series Season 28

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  AC Santa Catalina         22  12   6   4   24   12   12   42
   2  La Movado                 22  10   7   5   25   15   10   37
   3  AS Paris                  22   9   9   4   27   16   11   36
   4  Futbalo-Libereco          22   7   9   6   26   25    1   30
   5  Wright FC                 22   7   8   7   17   16    1   29
   6  Atletico Valencia         22   7   8   7   26   26    0   29
   7  Golden FC                 22   7   7   8   28   30   -2   28
   8  Moroni Blue               22   8   4  10   26   33   -7   28
   9  Urbana FC                 22   5  12   5   21   23   -2   27
  10  FK Kabe                   22   3  12   7   15   18   -3   21
  11  FK Waringhien             22   4   9   9   14   24  -10   21
  12  Longview FC               22   4   7  11   15   26  -11   19

Islands Cup XVII

A battle of champions in the Islands Cup final saw Premier League kings Greenville Rovers take the double of league and cup, denying Championship Series victors Belgium FC a three-peat. Red Devils FC, who will join Belgium as the two Premier League newcomer clubs, advanced to the semifinals along with longstanding powers Bloomfield National.

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Islands Cup XVII (after season 28)

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

Round of 32
Real Santa Catalina 2-0 Baden 98
Greenville Rovers 2-0 Urbana FC
Charleston FC 2-2 Windsor FC (2-2 AET) (Windsor FC wins 4-2 on penalty kicks)
West Scoville Tigers 3-3 Bloomfield National (3-4 AET)
Wye Celtic 2-1 Dover City
Red Devils FC 4-1 Capital AC
The Orange 2-1 FK Verdurbo
AC Santa Catalina 0-1 Four Towers
FK Tesla 0-0 Wright FC (0-0 AET) (Wright FC wins 3-0 on penalty kicks)
Lehi FC 1-2 Gernsback United
Cardiff FC 1-2 Sporting Boulder
Belgium FC 2-0 Tardis FC
Fylkir 0-1 FK Kabe
North Fork FC 0-4 Real Valencia
Parisian 4-0 Longview FC
OGC Nancy 0-2 Viktoria Baden

Round of 16
Greenville Rovers 1-1 Wye Celtic (2-1 AET)
Sporting Boulder 1-1 Viktoria Baden (2-2 AET) (Viktoria Baden wins 4-2 on penalty kicks)
Belgium FC 4-1 Four Towers
The Orange 1-5 Bloomfield National
Gernsback United 2-1 Parisian
Wright FC 0-2 Windsor FC
Real Santa Catalina 3-1 Real Valencia
FK Kabe 1-1 Red Devils FC (2-3 AET)

Quarterfinals
Viktoria Baden 2-2 Bloomfield National (2-2 AET) (Bloomfield National wins 3-0 on penalty kicks)
Red Devils FC 1-1 Windsor FC (2-1 AET)
Gernsback United 1-1 Greenville Rovers (1-1 AET) (Greenville Rovers wins 3-0 on penalty kicks)
Real Santa Catalina 1-3 Belgium FC

Semifinals
Greenville Rovers 2-1 Bloomfield National
Belgium FC 2-1 Red Devils FC

Final
Greenville Rovers 2-0 Belgium FC

(OOC: Domestic league scheduling runs on a RL calendar not synced to the international season. This post is substantially later than normal; most updates including the next run and post around the first of the month.)[/quote]

[Valanora]

Season 20,027/8 Preview

The 20,026 season continued to make history after such a wonderful and historic season in 20,025, with two Vanorian clubs reaching the Final in two different ICC events, although only Soldarian would take victory with their appearance in the Globe Cup Final while Raynor City United finished second in the TQCC, losing one nil in extra time. A series of retirements has seen the faces of a handful of clubs be changed with fresh new youngsters looking to take the place of the departed veterans and send their teams to a title challenge. The newly formed domestic league in Vyinta is ready to begin and who knows what sort of chaos and entertainment that will bring to the domestic game, with the Elven sides now looking to not be the least qualified side to secure their passage to the ICCs.

Best three players are bolded, foreigners are italicized, and players are listed from right to left where applicable. Ranking will be based on a 60-100 scale, with 60 being doomed to relegation and 100 being title favorites.

Raynor City United: Dart; Vaughan, Nallron, Lassethta, Aeralithe; Nelandal, Soldarian, SIlvermark, Maalvatinu; Auglynndal, Kuu
Manager: Vanaina Talglinaelen
Stadium: The Battleground (78,000)
Ranking: 100

Juavi FC: Faerondalan; Aeradilinellyn, Gwavathar, Talnarseer; Telésonel, Aldavathar, Neltathmyr, Mithnareil, Tallaion; Narésiel, Ealomiel
Manager: Anion Nororen
Stadium: Old Hartsfast (47,000)
Ranking: 86

Soldarian FC: Ondovir; Nellotheil, Aeraglinaeth, Lemos, Birrina; Gwavir, Nardhrinonel, Zetaback, Lanethlhûn; Valrauncion, Kithaldar
Manager: Omani Rios
Stadium: Hellgate (54,000)
Ranking: 97

Hondo FC: Rowell; Hardsworth, Gwavaul, Lardireil; Dormasti, Marsari, Lúinwë, Teltaththor; Maitland-Banks, Hearts, Aerataur
Manager: Melimost Cromsumé
Stadium: Raynor Memorial (40,000)
Ranking: 95

Char Sara FC: Taltauré; Lartandar, Maltholdar, Culiththir; Hiatt, Manawian, Neleththar, Cripas; Cabrera, Celetholtinu, Matania
Manager: Aeraderdolnar Mithtathiel
Stadium: The Tar Pit (39,000)
Ranking: 83

FC Capri: Feltatheth; Celetaar; Toraethil, Aeralynnellyn; Omasas, Galavathar, Aldaeme, Cunaril; Duran, Juninho, Falaeme
Manager: Daersirien Undolond
Stadium: Hatire Memorial (60,000)
Ranking: 86

FC Wexax: Faelandaerl; Ocumulos, Gadragthor, Sharondaerl, Aeratauré; Insweri, Narmolanya, Celethanar, Rundilinas; Rojas, Narmonlanya
Manager: Fëanáro Arcamenel
Stadium: The Den (44,000)
Ranking: 79

Wexax United: Augustine; Sharondalan, Narbrinsyr, Shatholryl, Wertanellyn; Talelon, Cuendthor, Kevatathor, Aldatauré; Celealvalal, Kiraiar
Manager: Siestanin Kentisesh
Stadium: Castle de Mot (49,000)
Ranking: 80

Club ESF: Taldel; Telraiian, Berthanthor, Yrautaur, Runtandar; Ondotaur, Falaval, Tathmin, Haeeme; Gwaval, Soro
Manager: Darantion Shayaar
Stadium: Donna Cathedral (60,000)
Ranking: 87

AC Valanari: Nartalhûn; Aeramiel, Birlond, Eleneth, Dlaranil; Kitaina, Ealolithe, Faerondaerl, Augdhrinion; Cromlond, Birmin
Manager: Polennoion Mitheththor
Stadium: Duran Palace (51,000)
Ranking: 82

Mar Sara FC: Nororon; Shaalvail, Toraandal, Gaethmyr, Narus; McKenzie, Mathandal, Oronrá, Zizzn; Peng, Haevathar
Manager: Andres Crucitti
Stadium: Artani (74,000)
Ranking: 84

AC Zul'Atun: Kevatholelen; Kevadilinil, Gaeredal, Werlaelen; Hatatheil, Gaendseer, Mithdragmyr, Tathtaur, Telalvalal; Lithval, Shayaeil
Manager: Aerinilrni Kylynflower
Stadium: Overlan (24,000)
Ranking: 74

SC Rinaldi: Sáralondë; Amandil, Faladiir, Tinúviel, Malethina; Faelandalan, Eärfalas, Edinho, Noromiel; Shavanthor, Nardironel
Manager: Fëanor Nénharma
Stadium: The Beachfront (43,000)
Ranking: 79

FC Therathor: Undodhen; Kilothina, Faerondalan, Artemis, Shang; Mithrandír, Feldilinar, Aeradhen, Wildwind; Elerval, Wertandren
Manager: Falla Naiana
Stadium: The Liar (29,000)
Ranking: 82

Turmondale United: Shathanelen; Tulmar, Aeravir, Mithrandír, Lissësúl, Númenessë; Runnaras, Helyanwë, Undodel, Rhuiron; Faelivrin
Manager: Lairmárien Tinunae
Stadium: Theros Park (37,000)
Ranking: 73

SC Ianisle: Gaésry; Larenésiel, Larvanlhûn, Mithésar; Aldavaul, Birnae, Kevalithlal, Malaar; Undomiel, Aeratholeil, Aeravir
Manager: Valamonnosdur Nallrina
Stadium: Lathal (29,000)
Ranking: 67

Gladerial United: Isiliyaas; Oreth, Elerdel, Taltauré, Nhavandal; Lassmireil, Gwarina, Tathtauré, Elerlithe; Yraueth, Talnae
Manager: Lathweldorien Naranar
Stadium: The White Fortress (70,000)
Ranking: 62

Club Valanora: Taltauré; Aldalond, Elendhen, Hathalmyr, Lasseththar; Feldhrinthar, Nhatholsel, Gatanar, Ondosumé; Haetauré, Galonren
Manager: Polenmáran Tanendrin
Stadium: Tiradir (31,000)
Ranking: 80

Straightdale FC: Isilitandar; Tinúviel, Larenethlhûn, Vanron, Ealoviel; Taltanellyn, Gadhrinlhûn, Orrina, Dlaryaseer; Cuanlhûn, Tathtauré
Manager: Phootid Fihor
Stadium: Red Fence (39,000)
Ranking: 78

Kareen FC: Orsumé; Lanelenas, Aeratandren, Elensumé, Larenésil; Feltandal, Laevanrin, Yrauval, Aeraraidar; Tinudiir, Shaglinadal
Manager: Talfadornen Shatathonel
Stadium: Rose Gardens (49,000)
Ranking: 67

[Toiletdonia]

Matchday 13
Toileten 3-0 Trioreo Rovers
Dale 3-2 Harbour
Vale 5-1 Lavatorian city
Leas 4-0 Cordian city rovers
Multon 2-0 Liwilors
seven united 0-2 Areabic Rovers
Sewermouth 2-1 Ale
Leas Uni 0-0 Trioreo Town

Matchday 14
seven united 1-2 Toileten
Multon 2-4 Dale
Trioreo Rovers 1-7 Vale
Harbour 0-2 Leas
Lavatorian city 4-2 Cordian city rovers
Liwilors 1-1 Sewermouth
Areabic Rovers 0-0 Leas Uni
Ale 2-1 AFC Vatalors

Matchday 15
Toileten 0-6 Leas Uni
Dale 2-1 Sewermouth
Vale 4-1 seven united
Leas 3-0 Multon
Cordian city rovers 4-1 Trioreo Rovers
Lavatorian city 1-0 Harbour
AFC Vatalors 3-1 Liwilors
Trioreo Town 4-1 Areabic Rovers

Matchday 16
Trioreo Town 2-2 Toileten
AFC Vatalors 1-3 Dale
Leas Uni 1-5 Vale
Sewermouth 2-2 Leas
seven united 3-1 Cordian city rovers
Multon 3-2 Lavatorian city
Trioreo Rovers 1-0 Harbour
Liwilors 1-0 Ale

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Vale                      15  12   3   0   70   17   53   39
   2  Leas                      15  11   4   0   40   14   26   37
   3  Sewermouth                15   8   5   2   38   28   10   29
   4  Dale                      15   8   5   2   34   24   10   29
   5  Multon                    15   9   1   5   21   22   -1   28
   6  Leas Uni                  15   6   4   5   22   20    2   22
   7  Areabic Rovers            15   6   4   5   32   33   -1   22
   8  Lavatorian city           15   6   4   5   31   33   -2   22
   9  AFC Vatalors              15   6   2   7   26   29   -3   20
  10  Toileten                  15   5   5   5   31   37   -6   20
  11  Cordian city rovers       15   4   5   6   33   34   -1   17
  12  Ale                       15   5   1   9   22   31   -9   16
  13  Liwilors                  16   3   7   6   16   27  -11   16
  14  Trioreo Town              15   2   6   7   10   20  -10   12
  15  seven united              15   2   6   7   18   29  -11   12
  16  Harbour                   15   0   5  10   13   28  -15    5
  17  Trioreo Rovers            15   1   1  13   13   44  -31    4

Vale go top of the league by 2 points with Leas chasing them to the end. They only have 18 games left (okay over half) but it looks like it could got down to the wire. Sewermouth are on 29 points along with Dale. Dale look like they can break onto the world stage for the first time but Multon are on 28 points and can still break into the globe cup as well. It's between Seven United and Trioreo town now to avoid relegation.

Matchday 17
AFC Mintos 2-2 Excritement
Westbridge 2-4 Hampto Town
Esto Rovers 1-3 Lukkia City
Burghamton 2-3 Dlesdren
Lukkia Eastern 2-1 Peepeeton
North Strip 0-1 Miloreo Town
AFC Schoolboys 3-2 Limpton
Cordian city Athletic 0-3 Mouth city
Moore City 1-1 Team Lacot

Matchday 18
Team Lacot 1-2 AFC Mintos
Moore City 2-1 Westbridge
Excritement 1-1 Esto Rovers
Hampto Town 3-1 Burghamton
Lukkia City 1-0 Lukkia Eastern
Dlesdren 4-1 North Strip
Peepeeton 1-0 AFC Schoolboys
Miloreo Town 2-1 Cordian city Athletic
Limpton 1-2 Mouth city

Matchday 19
AFC Mintos 3-3 Esto Rovers
Westbridge 2-0 Team Lacot
Burghamton 1-1 Moore City
Lukkia Eastern 0-2 Excritement
North Strip 1-0 Hampto Town
AFC Schoolboys 1-0 Lukkia City
Cordian city Athletic 2-2 Dlesdren
Mouth city 1-0 Peepeeton
Limpton 1-1 Miloreo Town

Matchday 20
Lukkia Eastern 0-1 AFC Mintos
Burghamton 2-1 Westbridge
Team Lacot 1-1 Esto Rovers
Moore City 3-0 North Strip
Excritement 1-1 AFC Schoolboys
Hampto Town 1-0 Cordian city Athletic
Lukkia City 1-1 Mouth city
Dlesdren 3-1 Limpton
Peepeeton 1-0 Miloreo Town

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  AFC Mintos                20  11   6   3   39   26   13   39
   2  Dlesdren                  20  10   6   4   39   25   14   36
   3  AFC Schoolboys            20  11   3   6   34   25    9   36
   4  Excritement               20   9   8   3   40   26   14   35
   5  Miloreo Town              20  10   3   7   24   24    0   33
   6  Mouth city                20   8   5   7   31   32   -1   29
   7  Moore City                20   7   7   6   38   40   -2   28
   8  Hampto Town               20   7   5   8   30   29    1   26
   9  Peepeeton                 20   7   5   8   22   23   -1   26
  10  Burghamton                20   8   2  10   30   32   -2   26
  11  Lukkia Eastern            20   6   7   7   26   23    3   25
  12  Lukkia City               20   6   7   7   23   23    0   25
  13  Esto Rovers               20   6   7   7   30   37   -7   25
  14  Limpton                   20   7   3  10   38   41   -3   24
  15  North Strip               20   6   4  10   22   31   -9   22
  16  Westbridge                20   6   4  10   26   36  -10   22
  17  Team Lacot                20   4   9   7   21   27   -6   21
  18  Cordian city Athletic     20   4   3  13   25   38  -13   15

[Valanora]

Season 20,027/8

Playoff: [Host of second leg - aggregate score(first leg score) Host of first leg]

Premiership

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Raynor City United        38  24   5   9   92   51   41   77     Champions
   2  Hondo FC                  38  21   8   9   86   63   23   71     TQCC
   3  Soldarian FC              38  19  10   9   78   52   26   67     TQCC
   4  Club Valanora             38  18   6  14   84   83    1   60     GC
   5  Char Sara FC              38  18   4  16   82   76    6   58     GC
   6  Mar Sara FC               38  16   9  13   63   53   10   57
   7  FC Capri                  38  16   8  14   77   62   15   56
   8  FC Wexax                  38  16   8  14   61   59    2   56
   9  AC Valanari               38  15  10  13   55   54    1   55
  10  Club ESF                  38  14  12  12   69   70   -1   54
  11  Kareen FC                 38  15   8  15   54   63   -9   53
  12  Wexax United              38  15   7  16   56   55    1   52
  13  Juavi FC                  38  15   5  18   83   81    2   50
  14  SC Ianisle                38  13   9  16   73   72    1   48
  15  Turmondale United         38  13   9  16   40   51  -11   48
  16  SC Rinaldi                38  11  12  15   56   66  -10   45
  17  FC Therathor              38  10  13  15   41   62  -21   43
  18  Straightdale FC           38  12   5  21   51   65  -14   41     Relegated
  19  Gladerial United          38  10   8  20   47   76  -29   38     Relegated
  20  AC Zul'Atun               38   6  10  22   61   95  -34   28     Relegated

Star League

Playoff: Rolalas FC 4-3(2-2) FC Longview

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Quel'Thalas FC            38  18  13   7   62   39   23   67     Champions
   2  Travesian AS              38  18  10  10   62   44   18   64     Promoted
   3  Rolalas FC                38  17  12   9   71   55   16   63     Playoff
   4  FC Longview               38  19   4  15   51   41   10   61     Playoff
   5  Vaharia FC                38  17   7  14   70   69    1   58
   6  AS Sharala                38  15  12  11   41   39    2   57
   7  Raynor City FC            38  17   5  16   69   60    9   56
   8  Everlin FC                38  16   8  14   63   55    8   56
   9  FC Travesian              38  15  11  12   61   54    7   56
  10  Sharala AC                38  15  11  12   47   41    6   56
  11  Turmondale FC             38  17   5  16   49   45    4   56
  12  Baysleef FC               38  14  13  11   56   49    7   55
  13  AC Hartdale               38  14  12  12   43   41    2   54
  14  FC Vernad                 38  12  13  13   40   43   -3   49
  15  Manavawi Athletic         38  12  11  15   43   49   -6   47
  16  AS Everlin                38  12   9  17   56   64   -8   45
  17  FC Monaven                38  12   6  20   38   60  -22   42
  18  AC Cartmot                38  10   7  21   29   51  -22   37     Relegated
  19  Oliviena United           38   7  14  17   29   48  -19   35     Relegated
  20  FC Quel'Mathar            38   9   5  24   48   81  -33   32     Relegated

Green League

Playoff: AS Soldar 1-3(0-3) FC Vamas

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Arouw United              38  20  11   7   50   26   24   71     Champions
   2  DC Aulian                 38  18  11   9   70   46   24   65     Promoted
   3  AS Soldar                 38  17   9  12   58   41   17   60     Playoff
   4  FC Vamas                  38  16  12  10   65   49   16   60     Playoff
   5  AS Zul'Daratar            38  16  12  10   70   55   15   60
   6  Turbani FC                38  17   9  12   49   37   12   60
   7  FC San Diromia            38  17   7  14   66   63    3   58
   8  AC Goldsan                38  16   8  14   57   56    1   56
   9  RC Durmosa                38  15  10  13   69   62    7   55
  10  Char Sara United          38  15  10  13   49   45    4   55
  11  AC Stormguard             38  14  13  11   53   51    2   55
  12  FC Silvershire            38  16   6  16   58   52    6   54
  13  Mar Sara AC               38  14   8  16   71   71    0   50
  14  RC Rikana                 38  13  11  14   52   61   -9   50
  15  Athletic Rolalas          38  12  12  14   59   59    0   48
  16  Quel'Tir United           38  12   8  18   41   56  -15   44
  17  FC Rosenthal              38  13   5  20   54   92  -38   44
  18  Arouw FC                  38  11   6  21   54   75  -21   39     Relegated
  19  RC Vahama                 38   7  11  20   39   63  -24   32     Relegated
  20  SC Longview               38   8   7  23   45   69  -24   31     Relegated

Blue League

Playoff: Erran FC 1-0(1-0) Ironwind United

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Cartmot Pride             38  23   5  10   76   59   17   74     Champions
   2  Bree FC                   38  19   9  10   62   52   10   66     Promoted
   3  Erran FC                  38  19   7  12   59   49   10   64     Playoff
   4  Ironwind United           38  17  12   9   39   26   13   63     Playoff
   5  SC Quintal                38  17  10  11   57   49    8   61
   6  AS Zul'Atun               38  18   6  14   63   59    4   60
   7  RC Elunita                38  16  11  11   82   71   11   59
   8  Aras United               38  16   8  14   67   58    9   56
   9  Zanabia City              38  16   7  15   69   65    4   55
  10  Zul'Daratar FC            38  15   7  16   67   67    0   52
  11  FC Suax                   38  14   8  16   57   68  -11   50
  12  AC Rosenthal              38  13  10  15   51   59   -8   49
  13  Inter Gladerial           38  12  11  15   52   53   -1   47
  14  SC Soldar                 38  13   8  17   62   70   -8   47
  15  FC Solqual                38  12  10  16   65   63    2   46
  16  AS Char Sara              38  13   7  18   68   82  -14   46
  17  Erran United              38  12   8  18   67   71   -4   44
  18  Yolan FC                  38  10  12  16   53   64  -11   42     Relegated
  19  AS Rikana                 38  10   9  19   51   57   -6   39     Relegated
  20  Suax United               38   8   9  21   56   81  -25   33     Relegated

Rose League

Playoff: AC Ispan 5-3(2-3) RC Quel'Mathar

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  DC Kilai                  38  20   9   9   56   35   21   69     Champions
   2  AS Solqual                38  20   7  11   54   39   15   67     Promoted
   3  RC Ispan                  38  19   8  11   59   44   15   65     Playoff
   4  RC Quel'Mathar            38  16  10  12   54   43   11   58     Playoff
   5  RC Jumangas               38  14  16   8   42   34    8   58
   6  FC Melikkiaz              38  16   9  13   56   50    6   57
   7  DC Bree                   38  17   6  15   46   46    0   57
   8  AC Jumangas               38  15  11  12   56   49    7   56
   9  AC Rinaldi                38  16   7  15   50   50    0   55
  10  AS Aras                   38  14  10  14   42   44   -2   52
  11  AS Vaharia                38  14   9  15   47   49   -2   51
  12  DC Liogan                 38  13  12  13   46   49   -3   51
  13  AC Port Swell             38  13  11  14   50   45    5   50
  14  DC Quel'Tir               38  11  16  11   45   48   -3   49
  15  FC Kilai                  38  12  11  15   49   54   -5   47
  16  AC Therathor              38  10  14  14   53   58   -5   44
  17  AC Durmosa                38  10  10  18   53   64  -11   40
  18  DC Melikkiaz              38  11   6  21   50   74  -24   39     Relegated
  19  RC Liogan                 38   9  11  18   41   48   -7   38     Relegated
  20  FC Ispan                  38   9   9  20   48   74  -26   36     Relegated

Violet League

Playoff: AS Juavi 2-1(0-0) AS Quel'Mathar

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Mar Sara United           38  24   8   6   62   32   30   80     Champions
   2  Quel'Thalas United        38  22   7   9   68   41   27   73     Promoted
   3  AS Juavi                  38  18  10  10   73   50   23   64     Playoff
   4  AS Quel'Mathar            38  16  11  11   54   50    4   59     Playoff
   5  AS Capri                  38  17   6  15   55   54    1   57
   6  Stormguard FC             38  14  12  12   58   45   13   54
   7  AS Zul'Atun               38  13  15  10   42   39    3   54
   8  AC Raynor City            38  14  12  12   57   58   -1   54
   9  RC Ianisle                38  15   8  15   57   56    1   53
  10  AC Ironwind               38  13  14  11   41   42   -1   53
  11  Monaven United            38  14  11  13   42   44   -2   53
  12  AS San Diromia            38  13  13  12   46   44    2   52
  13  Port Swell FC             38  13  11  14   44   45   -1   50
  14  Travesian FC              38  12  10  16   35   38   -3   46
  15  Turbani City              38  11  12  15   47   60  -13   45
  16  AC Ispan                  38  10  14  14   38   39   -1   44
  17  Valanari FC               38  10  12  16   35   48  -13   42
  18  DC Vamas                  38   8  13  17   41   57  -16   37
  19  AC Vernad                 38   6  12  20   36   62  -26   30
  20  DC Vaharia                38   6  11  21   30   57  -27   29

Vyinta V-League

GC Playoff: Ibini FC 3-2(1-2) Mar Sara FC
TQCC Playoff: Soldarian FC 4-1(2-1) Ibini FC

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Ibini FC                  28  20   3   5   65   40   25   63     Champions
   2  AC Tasmuarand             28  13   5  10   49   34   15   44
   3  AS Peravova               28  13   3  12   46   45    1   42
   4  AC Asarnova               28  10   7  11   43   49   -6   37
   5  FC Espalya                28   9   9  10   45   46   -1   36
   6  Ursona FC                 28   9   6  13   36   49  -13   33
   7  RC Mercanthum             28   8   6  14   16   29  -13   30
   8  Samarga United            28   8   5  15   34   42   -8   29

Silver Cup 20,027
Holders ~ FC Capri

Due to broadcast restrictions we pick up action in the Quarterfinals

Quarterfinals
Baysleef FC 0-1 AS Sharala
Char Sara FC 0-0(0-1 AET) FC Longview
AS Char Sara 1-1(2-1 AET) AC Valanari
AS Zul'Atun 1-5 Raynor City United

Semifinals
AS Sharala 3-2 AS Char Sara
FC Longview 2-3 Raynor City United

3PPo
@ The Battleground, Raynor City
FC Longview 4-1 AS Char Sara

Final
@ Artani, Mar Sara
AS Sharala 1-5 Raynor City United

Navy Cup 20,027
Holders ~ Hondo FC

First Round
SC Rinaldi 0-0 Gladerial United | Gladerial United 1-0 SC Rinaldi
Aggregate: SC Rinaldi 0-1 Gladerial United

Turmondale United 0-2 Kareen FC | Kareen FC 1-0 Turmondale United
Aggregate: Turmondale United 0-3 Kareen FC

FC Therathor 1-3 SC Ianisle | SC Ianisle 0-0 FC Therathor
Aggregate: FC Therathor 1-3 SC Ianisle

Straightdale FC 4-3 Club Valanora | Club Valanora 3-1 Straightdale FC
Aggregate: Straightdale FC 5-6 Club Valanora

Second Round
AC Zul'Atun 2-0 FC Capri | FC Capri 2-2 AC Zul'Atun
Aggregate: AC Zul'Atun 4-2 FC Capri

FC Wexax 1-1 Raynor City United | Raynor City United 4-1 FC Wexax
Aggregate: FC Wexax 2-5 Raynor City United

Wexax United 0-2 SC Ianisle | SC Ianisle 1-3(1-4 AET) Wexax United 
Aggregate: Wexax United 4-3 SC Ianisle

Club Valanora 1-1 Mar Sara FC | Mar Sara FC 3-1 Club Valanora
Aggregate: Club Valanora 2-4 Mar Sara FC

Gladerial United 2-1 Kareen FC | Kareen FC 1-0(1-0 AET)[4-5 PKs] Gladerial United 
Aggregate: Gladerial United p2-2 Kareen FC

Club ESF 0-2 Hondo FC | Hondo FC 1-1 Club ESF
Aggregate: Club ESF 1-3 Hondo FC

Juavi FC 0-1 Soldarian FC | Soldarian FC 3-3 Juavi FC
Aggregate: Juavi FC 3-4 Soldarian FC

AC Valanari 2-1 Char Sara FC | Char Sara FC 2-2 AC Valanari
Aggregate: AC Valanari 4-3 Char Sara FC

Quarterfinals
AC Valanari 0-2 Hondo FC | Hondo FC 2-3 AC Valanari
Aggregate: AC Valanari 3-4 Hondo FC

AC Zul'Atun 2-7 Raynor City United | Raynor City United 2-1 AC Zul'Atun
Aggregate: AC Zul'Atun 3-9 Raynor City United

Gladerial United 2-0 Mar Sara FC | Mar Sara FC 1-1 Gladerial United
Aggregate: Gladerial United 3-1 Mar Sara FC

Wexax United 2-4 Soldarian FC | Soldarian FC 1-1 Wexax United
Aggregate: Wexax United 3-5 Soldarian FC

Semifinals
Gladerial United 1-3 Soldarian FC | Soldarian FC 3-0 Gladerial United
Aggregate: Gladerial United 1-6 Soldarian FC

Hondo FC 3-0 Raynor City United | Raynor City United 3-0(3-0 AET)[1-2 PKs] Hondo FC 
Aggregate: Hondo FC p3-3 Raynor City United

Final
@ The White Fortress, Gladerial
Soldarian FC 2-0 Hondo FC

End of Season Awards

Manager of the Year
Polenmáran Tanendrin - Club Valanora

Golden Boot
Aidan Kuu (22 goals) - Raynor City United

Player of the Year
Lucas Hearts (18 goals, 11 assists) - Hondo FC

Striker of the Year
Aidan Kuu (22 goals, 9 assists) - Raynor City United

Midfielder of the Year
Faeron Soldarian (13 goals, 14 assists) - Raynor City United

Defender of the Year
William Vaughan - Raynor City United

Best XI
GK: Draugwë Nororon - Mar Sara FC
CB: Lemos - Soldarian FC
LB: Rûien Dlaranil - AC Valanari
RCB: William Vaughan - Raynor City United
RW: Rosertan Hiatt - Char Sara FC
MC: Faeron Soldarian - Raynor City United
AMC: Artulcdhron Zetaback - Soldarian FC
LW: Veryafinon Cunaril - FC Capri
ST: Lucas Hearts - Hondo FC
ST: Valrauncion - Soldarian FC
ST: Aidan Kuu - Raynor City United

International Qualifiers
TQCC: Raynor City United, Hondo FC, Soldarian FC
GC: Club Valanora, Char Sara FC, Ibini FC
AFI: Raynor City United

International Stadia Bids
TQCC: Artani (74,000), Mar Sara

[Taeshan]

Taeshan Premier League 

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Real Chinchinhua          42  23  14   5   64   39   25   83
   2  AC Quarant Xa'virt        42  21  16   5   65   43   22   79
   3  Wiechester FC             42  20  13   9   68   40   28   73
   4  Lefever AC                42  21   8  13   63   53   10   71
   5  New Capetown Falcons      42  16  17   9   57   56    1   65
   6  Ojian Orangemen           42  17  13  12   57   44   13   64
   7  X Island Marauders        42  16  14  12   71   59   12   62
   8  Atlantea Hurricanes       42  17  10  15   64   55    9   61
   9  Bayern Pheonix            42  17  10  15   54   46    8   61
  10  Al Haxire                 42  16  13  13   57   54    3   61
  11  Blacklake Blues           42  16  12  14   60   59    1   60
  12  Laketown Rangers          42  16  10  16   53   58   -5   58
  13  Taeshan City Miners       42  14  15  13   50   54   -4   57
  14  Bayern-Algaer             42  13  11  18   50   51   -1   50
  15  Pwux Panthers             42  14   7  21   41   64  -23   49
  16  Los Riosas Monstas        42  12  12  18   58   64   -6   48
  17  Gieron FC                 42  13   8  21   50   55   -5   47
  18  Fadron Flight             42  12  11  19   53   64  -11   47
  19  Tintown Terrapins         42  12   8  22   45   62  -17   44
  20  Loachen Yellow Jackets    42  11  11  20   49   71  -22   44
  21  Ying jing Yankees         42   9  13  20   46   60  -14   40
  22  North Taeshan Knights     42   9   8  25   48   72  -24   35

Taeshan Zuerst League 

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Yaton FC                  40  22  10   8   70   40   30   76
   2  Reynea Raptors            40  19   8  13   58   37   21   65
   3  Aroland United            40  17  10  13   53   39   14   61
   4  Karela Sekhika            40  17  10  13   55   50    5   61
   5  Little Wingett            40  16  12  12   59   50    9   60
   6  AC Algaer                 40  16  11  13   55   48    7   59
   7  AC Sikane                 40  16  11  13   64   60    4   59
   8  Mierton Manatees          40  16  11  13   53   50    3   59
   9  East Taeshan Eagles       40  16   9  15   54   54    0   57
  10  Knightspurs               40  15  12  13   50   50    0   57
  11  South Taeshan Celtics     40  15  10  15   51   50    1   55
  12  Docktown Deathdogs        40  13  15  12   52   52    0   54
  13  Rapids                    40  13  13  14   52   56   -4   52
  14  FC Cracken                40  14  10  16   45   51   -6   52
  15  Stormbreak FC             40  12  13  15   49   54   -5   49
  16  Diebert colts             40  13   9  18   51   55   -4   48
  17  Loudon Lancers            40  12  12  16   40   46   -6   48
  18  Greenville Glory          40  11  15  14   37   45   -8   48
  19  West Taeshan Titans       40  11  14  15   44   54  -10   47
  20  Iure Indians              40  12   9  19   38   65  -27   45
  21  Norton United             40   9   6  25   46   70  -24   33

Taeshan Zweite League 

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  TakilQuip United          40  18  15   7   53   32   21   69
   2  Capetown Croc's           40  18  12  10   51   42    9   66
   3  SK Ojian                  40  17  14   9   59   42   17   65
   4  Bayern Battery            40  19   8  13   65   58    7   65
   5  Petrinshier Whie Athletic 40  18  10  12   61   48   13   64
   6  Calendara Kings           40  18   8  14   49   54   -5   62
   7  Whispir Hills             40  16  12  12   55   42   13   60
   8  Real Atlantea             40  16  12  12   41   34    7   60
   9  Perrier Unlimited         40  17   9  14   54   49    5   60
  10  Gee Gange United          40  17   7  16   51   42    9   58
  11  Pariot Pythons            40  16  10  14   54   51    3   58
  12  Reynea Rollers            40  15  10  15   61   64   -3   55
  13  Crashew Campers           40  13  15  12   49   50   -1   54
  14  Williamsburg Whiteout     40  16   5  19   60   63   -3   53
  15  White Mountain Rovers     40  14   7  19   52   52    0   49
  16  Los Strabos               40  12  12  16   46   50   -4   48
  17  Air and Space FC          40  12  12  16   41   51  -10   48
  18  Overlook Oracles          40  13   8  19   46   62  -16   47
  19  Wolfin Wolves             40  11   6  23   44   68  -24   39
  20  Machrobat Monkeys         40   8  14  18   47   58  -11   38
  21  Wolfville Whackers        40   7  12  21   45   72  -27   33

TQCC
Real Chinchinhua
AC Quarant Xa'virt

GC
Wiechester FC
LeFever AC
New Capetown Falcons

SBCC
Yaton FC
Reynea Raptors
TakilQuip United
Capetown Croc's

[Zarbli]

Zarblese League IV
Season Report

A new amazing season of Zarblese football, the Zarblese League IV has consolidated and is ready to grow. With the new rules for the TakilQuip Champions Cup, Zarbli will send only one representative, but is very close to sending 2 again in the next edition. In order to do so, the president of the league Paulo Nudag is acting to make the ZL into an international level league, expanding the divisions to 3 starting in season V and opening the market in the next League for foreign players.

Now, for the standings. A new season, a new champion!

Duke League IV
Zarbli's Finest

The Clubs

Asia FC | Battle | Billiard | Balance | Bloodthirsty Killers | Cannibals | Coconut Trees | Cross SC | Flame | Knights
Lichen | Lunar | Mountain Chain | Polar Zenith | Pyramid AC | Romans | Sligdish | Warriors | Watermen | Xegei

Past DL Stats

Season  Champions                 Runners-Up  3rd         4th
   III  Warriors (1st title)	  Asia FC     Knights	  Battle   
    II  Polar Zenith (1st title)  Knights     Cannibals   Asia FC
     I  Billiard (1st title)      Cannibals   Warriors    Knights

The Battle Killing Machine

There is one number that defines what the fourth Duke League was about: 96. It's the amount of goals that Battle scored, a 2.5 goal per match average and 16 more goals than the second best (Warriors). This amazing number by Battle's strikers lead the Soldiers for their first DL title, and the League has its fourth different winner since its foundation. The Kampis Batalidis' club fought with the once again frustrated Knights until the last round, and won the title with a 2-0 win against Lunar (see below).

Title holders Warriors went poorly, ending up only in the 6th position, and Warriors' supporters are crediting this to the psychological trauma suffered by their captain and previous DL's MVP Uiliam Ualace after the Zarblese team elimination in the first round of the Introduction of Fire.

The bottom end of the table was the most boring of the 4 DL editions so far, with the exact same four clubs that ascended from Marquiss League being once again relegated. Best luck to Xegei, Flame, Watermen and Sligdish in upcoming seasons!

The Title Match

vs
Battle 2 x 0 Lunar
Matchday 38


Lunar's Tomas Mir (left) in an another unsuccessful try to stop Battle's unstoppable left wing Jenjis "The Juggernaut" Kan.

more than 85,000 fans gathered in the Kazis Treta Stadium, home of Battle, to watch the Soldiers win their first crown. Lunar, only in the 13th position, should not be of any threat for the home side and the power of their "Fantastic 4", as the press were calling Battle's front players Ma'nes Disisparta, Rixard Desecond, Ivan Otehiveu and Jeneral Ros.

The man of the match, though, was, as expected, Jenjis Kan. The left wing's ability to pass through the opponent's defenders and put their teammates in excelent scoring positions earn him the nickname "the Juggernaut". From his feet came the balls socred by Otehiveu in the first half and Disisparta in the second. Lunar didn't even see what hit them. 2-0, and it couold have been more.

After this, Battle received the crown from HRM the Crown Princess herself, a huge fan of the club like her father the King. The title was heavily celebrated in the city of Battle and all over Kampis Batalidis and Korasanis Uniandis.

Final fixtures:

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Battle                    38  24   8   6   96   59   37   80  Champions - TQCC
   2  Knights                   38  24   5   9   63   35   28   77  GC
   3  Romans                    38  22   5  11   67   50   17   71  GC
   4  Pyramid AC                38  20   9   9   58   42   16   69  GC
   5  Polar Zenith              38  20   7  11   67   38   29   67
   6  Warriors                  38  18  10  10   80   61   19   64
   7  Cannibals                 38  17  13   8   77   59   18   64
   8  Asia FC                   38  17  10  11   53   42   11   61
   9  Mountain Chain            38  16  10  12   56   44   12   58
  10  Billiard                  38  16  10  12   51   40   11   58
  11  Lichen                    38  13  13  12   40   42   -2   52
  12  Cross SC                  38  12   9  17   52   54   -2   45
  13  Bloodthirsty Killers      38  12   7  19   62   85  -23   43
  14  Balance                   38   8  17  13   44   51   -7   41
  15  Lunar                     38   9  14  15   42   58  -16   41
  16  Coconut Trees             38   7  12  19   21   45  -24   33
  17  Xegei                     38   7  11  20   31   52  -21   32   Relegated
  18  Sligdish                  38   6  13  19   35   58  -23   31   Relegated
  19  Flame                     38   7  10  21   40   75  -35   31   Relegated
  20  Watermen                  38   5   7  26   44   89  -45   22   Relegated

Champions
Battle




Marquiss League IV
Zarbli's Rising Stars

Lots of excitement again the Marquiss League, as Classics, Goyoreh, TFC and Union, 4 traditional Zarblese clubs, plus Drooler, not so traditional but nevertheless a cfrequent face in the DL, all the 5 fought intensely for 4 spots in next season's DL. Although Goyoreh, Drooler and TFC had already secured their places in the last round, Classics had the 4th spot until the last minute. The draw with the very, very weak team that Revolutionaries (previously known as Guillotine) put together would have been enough, if it weren't for Union's 1-0 away win against Morphologic. In the end, Union got the spot, and Classics will spend yet another season in the ML.

Final fixtures:

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Goyoreh                      38  29   8   1   99   31   68   95  Promoted  SSBCC
   2  Drooler                      38  24   8   6   84   50   34   80  Promoted  CSBCC
   3  TFC                          38  24   6   8   92   49   43   78  Promoted  CSBCC
   4  Union                        38  21  11   6   51   22   29   74  Promoted  CSBCC
   5  Classics                     38  20  12   6   52   22   30   72
   6  New Athenian                 38  16   7  15   62   49   13   55
   7  Morphologic                  38  16   7  15   57   54    3   55
   8  Zug-Zug                      38  15   7  16   51   61  -10   52
   9  Brilliant                    38  14   9  15   42   43   -1   51
  10  Imperial FC                  38  15   5  18   63   59    4   50
  11  Endoplasmatic Reticulum      38  14   7  17   45   53   -8   49
  12  Super                        38  14   7  17   66   79  -13   49
  13  Mobsters                     38  13   8  17   63   74  -11   47
  14  Discoverer                   38  12  11  15   36   49  -13   47
  15  Jungle Club                  38  13   7  18   66   65    1   46
  16  Revolutionaries (Guillotine) 38  13   7  18   66   74   -8   46
  17  Yema!                        38  11   8  19   39   66  -27   41
  18  Demigods                     38  11   6  21   54   83  -29   39
  19  Hot AC                       38   5   8  25   46  107  -61   23
  20  4                            38   3   5  30   21   65  -44   14

Qualification for International Competitions

TQCC - Battle

GC - Knights, Romans and Pyramid AC

CSBCC - Goyoreh, Drooler, TFC and Union