Ko-oren Domestic Sports Newswires

by **Ko-oren** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:22 am

Soccer - Season 38

Previews (Lower Tiers)

Division Two

Cirelbourne United
Stadium: Quicksilver Stadium (15500) in Cirelbourne, Surbourneshire
Rivals:

Bruncester United AFC, Cirelbourne Townside
Background: A team as old as time, from the gritty southeastern mining region. The mines have closed, businesses have left, but the people and their sports are still there. Cue a lot of heartbreak when Cirelbourne got relegated after decades in the Top League - these guys just can't catch a break. This club is bigger than anything else in town, with the rivalry with Bruncester in close second. Both rugby codes have simply given up on the area, for example.
This is the club for: If you want to see a team work for every single result, every single goal, every single metre on the field, Cirelbourne is your team. There are plenty of hometown heroes and loyal fans. Or you're a masochist.
Prediction: 1
Starters
1 GK Aifer Aeloviane (KOR, 29) -

Cirelbourne United - a rotten, heavy technician.
2 RF Ffewsne yChibwod (KOR, 29) -

Cirelbourne United - a empathetic, petite target man.
3 RB Ernst Crogan (KOR, 26) -

Cirelbourne United - a unchanging, bulky cheater.
4 LB Arnold Tomlinson (TKT, 31) -

Cirelbourne United (VC)
5 LF Russell Swadling (KOR, 35) -

Cirelbourne United (C) - a cerebral, heavy captain.
6 DM Robert Keep (KOR, 24) -

Cirelbourne United - a courageous, fast jack of all trades.
7 RM Stanley Harston (KOR, 23) -

Cirelbourne United - a humorous, strong interceptor.
8 CM Erasmo Valente (KOR, 34) -

Cirelbourne United - a sincere, instinctive wall.
9 LM Evert Klensberg (NQU, 30) -

Cirelbourne United
10 SS Cody Dixon (NWK, 34) -

Cirelbourne United
11 ST Rowland Canning (KOR, 22) -

Cirelbourne United - a brave, buff all-rounder.

Sterrenwolde FC
Stadium: Noorderkroonpark (14500) in Sterrenwolde, Intermare
Rivals:

Schemerdrecht SVV, Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie, Tuinderbeek FC,

Straudum VV
Background: An ancient club, well, when they were known as the Sterrenwolde Sportvereniging, which housed anything from (field) hockey to gridiron to football. Since then, each club that sprouted from it keeps on using the green and blue as its colours, with zero regard for how those colours became national colours a bit further down the line. They will do anything to beat nearby Schemerdrecht, as they totally do not have an inferiority complex related to anything coming from that city, and they keep insisting that Sterrenwolde's harbour is bigger/better than Schemerdrecht's, and how Sterrenwolde's surrounding landscape is nicer, and eventually you wonder why a city would bring up another city quite so often. The city has a long history in Ko-oren's unification, all jokes aside.
This is the club for: History buffs, and fans of slightly defensive football ('slightly' on the Ko-orenite scale, which makes it quite defensive alright).
Prediction: 2
Starters
1 GK Nathan Génin (KOR, 26) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a hopeful, gigantic architect.
2 RF Lee Heldoorn (KOR, 27) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a controlling, petite workhorse.
3 RB Rune Drakenberg (KOR, 22) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a manipulative, hard-hitting mercenary.
4 LB Kas Rakers (KOR, 25) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a relaxed, well built box-to-box player.
5 LF Hamilton Anvil (KOR, 30) -

Sterrenwolde FC (C) - a catty, nimble glass cannon.
6 DM Sijm Oldenzel (KOR, 25) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a devious, burly pace setter.
7 RM Chesley Meredeth (KOR, 24) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a predictable, strong aggressor.
8 LM Joe Bonschotten (KOR, 20) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a dishonest, agile technician.
9 AM Ingve Breedland (KOR, 37) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a persistant, strong ball winner.
10 RS Aogas Ailan (KOR, 26) -

Sterrenwolde FC - a fanatical, trim target man.
11 LS Odde Brandwacht (KOR, 23) -

Sterrenwolde FC (VC) - a hypocritical, thin architect.

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC
Stadium: The Ovation Station (9000) in Huthwich, Gehrenna
Rivals: Cresthill Ebony FC, Vierciennes Victory, Sobdorlugin Komtherod
Background: A decently old club from a town in Surbourneshire that isn't Greencaster - yes, they exist - as one of the many towns along Ko-oren's southern bight. A railway town (but what town isn't). The club itself found that it attracted the most press when they announced they'd be playing in every colour of the rainbow (giving rise to the phrase 'fan of Huthwich' akin to the phrase 'friend of Dorothy'). For a long time, they were the club Greencastrians supported in absence of a decent alternative - and you'll still find some H&I merch there. Despite it all, the club plays in one of Ko-oren's smallest stadiums (seating 5000, presently) with one of the best names (the 'Ovation Station').
This is the club for: Fans who want colourful jerseys, colourful personalities, and colourful ideas.
Prediction: 3
Starters
1 GK Rilbiposun Guldherindhen (KOR, 26) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC - a sensible, powerful workhorse.
2 RF Gust Kwant (KOR, 28) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC - a petty, pudgy creator.
3 CB Anzai Mulatagi (KOR, 27) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (C) - a unlucky, stringy architect.
4 LF Falpew yPofrewdd (KOR, 22) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (VC) - a bright, tall architect.
5 DM Araete Amawai (KOR, 28) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC - a mean, heavy technician.
6 RM Mederi Laskibar (ASG, 30) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC
7 LM Bernabe Ruybal (KOR, 25) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC - a persistant, beefy cheater.
8 AM Calvagh Sherbeck (CCG, 24) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC
9 SS Mondestrend Rupusthaunden (KOR, 27) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC - a mischievous, stocky strategist.
10 RS Nard Monshouwer (KOR, 23) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC - a ambitious, beefy shadow.
11 LS Youri van Riesen (KOR, 31) -

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC - a silly, burly free kick specialist.

Castelo e Calvente CS
Stadium: Edogense (16000) in Ferrovente, Finisterre
Rivals:

Miradela GD,

Branvon CD, Club Valeloma
Background: Spent decades as a feeder club to both Miradela and Branvon, many great players that would later be legends at those clubs first passed through C&C. Ferrovente is not a small city either, and some players never went through to the Santa Teresan greats, and stayed beyind to make C&C better instead. This culminated in their promotion to the Top League where they are now level with both teams that once looked down on them.
This is the club for: Fans of underdog stories, comeback stories, or revenge stories.
Prediction: 4
Starters
1 GK Frederico Navia (KOR, 33) -

Castelo e Calvente CS - a boring, towering box-to-box player.
2 RF Francesco Sims (SNL, 32) -

Castelo e Calvente CS
3 RB Rodolfo Parada (KOR, 27) -

Castelo e Calvente CS - a prejudiced, heavy gladiator.
4 LB Aisel Aorei (KOR, 27) -

Castelo e Calvente CS - a reckless, well built daredevil.
5 LF Darjun Giragultinden (KOR, 36) -

Castelo e Calvente CS - a moody, buff playmaker.
6 RM Flo Crone (KOR, 32) -

Castelo e Calvente CS - a imaginative, tall box-to-box player.
7 CM Josh Evans (TMB, 25) -

Castelo e Calvente CS
8 LM Worrowa Moora (KOR, 25) -

Castelo e Calvente CS - a neat, ripped box-to-box player.
9 AM Xoaquin Souto (KOR, 22) -

Castelo e Calvente CS (VC) - a frugal, pacy teammate.
10 RS Akyon Gurses (TMR, 29) -

Castelo e Calvente CS (C)
11 LS Keith Torres (KOR, 33) -

Castelo e Calvente CS - a humorless, short showman.

Teragaseki
Stadium: Dokudo Stadium (12000) in

Teragaseki, Etena
Rivals:

Advance Alara, Fukushira Guerilla
Background: They long spent their time as the third club of Yoshima, behind Alara and Katashi, as they kept winning the specially created Yoshiman second division (back when that existed), with no way to find a new challenge. Then promotion and relegation rolled around, the Yoshiman system was integrated into the national one, and the club immediately looked beyond their region's borders. This eastern sporting town is addicted to anything competitive: football, baseball, rugby league, athletics, swimming, cycling on the only (ring) road around the island, navigating around steep cliffs and mountains.
This is the club for: Fans of every sport, anything competitive, and the colour orange. Yes, that's a colour you're never going to see anywhere else in Ko-oren, except maybe an ill-advised hipster away jersey.
Prediction: 5
Starters
1 GK Mamolu Valada (KOR, 23) -

Teragaseki - a popular, stringy all-rounder.
2 RB Stef Wijnholdt (KOR, 32) -

Teragaseki - a joyful, tiny cheater.
3 CB Thaddeus Rampton (KOR, 27) -

Teragaseki - a abrasive, stringy poacher.
4 LB Mamil Vigouroux (KOR, 30) -

Teragaseki - a energetic, slim maestro.
5 DM Tsunemochi Suzuki (KOR, 24) -

Teragaseki - a noncompetitive, burly opportunist.
6 RM Rijn Phiffers (KOR, 29) -

Teragaseki - a impartial, slim opportunist.
7 CM Toyoaki Onoe (KOR, 23) -

Teragaseki (VC) - a unlucky, athletic technician.
8 LM Susu Shiba (KOR, 32) -

Teragaseki - a posessive, gigantic daredevil.
9 AM Linus Throgmorton (KOR, 29) -

Teragaseki - a sociable, stocky mercenary.
10 SS Alain Delafose (KOR, 26) -

Teragaseki - a aggressive, buff controller.
11 ST Lanista Corsey (NPH, 31) -

Teragaseki (C)

Gehrenna FC
Stadium: Kautherlugin Field (17500) in Gehrenna, KCT
Rivals:

Maethoru SC
Background: A club of the government, second fiddle behind perennial champions Maethoru, the Gehrennans have found the perfect balance between official business and authentic localness. The bureaucrats don't care too much for football, so anyone left who did care about the club were treated like royalty, and they still are. This club cares about its fans, no matter the flak they get from the bureaucrats in their city, or from the fans of every other club who immediately associate the city of Gehrenna with 'posh'. Because this club isn't posh, even if it plays in quite a posh city.
This is the club for: Anyone who likes the Ko-orenite (social) meritocracy, and wishes to support a team that's at the heart of it. ('mate, you can't support a system of government')
Prediction: 6
Starters
1 GK Senparnin Baurkidhaunden (KOR, 30) -

Gehrenna FC - a friendly, athletic glass cannon.
2 RF Dhanparau Sasporterinthen (KOR, 23) -

Gehrenna FC - a circumspect, quick glass cannon.
3 RB Lin Xiding (YZH, 22) -

Gehrenna FC
4 LB Morasak Sirmauringun (KOR, 33) -

Gehrenna FC - a gentle, bony trickster.
5 LF Bwmrell yFewllis (KOR, 22) -

Gehrenna FC - a anxious, powerful cheater.
6 DM Rem Rodijk (KOR, 27) -

Gehrenna FC (VC) - a nosy, pudgy tactician.
7 RM Howell Hegan (KOR, 25) -

Gehrenna FC - a empathetic, lanky wall.
8 CM Ganodhalkun Zeltuthaunden (KOR, 24) -

Gehrenna FC - a neat, petite journeyman.
9 LM Kausuispiru Zalmaulthindhen (KOR, 28) -

Gehrenna FC (C) - a tenacious, well built debater.
10 SS Nelmiturkun Sitaserinden (KOR, 23) -

Gehrenna FC - a frivolous, bulky interceptor.
11 ST Lispaulinu Pisjanauden (KOR, 26) -

Gehrenna FC - a subservient, compact playmaker.

SC Sokrona
Stadium: Van Kwarteldoornstadion (7000) in Sokrona, Sudaefjoll
Rivals: MEZWO-VEDC Lamau,

Straudum VV
Background: The pride of the cold and tiny town of Sokrona.
This is the club for: None
Prediction: 7
Starters
1 GK Hidde Gosens (KOR, 34) -

SC Sokrona - a considerate, gigantic all-rounder.
2 RF Tjibbe Stender (KOR, 22) -

SC Sokrona - a rational, stringy poacher.
3 RB Oswald Brightman (KOR, 23) -

SC Sokrona - a chatty, slim penalty specialist.
4 CB Fumio Tagawa (KOR, 22) -

SC Sokrona - a frugal, short tactician.
5 LB Rafael Dwan (KOR, 26) -

SC Sokrona (C) - a pessimistic, powerful teammate.
6 LF Katsuro Kobayashi (HIN, 29) -

SC Sokrona (VC)
7 RM Dada Carbonneau (KOR, 35) -

SC Sokrona - a complex, gigantic box-to-box player.
8 CM Naohiro Enokida (KOR, 22) -

SC Sokrona - a neat, pacy maestro.
9 LM Butisorak Tosaudhaundhen (KOR, 26) -

SC Sokrona - a political, lanky dynamo.
10 SS Lorenzo Sarabia (KOR, 25) -

SC Sokrona - a fanatical, powerful dynamo.
11 ST Niklas Holmland (KOR, 22) -

SC Sokrona - a prejudiced, heavy technician.

Couziers-Olympiques
Stadium: Stade Central (15800) in Linieux, Cote Austral
Rivals:

Aminey CS, Linieux en Onyx, Bellmare Union
Background: Couziers is one of three clubs surrounding Willowbourne that have historically vied for that city's soccer fans - in addition to catering to their local fans in Linieux. Originally, the club had teams in multiple different sports - hence 'Olympiques' - and is still paired to the Linieux Harriers to an extent.
This is the club for: If you want a 'family' club, that's inextricably linked with its fans and players despite being in such a modern, well-connected city.
Prediction: 8
Starters
1 GK Aethi Aorine (KOR, 28) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a gossipy, pudgy daredevil.
2 RB Lemuel Massey (KOR, 23) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a intellectual, petite technician.
3 CB Tommy Anderson (SNL, 28) -

Couziers-Olympiques (C)
4 LB Ignatius Olaughlin (KOR, 22) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a sarcastic, staunch glass cannon.
5 DM Nanberry Bingarra (KOR, 28) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a sincere, ripped aggressor.
6 RM Évra Bernier (KOR, 23) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a rude, agile controller.
7 CM Rwoll yBharw (KOR, 25) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a childish, athletic cheater.
8 LM Mat Courvoisier (KOR, 22) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a mature, fast target man.
9 AM Clodio Muniz (KOR, 24) -

Couziers-Olympiques (VC) - a frugal, hard-hitting communicator.
10 RS Roja Tammerveld (KOR, 25) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a extroverted, burly daredevil.
11 LS Nicholas Candy (KOR, 25) -

Couziers-Olympiques - a noncompetitive, portly wall.

Maynard AFC
Stadium: Armskirk Municipal Ground (26000) in Maynard, Leeshire
Rivals:

Sydberg, Leeshire United, Glimmerfall Triumph
Background: This might just be the most colourful club of Ko-oren. Not the most successful one, by a long shot. Maybe the opposite, even. Maynard finished bottom of the Top League just about every year until relegation was introduced, after which they finished second-last for a few seasons until the curtains finally drew. Up until that point, the crafty owner of the club, Magdalene Buchanan, tried to find avenues everywhere in order to sustain her beloved club. She sponsored a club in the defunct Ounaian League, and is currently involved in lower league Chromatik football. For a very long time, Maynard was the only club in southwestern Ko-oren of note - they are now one among many. It's telling that a club this old has few notable players and is mainly known for board room shenanigans.
This is the club for: If you want to support a feelgood story and you never want to be called a bandwagoner. Or you enjoy a club with an enterpreneurial spirit, regardless of the efficacy of their endeavours.
Prediction: 9
Starters
1 GK Perry Cholmondeley (KOR, 34) -

Maynard AFC - a aggressive, agile glass cannon.
2 RF Kevin Aberg (KOR, 27) -

Maynard AFC - a loving, slender mercenary.
3 RB Alex Suchet (KOR, 24) -

Maynard AFC - a mean, beefy cheater.
4 CB Rozalin Meynard (EQS, 27) -

Maynard AFC
5 LB Aelinofe Aiehane (KOR, 23) -

Maynard AFC - a hopeful, short gladiator.
6 LF Kenneth Bowditch (KOR, 25) -

Maynard AFC (C) - a inhibited, instinctive visionary.
7 RM Wilfred Richey (KOR, 29) -

Maynard AFC - a mercurial, slender trickster.
8 CM Warren Potter (KOR, 29) -

Maynard AFC - a modern, toned penalty specialist.
9 LM Wheeler Gillis (KOR, 33) -

Maynard AFC - a tough, fast shadow.
10 RS Matthew Maxwell (KOR, 31) -

Maynard AFC - a reckless, toned aggressor.
11 LS Peter Steppe (XAN, 33) -

Maynard AFC (VC)

Sydberg
Stadium: Cloudfield Palace (12900) in Greencaster,

Sydberg, Thornwich, and Guildwood
Rivals: Langward, Cresthill Ebony FC, Marinwood Sunday
Background: A decently old team in northern Greencaster - that's Ko-oren's largest city and otherwise goes without representation in football - bringing together all walks of life. From briny fishermen to the hard workers of the harbour, the new money that came to the city as it became the country's financial centre, the stadium is packed with every single tax bracket that the Ministry of Finance can imagine. The only thing missing, so far, are results.
This is the club for: City folk, fast paced people that want to be at the centre of it all, who never have time and rarely have money.
Prediction: 10
Starters
1 GK Maresuke Wakasugi (KOR, 31) -

Sydberg - a intense, well built artist.
2 RB Wilbur Read (KOR, 25) -

Sydberg - a catty, heavy workhorse.
3 CB Oscar Bacon (KOR, 27) -

Sydberg - a persistant, petite workhorse.
4 LB Michael Mattson (KOR, 27) -

Sydberg (C) - a surprising, well built genius.
5 DM Amelia Inchcombe (KOR, 31) -

Sydberg - a rude, short ball winner.
6 RM Nubolzasun Lalaseringun (KOR, 32) -

Sydberg - a dense, lanky artist.
7 CM Elco Lamshuis (KOR, 22) -

Sydberg - a bossy, well built box-to-box player.
8 LM Thor Oosterberg (KOR, 24) -

Sydberg - a busy, burly clown.
9 SS Sydney Aldworth (KOR, 22) -

Sydberg (VC) - a modern, portly debater.
10 RS Benjamin Suchet (KOR, 28) -

Sydberg - a resentful, stocky architect.
11 LS Sosuke Nakada (KOR, 21) -

Sydberg - a confrontational, muscular zone marker.

Amandine AdF
Stadium: Stade Bizmetal (13000) in Granon, Cote Austral
Rivals:

Tanques AOE, Granon Altair CF
Background: The rural, natural side of the south Cote Australienne urban area is Amandine's. There's still a lot of people in the club's area, though, but they love to play up the underdog part. The fans are loyal and have found peace in lower divisions.
This is the club for: You like a good underdog story, you like good weather in an area with gorgeous national parks, but you also like the murky, swampy side of that.
Prediction: 11
Starters
1 GK Théo Duchamp (KOR, 29) -

Amandine AdF - a discreet, staunch professional.
2 RF Aiseise Aolumei (KOR, 23) -

Amandine AdF - a irreverent, ripped workhorse.
3 RB Ron Lubbers (KOR, 25) -

Amandine AdF - a childish, ripped target man.
4 LB Nata Deschanel (KOR, 29) -

Amandine AdF (VC) - a neutral, trim tackler.
5 LF Huug Zwikker (KOR, 33) -

Amandine AdF - a predictable, well built wall.
6 DM Folke Engstroom (KOR, 24) -

Amandine AdF - a obsessive, well built all-rounder.
7 RM Franc Tremblay (KOR, 26) -

Amandine AdF (C) - a resourceful, slim opportunist.
8 LM Teobhwch yTawdnhawch (KOR, 28) -

Amandine AdF - a frank, athletic dynamo.
9 SS Xesus Troncoso (KOR, 27) -

Amandine AdF - a faithful, tall clown.
10 SS Blaine Robins (KOR, 23) -

Amandine AdF - a circumspect, lanky daredevil.
11 ST Cilistro Salomon (KOR, 30) -

Amandine AdF - a moody, instinctive professor.

Burnet Athletic
Stadium: Athletic Club Grounds (7500) in Burnet, Burnet Island
Rivals: Ambergate City
Background: The one club from the 'holiday island' of Burnet, support is strictly for the locals. It's almost like this club exists more for island pride rather than good football and good results.
This is the club for: You're a native of the island of Burnet and you like to pledge your support.
Prediction: 12
Starters
1 GK Algernon Stillingfleet (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a brave, tall target man.
2 RF Neenrah Mangarrah (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a independent, athletic debater.
3 RB Sinclair Pardey (KOR, 25) -

Burnet Athletic - a considerate, burly ball winner.
4 LB Loyd Sheils (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a folksy, thin clown.
5 LF Galneff yLlaeblech (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a impressionable, buff trickster.
6 DM Hilton Clark (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a timid, quick cheater.
7 CM Barnaby Beggley (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a childish, fit gladiator.
8 AM Sid Plundell (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a pessimistic, pudgy gladiator.
9 SS Isaac Buckner (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic (VC) - a friendly, pacy shadow.
10 RS Ligwaff yGisrich (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic (C) - a loyal, swift genius.
11 LS Octavius Beeching (KOR, 22) -

Burnet Athletic - a devious, toned wall.

Third Tier
South
Ambergate City
Brighthaven Town
Grainshire United
Club Valeloma
Katashi Azula
Odahayashi Revolution
Strongfair
Mawrystwyth
Chikuno Hakuba
Belmore FC
Limecroft Et Abyss FC
Soothill
Clubs are from the following areas: Mawryshire (Mawrystwyth), Yoshima (Katashi Azula, Odahayashi Revolution, Chikuno Hakuba), Finisterre (Club Valeloma), Eastern Surbourneshire (Belmore FC, Limecroft Et Abyss FC, Soothill), Western Surbourneshire/Springlands/Leeshire/Domains (Ambergate City, Brighthaven Town, Grainshire United, Strongfair)

North
Aerellen Honoa SC
Cresthill FC
Biney CF
Oai Unifie
Foot Soibourgoise en Vert
Fukushira Guerilla
Laringen AFC
Tuinderbeek FC
Tepkusoren Opkohme
Launott
Linderivier AFC
Myaranowra
Clubs are from the following areas: KCT (Tepkusoren Opkohme), Aerellen (Aerellen Honoa SC), Poolrugge/Sudaefjoll (Launott, Linderivier AFC), Intermare (Laringen AFC, Tuinderbeek FC), WSR (Myaranowra), Cote Austral (Biney CF, Oai Unifie, Foot Soibourgoise en Vert), Yoshima (Fukushira Guerilla)

by **Ko-oren** » Tue Mar 08, 2022 3:46 am

Soccer - Season 38

Autumn

Top League

A new season starts! So many questions: can

Maethoru SC extend their dominant streak, or can

Aminey CS finally get a return on their investment? The Francophone club has spent more money on wages than any other club, with the capital club not far behind, and the fans, the board, and the players are starting to become nervous.

Straudum VV has been surprisingly good with their low budget squad and incredible defence, can they return to the Champions League... or will they regress to the mean as it turns out their squad isn't special and the coaches just got lucky, missing the top six entirely?

Schemerdrecht SVV is on a revenge tour for failing to finish in the top 3 for a while.

Tanques AOE has been back for a season after their promotion and are itching to show what their new style midfield can do.

Miradela GD and

Branvon CD are here to once again answer the question which of the two Santa Teresa clubs are better - with the best of the two often qualifying for the IFCF.

Katashi-Kanatsu are much like

Schemerdrecht SVV, in that their status demands they qualify for the IFCF with some semblance of a good run.

Advance Alara, the darling of the league, has fallen back last year - has their attacking playstyle been 'found out'? Then the question of relegation: will it be

WSR AFC, having overstayed their welcome?

Bruncester United AFC, after rivals

Cirelbourne United had dropped down a level half a decade ago? Or

Arboren FC, who just promoted last season and are still figuring things out?

Rounds 1-2

Miradela GD and

Tanques AOE enjoy a 4-3 home win for the Santa Teresans - it's not just

Advance Alara who can up the score. Clement Spanner,

Miradela GD striker, gets the first hattrick of the season.

Maethoru SC start off on the wrong foot with a 0-0 draw to just-promoted

Arboren FC, who show that they can rival

Straudum VV's defence if needed.

WSR AFC win 2-0 over

Bruncester United AFC in an early, potential, relegation classic. We have no derbies in the first two weeks, but we do get

Aminey CS winning 2-1 over

Schemerdrecht SVV in a game between two clubs that think they can/should win it all.

Arboren FC continue their good results versus

Branvon CD (2-0).

Rounds 3-5

Tanques AOE show up early, with wins over

Branvon CD,

Schemerdrecht SVV, and

WSR AFC. For now, we'll chalk it up to an easy early schedule, but maybe the southern Cote Australiens are on to something.

Arboren FC are thrown off with two losses and a draw - it can't be a perfect season after all. For now,

Advance Alara looks like they haven't figured out a new gameplan and string together losses and draws... you're not saying they're also going to be involved in the relegation mix? Lastly, round 5 has the first (and one of very few) derbies in the Top League.

Branvon CD host

Miradela GD in the sold-out Estádio Marítimo under the hot mid-afternoon sun as both goalkeepers are tested. Most players on these teams are used to the heat by now, so they don't worry about wasting energy.

Miradela GD launches cross after cross from wild wing play, and Acuna finally hits Spanner for his 6th goal of the campaign already(!) to give the visiting

Miradela GD the lead. Taraala returns the favour and then some, scoring one and setting up Ulloa for the 2-1 lead

Branvon CD lead. The second half is all

Miradela GD, with Magrath, Valdovinos, and Blair scoring: 2-4!

Rounds 6-8
The contours of the first 22 are getting clearer.

Maethoru SC win 1-0, 2-0, and 2-0 for somewhat boring, but effective, wins. The middle win is over

Schemerdrecht SVV, who completely lose the plot and lose all three games in this slate. Only one other team wins all three games in this span:

Miradela GD, who have rediscovered what winning feels like in the derby and are hellbent on continuing the success.

Schemerdrecht SVV, then

WSR AFC, and then

Bruncester United AFC (3-0) - after a slow start they are on four straight victories. You'd almost overlook another club who's having a great autumn:

Straudum VV, but that machine slows down for now with one of each: one win, one draw, one loss. Round eight brings us the eastern rivalry of

Katashi-Kanatsu versus

Advance Alara, and the clubs couldn't be doing much differently. The former are eyeing the top 6, while the bottom is in early relegation panic. Expecting a monster score, or an incredible 4-4 tie, Mizuno and Ferreira hold the Katashi attack off, while Ardouin and Polack completely neutralise Alara's strong right flank (Richardson, Borthwell, Turner). We go into halftime scoreless. The second half sees an early Alara goal, with Okawa lifting the ball over Stewart, but Miyahara responds on behalf of the home side, 1-1.

Rounds 9-10
We're almost through the first half of stage one - 22 matchdays - with the northern derby.

Schemerdrecht SVV is trying to salvage their season already, and

Straudum VV just want their mojo back, as the universe decides neither get what they want: 1-1.

Tanques AOE's strikers get nine goals in two games (Weaver 2x, Deslys 2x, Helzinger 1x, Burnett 1x, Hinken 1x, Ogas 1x, Jerguthinthen 1x) but only four points, with one of these games being a 3-3 versus

Straudum VV - that's half their conceded goals in one game. In the other game, they beat

Arboren FC, away, in a 4-6 goalfest. Aomelirea scores 4 for the home side and it's still not enough - but that is a very rare hattrick-and-one! No club achieves six points from two games here.

Maethoru SC come close, but they draw the second game, 4-4, to

Advance Alara, as the eastern visitors score two goals in extra time to turn a 4-2 to a 4-4.

Advance Alara fails to win a game so far, but still do better than

Bruncester United AFC.

Maethoru SC leads, with

Straudum VV and

Aminey CS close behind - no surprises there.

Schemerdrecht SVV and

Advance Alara are having horrible seasons for the second year in a row, while

Tanques AOE and

Miradela GD can't complain at all.

*  Top League                                  Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Maethoru SC                                  10    7   2   1    18    9   +9    23
 2 Straudum VV                                  10    6   3   1    15    7   +8    21
 3 Aminey CS                                    10    7   0   3    20   14   +6    21
 4 Tanques AOE                                  10    6   2   2    28   20   +8    20
 5 Miradela GD                                  10    5   1   4    16   15   +1    16
 6 Katashi-Kanatsu                              10    4   2   4    14   12   +2    14
 7 Arboren FC                                   10    4   2   4    16   16    0    14
 8 WSR AFC                                      10    3   2   5    14   17   −3    11
 9 Schemerdrecht SVV                            10    2   3   5    14   18   −4     9
10 Branvon CD                                   10    2   2   6     8   14   −6     8
11 Advance Alara                                10    0   5   5    12   21   −9     5
12 Bruncester United AFC                        10    1   2   7     3   15  −12     5

Second Division

The second tier kicks off with two difficult objectives - only one club promotes and as many as two relegate. There's a large group of teams looking for the step up.

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC are the longest waiting club after

Arboren FC finally got their due last season. H&I FC have been building a good squad in southern Willowbourne for a while and have tried to win over the massive metropolis as their fanbase - but a big city needs success.

Castelo e Calvente CS weren't the third Finisterran team we needed in the Top League, but they still have a quality squad.

Sterrenwolde FC are another club who never got a chance at the highest level, but they might have the best chance of them all.

Cirelbourne United still have a good team in a massive soccer market, in a region that has little else going for it than sports at the moment. After that, it's hard to see which other teams could have a chance but

Sydberg,

Couziers-Olympiques, and

Teragaseki might all have a shot.

And as it turns out, it's mostly the latter who show their skill.

Teragaseki in second,

Sydberg in third, a small group of teams trying to break away. But nobody can show up

Sterrenwolde FC, whose defence makes the difference for seven wins in ten games.

Gehrenna FC are like Sterrenwolde and Huthwich: never played at the highest level, and they have a natural enemy in the Top League (

Maethoru SC,

Schemerdrecht SVV, and

Aminey CS, respectively), but can they do it?

At the bottom,

Maynard AFC, who might as well be Ko-oren's most cursed club, have no wins in 10 games.

Castelo e Calvente CS, with their 'good enough for promotion team', are not much better off.

*  2nd Div                                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Sterrenwolde FC                              10    7   1   2    11    7   +4    22
 2 Teragaseki                                   10    6   2   2    24   17   +7    20
 3 Sydberg                                      10    5   4   1    22   14   +8    19
 4 Gehrenna FC                                  10    5   1   4    11    9   +2    16
 5 SC Sokrona                                   10    3   4   3    11   10   +1    13
 6 Huthwich Et Iduloren FC                      10    2   6   2    14   12   +2    12
 7 Amandine AdF                                 10    3   3   4    12   16   −4    12
 8 Couziers-Olympiques                          10    1   7   2    12   13   −1    10
 9 Cirelbourne United                           10    2   4   4     6   11   −5    10
10 Burnet Athletic                              10    2   3   5    14   17   −3     9
11 Castelo e Calvente CS                        10    1   5   4    18   24   −6     8
12 Maynard AFC                                  10    0   6   4    15   20   −5     6

Lower Tiers

The third tier might be looked down on, but this level still contains the 25th-48th best teams in Ko-oren. In other countries, most of these would have formed the second tier. And so we see that only three clubs have managed 20 points (out of the possible 30): Katashi Azula is rapidly becoming the next big thing in the East, after

Teragaseki,

Advance Alara, and obviously

Katashi-Kanatsu. If they make it up, they could be a worthy local rival in the Yoshiman (local) cups and tournaments, too! Recently relegated Strongfair, Limecroft, Ambergate, Grainshire, Brighthaven, and Mawrystwyth all show how difficult it is to get back up to the top 24. The competition is massive, and clubs that have been at the third level all along didn't sit still either.

In the north, Laringen AFC and Myaranowra are fighting for supremacy for now. The former would make a nice third after

Sterrenwolde FC and

Schemerdrecht SVV, representing the three largest cities of Intermare. Fukushira Guerilla, who surprisingly made it to the second tier last season (and promptly went down again) are down in 10th, the magic well and truly worked off. Cresthill FC have had a takeover and massive expectations and dreams, but are in 11th and at this rate would make it down to fourth - a tough pill to swallow for one of the 'historical eight clubs of Ko-oren'.

*   3rd Div South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Katashi Azula                                10    6   3   1    12    6   +6    21
 2 Belmore FC                                   10    6   1   3    16   13   +3    19
 3 Club Valeloma                                10    6   0   4    21   18   +3    18
 4 Strongfair                                   10    5   3   2    11    8   +3    18
 5 Limecroft Et Abyss FC                        10    5   1   4    15   13   +2    16
 6 Soothill                                     10    4   2   4    14   15   −1    14
 7 Ambergate City                               10    4   2   4    16   18   −2    14
 8 Grainshire United                            10    3   3   4    10   10    0    12
   Odahayashi Revolution                        10    3   3   4    11   11    0    12
10 Brighthaven Town                             10    2   3   5    14   17   −3     9
11 Mawrystwyth                                  10    3   0   7     7   11   −4     9
12 Chikuno Hakuba                               10    2   1   7     5   12   −7     7

   3rd Div North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Laringen AFC                                 10    6   3   1    24   14  +10    21
 2 Myaranowra                                   10    6   2   2    18   10   +8    20
 3 Oai Unifie                                   10    5   2   3    15   13   +2    17
 4 Biney CF                                     10    5   2   3    17   16   +1    17
 5 Launott                                      10    4   4   2    10    8   +2    16
 6 Aerellen Honoa SC                            10    5   1   4    16   16    0    16
 7 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert                    10    2   6   2    18   16   +2    12
 8 Linderivier AFC                              10    3   3   4    14   15   −1    12
 9 Tepkusoren Opkohme                           10    3   2   5     9   13   −4    11
10 Fukushira Guerilla                           10    1   6   3    18   19   −1     9
11 Cresthill FC                                 10    1   3   6    11   20   −9     6
12 Tuinderbeek FC                               10    1   2   7     8   18  −10     5

Even the big clubs at the fourth level have lost points. Some clubs have avoided losses, but instead they tied half of their slate of games so far (5-5-0). The two best clubs so far are in the same division, competing for the same spot in 3b: Egevea and Grimhof VV. They're the only clubs that earned more than two-thirds of the maximum possible 30 points so far (21 and 22, respectively, in fact).

*  4th Div A                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Argyle Tuesday                               10    6   1   3    19   18   +1    19
   Llandy FC                                    10    5   4   1    18   17   +1    19
 3 Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis                         10    5   3   2    20   15   +5    18
 4 Feddhaw yChronws                             10    5   2   3    24   18   +6    17
 5 Cirelbourne Townside                         10    4   4   2    21   19   +2    16
 6 Oceanside South End                          10    4   3   3    12   11   +1    15
 7 Glimmerfall Triumph                          10    4   2   4    15   12   +3    14
 8 Langward                                     10    4   2   4    16   13   +3    14
 9 Ansonville Association                       10    3   2   5    14   16   −2    11
10 Penstead Clwb Peldred                        10    2   4   4    12   15   −3    10
11 Marinwood Sunday                             10    1   2   7     9   17   −8     5
12 Anarcourt CF                                 10    0   5   5     8   17   −9     5

   4th Div B                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Opalshire FC                                 10    6   1   3    21   17   +4    19
 2 Ferncombe                                    10    6   0   4    16   13   +3    18
 3 Leeshire United                              10    4   5   1    16   12   +4    17
 4 Vierciennes Victory                          10    5   1   4    16   12   +4    16
 5 Zinchester Town                              10    4   3   3    19   15   +4    15
 6 Chamiers                                     10    4   3   3    12   12    0    15
 7 Chaganca Central                             10    4   2   4    14   13   +1    14
 8 Blanrasco Borealis                           10    4   2   4    13   15   −2    14
 9 Vinroux Invincibles                          10    4   1   5    12   12    0    13
10 Norille Orion                                10    3   2   5     7   13   −6    11
11 Bellmare Union                               10    2   3   5    17   22   −5     9
12 Cape Constillan                              10    1   3   6    11   18   −7     6

   4th Div C                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Morivate Lava                                10    5   5   0    16   10   +6    20
   Otavura                                      10    5   5   0    15    9   +6    20
 3 Coloruna                                     10    6   1   3    19   15   +4    19
 4 Vurusen                                      10    4   4   2    14   11   +3    16
 5 Shinsen Sunrise                              10    5   1   4    17   15   +2    16
 6 Motojagava Taranchula                        10    3   6   1    21   17   +4    15
 7 Shimohavi                                    10    3   4   3    16   17   −1    13
 8 Aviansola Eden                               10    3   1   6    14   11   +3    10
 9 Echizen                                      10    2   4   4    13   14   −1    10
10 Nitoya                                       10    2   3   5    12   24  −12     9
11 Enkumo Diamond                               10    1   3   6     6   12   −6     6
12 Yonenomura                                   10    1   3   6     6   14   −8     6

   4th Div D                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Grimhof VV                                   10    7   1   2    16    7   +9    22
 2 Egevea                                       10    7   0   3    19   12   +7    21
 3 Vleugelberg                                  10    4   4   2    16   14   +2    16
 4 Dartha AFC                                   10    4   3   3    18   17   +1    15
 5 Serevne AFC                                  10    5   0   5    21   21    0    15
 6 Honingsweg-Toreneik Combinatie               10    3   4   3    15   17   −2    13
 7 Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie               10    3   3   4    12   12    0    12
 8 MEZWO-VEDC Lamau                             10    4   0   6    11   13   −2    12
 9 Ossendal                                     10    3   3   4    12   15   −3    12
10 Nyashawill                                   10    3   2   5    12   14   −2    11
11 Shinsen VV                                   10    3   1   6    14   16   −2    10
12 Turnaarde FC                                 10    1   5   4     7   15   −8     8

   4th Div E                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Donderen                                     10    6   2   2    19   12   +7    20
 2 Planneige                                    10    6   1   3    26   20   +6    19
 3 Rozenvoorde FC                               10    5   2   3    12    7   +5    17
 4 Amillon CdF                                  10    5   2   3    16   14   +2    17
 5 Aminey Avalanche                             10    4   3   3    14   10   +4    15
 6 Linieux en Onyx                              10    3   6   1    13   10   +3    15
 7 Roufortois-Arlerou                           10    5   0   5     9    7   +2    15
 8 Diessy CdF                                   10    4   2   4    12   15   −3    14
 9 Cygne de Dentillon                           10    3   1   6     7   15   −8    10
10 Ounoukal Aminey CA                           10    2   3   5     8   13   −5     9
11 Liberazul Epitieres                          10    1   5   4     8   14   −6     8
12 Granon Altair CF                             10    1   3   6     7   14   −7     6

   4th Div F                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Sauzjaregaun Saulrag                         10    4   5   1    17   13   +4    17
   Senoren FC                                   10    4   5   1    12    8   +4    17
 3 Sobdorlugin Komtherod                        10    5   2   3    16   13   +3    17
 4 Gakhithrau Dhikodhra                         10    3   6   1    20   16   +4    15
 5 Tokponen Rildhemau                           10    3   4   3    16   12   +4    13
 6 Mayara Soccer Guild                          10    3   4   3    15   16   −1    13
 7 Pride of Eaglebury                           10    2   6   2    10   13   −3    12
 8 Tarrashall Pride                             10    4   0   6    10   16   −6    12
 9 Tuzmanjuth Jithaugom                         10    2   5   3    11   10   +1    11
10 April Bassin FC                              10    3   2   5     8   10   −2    11
11 Sathtonoru Kaptu                             10    3   1   6     7   11   −4    10
12 Mayara Zunemak                               10    2   4   4    13   17   −4    10

by **Ko-oren** » Tue Mar 08, 2022 2:28 pm

Soccer - Season 38

Winter

Top League

Rounds 11-13
We resume with a game that decides the top two for the time being:

Aminey CS hosting

Maethoru SC. Aeganora, Aminey's new striker, has a few good attempts but has his shots blocked. For the rest, Aeganora is left on an island with most of the francophones' squad trying to cover for Maethoru's midfield and great counterattack. The capital club have Vaugrenard, Janoreirinthen, backed up by Van Kalvenhaar as defensive and buildup option, but can't make it through the wall of light blue jerseys. Shishkin, an underrated part of Maethoru's XI, had the biggest chance of the day, but whiffed on the attempt at close range. 0-0. That gives

Straudum VV the perfect opportunity to overtake both - and at

WSR AFC, that's certainly the expectation. Only... they can't score, and the home squad get a late one, so none of the top three clubs manage a win.

Schemerdrecht SVV try their best and get a necessary 6 points of these three games - the sole loss coming at home to

Aminey CS in a rare 1-5(!) as Aminey get all the goals they should have gotten versus Maethoru.

Advance Alara get their first win, in week 11, over

Branvon CD.

Katashi-Kanatsu do excellent business and get 7 points from this group of games.

Rounds 14-16
The second Santa Teresan derby was played in round 16, with a surprisingly low score: 0-1.

Miradela GD thought it had it all based on the table, but derbies are just different.

Branvon CD get a very useful three points out of it. Another important game was between two of the top three:

Maethoru SC versus

Straudum VV, with Straudum coming off of a 0-3 win at Alara and Maethoru wishing to forget about these three rounds, including a 0-1 loss at home to

Miradela GD. With

Straudum VV and

Maethoru SC, you know it'll be fairly low scoring. One has made its defence into its identity (and have been a huge influence on how the national team plays), and the other has learned to capitalise on other teams' mistakes and avoiding mistakes of their own. With just a handful decent chances in 90 minutes, the match ended 0-0.

Aminey CS could have profited, but after a 3-1 win over

WSR AFC, they tied two in a row, at

Bruncester United AFC, and to

Advance Alara. Towards the bottom of the table,

Bruncester United AFC scraped a rare point from that Aminey meeting, but they actually did fairly well with two draws and a win (0-1 at

Arboren FC). We all expected

Arboren FC to be unbeatable at home in winter, but the team hasn't made its home advantage work for them yet. Arboren is far from bad, but they aren't turning heads... or maybe we're just expecting too much from a recently promoted team. Staying up is good enough for year one.

Rounds 17-19
Bearing down on judgment day (that is, after MD22 when the top six will play for a championship and the IFCF spots, and the bottom six are just trying to avoid relegation), the midtable squads are desperately trying to get points wherever they can.

Katashi-Kanatsu only get two out of a possible nine, with a loss to

WSR AFC and ties to Bruncester and Alara - yeah, those are not teams you want to give points at a crucial point in the season.

WSR AFC, meanwhile, only got the three points versus Katashi, and then lost to

Miradela GD and

Maethoru SC. With that,

Miradela GD are fairly sure of the top 6: apart from this win, they also beat

Schemerdrecht SVV, then tied Bruncester for 7 points out of 9.

Schemerdrecht SVV are getting desperate (and their results are getting more random by the day), as they lost to

Miradela GD but they got full points at

Maethoru SC and then beat

Branvon CD. With just 12 teams in the league, nearly every match is going to be important just ahead of the dreaded MD22.

Arboren FC has six points from this slate, with the sole loss being a particularly tough one: 0-4, at home, to

Straudum VV, who are the other team that are quite used to the winter cold up north.

Round 20
Judgment day is coming ever closer, and as

Schemerdrecht SVV lose the northern derby to

Straudum VV, the former is out of top six contention, while the latter keep close to the top 2.

Branvon CD beat

WSR AFC 3-0 - that's not enough for Branvon, but

WSR AFC have made it tremendously difficult for themselves. That's two big losses for the west coast team in two weeks.

Miradela GD draw

Advance Alara 3-3, we all knew there were going to be goals, but no team really likes this result.

Katashi-Kanatsu get a point from their meeting with

Aminey CS - not bad in a vacuum, but not enough in this context.

Tanques AOE - we haven't looked at them a lot lately - beat

Arboren FC 2-1, giving the former a huge chance at top 6.

Round 21

Tanques AOE are put right back in their place (0-2) as

Straudum VV steals 3 points off them.

Arboren FC and

Katashi-Kanatsu share points, helping neither club (1-1). A top four clash,

Miradela GD beat

Aminey CS, putting the latter at a disadvantage vis à vis the other two title contenders. A bottom two clash between

Bruncester United AFC and

Branvon CD ends in a 0-1 to the Santa Teresans, making relegation a very real threat for the east Surbourneshire club.

WSR AFC win 1-0 over

Schemerdrecht SVV, which means the former are still alive in that vital top 6 race.

Round 22
Here it is - a few teams need three points to further their IFCF ambitions, and the rest will have to wait until next season.

WSR AFC play a difficult winter away game at

Straudum VV but escape relatively unscathed with a point.

Miradela GD beat

Arboren FC 3-0, confirming what we already knew:

Miradela GD will likely get to another IFCF spot while

Arboren FC have just missed out on the top 6 - which is still an amazing feat for a club that played in the second tier until a year ago. A bottom three-meeting between

Branvon CD and

Advance Alara ends 1-1. We also have a game at the top, which would be the talk of the month if it weren't for the very final game of the weekend. Two of the best games of the season, all happening in round 22.

Maethoru SC v

Aminey CS
The capital club invite Entertainment FC for a preliminary 'who would make a great champion' meeting. Just twelve minutes in, the francophones lead as Ulysse shows some of his brilliance, landing a perfect pass right before Vashila, who doesn't hesitate and slots the ball past Bittencourt. It takes a while, and after half time, the all-green home team equalise via a well rehearsed Janoreirinthen set piece. The free kick ends up with Roshuserinden, who is completely open, and finds Eleveld on the low cross into the penalty area: 1-1. Aminey then launch attack after attack, while Maethoru easily parries and manages a few counterattacks of their own. Eleveld is close to a second goal, Smitherman really should have scored an easy header, but Aminey survive. Then, in the 78th minute,

Aminey CS score the 1-2 on an ugly free-for-all in the penalty area: Archer gets the ball and spots a split-second frame where there is an open line to the goal.

Aminey CS win, keeping the top three extremely close together, and then we still have the craziest game to go.

Katashi-Kanatsu v

Tanques AOE
At this point,

Tanques AOE know they can't drop into the bottom six. The other matches - all five of them - have already been completed at this point.

Katashi-Kanatsu need a win to overtake

WSR AFC for sixth place - this is incredibly important. And, what's more, the eastern club is the home side. Not that Tanques had to travel far, but still. Hang on, this'll get interesting.

11' - 1-0 - Morris (pen) - Morris is taken down in the penalty area. It's only a yellow to Hinken, no problems, but Katashi have their lead.
19' - 1-1 - Watabe (OG) - Watabe helps out a haphazard cross by Daraluthen. If Watabe hadn't put the ball behind his own goalkeeper, either Lyford or Deslys would have absolutely got to it, though.
39' - 2-1 - Kumagai - Kumagai scores the first normal goal of the game. No set piece, no own goals, nothing. The defensive midfielder goes on an adventure and decides to go for goal from 20 metres out, and he's successful.
41' - 2-2 - Helzinger - Katashi's success is short-lived as Helzinger scores her eighth of the season.
Halftime
49' - 2-3 - Helzinger - She notches a ninth after some comedic defending. Ardouin expects Yoshimi to intercept, but the ball ends up between the two defenders for an easy shot at Stewart.
56' - Red Card Askari (

Tanques AOE) - though they have the lead, things get difficult with just 10 players.
57' - 3-3 - Nakazono - the

Katashi-Kanatsu midfielder equalises from the free kick! The dipping shot surprises Malmstroom.
59' - 4-3 - Miyahara - Finally, after seven goals, a striker scores. Miyahara takes his jersey off in celebration, though...
60' - Red Card Miyahara (

Katashi-Kanatsu) - that's not a great idea. He did get his club the lead, but it's also his second yellow.
82' - 4-4 - Weaver -

Tanques AOE responds, somewhat late, but they do have their fourth goal as both teams are reduced to 10 players.
89' - 4-5 - Burnett - With all substitutions out of the way, Tanques' veteran forward scores the go-ahead goal.
90+1' - 4-6 - Cameron - Ambrose Cameron scores his first goal of the season, as

Katashi-Kanatsu put every single player on goal scoring duty. With just a goalkeeper to beat and no defenders even on the same half of the field, the inexperienced midfielder gets a great opportunity to make himself known.

You read that right - a 4-6 ends the first stage of the league, and it ends in heartbreak for

Katashi-Kanatsu. The top six go to the Championship Stage, fighting for the title and all IFCF spots, while the bottom six try to avoid relegation:

*  Top League                                  Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Maethoru SC                                  22   12   6   4    32   21  +11    42
 2 Straudum VV                                  22   11   8   3    29   12  +17    41
 3 Aminey CS                                    22   12   5   5    37   24  +13    41
 4 Tanques AOE                                  22   11   5   6    52   41  +11    38
 5 Miradela GD                                  22   10   5   7    31   28   +3    35
 6 WSR AFC                                      22    9   4   9    29   33   −4    31

 7 Katashi-Kanatsu                              22    7   8   7    38   36   +2    29
 8 Arboren FC                                   22    7   4  11    27   35   −8    25
 9 Schemerdrecht SVV                            22    7   3  12    28   36   −8    24
10 Branvon CD                                   22    6   4  12    20   30  −10    22
11 Advance Alara                                22    1  13   8    29   41  −12    16
12 Bruncester United AFC                        22    3   7  12    13   28  −15    16

Second Division

Plenty happens in the middle part of the season. Of our assumed promotion candidates,

Castelo e Calvente CS are fighting against relegation instead, even though they score a lot of goals and Torres is second in the top scorer table, and Tumbran midfielder Josh Evans is first in assists.

Maynard AFC, who failed to win in their first 10 games, returned to the mean with six wins in the next 12 games and a solid midtable spot.

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC and their early hopes are shattered as they find themselves in 10th, through injury troubles of their star rightback Kwant, disciplinary problems with Astograthian midfielder Laskibar, and no striker with more chances missed than young forward Monshouwer - and with these three players out or not performing up to standard, you quickly drift down.

Couziers-Olympiques are unlikely to go anywhere, and should cruise out the season to maybe a Liga B opportunity.

At the top, we have a group of five teams with fighting chances.

Teragaseki are first with a top-tier striking force, Delafose having scored 9 so far and Nepharan colleague Corsey on 13 goals.

Teragaseki are a team with a lot of 'second chance' Ko-orenites from foreign youth systems. "How many of those can there be," you ask, but they have two: Throgmorton (now 29! Ask any Ko-orenite and they'll tell you 24 at best) and Rampton (27 years old now), from Kita-Hinode and Apox, respectively.

Sydberg are in there more or less by luck, though they score more than any other team (at the cost of their defence, that's for sure). Wakasugi and Inchcombe should have been a decent block at the back, but instead it's the relatively unknown Suchet and Nakada up front that do a lot of work.

Sydberg don't rely on one or two players to make the difference, having 5 different players on 6 goals or more. Star of the squad is CM Lamshuis.

Cirelbourne United are fighting to get back up their with rivals

Bruncester United AFC, holding on to a part of their once Top League team. Amazing defence through CB Tomlinson and GK Aeloviane, with DM Robert Keep arguably doing the most there.

Sterrenwolde FC have dropped down from their early season form, unfortunately, though their great midfield play should keep them in the fight until the very end: Meredeth, Bonschotten, and Breedland.

Gehrenna FC have been the odd one out since the start, but they're making waves. Some awful players that were given a chance to prove themselves - and they haven't - with leftback yFewllis and RM Hegan, not to mention LM Zalmauthindhen, this team stretches opponents across both wings and it's working well enough.

*  2nd Div                                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Teragaseki                                   22   10   7   5    44   35   +9    37
 2 Sydberg                                      22   10   6   6    45   39   +6    36
 3 Cirelbourne United                           22    9   8   5    23   17   +6    35
 4 Sterrenwolde FC                              22   11   2   9    26   21   +5    35
 5 Gehrenna FC                                  22   10   4   8    23   19   +4    34
 6 SC Sokrona                                   22    7   8   7    29   25   +4    29
 7 Couziers-Olympiques                          22    6  11   5    29   29    0    29
 8 Maynard AFC                                  22    6   8   8    32   42  −10    26
 9 Amandine AdF                                 22    6   7   9    22   29   −7    25
10 Huthwich Et Iduloren FC                      22    4  12   6    27   27    0    24
11 Burnet Athletic                              22    4   9   9    26   32   −6    21
12 Castelo e Calvente CS                        22    2  12   8    38   49  −11    18

Lower Tiers

The tables turn quickly at the third level. In the north, Myaranowra and Laringen AFC still lead, but by a small margin with a pack of four clubs waiting for the top 2 to slip up and join the fight. In the south, four clubs remain close with Katashi Azula dropping to third. Remember: only one team promotes from here, so the battle is fierce and often unrewarding... The humiliation for Limecroft gets worse as they now drop into the bottom 3, which is a relegation spot.

*  3rd Div South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Grainshire United                            22   10   7   5    30   20  +10    37
 2 Club Valeloma                                22   11   3   8    34   31   +3    36
 3 Katashi Azula                                22   10   5   7    27   22   +5    35
 4 Belmore FC                                   22   10   5   7    30   28   +2    35
 5 Soothill                                     22   10   3   9    33   31   +2    33
 6 Strongfair                                   22    9   6   7    27   26   +1    33
 7 Ambergate City                               22    9   4   9    32   33   −1    31
 8 Brighthaven Town                             22    9   4   9    35   37   −2    31
 9 Odahayashi Revolution                        22    8   6   8    27   31   −4    30
10 Limecroft Et Abyss FC                        22    9   2  11    34   34    0    29
11 Mawrystwyth                                  22    6   4  12    21   24   −3    22
12 Chikuno Hakuba                               22    4   5  13    19   32  −13    17

   3rd Div North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Myaranowra                                   22   11   7   4    44   29  +15    40
 2 Laringen AFC                                 22   11   4   7    37   28   +9    37
 3 Biney CF                                     22    9   7   6    35   33   +2    34
 4 Linderivier AFC                              22   10   4   8    31   32   −1    34
 5 Fukushira Guerilla                           22    9   6   7    49   42   +7    33
 6 Launott                                      22    9   6   7    33   33    0    33
 7 Aerellen Honoa SC                            22    8   6   8    32   31   +1    30
 8 Oai Unifie                                   22    7   9   6    29   29    0    30
 9 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert                    22    5  11   6    32   31   +1    26
10 Cresthill FC                                 22    5   9   8    25   31   −6    24
11 Tepkusoren Opkohme                           22    5   6  11    27   37  −10    21
12 Tuinderbeek FC                               22    4   3  15    21   39  −18    15

Teams could have gotten 66 points off of 22 matchdays - and no team is north of two-thirds of that. Mayara Zunemak has a 4-point cushion, Leeshire United, once active at the second level, has an 8-point gap... and we know that even that doesn't count in these parts. An interesting situation came up in the Yoshiman bit, 4C: Four clubs are within 3 points from first place, with plenty more close by.

On the side: one of Ko-oren's most famous derbies now takes place in 4F: the Pride of Eaglebury versus Tarrashall Pride, both named in roughly the same year, both playing on the west coast of Ko-oren. More popular, but worse than teams like Myaranowra or Nyashawill, who both have had success in recent years.

*  4th Div A                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Cirelbourne Townside                         22   12   5   5    40   30  +10    41
 2 Feddhaw yChronws                             22   11   5   6    49   39  +10    38
 3 Oceanside South End                          22   11   5   6    27   20   +7    38
 4 Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis                         22   11   4   7    39   36   +3    37
 5 Ansonville Association                       22    9   6   7    38   33   +5    33
 6 Argyle Tuesday                               22    9   4   9    36   38   −2    31
 7 Langward                                     22    8   5   9    42   35   +7    29
 8 Glimmerfall Triumph                          22    8   5   9    35   31   +4    29
 9 Llandy FC                                    22    6   8   8    36   44   −8    26
10 Marinwood Sunday                             22    6   3  13    27   40  −13    21
11 Anarcourt CF                                 22    5   6  11    25   38  −13    21
12 Penstead Clwb Peldred                        22    3  10   9    28   38  −10    19

   4th Div B                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Leeshire United                              22   11   8   3    31   21  +10    41
 2 Bellmare Union                               22    9   6   7    43   43    0    33
 3 Vierciennes Victory                          22    9   5   8    36   30   +6    32
 4 Ferncombe                                    22    9   5   8    30   29   +1    32
 5 Blanrasco Borealis                           22   10   2  10    27   29   −2    32
 6 Opalshire FC                                 22    8   7   7    36   35   +1    31
 7 Vinroux Invincibles                          22    8   5   9    24   28   −4    29
 8 Cape Constillan                              22    7   7   8    37   36   +1    28
 9 Norille Orion                                22    8   3  11    26   32   −6    27
10 Zinchester Town                              22    6   8   8    33   30   +3    26
11 Chaganca Central                             22    7   5  10    28   35   −7    26
12 Chamiers                                     22    6   7   9    22   25   −3    25

   4th Div C                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Vurusen                                      22   11   6   5    36   30   +6    39
 2 Shinsen Sunrise                              22   11   6   5    39   34   +5    39
 3 Coloruna                                     22   11   4   7    33   30   +3    37
 4 Morivate Lava                                22   10   6   6    29   25   +4    36
 5 Otavura                                      22    8   9   5    34   29   +5    33
 6 Shimohavi                                    22    8   8   6    37   31   +6    32
 7 Motojagava Taranchula                        22    8   7   7    44   43   +1    31
 8 Aviansola Eden                               22    8   4  10    33   30   +3    28
 9 Nitoya                                       22    5  10   7    31   41  −10    25
10 Enkumo Diamond                               22    5   6  11    25   30   −5    21
11 Echizen                                      22    3   9  10    24   29   −5    18
12 Yonenomura                                   22    4   5  13    24   37  −13    17

   4th Div D                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie               22   12   5   5    37   24  +13    41
 2 Egevea                                       22   12   3   7    34   28   +6    39
 3 Grimhof VV                                   22   10   4   8    31   24   +7    34
 4 Dartha AFC                                   22    9   7   6    39   35   +4    34
 5 Nyashawill                                   22   10   4   8    30   26   +4    34
 6 MEZWO-VEDC Lamau                             22   10   2  10    33   30   +3    32
 7 Honingsweg-Toreneik Combinatie               22    8   6   8    37   38   −1    30
 8 Shinsen VV                                   22    8   4  10    31   32   −1    28
 9 Serevne AFC                                  22    8   4  10    32   38   −6    28
10 Turnaarde FC                                 22    5   9   8    26   35   −9    24
11 Vleugelberg                                  22    6   5  11    26   34   −8    23
12 Ossendal                                     22    4   7  11    28   40  −12    19

   4th Div E                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Amillon CdF                                  22   13   3   6    43   33  +10    42
 2 Donderen                                     22   12   3   7    40   34   +6    39
 3 Planneige                                    22   11   3   8    41   34   +7    36
 4 Linieux en Onyx                              22    9   8   5    26   21   +5    35
 5 Roufortois-Arlerou                           22   10   4   8    21   19   +2    34
 6 Rozenvoorde FC                               22    9   6   7    28   22   +6    33
 7 Ounoukal Aminey CA                           22    8   6   8    24   26   −2    30
 8 Cygne de Dentillon                           22    7   5  10    24   31   −7    26
 9 Diessy CdF                                   22    7   5  10    25   33   −8    26
10 Aminey Avalanche                             22    6   7   9    26   27   −1    25
11 Granon Altair CF                             22    5   5  12    22   30   −8    20
12 Liberazul Epitieres                          22    3   9  10    23   33  −10    18

   4th Div F                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Mayara Zunemak                               22   11   7   4    37   27  +10    40
 2 Gakhithrau Dhikodhra                         22    9   9   4    38   28  +10    36
 3 Tarrashall Pride                             22   10   4   8    33   34   −1    34
 4 Pride of Eaglebury                           22    8   8   6    28   31   −3    32
 5 Senoren FC                                   22    8   7   7    29   28   +1    31
 6 Sobdorlugin Komtherod                        22    9   4   9    30   30    0    31
 7 Tuzmanjuth Jithaugom                         22    6   9   7    25   23   +2    27
 8 Sauzjaregaun Saulrag                         22    6   9   7    29   29    0    27
 9 Tokponen Rildhemau                           22    6   8   8    35   35    0    26
10 Mayara Soccer Guild                          22    5   9   8    27   31   −4    24
11 Sathtonoru Kaptu                             22    6   6  10    17   24   −7    24
12 April Bassin FC                              22    6   4  12    22   30   −8    22

by **Ko-oren** » Tue Mar 08, 2022 2:46 pm

Soccer - Season 38

Spring

Top League

Rounds 1-3
We open the Championship Group with another

Aminey CS -

Maethoru SC classic. This time, the capital club get full points from their trip to Aminey (1-3), which sets up the all-greens for another championship.

Straudum VV stay close, by winning 3-0 over

WSR AFC.

Advance Alara beat

Bruncester United AFC 5-4 in a match of #11 v #12, winning the Alarans just their second game of the season after 23 matches! Something must have changed in their attitude, because

Advance Alara beat

Katashi-Kanatsu 3-2 in the eastern rivalry re-rematch, and then they tie

Arboren FC 1-1. Seven points from these three games - where has this form been all year? It does put

Bruncester United AFC in a horrible position, as they won one point in the meantime (0-0 v

Schemerdrecht SVV). In the Championship Group, meanwhile,

Maethoru SC get nine points out of nine - this is what

Maethoru SC do every year: stay close in the first 22, then obliterate everyone in the final 10 games when it matters. That third win is over

Straudum VV... so the capital club pulls away.

Straudum VV play

Aminey CS on the remaining matchday... for a 0-0.

Rounds 4-5
Guaranteed not to play each other, the top three go their own way.

Maethoru SC lose to

Miradela GD but then beat

WSR AFC.

Straudum VV gets a huge win at

Tanques AOE (0-4) and follows it up with a solid 2-0 at home to

Miradela GD... so the northern club have effectively caught up to the record champs.

Aminey CS are with their backs against the wall, but manage six points against the west coast club and their Cote Austral rivals. Note that the top two teams go to the CL - so one of our three contenders won't make it - while three more clubs go to the CC. That means that whoever finishes sixth is left with nothing, and so far that's either

Tanques AOE or

WSR AFC, with a small chance of

Miradela GD. Meanwhile,

Advance Alara get two more wins (over

Branvon CD and

Schemerdrecht SVV) to put them out of the danger zone, especially as

Bruncester United AFC... hang on, they get a win over

Arboren FC. For now, the newly promoted Arborenians are safe, but they're getting worse as the season progresses.

*  Championship Group    Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Maethoru SC             5    4   0   1     9    5   +4    12
 2 Straudum VV             5    3   1   1     9    1   +8    10
 3 Aminey CS               5    3   1   1     6    3   +3    10
 4 Miradela GD             5    2   0   3     4    6   −2     6
 5 Tanques AOE             5    1   1   3     4   11   −7     4
 6 WSR AFC                 5    0   1   4     2    8   −6     1

*  Challenge Group                             Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Advance Alara                                 5    4   1   0    16   10   +6    13
 2 Katashi-Kanatsu                               5    2   1   2     9    7   +2     7
 3 Schemerdrecht SVV                             5    2   1   2     5    6   −1     7
 4 Branvon CD                                    5    2   1   2     7    8   −1     7
 5 Bruncester United AFC                         5    1   1   3     9   12   −3     4
 6 Arboren FC                                    5    1   1   3     3    6   −3     4

Second Division

We're almost done. Four games to go, and

Gehrenna FC at the top. Five teams can still promote, so not much has changed in that regard from our check-in after 22 games, but the order is completely different.

Gehrenna FC are now leading the pack, surprisingly, by three points and a decent goal difference on the back of a fantastic defence. If they make it, and they get the funds to revamp their worst positions, they can - and should - at least do as well as

WSR AFC in their first few Top League years.

Teragaseki are still good but not great, and have allowed the rest to catch up. Corsey has been tremendous all of the last two months.

Cirelbourne United haven't moved much.

Sterrenwolde FC will have to admit their ambitions were a tad too big for them for now, as they too, will have to re-evaluate some players.

Sydberg wouldn't have a great time in the Top League given their record against the other top 5 teams - they've been mediocre at best in those though they get plenty of points against the lower 7.

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC and

Castelo e Calvente CS have made a comeback - they will have looked down, realised there wasn't a lot of space between them and relegation, and got scared at just the right time. They got scared into winning.

Burnet Athletic and

Maynard AFC are back at the bottom, like they were early in the season, but now there's not much that can still save them.

*  2nd Div                                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Gehrenna FC                                  29   15   5   9    33   23  +10    50
 2 Teragaseki                                   29   13   8   8    58   47  +11    47
 3 Cirelbourne United                           29   13   8   8    30   24   +6    47
 4 Sterrenwolde FC                              29   13   4  12    31   28   +3    43
 5 Sydberg                                      29   11   8  10    59   57   +2    41
 6 Huthwich Et Iduloren FC                      29    8  13   8    38   31   +7    37
 7 Castelo e Calvente CS                        29    8  13   8    54   57   −3    37
 8 Couziers-Olympiques                          29    8  13   8    40   44   −4    37
 9 SC Sokrona                                   29    9   9  11    41   40   +1    36
10 Amandine AdF                                 29    8  10  11    33   39   −6    34
11 Burnet Athletic                              29    7   9  13    36   45   −9    30
12 Maynard AFC                                  29    6  10  13    35   53  −18    28

Lower Tiers

Nothing is clear with 4 games left. A solid five teams could still promote in the South, with Katashi Azula recovering a little bit of pride after their mid-season fall. As the temperatures rise, their home advantage comes back into play - who can withstand stuffy Katashi in summer? Well, the other Yoshiman teams can, but they're well out of view with only Odahayashi anywhere close, but they'd need to mount a 7-point comeback on five teams. Soothill has a worse problem, where they have to travel far wherever they go, even though they're right in the middle between Yoshima and the southwest, where Grainshire, Strongfair, Belmore, and the others are. The biggest story of the past seven weeks is Club Valeloma, who dropped from 2nd to 10th in record pace: they have now lost 7 straight games (that's every single game since our winter checkup!) to go from promotion candidate to relegation threat.

The North, then, has Myaranowra's geographic home advantage (by being all the way out in the west) working for it with a 2-point lead over Laringen AFC. Only Launott poses a problem, as one of the three will promote. Fukushira Guerilla have made a comeback to at least put them out of immediate relegation danger. For Cresthill and Tuinderbeek, the curtain has nearly drawn. It's a shame, but the history of Cresthill will go down to the fourth level for one year at least. The biggest club in Willowbourne, itself the second largest city of the country, is unlikely to make a run into prominence and professionalism in the modern era yet. Willowbourne, as a whole, still doesn't have a happy marriage with football. In gridiron and rugby, and even cricket, they're always competent - but in football, they just can't get there.

*  3rd Div South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Grainshire United                            29   14   8   7    41   25  +16    50
 2 Katashi Azula                                29   14   6   9    39   29  +10    48
 3 Strongfair                                   29   13   7   9    42   39   +3    46
 4 Soothill                                     29   14   3  12    41   37   +4    45
 5 Belmore FC                                   29   13   5  11    38   41   −3    44
 6 Odahayashi Revolution                        29   12   7  10    38   43   −5    43
 7 Ambergate City                               29   12   6  11    43   43    0    42
 8 Limecroft Et Abyss FC                        29   11   5  13    43   42   +1    38
 9 Brighthaven Town                             29   10   7  12    44   49   −5    37
10 Club Valeloma                                29   11   3  15    36   45   −9    36
11 Chikuno Hakuba                               29    8   7  14    33   37   −4    31
12 Mawrystwyth                                  29    7   6  16    26   34   −8    27

   3rd Div North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Myaranowra                                   29   14  10   5    59   38  +21    52
 2 Laringen AFC                                 29   15   5   9    43   31  +12    50
 3 Launott                                      29   14   6   9    45   41   +4    48
 4 Fukushira Guerilla                           29   12   8   9    64   52  +12    44
 5 Linderivier AFC                              29   13   5  11    39   41   −2    44
 6 Biney CF                                     29   11   8  10    44   49   −5    41
 7 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert                    29    9  12   8    41   40   +1    39
 8 Aerellen Honoa SC                            29    9   7  13    34   41   −7    34
   Tepkusoren Opkohme                           29    9   7  13    36   43   −7    34
10 Oai Unifie                                   29    8   9  12    33   39   −6    33
11 Cresthill FC                                 29    6  11  12    34   45  −11    29
12 Tuinderbeek FC                               29    8   4  17    38   50  −12    28

Close to the end, with four games left to play, a team with a 12-point gap is assured of promotion. But this is the fourth tier, so let's not kid ourselves, cushions are hard to come by and even if they're there, they're unreliable. Cirelbourne Townside has a 7-point lead so they should absolutely not give this away in 4A. Leeshire United might just make it back to the third tier in 4B, with Opalshire and Blanrasco eyeing their first appearance at that level. Four teams have a realistic chance in 4C: three Yoshiman teams, and Coloruna, from Finisterre. 4D has KRC and Egevea - remember when they and Grimhof VV were up there? 4E has Roufortois-Arlerou at 53 points, the second-highest of all 72 teams at this level, at just 60% of the possible points (53 out of 87). 4F, then, with the teams from the 'armpit' of the Bay, has Senoren and Mayara, two capital cities, in first and third. The west coast derby teams in fourth and fifth, and Gakhithrau, who previously wanted to become the next Maethoru, in second. They can still make good on their lofty ambitions.

*  4th Div A                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Cirelbourne Townside                         29   18   5   6    57   36  +21    59
 2 Oceanside South End                          29   15   7   7    40   29  +11    52
 3 Feddhaw yChronws                             29   15   5   9    57   48   +9    50
 4 Ansonville Association                       29   13   7   9    47   40   +7    46
 5 Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis                         29   13   5  11    47   46   +1    44
 6 Argyle Tuesday                               29   12   6  11    41   42   −1    42
 7 Langward                                     29   10   7  12    49   43   +6    37
 8 Glimmerfall Triumph                          29   10   7  12    42   41   +1    37
 9 Llandy FC                                    29    8   8  13    45   56  −11    32
10 Anarcourt CF                                 29    8   7  14    34   48  −14    31
11 Marinwood Sunday                             29    7   6  16    33   50  −17    27
12 Penstead Clwb Peldred                        29    5  10  14    35   48  −13    25

   4th Div B                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Leeshire United                              29   13   9   7    40   34   +6    48
 2 Opalshire FC                                 29   13   7   9    45   39   +6    46
 3 Blanrasco Borealis                           29   14   4  11    40   37   +3    46
 4 Vierciennes Victory                          29   13   5  11    42   36   +6    44
 5 Bellmare Union                               29   11   8  10    50   53   −3    41
 6 Norille Orion                                29   12   4  13    36   40   −4    40
 7 Vinroux Invincibles                          29   11   7  11    36   41   −5    40
 8 Ferncombe                                    29   11   6  12    41   39   +2    39
 9 Cape Constillan                              29    9  11   9    51   49   +2    38
10 Chamiers                                     29   10   7  12    34   35   −1    37
11 Zinchester Town                              29    6  12  11    40   40    0    30
12 Chaganca Central                             29    7   8  14    31   43  −12    29

   4th Div C                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Vurusen                                      29   14   8   7    48   42   +6    50
 2 Shinsen Sunrise                              29   14   7   8    47   40   +7    49
 3 Morivate Lava                                29   14   6   9    41   34   +7    48
 4 Coloruna                                     29   14   5  10    48   43   +5    47
 5 Motojagava Taranchula                        29   11   9   9    57   51   +6    42
 6 Otavura                                      29   11   9   9    46   45   +1    42
 7 Shimohavi                                    29   10  10   9    48   43   +5    40
 8 Nitoya                                       29   10  10   9    46   53   −7    40
 9 Enkumo Diamond                               29    9   6  14    39   42   −3    33
10 Aviansola Eden                               29    9   6  14    39   42   −3    33
11 Echizen                                      29    7  10  12    38   42   −4    31
12 Yonenomura                                   29    5   6  18    33   53  −20    21

   4th Div D                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie               29   14   8   7    47   34  +13    50
 2 Egevea                                       29   14   6   9    46   41   +5    48
 3 Grimhof VV                                   29   12   8   9    43   34   +9    44
 4 Nyashawill                                   29   12   8   9    38   33   +5    44
 5 Dartha AFC                                   29   10  10   9    47   45   +2    40
 6 MEZWO-VEDC Lamau                             29   12   3  14    47   44   +3    39
 7 Honingsweg-Toreneik Combinatie               29   10   9  10    49   51   −2    39
 8 Shinsen VV                                   29   10   7  12    42   44   −2    37
 9 Turnaarde FC                                 29    8  13   8    43   47   −4    37
10 Serevne AFC                                  29   10   7  12    41   48   −7    37
11 Vleugelberg                                  29    7   8  14    37   48  −11    29
12 Ossendal                                     29    5  13  11    42   53  −11    28

   4th Div E                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Roufortois-Arlerou                           29   16   5   8    37   24  +13    53
 2 Linieux en Onyx                              29   14   8   7    43   30  +13    50
 3 Donderen                                     29   15   4  10    50   42   +8    49
 4 Planneige                                    29   14   5  10    53   45   +8    47
 5 Amillon CdF                                  29   14   5  10    51   45   +6    47
 6 Rozenvoorde FC                               29   11   9   9    36   32   +4    42
 7 Cygne de Dentillon                           29   10   8  11    33   35   −2    38
 8 Diessy CdF                                   29    9   6  14    32   48  −16    33
 9 Aminey Avalanche                             29    8   8  13    29   33   −4    32
10 Ounoukal Aminey CA                           29    8   8  13    31   43  −12    32
11 Granon Altair CF                             29    6  11  12    29   36   −7    29
12 Liberazul Epitieres                          29    5  11  13    30   41  −11    26

   4th Div F                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Senoren FC                                   29   14   8   7    44   34  +10    50
 2 Gakhithrau Dhikodhra                         29   13  10   6    50   38  +12    49
 3 Mayara Zunemak                               29   13   7   9    44   38   +6    46
 4 Tarrashall Pride                             29   13   5  11    43   47   −4    44
 5 Pride of Eaglebury                           29   10  10   9    39   43   −4    40
 6 Sobdorlugin Komtherod                        29   11   6  12    37   39   −2    39
 7 Mayara Soccer Guild                          29    9  11   9    41   39   +2    38
 8 Sauzjaregaun Saulrag                         29    9  10  10    38   37   +1    37
 9 Tuzmanjuth Jithaugom                         29    9  10  10    33   33    0    37
10 Tokponen Rildhemau                           29    8  10  11    47   48   −1    34
11 Sathtonoru Kaptu                             29    8   8  13    20   28   −8    32
12 April Bassin FC                              29    7   5  17    27   39  −12    26

by **Ko-oren** » Tue Mar 08, 2022 3:38 pm

Soccer - Season 38

Summer

Top League

Rounds 28-30
Things are ever closer at the top, and no team can stay perfect when playing 10 games against the best Ko-oren has to offer. Remember: this is the part where the top three play each other, so any movement will come from here. Round 23 has

Maethoru SC hosting

Aminey CS - and while both clubs would love a win, they can't afford a loss, and the match ends 0-0. This is largely how finals of big tournaments are played...

Straudum VV loses in Eaglebury to

WSR AFC, so they're further away than everyone thought. That was the only goal of round 28, by the way:

Miradela GD And

Tanques AOE also tied 0-0. Round 29 has

Maethoru SC go on a rare offensive splurge, scoring 5 goals in Étouille on

Tanques AOE while conceding 'just' 2.

Straudum VV's immense defence takes on

Aminey CS' best XI... and it's another 0-0. Again: this is what pressure and big games make.

Miradela GD gets the win in Eaglebury over WSR for a good chance at IFCF football in Santa Teresa next year. In the Challenge Group, the eastern derby is a 1-1 draw,

Bruncester United AFC get six points, but

Advance Alara get seven, so the Surbourneshire team are even deeper in the hole now.

Round 31

Maethoru SC lose 0-1 to

Miradela GD, which means that the other two contenders have flowers and pizzas delivered at the Miradela HQ the very next day - they're still alive.

Aminey CS works on its goal difference versus

WSR AFC (4-1), and

Straudum VV have found winning ways after two terrifying games against the rest of the top 3, beating

Tanques AOE 2-0. That means all three contenders are still alive on the very last day of the league! At the bottom, it's lights out for

Bruncester United AFC. They needed a win, but

Arboren FC scored two on their visit to the south for a 0-2 win.

Schemerdrecht SVV have fallen dramatically in the overall table, but they're too far ahead, and

Advance Alara's 1-1 draw give them just enough to be safe.

Round 32
First, the Challenge Group. Few goals, with

Advance Alara and

Schemerdrecht SVV celebrating to a 0-0 - how they wished the season had turned out different, both of them were forces in the IFCF CC not long ago! Look at them now, celebrating a goalless 0-0 and finishing 10th and 11th in a 12-team league.

Katashi-Kanatsu solidify their 7th place ('best of the rest') with a win.

Bruncester United AFC, in their last Top League match for a year at least, manage their seventh win on the year with a 0-1 away win at

Branvon CD. Their fans didn't even get to see them at home for their final game at this level.

More disappointment is on the way for two out of three title contenders. Even worse, one of them will miss IFCF CL football at all next year.

Straudum VV, who need the other teams to drop points, is up first. It all starts with not messing it all up yourself. Away in hot (28 degrees!) Santa Teresa, they score the only goal of the game to do their part: 0-1.

Maethoru SC is up next, who need a win and some goals. They get up to 0-2 in Eaglebury, but concede a late goal as

WSR AFC is desperately trying to get into the IFCF CC... with a 1-2, this might not be enough. While

Straudum VV is out of the picture at least, they need the francophone FC Entertainment to drop points.

Aminey CS v

Tanques AOE
The derby of Cote Austral. One team that is going all-in to win a title versus a team that won a title, relegated, promoted, and now is the only thing standing in the way of the other. If Aminey win a title here, they'll never let the Tanques fans live this down. A sold-out Stade sur la Baie (70000 - that's the biggest crowd of the year) under a calm, blue sky.
21' - Weaver - 0-1 - Tanques does what it needs to. This isn't about getting into the IFCF. This is about denying a rival everything they desire.
27' - Weaver - 0-2 - Scenes in Aminey as Tanques can freely play as they wish, and Tanques' midfield is not a unit you want to give all the space to. Helzinger and Daraluthen pass through the middle, find Weaver for the easy finish.
44' - Checkered Flag - 1-2 - Aminey get one back just in time. This is huge for momentum in the second half.
45+1' - Abbagan - 2-2 - Aminey get a free kick as Tanques are just trying to kill time. Bush-Sprenger puts it into the box, and after some missed clears, Abbagan puts it in the net.
45+7' - Lyford - 2-3 - Tanques salvage it again just before half time. For the corner kick, everyone, down the goalkeeper, is brought into the box. Askari takes it and finds Lyford in the fray.
Halftime
61' - Aeganora - 3-3 - Aminey score, but they need a win. They're not done!
72' - Thundhart - 4-3 - The striker for Mertagne has seen limited use all year long, but gets it done when he's needed the most!
89' - Archer - 5-3 - Tanques go all in, and they're punished on the break. Aminey wins it!

* Championship Group     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Aminey CS              10    6   3   1    17    8   +9    21
 2 Maethoru SC            10    6   2   2    16    9   +7    20
 3 Straudum VV            10    5   3   2    12    2  +10    18
 4 Miradela GD            10    4   1   5     8   10   −2    13
 5 Tanques AOE            10    1   3   6    11   25  −14     6
 6 WSR AFC                10    1   2   7     8   18  −10     5

*  Challenge Group                             Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Advance Alara                                10    6   4   0    24   15   +9    22
 2 Katashi-Kanatsu                              10    4   3   3    15   12   +3    15
 3 Arboren FC                                   10    4   1   5    13   11   +2    13
 4 Bruncester United AFC                        10    4   1   5    14   17   −3    13
 5 Branvon CD                                   10    3   3   4    11   15   −4    12
 6 Schemerdrecht SVV                            10    2   2   6     5   12   −7     8

And that means, that combining all 32 rounds, we have a new champion for the first time in forever! Congrats,

Aminey CS!

Top League Final Standings   Pld   GD  Pts
 1 Aminey CS                  32  +22   62 - Champions, IFCF CL, LigAnaia
 2 Maethoru SC                32  +18   62 - IFCF CL, LigAnaia
 3 Straudum VV                32  +27   59 - IFCF CC
 4 Miradela GD                32   +1   48 - IFCF CC
 5 Tanques AOE                32   -3   44 - IFCF CC
 6 WSR AFC                    32  -14   36
 
 7 Katashi-Kanatsu            32   +5   44 - VCIAPP
 8 Advance Alara              32   -3   38
 9 Arboren FC                 32   -6   38
 X Branvon CD                 32  -14   34
 = Schemerdrecht SVV          32  -15   32
10 Bruncester United AFC      32  -18   29 - Relegation

Team of the Year:
GK Edou Bittencourt (KOR, 25) -

Aminey CS
RF Dundor indill (KOR, 30) -

WSR AFC
RB Adam Archer (KOR, 22) -

Straudum VV
CB Gjöl Noordburg (KOR, 29) -

Bruncester United AFC
LB Dani Ardouin (KOR, 31) -

Katashi-Kanatsu
LF Emi (f) van Kalvenhaar (KOR, 24) -

Maethoru SC
DM Maks Shishkin (MYT, 26) -

Maethoru SC
RM Liga Askari (CMT, 26) -

Tanques AOE
CM Saushilu Janoreirinthen (KOR, 32) -

Maethoru SC
LM Parala Abbagan (KOR, 26) -

Aminey CS
AM Aaron Lyford (KOR, 23) -

Tanques AOE
SS Hurorinul Bonstirthinden (KOR, 22) -

Miradela GD
RS Aurin Aomelirea (KOR, 22) -

Arboren FC
ST Clement Spanner (KOR, 26) -

Miradela GD
LS Rex Archer (KOR, 22) -

Aminey CS

MVP:
LM Parala Abbagan (KOR, 26) -

Aminey CS

Clean sheets:
1 GK Gudo Neihof (KOR, 30) -

Straudum VV
2 GK Wellington Doolan (KOR, 34) -

Maethoru SC
3 GK Edou Bittencourt (KOR, 25) -

Aminey CS

Goals:
1 SS Aristotle Weaver (MBT, 34) -

Tanques AOE
2 SS Kenji Miyahara (KOR, 32) -

Katashi-Kanatsu
3 ST Aimogina Aeganora (KOR, 23) -

Aminey CS

Assists:
1 AM Aaron Lyford (KOR, 23) -

Tanques AOE
2 AM Emmit Borthwell (KOR, 23) -

Advance Alara
3 LM Parala Abbagan (KOR, 26) -

Aminey CS

Key passes:
1 DM Jutaka Kumagai (KOR, 22) -

Katashi-Kanatsu
2 CM Morbaul Roshuserinden (KOR, 23) -

Maethoru SC
3 CM Checkered Flag (EQS, 31) -

Aminey CS

Second Division

And the season is over! A great battle at the top, making the second division exactly what it was envisioned to be (even if it is a bit of a bottleneck of ambitions right now).

Cirelbourne United, 3rd all year, finish third.

Teragaseki had it all, lost it, but were always within reach - what a way to stay down.

Gehrenna FC - nobody cared about their chances, but here they are, able to challenge big brothers

Maethoru SC next season! The Top League has another close rivalry.

As was the conclusion after 29 games...

Burnet Athletic and

Maynard AFC are going down. The former, well, had a nice run for such a small town team. The latter, well, they have no business being this bad. From investing in foreign leagues and sapping their talent away to being the first team to relegate from the Top League down to the third level - this is awful.

*  2nd Div                                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Gehrenna FC                                  33   16   6  11    36   30   +6    54 - Promotion
 2 Teragaseki                                   33   15   8  10    68   56  +12    53
 3 Cirelbourne United                           33   14  10   9    33   25   +8    52
 4 Sydberg                                      33   13   9  11    67   64   +3    48
 5 Huthwich Et Iduloren FC                      33   11  13   9    46   35  +11    46
 6 Couziers-Olympiques                          33   11  13   9    46   47   −1    46
 7 SC Sokrona                                   33   11  11  11    50   47   +3    44
 8 Sterrenwolde FC                              33   13   4  16    32   35   −3    43
 9 Castelo e Calvente CS                        33    9  15   9    58   61   −3    42
10 Amandine AdF                                 33    9  11  13    39   45   −6    38
11 Burnet Athletic                              33    7  12  14    40   50  −10    33 - Relegation
12 Maynard AFC                                  33    7  12  14    41   61  −20    33 - Relegation

Lower Tiers

From both divisions, just one club promotes into the second tier. It's more important to look at the other end of the table, because a full six teams (three from each division) relegate. It's a lot of work to go from 4th to 3rd, but it's easily taken away again.

Grainshire United and Myaranowra will be at the (professional) second level next season! The former were in the running all season and had to hope for Katashi Azula to slip up - which they did mid-season, quite a bit - and the rest of the potential promotors fell behind. Valeloma, after seven straight losses, moved from 10th back up to 3rd, in one of the strangest seasons and comebacks we've seen in... a decade, at least. Myaranowra beats out a tough Laringen AFC side, making West Strand Riding a factor in professional football (

WSR AFC is also from there). Launott had hoped for more but fell short as temperatures rose, making their frigid home less of a threat.

Brighthaven Town escaped relegation by a point. Aerellen Honoa SC did so by even less: goal difference. In the fourth divisions we'll see Limecroft Et Abyss FC, a year removed from all kinds of good things and a potential second tier appearance, have their efforts nullified in record time. Chikuno Hakuba had little to escape, as they have been at the bottom for nearly all 33 games. Mawrystwyth is a sad one to see go, too. Mawrystwyth and Limecroft both did a 'Sunderland': two consecutive relegations in two seasons. In the North, Tepkusoren Opkohme were a surprising promotion last season and we see why: they don't have the level. Tuinderbeek FC was in a similar position, and they too go down. The third tier is difficult to stay up in, especially with little to no plan. Lastly, Cresthill FC is going down after all - the Willowburnian experiment ends here. Unfortunate.

*  3rd Div South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Grainshire United                            33   16   9   8    44   29  +15    57 - Promotion
 2 Katashi Azula                                33   15   9   9    43   32  +11    54
 3 Club Valeloma                                33   15   3  15    46   48   −2    48
 4 Belmore FC                                   33   14   6  13    43   47   −4    48
 5 Soothill                                     33   14   5  14    48   46   +2    47
 6 Ambergate City                               33   13   7  13    48   51   −3    46
 7 Strongfair                                   33   13   7  13    43   46   −3    46
 8 Odahayashi Revolution                        33   12   9  12    40   47   −7    45
 9 Brighthaven Town                             33   11  10  12    51   55   −4    43
10 Limecroft Et Abyss FC                        33   12   6  15    46   46    0    42 - Relegation
11 Chikuno Hakuba                               33   10   9  14    38   38    0    39 - Relegation
12 Mawrystwyth                                  33   10   6  17    31   36   −5    36 - Relegation

   3rd Div North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Myaranowra                                   33   17  11   5    68   39  +29    62 - Promotion
 2 Laringen AFC                                 33   18   6   9    53   37  +16    60
 3 Launott                                      33   15   8  10    50   47   +3    53
 4 Linderivier AFC                              33   14   7  12    42   44   −2    49
 5 Fukushira Guerilla                           33   13   9  11    71   58  +13    48
 6 Biney CF                                     33   12   9  12    48   54   −6    45
 7 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert                    33   10  12  11    45   49   −4    42
 8 Oai Unifie                                   33   10  10  13    43   47   −4    40
 9 Aerellen Honoa SC                            33   10   8  15    38   47   −9    38
10 Tepkusoren Opkohme                           33   10   8  15    40   51  −11    38 - Relegation
11 Tuinderbeek FC                               33   10   4  19    44   57  −13    34 - Relegation
12 Cresthill FC                                 33    6  14  13    38   50  −12    32 - Relegation

After all the uncertainty, the six promotors are in! 72 teams battle it out for six berths in the third division, which brings a lot of exposure compared to the somewhat anonymous fourth tier. 72 histories, regional or urban identities, and countless fans - and now six fanbases have a lot to look forward to. Cirelbourne Townside are now just one division removed from the much more well-known

Cirelbourne United (who relegated from the Top League to the 2nd tier a while ago and now seem stuck) - what a time to be alive! The southeastern city of Cirelbourne has a lot of folks who are fans of both teams, because why not, but they might have to choose at some point. Football also seems to be the one thing that sticks to the area, which hasn't had a lot to look forward to in quite a while - politically, economically, or even sportingly. From 4B, the division of Cote Austral and Finisterre, Blanrasco Borealis - named after them being in the north of the peninsula, even if they're still further south than nearly all of Ko-oren - have done it! They overtook the established infrastructure of Leeshire, the tenacity of Opalshire, and they took down their rivals in Constillan, with every team down to 7th place still in the running until a month from the end. 4C gives us Shinsen Sunrise from a neighbourhood of Furune - not to be confused with the town of Shinsen in Sudaefjoll.

Going to the Northern third division, it's 4D's KRC - or Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie in full - with a full 10 points over the rest (this was just a 2-point gap 4 weeks ago). Dartha AFC ended up being the closest contender, with Grimhof VV and Egevea far behind with a lot of evaluation to do. Whether Grimhof's fans allow the club time to decide remains to be seen. 4E is Planneige, a club that comes from out of nowhere, and Roufortois-Arlerou finish second by a point, all that work for seemingly nothing. Linieux and Amillon had big ideas, being from a big town, but the sub-top is their place for now. Lastly, 4F is Senoren FC's. Gakhithrau's ambition remains, but is delayed by a year, while Mayara looks on longingly.

*  4th Div A                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Cirelbourne Townside                         33   18   7   8    58   39  +19    61 - Promotion
 2 Oceanside South End                          33   18   7   8    48   33  +15    61
 3 Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis                         33   16   5  12    53   48   +5    53
 4 Ansonville Association                       33   15   7  11    54   49   +5    52
 5 Feddhaw yChronws                             33   15   5  13    60   56   +4    50
 6 Langward                                     33   14   7  12    54   44  +10    49
 7 Argyle Tuesday                               33   13   7  13    44   44    0    46
 8 Llandy FC                                    33   11   8  14    52   58   −6    41
 9 Glimmerfall Triumph                          33   10   8  15    45   51   −6    38
10 Anarcourt CF                                 33   10   8  15    39   51  −12    38
11 Marinwood Sunday                             33    9   7  17    41   57  −16    34
12 Penstead Clwb Peldred                        33    6  10  17    40   58  −18    28

   4th Div B                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Blanrasco Borealis                           33   16   5  12    48   42   +6    53 - Promotion
 2 Leeshire United                              33   14  10   9    45   41   +4    52
 3 Opalshire FC                                 33   14   7  12    48   49   −1    49
 4 Cape Constillan                              33   12  12   9    59   53   +6    48
 5 Bellmare Union                               33   13   9  11    55   57   −2    48
 6 Vierciennes Victory                          33   13   7  13    50   46   +4    46
 7 Vinroux Invincibles                          33   13   7  13    41   47   −6    46
 8 Chamiers                                     33   12   8  13    40   40    0    44
 9 Ferncombe                                    33   12   7  14    45   43   +2    43
10 Norille Orion                                33   12   6  15    37   43   −6    42
11 Zinchester Town                              33    9  12  12    52   47   +5    39
12 Chaganca Central                             33    7  12  14    36   48  −12    33

   4th Div C                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Shinsen Sunrise                              33   16   8   9    50   42   +8    56 - Promotion
 2 Morivate Lava                                33   16   7  10    48   41   +7    55
 3 Coloruna                                     33   16   5  12    55   50   +5    53
 4 Vurusen                                      33   15   8  10    52   49   +3    53
 5 Otavura                                      33   13  10  10    54   51   +3    49
 6 Motojagava Taranchula                        33   12  10  11    61   58   +3    46
 7 Nitoya                                       33   11  13   9    48   54   −6    46
 8 Shimohavi                                    33   11  12  10    56   51   +5    45
 9 Enkumo Diamond                               33   11   6  16    45   46   −1    39
10 Aviansola Eden                               33   11   6  16    47   49   −2    39
11 Echizen                                      33    9  11  13    45   45    0    38
12 Yonenomura                                   33    6   6  21    39   64  −25    24

   4th Div D                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie               33   18   8   7    58   38  +20    62 - Promotion
 2 Dartha AFC                                   33   14  10   9    55   47   +8    52
 3 Nyashawill                                   33   14   8  11    46   40   +6    50
 4 Egevea                                       33   14   7  12    47   45   +2    49
 5 Grimhof VV                                   33   13   9  11    47   42   +5    48
 6 Honingsweg-Toreneik Combinatie               33   12  11  10    57   55   +2    47
 7 Serevne AFC                                  33   12   8  13    48   56   −8    44
 8 Turnaarde FC                                 33   10  13  10    52   54   −2    43
 9 MEZWO-VEDC Lamau                             33   12   5  16    54   55   −1    41
10 Shinsen VV                                   33   10   8  15    42   48   −6    38
11 Vleugelberg                                  33    8   9  16    46   57  −11    33
12 Ossendal                                     33    6  14  13    51   66  −15    32

   4th Div E                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Planneige                                    33   18   5  10    66   48  +18    59 - Promotion
 2 Roufortois-Arlerou                           33   17   7   9    42   28  +14    58
 3 Linieux en Onyx                              33   15  10   8    48   36  +12    55
 4 Amillon CdF                                  33   15   6  12    55   52   +3    51
 5 Donderen                                     33   15   5  13    52   50   +2    50
 6 Rozenvoorde FC                               33   13  10  10    42   34   +8    49
 7 Diessy CdF                                   33   12   6  15    38   54  −16    42
 8 Ounoukal Aminey CA                           33   10  10  13    38   47   −9    40
 9 Aminey Avalanche                             33   10   9  14    36   37   −1    39
10 Cygne de Dentillon                           33   10   9  14    35   41   −6    39
11 Granon Altair CF                             33    6  13  14    31   41  −10    31
12 Liberazul Epitieres                          33    5  14  14    35   50  −15    29

   4th Div F                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Senoren FC                                   33   15  11   7    51   39  +12    56 - Promotion
 2 Gakhithrau Dhikodhra                         33   14  12   7    54   42  +12    54
 3 Mayara Zunemak                               33   14   8  11    49   44   +5    50
 4 Tuzmanjuth Jithaugom                         33   12  11  10    39   36   +3    47
 5 Tarrashall Pride                             33   14   5  14    44   50   −6    47
 6 Mayara Soccer Guild                          33   10  14   9    47   44   +3    44
 7 Pride of Eaglebury                           33   11  11  11    44   49   −5    44
 8 Sauzjaregaun Saulrag                         33   10  11  12    41   43   −2    41
 9 Sathtonoru Kaptu                             33   11   8  14    27   32   −5    41
10 Tokponen Rildhemau                           33    9  13  11    52   52    0    40
11 Sobdorlugin Komtherod                        33   11   7  15    37   42   −5    40
12 April Bassin FC                              33    8   7  18    32   44  −12    31

Universities & Academies

The relatively short seasons of the Academies and Universities are over already. It's been a great time, with the first half of the season in autumn, and the second half in spring, it's always a nice temperature out - the downside is that a team that's on fire after the first part might be unrecognisable at the start of the second. Ysbeer is turning into an Academy powerhouse, showing all the Yoshiman teams how it's done. Berkton FC is also a repeat winner. The Greencaster Marine Academy has destroyed the competition with an 18-point win - they were sure of the championship after about 70% of the matches had been played.

The Universities have the older and better established system, but here too, we see some of the usual suspects. The Nordorenfjolluniversitet (and the second-longest team name in Ko-oren after Schemerdrechtuniversiteit) have won the Northeast, Willowbourne Humanities have won a rare success in South-Central, and the Gehrenna National University have won the ever-difficult West-Central. What South-Central lacks in traditional football cities and universities, the West-Central has in excess: the Amandine, the Greencasters, Maethoru and Surbourneshire... it's a tough one.

*  Academy East                                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ysbeer Voetbalschool                         20    9   6   5    27   20   +7    33 - Playoffs
 2 Katashi Rossoscuro                           20    9   5   6    26   20   +6    32
 3 Alara Academy                                20   10   2   8    31   30   +1    32
 4 Straudum Sportacademie                       20    7   6   7    27   24   +3    27
 5 Aerawa Academy FC                            20    5   7   8    23   28   −5    22
 6 Arakura Revelation                           20    5   4  11    18   30  −12    19

   Academy North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Senoren Soccer Academy                       20   11   4   5    35   21  +14    37 - Playoffs
 2 Alpha Academie Malagnanaise                  20    9   4   7    32   30   +2    31
 3 Mayara Mezkuloren Academy                    20    7   8   5    26   25   +1    29
 4 Etouille Football Academie                   20    6   7   7    30   33   −3    25
 5 Het Vlaggenschip                             20    6   5   9    24   34  −10    23
 6 Rozenvoordse Academie                        20    5   4  11    27   31   −4    19

   Academy South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Berkton FC                                   20   10   6   4    22   16   +6    36 - Playoffs
 2 Gaulthisoru Royals                           20    8   8   4    30   24   +6    32
 3 Dayfade Soccer Academy                       20    8   5   7    31   29   +2    29
 4 Joaqueras Academica de Futbol                20    6   7   7    35   34   +1    25
 5 Idyllwild Academy                            20    4   7   9    23   30   −7    19
 6 Academica Ferroventense                      20    3   9   8    18   26   −8    18

   Academy West                                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Greencaster Marine Academy                   20   14   4   2    33   19  +14    46 - Playoffs
 2 Weyarra Sunrise                              20    8   4   8    27   30   −3    28
 3 Wright United Academy                        20    6   6   8    23   25   −2    24
 4 Greencaster FC                               20    6   6   8    31   34   −3    24
 5 Clwb Peldred Peredwr                         20    4   8   8    24   26   −2    20
 6 Grainshire Academy                           20    4   8   8    21   25   −4    20

   University Northeast                        Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Nordorenfjolluniversitet                     21   11   5   5    34   24  +10    38 - Playoffs
 2 Katashi Yoshima Daigaku                      21    9   6   6    38   32   +6    33
 3 Sudaefjolluniversitet                        21    9   4   8    24   22   +2    31
 4 Technische Universiteit Sterrenwolde         21    9   4   8    28   34   −6    31
 5 Katashi Keizai Daigaku                       21    7   7   7    18   18    0    28
 6 Aevanna Ecologiske Universitet               21    6   9   6    33   33    0    27
 7 Furune Geijutsu Daigaku                      21    5   6  10    27   32   −5    21
 8 Schemerdrechtuniversiteit                    21    4   7  10    19   26   −7    19

   University South-Central                    Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Willowbourne Institute of Humanities         21   10   8   3    45   31  +14    38 - Playoffs
 2 Uni of Grainshire and Leeshire               21   10   6   5    32   25   +7    36
 3 Universite des Arts d'Aminey                 21    9   5   7    25   23   +2    32
 4 Santa Teresa Naval Academy                   21    9   4   8    29   26   +3    31
 5 National University of Willowbourne          21    8   3  10    30   32   −2    27
 6 Universidade de Finisterre                   21    6   6   9    27   33   −6    24
 7 Universite de la Cote Austral                21    5   6  10    29   37   −8    21
 8 Willowbourne Technological Academy           21    5   6  10    22   32  −10    21

   University West-Central                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Gehrenna National University                 21   13   3   5    34   24  +10    42 - Playoffs
 2 Economical Institute of Amandine             21   11   4   6    33   23  +10    37 - Playoffs (best No. 2)
 3 Greencaster Business University              21   10   4   7    36   30   +6    34
 4 Greencaster Technical University             21   10   3   8    26   24   +2    33
 5 Maethoru National University                 21    9   3   9    21   24   −3    30
 6 West Strand Riding University                21    7   4  10    24   28   −4    25
 7 Surbourneshire Technical University          21    5   5  11    23   32   −9    20
 8 University of Mawryshire                     21    3   6  12    19   31  −12    15

Semifinals
Academies
Greencaster Marine Academy (5AD) 3–1 Ysbeer Voetbalschool (5AA)
Senoren Soccer Academy (5AB) 4–2 Berkton FC (5AC)
Universities
Gehrenna National University (5DC) 4–0 Economical Institute of Amandine (5DC)
Willowbourne Institute of Humanities (5DB) 0–2 Nordorenfjolluniversitet (5DA)

Finals
Academies
Greencaster Marine Academy (5AD) 4–4 Senoren Soccer Academy (5AB) (5–4 AET)
Universities
Gehrenna National University (5DC) 2–4 Nordorenfjolluniversitet (5DA)

Univ-Aca Playoff
Greencaster Marine Academy (5AD) 4–3 Nordorenfjolluniversitet (5DA)

by **Ko-oren** » Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:58 am

Cricket - Season 14

Regions' Trophy (4-day)

Leeshire
Stadium: Leewardia Oval (31000) in Maynard,

Leeshire
Titles: 1
Star players
Denis Treloar (25) - L orth/L Opener -

Leeshire
Newton Courtenay (32) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Leeshire
Genorak Dherengun (21) - L fast/L Batsman -

Leeshire
Grover Treadway (32) - R med/R Opener -

Leeshire
Everett White (33) - R med/R Batsman -

Leeshire
Peyton Keating (32) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Leeshire
Arnold Douglas (24) - R off/R All-rounder -

Leeshire

A lot is expected of

Leeshire's batting. Between Treloar, who might enjoy his break-out season, along with veteran Treadway, it'll be difficult to unsettle this team early. Dherengun has all the makings of a great test batsman as well, but his patience and longevity is yet to be tested. That's not to say that's all

Leeshire has: Courtenay and Douglas are often seen on the national test team. Keating is quite the underrated wicketkeeper, as normally all attention goes to Meredith and Wheelwright. That's why

Leeshire is tipped to earn their second title.

Greencaster
Stadium:

Greencaster Oval (50000) in

Greencaster, Surbourneshire
Titles: 3
Star players
Gilbert Wheelwright (34) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Greencaster
Alois Lyness (24) - L med/L Opener -

Greencaster
Silas Hazelflower (23) - R med/R Batsman -

Greencaster
Mitchell Enright (23) - R leg/R Spin Bowler -

Greencaster
Lewis Tilcott (26) - L unorth/L Spin Bowler -

Greencaster
Augustus Smith (25) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Greencaster
Desmond Crawford (27) - R fast/R Opener -

Greencaster

Greencaster have the names and the recent success, there's no region that has won three titles like they have (and there is certainly no region that has won 3 titles in First Class and 3 titles in List A!) and they're expected to once again perform very well. With famed wicketkeeper Wheelwright, and Enright, Tilcott, and Smith to bowl in his direction, the region has the ability to make every pitch hostile to any batsman. Note the ages of the bowlers: they'll be here for a while. On the batting side, they're not exactly worse off: Lyness and Crawford to open, and new find Silas Hazelflower to back them up.

Willowbourne
Stadium: Royal Oval (40000) in

Willowbourne, Corridor
Titles: 0
Star players
Douglas Trevorrow (27) - R leg/R All-rounder -

Willowbourne
Rutherford Lincoln (33) - R leg/R Spin Bowler -

Willowbourne
Martine (f) Raafden (21) - R off/R Batsman -

Willowbourne
Isaac Quelch (23) - R fast/R Batsman -

Willowbourne
Azhek Parentendahndhen (22) - L med/L Wicketkeeper -

Willowbourne
Jacob Lafaille (24) - R fast/R Batsman -

Willowbourne
Lander Chiplinn (19) - L med/L Opener -

Willowbourne
Ezekiel Stevenson (36) - R leg/R Opener -

Willowbourne

The only region that has yet to win a title in First Class,

Willowbourne might have what it takes after all. A well-rounded team that can get results on any kind of wicket: if they need runs, they'll look at Trevorrow and a surprise find in Martine Raafden, from Intermare, with slightly more established names like Quelch and Lafaille in there as well. If you haven't heard of any of these players, you'd be right: none of them have national team experience with just Quelch being selected to a few matches so far, but not facing a delivery yet. We shouldn't forget the opening duo, with one player making their debut before the other was even born. If the team needs to take wickets, they have Lincoln, Parentendahndhen, and Trevorrow again - and Stevenson likes to bowl as well.

Mawryshire
Stadium: yBherafon Hills (24000) in Llandy,

Mawryshire
Titles: 2
Star players
Chognam yBewlchawd (23) - R leg/R Wicketkeeper -

Mawryshire
Theryn yCherwean (37) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Mawryshire
Borllog yLellmedd (26) - R off/R Spin Bowler -

Mawryshire

Mawryshire are always a wildcard. One year they'll show up with players we never heard of who play great, the other year they're full of national teamers and they can't string two wins together. They can only hope this season is a case of the former, as the state of the team isn't too hopeful. They lack huge names that can make a difference in the multi-day format, and two players that are probably a notch above the rest are both wicketkeepers... yLellmedd is the big established name on the team. While it seems they have barely any star players at all, this is the one region where every player is on the 'pretty good' list - but just short of 'Star player' material. yMiflen and yGefftarion to open, with yRheighewn as the biggest name in the top and middle order. You might still know yMharwn, who has grown towards the shorter formats over time. Then there's yEdenw, a member of the under 24 cohort that will turn Ko-orenite cricket upside down in a few years.

East Surbourneshire
Stadium: Silverion Ground (25000) in Cirelbourne, Surbourneshire
Titles: 1
Star players
Zacharias Fox (30) - L fast/L Pace Bowler -

East Surbourneshire
Lachlan Harvey (33) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

East Surbourneshire
Aaron Maitland (22) - L fast/L All-rounder -

East Surbourneshire
Stanley Langhorne (31) - R med/R Opener -

East Surbourneshire
Norman Chapman (26) - R leg/R Spin Bowler -

East Surbourneshire

In 5th and 6th are the Surbourneshires. The East has been hit particularly hard, going from record highs to record lows, and this might turn into a deep low. This squad might be the strongest bowling side in the competition, paired with unique-ish home traits (a very dry pitch for either the biggest T20 6-fest or for a lot of precision bowling onto cracked earth), they have Fox, Harvey, and Chapman, all respected national team bowlers. For batting, it's Langhorne, and argualy Stillingfleet or Willis, or all-rounders Maitland or Becksmith.

West Surbourneshire
Stadium: Southbight Ground (29000) in Ansonville, Springlands
Titles: 1
Star players
Herschel Marsden (35) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

West Surbourneshire
Bennie Connell (25) - R fast/R All-rounder -

West Surbourneshire
Helmer Barbary (27) - R med/R Batsman -

West Surbourneshire

Marsden might be the best Test player ever to come from Ko-oren, but he can't catch a break on the regional level. The West has been among the worst teams since Herschel showed up. There's some light at the end of the tunnel, with Belwick (spin bowler), Crasbeck (wk), and Leaby (opener) all showing potential in their young careers. For veterans, it's Marsden, Connell, and Barbary that have to get this show on the road. This team is arguably stronger batting than bowling, but it's close, and hinges on the day-to-day form of the greats.

Kigirimakh-Yndwrnod One Day Trophy

Mawryshire
Stadium: yBherafon Hills (24000) in Llandy,

Mawryshire
Titles: 1
Star players
Cofan ySalw (22) - R med/R Batsman -

Mawryshire
Borllog yLellmedd (26) - R off/R Spin Bowler -

Mawryshire
Llalpon yDiffwen (24) - R fast/R Opener -

Mawryshire
Birgit (f) yGwrtheireninion (20) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Mawryshire
Theryn yCherwean (37) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Mawryshire
Millhef yChirnall (22) - L fast/L All-rounder -

Mawryshire

As enigmatic as

Mawryshire is on the 4-day level, it's a completely different team on the shorter format. Since ODI cricket showed up on the national calendar, and the association planned extra one-day matches, the region jumped on the format. A young team is here to win the first of many titles. ySalw, yDiffwen, yGwrtheireninion, and yChirnall all showed up at the regional facilities for the first time this year, among veterans like yLellmedd and yCherwean. Bowling and batting, they can do it all. You shouldn't be surprised to see

Mawryshire being the template for the national team in a few years.

Leeshire
Stadium: Leewardia Oval (31000) in Maynard,

Leeshire
Titles: 2
Star players
Peyton Keating (32) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Leeshire
Newton Courtenay (32) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Leeshire
Benton Leaby (23) - R fast/R Opener -

Leeshire
Francis Barklas (18) - L orth/L All-rounder -

Leeshire
Bert Chapman (23) - L med/L Pace Bowler -

Leeshire

Leeshire has a very strong generation between the Regions' Trophy and the K-Y One Day Trophy. Their slightly smaller top group means they might have more trouble adapting to circumstance than

Mawryshire, who can freely move from an aggressive team to a conservative one, but there's still a lot here.

Leeshire will almost always use two or even three all-rounders given their low number of batsmen, but their pace attack is incredible, and allowing opponents to set very low targets is their only way to survive a long season.

West Surbourneshire
Stadium: Southbight Ground (29000) in Ansonville, Springlands
Titles: 0
Star players
Reginald Twaddle (27) - R fast/R Opener -

West Surbourneshire
Thad Stanway (26) - R leg/R Spin Bowler -

West Surbourneshire
Philander Magcay (22) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

West Surbourneshire
Levi Pardey (26) - R fast/R Batsman -

West Surbourneshire
Lyojall Firembee (23) - L fast/L Opener -

West Surbourneshire
Ronald Taylor (24) - L med/L All-rounder -

West Surbourneshire

The West is rated quite decently for One Day stuff, and it's a shame that Marsden doesn't excel at the shorter formats as much. Here it's Twaddle and Firembee's resilient opening, with Pardey and Taylor to go through the meat of the innings, and a varied bowling attack to close everything down. They might just win their first title - as the only region to never have won a One Day title. Varied is all we can say about the bowling - this is primarily a team that is able to match any target thrown at them. Pardey, Welsh, and Carson are all capable batsmen, and Taylor, Wanering, and Connell are three all-rounders that can literally, well, do it all.

Greencaster
Stadium:

Greencaster Oval (50000) in

Greencaster, Surbourneshire
Titles: 3
Star players
Mitchell Enright (23) - R leg/R Spin Bowler -

Greencaster
Augustus Smith (25) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Greencaster
Simeon Penn (27) - L unorth/L Opener -

Greencaster
Julian White (22) - L unorth/L Spin Bowler -

Greencaster
Blaine Risewell (26) - R fast/R Batsman -

Greencaster

Greencaster is the opposite of West SRB - a strong bowling attack should limit opponents as much as possible so their decent, but limited batting can take a few wins. Smith, Roan, Enright, White, and Corney, there are six fanastic bowlers, and Enright is still the crown prince of ODI bowling nationwide - maybe lacking the captaincy of Marsden, but making up for it with simply unplayable deliveries. White and Corney both bowl primarily unorthodox (as left handers), so it's not as varied as they might have wanted, but Enright and the pacers make up for that. Penn and Igglesden are great openers, Risewell and Trevelskill (at just 18 years old!) are capable batsmen, so

Greencaster is in good hands. They already were, as record champions in the 4-day and one day formats...

Willowbourne
Stadium: Royal Oval (40000) in

Willowbourne, Corridor
Titles: 1
Star players
Finley Meredith (30) - R leg/R Wicketkeeper -

Willowbourne
Cyril Mellors (24) - R leg/R Spin Bowler -

Willowbourne
Twyford Merton (19) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Willowbourne
Martine (f) Raafden (21) - R off/R Batsman -

Willowbourne

Willowbourne have a well-balanced team, but it's difficult to see them dominate an opponent. Merton and Mellors are great, but they can bowl a maximum of 20 overs together, so every team will have 30 overs worth of chances. The city team can put up resistance batting, with Raafden and Quelch and maybe Chiplinn or Stevenson as openers, but they'll simply come up short versus some of the above teams.

East Surbourneshire
Stadium: Silverion Ground (25000) in Cirelbourne, Surbourneshire
Titles: 1
Star players
Stanley Langhorne (31) - R med/R Opener -

East Surbourneshire
Gideon Goodall (21) - R leg/R All-rounder -

East Surbourneshire
Lachlan Harvey (33) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

East Surbourneshire

Another tough year for East. Few players that can make a difference - though plenty of players that can decide a match on a good day - means that they need magical moments of one or two players to keep up. As arguably the worst bowling side and a comparatively weak batting side... well, they're not counted out at the start of every match, but they'll simply need a little more than the rest to get a good result. The Silverion Ground should see some high scores, and given that the East is the only team to regularly play there, that might count for something.

Selpernim T20 Smash

Greencaster Heralds
Stadium:

Greencaster Oval (50000) in

Greencaster, Surbourneshire
Titles: 0
Star players
Millhef yChirnall (22) - L fast/L All-rounder -

Greencaster Heralds
Bert Chapman (23) - L med/L Pace Bowler -

Greencaster Heralds
Reginald Trevelskill (18) - R off/R Batsman -

Greencaster Heralds
Gilbert Wheelwright (34) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Greencaster Heralds
Carlton Shapter (26) - R off/R Opener -

Greencaster Heralds

There are three very good batting sides, and this is one of them. They're also one of the two best bowling teams on paper. This team is almost unfairly strong, holding on to older players that have given them great games in the past, and attracting new players that have gone overlooked by the other 11 teams. With yChirnall, they have a lethal cricketer with bowling and batting skills - they gave him a contract before any of his native teams (Mustangs, Pirates) could act, and it should be working out quite well for them. That, with three more top-15 players in Chapman, Trevelskill, Wheelwright, and Shapter, this team is unstoppable.

Mawrystwyth Mustangs
Stadium: Bwdellafon Parc (6000) in Mawrystwyth,

Mawryshire
Titles: 0
Star players
Conor yAraidd (24) - L orth/L Batsman -

Mawrystwyth Mustangs
Caprws ySarthylhar (29) - L orth/L Spin Bowler -

Mawrystwyth Mustangs
Llowcan yRheighewn (33) - R med/R Batsman -

Mawrystwyth Mustangs

They're one of the two best bowling teams on paper. That said, they also have a top-3 batsman in yAraidd. At younger ages, players can still 'not pan out', but with yAraidd, they have someone who already overcame the early career randomness. There's no shortage of great batsmen in the short format in Ko-oren right now, but yAraidd is leaps and bounds ahead of all of them - bar one or two. With ySarthylhar, Magcay, and yEdenw, they have a strong bowling attack (one spinner, two pacers) that unfortunately relies on two older players. Then again, this is T20 so after one or two poor years, you get early picks and you can build your team right back up anyway. The Mustangs haven't opted for a Mawr-only policy too, so they'll be good.

Greencaster Bears
Stadium:

Greencaster Oval (50000) in

Greencaster, Surbourneshire
Titles: 1
Star players
Stuart Solomons (25) - L med/L Batsman -

Greencaster Bears
Lander Chiplinn (19) - L med/L Opener -

Greencaster Bears
Ponladd ySeomchan (30) - R med/R Batsman -

Greencaster Bears
Aurélien Galipeau (18) - R off/R Spin Bowler -

Greencaster Bears

There are three very good batting sides, and this is one of them. It's not the case of a single great player, like we'll see further down the list, but a good collective of talented players from number one to number eleven. That said, they'll more likely win a 200+ run game rather than surviving after the Bears post a target of 150 or under.

Mayara Marauders
Stadium: Kherodru Oval (7900) in Mayara, KCT
Titles: 1
Star players
Lucius Letchford (26) - L orth/L Batsman -

Mayara Marauders
Onesan Parentendahndhen (23) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Mayara Marauders

A very strong batting side, they can hang with the best as that's sometimes all you need to win a T20 match. Letchford has turned into a mature and tremendously creative batsman who can play almost all shots - apart from the ones where height comes into play - and his presence alone should gift them wins.

Penstead Pirates
Stadium: Ocean Crest Oval (8000) in Penstead, yDremdun
Titles: 1
Star players
Harold Magcay (19) - R leg/R Batsman -

Penstead Pirates
Valentine Butler (22) - L fast/L Wicketkeeper -

Penstead Pirates
Seophyn yMharwn (32) - R fast/R All-rounder -

Penstead Pirates
Rufus Walstrand (25) - R off/R Batsman -

Penstead Pirates

Mawrystwyth has one Magcay brother (Philander, pace bowler), but Penstead has the batting brother and one of the biggest talents in T20 right now. Not excelling in other formats, he lives for that single month in the year where everything's shoved aside for domestic T20. He's still young, but the pressure is on... for how much pressure there can be in Penstead, at least. It's out there.

Aubury Maroons
Stadium: Timberton Oval (12800) in Aubury,

Leeshire
Titles: 1
Star players
Ronald Taylor (24) - L med/L All-rounder -

Aubury Maroons
Lewis Tilcott (26) - L unorth/L Spin Bowler -

Aubury Maroons
Alois Lyness (24) - L med/L Opener -

Aubury Maroons
Herbert Doyle (29) - R off/R Batsman -

Aubury Maroons

There are three very good batting sides, and this is one of them. Their best player is Taylor, who, with yChirnall, is the best all-rounder in T20 cricket. The Maroons aren't rated terribly high, which is more a testament of their strangely top heavy team, but they can make it very difficult to any team.

Willowbourne Zenith
Stadium: Royal Oval (40000) in

Willowbourne, Corridor
Titles: 1
Star players
Jacob Lafaille (24) - R fast/R Batsman -

Willowbourne Zenith
Garfield Hooligan (29) - L fast/L Pace Bowler -

Willowbourne Zenith

A great find: Jacob Lafaille, from the eastern part of the corridor, and one of the few players that we have to show for putting a T20 team in Norille. There's always a fight between baseball and cricket for talent and fans in Cote Austral - who have trended a bit more towards baseball - but with academies and a team in Norille, Anarcourt, Linieux, etcetera, Lafaille is a great find and a tremendous player already. He shows little interest in other formats, he just likes to hit sixes.

Burnet Rubies
Stadium: Ruby Hills (18000) in Burnet, Burnet Island
Titles: 0
Star players
Enoch Teakton (23) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Burnet Rubies
Reginald Twaddle (27) - R fast/R Opener -

Burnet Rubies

The strangely protectionist island of Burnet has opened its doors to talents from elsewhere. The biggest name is from the island itself: Twaddle. The national star batsman in all three formats, is from the island (feel free to crack your favourite 'Burnet Island is stuck in the past joke', though). You'll find few Rubies fans on the mainland - and that's exactly how the Rubies want it.

Norille Chevron Vert
Stadium: Stade Échechade (9000) in Norille, Corridor
Titles: 1
Star players
Lyojall Firembee (23) - L fast/L Opener -

Norille Chevron Vert

A middling team in terms of power rankings, all of Norille - as far as they care about cricket, that is - will come out to see Firembee at work. His limitless potential in this format, the unlikely story of a West Strand Riding kid turning up at a

Mawryshire training facility, getting turned away, then finding his footing in West SRB, and then becoming the absolute star of Chevron Vert and the national team - it's a story that's bigger than what the rest of the squad have got going for now. It's a little unfair - they have a tremendous Test and T20 bowler in Thrall as well, who somehow hasn't panned out in ODIs.

Idyllwild Antlers
Stadium: Dawsend Oval (11500) in Idyllwild, Corridor
Titles: 0
Star players
Leonard Palmer (24) - R off/R Wicketkeeper -

Idyllwild Antlers
Dallas Welsh (33) - R med/R Batsman -

Idyllwild Antlers

Once the pride of

Leeshire, it's now Aubury who are the bigger team. The rivalry is quite alive, but it might be a while before Idyllwild can pose a threat. An old team, there'll be some quiet years before a title challenge by Idyllwild.

Linieux Lieutenants
Stadium: Ovale Liniane (6600) in Linieux, Cote Austral
Titles: 1
Star players
Eli Hunniford (33) - R med/R Wicketkeeper -

Linieux Lieutenants
Godfrey Prater (24) - L fast/L All-rounder -

Linieux Lieutenants

Linieux is one of the two 'frontier' teams: them and Norille are in the eastern Corridor or Cote Austral, trying to secure a fanbase and maybe even a seventh home region for cricket (probably named 'Eastern Corridor and Cote Austral'), but we're probably a few decades from that happening. It's not as if this team is inspiring young Linoviens to pick up cricket, though.

Eastern Miners
Stadium: Goledon Oval (25005) in Bruncester, Surbourneshire
Titles: 1
Star players
Lachlan Harvey (33) - R fast/R Pace Bowler -

Eastern Miners

When it rains, it pours, as Eastern Surbourneshire has a 5th-projected 4-day team, a 6th-projected one day team, and a 12th-projected T20 team, with no other T20 teams in the neighbourhood. Oof.

Formats
First-Class: 10 matches (6 teams, full round-robin). Win = 12p, Draw = 6p, Tie = 8p, Loss = 0p. Win by innings (or 10 wickets) = 9p.
List-A: 10 matches (6 teams, full round-robin) and a Final between teams #1 and #2 (NRR tiebreaker)
T20: 11 matches (12 teams, single round-robin) and a Final between teams #1 and #2 (NRR tiebreaker)

First Class Bonus Points: In the first innings (of each team), the following are handed out:
- for the bowling team, if the team has taken all 10 wickets (avoided a declaration) and dismissed all 10 batsmen in under 80 overs, that team is awarded 0.06 (recurring), or 1/15 points for each over under 80.
- for the batting team, they are awarded 0.01 point for every run over 250 they scored, rounded to a single decimal (0.05 turns into 0.1, 0.14 turns to 0.1 as well).

The KCC (Ko-orenite Cricket Councils) uses traditional Ko-orenite months:
Dorapi (early April to mid-May): 2x First-Class, 1x List-A
Tobtoren (mid-May to mid-June): 3x First-Class, 4x List-A
Girizedh (late June to late July): 1x First-Class, 5x List-A and List-A Final
Selpernim (late July to early September): 11x T20 and T20 Final
Jaranethan (early September to early October): 4x First-Class

by **Ko-oren** » Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:13 am

Cricket - Season 14

Kigirimakh-Yndwrnod One Day Trophy

Greencaster         6-4   0,503 Final (home)
West Surbourneshire 5-5   0,197 Final (away)
Leeshire            5-5   0,167
East Surbourneshire 5-5   0,082
Mawryshire          5-5  -0,274
Willowbourne        4-6  -0,714

Greencaster, tipped to finish 4th in the table, take advantage of a tight race where every team had a shot at the top 2 until round 10. Only two teams did something other than win 5 and lose 5 - 6-win

Greencaster and 4-win

Willowbourne.

West Surbourneshire finish second by NRR - thankfully the association sorted that out in time for a chaotic season - marginally ahead of

Leeshire, who only needed to take a few wickets more or score a bit quicker to make it into the final anyway.

East Surbourneshire got two more wins than they bargained for.

Mawryshire are not feeling great about the result, and while

Willowbourne did not expect to make the final, they must feel a little dejected about their final placement.

Round 1

East Surbourneshire set a target that might end up as the highest of the season - 382 - on the flat track in Cirelbourne. Neville Ormane goes 117 not out in the massive win. Then again,

Leeshire aren't far behind with their chase of 351 runs. With the knowledge of the situation after 10 rounds - if only

Leeshire had taken advantage of the bat-happy pitch here!

Round 2

Mawryshire win by a single wicket, beating out

West Surbourneshire's target of 254. A boundary ends it in a crazy chase that sees the southwesterners lose nine wickets with over 13 overs to spare, which makes you wonder why they didn't take it a little more slowly.

East Surbourneshire visit

Willowbourne and can't get used to the (slightly) higher altitude, apparently, chasing 297 but posting 212. All three matches today were plagued by wet conditions, and while

Leeshire-

Greencaster started late, and the break between innings in the West SRB-

Mawryshire match took a little longer than scheduled, ultimately no overs were lost.

Round 3

Mawryshire win a close one at home over

Leeshire. Fog and strong winds dominate proceedings at yBherafon Hills - that's

Mawryshire early in the season for you - and cold conditions early in the day don't help anyone either. Dropped catches in

Leeshire's innings meant that the visitors escaped with a target over 200, which was difficult enough to chase by the home side as Courtenay's swing got him 4 wickets on the day. That's not even the best bowling action of the round:

Greencaster's Augustus Smith took 6 off

Willowbourne before winning by 5 wickets after 28.4 overs of chasing.

Round 4
Now well and truly into the middle of the season, we see our first true collapse that's team-wide instead of a simple 'oh, they shouldn't have lost four wickets so close together'.

Mawryshire set a target of 124 after 43.1 overs (

Willowbourne's Gerrenhale taking 5) in the Royal Oval that has given problems for visiting teams two times so far. It was all about supressing runs today, with plenty of wickets taken and only one team to bat all 50 overs (

West Surbourneshire, 9/215...) - the other two teams batting first just fizzled out.

Round 5
It turns out that on different grounds, the scoring is turned back on.

Mawryshire scores a surprising 287 on home turf, courtesy of ySalw scoring 161 - we told you he was going to be good - but it's

Greencaster and

West Surbourneshire that really make the fielders work for it. A near-sold out Oval in grey conditions had Penn score 103 and Jinnamoora disappear in the nineties, setting a target of 368. The visitors valiantly tried, but came 12 runs short of forcing a super over as Raafden scored 120 - again, we told you that she was going to be good as well.

Round 6
Cloudy conditions everywhere as we play at two sea level grounds and one higher one, in the three most southwesterly regions. Bowlers have a field day in Ansonville, taking 14 wickets for 319 total runs on the day - lots of dot balls. We see nineteen wickets for just over 430 runs in

Mawryshire as well.

Round 7
We get one of few matches were both teams score over 300, and it happens in the place you least expect: stable conditions in Llandy sees

West Surbourneshire score 337 after a short train ride west.

Mawryshire follows it up with 311 - coming up short, but still. Slightly colder temperatures all over southwestern Ko-oren on this day by the way: the One Day championship is very early and very late in the season, where temperature swings are more likely.

Greencaster's Enright takes 7 to end

Leeshire at 155 after 35 overs.

Round 8
Very low scores all around. Today's the day of the second urban derby ('durby'), between

Willowbourne and

Greencaster, which is a win for the away team. Sunny conditions make it seem like we'll get some T20-style stuff, but

Willowbourne are done at 207 runs and

Greencaster get a cheeky maximum to win at 211 runs.

Leeshire win with just 173, and

West Surbourneshire's chase goes all wrong, ending on 182 - they needed 251.

Round 9
We're seeing some final tickets on offer today -

Greencaster have their 6 wins already (6-2) so let's see how much they can add.

East Surbourneshire are sitting on 2-6.

Leeshire and

West Surbourneshire are 4-4 and not out of this at all. It looks like 6 wins are more than enough to finish top 2, with a small chance of a 5-5 team going in. In sunny Maynard we see

West Surbourneshire stalling out for 7/199, but

Leeshire need until the final over to beat them at 201.

Willowbourne go slowly in a treacherous yBherafon Hills, but

Mawryshire have none of that and get to the target of 255 in just 37 overs - that's what happens after you play for another entire season in windy, wet, gloomy

Mawryshire.

Greencaster lose a close one to

East Surbourneshire, showing that after all, these 6 teams are very close together and anything can happen. Harvey takes 5 off the cocky Greencastrians.

Round 10
We see two teams scoring 300+, but not in the same match. The biggest contrast is in

Willowbourne's Royal Oval, where

Leeshire come in for the highest score of the season, launching one last bid for a top 2 spot, at 382. They keep

Willowbourne to... 148. Not only do Leaby and Treadway combine for 89 runs on the opening partnership, Leaby carries the bat for a crazy 183 not out. Barklas has his season-high at 91. Galipeau takes five wickets on deceiving offbreaks, mastering line and length, but most of all, reading the batsmen's minds on whether to go for it or not.

East Surbourneshire finish the season with two wins and a 4-6 record, scoring 336 at home versus a

Mawryshire team that forgot to bring their away-from-home mentality. Defensive batting takes them to 254.

West Surbourneshire earn their top two spot with a win over

Greencaster, making this a decent practise ahead of the final between the exact same teams. 282 for the home side in Ansonville, while

Greencaster scored 210 as they could get nothing going all day.

Final

Greencaster 267/7 (50 overs)

West Surbourneshire 263/7 (50 overs)

Greencaster win a record fourth title! The urban team is unstoppable - no matter how close it gets, the team on the south coast get their win when it gets tough.

Greencaster bat first, get a defendable 267, but the visitors make this a final for the ages - 20 needed off 3 overs, 11 needed off 2 overs, 8 needed off the final over... they're shut down in the end, but man, was this close.

Greencaster batting: Risewell 72, Van Laringen 55, Igglesden 51

Greencaster bowling: White 4-43

West Surbourneshire batting: Taylor 66, Pardey 62, Twaddle 38

West Surbourneshire bowling: Stanway 3-34

Regional finals

Greencaster
Chipcliff CC 265/7 (50 overs)
Caringmeadow CC 197/6 (50 overs)

Willowbourne
Swadlincote CC 203 (48 overs)
Linieux CC 255/8 (50 overs)

Leeshire
Armskirk CC 240/3 (49.5 overs)
Oakheart CC 237/2 (50 overs)

West Surbourneshire
Burnet CC 250/8 (50 overs)
Strathworth CC 253/9 (32.3 overs)

East Surbourneshire
Onilens CC 248/5 (38.3 overs)
Moonbright CC 244 (49.5 overs)

Mawryshire
Demteoffin CC 137 (47.2 overs)
Adrewdwr CC 290/5 (50 overs)

by **Ko-oren** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:51 am

Cricket - Season 14

Selpernim T20 Smash

TEAM                 W-L   NRR
Greencaster Heralds  8-3   0,538 Final (home)
Greencaster Bears    7-4   0,545 Final (away)
Mawrystwyth Mustangs 7-4   0,478
Penstead Pirates     6-5   0,297
Mayara Marauders     6-5  -0,068
Linieux Lieutenants  5-6   0,115
Aubury Maroons       5-6   0,015
Eastern Miners       5-6  -0,174
Willowbourne Zenith  5-6  -0,385
Burnet Rubies        5-6  -0,471
Norille Chevron Vert 4-7  -0,389
Idyllwild Antlers    3-8  -0,517

Rounds 1-3
The competition kicks off with sweltering temperatures - but that's the point. The

Greencaster Heralds start out 3-0, as expected, with expert takedowns of the Rubies, Lieutenants, and Chevron Vert. The quickest chase so far is by

Willowbourne Zenith, taking 12.2 overs to supercede the

Burnet Rubies' 128 - the latter have a poor start to the season. Scores of over 200 are hard to come by, even among the teams that should bat very well. What's more, the season opener featured an 'time ran out at 118 runs'.

Derbies in the first three rounds:

Aubury Maroons -

Idyllwild Antlers, the derby of West SRB, won by the former by 26 runs. We also have the Mawr derby, between

Penstead Pirates and the

Mawrystwyth Mustangs, with the former setting a target of almost 200 that was way too much for the latter.

Rounds 4-6

Linieux Lieutenants manage a season-high 228 in a 78-run win over

Willowbourne Zenith. The batsmen have woken up, it seems, and every round has a score over 200 now, though we still have the occasional meltdown for 120 or less. For more good news: almost every match sells out, but that's partially because some teams play in small suburban stadiums - or play in cities where cricket isn't huge but thankfully they didn't build a concrete monster anyway. Think of Norille's modest 9000-seater. Mayara plays in a venue of 7900, even. We also had a doubleheader in

Greencaster Oval, with the first match (

Greencaster Bears v

Willowbourne Zenith, one of the city derbies) drawing a full house but almost 4000 fans walking out before the second match (

Greencaster Heralds v

Aubury Maroons). The big one of the group stage also took place: Heralds versus Bears, the

Greencaster Derby.

Rounds 7-9
The other city derby took place with

Willowbourne Zenith hosting

Greencaster Heralds, presenting the latter with a rare loss.

Norille Chevron Vert bats to a record 239, a record that lives for all of 6 hours before the

Idyllwild Antlers score 242 - it's somehow the lower ranked teams that get record scores, and you wonder why they're that far down. It seems it's either thrive or perish, with a slight tendency towards perish there. Another match is the 'oddly out of place' match: Norille versus Mayara could be any sport from rugby union to gridiron, but cricket is not one you expect from those places.

Rounds 10-11
The

Greencaster Bears try to make a run for it but are kept down by the

Burnet Rubies of all teams. It seems that whenever something cool happens, it's always courtesy of the bottom 3 teams... The

Greencaster Heralds get two more wins to put them comfortably in first, especially with the Bears stumbling: it's a very Greencastrian year. The

Mawrystwyth Mustangs get two huge wins to boost their NRR in a too little, too late attempt at a top two spot.

Penstead Pirates are surprisingly fourth due to some huge targets as well as swift takedowns (116 in under 14 overs after keeping Linieux to 115).

Final

Greencaster Heralds 169/2 (20 overs)

Greencaster Bears 172/7 (18.4 overs)

The Heralds must not have been completely ok with their innings: given the score, they could have taken a few more shots down the field earlier on. That's not to say that the players that were out there did poorly, not at all, but a score of over 180 was on the table. The Bears looked like a collapsing team for 130, but Galipeau righted the ship all the way from 7th in the batting order, cruising the Bears away from an embarrassing loss and into glory.

Greencaster Heralds batting: Trevelskill 74, yChirnall 50, Shapter 36

Greencaster Heralds bowling: Chapman 4-40

Greencaster Bears batting: Solomons 62, Bon 27, Galipeau 24

Greencaster Bears bowling: yPipaem 1-37

Regional Finals

Greencaster
Windward CC 164/5 (20 overs)
Abingdon CC 166/6 (14.1 overs)

West Surbourneshire
Lone Oak CC 153/3 (20 overs)
Wolfwater CC 175/5 (20 overs)

Leeshire
Maethoru Dhudhonin 187/6 (20 overs)
Glimmerfall CC 151/4 (20 overs)

Willowbourne
Penshaw CC 154/8 (15.3 overs)
Touroux CC 153/8 (20 overs)

East Surbourneshire
Bruncester CC 134/4 (20 overs)
Gemwright CC 138/9 (17.4 overs)

Mawryshire
Cerryrhos CC 159/5 (17.1 overs)
Feddhaw CC 156/5 (20 overs)

by **Ko-oren** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:12 am

Cricket - Season 14

Regions' Trophy

Results by round

Round 1

Mawryshire in

Leeshire: Match 1 - Dorapi 11-Dorapi 14 at Leewardia Oval (31000/four day att.: 12757) in Maynard
Dorapi 11: 14°C Cloudy / Dorapi 12: 18°C Sunny / Dorapi 13: 18°C Cloudy / Dorapi 14: 17°C Clear

Mawryshire bat first

Leeshire 536 (156.2 overs),

Mawryshire 360 (168.1 overs), 63/1 (14.2 overs)
Drawn

East Surbourneshire in

Greencaster: Match 2 - Dorapi 11-Dorapi 14 at

Greencaster Oval (50000/four day att.: 17058) in

Greencaster
Dorapi 11: 19°C Cloudy / Dorapi 12: 17°C Partially Cloudy / Dorapi 13: 17°C Clear / Dorapi 14: 16°C Partially Cloudy

East Surbourneshire bat first

Greencaster 426 (98.4 overs), 51/2 (12.3 overs)

East Surbourneshire 541/4d (136.3 overs), 323 (95.1 overs)
Drawn

Willowbourne in

West Surbourneshire: Match 3 - Dorapi 11-Dorapi 14 at Royal Oval (40000/four day att.: 15268) in

Willowbourne
Dorapi 11: 14°C Cloudy / Dorapi 12: 18°C Sunny / Dorapi 13: 14°C Cloudy / Dorapi 14: 16°C Clear

West Surbourneshire bat first

West Surbourneshire 384 (123.5 overs), 237 (61.0 overs)

Willowbourne 214 (52.4 overs), 193 (55.3 overs)

Willowbourne lose by 214 runs

The first round is characterised by some massive first innings scores.

Mawryshire drops 360 in almost two days of play, only for

Leeshire to flex their muscles for 536, leaving no time for a result.

East Surbourneshire declares after four wickets for 541 runs, and

Greencaster refuse to be outdone, following that up with 426 of their own. There's somehow time for another 323-run innings before time runs out on both teams. Captains are seemingly ok with settling for a draw just to give their best batsmen some early-season practice.

West Surbourneshire are the only ones to get a result: their 'battery' is on form as Barbary, Welsh, Pardey, and Carson all get at least half-centuries in either innings.

Round 2

East Surbourneshire in

Mawryshire: Match 4 - Dorapi 22-Dorapi 25 at yBherafon Hills (24000/four day att.: 10550) in Llandy
Dorapi 22: 11°C Clear, Lightning / Dorapi 23: 17°C Overcast and rainy, Lightning / Dorapi 24: 16°C Intermittent rain / Dorapi 25: 13°C Some rain

East Surbourneshire bat first

Mawryshire 319 (68.2 overs), 258/7 (76.5 overs)

East Surbourneshire 278 (86.5 overs), 297 (96.3 overs)

Mawryshire win by 3 wickets

Greencaster in

West Surbourneshire: Match 5 - Dorapi 22-Dorapi 25 at Royal Oval (40000/four day att.: 14415) in

Willowbourne
Dorapi 22: 14°C Overcast / Dorapi 23: 22°C Clear / Dorapi 24: 19°C Sunny / Dorapi 25: 20°C Clear, Lightning

Greencaster bat first

West Surbourneshire 156 (43.2 overs), 175/7 (42.1 overs)

Greencaster 250 (83.5 overs), 80 (28.2 overs)

West Surbourneshire win by 3 wickets

Leeshire in

Willowbourne: Match 6 - Dorapi 22-Dorapi 25 at Royal Oval (40000/four day att.: 14023) in

Willowbourne
Dorapi 22: 10°C Overcast / Dorapi 23: 18°C Clear / Dorapi 24: 20°C Sunny / Dorapi 25: 17°C Clear, Lightning

Willowbourne bat first

Willowbourne 272 (61.5 overs), 292 (67.0 overs)

Leeshire 482 (115.2 overs), 83/4 (28.1 overs)

Leeshire win by 6 wickets

Awful weather in

Mawryshire (what's new) limits time on all four days as both teams struggle for a result. They somehow do get one, after each day loses some time due to rain or worse. Day four of all matches sees some weather interference, but it's not enough to keep

West Surbourneshire or

Leeshire from winning after all.

Greencaster is limited to 80 runs, after which their western neighbours rush to get enough runs on day three, making the lightning on day 4 a non-issue.

Leeshire wasn't as lucky, but they too rushed to get it over with as soon as possible.

Round 3

Mawryshire in

Greencaster: Match 7 - Dorapi 36-Tobtoren 2 at

Greencaster Oval (50000/four day att.: 18058) in

Greencaster
Dorapi 36: 19°C Overcast / Dorakha : 20°C Sunny / Tobtoren 1: 21°C Overcast and rainy, Lightning / Tobtoren 2: 21°C Partially Cloudy

Greencaster bat first

Greencaster 262 (67.5 overs), 377 (131.3 overs)

Mawryshire 300 (61.4 overs), 243/6 (62.5 overs)
Drawn

East Surbourneshire in

Willowbourne: Match 8 - Dorapi 36-Tobtoren 2 at Summerkind Oval (21000/four day att.: 9361) in

Willowbourne
Dorapi 36: 20°C Clear / Dorakha : 24°C Partially Cloudy with rain / Tobtoren 1: 21°C Sunny / Tobtoren 2: 21°C Partially cloudy

East Surbourneshire bat first

Willowbourne 170 (56.0 overs), 318/9 (76.5 overs)

East Surbourneshire 359 (100.5 overs), 189 (70.5 overs)
Drawn

West Surbourneshire in

Leeshire: Match 9 - Dorapi 36-Tobtoren 2 at Leewardia Oval (31000/four day att.: 14468) in Maynard
Dorapi 36: 22°C Clear / Dorakha : 21°C Partially Cloudy with rain / Tobtoren 1: 20°C Sunny / Tobtoren 2: 19°C Partially cloudy

West Surbourneshire bat first

Leeshire 277 (62.3 overs), 132/4 (26.0 overs)

West Surbourneshire 229 (84.3 overs), 178 (54.5 overs)

Leeshire win by 6 wickets

Fox and Harvey both enjoy 4-fers for

East Surbourneshire against

Willowbourne in the first innings, the pair of pacers were far too much for the visitors. It was slow going for both teams there, so even going all out in 56 overs didn't give the win to the home team outright. After a resilient performance in the second innings, they hold on with a single wicket at the end of day four for a draw. yAraidd gets his first century, in the first innings versus

Greencaster.

Round 4

Willowbourne in

Mawryshire: Match 10 - Tobtoren 8-Tobtoren 11 at yBherafon Hills (24000/four day att.: 16462) in Llandy
Tobtoren 8: 14°C Sunny / Tobtoren 9: 12°C Cloudy and rainy, Lightning / Tobtoren 10: 15°C Cloudy / Tobtoren 11: 17°C Gloomy and rainy

Mawryshire bat first

Mawryshire 172 (55.0 overs), 292 (78.1 overs)

Willowbourne 443/3d (110.5 overs), 23/0 (8.1 overs)

Willowbourne win by 10 wickets

Greencaster in

Leeshire: Match 11 - Tobtoren 8-Tobtoren 11 at Leewardia Oval (31000/four day att.: 15313) in Maynard
Tobtoren 8: 16°C Clear / Tobtoren 9: 20°C Partially cloudy / Tobtoren 10: 19°C Overcast / Tobtoren 11: 21°C Gloomy

Leeshire bat first

Leeshire 505/5d (150.2 overs),

Greencaster 283 (88.2 overs), 235/3 (90.3 overs)
Drawn

East Surbourneshire in

West Surbourneshire: Match 12 - Tobtoren 8-Tobtoren 11 at Ruby Hills (18000/four day att.: 17175) in Burnet
Tobtoren 8: 17°C Clear / Tobtoren 9: 21°C Partially cloudy / Tobtoren 10: 18°C Overcast / Tobtoren 11: 20°C Gloomy

East Surbourneshire bat first

West Surbourneshire 450 (107.1 overs),

East Surbourneshire 381 (103.1 overs), 378/8 (122.0 overs)
Drawn

Excellent conditions on days one and two make for huge first innings for the teams with deep batting lineups.

Willowbourne declares 443 after three wickets (Chiplinn 10, Stevenson 170*, Raafden 89, Quelch 44, Lafaille 105*),

Leeshire declare 505 for five wickets (opener Treloar not out for 207), and both Surbourneshires get 380+.

West Surbourneshire's Connell scores his first 100, and

East Surbourneshire's Stillingfleet does the same. That's not to say the bowlers didn't get weird statistics, but even the 5-fers were paired with a lot of runs given up.

Willowbourne's Lincoln takes 6 in the first innings and and 4 more in the second, without necessarily costing his team in terms of runs.

Round 5

Mawryshire in

West Surbourneshire: Match 13 - Tobtoren 21-Tobtoren 24 at Southbight Ground (29000/four day att.: 16532) in Ansonville
Tobtoren 21: 22°C Sunny / Tobtoren 22: 26°C Gloomy / Tobtoren 23: 25°C Cloudy / Tobtoren 24: 29°C Overcast

Mawryshire bat first

West Surbourneshire 250 (64.4 overs), 277 (57.3 overs)

Mawryshire 456 (141.3 overs), 75/4 (18.3 overs)

Mawryshire win by 6 wickets

Greencaster in

Willowbourne: Match 14 - Tobtoren 21-Tobtoren 24 at Royal Oval (40000/four day att.: 19986) in

Willowbourne
Tobtoren 21: 22°C Sunny / Tobtoren 22: 23°C Gloomy / Tobtoren 23: 23°C Cloudy / Tobtoren 24: 29°C Overcast

Willowbourne bat first

Willowbourne 301 (52.3 overs), 415 (130.5 overs)

Greencaster 279 (89.0 overs), 74/1 (28.4 overs)
Drawn

Leeshire in

East Surbourneshire: Match 15 - Tobtoren 21-Tobtoren 24 at Silverion Ground (25000/four day att.: 10718) in Cirelbourne
Tobtoren 21: 23°C Partially Cloudy / Tobtoren 22: 24°C Partially Cloudy / Tobtoren 23: 23°C Gloomy / Tobtoren 24: 24°C Intermittent rain

Leeshire bat first

East Surbourneshire 389 (114.4 overs), 162/5 (55.4 overs)

Leeshire 339 (85.3 overs), 209 (44.4 overs)

East Surbourneshire win by 5 wickets

Now that every team has played every other team once, the table is still everyone's. Most teams can beat other teams, and we even see form swings from day to day. Part of this is due to the (lack of) experience and resilience of the younger players of the squads, but it's the same youngsters that gave us some incredible highlights. Lagging slightly behind are the attendance figures, that never have been great for first class, but

Willowbourne/

East Surbourneshire had under 3000 fans per day, for instance.

Round 6

Leeshire in

Mawryshire: Match 16 - Girizedh 3-Girizedh 6 at yBherafon Hills (24000/four day att.: 16245) in Llandy
Girizedh 3: 18°C Intermittent rain, Lightning / Girizedh 4: 17°C Deluge (rain) / Girizedh 5: 17°C Intermittent rain / Girizedh 6: 16°C Gloomy

Leeshire bat first

Mawryshire 668/6d (163.4 overs),

Leeshire 385 (109.3 overs), 126/5 (39.1 overs)
Drawn

Greencaster in

East Surbourneshire: Match 17 - Girizedh 3-Girizedh 6 at Silverion Ground (25000/four day att.: 15389) in Cirelbourne
Girizedh 3: 24°C Partially Cloudy / Girizedh 4: 21°C Gloomy / Girizedh 5: 25°C Overcast / Girizedh 6: 23°C Clear

Greencaster bat first

East Surbourneshire 300 (102.5 overs), 128/4 (36.2 overs)

Greencaster 423 (134.4 overs), 342/6d (99.5 overs)
Drawn

West Surbourneshire in

Willowbourne: Match 18 - Girizedh 3-Girizedh 6 at Royal Oval (40000/four day att.: 14763) in

Willowbourne
Girizedh 3: 23°C Drizzle (rain), Fog / Girizedh 4: 22°C Gloomy, Hail / Girizedh 5: 26°C Overcast and rainy / Girizedh 6: 28°C Clear

West Surbourneshire bat first

Willowbourne 390 (106.5 overs),

West Surbourneshire 82 (20.3 overs), 145 (46.1 overs)

Willowbourne win by an innings and 163 runs

Willowbourne makes a statement with their innings win, which is rewarded very well in the table. They get

West Surbourneshire for 82 in the first innings, after which they get a huge 390, and then they the westerners out of town for 145 - taking twenty wickets within 67 overs. The northern city is the team to beat, though they were aided by some momentum swings after rain delays, with every day in

Willowbourne marked by some form of precipitation - but rarely the same kind of precipitation.

Mawryshire, hosting

Leeshire, was also marred by rain, though the home team ignored most of that and simply went for a high score - 668. yMharwn batted for 132, yRheighewn got 118, and everyone else contributed their fair share.

Round 7

Mawryshire in

East Surbourneshire: Match 19 - Jaranethan 1-Jaranethan 4 at Goledon Oval (25005/four day att.: 16329) in Bruncester
Jaranethan 1: 20°C Gloomy and rainy / Jaranethan 2: 21°C Gloomy / Jaranethan 3: 22°C Cloudy / Jaranethan 4: 24°C Clear

East Surbourneshire bat first

East Surbourneshire 294 (63.5 overs), 377 (105.4 overs)

Mawryshire 209 (57.2 overs), 411 (105.4 overs)

Mawryshire lose by 51 runs

West Surbourneshire in

Greencaster: Match 20 - Jaranethan 1-Jaranethan 4 at

Greencaster Oval (50000/four day att.: 14666) in

Greencaster
Jaranethan 1: 22°C Gloomy and rainy / Jaranethan 2: 21°C Gloomy / Jaranethan 3: 22°C Cloudy / Jaranethan 4: 23°C Clear

Greencaster bat first

Greencaster 461/6d (119.1 overs), 217 (52.1 overs)

West Surbourneshire 280 (74.3 overs), 251 (62.5 overs)

West Surbourneshire lose by 147 runs

Willowbourne in

Leeshire: Match 21 - Jaranethan 1-Jaranethan 4 at Timberton Oval (12800/four day att.: 11747) in Aubury
Jaranethan 1: 23°C Clear / Jaranethan 2: 19°C Gloomy / Jaranethan 3: 19°C Clear / Jaranethan 4: 17°C Partially cloudy

Willowbourne bat first

Leeshire 174 (47.2 overs), 261 (96.5 overs)

Willowbourne 313 (83.3 overs), 220 (67.0 overs)

Leeshire lose by 98 runs

Three results this week, and just one declared innings - this looks like a normal week of results for a change. Teams batting first take the initiative and never let it slip.

Mawryshire manage a mighty chase but can't outdo the damage they sustained on days 1-3.

Leeshire's match looks much the same, with two solid innings they still fall a little behind the day 1 push of

Willowbourne.

Round 8

Greencaster in

Mawryshire: Match 22 - Jaranethan 7-Jaranethan 10 at yBherafon Hills (24000/four day att.: 14917) in Llandy
Jaranethan 7: 17°C Cloudy and rainy / Jaranethan 8: 17°C Clear / Jaranethan 9: 20°C Downpour (rain) / Jaranethan 10: 15°C Partially Cloudy

Greencaster bat first

Mawryshire 410/8d (140.2 overs), 92 (18.5 overs)

Greencaster 181 (37.0 overs), 429 (82.0 overs)

Mawryshire lose by 108 runs

Willowbourne in

East Surbourneshire: Match 23 - Jaranethan 7-Jaranethan 10 at Silverion Ground (25000/four day att.: 14905) in Cirelbourne
Jaranethan 7: 19°C Gloomy / Jaranethan 8: 21°C Overcast, Hail / Jaranethan 9: 20°C Overcast / Jaranethan 10: 22°C Gloomy

East Surbourneshire bat first

East Surbourneshire 201 (46.3 overs), 572 (173.1 overs)

Willowbourne 418/8d (84.0 overs), 196 (48.4 overs)

Willowbourne lose by 159 runs

Leeshire in

West Surbourneshire: Match 24 - Jaranethan 7-Jaranethan 10 at Southbight Ground (29000/four day att.: 17769) in Ansonville
Jaranethan 7: 24°C Gloomy / Jaranethan 8: 22°C Sunny / Jaranethan 9: 20°C Overcast / Jaranethan 10: 21°C Clear

West Surbourneshire bat first

West Surbourneshire 452/9d (120.4 overs), 360/6d (105.1 overs)

Leeshire 328 (84.2 overs), 183/9 (61.0 overs)
Drawn

Declared innings everywhere, but arguably the most talked about moment is

Mawryshire's mood shift from 8d/410 to all out for 92 in a match they unsurprisingly lost. It took just 20 overs to stop the chase, much quicker than anyone bargained for, but

Greencaster will like it in their decent chance at a title. That said, five teams still have a solid shot at a title.

West Surbourneshire has two incredible innings but declare a little too late, making it very easy for

Leeshire to enforce a draw - which is a reason why

West Surbourneshire are the sixth club, out of title chances.

Round 9

Mawryshire in

Willowbourne: Match 25 - Jaranethan 14-Jaranethan 17 at Summerkind Oval (21000/four day att.: 16996) in

Willowbourne
Jaranethan 14: 22°C Cloudy / Jaranethan 15: 23°C Cloudy, Fog / Jaranethan 16: 17°C Sunny, Fog / Jaranethan 17: 17°C Drizzle (rain)

Mawryshire bat first

Willowbourne 171 (40.5 overs), 161 (45.4 overs)

Mawryshire 256 (42.5 overs), 202 (46.2 overs)

Willowbourne lose by 126 runs

Leeshire in

Greencaster: Match 26 - Jaranethan 14-Jaranethan 17 at

Greencaster Oval (50000/four day att.: 16184) in

Greencaster
Jaranethan 14: 23°C Sunny / Jaranethan 15: 22°C Clear, Fog / Jaranethan 16: 22°C Intermittent rain / Jaranethan 17: 22°C Some rain

Leeshire bat first

Greencaster 376 (87.4 overs),

Leeshire 453/7d (158.0 overs), 267/6 (77.1 overs)
Drawn

West Surbourneshire in

East Surbourneshire: Match 27 - Jaranethan 14-Jaranethan 17 at Silverion Ground (25000/four day att.: 12876) in Cirelbourne
Jaranethan 14: 21°C Sunny / Jaranethan 15: 26°C Clear, Fog / Jaranethan 16: 23°C Intermittent rain / Jaranethan 17: 24°C Some rain

East Surbourneshire bat first

East Surbourneshire 461/7d (144.5 overs), 152/4 (44.5 overs)

West Surbourneshire 423 (119.3 overs),
Drawn

Late in the season, we have one more hot week (recorded temperatures are all from early in the day).

Mawryshire do excellent business as the only victors this round. They don't exactly get record innings, but it's enough as all bowlers feasted across these two and a half days.

Leeshire fully go for the draw, having the lead and still batting through the entire final day. There wasn't much there anyway, as it took two full days for their first innings, and then

Greencaster took three full sessions and a bit for their reply.

Round 10

West Surbourneshire in

Mawryshire: Match 28 - Jaranethan 21-Jaranethan 24 at yBherafon Hills (24000/four day att.: 18514) in Llandy
Jaranethan 21: 18°C Partially Cloudy / Jaranethan 22: 15°C Overcast and rainy / Jaranethan 23: 18°C Clear / Jaranethan 24: 18°C Downpour (rain)

West Surbourneshire bat first

Mawryshire 96 (16.5 overs), 347/8 (68.4 overs)

West Surbourneshire 115 (31.2 overs), 326 (98.1 overs)

Mawryshire win by 2 wickets

Willowbourne in

Greencaster: Match 29 - Jaranethan 21-Jaranethan 24 at

Greencaster Oval (50000/four day att.: 20072) in

Greencaster
Jaranethan 21: 20°C Intermittent rain / Jaranethan 22: 22°C Clear / Jaranethan 23: 20°C Partially Cloudy / Jaranethan 24: 20°C Cloudy

Greencaster bat first

Greencaster 286 (47.2 overs), 159 (28.5 overs)

Willowbourne 178 (60.3 overs), 269/9 (45.1 overs)

Willowbourne win by 1 wickets

East Surbourneshire in

Leeshire: Match 30 - Jaranethan 21-Jaranethan 24 at Leewardia Oval (31000/four day att.: 12866) in Maynard
Jaranethan 21: 23°C Cloudy and rainy, Lightning / Jaranethan 22: 22°C Overcast / Jaranethan 23: 23°C Partially cloudy / Jaranethan 24: 24°C Cloudy

Leeshire bat first

Leeshire 332 (72.5 overs), 323/5d (93.2 overs)

East Surbourneshire 149 (36.1 overs), 115 (23.3 overs)

East Surbourneshire lose by 391 runs

And the 'bold' prediction of two rounds earlier comes through - the winners of round 10 are the top three.

Leeshire get a huge win over

East Surbourneshire, in perfect weather conditions, with time to spare. There's not much more they could have done short of enforcing a follow on and getting a win by an innings - and even that wouldn't have been enough.

Mawryshire are a surprising title candidate with their win over

West Surbourneshire: though they go all out for 96 in 16.5 overs on the afternoon of day 1 - that's all after the visitors went all out for 115 in a little over 30. After both quick collapses, we get something that resembles 4-day cricket a lot more:

West Surbourneshire spend a day and another half-session putting together a comprehensive 326, but

Mawryshire have also learned from their past and get the win by two wickets. It's close, but it's a win.

Willowbourne seize the title with their win by a single wicket! The first two days are all

Greencaster's, but the momentum in the city derby changes radically when

Greencaster goes all out in just under a session, leaving

Willowbourne ample time to get to 268. They do so in style: they get a four to end it, which was slightly risky as they had no room to spare at all. Even a loss would have given

Willowbourne the title, mostly because of their two innings wins earlier in the season, which is the entire tiebreaker this season.

Mawryshire get the most bonus points, largely due to taking a lot of wickets early in the first innings at home, with

Willowbourne amassing a decent few based on batting.

Points based on results are very close, with the top 5 all getting around 6 points per match (remember: 6 points for a draw, 12 for a win). Next year, three additional points will be awarded to the team with the lead after the first innings.

Table

POS TEAM                  MP RES IW BONUS TOTAL
1   Willowbourne        10 60  18 21,2  99,2
2   Mawryshire          10 66  0  22,3  88,3
3   Leeshire            10 66  0  18,2  84,2
4   East Surbourneshire 10 66  0  14,4  80,4
5   Greencaster         10 60  0  15,4  75,4
6   West Surbourneshire 10 42  0  14,7  56,7

by **Ko-oren** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 2:14 pm

Ice Hockey - Season 4

Notes & Format

Professionalisation looks to pay dividends already: the age bracket that was 15-18 around the time of the event, as many in Aerellen would call it, has kickstarted their professional career with much better training in the last 1-3 years of youth ice hockey. Some names that enter the league now are already named as stars of their respective teams - that remains to be seen - but the fact that between 6 and 12 immensely talented players are hitting the league at the same time, is undisputed.

RD Riquard Winterhaag (20) -

Launott Polar Bears
RW Aenva Avdu (20) -

Aevanna Scouts
LW Aemeve Aenetinia (20) -

Aevanna Scouts
G Wugeld Zudalu (20) -

West Coast Blizzards
RD Lisiku Lurthesinkhinten (19) -

West Coast Blizzards
C Aemu Aebure (20) -

Aevanna Explorers-Mariners
G Arend Lepelaar (22) -

Lamau-Dartha Hunters
G Kristo Laaksoog (22) -

Straudum Ice

Each team will play every other team six times (12 teams, so 6x11 = 66 games).

Preview

Launott Polar Bears
Projected finish: 1
Starting Lineup: Per Janszoon; Riquard Winterhaag, Alaguna Aeniva; Folke Steenbok, Izan Aiamalod, Avfu Aev
Star: Per Janszoon / Best Unit: Goalie
Launott is building a strong team representing all of the northern coast, a combination of Aerellen and Intermarean players, in a city that's shaking off its boring, remote image. Janszoon has been the big name on this roster since the professional era, but Winterhaag is up there as well. This team's defence is incredibly strong with two top-five defencemen and the best goalie that's not a rookie.

Serevne Northerners
Projected finish: 2
Starting Lineup: Aiane Alacia; Elinei Aegarial, Aelada Aubime; Arinia Aolopei, Bren Groenstege, Aelocu Aurtinia
Star: Bren Groenstege / Best Unit: Wingers
Serevne try to shake off perennial mid-tableness with the second rated team, not so much through one or two greats but rather through allowing no gaps on the roster. Top to bottom, every position has a solid role player at the very least, and with Groenstege and Aolopei, the wings are surprisingly good. The league is going through Centre shortage, but Aurtinia is not to be underestimated either.

West Coast Blizzards
Projected finish: 3
Starting Lineup: Wugeld Zudalu; Lisiku Lurthesinkhinten, Kaddarra Nammagun; Lerambee Werree, Galara Lyorrara, Hallady Buck
Star: Wugeld Zudalu / Best Unit: Goalie
The Blizzards are back with their MVP Buck for another title. This team strengthened itself not just with the top assister in the league (that'd be Buck again), but they signed one of three hugely talented goalies in Wugeld - a local Tarrashall-speaking talent. The defence is bolstered with Lurthesinkhinten as well, and despite all that, two other teams were ranked over them anyway. How?

Egevea Islanders
Projected finish: 4
Starting Lineup: Anedel Aemel; Aiagune Aorenna, Aleia Aorei; Bjorn Hoeij, Aiaca Ailinia, Aorale Enibel
Star: Aorale Enibel / Best Unit: Centre
Ambitious Egevea, coming off of a third place last year, wanted to do so much with free agent veterans that they might have missed every big name in this year's rookie class. They still have a good team, though. Enibel is the league's best centre, but you can wonder if they should have done more with the rest of the team. The roster is thin, and an injury to Enibel or Aorei could see this team collapse.

Aevanna Scouts
Projected finish: 4
Starting Lineup: Aran Aelolin; Azava Aielure, Aiane Auvia; Aenva Avdu, Aemeve Aenetinia, Ainoph Eriren
Star: Aenva Avdu / Best Unit: Wingers
Finally, the first team from the city of Aevanna is here! They were second last season, added Avdu and Aenetinia from the incredible rookie class, and yet can't break into the top three rated teams. No player on the list is truly subpar, but we can't see who can crack open a game when this team is down. There could be significant flaws to their game in certain situations.

Aevanna Explorers-Mariners
Projected finish: 6
Starting Lineup: Eliun Aoporin; Aelelia Ailane, Aesfu Aurtinia; Aidaloph Autibel, Asea Aireisura, Aemu Aebure
Star: Aemu Aebure / Best Unit: Centre
The unhappy marriage after merger forced by the professional era is rolling on. ExMa were sixth and might continue to be sixth, with that part of the city looking forward to seeing what Aebure can do. Autibel and Ailane are proven commodities, the other three not so much.

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
Projected finish: 7
Starting Lineup: Aeloris Ainerea; Arisife Alinise, Allan Molander; Aewen Ailise, Aone Aenec, Aorinne Aelloma
Star: Aewen Ailise / Best Unit: Wingers
Always trying to get a decent deal for little money (as opposed to good deals for any kind of money), the Wanderers are stuck in the middle for now - a step up from their 10th place finish, that's for sure. Alinise and Ailise are good and if the rest can set them up, magic can happen.

South Aevanna Storm
Projected finish: 8
Starting Lineup: Ausugo Aurtinia; Aennirin Ehoni, Aonalaira Aune; Aerine Aorifi, Aidira Aelora, Yaller Nyan
Star: Aennirin Ehoni / Best Unit: Defencemen
The Storm are trending down despite having Ehoni and Aorifi, two players that can absolutely rival Buck for the MVP title, and they wrestled Nyan away from West Coast, giving them the 3rd best goalscorer. And yet... they're trending down? Cleanup in the front office incoming.

Noordrug Bi-state
Projected finish: 9
Starting Lineup: Théodoric Gauvreau; Paulus Versnip, Aedeti Aenec; Adelhard Avondster, Kjell IJsberg, Borre Asheim
Star: Aedeti Aenec / Best Unit: Defencemen
They couldn't fall much further beyond 12th place last season. They found the necessary improvements, though the team is still not in great shape. That is... Aenec might be the league's next long term MVP candidate. How good is he? There's IJsberg, long time NT veteran, but Gauvreau hasn't been the most dependable, and Asheim wouldn't be the starting centre on at least 10 teams in the league.

Lamau-Dartha Hunters
Projected finish: 10
Starting Lineup: Arend Lepelaar; Assanor Aiaros, Shunsuke Yasumoto; Hannes Malmstroom, Aifia Emireno, Aoleris Aialod
Star: Assanor Aiaros / Best Unit: Defencemen
The Hunters are building their squda from the back, with Lepelaar as one of the three great new goalies, as well as NT'ers Aiaros and Yasumoto (a rare Yoshiman in ice hockey!) as the Hunters are definitely the kind of team to try everything. Money is endless, aside from the salary cap, so they can afford some odd choices.

Straudum Ice
Projected finish: 11
Starting Lineup: Kristo Laaksoog; Harm Kraainetel, Ste Hartskamp; Woutre Heerekornuit, Motoshi Mizuochi, Melis van Ossendal
Star: Woutre Heerekornuit / Best Unit: Goalie
They selected Laaksoog as the third of the great rookie goalies, but they'll still rely most on their wingers. Heerekornuit isn't always given the praise he deserves, but he's clearly one of the better wingers in the game. Beyond that, it's hard to find players that would be starters on the 11 other teams. The strict home-grown rule is on the way out, but there are still some ugly transition years to get through.

Arboren Vortex
Projected finish: 12
Starting Lineup: Elen Amiranel; Aelige Airaf, Jasnarkun Piraulerindhen; Alagen Acilea, Aoralin Aniamisa, Efefise Aolelia
Star: Aoralin Aniamisa / Best Unit: Wingers
5th last year as the most exciting new project of the professional era. The Vortex showed up in the gap that the merger of ExMa left, and they were off to a flying start. The hype since died down, and the expansion draft didn't prove to be the game changer three years into the experiment.

Table

KIHL                           Pld    W   L    GF   GA   GD    Win % 
 1 Launott Polar Bears             66   44  18   103   55  +48    0.697
 2 Egevea Islanders                66   42  22   226  171  +55    0.652
 3 Aevanna Plains Wanderers        66   37  26   231  186  +45    0.583
 4 Aevanna Explorers-Mariners      66   35  25   239  171  +68    0.576
 5 South Aevanna Storm             66   35  28   154  155   −1    0.553
 6 West Coast Blizzards            66   32  27   114   98  +16    0.538
 7 Serevne Northerners             66   31  28   206  197   +9    0.523
 8 Aevanna Scouts                  66   30  31   181  171  +10    0.492
 9 Noordrug Bi-state               66   28  34   123  135  −12    0.455
10 Lamau-Dartha Hunters            66   25  33    95  132  −37    0.439
11 Straudum Ice                    66   24  35   117  148  −31    0.417
12 Arboren Vortex                  66    4  60    76  246 −170    0.076

MVP
1 C Aorale Enibel (32) -

Egevea Islanders
2 LD Alaguna Aeniva (34) -

Launott Polar Bears
3 LW Aone Aenec (22) -

Aevanna Plains Wanderers

Top Scorer
1 C Aelocu Aurtinia (22) -

Serevne Northerners
2 C Aemu Aebure (20) -

Aevanna Explorers-Mariners
3 C Aorale Enibel (32) -

Egevea Islanders

Top Assister
1 LW Aone Aenec (22) -

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
2 LW Aiaca Ailinia (30) -

Egevea Islanders
3 RW Aidaloph Autibel (34) -

Aevanna Explorers-Mariners

Best Goalie
1 G Per Janszoon (22) -

Launott Polar Bears
2 G Wugeld Zudalu (20) -

West Coast Blizzards
3 G Ausugo Aurtinia (19) -

South Aevanna Storm

by **Ko-oren** » Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:06 am

Baseball - Season 25 Previews

Format
Every team plays every other team twelve times. Despite continued rumours at an east and west division, all teams remain in one single table. At the end of the season, #2 and #3 play a best of 5, with the first two games played at #2's stadium in an AABBA arrangement. The #1 then hosts the winner of the semifinal in a best of 7 AABBAAB arrangement. Early in the season, a full week of play is all in Santa Teresa. Midway through the season, a full week of games is played in Katashi. For scheduling purposes, slates of games later in the season always include a doubleheader on the first or last day of that group of games.

Katashi Generals
Stadium: Katashi Dome (58000) in Katashi, Katashi
Titles: 3 (Hist. Titles: 3)
Prediction: 1: Pitchers: 1 / Fielders&Batters: 2 -- Infield: 1 / Outfield: 3 / Starting pitchers: 1 / Bullpen: 2
Fielding: C: Shukishi Kashiwa - Infield: Mateu Aldana, Sukenobu Tanikawa, Turner Kirkham, Katatake Gotou - Outfield: Ryozo Kikuchi, Jasuviro Esumi, Hannah Choe QUE
Pitching: Starters: Katsumi Kawai, Michael Reischauer QUE, Torazo Kanemaru, Takenao Tone - Relievers: Sanemitsu Murata, Naomichi Yoshigahara, Atsuki Kotera, Tashiro Ishibashi, Habi Hoga - Closer: Teluvide Kamei
Star: Tashiro Ishibashi

The modern era record champions are looking to add a fourth (and seventh overall) championship. Katashi turned purple once again, after winning the final series 4-0 over

Suvira Quarry. This year, with a parade of aces starting every game, and a star-studded infield, it'll be hard to score on them. Of course, when you overcome them, you're met with an above-average outfield as well as a top three bullpen.

Echizen Dragons
Stadium: Uvesaki Field (24000) in Echizen, Alara
Titles: 1 (Hist. Titles: 0)
Prediction: 2: Pitchers: 3 / Fielders&Batters: 1 -- Infield: 2 / Outfield: 2 / Starting pitchers: 6 / Bullpen: 3
Fielding: C: Tevi Kagulazaka - Infield: Ré Fouquet, Hildegrim de Waard, Tsugahara Takata, Kenkichi Takata - Outfield: Yoshihito Oshita, Rosie (f) Ayslynn, Ruu Deguchi
Pitching: Starters: Molovisa Gotou, Mochiyoshi Doi, Ryu Shinkai, Vibu Nishijama - Relievers: Tadajuki Joshivumi, Hidemichi Makino, Loku Vilai, Kazushi Watase, Nolisuke Minagawa - Closer: Benoit Everson QUE
Star: Tevi Kagulazaka

The Dragons look to be on the closing end of a championship window after getting high pre-season grades for a few years but not getting a return on that all that often. Last year, they finished sixth, barely over .500, and this might be their last chance at writing history. With a great scoring lineup featuring some of the biggest (old) names in the league and a very decent bullpen, they could once again go far.

Katashi Giants
Stadium: Maesaki Park (31000) in Katashi, Katashi
Titles: 0 (Hist. Titles: 0)
Prediction: 3: Pitchers: 5 / Fielders&Batters: 4 -- Infield: 4 / Outfield: 6 / Starting pitchers: 2 / Bullpen: 8
Fielding: C: Paulo Rodela - Infield: Kana Wakimoto, Rei Himura, Mata Ogata, Dodo Ritsushima - Outfield: Joritoki Onaga, Suemoto Ishimaki, Kiro Ogasawara
Pitching: Starters: Tsunehisa Kumagaya, Suta Akija, Mava Jukimuro, Ikemoto Ishida - Relievers: Ernesto Vara, Sadaie Nawa, Norihiko Adachi, Yoshitake Nakada, Sanemichi Kikuchi - Closer: Fabio Paul SNL
Star: Dodo Ritsushima

The Giants are back from a hiatus at the top of Ko-orenite baseball. The last few years haven't been kind to them, with an eighth place last year that finally saw some turnover at coaching and front office positions. The goal is to match the Generals and at some point overtake them. The result is not necessarily a equally built team, but instead taking what they can pick up from other (youth) teams, and they got a group of players that could rival the Generals' ace parade. The bullpen isn't perfect by far, and the batting can leave something to be desired, but overall there should be enough defence and offence to get a run going.

Intermare Admirals
Stadium: Naminaka Park (11000) in Schemerdrecht, Intermare
Titles: 0 (Hist. Titles: 3)
Prediction: 4: Pitchers: 8 / Fielders&Batters: 3 -- Infield: 5 / Outfield: 5 / Starting pitchers: 8 / Bullpen: 9
Fielding: C: Woutre Bardemaker - Infield: Vianol Sivurila, Kaje Holtmaat, Amand Gallois, Harmisjesin Dunaltinden - Outfield: Umeji Tanaka, Ano Makkinga, Bruno Pallares
Pitching: Starters: Xesus Medal, You Wassens, Ko Nijveld, Guust Blauwbroek - Relievers: Distehonan Lambirthingun, Tacaro Cevocalu, Monroe Keating, Sabuk Tepkusorenthen, Mauja Wijnberg - Closer: Parevu Uvulivelu
Star: Woutre Bardemaker

The Admirals and their tumultuous history see them again in a position of getting that first title. A greedy owner moving the light blue squad away from Aviansola, retaining most of their players anyway, and having them play in a city that, after half a decade, still can't tell its balks from its pickoff attempts. Partially through home advantage, and partially through an actual decent roster, the Admirals tend to finish top 6. This year, they attack the league with a lot of batting options.

Santa Teresa Stars
Stadium: The Citadel (37000) in Santa Teresa, Finisterre
Titles: 1 (Hist. Titles: 5)
Prediction: 5: Pitchers: 2 / Fielders&Batters: 9 -- Infield: 11 / Outfield: 8 / Starting pitchers: 11 / Bullpen: 1
Fielding: C: Juan Berganza - Infield: Eutelo Agramonte, Xaime Marin, Sabino Lema, Gustavo Farina - Outfield: Roibén Peredo, Xacinto Leyton, Victor Cora
Pitching: Starters: Ensa Suso BNJ, Fernan Mazon, Nocenci Monteverde, Roxelio Solar - Relievers: Roman Sotolongo, Arximiro Saravia, Kōlō Kamada, Atanasio Cervantes, Winfield Basshale - Closer: Fidel Aguiar
Star: Arximiro Saravia

The Stars must be in the playoff conversation every year, or the fans get rowdy. A tremendously well pitching team - though that's more because of the relivers and closing than the starting four - must try to keep games close and low scoring. Despite names like Berganza, Agramonte, and Peredo, the Stars have failed to bring part of the magic of last year back, when they finished 3rd.

Nitoya Silvers
Stadium: Twin Field (27000) in Nitoya, Leleia
Titles: 0 (Hist. Titles: 0)
Prediction: 6: Pitchers: 4 / Fielders&Batters: 8 -- Infield: 10 / Outfield: 1 / Starting pitchers: 6 / Bullpen: 4
Fielding: C: Mito Arima - Infield: Gasparo Lema, Terumoto Togoshi, Cyril Durand, Fumiaki Fuchizaki - Outfield: Kava Jamana, Vítor Vasquez, Akinari Tsutsumi
Pitching: Starters: Nakazo Uranishi, Kijonori Nakama, Kyuichi Omori, Shigelu Sakijama - Relievers: Ryūsei Sakurazawa, Elethek Pargalgunden, Jasuvilo Hajakawa, Ventura de Castro, Satoru Wakuri - Closer: Tommy Kawasaki
Star: Ventura de Castro

Nitoya is tired of low finishes, and it's high time they get a golden age of their own - something they never had. As a team on the island of Leleia, it's Giants/Generals or nothing, so the Silvers are one team that tend to give up their best names to the Katashi teams. Meanwhile, the Silvers have brought together an outfield that can't be underestimated. Amazing batters with the speed necessary to cover the outfield, that's their ticket to the playoffs. The pitching is solid, though the infield can be spotty while the most important positions (1B, SS) are fine.

Ferrovente Whales
Stadium: Ventovente (20000) in Ferrovente, Finisterre
Titles: 0 (Hist. Titles: 0)
Prediction: 7: Pitchers: 10 / Fielders&Batters: 5 -- Infield: 3 / Outfield: 12 / Starting pitchers: 12 / Bullpen: 5
Fielding: C: Fred Burn SNL - Infield: Anselmo Troche, Oscar Viera, Ian Pearce SNL, André Barreira - Outfield: Leon Bahamonde, Ignacio Pallares, Sev Ballak SNL
Pitching: Starters: Xerman Figueredo, Xeremias Verdugo, Millan Vara, Euloxio Rodis - Relievers: Jocelyn Chastain, Moises Carballar, Fabian Troche, Xenaro Goya, Bernabe Reza - Closer: Pascoal Barreira
Star: Fred Burn SNL

The Ferrovente team are much like the Stars, even if they don't want to admit that. An existence without titles is really starting to sting and yet they can't seem to surpass that team in Santa Teresa. They had to deal with players walk out on them, and with one of the worst outfields and starting pitchers in the league, they might still have a chance: the relieving is good, and the work on the infield has really paid off. Burn is the best catcher in the league, Pearce is incredibly allround at third base, and Chastain is the most reliable reliever in the league. This uneven squad will lose plenty of games, but they should be competitive anyway.

Amandine Challengers
Stadium: Vamada Océanique (12000) in Étouille, Cote Austral
Titles: 1 (Hist. Titles: 0)
Prediction: 8: Pitchers: 7 / Fielders&Batters: 7 -- Infield: 6 / Outfield: 9 / Starting pitchers: 9 / Bullpen: 6
Fielding: C: Daniel Fermin - Infield: Assefa Mulugeta BNJ, Clément Dubos, Suke Enya, Bran Souto - Outfield: Michinoli Kawasaki, Leonardo Valladares, Tametoki Atagi
Pitching: Starters: Napoleon Campbell, Cécé Cortot, Stéphane Benne, Clem Popkiss - Relievers: Oswald Hogwood, Bernal Troche, Micajah Darleston, Stéphane Monat, Ange Léger - Closer: Virovaru Janagimoto
Star: Stéphane Benne

The Challengers have upgraded every unit, which resulted in a very even squad but not with the individual brilliance that you sometimes need to break a game wide-open. Fermin, Mulugeta, and Enya make this team a force to be reckoned with, but where are they supposed to get support? Monat can do that, and Léger will close some games out, but it won't be success from beginning to end. The Challengers' run in Amandine - originally a fantastic move in trying to make baseball more popular in southern Cote Austral, which has the climate for it - is not a lucky one. Problematic choices in teambuilding led to them missing talent after talent, even at a time where Cote Austral is starting to develop some good talents themselves. Is it still worth it to take the team away from their home base in Yoshima?

Suvira Quarry
Stadium: Obsidian Park (35000) in Suvira, Leleia
Titles: 1 (Hist. Titles: 0)
Prediction: 9: Pitchers: 6 / Fielders&Batters: 11 -- Infield: 7 / Outfield: 10 / Starting pitchers: 4 / Bullpen: 7
Fielding: C: Kosaku Sekiguchi - Infield: Noriatsu Togashi, Henrique Toca, Junistau Hunulunden, Jukichi Sakurano - Outfield: Sofu Nakao, Jasuviko Kaneshiro, Umeko (f) Ōbali
Pitching: Starters: Suno Matsuda, Tojoaki Jabe, Kama Vokama, Kahi Nagamatsu - Relievers: Michikiyo Togawa, Yukiari Chousokabe, Eisuke Fukuhara, Takuya Adachi, Koyo Igarashi - Closer: Teodoro Parada
Star: Suno Matsuda

The Quarry, placed second last season and eventually losing the final, are a small team. Like Nitoya or Arakura, there are more bad seasons than good ones, all while having to stare at the success in Katashi (sometimes) or the Finisterran clubs. That said... the Quarry have always had that little extra that even gave them a title. Despite that, they have regressed a fair bit, relying on stars of old, a mediocre (at best) catcher, but enough pitching talent to land them top 6... or at least not in last place.

Aminey Wanderers
Stadium: Le Losange (26000) in Aminey, Aminey
Titles: 0 (Hist. Titles: 4)
Prediction: 10: Pitchers: 12 / Fielders&Batters: 6 -- Infield: 8 / Outfield: 7 / Starting pitchers: 5 / Bullpen: 12
Fielding: C: Xaaf Geele BNJ - Infield: Titi Barrande, Napo Corriveau, Cativo Varivuliva, Simon Gray - Outfield: Tasu Fujii, Aman Teklu BNJ, Barden Esheross
Pitching: Starters: Gus Gavreau, Greg Julius SNL, Éloi Michaeux, José Barbier - Relievers: Gé Delacroix, Bernard Riqueti, Peio De Andrade, Gil Chaufourier, Baudilio Ferreira - Closer: Claude Veil
Star: Éloi Michaeux

The Aminey team has always been a mystery. Like the Intermare team, the originally Yoshiman team was moved out west to conquer a new market, and while the Amineyans embraced the team well enough, they were never rewarded with playoff baseball - while four historical titles were ripped away from the original fanbase. This year won't be much better: a bullpen with bad figures across the board, backing up a fine group of starters that might have to pitch a lot of innings, with just not enough talent fielding and batting to make it worthwhile. And that while the wages here are higher than anywhere...

Arakura Knights
Stadium: Ginofruit Field (28000) in Arakura, Selesi
Titles: 0 (Hist. Titles: 0)
Prediction: 11: Pitchers: 11 / Fielders&Batters: 10 -- Infield: 9 / Outfield: 4 / Starting pitchers: 10 / Bullpen: 10
Fielding: C: Nobuo Jodogawa - Infield: Ben Descombes, Kishō Kurahashi, Papa Girard, Hidemichi Chiura - Outfield: Hiroharu Akiba, Kagesuke Kagae, Kenko Ueda
Pitching: Starters: Teno Mochizuki, Tsuno Hatanaka, Sadatake Mijazaki, Basil Carreiro - Relievers: Marcelo Lamas, Naganoli Tao, Iwane Uzumaki, Yoson Kuroda, Ami (f) Amaja - Closer: Varunobu Ozawa
Star: Hiroharu Akiba

The Knights are happily chugging along, waiting for their next time to strike and maybe make a playoff. That's not this season. After a 10th place next year, it's back to the cellar for them but they're building something, at least. Mochizuki is great, Carreiro and Lamas are more than good enough, and the best closer in the league in Ozawa is still there. On the fielding side, Akiba, Kurahashi, and Descombes can all make something happen.

Teragaseki Dynamo
Stadium: Vidari Stadium (22000) in Teragaseki, Etena
Titles: 0 (Hist. Titles: 1)
Prediction: 12: Pitchers: 9 / Fielders&Batters: 12 -- Infield: 12 / Outfield: 11 / Starting pitchers: 3 / Bullpen: 11
Fielding: C: Arimoro Sano - Infield: Hilario Acevedo, Toshitaka Nonaka, Chikafusa Watanabe, Vanshiro Agano - Outfield: Shinta Oshita, Ryoma Okino, Xenaro Durán
Pitching: Starters: Senzo Utada, Gabriel Auclair, Momo (f) Renbutsu, Tokuma Mulajama - Relievers: Bernaldo Viveiros, Detger Slotiep, Danno Makino, Kikugolo Vola, Arthfael yCwmols - Closer: Bunji Yano
Star: Senzo Utada

There was a chance last year, but that was short-lived. In trying to keep pace with Echizen, the Dynamo are now looking to finish dead last, though it'll not be because of Utada. Maybe the best player in the entire country. That's the reason for their great pitching stat, but that's probably all that's there. Without him, Teragaseki's starting pitchers are rated 12th out of 12...

by **Ko-oren** » Fri Apr 01, 2022 4:50 am

Baseball - Season 25

Season

Let's check in every so often to see how our 12 clubs are doing.

*  League                    Pld     W    L    Win % 
 1 Nitoya Silvers             66    41   25    0.621
 2 Katashi Generals           66    41   25    0.621
 3 Katashi Giants             66    37   29    0.561
 4 Intermare Admirals         66    36   30    0.545
 5 Echizen Dragons            66    36   30    0.545
 6 Suvira Quarry              66    36   30    0.545
 7 Aminey Wanderers           66    34   32    0.515
 8 Amandine Challengers       66    32   34    0.485
 9 Ferrovente Whales          66    30   36    0.455
10 Santa Teresa Stars         66    27   39    0.409
11 Arakura Knights            66    24   42    0.364
12 Teragaseki Dynamo          66    22   44    0.333

Halfway - Two teams are leaps and bounds ahead for now: the

Katashi Generals we saw coming, but the

Nitoya Silvers are a different beast. Led by incredible defensive displays from shortstop Fuchizaki and shutdown relieving by Sakurazawa, Pargalgunden, and De Castro, Nitoya has turned their home into a fortress. They're getting the necessary home runs from outfielders Jamana and Vasquez. So far, everything is going as planned for them. The

Katashi Generals are about as dominant as they were expected to be, with Takenao Tone 9-1 in his starts as pitcher. Gotou is leading the league in OBP and while there are no big sluggers on the team, they're just getting more runs - but perhaps they're a little lucky in how few runners they leave on base. The Finisterran duo of

Ferrovente Whales and

Santa Teresa Stars aren't having the campaign they bargained for: Santa Teresa is yet to survive a fourth inning without giving up a hit, with starting pitcher Solar going 0-7 in his starts this season, while the infield leads the league in errors. Ferrovente isn't doing much beter with their up-and-down roster, as while their play from the fifth inning onwards is unbeatable, they have to come back from some sort of deficit nearly every game. They've also hit the fewest home runs out of any team, no matter how much Sev Ballak adds in the outfield.

*  League                    Pld     W    L    Win % 
 1 Katashi Generals           99    59   40    0.596
 2 Nitoya Silvers             99    59   40    0.596
 3 Katashi Giants             99    57   42    0.576
 4 Echizen Dragons            99    56   43    0.566
 5 Intermare Admirals         99    54   45    0.545
 6 Amandine Challengers       99    51   48    0.515
 7 Suvira Quarry              99    49   50    0.495
 8 Aminey Wanderers           99    48   51    0.485
 9 Ferrovente Whales          99    45   54    0.455
10 Santa Teresa Stars         99    45   54    0.455
11 Arakura Knights            99    38   61    0.384
12 Teragaseki Dynamo          99    33   66    0.333

Three-quarters - We're seeing the contours of the final standing already: the

Katashi Generals are keeping up their dominance though they've gone through a few rough patches - they're not getting 'automatic' wins over bottom teams any more and they've even gone 0-3 in series against other top teams, especially the Giants. The

Nitoya Silvers are still the team from the first half of the season. The

Katashi Giants are reporting for duty in the top three, distancing themselves from the rest of the table, through a miracle run of consecutive wins with a hero role for second baseman Himura, who has shot up in OBP and right fielder Ogasawara is an unlikely contender for HR leader. The

Echizen Dragons are also clawing their way up, via shutdown pitching by Quebecois closer Everson and putting together deadly batting orders with the Takata brothers, Fouquet, with Oshita bringing them in and Kagulazaka adding some luck. Intermare and Amandine are creeping towards the middle of the table, while Finisterre is still not looking healthy.

*  League                    Pld     W    L    Win % 
 1 Katashi Generals          119    70   49    0.588
 2 Katashi Giants            119    69   50    0.580
 3 Echizen Dragons           119    67   52    0.563
 4 Intermare Admirals        119    66   53    0.555
 5 Nitoya Silvers            119    66   53    0.555
 6 Amandine Challengers      119    61   58    0.513
 7 Suvira Quarry             119    58   61    0.487
 8 Santa Teresa Stars        119    57   62    0.479
 9 Ferrovente Whales         119    57   62    0.479
10 Aminey Wanderers          119    55   64    0.462
11 Arakura Knights           119    46   73    0.387
12 Teragaseki Dynamo         119    42   77    0.353

Ninety Percent - It's finally happened. The 'unsustainable' numbers put up by the

Nitoya Silvers have come back and injuries to a decent part of their pitching rotation saw them drop games that they previously would have won narrowly. Both Katashi teams are gearing up for the playoffs, though the margins are razor-thin. The difference between where the Silvers were (2nd) and are now (5th) is just a difference of three wins, so the battle in the last 13 games will be huge. The Finisterran duo are climbing up with not much else to do. Teragaseki is losing the plot and Arakura is disappearing out of sight. No team went better than 12-8 across the stretch since the 3-quarter mark, and Nitoya did worst out of all teams at 7-13. That's how close it all is.

*  League                    Pld     W    L    Win % 
 1 Katashi Giants            129    76   53    0.589
 2 Katashi Generals          129    75   54    0.581
 3 Echizen Dragons           129    73   56    0.566
 4 Nitoya Silvers            129    71   58    0.550
 5 Intermare Admirals        129    71   58    0.550
 6 Amandine Challengers      129    66   63    0.512
 7 Santa Teresa Stars        129    65   64    0.504
 8 Ferrovente Whales         129    62   67    0.481
 9 Suvira Quarry             129    61   68    0.473
10 Aminey Wanderers          129    57   72    0.442
11 Arakura Knights           129    50   79    0.388
12 Teragaseki Dynamo         129    47   82    0.364

One Series to Go - The margins have widened enough for the final series to barely matter. All the top three has to do is to win one game out of three to maintain their current spot.

Teragaseki Dynamo have brought it back a little bit, going 5-5, but will still finish last. The

Katashi Giants went 7-3 to usurp top spot - a huge blow for the

Katashi Generals who thought they locked it up - and the

Echizen Dragons will be happy going into the playoffs at all. The

Santa Teresa Stars went 8-2 to really make that late-season push, except it's for deciding the top six rather than the playoff teams, but good effort nonetheless.

*  League                    Pld     W    L    Win % 
 1 Katashi Giants            132    77   55    0.583 - Final
 2 Katashi Generals          132    77   55    0.583 - Semifinal
 3 Echizen Dragons           132    74   58    0.561 - Semifinal
 4 Nitoya Silvers            132    72   60    0.545
 5 Intermare Admirals        132    72   60    0.545
 6 Santa Teresa Stars        132    68   64    0.515
 7 Amandine Challengers      132    68   64    0.515
 8 Suvira Quarry             132    64   68    0.485
 9 Ferrovente Whales         132    64   68    0.485
10 Aminey Wanderers          132    57   75    0.432
11 Arakura Knights           132    51   81    0.386
12 Teragaseki Dynamo         132    48   84    0.364

Final Table - The

Katashi Giants go 1-2 but do end up over the

Katashi Generals, as the city dominates baseball this year. The

Echizen Dragons do just enough to follow in third. The

Nitoya Silvers keep it close but their late-season 'collapse' is just too much to overcome, while

Santa Teresa Stars finish top 6 after all. The

Intermare Admirals continue their streak of 'good, but not good enough' seasons, the

Amandine Challengers get a little more than expected at just six games away from the playoffs. Arakura and Teragaseki finish last and second-to-last by a huge margin, which should have consequences, and the

Aminey Wanderers experiment is also not going great.

Postseason
Semifinal (best of 5) - Tharathju 13 - Tharathju 16

Katashi Generals 1–2

Echizen Dragons - T. 2:54 Home: 1H 1E /Away: 5H 0E. 24C, Cloudy and rainy, Gentle breeze S. Katashi Dome 55970/58000.

Katashi Generals 5–1

Echizen Dragons - T. 3:08 Home: 8H 1E /Away: 2H 1E. 20C, Sunny, Storm SE. Katashi Dome 53388/58000.

Echizen Dragons 9–1

Katashi Generals - T. 2:21 Home: 20H 0E /Away: 2H 0E. 10C, Overcast, Light breeze, SE. Uvesaki Field 24000/24000.

Echizen Dragons 5–4

Katashi Generals - T. 3:00 Home: 10H 0E /Away: 9H 1E. 10C, Cloudy, Light breeze N. Uvesaki Field 24000/24000.

The Echizen Dragons won the first game, putting Katashi on edge already. The second game, long but decisive, went to the purples, but then we'd move up to Echizen again. A 9-1 in a very short time, where the Dragons recorded 20 hits and the Generals just kind of gave up on the game quickly, was played in cold conditions. Late in the season, up north, that's what happens. Echizen goes to the final, preventing a Katashi-Katashi final.

Final (best of 7) - Tharathju 19 - Tharathju 24

Katashi Giants 2–3

Echizen Dragons - T. 2:59 Home: 2H 1E /Away: 6H 1E. 25C, Gloomy, Light air NW. Maesaki Park 31000/31000.

Katashi Giants 3–4

Echizen Dragons - T. 2:33 Home: 3H 1E /Away: 7H 0E. 21C, Intermittent rain, Light air NE. Maesaki Park 29440/31000.

Echizen Dragons 2–4

Katashi Giants - T. 2:46 Home: 3H 0E /Away: 8H 1E. 9C, Drizzle (rain), Light air SW. Uvesaki Field 24000/24000.

Echizen Dragons 5–1

Katashi Giants - T. 2:37 Home: 10H 0E /Away: 1H 1E. 8C, Deluge (rain), Light air NE. Uvesaki Field 24000/24000.

Katashi Giants 3–1

Echizen Dragons - T. 2:42 Home: 7H 1E /Away: 1H 1E. 20C, Cloudy, Fresh breeze N. Maesaki Park 29670/31000.

Katashi Giants 1–3

Echizen Dragons - T. 2:38 Home: 2H 0E /Away: 8H 0E. 17C, Sunny, Calm S. Maesaki Park 31000/31000.

No game lasted more than 3 hours, though the first game came close. In mostly sold out parks, except after the home team lost, the Echizen Dragons win 4-2 and get the championship! On the way there, four warm games in Katashi and two cold, rainy games in Echizen settle it. No game ended in a huge victory, apart from a 5-1, in which the Giants started a two game streak of just a single hit - you're not winning it with that.

Team of the Year
C Tevi Kagulazaka (33)

Echizen Dragons: L/L

1B Mateu Aldana (36)

Katashi Generals: L/L
2B Rei Himura (35)

Katashi Giants: L/L
3B Tsugahara Takata (33)

Echizen Dragons: L/L
SS Dodo Ritsushima (34)

Katashi Giants: R/R
LF Kava Jamana (26)

Nitoya Silvers: L/L
CF Jasuviro Esumi (32)

Katashi Generals: R/R
RF Kiro Ogasawara (32)

Katashi Giants: R/R

SP1 Takenao Tone (21)

Katashi Generals: L/L
SP2 Suno Matsuda (29)

Suvira Quarry: L/L
SP3 Molovisa Gotou (29)

Echizen Dragons: L/L
SP4 Nakazo Uranishi (32)

Nitoya Silvers: R/R
MP1 Jocelyn Chastain (25)

Ferrovente Whales: R/R
MP2 Arximiro Saravia (29)

Santa Teresa Stars: R/R
MP3 Tacaro Cevocalu (31)

Intermare Admirals: R/R
MP4 Ventura de Castro (24)

Nitoya Silvers: L/L
8P Koyo Igarashi (28)

Suvira Quarry: L/L
CP Benoit Everson QUE (27)

Echizen Dragons: R/R

Stats and derbies
792 games - 404 home wins, 388 away wins - 6600 runs scored, 3385 home and 3215 away - average score 4-4
Most common score: 4-3 (28x), 3-4 (24x), 2-3 and 4-5 (22x).
Highest-scoring:
8-16 (

Intermare Admirals 8–16

Suvira Quarry)
13-12 (

Ferrovente Whales 13–12

Arakura Knights)
13-8 (

Katashi Generals 13–8

Teragaseki Dynamo)
11-10 (

Teragaseki Dynamo 11–10

Katashi Generals)
10-11 (

Katashi Giants 10–11

Echizen Dragons)
8-13 (

Suvira Quarry 8–13

Amandine Challengers)

Ferrovente Whales 0–15

Santa Teresa Stars

Santa Teresa Stars 4–2

Ferrovente Whales

Ferrovente Whales 5–4

Santa Teresa Stars

Santa Teresa Stars 2–4

Ferrovente Whales

Ferrovente Whales 3–2

Santa Teresa Stars

Santa Teresa Stars 3–2

Ferrovente Whales

Ferrovente Whales 7–2

Santa Teresa Stars

Santa Teresa Stars 9–3

Ferrovente Whales

Ferrovente Whales 3–6

Santa Teresa Stars

Santa Teresa Stars 4–3

Ferrovente Whales

Ferrovente Whales 6–5

Santa Teresa Stars

Santa Teresa Stars 2–4

Ferrovente Whales

The series is split 6-6 between the Finisterran heavyweights, as both clubs fought their way up the table after a disastrous start. The Stars set the tone with a 15-0 away win, and they added a 9-3 and a 6-3 later in the season to claim the run differential by a mile, but in terms of wins, it's equal.

Katashi Giants 6–2

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 4–5

Katashi Giants

Katashi Giants 10–3

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 4–3

Katashi Giants

Katashi Giants 1–0

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 8–6

Katashi Giants

Katashi Giants 2–1

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 4–3

Katashi Giants

Katashi Giants 1–14

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 4–2

Katashi Giants

Katashi Giants 3–8

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 3–2

Katashi Giants

Twelve amazing games between crosstown rivals that ended up claiming first and second in the ranking! Even if they didn't end up meeting in the final, we saw some amazing and tactical plays. The series concluded with 7 wins for the Generals (7-5) after the Giants took four of the first five meetings. From 4-1 to 5-7... the second half of the season was all Generals though the Giants finished atop the league in the end.

Intermare Admirals 3–1

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 9–1

Intermare Admirals

Intermare Admirals 3–4

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 9–7

Intermare Admirals

Intermare Admirals 2–3

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 1–2

Intermare Admirals

Intermare Admirals 5–7

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 6–2

Intermare Admirals

Intermare Admirals 6–0

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 2–3

Intermare Admirals

Intermare Admirals 10–3

Katashi Generals

Katashi Generals 4–3

Intermare Admirals

Intermare, or historically the Aviansola Admirals, kept their rivalry going. The Generals won 7 but it could have been way, way worse.

Teragaseki Dynamo 4–5

Echizen Dragons

Echizen Dragons 7–5

Teragaseki Dynamo

Teragaseki Dynamo 1–4

Echizen Dragons

Echizen Dragons 0–2

Teragaseki Dynamo

Teragaseki Dynamo 1–4

Echizen Dragons

Echizen Dragons 5–12

Teragaseki Dynamo

Teragaseki Dynamo 1–7

Echizen Dragons

Teragaseki Dynamo 4–3

Echizen Dragons

Echizen Dragons 14–2

Teragaseki Dynamo

Teragaseki Dynamo 5–6

Echizen Dragons

Echizen Dragons 7–6

Teragaseki Dynamo

Echizen Dragons 10–0

Teragaseki Dynamo

The Dragons win 8-6 while the Dynamo would end up finishing last. Turns out they saved their best play for their rival - who finished top three and made the playoffs anyway - and more.

Lower Leagues
Yoshiman League: Asakoshi Zodiac
Finisterran League: Mostovega Cranes

Rookie/Short-season
Katashi League: Kijolaoi Radiant
Western League: Soibourgois Base

by **Ko-oren** » Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:07 am

Soccer - Season 38

Cup

Casaran Cup, Day 1
Foot Soibourgoise en Vert (3b) 0–6

Aminey CS (1)

Sydberg (2) 2–0 Myaranowra (3b)
Biney CF (3b) 0–2

Teragaseki (2)

Cirelbourne United (2) 2–0 Launott (3b)
Grainshire United (3a) 0–3

Tanques AOE (1)

Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 4–1 Club Valeloma (3a)
Belmore FC (3a) 0–1

Couziers-Olympiques (2)
Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a) 3–4 Tuinderbeek FC (3b)

Gehrenna FC (2) 0–0 Laringen AFC (3b) (0–0 AET) (3–1 pen.)

Schemerdrecht SVV (1) 1–1

WSR AFC (1) (1–1 AET) (3–2 pen.)

SC Sokrona (2) 0–1 Katashi Azula (3a)

Burnet Athletic (2) 0–0 Soothill (3a) (1–0 AET)

Sterrenwolde FC (2) 1–0

Maynard AFC (2)
Fukushira Guerilla (3b) 2–3 Tepkusoren Opkohme (3b)
Aerellen Honoa SC (3b) 2–3

Amandine AdF (2)

Branvon CD (1) 0–0 Strongfair (3a) (1–0 AET)

Bruncester United AFC (1) 1–0

Castelo e Calvente CS (2)
Ambergate City (3a) 0–0 Oai Unifie (3b) (0–0 AET) (3–1 pen.)
Odahayashi Revolution (3a) 2–3

Advance Alara (1)
Cresthill FC (3b) 2–6

Miradela GD (1)

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (2) 1–2 Chikuno Hakuba (3a)

Straudum VV (1) 3–1 Brighthaven Town (3a)
Mawrystwyth (3a) 1–1

Arboren FC (1) (1–1 AET) (2–3 pen.)
Linderivier AFC (3b) 0–5

Maethoru SC (1)

* Top 12 after Day 1
                                  G W L PF PA PD 
 1                  Aminey CS (1) 1 1 0  6  0  +6
 2                Maethoru SC (1) 1 1 0  5  0  +5
 3                Miradela GD (1) 1 1 0  6  2  +4
 4            Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 1 1 0  4  1  +3
 5                Tanques AOE (1) 1 1 0  3  0  +3
 6                Straudum VV (1) 1 1 0  3  1  +2
 7         Cirelbourne United (2) 1 1 0  2  0  +2
 8                 Teragaseki (2) 1 1 0  2  0  +2
 9                    Sydberg (2) 1 1 0  2  0  +2
10              Advance Alara (1) 1 1 0  3  2  +1
11                 Branvon CD (1) 1 1 0  1  0  +1
12            Chikuno Hakuba (3a) 1 1 0  2  1  +1

Casaran Cup, Day 2

Aminey CS (1) 1–2

Couziers-Olympiques (2)

Maethoru SC (1) 3–0 Katashi Azula (3a)

Miradela GD (1) 4–1

Burnet Athletic (2)

Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 5–1 Tuinderbeek FC (3b)

Tanques AOE (1) 0–2

Schemerdrecht SVV (1)

Straudum VV (1) 0–0

Amandine AdF (2) (1–0 AET)

Cirelbourne United (2) 0–0 Tepkusoren Opkohme (3b) (0–0 AET) (4–1 pen.)

Teragaseki (2) 1–2 Ambergate City (3a)

Sydberg (2) 1–1

Arboren FC (1) (1–1 AET) (4–3 pen.)

Advance Alara (1) 5–3

Sterrenwolde FC (2)

Branvon CD (1) 0–3

Gehrenna FC (2)
Chikuno Hakuba (3a) 0–2

Bruncester United AFC (1)

SC Sokrona (2) 1–2 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert (3b)

Castelo e Calvente CS (2) 3–2 Linderivier AFC (3b)
Aerellen Honoa SC (3b) 0–2 Cresthill FC (3b)
Soothill (3a) 1–1 Club Valeloma (3a) (1–1 AET) (3–4 pen.)
Fukushira Guerilla (3b) 2–1 Grainshire United (3a)
Strongfair (3a) 1–2 Launott (3b)

Maynard AFC (2) 1–0 Myaranowra (3b)

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (2) 4–1 Biney CF (3b)
Odahayashi Revolution (3a) 2–3 Brighthaven Town (3a)
Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a) 0–1 Mawrystwyth (3a)
Laringen AFC (3b) 2–1 Oai Unifie (3b)

WSR AFC (1) 4–1 Belmore FC (3a)

* Top 12 after Day 2
                                  G W L PF PA PD 
 1                Miradela GD (1) 2 2 0 10  3  +7
 2            Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 2 2 0  9  2  +7
 3                Gehrenna FC (2) 2 2 0  4  0  +4
 4                Straudum VV (1) 2 2 0  4  1  +3
 5          Schemerdrecht SVV (1) 2 2 0  4  1  +3
 6         Cirelbourne United (2) 2 2 0  3  0  +3
 7      Bruncester United AFC (1) 2 2 0  3  0  +3
 8                Maethoru SC (1) 2 2 0  8  0  +8
 9                    Sydberg (2) 2 2 0  4  1  +3
10              Advance Alara (1) 2 2 0  8  5  +3
11        Couziers-Olympiques (2) 2 2 0  3  1  +2
12            Ambergate City (3a) 2 2 0  3  1  +2

Casaran Cup, Day 3

Miradela GD (1) 4–3 Ambergate City (3a)

Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 0–1

Couziers-Olympiques (2)

Gehrenna FC (2) 1–2

Advance Alara (1)

Straudum VV (1) 1–0

Sydberg (2)

Schemerdrecht SVV (1) 0–1

Maethoru SC (1)

Cirelbourne United (2) 1–0

Bruncester United AFC (1)

Aminey CS (1) 1–2 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert (3b)

Arboren FC (1) 1–0 Mawrystwyth (3a)
Tepkusoren Opkohme (3b) 2–4 Fukushira Guerilla (3b)
Chikuno Hakuba (3a) 3–1

Maynard AFC (2)

Sterrenwolde FC (2) 0–1

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (2)

WSR AFC (1) 1–0 Tuinderbeek FC (3b)

Tanques AOE (1) 3–3

Burnet Athletic (2) (5–3 AET)

Teragaseki (2) 4–0 Katashi Azula (3a)

Amandine AdF (2) 0–0 Club Valeloma (3a) (0–1 AET)

Castelo e Calvente CS (2) 3–1 Cresthill FC (3b)
Laringen AFC (3b) 2–3

Branvon CD (1)
Brighthaven Town (3a) 1–1 Launott (3b) (1–1 AET) (3–4 pen.)
Oai Unifie (3b) 0–0 Biney CF (3b) (0–1 AET)
Odahayashi Revolution (3a) 4–3 Grainshire United (3a)
Myaranowra (3b) 1–0 Aerellen Honoa SC (3b)
Belmore FC (3a) 1–1

SC Sokrona (2) (2–1 AET)
Linderivier AFC (3b) 2–6 Soothill (3a)
Strongfair (3a) 0–2 Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a)

* Top 6 after Day 3
                                  G W L PF PA  PD
 1         Cirelbourne United (2) 3 3 0  4  0  +4
 2                Miradela GD (1) 3 3 0 14  6  +8
 3                Straudum VV (1) 3 3 0  5  1  +4
 4              Advance Alara (1) 3 3 0 10  6  +4
 5        Couziers-Olympiques (2) 3 3 0  4  1  +3
 6                Maethoru SC (1) 3 3 0  9  0  +9

Casaran Cup, Day 4

Cirelbourne United (2) 0–2

Maethoru SC (1)

Miradela GD (1) 3–1

Couziers-Olympiques (2)

Straudum VV (1) 1–0

Advance Alara (1)

Bruncester United AFC (1) 3–0 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert (3b)

Schemerdrecht SVV (1) 1–2 Fukushira Guerilla (3b)

Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 3–4

Branvon CD (1)

Gehrenna FC (2) 0–0

Castelo e Calvente CS (2) (1–0 AET)

Sydberg (2) 0–2

Tanques AOE (1)
Chikuno Hakuba (3a) 1–0 Launott (3b)
Ambergate City (3a) 3–5 Club Valeloma (3a)

Teragaseki (2) 2–3

Arboren FC (1)

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (2) 0–0

WSR AFC (1) (0–0 AET) (6–5 pen.)

Aminey CS (1) 2–0 Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a)
Tepkusoren Opkohme (3b) 0–1 Myaranowra (3b)

Sterrenwolde FC (2) 1–0 Soothill (3a)
Brighthaven Town (3a) 2–0 Biney CF (3b)

Burnet Athletic (2) 0–1 Odahayashi Revolution (3a)
Mawrystwyth (3a) 2–0 Laringen AFC (3b)
Tuinderbeek FC (3b) 1–0 Katashi Azula (3a)

Maynard AFC (2) 1–3 Cresthill FC (3b)

Amandine AdF (2) 4–2 Belmore FC (3a)
Linderivier AFC (3b) 2–0 Aerellen Honoa SC (3b)
Strongfair (3a) 2–4

SC Sokrona (2)
Grainshire United (3a) 2–2 Oai Unifie (3b) (3–2 AET)

* Top 6 after Day 4
                                  G W L PF PA  PD
 1                Straudum VV (1) 4 4 0  6  1  +5
 2                Miradela GD (1) 4 4 0 17  7 +10
 3                Maethoru SC (1) 4 4 0 11  0 +11
 4              Advance Alara (1) 4 3 1 10  7  +3
 5      Bruncester United AFC (1) 4 3 1  6  1  +5
 6         Cirelbourne United (2) 4 3 1  4  2  +2

Casaran Cup, Day 5

Straudum VV (1) 3–2

Miradela GD (1)

Maethoru SC (1) 0–0

Advance Alara (1) (2–1 AET)

Bruncester United AFC (1) 4–3 Fukushira Guerilla (3b)

Cirelbourne United (2) 0–2

Tanques AOE (1)

Gehrenna FC (2) 0–1 Club Valeloma (3a)
Chikuno Hakuba (3a) 1–1

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (2) (1–1 AET) (4–5 pen.)

Arboren FC (1) 5–0

Couziers-Olympiques (2)

Branvon CD (1) 2–3

Schemerdrecht SVV (1)

Sydberg (2) 2–0 Cresthill FC (3b)

Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 2–5

Amandine AdF (2)

Castelo e Calvente CS (2) 5–2 Tuinderbeek FC (3b)
Brighthaven Town (3a) 1–2 Odahayashi Revolution (3a)

Aminey CS (1) 5–2

Teragaseki (2)

WSR AFC (1) 1–0 Launott (3b)
Foot Soibourgoise en Vert (3b) 2–1

Sterrenwolde FC (2)
Ambergate City (3a) 2–4 Mawrystwyth (3a)
Myaranowra (3b) 2–2 Tepkusoren Opkohme (3b) (2–2 AET) (2–4 pen.)

Maynard AFC (2) 3–0 Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a)

Burnet Athletic (2) 0–0 Linderivier AFC (3b) (1–0 AET)
Katashi Azula (3a) 3–2 Biney CF (3b)
Belmore FC (3a) 1–2 Grainshire United (3a)
Soothill (3a) 0–1 Laringen AFC (3b)

SC Sokrona (2) 2–0 Aerellen Honoa SC (3b)
Strongfair (3a) 1–3 Oai Unifie (3b)

* Top 6 after Day 5
                                  G W L PF PA  PD
 1                Straudum VV (1) 5 5 0  9  3  +6
 2                Maethoru SC (1) 5 5 0 12  0 +12
 3      Bruncester United AFC (1) 5 4 1 10  4  +6
 4                 Arboren FC (1) 5 4 1 12  5  +7
 5                Tanques AOE (1) 5 4 1 11  5  +6
 6                Miradela GD (1) 5 4 1 19 10  +9

Casaran Cup, Day 6

Straudum VV (1) 1–2

Maethoru SC (1)

Bruncester United AFC (1) 3–0 Club Valeloma (3a)

Arboren FC (1) 0–1

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (2)

Tanques AOE (1) 0–1

Miradela GD (1)

Schemerdrecht SVV (1) 3–1

Amandine AdF (2)

Advance Alara (1) 4–5

Branvon CD (1)

Sydberg (2) 0–1

WSR AFC (1)

Cirelbourne United (2) 1–0

Castelo e Calvente CS (2)
Chikuno Hakuba (3a) 1–1 Mawrystwyth (3a) (2–1 AET)

Gehrenna FC (2) 1–0 Odahayashi Revolution (3a)
Foot Soibourgoise en Vert (3b) 2–2

Aminey CS (1) (3–4 AET)
Fukushira Guerilla (3b) 3–4

Couziers-Olympiques (2)

Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 2–0

SC Sokrona (2)
Tepkusoren Opkohme (3b) 1–0 Myaranowra (3b)
Brighthaven Town (3a) 4–0 Launott (3b)
Ambergate City (3a) 0–1 Laringen AFC (3b)

Sterrenwolde FC (2) 1–0 Cresthill FC (3b)

Teragaseki (2) 1–0 Grainshire United (3a)
Katashi Azula (3a) 1–2

Burnet Athletic (2)
Tuinderbeek FC (3b) 2–2

Maynard AFC (2) (2–3 AET)
Belmore FC (3a) 3–2 Oai Unifie (3b)
Soothill (3a) 2–2 Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a) (3–3 AET) (1–3 pen.)
Biney CF (3b) 0–2 Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a)
Aerellen Honoa SC (3b) 0–1 Strongfair (3a)

* Table after Day 6
                                  G W L PF PA  PD SoS SoV Pts
 1                Maethoru SC (1) 6 6 0 14  1 +13  57 171  18
 2                Straudum VV (1) 6 5 1 10  5  +5  69 153  15
 3      Bruncester United AFC (1) 6 5 1 13  4  +9  63 153  15
 4    Huthwich Et Iduloren FC (2) 6 5 1 10  4  +6  60 144  15
 5                Miradela GD (1) 6 5 1 20 10 +10  60 135  15
 6          Schemerdrecht SVV (1) 6 4 2 11  7  +4  72 135  12
 7            Chikuno Hakuba (3a) 6 4 2  9  7  +2  69 117  12
 8         Cirelbourne United (2) 6 4 2  5  4  +1  69 117  12
 9                 Arboren FC (1) 6 4 2 12  6  +6  63 117  12
10                Gehrenna FC (2) 6 4 2  7  3  +4  60 117  12
11                Tanques AOE (1) 6 4 2 11  6  +5  63 108  12
12        Couziers-Olympiques (2) 6 4 2  9 12  -3  63 108  12
13                  Aminey CS (1) 6 4 2 18  8 +10  57 108  12
14                 Branvon CD (1) 6 4 2 15 15  +0  54  90  12
15             Club Valeloma (3a) 6 4 2 10 11  -1  54  90  12
16                    WSR AFC (1) 6 4 2  8  4  +4  54  81  12
17              Advance Alara (1) 6 3 3 14 13  +1  75  90   9
18 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert (3b) 6 3 3  8 15  -7  66  81   9
19        Fukushira Guerilla (3b) 6 3 3 16 15  +1  63  81   9
20                    Sydberg (2) 6 3 3  6  5  +1  63  72   9
21               Mawrystwyth (3a) 6 3 3  9  7  +2  60  72   9
22            Katashi-Kanatsu (1) 6 3 3 16 12  +4  57  72   9
23     Odahayashi Revolution (3a) 6 3 3 11 11  +0  54  72   9
24                Maynard AFC (2) 6 3 3  9  9  +0  48  63   9
25        Tepkusoren Opkohme (3b) 6 3 3  9 10  -1  48  63   9
26            Sterrenwolde FC (2) 6 3 3  7  8  -1  51  54   9
27          Brighthaven Town (3a) 6 3 3 12  9  +3  48  54   9
28      Castelo e Calvente CS (2) 6 3 3 11  8  +3  54  45   9
29               Amandine AdF (2) 6 3 3 13 11  +2  54  45   9
30                 Teragaseki (2) 6 3 3 12 10  +2  45  45   9
31            Burnet Athletic (2) 6 3 3  8 10  -2  48  36   9
32              Laringen AFC (3b) 6 3 3  6  7  -1  45  36   9
33     Limecroft Et Abyss FC (3a) 7 3 4 10 12  -2  45  27   9
34            Tuinderbeek FC (3b) 6 2 4 10 17  -7  54  45   6
35            Ambergate City (3a) 6 2 4 11 15  -4  57  36   6
36                   Launott (3b) 6 2 4  4 10  -6  57  36   6
37              Cresthill FC (3b) 6 2 4  8 13  -5  51  27   6
38             Katashi Azula (3a) 6 2 4  5 12  -7  51  27   6
39         Grainshire United (3a) 6 2 4  9 13  -4  48  27   6
40                Belmore FC (3a) 6 2 4  9 14  -5  48  27   6
41                Myaranowra (3b) 6 2 4  4  7  -3  45  27   6
42                 SC Sokrona (2) 6 2 4  8  9  -1  33   9   6
43                  Soothill (3a) 6 1 5  9 10  -1  51   9   3
44                  Biney CF (3b) 6 1 5  4 13  -9  51   9   3
45                Oai Unifie (3b) 6 1 5  8 11  -3  33   9   3
46           Linderivier AFC (3b) 5 1 4  6 15  -9  39   0   3
47                Strongfair (3a) 6 1 5  5 12  -7  36   0   3
48         Aerellen Honoa SC (3b) 6 0 6  2 11  -9  33   0   0

- Strength of Victory (3 * points earned by teams beaten + points earned of teams drawn)
- Strength of Schedule (points earned by all opponents)

*Notes for next season:
- The Cup will allow draws going forward.
- Limiting the Cup to just divisions 1 and 2 - and perhaps just the best few clubs of division 3 - will be considered.

by **Ko-oren** » Thu May 26, 2022 3:43 am

Gridiron - Season 50

Previews

Regular season, part I

Regular season, part II

Regular season, part III

Postseason

by **Ko-oren** » Fri May 27, 2022 3:07 am

Southern Rules

The six regions of Mawryshire play their division, and the six regions of West Strand Riding do the same. After that, a one-off final is played between the division champions.

KMARL                 Pld    W   D   L    PF   PA   PD   Pts 
1 yDremdwn               20   13   0   7  1947 1781 +166    52
2 Penstead               20   12   0   8  1994 1822 +172    48
3 Llandy                 20   11   0   9  2225 1833 +392    44
4 Mawrystwyth            20   10   0  10  1966 1862 +104    40
5 yNelseg                20    8   0  12  1830 2195 −365    32
6 yMhinem                20    6   0  14  1768 2237 −469    24

  KWSRARL               Pld    W   D   L    PF   PA   PD   Pts 
1 Myaranowra             20   14   0   6  2220 1491 +729    56
2 Tarrashall             20   10   0  10  1978 1723 +255    40
3 Aralla                 20   10   0  10  1829 1870  −41    40
4 Nyashawill             20    9   0  11  1944 2080 −136    36
5 Eaglebury              20    9   0  11  1804 2189 −385    36
6 Jillong                20    8   0  12  1707 2129 −422    32

Against all odds - that is, the larger population of Mawrystwyth, Llandy, and Penstead, it's yDremdwn with the division win! Superior defence this year from the southwesterners to dupe the city teams. In WSR, it's Myaranowra, surprisingly, over traditional heavyweights Tarrashall and Aralla, not to mention Eaglebury whose fans really won't be happy with how the season went. For Myaranowra, it's overwhelming scoring ability (and a fantastic way of keeping things closed at the back) to give them the easy win.

Myaranowra (WSR) 18.19.127 def. yDremdwn (Mawr) 12.2.74

The final concludes with a win for far-northern Myaranowra, who aren't exactly too accurate in front of goal but at least they've made the trip to the yDremdwn goalposts a few times. The runners-up lined up shots only when they knew they'd land it for six, but they were wrapped up by the WSR defenders far too often.

Field Hockey

There are two competitions: one for clubs (based in Intermare), and one for twelve teams based all over Ko-oren, so no talent can fall through the cracks in a sport that has to use all the talent it can get its hands on. The club competition is a little stronger, to be fair. At least for now.

Club                            Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Herengein-Schemerdrecht          22   12   6   4    32   27   +5    42
 2 Laringen                         22   11   4   7    38   32   +6    37
 3 Wintertoorn-Schemerdrecht        22   10   6   6    32   29   +3    36
 4 April                            22   10   5   7    40   26  +14    35
 5 Sterrenwolde-Stad                22    9   7   6    36   26  +10    34
 6 Vleugelberg                      22    9   5   8    42   38   +4    32
 7 Hazel-Amber                      22    8   7   7    40   35   +5    31
 8 Angelwoud                        22    9   4   9    36   31   +5    31
 9 Donderen-Schemerdrecht           22    8   6   8    56   54   +2    30
10 Rozenvoorde                      22    5   6  11    27   39  −12    21
11 Tuinderbeek                      22    5   5  12    33   42   −9    20
12 Helburg                          22    4   3  15    35   68  −33    15

   Rep                             Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Schemerdrecht                    22   12   6   4    55   24  +31    42
 2 Sudaefjoll                       22   12   5   5    35   19  +16    41
 3 't Rozenvoordse                  22   10   6   6    43   28  +15    36
 4 Turnaarde en April               22   10   5   7    40   35   +5    35
 5 Laringerstrand                   22    9   7   6    31   28   +3    34
 6 De Frontier                      22    9   6   7    24   18   +6    33
 7 Sterrenwolde                     22    9   5   8    39   29  +10    32
 8 Keijzerdal                       22    7   6   9    26   33   −7    27
 9 West Ko-oren                     22    5   8   9    44   49   −5    23
10 De Hoofdsteden                   22    6   4  12    29   37   −8    22
11 Centraal Ko-oren                 22    5   5  12    21   51  −30    20
12 Oost Ko-oren                     22    5   3  14    27   63  −36    18

Schemerdrecht clubs are having a great time, with Herengein, the oldest and proudest of the bunch, adding a title to its trophy cabinet. Laringen falls just short, but it's still a good season. The resurgence of April is something of note: they hadn't looked too stable recently, but here they are again.

In the representative bracket, it's the traditional heartland of Schemerdrecht who win the title, one point ahead of Sudaefjoll. The Intermarean regions (which is the entire top eight, minus arguably Sudaefjoll and De Frontier, who lie just east of there) are still a lot stronger than the West, the Capitals, Central, and East, but talent is only just starting to develop there - this should be more equal as time goes on.

Basketball

At several meets organised all over the country, teams show up to play every other team once. Teams can be at a meet for a week, say, to play seven games (or more!) in seven days, versus all different opponents (and sometimes sneak in an exhibition game to try out something new versus a team they've already played). Once every matchup has happened at least once, we have our final table.

The first meet of the year always happens in Santa Teresa. Meets that are on the calendar every year are those in Santa Teresa, Senoren, Ferrovente, Aminey, Étouille, Gehrenna. The rest of the calendar is more or less first come, first serve, which means that every year, some towns get to organise a meet despite larger cities, who have teams in this division, not being able to apply.

KBL                                       Pld    W   L    PF   PA   PD 
 1 Miradela Silvers                           47   40   7  3887 3365 +522
 2 Mayara Blues                               47   39   8  3887 3275 +612
 3 Ferrovente Tazers                          47   38   9  3857 3310 +547
 4 Ouleux Sapphires                           47   35  12  3805 3376 +429
 5 Serramonte Castles                         47   34  13  3707 3325 +382
 6 Maethoru Banshees                          47   32  15  3720 3405 +315
 7 Lunay Argonauts                            47   31  16  3708 3349 +359
 8 Fronteiro de Surre Spartans                47   30  17  3619 3361 +258
 9 Aviansola Forest                           47   30  17  3569 3343 +226
10 Montelo Snipers                            47   30  17  3699 3435 +264
11 Etouille Energie                           47   29  18  3624 3521 +103
12 Senoren Diamonds                           47   29  18  3600 3350 +250
13 Greencaster Citizens                       47   28  19  3733 3559 +174
14 Willowbourne Circle                        47   28  19  3759 3495 +264
15 Sterrenwolde Stedelingen                   47   28  19  3570 3590  −20
16 Gehrenna Lions                             47   27  20  3669 3440 +229
17 Furune Elephants                           47   27  20  3748 3523 +225
18 Couziers Centurions                        47   27  20  3574 3392 +182
19 Norille Five                               47   26  21  3550 3600  −50
20 Etouille Amandine                          47   25  22  3548 3419 +129
21 Arakura Tower                              47   25  22  3557 3660 −103
22 Greencaster Central                        47   23  24  3620 3552  +68
23 Llandy Locals                              47   23  24  3561 3610  −49
24 Maynard Municipal                          47   23  24  3482 3558  −76
25 Willowbourne Centrals                      47   22  25  3513 3588  −75
26 Anarcourt Railways                         47   22  25  3454 3629 −175
27 Cirelbourne Spring Bloom                   47   22  25  3595 3683  −88
28 Teragaseki Tigers                          47   22  25  3479 3694 −215
29 Bruncester Stags                           47   22  25  3602 3655  −53
30 Sterrenwolde Eagles                        47   21  26  3509 3706 −197
31 Straudum Power                             47   21  26  3491 3594 −103
32 Cirelbourne Autumn Leaves                  47   20  27  3533 3688 −155
33 Aonishi Castle                             47   20  27  3486 3828 −342
34 Alara Heat Wave                            47   20  27  3577 3655  −78
35 Schemerdrecht South                        47   19  28  3495 3667 −172
36 Katashi Asahi                              47   18  29  3548 3584  −36
37 Rozenvoorde Sharks                         47   18  29  3436 3616 −180
38 Aubury Dynamos                             47   17  30  3475 3703 −228
39 Bruncester Sable Antelope                  47   16  31  3506 3789 −283
40 Ansonville City Athletic                   47   16  31  3475 3656 −181
41 Eaglebury Athletic                         47   16  31  3386 3679 −293
42 Vurusen Floramancers                       47   16  31  3548 3814 −266
43 Katashi Higure                             47   15  32  3538 3684 −146
44 Idyllwild Circle                           47   13  34  3443 3736 −293
45 Laringen Circle                            47   12  35  3431 3847 −416
46 Mawrystwyth Municipal                      47   12  35  3383 3813 −430
47 Schemerdrecht Scout                        47   12  35  3418 3799 −381
48 Launott Winter                             47    9  38  3283 3737 −454

The power of the older teams is still there. The Silvers, with the Blues, Tazers, Sapphires, Castles, Banshees, and Argonauts not far behind, win the championship. The first 'new' team in the table are the Spartans, borrowing an older name, but a new team nonetheless. Aviansola is the first team on the list that isn't from basketball's original area.

by **Ko-oren** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 7:33 am

Season 39 - Previews

Format
The Top League plays a double round robin (22 games), then splits into a top 6 and bottom 6. These groups play another double round robin (10 games) for 32 total - and the final table takes all 32 matchweeks into account. The top six get to divide all the IFCF tickets. The bottom six have the VCI ticket... and the sole relegator.

The season starts after summer, in Jaranethan (early Sep). After a short break in Zedhasim (mid Dec), two thirds of the season are played between Kigdinir (late Dec) and Tobtoren (mid Jun). Various international competitions take place just before the new season starts, while the Cup and IFCF take place throughout the year.

Maethoru SC
Stadium: Rikalathen Arena (44000) in Maethoru, KCT
Titles: 5 (Hist. Titles: 9)
Rivals:

Aminey CS,

Gehrenna FC
Nickname: Capital Club, All Greens, The Champions
Background: The club to beat ever since its inception right into the modern era. Record champions. The only club (so far) to go deep into UICA/IFCF tournaments. Name a record, and it's likely Maethoru's. The success is built on an amazingly competent front office, buying and selling the exact right players for the job - even if they're not big names. The club's never been far away from meritocratic politics, as a club located in the heart of government.
This is the club for: Gloryhunters, bandwagoners, fans of efficiency.
Last season: It was always on the table, but it finally happened: Maethoru were dethroned as champions. Aminey beat them on goal difference, for Maethoru to finish second and go to the IFCF CL anyway. That also meant that the lack of title didn't lead to major shakeups among the capital club's ranks - the core stood, it stands, and will continue to deliver, is the idea. Roshuserinden enjoyed a breakthrough in his second season in the Top League as a creative, playful midfielder, alongside established veteran Janoreirinthen.
The plan for this season: The title is all that counts. Making the CL in second place will do, but a club of their stature (and expectations) must always strive for the title. It seems they're not completely on board with the Roshuserinden plan, as they've already replaced him with even younger, even bigger talent Entatingun. Make of that what you will, but the lack of trust in their players (explained by the club as 'we don't let our players take things for granted here') shows.
Prediction: 1

Starters
1 GK Wellington Doolan (35, KOR)
2 RF Edialor Aiamara (28, KOR)
3 CB Hunusu Siltinthen (21, KOR)
4 LF Emi (f) van Kalvenhaar (25, KOR)
5 DM Maks Shishkin (27, MYT)
6 RM Mata Vaugrenard (33, KOR)
7 CM Purelbusak Entatingun (19, KOR)
8 LM Saushilu Janoreirinthen (33, KOR)
9 AM Louise Bliase (31, CMT)
10 SS Nunstaurilin Joljaurinden (24, KOR)
11 ST Huije Eleveld (29, KOR)

Substitutes
12 CB Josef Bijstroom (34, KOR)
13 SS Bernard Smitherman (26, KOR)
14 CB Kialja Monurga (32, KOR)
15 CM Morbaul Roshuserinden (24, KOR)
16 LB Larbushin Thanderingun (23, KOR)
C COACH Nalaikh Bagaurunir (55, KOR)

Aminey CS
Stadium: Stade sur la Baie (70000) in Aminey, Aminey
Titles: 1 (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Maethoru SC,

Couziers-Olympiques
Nickname: FC Entertainment, Sky Blues
Background: While they're not the oldest francophone club (that's Tanques), Aminey was founded as the club of the City of Entertainment, the largest city of its region. The club has always had high-profile fans, lots of money... and lots of expectations. Even third stringers are picked apart by local media - and those stories then turn national fast. Big name transfers are a necessity. Who keeps interrupting important celebrity gossip with these dumb weekly matches?
This is the club for: Those who like big names, glamour, and (good) players that are more like movie stars at times.
Last season: Champions, finally! Breaking the monopoly of Maethoru was on the club's list for ages and they finally did it. The relative stability with the ever-turbulent Aminey side did them very well. They have great players, and giving them a stable environment for a few years while continuing to develop other positions made it happen. Bittencourt is ready to start an era where he is the best GK in the Top League. Abbagan, the MVP, will hopefully do the same as a dynamic, dangerous winger. Archer established himself as a true striker.
The plan for this season: They retained nearly all big names from the championship year, so the goal is simple: make it back to back. The squad is young enough that one year of stability/stagnation shouldn't hurt them, and with Bittencourt, Munarring, Batchelor, Checkered Flag, Abbagan, Aeganora, and Archer, they have a fantastic squad to make it happen. Keeping Archer and Aeganora as a young, ruthlessly efficient duo up front, will help the club focus on more defensive structures at the back.
Prediction: 2

Starters
1 GK Edou Bittencourt (26, KOR)
2 RF Ric Boulanger (27, KOR)
3 LB Tamrie Munarring (31, KOR)
4 RB Nial yLorbhwl (21, KOR)
5 LF Boloraun Rurindhaunden (27, KOR)
6 DM Evander Bush-Sprenger (35, QUE)
7 RM Harold Batchelor (31, KOR)
8 CM Checkered Flag (32, EQS)
9 LM Parala Abbagan (27, KOR)
10 ST Aimogina Aeganora (24, KOR)
11 LS Rex Archer (23, KOR)

Substitutes
12 RS Fabian Thundhart (28, MRT)
13 RF Andre de Breye (27, OAM)
14 LS Daniel Mirzadeh (27, EFL)
15 RS Adée Lavigne (24, KOR)
16 GK Norauspu Thurzerthinden (24, KOR)
17 LB Ivier Lambert (24, KOR)
18 GK Gwang-Heui Kang (23, QUE)
C COACH Emeline (f) Millet (49, KOR)

Straudum VV
Stadium: Hazel Arena (25400) in Straudum, Sudaefjoll
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Schemerdrecht SVV,

SC Sokrona,

Sterrenwolde FC
Nickname: Gatekeepers
Background: Straudum, despite the humble size of its stadium and fanbase, is one of the eight historical clubs of the country, and yet is the most overlooked team out there. Straudum is the moneyball club, playing incredibly defensive football, finding ignored talents all over Ko-oren, and plugging them into their squad on the cheap. As it's also up in the north, beyond Schemerdrecht (their biggest rivals), it's dark and cold and miserable. "Could he do it on a rainy Kuhrathu in Straudum" applies.
This is the club for: Fans of defensive football. If you agree with the Dragonflies' outlook on how the game should be played, Straudum's your club.
Last season: Some expected the miracles in the northeast to run out. Others expected them to challenge for a title. Either way, the club finished third, which is incredibly impressive with their budget, and perfecting their defence and scoring just enough for the three points most weeks. Neihof might not be the best individual goalie, but he works with the team.
The plan for this season: They hope to continue their magical streak of IFCF CC qualifications for one more year. Given the wages of the current squad and uncharacteristically few youngsters, a shakeup might be happening next offseason. For now, it's full speed ahead to get these lovable misfits to another year of relative greatness.
Prediction: 3

Starters
1 GK Gudo Neihof (31, KOR)
2 RF Aesimila Aelisire (32, KOR)
3 RB Adam Archer (23, KOR)
4 CB Arnold Tomlinson (32, TKT)
5 LB Marc Hoevink (25, KOR)
6 LF Peter Hellegeland (33, KOR)
7 RM Syl Brousseau (26, KOR)
8 CM Timothy Parsons (25, KOR)
9 LM Tijl Scherpenkate (27, KOR)
10 RS Hannibal Sawyer (22, KOR)
11 LS Dennis Moore (27, KOR)

Substitutes
12 LB Sja Pluimers (23, KOR)
13 LB Amelia Tuff (33, DOG)
14 CB Aenassa Aenemare (25, KOR)
15 CM Arvid Goedmondsen (25, KOR)
16 LF Baste Pellenkoft (28, KOR)
C COACH Esolent Eregrenthen (55, KOR)

Katashi-Kanatsu
Stadium: Suzumebachi Stadium (32700) in Katashi, Katashi
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Advance Alara, Katashi Azula, Yonenomura, Odahayashi Revolution
Nickname: Rebels
Background: They were one of two clubs that predated the Yoshiman championship, and therefore entered into the national, Ko-orenite league. There they established themselves as a somewhat attacking, but always well-led squad with a Yoshiman-only policy right up until modern times. While their trophy cabinet is a bit empty, they've always been up there with plenty of UICA/IFCF berths. They represent the east and its slightly combative stance towards the Gehrennan, meritocratic, government.
This is the club for: Rebels: both tactically (heavily geared towards attack) and politically. That said, Katashi is part of the 'establishment' as one of the original eight clubs as well.
Last season: Finishing seventh, they qualified for the Vilitan Cove Invitational. Missing the top six (and with that, not even getting the chance to qualify for the IFCF) is unacceptable even with their squad defeloping further. There are whispers that Siakam's contract would be prematurely ended towards the end of the season, but the Banijan is retained.
The plan for this season: Siakam has to show what he can do with this squad. Missing the top six again is not an option. At his disposal, he has a strange group of attack-minded players, from the ultra young Kaji and Uozomi, to phlegmatic goalie Stewart, proven commodities Nakazono and Martis, and one of the best strikers year in, year out: Miyahara.
Prediction: 4

Starters
1 GK Thomas Stewart (30, AUD)
2 RF Kaneyoshi Kaji (16, KOR)
3 RB Rozalin Meynard (28, EQS)
4 LB Dani Ardouin (32, KOR)
5 LF Frank Polack (25, KOR)
6 DM Orinosuke Uozumi (19, KOR)
7 RM Moha Nakazono (33, KOR)
8 CM Calisto Martis (31, KOR)
9 LM Leon Morris (26, KOR)
10 SS Kenji Miyahara (33, KOR)
11 ST Narihira Taniuchi (24, KOR)

Substitutes
12 DM Jutaka Kumagai (23, KOR)
13 CM Josiah Ewell (25, KOR)
14 ST Kenji Uesaka (23, KOR)
15 RB Kuniyuki Watabe (24, KOR)
16 ST Tyler Veldhoen (29, TLI)
17 RF Haranobu Yoshimi (24, KOR)
C COACH Kiggwe Siakam (61, BNJ)

Schemerdrecht SVV
Stadium: Orange Bowl (54000) in Schemerdrecht, Intermare
Titles: 2 (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Straudum VV,

Sterrenwolde FC, Donderen
Nickname: Northerners
Background: The north's most famous club has put the city and the region on the map. Somewhat defensive, Schemerdrecht has a history of suppling the national team with good defenders, holding midfielders, and captains. Their rivalry is with nearby clubs instead of with the regular Aminey or Maethoru. The club is often up there in the championship debate and easily keeps pace with the other contenders.
This is the club for: Supporters of sensible football. If you want a club with no surprises, hijinks, or problematic personalities, Schemerdrecht is it.
Last season: Schemerdrecht mysteriously ended up in 11th, and was in relegation danger for a good part of the season. Nobody's really quite sure where that came from, but Kollenstaart was not booted from the club - there's the northern 'sensibility' for you, it's what the club does. Missing another year of IFCF income will probably make the front office reconsider. Nearly the entire squad missed time at some point, Ulysse aged dramatically, and the big names failed to deliver.
The plan for this season: Get back into the top 6, no matter the cost. Kollenstaart can't afford another down year. Goossen, Hergulauthen, Ulysse, and Hilberdink can't afford a down year. With the addition of Gillinghurst and the entire strike force, as well as Lamshuis, there's some fresh blood (but maybe a little too fresh).
Prediction: 5

Starters
1 GK Barre Goossen (33, KOR)
2 RF Oridhin Hergulauthen (33, KOR)
3 RB Apple Crumble (27, EQS)
4 LB Obadiah Gillinghurst (17, KOR)
5 LF Gust Kwant (29, KOR)
6 DM Thisdin Mergakhinen (26, KOR)
7 RM Samuel Ulysse (36, KOR)
8 CM Jurre Hilberdink (32, KOR)
9 LM Elco Lamshuis (23, KOR)
10 SS Wijbrand Deckere (16, KOR)
11 ST Wolf Sadelaer (21, KOR)

Substitutes
12 CM Ian Egmar (34, KSK)
13 RB Marn Draaijer (26, KOR)
14 SS Jel Grondhuis (24, KOR)
15 ST Kijoshi Vashila (26, KOR)
16 LB Lawrence Sterling (27, KOR)
17 LF Titus Chittenden (23, KOR)
18 RF Hywel Ewell (26, KOR)
C COACH Lenne Kollenstaart (48, KOR)

Miradela GD
Stadium: Estádio Fortaleza (29000) in Santa Teresa, Finisterre
Titles: 2 (Hist. Titles: 1)
Rivals:

Branvon CD,

Castelo e Calvente CS
Nickname: Admirals
Background: Santa Teresa was the first soccer capital of Ko-oren - regardless of whether trophies just flowed to Maethoru anyway. Miradela is the upper class club of the city, representing the business owners and most of the middle class as well. They long looked up to Branvon's trophy cabinet (until winning a few titles when Maethoru wasn't looking) but have always looked down on Branvon's fans and followers. Money's rarely a problem for them, though they value a manager with a plan over just buying every player they want.
This is the club for: Fans of results, the upper class, nobility, looking down on peasants.
Last season: The southeasterners came back into the top six after a prolonged absence. The crafty staff quietly built an international squad that can hang with the best, buying players nearing (or at) their peak, and getting the results they needed. Costello was a brilliant hire.
The plan for this season: Costello has a few things on the to-do list. One: stay up in the top six - he has the squad to do it. Two: start thinking about the future of the squad. Only two starter are under 26 and the bench isn't much younger. There's some money to make things happen though, but the question is whether the general management is that patient.
Prediction: 6

Starters
1 GK Ronald Munks (34, KOR)
2 RB Larry Janson (24, KOR)
3 CB Tommy Anderson (29, SNL)
4 LB Leon Bares (27, KOR)
5 DM Imanol Etxaurren (31, AUD)
6 RM Nathaniel Auvergne (28, SVG)
7 CM Froitoso Valdovinos (27, KOR)
8 LM Lysander Forward (33, KOR)
9 SS Hurorinul Bonstirthinden (23, KOR)
10 RS Tim Blair (36, CBP)
11 LS Clement Spanner (27, KOR)

Substitutes
12 ST Paskal Toussaint (29, CMT)
13 DM Cornelious Magrath (31, KOR)
14 LS Domingos Noya (36, KOR)
15 RB Magnus George (27, MUR)
16 RM Jasuvide Gima (21, KOR)
17 GK Xeronimo Morquecho (25, KOR)
18 RM Moises Acuna (23, KOR)
C COACH Martin Costello (55, TMB)

Tanques AOE
Stadium: Stade Amandine (30000) in Étouille, Cote Austral
Titles: 1 (Hist. Titles: 1)
Rivals:

Amandine AdF
Nickname: Beautiful Blue
Background: As one of the historical eight clubs, this club has one ancient championship trophy, as well as one modern one. It's a shame they fell down, right after winning their modern title, even. This club upholds the pride of all of southern Côte Austral, and it's hard to imagine light blue as belonging to any club other than Tanques. The Francophones have always focused on a possession-based playing style, fluid in defence and attack, with many creative playmakers in their ranks over the years.
This is the club for: Lovers of beautiful football, fans with a longing for the past, francophones, or if you like to spend your time in a town that's nice and warm year round.
Last season: They're back, baby! Tanques promoted back up with a squad that was still somewhat intact from their heyday, and immediately launched back into the top six and getting back to the IFCF. There was zero pressure (outside of not relegating) so when results started going their way early into the season, the easy living in southern Cote Austral got that much easier. Askari and Lyford turned out to be fantastic additions, Weaver is a world class striker (getting the top scoring trophy, even).
The plan for this season: A somewhat young squad under young coach Boisselot, it's hard to see this team take a step back. Sure, there might have been some beginner's luck, so this is the year that they have to shine. With most of the squad under 25, it's hard not to be optimistic. And yet, Miradela, Katashi, Schemerdrecht, and the three title contenders are just a little further in their journey.
Prediction: 7

Starters
1 GK Carl Malmstroom (24, KOR)
2 RF Hubert Breguet (20, KOR)
3 CB Seffewr ySaellhon (33, KOR)
4 LF Farruco Ogas (24, KOR)
5 DM Cole Train (30, KOR)
6 RM Liga Askari (27, CMT)
7 CM Évra Bernier (24, KOR)
8 LM Khidinu Daraluthen (23, KOR)
9 AM Aaron Lyford (24, KOR)
10 SS Aristotle Weaver (35, MBT)
11 ST Gui Deslys (23, KOR)

Substitutes
12 RF Len Hinken (23, KOR)
13 DM Risijun Jerguthinthen (24, KOR)
14 AM Basti Bousquet (27, KOR)
15 CM Tabitha Helzinger (31, NPH)
16 LM Guy Dadson (24, KOR)
C COACH Cicy Boisselot (44, KOR)

Advance Alara
Stadium: Spider Stadium (27100) in Alara, Alara
Titles: (Hist. Titles: 1)
Rivals:

Katashi-Kanatsu,

Teragaseki, Echizen
Nickname: Team Chaos
Background: As one of two clubs that never played in the Yoshiman championship but went into the Ko-orenite league, Alara has always been the underdog, the outsider. They've had to fight for recognition, for their place in the league, but have persevered all this time. Alara is the stereotypical all-out attack club, with many famous strikers and assisters representing its colours.
This is the club for: Fans of underdogs, fans of different approaches, and long club histories full of likeable and less likeable people. They're cup fighters, too.
Last season: As playing attractive football is more important than results, Alara outscored every club en route to an 8th place. That's pretty much it - they shared goals among the four or five most attacking members of the team, so only Borthwell showed up in the statistics are the 2nd best assister of the season.
The plan for this season: Do more of what they're famous for. Create, attack, score. Their unorthodox scouting department has landed them a few more odd names, like Magnussen, Wakaizumi, Enokida, Masuda, and with the front two already in place, they made small steps. Results though... they might go their way, maybe.
Prediction: 8

Starters
1 GK Howard Cheyne (26, KOR)
2 LF Lyla Holmes (34, SYL)
3 LB Ya Chu (28, QCY)
4 RB Isac Magnussen (22, KOR)
5 LF Ryuza Wakaizumi (22, KOR)
6 RM Naohiro Enokida (23, KOR)
7 CM Ratko Ivančir (26, ZRH)
8 LM Sadahige Masuda (18, KOR)
9 AM Emmit Borthwell (24, KOR)
10 SS Murai Okawa (27, KOR)
11 ST Antoine Duchemin (34, KOR)

Substitutes
12 GK Emmet Pinkerton (27, KOR)
13 GK Teiko Shoshi (16, KOR)
14 LM Gennady Burtsov (33, PYA)
15 RM Corey Richardson (28, ZWZ)
16 ST Utaemon Imaeda (23, KOR)
17 RB Hirakazu Matsumae (23, KOR)
C COACH Nanami (f) Aoki (55, KOR)

WSR AFC
Stadium: Uriagali Field (13000) in Eaglebury, West Strand Riding
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals: Pride of Eaglebury
Nickname: Westerners
Background: Rising from the fourth division to the Top League, just as the latter opened up to promotion/relegation, WSR's story is one of a lot of luck and some planning coming together. WSR is from the west coast of Ko-oren, which is remote and empty. The fans are just happy to be here, knowing things can't always be good.
This is the club for: If your perfect holiday destination is a faraway, rainy, narrow strip of somewhat liveable land, and you like taking life day by day as it comes, WSR's for you.
Last season: WSR was one of the first clubs to promote to the Top League when the KFA instated that opportunity. Since then, they battled to remain relevant, but with their sixth place they've shown real staying power for the long term. Football's always had it rough in the southwest: not because of a lack of popularity, but every club at some point collapsed. WSR is working very hard to avoid that fate, and with Windill, they had a bona fide team of the year member among their ranks.
The plan for this season: The largely home grown squad under not so homegrown Wakefield will be busy repeating their top six stunt. With yLleamaid they have a Mawr player, expanding their market there. Ebina and Thompkins are serviceable in midfield. Jubeck and Mareraunthen will have to find chemistry for the club as a whole to succeed.
Prediction: 9

Starters
1 GK Sylvester Connor (25, KOR)
2 RF Dundor Windill (31, KOR)
3 CB Niniaw yLleamaid (19, KOR)
4 LF Jebung Bumbra (31, KOR)
5 DM Martin Sheils (26, KOR)
6 RM Tolajilo Ebina (27, KOR)
7 LM Bou Overink (32, KOR)
8 AM Stanley Thompkins (26, KOR)
9 SS Miles Brent (30, CMT)
10 RS Walabiddy Jubeck (22, KOR)
11 LS Jausdorak Mareraunthen (24, KOR)

Substitutes
12 GK Jonah Hickson (32, SYL)
13 CB Winfred Walla (23, KOR)
14 LF Jorre Truin (29, KOR)
15 LM Walter Blomgroen (24, KOR)
16 LS Ebenezer Langsdale (26, KOR)
C COACH Violet (f) Wakefield (56, KOR)

Branvon CD
Stadium: Estádio Marítimo (28000) in Santa Teresa, Finisterre
Titles: (Hist. Titles: 7)
Rivals:

Miradela GD,

Castelo e Calvente CS
Nickname: Bastards, Stowaways
Background: Santa Teresa was the first soccer capital of Ko-oren - regardless of whether trophies just flowed to Maethoru anyway. Branvon is the working class club of Santa Teresa, representing the harbour and the coast guard, without any of the military pretenses. The biggest rival is Miradela, from the same city, and fans will take two wins over them rather than a title.
This is the club for: Anyone who likes a club of the people. Hard working, honest football.
Last season: Last season was another one in a long list of mediocre seasons for the club. Their fans are upholding their reputation, but the club isn't matching their energy with results. Smaller budgets, and losing the turf battle with Miradela, they might join Bruncester and Cirelbourne in the second tier if they don't watch out - and remember, those two clubs also were 'too big to relegate'.
The plan for this season: They need some of their players to work together, fast. There's enough energy and stamina, and the players fight for every yard as their fans demand, but that's not how results come to you in the Ko-orenite Top League. It's not for a lack of trying, too: they have replaced some of the worse elements of their starting lineup with Aelea, De Lange, and Carreiro. Soumare at GK was fine, but the club couldn't keep that contract intact.
Prediction: 10

Starters
1 GK Antón Miramontes (21, KOR)
2 RF Aoremis Aelea (21, KOR)
3 RB Gilles Gachet (27, KOR)
4 LB Arinori Agano (26, KOR)
5 LF Bardaun Mislahaunden (27, KOR)
6 DM Sichaech yLonnhas (25, KOR)
7 RM Patrick McMora (31, SNL)
8 LM Niiko Taraala (36, MRN)
9 AM Jip De Lange (27, TLI)
10 RS Llounguís Ulloa (24, KOR)
11 LS Domingos Carreiro (20, KOR)

Substitutes
12 LF Paulo Cales (27, KOR)
13 RF Isabela Basquez (30, KOR)
14 LS Llwmhaef yDismeom (24, KOR)
15 AM Prince Carter (27, TJU)
16 AM Plaxio Montelongo (23, KOR)
17 DM Lois Reza (32, KOR)
18 AM Guillem Serra (33, AUD)
C COACH Anthony Sutherland (51, KOR)

Arboren FC
Stadium: Aeresa (12500) in Arboren, Azuren
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals: None
Nickname: The Blizzard
Background: Up in the freezing north, when you say football, they immediately think gridiron rather than soccer. And yet, Arboren has made quite a name for itself in that area. Outside of it, it's still often met with blank stares. Even in that area, it's sometimes met with blank stares.
This is the club for: If the cold never bothered you anyway, where the snow glows white and the wind is howling, and the storm rages on.
Last season: They maintained a healthy 9th spot, led by the newest member of the region's seemingly endless pipeline of talent. Aomelirea was one of the best strikers - and given more chances, he'd probably show up on the top scorer list.
The plan for this season: Stay up. That's all there is to it. In time, they could get a WSR-like status, but for now, they're still working on a starting XI that isn't picked clean by top clubs every year - even Aomelirea was sold. That said, the squad that's still there is loyal to each other and their coach, and they still have the northeastern home advantage. Lo Oise is a talent at least as good as Aomelirea, and Aoriene is a great motor in midfield.
Prediction: 11

Starters
1 GK Reg Siemeling (25, KOR)
2 RF Nic Krijt (22, KOR)
3 RB Aorippe Aerelia (33, KOR)
4 LB Odde Aandal (35, KOR)
5 LF Karl Brakke (32, KOR)
6 RM Atlas Johanssen (31, XAN)
7 LM Miruak Dishatinden (30, KOR)
8 AM Authusa Aoriene (26, KOR)
9 SS Timothy Sapping (22, KOR)
10 RS Aetia Aenisse (26, KOR)
11 LS Lo Oise (18, KOR)

Substitutes
12 RS Wictor Balveur (27, TSA)
13 RF Joakim Lagerkwist (26, KOR)
14 AM Niffchom ySaddas (26, KOR)
15 CB Aorganna Aorienora (22, KOR)
16 DM Rem Rodijk (28, KOR)
C COACH Aoren Aivulaen (41, KOR)

Gehrenna FC
Stadium: Kautherlugin Field (17500) in Gehrenna, KCT
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Maethoru SC
Nickname: The Other Capital Club
Background: A club of the government, second fiddle behind perennial champions Maethoru, the Gehrennans have found the perfect balance between official business and authentic localness. The bureaucrats don't care too much for football, so anyone left who did care about the club were treated like royalty, and they still are. This club cares about its fans, no matter the flak they get from the bureaucrats in their city, or from the fans of every other club who immediately associate the city of Gehrenna with 'posh'. Because this club isn't posh, even if it plays in quite a posh city.
This is the club for: Anyone who likes the Ko-orenite (social) meritocracy, and wishes to support a team that's at the heart of it. ('mate, you can't support a system of government')
Last season: They escaped the second division among three contenders - and rightfully so. Now Maethoru have a rival in the area, too. Their promotion season saw them do a lot with very little in terms of scoring goals. They redid a decent part of the starters, including securing the services of Theshendan (really!) for a year, revamping the defence with a group of talents to make Straudum jealous, while most of the midfield is intact. Carrington is a new addition. Hegan should deliver most of the pace and creativity, and Abyssite is a potential MVP.
The plan for this season: Enjoy their games versus Maethoru - they're finally at the same level as the rivals and deservedly so. For the rest, it's simple: stay in the Top League, and if they can stay here for another year, they've got a much more mature squad to build from there. That first year is brutal, though.
Prediction: 12

Starters
1 GK Larut Theshendan (37, KOR)
2 RF Dhanparau Sasporterinthen (24, KOR)
3 RB Ninausthend Zesusdhaundhen (24, KOR)
4 LB Nicholaus Abyssite (20, KOR)
5 LF Bwmrell yFewllis (23, KOR)
6 DM Thundholdhauskun Lintodheringun (23, KOR)
7 RM Howell Hegan (26, KOR)
8 CM Ganodhalkun Zeltuthaunden (25, KOR)
9 LM Kausuispiru Zalmaulthindhen (29, KOR)
10 SS Vernon Carrington (22, KOR)
11 ST Lispaulinu Pisjanauden (27, KOR)

Substitutes
12 RB Lin Xiding (23, YZH)
13 LM Benzarun Zoteringun (22, KOR)
14 DM Soramin Nebetinden (28, KOR)
15 SS Teodoro Ares (27, KOR)
16 GK Nusrausak Haulsatinden (25, KOR)
17 SS Nelmiturkun Sitaserinden (24, KOR)

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Champions League

Third Qualifying Round

(MRN)                             Bruul Skewers    1–3    Maethoru SC                               (KOR)   1–3   0–0

Playoff Round

(QUE)                                Mipojoseon    4–0    Maethoru SC                               (KOR)   3–0   1–0

Group Stage

Group D
#  Team                                                 P  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD  Pts    MAE    ANY    SDN    AGA
1  Mâ Âlâmëómë                                    FFD   6  3  2  1  13   7   6  11 *    -     2-3    2-0    4-1  
2  Aminey CS                                      KOR   6  3  2  1  10   7   3  11 *   0-2     -     1-1    2-1  
3  Soldarian FC                                   VAL   6  1  4  1   7   7   0   7     3-3    0-0     -     3-1  
4  Algolia AC                                     SRS   6  0  2  4   4  13  -9   2     0-0    1-4    0-0     -   
* Tie broken by head to head goal difference (Mâ Âlâmëómë 1, Aminey CS -1)

Round of 16

(KOR)                                 Aminey CS    4–1    Atletik                                   (MYT)   1–1   3–0

Quarterfinals

(QUE)                                Mipojoseon    2–5    Aminey CS                                 (KOR)   2–2   0–3

Semifinals

(KOR)                                 Aminey CS    4–4 p  Latrobe Athletic                          (KSK)   3–3   1–1  (4–5 pen)

Challengers Cup

Second Qualifying Round

(KOR)                               Tanques AOE    2–1    Athletic C Konoha                         (HEB)   1–1   1–0

Third Qualifying Round

(MYT)                                 1923 Esca    4–2    Tanques AOE                               (KOR)   2–1   2–1 
(KOR)                               Miradela GD    2–4    Fligsive FC                               (EOT)   2–3   0–1

Playoff Round

(ZWZ)                              Twineur Bugs    0–2    Maethoru SC                               (KOR)   0–0   0–2

Group Stage

Group H                                                 P  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD  Pts    STN    MAE    DMX    CRC
1  Stanton Town                                   KRY   6  4  1  1  13   7   6  13      -     1-4    3-0    4-1  
2  Maethoru SC                                    KOR   6  3  1  2  11   7   4  10     1-1     -     0-1    1-2  
3  Dí Maozöxê                                     FFD   6  2  1  3   8  10  -2   7     1-3    1-2     -     3-0  
4  Corona Christiana                              OME   6  1  1  4   6  14  -8   4     0-1    1-3    2-2     -   

Group K                                                 P  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD  Pts    CAP    STR    NEW    BLU
1  CA Paulinthal                                  PAS   6  3  1  2  11   9   2  10      -     0-2    0-1    1-0  
2  Straudum VV                                    KOR   6  2  2  2  12  11   1   8 *   2-4     -     0-1    1-1  
3  New Bremen FC                                  CBP   6  2  2  2  10  13  -3   8 *   3-3    3-5     -     0-3  
4  Brenville Blue                                 COR   6  1  3  2   9   9   0   6     1-3    2-2    2-2     -   
Tie broken by head to head goal difference

Round of 32

(KOR)                               Straudum VV    2–3    Metropolis Alligators                     (VLD)   2–1   0–2    
(KOR)                               Maethoru SC    3–2    Damogran FC                               (SRS)   2–1   1–1

Round of 16

(KOR)                               Maethoru SC    3–2    Aleiusia Capital                          (ZRH)   2–2   1–0

Quarterfinals

(ZWZ)                            Trebuchet Cham    3–6    Maethoru SC                               (KOR)   1–4   2–2

Semifinals

(AUD)                            KT Itzalovalle    5–1    Maethoru SC                               (KOR)   3–0   2–1

CAFA LigAnaia

Group Stage

Team                                           P  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD  Pts    AMN    STT    DNT    KRS
1  Aminey CS                                KOR   6  5  1  0  12   2  10  16      -     1-0    3-0    3-0  
2  Stanton Town                             KRY   6  3  1  2  12   6   6  10     1-2     -     1-1    2-0  
3  Dauntless                                EVM   6  1  2  3   4  11  -7   5     0-0    0-4     -     1-2  
4  FK Krasnograd                            PYA   6  1  0  5   6  15  -9   3     1-3    2-4    1-2     -   

#  Team                                           P  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD  Pts    MAE    WRT    NAC    CRP
1  Maethoru SC                              KOR   6  4  2  0  15   7   8  14      -     2-1    2-2    4-1  
2  Wirr Tsi                                 CMT   6  4  0  2  15   7   8  12     1-4     -     4-1    4-0  
3  Nazionale Acqui Bollente                 SVG   6  1  3  2   8  12  -4   6     2-2    0-2     -     2-1  
4  Cerro Pintado                            YGZ   6  0  1  5   3  15 -12   1     0-1    0-3    1-1     -

Round of 16

(KOR)                         Maethoru SC    5–1    FK Armaskoye                        (PYA)   1–0   4–1 
(KOR)                           Aminey CS    2–5    Bavingtor FC                        (FVA)   1–3   1–2

Quarterfinals

(KOR)                     Maethoru SC    1–1 p  Pantera Azul                    (CBR)  (1–1 FT · 3–4 pen)

Elimination Round One

(KOR)                     Maethoru SC    2–3 e  Garden City FC                  (FVA)  (1–1 FT)

Rising Stars Cup

(KOR)                Greencaster Marine Academy    7–0    Guzmán-Cress Academy                      (VLD)   4–0   3–0

Group Stage

Group D                                                 P  W  D  L  GF  GA  GD  Pts    AAC    ACS    SFC    MAl
1  Algolia AC                                     SRS   6  4  2  0  11   4   7  14      -     3-1    1-0    2-0  
2  Aminey CS                                      KOR   6  2  2  2   8   9  -1   8     1-1     -     3-1    0-2  
3  Soldarian FC                                   VAL   6  1  2  3   9  13  -4   5 *   0-2    2-2     -     4-3  
4  Mâ Âlâmëómë                                    FFD   6  1  2  3   9  11  -2   5 *   2-2    0-1    2-2     -   
Tie broken by head to head results

Playoff Round

(VAL)        Raynor City United    2–1    Greencaster               (KOR) 
(KOR)                 Aminey CS    1–2    University College        (EXT)

by **Ko-oren** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 7:34 am

Season 39 - Previews

Format
Divisions 2 and lower have their teams play each other three times, for 33 matchdays.

The season starts after summer, in Jaranethan (early Sep). After a short break in Zedhasim (mid Dec), two thirds of the season are played between Kigdinir (late Dec) and Tobtoren (mid Jun). Various international competitions take place just before the new season starts, while the Cup and IFCF take place throughout the year.

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC
Stadium: The Ovation Station (9000) in Huthwich, Gehrenna
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals: Cresthill FC, Vierciennes Victory, Sobdorlugin Komtherod
Nickname: Rainbow Club, Willowbourne's Second Choice
Background: A decently old club from a town in Surbourneshire that isn't Greencaster - yes, they exist - as one of the many towns along Ko-oren's southern bight. A railway town (but what town isn't). The club itself found that it attracted the most press when they announced they'd be playing in every colour of the rainbow (giving rise to the phrase 'fan of Huthwich' akin to the phrase 'friend of Dorothy'). For a long time, they were the club Greencastrians supported in absence of a decent alternative - and you'll still find some H&I merch there. Despite it all, the club plays in one of Ko-oren's smallest stadiums (seating 5000, presently) with one of the best names (the 'Ovation Station').
This is the club for: Fans who want colourful jerseys, colourful personalities, and colourful ideas.
Last season: It's always a mess in the second tier, but Huthwich have long been just above that, but they're still waiting for their promotion. They were solid all around, but just couldn't turn late 0-0's into 1-0 wins, though they did well to avoid losses.
The plan for this season: Another year, another attempt to go up to the promised land of the Top League. To get them there, they have a squad that's arguably better than Arboren or Gehrenna, and definitely better than WSR when they came into the league. Laskibar luckily fell to them in the transfer market. Humphries, Monshouwer, and yPofrewdd are also invaluable.
Prediction: 1

Starters
1 GK Rilbiposun Guldherindhen (27, KOR)
2 RF Ted Oldfield (22, KOR)
3 CB Anzai Mulatagi (28, KOR)
4 LF Falpew yPofrewdd (23, KOR)
5 DM Araete Amawai (29, KOR)
6 RM Mederi Laskibar (31, ASG)
7 LM Horace Humphries (21, KOR)
8 AM Calvagh Sherbeck (25, CCG)
9 SS Mondestrend Rupusthaunden (28, KOR)
10 RS Nard Monshouwer (24, KOR)
11 LS Youri van Riesen (32, KOR)

Sterrenwolde FC
Stadium: Noorderkroonpark (14500) in Sterrenwolde, Intermare
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Schemerdrecht SVV, Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie, Tuinderbeek FC,

Straudum VV
Nickname: Harbourmasters, Nationals
Background: An ancient club, well, when they were known as the Sterrenwolde Sportvereniging, which housed anything from (field) hockey to gridiron to football. Since then, each club that sprouted from it keeps on using the green and blue as its colours, with zero regard for how those colours became national colours a bit further down the line. They will do anything to beat nearby Schemerdrecht, as they totally do not have an inferiority complex related to anything coming from that city, and they keep insisting that Sterrenwolde's harbour is bigger/better than Schemerdrecht's, and how Sterrenwolde's surrounding landscape is nicer, and eventually you wonder why a city would bring up another city quite so often. The city has a long history in Ko-oren's unification, all jokes aside.
This is the club for: History buffs, and fans of slightly defensive football ('slightly' on the Ko-orenite scale, which makes it quite defensive alright).
Last season: What should have been a top three finish with a chance at promotion turned into a disappointing campaign that saw them finish 8th.
The plan for this season: A strong midfield should see them be more resilient: Melenberg's squad was extremely weak in the mental parts of the game. Oosterveen, Phiffers, and Bonschotten are potential Top League starters. Drakenberg and Brandwacht are solid. They have a young team (which didn't help them last year) so this year could be it.
Prediction: 2

Starters
1 GK Ulf Iverszoon (22, KOR)
2 RF Bai Lei (22, CMT)
3 RB Rune Drakenberg (23, KOR)
4 LB Melchor Ferreira (22, KOR)
5 LF Hamilton Anvil (31, KOR)
6 DM Sijm Oldenzel (26, KOR)
7 RM Rijn Phiffers (30, KOR)
8 CM Joch Oosterveen (22, KOR)
9 LM Joe Bonschotten (21, KOR)
10 RS Aogas Ailan (27, KOR)
11 LS Odde Brandwacht (24, KOR)

Bruncester United AFC
Stadium: Top Brass Arena (23800) in Bruncester, Surbourneshire
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Cirelbourne United, Opalshire FC
Nickname: Miners
Background: The club has all the makings of a historical, long time contributor to the Ko-orenite soccer scene. And while Bruncester is old, it's not historically old, but the club has made a name for itself nonetheless. Back when the southeast was thriving, the club was founded, and was an immediate success though they couldn't get over the hump. Their rivalry with Cirelbourne was the strongest in the country, before the southeast crumbled economically and both clubs lost their relevance a little bit. Nowadays, Bruncester is a defensive club, trying to get the best players from all over Surbourneshire, hoping to establish itself as the anglophone club.
This is the club for: Nostalgians. Fans of that old-timey feeling. Traveling to away games by train. No-nonsense play.
Last season: They relegated from the Top League to join their regional rivals in Cirelbourne again. While Noordburg was an upside, the on-field product showed what we largely already knew: this was inevitable.
The plan for this season: Fight back to get up while they still hold on to their best. Defensively, they should be fine. Kitchingham, Staff, and Durling are not going to be the problem. Neither is Potter, who has now relegated with both Maynard and Bruncester. Goodenough is hardly good enough, and Pazos, Gregory, Cradduck are three players that we thought were going to be awesome in a decade - they aren't. Far from it.
Prediction: 3

Starters
1 GK Thomas Goodenough (24, KOR)
2 RF Hadrian Pazos (27, KOR)
3 CB Anthony Staff (23, KOR)
4 CB Gjöl Noordburg (30, KOR)
5 LB Calvin Kitchingham (31, KOR)
6 LF Ewen Durling (24, KOR)
7 DM Warren Potter (30, KOR)
8 CM Jess Gregory (30, KOR)
9 AM Charlie Cradduck (25, KOR)
10 RS Margarita Tjessem (28, QUE)
11 LS Gidhasok Gaunaurinthen (31, KOR)

Grainshire United
Stadium: Ring of Tregaron (6700) in Tregaron, Domains
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals: Brighthaven Town, Oceanside South End, Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis
Nickname: Farmers
Background: The result of a merger of several clubs in the area - and then they forgot to perform for a while. The southwest has many large clubs, and Grainshire just happened to be one of them, until they got their stuff together. Universally hated by fans of other clubs.
This is the club for: No-nonsense football, lots of small-time sponsors, and cheap (not necessarily good) stadium bites.
Last season: Coming up from the third tier, as a long time second divisionist, they took what was rightfully theirs (Leeshire, Strongfair, Burnet, Belmore, Ambergate, Brighthaven be damned).
The plan for this season: Not just survive, but thrive. Their catchment area, especially with Maynard's demise, is massive. Radcliff, Quelch, and Kirkham joined them, while the defence is suspect.
Prediction: 4

Starters
1 GK Merka Bambara (25, KOR)
2 RF Zaccheus Griswold (23, KOR)
3 RB Alex Suchet (25, KOR)
4 LB Tadeu Sarabia (27, KOR)
5 LF Kenneth Bowditch (26, KOR)
6 DM Wheeler Gillis (34, KOR)
7 RM Byron Radcliff (24, KOR)
8 CM Donald Quelch (27, KOR)
9 LM Noah Kirkham (22, KOR)
10 SS Philander Cogsmith (22, KOR)
11 ST Matthew Maxwell (32, KOR)

Castelo e Calvente CS
Stadium: Edogense (16000) in Ferrovente, Finisterre
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Miradela GD,

Branvon CD, Club Valeloma
Nickname: None
Background: Spent decades as a feeder club to both Miradela and Branvon, many great players that would later be legends at those clubs first passed through C&C. Ferrovente is not a small city either, and some players never went through to the Santa Teresan greats, and stayed beyind to make C&C better instead. This culminated in their promotion to the Top League where they are now level with both teams that once looked down on them.
This is the club for: Fans of underdog stories, comeback stories, or revenge stories.
Last season: In ninth place, they were further away from the Top League (that they once played in) than ever. They didn't lose a lot, but they didn't win a lot either. They've been successfully consumed by second tier randomness.
The plan for this season: A few good players and several questionable decisions. Evans (from Tumbra) is an obvious captain with his quality. Moora has bounced around the league a bit and has landed here. Sims, Parada, and Aorei are good players from all over to help Finisterre's third club.
Prediction: 5

Starters
1 GK Frederico Navia (34, KOR)
2 RF Francesco Sims (33, SNL)
3 RB Rodolfo Parada (28, KOR)
4 LB Aisel Aorei (28, KOR)
5 LF Henrique Vina (22, KOR)
6 RM Xoán Mendez (22, KOR)
7 CM Josh Evans (26, TMB)
8 LM Worrowa Moora (26, KOR)
9 AM Xoaquin Souto (23, KOR)
10 RS Ignacio Curbelo (22, KOR)
11 LS Keith Torres (34, KOR)

Teragaseki
Stadium: Dokudo Stadium (12000) in

Teragaseki, Etena
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Advance Alara, Fukushira Guerilla
Nickname: Men in Orange
Background: They long spent their time as the third club of Yoshima, behind Alara and Katashi, as they kept winning the specially created Yoshiman second division (back when that existed), with no way to find a new challenge. Then promotion and relegation rolled around, the Yoshiman system was integrated into the national one, and the club immediately looked beyond their region's borders. This eastern sporting town is addicted to anything competitive: football, baseball, rugby league, athletics, swimming, cycling on the only (ring) road around the island, navigating around steep cliffs and mountains.
This is the club for: Fans of every sport, anything competitive, and the colour orange. Yes, that's a colour you're never going to see anywhere else in Ko-oren, except maybe an ill-advised hipster away jersey.
Last season: They lucked out and finished second - so close - yet so far. They didn't have the squad to go that far, but they got lucky.
The plan for this season: Not so lucky this year, probably. Suzuki and a handful of other locals are the upsides, Xiaodan is a great addition and it shows that even down here, you're still one of the best 20 clubs of a huge football country, capable of attracting transfers. Otherwise, they've given a lot of players a shot that fell out of other clubs. Not the star combos you'd hope, though.
Prediction: 6

Starters
1 GK Mamolu Valada (24, KOR)
2 RB Stef Wijnholdt (33, KOR)
3 CB Xiaodan Xiaodan (22, CMT)
4 LB Mamil Vigouroux (31, KOR)
5 DM Tsunemochi Suzuki (25, KOR)
6 RM Kazutoshi Vujimura (22, KOR)
7 CM Gonshiro Vada (23, KOR)
8 LM Susu Shiba (33, KOR)
9 AM Linus Throgmorton (30, KOR)
10 SS Alain Delafose (27, KOR)
11 ST Lanista Corsey (32, NPH)

Cirelbourne United
Stadium: Quicksilver Stadium (15500) in Cirelbourne, Surbourneshire
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Bruncester United AFC, Cirelbourne Townside
Nickname: Miners
Background: A team as old as time, from the gritty southeastern mining region. The mines have closed, businesses have left, but the people and their sports are still there. Cue a lot of heartbreak when Cirelbourne got relegated after decades in the Top League - these guys just can't catch a break. This club is bigger than anything else in town, with the rivalry with Bruncester in close second. Both rugby codes have simply given up on the area, for example.
This is the club for: If you want to see a team work for every single result, every single goal, every single metre on the field, Cirelbourne is your team. There are plenty of hometown heroes and loyal fans. Or you're a masochist.
Last season: Third place, and close to replacing their rivals from Bruncester. And it wasn't just luck - they had a decent team.
The plan for this season: The Top League is falling more and more out of view - they just couldn't keep the old contracts for that money. Aeloviane, Datchery, and Hunt have the biggest potential.
Prediction: 7

Starters
1 GK Aifer Aeloviane (30, KOR)
2 RF Ffewsne yChibwod (30, KOR)
3 RB Ernst Crogan (27, KOR)
4 LB Clé Gounelle (22, KOR)
5 LF Rufus Datchery (22, KOR)
6 DM Robert Keep (25, KOR)
7 RM Stanley Harston (24, KOR)
8 CM Vernon Hunt (22, KOR)
9 LM Evert Klensberg (31, NQU)
10 SS Cody Dixon (35, NWK)
11 ST Rowland Canning (23, KOR)

Sydberg
Stadium: Cloudfield Palace (12900) in Greencaster,

Sydberg, Thornwich, and Guildwood
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals: Langward, Cresthill FC, Marinwood Sunday
Nickname: Greencastrians
Background: A decently old team in northern Greencaster - that's Ko-oren's largest city and otherwise goes without representation in football - bringing together all walks of life. From briny fishermen to the hard workers of the harbour, the new money that came to the city as it became the country's financial centre, the stadium is packed with every single tax bracket that the Ministry of Finance can imagine. The only thing missing, so far, are results.
This is the club for: City folk, fast paced people that want to be at the centre of it all, who never have time and rarely have money.
Last season: A decent showing in fourth place for the biggest club from the biggest city. They did concede a lot of goals doing so, which is partially why they fell in this year's previews.
The plan for this season: They bolstered the defence, to an extent, with Mattson. Inchcombe and Lalaseringun are extremely attacking options at their positions, yet Suchet and Nakada aren't the dream duo you need for promotion at this point.
Prediction: 8

Starters
1 GK Maresuke Wakasugi (32, KOR)
2 RB Wilbur Read (26, KOR)
3 CB Aloysius Lewkenor (22, KOR)
4 LB Michael Mattson (28, KOR)
5 DM Amelia Inchcombe (32, KOR)
6 RM Nubolzasun Lalaseringun (33, KOR)
7 CM Phileas Oakley (30, KOR)
8 LM Chesley Meredeth (25, KOR)
9 SS Sydney Aldworth (23, KOR)
10 RS Benjamin Suchet (29, KOR)
11 LS Sosuke Nakada (22, KOR)

SC Sokrona
Stadium: Van Kwarteldoornstadion (7000) in Sokrona, Sudaefjoll
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals: MEZWO-VEDC Lamau,

Straudum VV
Nickname: Vikings
Background: Battle hardened in the cold of the northeast and further steeled by the relative individualism of the area, Sokrona have fought for their place in the pyramid. The club of the mountains, and a relative hell for away teams (and their fans). If there's such a thing as Vikings in Ko-oren, they'd live here.
This is the club for: The cold never bothered you anyway.
Last season: The northeastern side were in 7th, and already look right in place at this level. It's hard to imagine them anywhere else.
The plan for this season: They hastily had to look for 2nd tier-ready players, coming from the third. Aberg, Dwan, and Carbonneau came in as veterans of the Ko-orenite game, while Aeave, Dhasririn, and Portier are the youngsters with their careers ahead of them. And yes, the starting GK is 15.
Prediction: 9

Starters
1 GK Abufe Alelin (15, KOR)
2 RF Kevin Aberg (28, KOR)
3 RB Oswald Brightman (24, KOR)
4 CB Aoriasu Aeave (20, KOR)
5 LB Rafael Dwan (27, KOR)
6 LF Oranel Dhasririn (22, KOR)
7 RM Dada Carbonneau (36, KOR)
8 CM Allard Klokgieter (23, KOR)
9 AM Rice Portier (22, KOR)
10 SS Lorenzo Sarabia (26, KOR)
11 ST Niklas Holmland (23, KOR)

Couziers-Olympiques
Stadium: Stade Central (15800) in Linieux, Cote Austral
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Aminey CS, Linieux en Onyx, Bellmare Union
Nickname: Lighthouses, Fishermen
Background: Couziers is one of three clubs surrounding Willowbourne that have historically vied for that city's soccer fans - in addition to catering to their local fans in Linieux. Originally, the club had teams in multiple different sports - hence 'Olympiques' - and is still paired to the Linieux Harriers to an extent.
This is the club for: If you want a 'family' club, that's inextricably linked with its fans and players despite being in such a modern, well-connected city.
Last season: They had a decent season in sixth place, developing their very young squad and building something nice for the future.
The plan for this season: This is what vision can do! They tore down their squad without relegating, and replaced everything in this talent-rich state, sharing a region with Aminey and Tanques. Trintignant and Courvoisier are local kids, while Brunberg and Candy were taken to paint over huge issues with more experience. There might still be one or two difficult years, but this team should only grow further.
Prediction: 10

Starters
1 GK Theron Kildare (22, KOR)
2 RB Galneff yLlaeblech (23, KOR)
3 CB Quen Trintignant (23, KOR)
4 LB Ignatius Olaughlin (23, KOR)
5 DM Cyr Mallette (22, KOR)
6 RM Alain Trintignant (22, KOR)
7 CM Joshua Brunberg (26, KRY)
8 LM Mat Courvoisier (23, KOR)
9 AM Sid Plundell (23, KOR)
10 RS Roja Tammerveld (26, KOR)
11 LS Nicholas Candy (26, KOR)

Myaranowra
Stadium: Inyarra (8700) in

Myaranowra, West Strand Riding
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals: Nyashawill
Nickname: None
Background: A friendly organisation in northern West Strand Riding, the tourist town always was little more than a warm inn on the way between west and northeast. It's hard to dislike the team, but they're easily forgotten as well.
This is the club for: Small stadiums are your thing, with an easy-going vibe where results aren't the main thing.
Last season: They promoted from the 3rd division North, ahead of Laringen, Launott, Fukushira, and Cresthill - other names you might have heard of. It was a close fight with Laringen and they needed an insane amount of points and goal difference. Their squad should be up to snuff fast enough.
The plan for this season: That said, they weren't immediately ready for the second tier. Some wheeling and dealing might actually have left them worse off, but at least they have no clear weaknesses. Another very young team (because that's often how you enter the second tier) where Sigur stands out.
Prediction: 11

Starters
1 GK Fern Bertillon (22, KOR)
2 RF Yangarra Burrula (28, KOR)
3 RB Ainila Aethene (25, KOR)
4 LB Loyd Sheils (23, KOR)
5 LF Harris Scott (22, KOR)
6 DM Rog Buitenbeld (22, KOR)
7 CM Diddumo Murdie (22, KOR)
8 AM Lachlan Holdaway (25, KOR)
9 SS Mina Matsuda (22, KOR)
10 RS Médard Sigur (18, KOR)
11 LS Yarrabyth Dulbarra (22, KOR)

Amandine AdF
Stadium: Stade Bizmetal (13000) in Granon, Cote Austral
Titles: (Hist. Titles: )
Rivals:

Tanques AOE, Granon Altair CF
Nickname: Frogs, Sinkers
Background: The rural, natural side of the south Cote Australienne urban area is Amandine's. There's still a lot of people in the club's area, though, but they love to play up the underdog part. The fans are loyal and have found peace in lower divisions.
This is the club for: You like a good underdog story, you like good weather in an area with gorgeous national parks, but you also like the murky, swampy side of that.
Last season: In 10th, they just about avoided relegation.
The plan for this season: Stay up. Stay up. Stay up. And that will be difficult, they already didn't start off well last season, and they're not too much improved. Docherty and yTawdnhawch are obvious players of higher quality. Adam easily clears the bar too. But an old squad on the verge of relegation is not going to be attractive to most.
Prediction: 12

Starters
1 GK Théo Duchamp (30, KOR)
2 RF Aiseise Aolumei (24, KOR)
3 RB Alexander Docherty (25, TLI)
4 LB Nata Deschanel (30, KOR)
5 LF Huug Zwikker (34, KOR)
6 DM Folke Engstroom (25, KOR)
7 RM Gilbertine Adam (22, CMT)
8 LM Teobhwch yTawdnhawch (29, KOR)
9 AM Tris Vallée (23, KOR)
10 SS Blaine Robins (24, KOR)
11 ST Cilistro Salomon (31, KOR)

by **Ko-oren** » Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:50 am

Season 39 - Part I

Round 1: The season kicks off with an unlikely scoreline, with

Advance Alara (as always) scoring three and (as always) that's not a guarantee to win at all. The first goal of the season is scored just a minute after kickoff, with Bonstirthinden finishing off a long pass from the

Miradela GD defence. Deep into the second half, the southeasterners take a decisive 4-1 lead, and Okawa's 5-3 deep into injury time can't change their fate.

Schemerdrecht SVV start off their redemption arc poorly with a 1-0 loss at equally pained

Maethoru SC (as they weren't champions last season, a shame and a sin for them).

Straudum VV versus

Aminey CS is the game between the projected 2nd and 3rd placed teams, two championship contenders, and Lavinia Northwood has zero control of this one: two reds, one for each team, are given for fighting, with an extra red following deep into injury time for the visitors, after which Sawyer scores the penalty for the 1-0 win. The promotors,

Gehrenna FC, get a great start by winning 1-0 over the young, creative, fresh

WSR AFC lineup. Carrington scores, and Zeltuthaunden gets the MOTM.

Round 2:

WSR AFC have the best of the game in Alara, but despite dozens of chances they can't score more than two.

Advance Alara score five in two MDs and get a single point to show for it, and it's thanks to Cheyne that it's not zero. Cote Austral's major derby (

Aminey CS v

Tanques AOE) ends in 1-1 as Tanques fail to get the majority of possession as Aminey prevent them from prolonged spells on the ball. That said, Lyford gets a goal just before the break, but Archer gets the deserved equaliser.

Maethoru SC are too effective once again, with Eleveld scoring, but Bares playing the match of his career for Miradela in the loss.

Round 3:

Advance Alara get the 2-1 winner over

Maethoru SC after 89 minutes. With celebrations still dying down, Eleveld gets another instrumental goal (after his 1-0 over Miradela last week) by finding the equaliser in extra time. The Rikalathen Arena goes nuts, and

Advance Alara are getting off to the start from hell. The Derby of the North (

Straudum VV v

Schemerdrecht SVV) ends in a typical 1-0 win for the home side. This match shows a few things perfectly: 1)

Straudum VV are a few steps ahead in their development, 2)

Schemerdrecht SVV have decent upsides but are streaky and incomplete, and 3) Moore needs just a single chance to show his magic.

Round 4: Duchemin, the perennial top scoring contender, gets his first of the campaign as

Advance Alara finally win, in the lowest scoring match for them so far. Unfortunately they do so over the equally plagued

Arboren FC. Later in the week,

Tanques AOE are the unluckiest side ever by giving

Schemerdrecht SVV the winning goal for free, in injury time, via own goal(!!!). Farruco Ogas is the unlucky one, surprising GK Malmstroom with a header towards his own goal, trying to clear the ball ahead of Wijbrand Deckere trying to capitalise.

Straudum VV win and

Maethoru SC lose, and the northerners take an early lead in the standings.

Round 5: The wheels come off in the derby of the west,

Katashi-Kanatsu versus

Advance Alara. One goal (fewer than expected) and two reds (more than expected, obviously) as Adam Dalstroom takes an involuntary key role in the match. Any momentum is killed off by the ref and, what's worse, 'rewarded' with a card. A better match (depending on your definition of 'good football' is played in Straudum, with the capital club visiting the now-or-nevers. Eleveld scores another incredibly important one as three points go back to Maethoru. Both Forward and Batchelor, always seen as the perfect winger duo for the national team (yet rarely played together), get MOTM this week.

Round 6: With the season well underway, we're in the weeks where teams have made their first impressions and coaches will have to adjust or double down.

Aminey CS don't help their title chances with the draw at

Advance Alara, both goals falling minutes before half time.

Branvon CD get a huge win over

Arboren FC, two clubs in turmoil and slow starts. Taraala and Ulloa score basically back-to-back to turn a deficit into a lead, and Aenisse's late goal doesn't change that. The MOTM? An Arborenian on Branvon's team.

Schemerdrecht SVV now pay back for their lucky own goal earlier, this time giving

WSR AFC a completely undeserved win via OG.

Round 7:

Advance Alara take their run of draws and extend that versus the big teams, keeping

Straudum VV to a draw. Otherwise, there's plenty of low scores courtesy of bad weather across most of the archipelago.

Round 8: Once again,

Advance Alara open the week (as they do), and once again, the biggest scoreline takes place in the first match of the weekend. Two Duchemin goals aren't enough, as Taraala and Ulloa are very much the duo Branvon hoped to have.

Aminey CS get three vital points as

Schemerdrecht SVV's hopes and dreams might have to wait another year. Sure, the northern club have made significant improvements, but they haven't been enough to win close games.

Gehrenna FC get a rare win, doing the most with 30% of the possession.

Round 9: The two clubs playing the most attractive football convene in Étouille for a 4-1 home win. Weaver scores two in a parade of pretty goals and fast passing.

Gehrenna FC have built some momentum but throw it away in a confusing moment that ends in an own goal. After watching the replay a few times, I'm still not sure what happened. Frigid conditions in the high north as

Arboren FC's GK wins MOTM but still loses, 1-0.

Aminey CS and

Miradela GD enjoy an offensive explosion in another parade of pretty goals, with Aeganora and Blair scoring twice each. Aeganora's second is a point-winning finish. Seven goals in the second half, too.

Round 10: Siltinthen scores his first of the season (and last season, for that matter) in a 1-0 win for

Maethoru SC. Most of the other scorers this week are the usual. Aenisse scores two in a 3-0 win for

Arboren FC, and it's high time things start to go right for them. At the same time, the winter is coming, so the northeasterners should be doing a little better anyway.

by **Ko-oren** » Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:51 am

Season 39 - Part I

Round 11: In winter, it's time to forage points wherever you can in a top six bid. The cutoff point is not long from now, of course.

WSR AFC is doing alright, but it might be too little, too late. Especially in a week where many of the smaller clubs win:

Advance Alara,

WSR AFC,

Arboren FC, and then there's

Maethoru SC taking advantage of their rivals floundering.

Round 12: There are the big wins! Alara scores five, with Duchemin threatening to score a hattrick, getting two out of three in the first 10 minutes - but then it's Okawa who scores the other three. We get our hattrick, but not the one we thought.

Katashi-Kanatsu also win big (4-0) as both eastern clubs go above and beyond.

Round 13:

Schemerdrecht SVV mount a late bid for the top six with their 3-0 takedown of Katashi. Sadelaer is establishing himself as a real long term option up front. Lamshuis supplies three assists.

Maethoru SC lose by giving up a lot late in the game, and despite raking in the possession figures, their opponents have learned to get results from less.

Round 14: It's 19 degrees in the southeast (Branvon) but 8 in Arboren - should the latter really relegate this year, the Top League loses one of its funniest 'equalisers', because it's cold but never that cold in Schemerdrecht or Straudum. That said, the northern derby was played, and

Schemerdrecht SVV are still struggling to justify a top six spot as they now lose to

Straudum VV who needed the points badly as well, keeping up with

Aminey CS (1-0 over

Gehrenna FC, with another Aeganora goal) and Maethoru.

Tanques AOE get help from their striker, Deslys, who had a ridiculously slow start but is starting to score goals from his many chances.

Round 15:

Advance Alara win 3-0 in freezing Arboren, Mareraunthen scores two on behalf of

WSR AFC in a win over Aminey, Sadelaer proves his value for Schemerdrecht, and Straudum and Maethoru can't win this round. The winter is proving treacherous for the big clubs - just how close can the top six be this year? It's not a case of the top two or three running away with it - Maethoru is struggling, Aminey isn't getting easy 1-0 wins, and Straudum are defensively solid but can't get results every single week.

And with that, part one of the season is over. Seven MDs remain until the top six/bottom six split, and so far

Schemerdrecht SVV and

Katashi-Kanatsu aren't pulling their weight enough.

WSR AFC is surprisingly in last - for all of the impressive David versus Goliath situations versus big clubs, they're outmatched.

Advance Alara, after a slow start, is putting a hell of a season together.

Straudum VV are in the lead, with

Maethoru SC close behind.

Aminey CS will need to pick up the pace a little.

Arboren FC are sixth - perhaps the biggest surprise of the season - as the winter adds to their advantage.

*  Top League                                  Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Straudum VV                                  15    8   4   3    15    7   +8    28
 2 Advance Alara                                15    7   4   4    27   19   +8    25
 3 Maethoru SC                                  15    7   4   4    14   12   +2    25
 4 Aminey CS                                    15    5   7   3    14   13   +1    22
 5 Miradela GD                                  15    6   4   5    19   20   −1    22
 6 Arboren FC                                   15    6   3   6    11   13   −2    21
 7 Tanques AOE                                  15    5   4   6    16   12   +4    19
 8 Schemerdrecht SVV                            15    5   3   7    11   11    0    18
 9 Gehrenna FC                                  15    4   5   6     8    9   −1    17
10 Katashi-Kanatsu                              15    4   5   6    13   18   −5    17
11 Branvon CD                                   15    5   2   8    13   23  −10    17
12 WSR AFC                                      15    4   3   8    10   14   −4    15

Sterrenwolde FC take a huge lead in the second division: it's up to the other contenders to catch up.

Grainshire United aren't exactly doing terrible.

Cirelbourne United, however, are in deep trouble - nobody expected them to promote but they're in last place now, quite a ways from their Top League mid-table heydays.

Teragaseki are much better than expected, too.

*  2nd Div                                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Sterrenwolde FC                              15   11   2   2    20    5  +15    35
 2 Grainshire United                            15    8   3   4    10    6   +4    27
 3 Teragaseki                                   15    7   4   4    23   15   +8    25
 4 Couziers-Olympiques                          15    7   3   5    17   16   +1    24
   Huthwich Et Iduloren FC                      15    7   3   5    13   12   +1    24
 6 Castelo e Calvente CS                        15    5   5   5    11   14   −3    20
 7 Bruncester United AFC                        15    5   4   6    10   11   −1    19
 8 Sydberg                                      15    5   4   6    15   16   −1    19
 9 Myaranowra                                   15    5   2   8    13   20   −7    17
10 SC Sokrona                                   15    4   3   8    12   17   −5    15
11 Amandine AdF                                 15    3   4   8     8   14   −6    13
12 Cirelbourne United                           15    2   5   8     6   12   −6    11

Maynard AFC - who would be a big club at the second level, let alone the third - have their lead. Now they need to keep it. Laringen AFC were tipped to maybe promote, but that's about 20 points off now. In the south, we have two clubs at the top and a lot following just behind, with only Burnet at a significant disadvantage.

*  3rd Div South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Odahayashi Revolution                        15    8   5   2    18   13   +5    29
 2 Cirelbourne Townside                         15    8   3   4    22   17   +5    27
 3 Belmore FC                                   15    7   3   5    14   14    0    24
 4 Shinsen Sunrise                              15    6   4   5    12   10   +2    22
 5 Blanrasco Borealis                           15    5   6   4    12   10   +2    21
 6 Soothill                                     15    5   4   6    11   12   −1    19
 7 Ambergate City                               15    4   6   5    22   22    0    18
 8 Club Valeloma                                15    4   6   5    12   14   −2    18
 9 Katashi Azula                                15    4   5   6    14   13   +1    17
10 Brighthaven Town                             15    3   8   4    12   14   −2    17
11 Oai Unifie                                   15    4   5   6    12   15   −3    17
12 Burnet Athletic                              15    4   1  10    19   26   −7    13

   3rd Div North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Maynard AFC                                  15    9   4   2    24   14  +10    31
 2 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert                    15    8   2   5    22   19   +3    26
 3 Linderivier AFC                              15    6   7   2    17   15   +2    25
 4 Senoren FC                                   15    7   3   5    17   13   +4    24
 5 Strongfair                                   15    6   5   4    12   11   +1    23
 6 Planneige                                    15    6   3   6    19   16   +3    21
 7 Fukushira Guerilla                           15    5   6   4    19   18   +1    21
 8 Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie               15    4   5   6    17   18   −1    17
 9 Aerellen Honoa SC                            15    4   4   7    13   17   −4    16
10 Biney CF                                     15    4   4   7    11   16   −5    16
11 Launott                                      15    4   3   8    15   20   −5    15
12 Laringen AFC                                 15    3   2  10    12   21   −9    11

Too early to call anything here, of course. There's a bit more joy to the third tier, as once-second tier clubs are starting to come in as promotion/relegation is working its magic. Attendances are up and these clubs are taking centre stage in their communities as once envisioned.

*  4th Div A                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Glimmerfall Triumph                          15    9   2   4    21   10  +11    29
 2 Ansonville Association                       15    8   3   4    23   10  +13    27
 3 Leeshire United                              15    8   2   5    15   13   +2    26
 4 Marinwood Sunday                             15    8   1   6    16   10   +6    25
 5 Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis                         15    7   3   5    15   16   −1    24
 6 Penstead Clwb Peldred                        15    6   5   4    14   10   +4    23
 ...

   4th Div B                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Vierciennes Victory                          15    8   3   4    24   14  +10    27
 2 Bellmare Union                               15    8   2   5    20   14   +6    26
 3 Cape Constillan                              15    6   5   4     9    7   +2    23
 4 Norille Orion                                15    5   7   3    12   11   +1    22
 5 Limecroft Et Abyss FC                        15    6   4   5    14   15   −1    22
 6 Ferncombe                                    15    6   4   5    12   15   −3    22
 ...

   4th Div C                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Aviansola Eden                               15   10   2   3    20   14   +6    32
 2 Enkumo Diamond                               15    9   4   2    28   16  +12    31
 3 Echizen                                      15    6   5   4    11    8   +3    23
 4 Motojagava Taranchula                        15    6   4   5    23   21   +2    22
 5 Yonenomura                                   15    5   6   4    16   14   +2    21
 6 Coloruna                                     15    6   3   6    13   15   −2    21
...

   4th Div D                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Vleugelberg                                  15    8   4   3    22   12  +10    28
 2 Grimhof VV                                   15    8   3   4    26   16  +10    27
 3 Honingsweg-Toreneik Combinatie               15    7   4   4    10    9   +1    25
 4 Serevne AFC                                  15    6   5   4    16   13   +3    23
 5 Rozenvoorde FC                               15    6   5   4    17   15   +2    23
 6 Donderen                                     15    6   3   6    15   14   +1    21
...

   4th Div E                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Liberazul Epitieres                          15    7   6   2    15   12   +3    27
 2 Amillon CdF                                  15    8   3   4    19   16   +3    27
 3 Roufortois-Arlerou                           15    7   5   3    23   16   +7    26
 4 Diessy CdF                                   15    7   2   6    22   15   +7    23
 5 Cresthill FC                                 15    6   4   5    13   10   +3    22
 6 Cygne de Dentillon                           15    6   4   5    16   14   +2    22
...

   4th Div F                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Gakhithrau Dhikodhra                         15    8   3   4    21   14   +7    27
 2 Nyashawill                                   15    7   3   5    18   16   +2    24
 3 Sathtonoru Kaptu                             15    7   2   6    13    8   +5    23
 4 Pride of Eaglebury                           15    6   5   4    19   14   +5    23
 5 Tepkusoren Opkohme                           15    6   4   5    12   10   +2    22
 6 Tuzmanjuth Jithaugom                         15    6   4   5    11   11    0    22
...

by **Ko-oren** » Sun Jun 12, 2022 2:22 am

Season 39 - Part II

Round 16:

Miradela GD and

Tanques AOE share the points with goals by prolific Top League players - of which one (Deslys) is starting to hit his stride while Bonstirthinden has his moments but is slightly disappointing on the whole. The biggest match of the week is between

Advance Alara and

Katashi-Kanatsu, which once again gets completely out of hand, with Lavinia Northwood again in charge of a derailing match (after round 1's Cote Austral derby between Tanques and Aminey). Three red cards in a match that alternated between minutes of fouls to minutes of goals -

Katashi-Kanatsu opening the score and doubling the lead after about half an hour, then nothing for a while, until the subs were in as Katashi scored two more. Borthwell's last minute goal doesn't change Alara's fate at all. In a clash between the league's projected top two,

Maethoru SC keep three points at home with Entatingun's late free kick.

Aminey CS have a lot of trouble with a resilient Arboren side, where Krijt and Brakke play the game of their life while Aandal was impeccable as usual.

Round 17:

Advance Alara continue their case for making the top six by defeating Aminey at their home, the largest stadium in Ko-oren, the Stade sur la Baie. Borthwell nearly completes the hattrick as Alara take a 3-0 lead at the 30 minute mark, but he records no further shots on goal in the remaining 60 minutes. Aeganora avoids humiliation for the blues. Meanwhile, world's most exciting 1-0 takes place in Eaglebury, as Vashila scores a penalty deep into first half injury time, and WSR's talents show their potential. yLleamaid keeps Sadelaer at bay, while Ebina, Thompkins, Brent, and Jubeck make matters very difficult for Schemerdrecht.

Tanques AOE have a hard time getting results this season, despite the wealth of talent there. But today, with three different goal scorers, they get it done: Lyford is unstoppable in the second half, while Askari and Daraluthen stretch the record champions on the wings.

Straudum VV loses, so Maethoru CS do excellent business with the two other contenders both losing.

Round 18: No wins by more than a single goal:

WSR AFC get necessary points in the relegation dogfight, Sadelaer adds another goal to his tally in a 2-1 over Arboren, while this week it's Straudum as the only top three club to win, 1-0 at Alara. Gehrenna get a rare win, and to do it over Maethoru is impressive. Otherwise it's a week of rare scorers, with no Aeganora, Deslys, Archer, Eleveld, or Duchemin on the scoresheet.

Round 19: With a few more games to go until the cutoff point, these are vital weeks. Maethoru CS look anything but sure to make the top six, after years of titles and IFCF CL spots.

Straudum VV and

Advance Alara only need to continue their current streak to make it in.

Aminey CS will need a few results as well. Mostly, however, of the big clubs it's

Katashi-Kanatsu who really need to win a few in a row to get up there.

Miradela GD,

Arboren FC,

Tanques AOE are all outsiders to make it in. And

Schemerdrecht SVV's results have been so impressive as of late, that their poor 8th place after 15 games is mostly erased and they're well on course for the top six as well. To see

Tanques AOE win over

Straudum VV this week, through another Deslys goal, and only having two other teams win (including a safe Alara) means we're getting some wild weeks ahead.

Round 20:

Katashi-Kanatsu have their main man up front, Miyahara, score two to leave

WSR AFC with nothing. The easterners are living up to the hype, with Martis' near perfect passing record on the day, Morris' great assist, and Uozumi's excellent defensive interceptions.

Maethoru SC all but punch their ticket with a 3-0 over hapless

Arboren FC.

Aminey CS win 5-1 over a

Miradela GD squad who seem gassed. Miradela were doing so well early on, but they started losing steam pretty much as the cutoff point came into view. Costello's team, despite some big names, don't seem up to the task right now. 5-1 is a massive win, though in a week with a 4-0 and a 3-0, it seems almost normal. The big teams are flexing on the smaller ones this week. Aeganora scores a hattrick in the 5-1, with one early goal, one late goal, and one just before full time.

Round 21:

Schemerdrecht SVV and

Advance Alara are just entertaining the crowd, though Schemerdrecht genuinely needs some points just from how close everything is up top. A few points separate the top team from the sixth, and there's hardly any difference between 6th and 7th at all. No team is looking like a front runner for the title, and we're definitely not able to call which teams could be missing out on IFCF spots this year - there's always a big team that fails to make it.

Aminey CS beat

Maethoru SC in what is the biggest game of the year for them: the home game versus the hated greens. Archer scores another one - he's looking like top scorer material.

Katashi-Kanatsu also beat up on Arboren as we've seen more clubs do in recent weeks. Uozumi scores a rare goal and then scores a second, while Veldhoen finally gets one. The derby of the southeast has

Branvon CD beat

Miradela GD, putting the latter in a panic. Results aren't going their way and they're now definitely losing grasp on a top six spot, something that the fans in the Marítimo celebrate loudly.

Gehrenna FC get three points in a fight to make the top six last minute.

Round 22: and there it is! The final matchday before we split our teams into two groups. But looking at the carnage of round 21, we already know who will make it. The gap between sixth and seventh briefly opened up to be just more than three points, so most of these games are just about putting yourself in a better position for the final 10 matchdays.

Gehrenna FC get the win at a top six team, but it's just too little, too late, but they are in a great position to avoid relegation.

Tanques AOE win over

WSR AFC, both teams shooting for a finish between 7th and 9th.

Straudum VV host

Arboren FC in a freezing affair in the Hazel Arena as they keep another clean sheet.

Aminey CS put their star power on display with goals by each of the big names: Batchelor, Archer, and Aeganora. The latter two are both in the running for top scorer on the season, so it's crazy to have them both on the same team and keeping up production.

Maethoru SC are clearly out of it with their 0-0 versus

Branvon CD, with all of the possession, highlighting a problem all year: Eleveld is good but his production is streaky, Joljaurinden can't find the net often enough, Bliase has the same problem, and the rest of the midfield can't set up the forwards for scoring situations. Has Bagaurunir's XI lost it? Lastly, with a win for

Schemerdrecht SVV, they take up a top two spot as the difference between 1st and 6th is just four points.

*  Top League                                  Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Straudum VV                                  22   11   4   7    23   14   +9    37
 2 Schemerdrecht SVV                            22   11   4   7    21   12   +9    37
 3 Aminey CS                                    22    9   9   4    25   17   +8    36
 4 Advance Alara                                22   10   4   8    35   30   +5    34
 5 Katashi-Kanatsu                              22    9   6   7    29   25   +4    33
 6 Maethoru SC                                  22    9   6   7    19   18   +1    33
 
 7 Gehrenna FC                                  22    8   6   8    12   14   −2    30
 8 Tanques AOE                                  22    8   5   9    24   17   +7    29
 9 Miradela GD                                  22    7   5  10    25   32   −7    26
10 Branvon CD                                   22    7   5  10    17   28  −11    26
11 WSR AFC                                      22    6   4  12    14   22   −8    22
12 Arboren FC                                   22    6   4  12    13   28  −15    22

And there we have it. All of the big boys make it, with

Tanques AOE and

Miradela GD trying to figure out what went wrong this time.

Advance Alara can congratulate itself on a daring campaign that pays off for them this time around - we've seen the exact same play not pay off for them in recent seasons - so well done to them. No championship favourites for now: it's far too close to call, and seeing

Maethoru SC in sixth doesn't say anything. Frequently they only start jelling together in the final 10.

Straudum VV will be looking to maintain their lead - which they often have at some point late in the season yet they could never put it together versus the deep squads (and pockets) of Aminey and Maethoru.

Gehrenna FC were called an easy relegation target, but they lead the charge for the VCI.

Branvon CD are playing a somewhat anonymous season but they're level with their big rivals. Two relegation candidates emerge:

WSR AFC's uninhibited and talented players as well as the rigid structures of

Arboren FC.

*  2nd Div                                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Sterrenwolde FC                              22   12   5   5    22   12  +10    41
 2 Teragaseki                                   22   10   6   6    33   21  +12    36
 3 Huthwich Et Iduloren FC                      22   10   5   7    16   14   +2    35
 4 Castelo e Calvente CS                        22    9   8   5    21   19   +2    35
 5 Grainshire United                            22    9   6   7    16   15   +1    33
 6 Amandine AdF                                 22    8   6   8    24   17   +7    30
 7 Bruncester United AFC                        22    7   7   8    15   17   −2    28
   SC Sokrona                                   22    8   4  10    21   23   −2    28
 9 Couziers-Olympiques                          22    8   4  10    20   25   −5    28
10 Sydberg                                      22    7   6   9    20   23   −3    27
11 Cirelbourne United                           22    4   8  10    10   17   −7    20
12 Myaranowra                                   22    5   5  12    16   31  −15    20

Going into the final third,

Sterrenwolde FC have a lead that you don't often see at this level. It's not often that all of the promotion contenders have off weeks at this point in the season.

Teragaseki,

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC, even

Bruncester United AFC or

Castelo e Calvente CS - they're close, but

Sterrenwolde FC are in a hell of a position now. At the bottom, we have two clear relegation candidates. The depleted

Myaranowra as well as the institution of

Cirelbourne United - could this actually happen? Can Cirelbourne just... relegate? It would certainly be the end of an era, and how much further can football in eastern Surbourneshire fall?

Individually, it's

Sterrenwolde FC's excellent midfield - almost Maethoru or Tanques-like - that helps them meet every challenge. Bonschotten has experience at the highest level, and Oosterveen and Phiffers are great finds in local academies. Their last minute acquisition of two defenders, Anvil and Ferreira, seem to be hurting them more than helping them but they've quickly put together a Top League-worthy squad.

Teragaseki, meanwhile, took a less common route to squad building: their Top League rejects are only just starting to work together, and with Vigouroux in defence, Shiba, Throgmorton, Delafose in attack, but mostly it's local Vujimura in midfield that helps them. Huthwich relies on a few very talented players - individually better than almost all others in the second tier - but have some spots to fill before going up. The striker position is extremely weak - they only scored 16 goals all year.

*  3rd Div South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Odahayashi Revolution                        22   10   8   4    26   20   +6    38
 2 Cirelbourne Townside                         22   11   5   6    29   24   +5    38
 3 Blanrasco Borealis                           22    9   6   7    20   18   +2    33
 4 Belmore FC                                   22    9   5   8    23   22   +1    32
 5 Soothill                                     22    8   7   7    19   16   +3    31
 6 Club Valeloma                                22    8   7   7    21   20   +1    31
 7 Shinsen Sunrise                              22    8   6   8    17   17    0    30
 8 Katashi Azula                                22    6   9   7    26   22   +4    27
 9 Ambergate City                               22    7   6   9    31   33   −2    27
10 Burnet Athletic                              22    8   2  12    28   32   −4    26
11 Oai Unifie                                   22    5   8   9    18   25   −7    23
12 Brighthaven Town                             22    4   9   9    15   24   −9    21

   3rd Div North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Maynard AFC                                  22   12   6   4    31   20  +11    42
 2 Strongfair                                   22   10   7   5    20   13   +7    37
 3 Senoren FC                                   22   10   5   7    24   17   +7    35
 4 Planneige                                    22    9   6   7    26   20   +6    33
 5 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert                    22   10   3   9    27   27    0    33
 6 Linderivier AFC                              22    7   9   6    19   22   −3    30
 7 Biney CF                                     22    7   7   8    21   22   −1    28
 8 Launott                                      22    7   6   9    21   26   −5    27
 9 Fukushira Guerilla                           22    5   9   8    25   29   −4    24
10 Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie               22    5   8   9    20   25   −5    23
11 Laringen AFC                                 22    6   5  11    17   24   −7    23
12 Aerellen Honoa SC                            22    5   7  10    18   24   −6    22

It seemed unthinkable that Maynard AFC could ever drop to this level, but they're here, and they could just make it back up. It's still strange to see such a respected and supported team in the cellar of Ko-orenite football. Strongfair also make a good case. Laringen AFC feel too big to fail, but the alternative is maybe Fukushira Guerilla, who are also a midsized club that doesn't feel like a fit in the fourth tier. Smaller clubs, like Senoren FC, Planneige, Linderivier AFC, are having a great time. In the South, Cirelbourne Townside are an outsider for promotion, who could take over for

Cirelbourne United - clubs that spent nearly their entire lifetimes three levels apart could switch places in the span of two seasons - incredible stuff! Odahayashi are the next big thing in Yoshima, sharing a city with

Katashi-Kanatsu. Is it the year of cities' smaller clubs taking charge?

*  4th Div A                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ansonville Association                       22   11   5   6    29   15  +14    38
 2 Glimmerfall Triumph                          22   11   5   6    27   14  +13    38
 3 Leeshire United                              22   11   4   7    22   20   +2    37
 4 Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis                         22   10   5   7    23   23    0    35
 5 Feddhaw yChronws                             22    9   7   6    12    9   +3    34
 6 Penstead Clwb Peldred                        22    8   8   6    20   16   +4    32
...

   4th Div B                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Vierciennes Victory                          22   12   4   6    32   20  +12    40
 2 Cape Constillan                              22   10   8   4    19   11   +8    38
 3 Bellmare Union                               22   11   3   8    30   24   +6    36
 4 Norille Orion                                22    9   8   5    20   15   +5    35
 5 Limecroft Et Abyss FC                        22   10   5   7    22   22    0    35
 6 Ferncombe                                    22    8   6   8    19   24   −5    30
...

   4th Div C                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Enkumo Diamond                               22   13   5   4    37   21  +16    44
 2 Aviansola Eden                               22   12   3   7    34   24  +10    39
 3 Coloruna                                     22    9   6   7    24   24    0    33
 4 Echizen                                      22    8   8   6    16   13   +3    32
 5 Motojagava Taranchula                        22    8   7   7    30   28   +2    31
 6 Shimohavi                                    22    7   8   7    26   24   +2    29
...

   4th Div D                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Vleugelberg                                  22   11   8   3    31   16  +15    41
 2 Grimhof VV                                   22   11   4   7    35   23  +12    37
 3 Honingsweg-Toreneik Combinatie               22   10   7   5    16   13   +3    37
 4 Rozenvoorde FC                               22    9   7   6    25   22   +3    34
 5 MEZWO-VEDC Lamau                             22    7  10   5    16   15   +1    31
 6 Serevne AFC                                  22    6  10   6    17   17    0    28
...

   4th Div E                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Amillon CdF                                  22   11   3   8    25   21   +4    36
 2 Liberazul Epitieres                          22    8  10   4    18   16   +2    34
 3 Mayara Soccer Guild                          22   10   4   8    28   31   −3    34
 4 Diessy CdF                                   22    9   6   7    31   21  +10    33
 5 Roufortois-Arlerou                           22    8   9   5    29   22   +7    33
 6 Cygne de Dentillon                           22    9   6   7    28   26   +2    33
...

   4th Div F                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Gakhithrau Dhikodhra                         22   13   3   6    29   20   +9    42
 2 Sathtonoru Kaptu                             22   12   3   7    21   11  +10    39
 3 Tokponen Rildhemau                           22   10   7   5    27   21   +6    37
 4 Nyashawill                                   22   10   4   8    25   24   +1    34
 5 Tuzmanjuth Jithaugom                         22    9   6   7    20   17   +3    33
 6 Sobdorlugin Komtherod                        22    8   6   8    19   21   −2    30
..

Enkumo Diamond and Vleugelberg are in a decent position, but leads are never sacred in the fourth tier. Ansonville Association are not one of the big southwestern clubs, but they soon might become one!

by **Ko-oren** » Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:33 am

Season 39 - Part III

Round 23: Remember: it's

Straudum VV's to lose,

Maethoru SC will need some of their typical final 10 MD magic to get up to the IFCF spots,

Aminey CS are trying to defend their title and not doing a stellar job so far,

Advance Alara is mostly happy to be here but also a massive upset factory, while

Katashi-Kanatsu and

Schemerdrecht SVV are two IFCF CC-tier clubs with the latter aiming slightly bigger. And so in the first repeat of the northern derby, it's

Schemerdrecht SVV who take the initiative, surprising Neihof on a corner for Egmar to head home the winner. With how close the top six are, and how both clubs entered this week in first and second, that's a huge game already - but then again, every game is going to be huge. Miyahara doesn't score on Maethoru but not in lack of trying, his work rate recognised in the MOTM nod. In Aminey we see a Boulanger blunder for Borthwell to equalise. In the Relegation Group, it's

Miradela GD winning the Finisterre derby by three goals (!), and

Branvon CD is really losing the plot as the season goes on. Branvon's only goal comes on a comical own goal - rightback Janson thinks it's game over, kicks the ball back at his own goalie, who can't control it and the ball rolls in with Aomine expecting both teams to play for another minute at least.

WSR AFC's defence is atrocious with

Arboren FC's Aenisse and Oise bearing down on Connor time and time again, and it's only down to the keeper that it's not a 0-5 or worse.

Gehrenna FC extend their stay in 7th with a win over a very solid Tanques side - but Gehrenna's young talents have made significant steps throughout the season and it's visible today. This is not the same Gehrenna team as at the start of the year.

Round 24: The first repeat of the eastern derby has

Katashi-Kanatsu winning 2-0 at rivals

Advance Alara, affirming that the former are challenging for the IFCF spots. Very few goals scored in this one, but for the third time, it's a flurry of red cards...

Straudum VV hold off the Aminey challengers, with Neihof keeping another fantastic game, and Aelisire playing better than most of the season. Hoevink and Hellegeland dominated the left flank as well. Then

Maethoru SC win 3-0, a rare big win among the top six, with Eleveld finally finding the net again. Vaugrenard prepares all three goals for three different goalscorers. In the bottom six, it's

WSR AFC with more up-and-down play, now winning 2-1 over a lost Branvon side. Oise is doing his best trying to save

Arboren FC, while

Gehrenna FC continue their winning ways.

Round 25: No regional derbies today, but we do have the traditional top two as of late squaring off:

Maethoru SC are, indeed, bringing their final 10 MD magic to the table, now by beating

Aminey CS at the Stade, with two Eleveld goals. Somehow things always come up Maethoru at the end of the season, and their prized club top scorer scores both big chances given to him by Bliase. Uncanny how the club can always rely on the final 10 MDs...

Straudum VV struggle versus an adventurous Alara. Always the risk takers, Alara are never an easy opponent.

Miradela GD get a late winner on a beautiful spring evening,

Branvon CD upset the balance by beating

Gehrenna FC, reversing the trend of the last couple weeks. Tanques get an early lead over

WSR AFC - before two goals are scored in extra time for a 2-1 win that they almost gave up.

Round 26: A parade of the big scorers in Maethoru as Eleveld opens the score, Vaugrenard puts it away, and Duchemin gets another goal in a loss. An aggressive

Katashi-Kanatsu side can't win (but can get a red) at home versus

Straudum VV on an unnaturally warm spring evening. yLleamaid gets a strike from distance to score the only goal on what should have been a goal-rich evening in Eaglebury, while De Lange scores the go-ahead goal at the end of the first half versus Arboren to secure the MOTM with an assist to Ulloa late.

Round 27:

Straudum VV get a win, and it's a huge one:

Maethoru SC finally defeated in the final stage. This year's Straudum really are something else! They do it on a lucky early goal from Moore, and keep the capital club from scoring on the next 83 minutes.

Aminey CS get the win, and

Schemerdrecht SVV join the rest of the top 6 in working

Advance Alara casually back down to 6th (outside of the IFCF) with an emphatic 4-0 win, featuring two Sadelaer goals but also showcasing the wide range of talent on the northern club: it's a better team than most give credit for! In the Relegation Group,

Arboren FC are falling behind though they skilfully kept

Gehrenna FC from scoring. Brent's early goal secures three points for

WSR AFC, and a hot Marítimo has hosts Branvon winning 2-0.

Round 28: The second half of the final stage, and we get the second repeat of the northern derby. Not quite first and second anymore, yet it's not far off in this mess of a top six, we have

Straudum VV meet the challenge once again, this time stealing three points in Schemerdrecht, despite Vashila's very late attempt to fix the scoreline. Moore scores two very early goals, and that's exactly what Straudum want, because that means they can sit back and hold off Schemerdrecht for the next 70 minutes.

Advance Alara win a fiery match versus

Aminey CS, Aeganora scoring and getting his second yellow on the celebration just half an hour into the affairs, while Enokida picks up a red on a wholly unnecessary tackle. Borthwell scores the winner in extra time over a tired, tired Aminey team.

Maethoru SC has Eleveld score late - with Eleveld now really getting in the top scorer conversation - for another late stage win. Early goals set the Tanques-Gehrenna scoreline at 1-1, Arboren are not helping themselves with an own goal on a free kick.

Round 29: The last eastern derby of the season concludes with... more red cards, as Katashi and Alara pick up the most red cards of all teams by FAR, with

Advance Alara scoring the lone winner, very late, with Duchemin getting up there in goals as well.

Maethoru SC can't overtake

Schemerdrecht SVV who get the late equaliser in one of the better matches of the season - balanced play styles and a very high tempo, it's not far off of IFCF CL level.

Arboren FC are now in deep, deep trouble, losing again by great numbers, while

Miradela GD win to save themselves. It's now looking for

Branvon CD, the only team that could still relegate instead of the northeastern club. They lose to

WSR AFC to keep the relegation race interesting for another week.

Round 30: Three fanbases are getting very nervous, as the title race comes down to

Straudum VV,

Maethoru SC, and

Schemerdrecht SVV. It's

Straudum VV who lose a bit of their lead by being the next big team to stumble in Alara, while

Schemerdrecht SVV have three different scorers - and it's not the usual suspects, either - as temperatures are getting up there with summer arriving soon. A comprehensive win for the northerners.

Maethoru SC beat

Aminey CS in the final edition of the Big One, Eleveld scoring twice, late in the game, while Aminey get one back way too late. The first hour is spent with both clubs simply trying to bait the other into making a mistake, and neither club keep their cards close to their chest. Branvon and Arboren both lose, as

Miradela GD win a high scoring one up in the far north, and Auvergne scores two goals in one game (first time ever) as a low volume scorer for the Santa Teresa club.

WSR AFC is showing more and more of what we can expect next year, beating

Tanques AOE 3-0 with Jubeck showing himself to be a potential future top goal scorer. A very good game for the bottom six - easily Championship Group material, if not better.

Round 31:

Straudum VV lose even more of their lead, and all of a sudden the 'surefire' championship is in jeopardy! There'll be a hell of a clash in the final round as all three clubs are alive for the title.

Schemerdrecht SVV and

Maethoru SC both win, and

Straudum VV only have themselves to blame for this. Can the Capital Club work another late season comeback?

Arboren FC can't beat

Branvon CD, and they're relegated. The Marítimo explodes in celebration as the northeasterners exit the stadium in tears, and all Branvon did was play some of the most Audioslavian football ever displayed on Ko-orenite fields.

Gehrenna FC secure the VCI as

Miradela GD can't beat Tanques.

Round 32 (Relegation Group): Deslys concludes a perfect individual season for

Tanques AOE, scoring goals 11 and 12 on the year.

Tanques AOE end at 4-1 to complete a decent season that sees them out of the top 6 and the VCI after all.

Arboren FC go out unceremonially, with

Gehrenna FC winning 1-0 there, and Abyssite scoring a gorgeous goal from distance.

Miradela GD have Bonstirthinden score, finally, as he is part of why Miradela couldn't launch more of a challenge on the top six.

Round 32 (Championship Group):
At the start of the day, we're looking at

1. Maethoru SC - 53 points, +7 GD
2. Straudum VV - 51 points, +11 GD
3. Schemerdrecht SVV - 51 points, +11 GD

as YES, the Capital Club have done it again, fighting back from sixth to take the lead for the title.

Schemerdrecht SVV have a good shot, taking on

Advance Alara at home. Interestingly, one other match is

Maethoru SC, at home, versus

Straudum VV. With a draw - and a Schemerdrecht win - it's the SVV winning the title. With a draw or a win for Maethoru and a bad result for Schemerdrecht, the title goes back to the All Greens after a one year absence. Straudum, no matter how good they looked just weeks ago, need a win that is bigger than whatever Schemerdrecht does.

8' Duchemin scores goal number 18 to pretty much secure the top scorer title! The problem: he's on

Advance Alara, which means that

Schemerdrecht SVV are out of this race until they score two of their own.
45' No further goals in the two matches containing our three contenders - but

Aminey CS and

Katashi-Kanatsu have been putting up a lovely game, sitting at 1-1 after Miyahara and Archer getting up and over 10 goals each.
63' yLorbhwl scores his first of the season, for Aminey - sorry, no title updates right now - as

Aminey CS is heading towards a sweetish end of the season.
77' Aeganora makes the 3-1 for Aminey - sorry, again no title updates here - as both of Aminey's prolific strikers get on the score sheet.
79' Enokida scores the 2-0 for

Advance Alara, which now puts

Schemerdrecht SVV out of the race unless they can score three goals in 11 minutes.
84' There it is!

Straudum VV break down

Maethoru SC's defence away in the Rikalathen! Moore is on the receiving end of a low cross into the box, and Doolan can't get a hand on it! Right now, it's Straudum's to lose!
87' Straudum's Tomlinson hits the emergency brake on Janoreirinthen's dribble, and gets his second yellow. Maethoru have a slightly better chance with a few seconds to go.
90+3' Gillinghurst lessens Schemerdrecht's suffering, it's 2-1 now, and with three minutes left to go, the northerners are somehow NOT out of it yet!
90+4' Northwood sounds the final whistle in Maethoru-Straudum - Straudum will finish ahead of the Capital Club at least, and the title is 99% theirs!
90+7' Holdaway ends proceedings in Schemerdrecht - it was theirs to win, and yet they lose to Alara, who claim another scalp among their high profile targets.

Straudum VV win the title!

*  Championship Group                          Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Maethoru SC                                  10    6   2   2    14    7   +7    20
 2 Straudum VV                                  10    5   2   3     8    5   +3    17
 3 Schemerdrecht SVV                            10    4   2   4    12    9   +3    14
 4 Advance Alara                                10    4   2   4    11   15   −4    14
 5 Katashi-Kanatsu                              10    3   1   6     6   11   −5     9
 6 Aminey CS                                    10    2   3   5     8   12   −4     9

   Relegation Group                            Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Miradela GD                                  10    6   0   4    15    8   +7    18
 2 WSR AFC                                      10    6   0   4    10    7   +3    18
 3 Gehrenna FC                                  10    5   2   3     8    7   +1    17
 4 Tanques AOE                                  10    4   1   5    11   12   −1    13
 5 Branvon CD                                   10    4   1   5    11   14   −3    13
 6 Arboren FC                                   10    2   2   6     5   12   −7     8

Final Table          Pld   W   D  L  GF  GA   GD Pts
 1 Straudum VV        32  16  6  10  31  19  +12  54 - Champions, IFCF CL
 2 Maethoru SC        32  15  8   9  33  25   +8  53 - IFCF CL
 3 Schemerdrecht SVV  32  15  6  11  33  21  +12  51 - IFCF CC
 4 Advance Alara      32  14  6  12  46  45   +1  48 - IFCF CC
 5 Aminey CS          32  10  13  9  33  29   +4  45 - IFCF CC
 6 Katashi-Kanatsu    32  12  8  12  35  36   −1  42

 7 Gehrenna FC        32  13  8  11  20  21   −1  47 - VCI
 8 Miradela GD        32  13  5  14  40  40    0  44
 9 Tanques AOE        32  12  6  14  35  29   +6  42
 X WSR AFC            32  12  4  16  24  29   −5  40
 = Branvon CD         32  11  6  15  28  42  −14  39
10 Arboren FC         32  8   6  18  18  40  −22  30 - Relegation

10+ Goal scorers
ST Antoine Duchemin (

Advance Alara) 17
ST Huije Eleveld (

Maethoru SC) 16
ST Aimogina Aeganora (

Aminey CS) 15
ST Gui Deslys (

Tanques AOE) 12
LS Rex Archer (

Aminey CS) 12
LS Clement Spanner (

Miradela GD) 11
ST Wolf Sadelaer (

Schemerdrecht SVV) 11
SS Kenji Miyahara (

Katashi-Kanatsu) 11
SS Aristotle Weaver (

Tanques AOE) 10
RS Llounguís Ulloa (

Branvon CD) 10

3+ MOTM winners
AM Louise Bliase (

Maethoru SC) 5
ST Narihira Taniuchi (

Katashi-Kanatsu) 5
RM Mata Vaugrenard (

Maethoru SC) 4
LS Domingos Carreiro (

Branvon CD) 4
LM Lysander Forward (

Miradela GD) 4
RM Syl Brousseau (

Straudum VV) 4
AM Jip De Lange (

Branvon CD) 4
DM Thisdin Mergakhinen (

Schemerdrecht SVV) 4
GK Gudo Neihof (

Straudum VV) 3
LM Parala Abbagan (

Aminey CS) 3
RF Aoremis Aelea (

Branvon CD) 3
CM Jurre Hilberdink (

Schemerdrecht SVV) 3
SS Vernon Carrington (

Gehrenna FC) 3
LS Clement Spanner (

Miradela GD) 3
RM Harold Batchelor (

Aminey CS) 3
LM Saushilu Janoreirinthen (

Maethoru SC) 3
LM Khidinu Daraluthen (

Tanques AOE) 3
RM Howell Hegan (

Gehrenna FC) 3
LB Tamrie Munarring (

Aminey CS) 3
SS Kenji Miyahara (

Katashi-Kanatsu) 3
CM Ratko Ivančir (

Advance Alara) 3
RB Gilles Gachet (

Branvon CD) 3

Team of the Year
GK Gudo Neihof (

Straudum VV)
RF Aoremis Aelea (

Branvon CD)
RB Adam Archer (

Straudum VV)
CB Marc Hoevink (

Straudum VV)
LB Tamrie Munarring (

Aminey CS)
LF Emi (f) van Kalvenhaar (

Maethoru SC)
DM Thisdin Mergakhinen (

Schemerdrecht SVV)
RM Mata Vaugrenard (

Maethoru SC)
CM Jurre Hilberdink (

Schemerdrecht SVV)
LM Lysander Forward (

Miradela GD)
AM Louise Bliase (

Maethoru SC)
SS Vernon Carrington (

Gehrenna FC)
RS Huije Eleveld (

Maethoru SC)
ST Antoine Duchemin (

Advance Alara)
LS Aimogina Aeganora (

Aminey CS)

by **Ko-oren** » Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:47 am

Season 39 - Part III

Sterrenwolde FC only further expanded their lead with comprehensive victories over just about every team, and not many teams could stop them near the end. There's no shame for others in finishing behind them, but with just the one promotion spot, that means everyone else's progress is set back by another year.

SC Sokrona did well to fight back up to second, leading a pack of 49-point teams that in other years, would have competed for first if it weren't for a dominant Sterrenwolde side. Sokrona's late comeback was mounted mostly by good defence, with Dwan and Aeave in the back doing what few at that level can. Graishire United is showing progress, and so is

Castelo e Calvente CS - the latter clearly still show signs of progress since their one year in the Top League.

Teragaseki and

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC were good until the end, but dropped too many points in a crowded top half of the table. The Derby of the Mines finished bottom six entirely, with Bruncester in 7th and Cirelbourne in 9th. The relegation spots are (predictably)

Amandine AdF and (less predictably)

Myaranowra.

*  2nd Div                                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Sterrenwolde FC                              33   17   7   9    30   17  +13    58 - Promotion
 2 SC Sokrona                                   33   14   7  12    36   27   +9    49
 3 Grainshire United                            33   13  10  10    33   26   +7    49
 4 Castelo e Calvente CS                        33   12  13   8    31   32   −1    49
 5 Teragaseki                                   33   12  10  11    49   43   +6    46
 6 Huthwich Et Iduloren FC                      33   12  10  11    19   20   −1    46
 7 Bruncester United AFC                        33   10  14   9    24   24    0    44
 8 Sydberg                                      33   12   8  13    28   33   −5    44
 9 Cirelbourne United                           33   11   9  13    36   34   +2    42
10 Couziers-Olympiques                          33   10   9  14    37   40   −3    39
11 Amandine AdF                                 33    8  12  13    22   28   −6    36 - Relegation
12 Myaranowra                                   33    9   7  17    24   45  −21    34 - Relegation

Team of the Year
GK Rilbiposun Guldherindhen (

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC)
RF Kevin Aberg (

SC Sokrona)
RB Rune Drakenberg (

Sterrenwolde FC)
CB Aoriasu Aeave (

SC Sokrona)
LB Rafael Dwan (

SC Sokrona)
LF Mamil Vigouroux (

Teragaseki)
DM Warren Potter (

Bruncester United AFC)
RM Byron Radcliff (

Grainshire United)
CM Joch Oosterveen (

Sterrenwolde FC)
LM Joe Bonschotten (

Sterrenwolde FC)
SS Cody Dixon (

Cirelbourne United)
RS Nard Monshouwer (

Huthwich Et Iduloren FC)
ST Keith Torres (

Castelo e Calvente CS)
LS Nicholas Candy (

Couziers-Olympiques)

Cirelbourne Townside will join their (previously) big brothers,

Cirelbourne United, in the second tier! We have the one derby that United cares more about than the one with

Bruncester United AFC! Odahayashi did all they could, but to no avail. The Burnet Island teams of Ambergate and Burnet finish just outside the relegation spots, yet in the end no massive clubs go down in the South. The North has Maynard AFC, as we saw coming, finish first and then some to launch some sort of southwestern comeback - there are a lot of southwestern teams coming through the ranks. At the top of the professional level, it's all northern now, but the 2nd and 3rd tier has a lot of decent southwestern teams. Not a lot of huge teams relegate here, but KRC and Aerellen have a decent fanbase. Laringen AFC escapes.

*  3rd Div South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Cirelbourne Townside                         33   15   9   9    41   35   +6    54 - Promotion
 2 Odahayashi Revolution                        33   14  11   8    34   30   +4    53
 3 Blanrasco Borealis                           33   13  10  10    31   33   −2    49
 4 Katashi Azula                                33   12  12   9    42   32  +10    48
 5 Brighthaven Town                             33   12  11  10    27   24   +3    47
 6 Club Valeloma                                33   12  10  11    34   33   +1    46
 7 Belmore FC                                   33   13   6  14    29   30   −1    45
 8 Ambergate City                               33   10  12  11    31   34   −3    42
 9 Burnet Athletic                              33   13   3  17    35   40   −5    42
10 Shinsen Sunrise                              33    9  11  13    38   41   −3    38 - Relegation
11 Soothill                                     33    9  10  14    26   33   −7    37 - Relegation
12 Oai Unifie                                   33    8  11  14    32   35   −3    35 - Relegation

   3rd Div North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Maynard AFC                                  33   16   9   8    42   29  +13    57 - Promotion
 2 Planneige                                    33   15   9   9    40   29  +11    54
 3 Senoren FC                                   33   16   6  11    38   29   +9    54
 4 Linderivier AFC                              33   12  14   7    34   30   +4    50
 5 Strongfair                                   33   12  12   9    31   26   +5    48
 6 Fukushira Guerilla                           33   11  12  10    43   39   +4    45
 7 Biney CF                                     33   10  13  10    41   36   +5    43
 8 Laringen AFC                                 33   11   7  15    34   40   −6    40
 9 Launott                                      33    9  11  13    32   47  −15    38
10 Foot Soibourgoise en Vert                    33    8  13  12    32   35   −3    37 - Relegation
11 Kerkhaven-Rommefort-Combinatie               33    8  10  15    32   47  −15    34 - Relegation
12 Aerellen Honoa SC                            33    7  10  16    27   39  −12    31 - Relegation

It's a return for Leeshire United and Cresthill FC - two clubs you can't go without at the third level. Viercinennes Victory just keep up with Cape Constillan on head to head, Enkumo Diamond see their lead shrink to next to nothing but prevail. Grimhof and Sathtonoru complete the six.

*  4th Div A                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Leeshire United                              33   18   6   9    36   26  +10    60 - Promotion
 2 Cerryrhos yDhiwmydis                         33   16   6  11    32   31   +1    54
 3 Mawrystwyth                                  33   15   8  10    34   22  +12    53
 4 Feddhaw yChronws                             33   14  10   9    28   20   +8    52
 5 Penstead Clwb Peldred                        33   13   9  11    30   26   +4    48
 6 Oceanside South End                          33   14   4  15    32   32    0    46
 7 Ansonville Association                       33   12   8  13    42   34   +8    44
 8 Argyle Tuesday                               33   11   9  13    27   39  −12    42
 9 Llandy FC                                    33   11   8  14    28   31   −3    41
10 Marinwood Sunday                             33   10   9  14    29   30   −1    39
11 Glimmerfall Triumph                          33    9  12  12    23   30   −7    39
12 Langward                                     33    5  11  17    24   44  −20    26 - Wooden spoon

   4th Div B                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Vierciennes Victory                          33   18   7   8    48   31  +17    61 - Promotion
 2 Cape Constillan                              33   17  10   6    32   15  +17    61
 3 Limecroft Et Abyss FC                        33   17   8   8    35   28   +7    59
 4 Ferncombe                                    33   14  10   9    34   34    0    52
 5 Norille Orion                                33   13  11   9    30   25   +5    50
 6 Bellmare Union                               33   13   6  14    40   37   +3    45
 7 Anarcourt CF                                 33   11   6  16    22   31   −9    39
 8 Vinroux Invincibles                          33   11   5  17    23   30   −7    38
 9 Zinchester Town                              33    9  10  14    29   35   −6    37
10 Opalshire FC                                 33   10   6  17    30   40  −10    36
11 Chamiers                                     33   11   3  19    26   37  −11    36
12 Chaganca Central                             33    9   8  16    30   36   −6    35

   4th Div C                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Enkumo Diamond                               33   18   8   7    49   28  +21    62 - Promotion
 2 Aviansola Eden                               33   19   3  11    52   37  +15    60
 3 Yonenomura                                   33   15   8  10    43   38   +5    53
 4 Motojagava Taranchula                        33   14   9  10    38   33   +5    51
 5 Echizen                                      33   13  10  10    27   20   +7    49
 6 Coloruna                                     33   13   9  11    31   33   −2    48
 7 Otavura                                      33   11  11  11    24   25   −1    44
 8 Shimohavi                                    33    9  11  13    34   39   −5    38
 9 Chikuno Hakuba                               33    9  10  14    29   40  −11    37
10 Morivate Lava                                33    9   6  18    28   42  −14    33
11 Vurusen                                      33    7  11  15    29   37   −8    32
12 Nitoya                                       33    6  14  13    33   45  −12    32

   4th Div D                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Grimhof VV                                   33   15   7  11    45   35  +10    52 - Promotion
 2 Rozenvoorde FC                               33   13  12   8    39   32   +7    51
 3 MEZWO-VEDC Lamau                             33   13  12   8    31   28   +3    51
 4 Vleugelberg                                  33   13  10  10    43   31  +12    49
 5 Honingsweg-Toreneik Combinatie               33   12  10  11    21   23   −2    46
 6 Serevne AFC                                  33   11  12  10    30   27   +3    45
 7 Shinsen VV                                   33   11  10  12    38   39   −1    43
 8 Dartha AFC                                   33   10  13  10    26   34   −8    43
 9 Egevea                                       33   10   9  14    27   36   −9    39
10 Donderen                                     33   10   8  15    26   30   −4    38
11 Ossendal                                     33    8  13  12    30   36   −6    37
12 Tuinderbeek FC                               33    8  12  13    22   27   −5    36

   4th Div E                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Cresthill FC                                 33   15  11   7    46   30  +16    56 - Promotion
 2 Amillon CdF                                  33   16   6  11    38   31   +7    54
 3 Liberazul Epitieres                          33   13  12   8    36   28   +8    51
 4 Linieux en Onyx                              33   14   6  13    40   32   +8    48
 5 Mayara Soccer Guild                          33   13   7  13    37   47  −10    46
 6 Roufortois-Arlerou                           33   11  11  11    27   33   −6    44
 7 Sauzjaregaun Saulrag                         33   11  10  12    33   34   −1    43
 8 Diessy CdF                                   33   11   8  14    45   39   +6    41
 9 Granon Altair CF                             33   11   8  14    29   34   −5    41
10 Ounoukal Aminey CA                           33   10  10  13    30   40  −10    40
11 Aminey Avalanche                             33    9  12  12    35   40   −5    39
12 Cygne de Dentillon                           33   10   7  16    32   40   −8    37

   4th Div F                                   Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Sathtonoru Kaptu                             33   16   8   9    31   18  +13    56 - Promotion
 2 Pride of Eaglebury                           33   15   9   9    42   28  +14    54
 3 Gakhithrau Dhikodhra                         33   15   9   9    45   36   +9    54
 4 Tuzmanjuth Jithaugom                         33   14   9  10    28   21   +7    51
 5 Nyashawill                                   33   14   7  12    35   37   −2    49
 6 Tokponen Rildhemau                           33   12  10  11    35   32   +3    46
 7 Sobdorlugin Komtherod                        33   12   8  13    25   34   −9    44
 8 April Bassin FC                              33   12   6  15    30   39   −9    42
 9 Tarrashall Pride                             33    9  14  10    36   34   +2    41
10 Tepkusoren Opkohme                           33   10   9  14    26   30   −4    39
11 Mayara Zunemak                               33    9  11  13    28   35   −7    38
12 Turnaarde FC                                 33    6   8  19    26   43  −17    26

*  Academy East                                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ysbeer Voetbalschool                         20    8   6   6    25   19   +6    30 - Academy Semifinal
 2 Straudum Sportacademie                       20    8   5   7    20   16   +4    29
 3 Arakura Revelation                           20    8   4   8    16   17   −1    28
 4 Aerawa Academy FC                            20    7   7   6    17   19   −2    28
 5 Alara Academy                                20    6   7   7    18   16   +2    25
 6 Katashi Rossoscuro                           20    6   5   9    17   26   −9    23

   Academy North                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Alpha Academie Malagnanaise                  20   13   2   5    26   21   +5    41 - Academy Semifinal
 2 Het Vlaggenschip                             20   10   3   7    25   15  +10    33
 3 Mayara Mezkuloren Academy                    20    9   4   7    28   23   +5    31
 4 Rozenvoordse Academie                        20    9   2   9    17   19   −2    29
 5 Senoren Soccer Academy                       20    5   4  11    16   24   −8    19
 6 Etouillle Football Academie                  20    4   5  11    16   26  −10    17

   Academy South                               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Joaqueras Academica de Futbol                20   11   5   4    25   10  +15    38 - Academy Semifinal
 2 Gaulthisoru Royals                           20   10   1   9    26   23   +3    31
 3 Academica Ferroventense                      20    9   2   9    17   20   −3    29
 4 Berkton FC                                   20    8   4   8    23   26   −3    28
 5 Idyllwild Academy                            20    7   3  10    18   23   −5    24
 6 Dayfade Soccer Academy                       20    6   3  11    17   24   −7    21

   Academy West                                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Grainshire Academy                           20   13   3   4    36   20  +16    42 - Academy Semifinal
 2 Greencaster Marine Academy                   20   12   4   4    27   11  +16    40
 3 Greencaster FC                               20    7   7   6    23   26   −3    28
 4 Weyarra Sunrise                              20    6   3  11    18   29  −11    21
 5 Wright United Academy                        20    6   2  12    19   29  −10    20
 6 Clwb Peldred Peredwr                         20    5   3  12    18   26   −8    18

   University Northeast                        Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Aevanna Ecologiske Universitet               21   11   6   4    27   10  +17    39 - University Semifinal
 2 Katashi Yoshima Daigaku                      21   10   7   4    26   16  +10    37 - University Semifinal (best runner up)
 3 Nordorenfjolluniversitet                     21    8   8   5    27   11  +16    32
 4 Katashi Keizai Daigaku                       21    8   5   8    18   29  −11    29
 5 Furune Geijutsu Daigaku                      21    7   6   8    19   19    0    27
 6 Technische Universiteit Sterrenwolde         21    7   4  10    20   23   −3    25
 7 Schemerdrechtuniversiteit                    21    6   3  12    20   35  −15    21
 8 Sudaefjolluniversitet                        21    5   5  11    13   27  −14    20

   University South-Central                    Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Willowbourne Technological Academy           21   11   6   4    31   18  +13    39 - University Semifinal
 2 Willowbourne Institute of Humanities         21    9   8   4    24   20   +4    35
 3 National University of Willowbourne          21    9   6   6    19   13   +6    33
 4 Universite des Arts d'Aminey                 21    9   3   9    26   21   +5    30
 5 Universite de la Cote Austral                21    8   5   8    18   21   −3    29
 6 Uni of Grainshire and Leeshire               21    6   5  10    14   16   −2    23
 7 Santa Teresa Naval Academy                   21    6   5  10    13   22   −9    23
 8 Universidade de Finisterre                   21    5   4  12    17   31  −14    19

   University West-Central                     Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Greencaster Technical University             21   13   2   6    26   19   +7    41 - University Semifinal
 2 Greencaster Business University              21   10   6   5    30   20  +10    36
 3 West Strand Riding University                21   10   5   6    22   25   −3    35
 4 Economical Institute of Amandine             21    9   4   8    24   22   +2    31
 5 Maethoru National University                 21    8   4   9    24   24    0    28
 6 University of Mawryshire                     21    7   5   9    24   27   −3    26
 7 Surbourneshire Technical University          21    5   4  12    22   26   −4    19
 8 Gehrenna National University                 21    5   4  12    15   24   −9    19

Academy Finals
Ysbeer Voetbalschool 2-1 Joaqueras Academica de Futbol
Alpha Academie Malagnanaise 2-4 Grainshire Academy

Ysbeer Voetbalschool 2-0 Grainshire Academy

University Finals
Greencaster Technical University 6-1 Katashi Yoshima Daigaku
Aevanna Ecologiske Universitet 0-1 Willowbourne Technological Academy

Greencaster Technical University 3-2 Willowbourne Technological Academy

Academy-University Final
Greencaster Technical University 4-1 Ysbeer Voetbalschool

by **Ko-oren** » Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:11 am

Last season: Previews / Last season: Results

KOR North
Echizen Dragons Teragaseki Originals Furune Bees Arakura Knights

KOR South
Katashi Generals Katashi Giants Aviansola Admirals Nitoya Silvers

KOR West
Santa Teresa Stars Ferrovente Whales Amandine Wanderers Desierto Challengers

Santa Teresa Stars @ The Citadel (37000), Santa Teresa, Finisterre
The Stars are the biggest team of the mainland and while their biggest rivalry is with the Whales, they've long looked eastward at the dynasties in Katashi for a challenge. Somewhat arrogant and entitled, the Stars aren't successful by default, though.
This is your club if you are secretly a little smug, or you like shiny new modern stadiums.
Prediction: Overall: 1 // Pitching: 1 / Fielding&Batting: 4 // Infield: 5 / Outfield: 7 / Starting pitchers: 2 / Bullpen: 1
Coaching Staff: Sara Seixas (f, 49) KOR
Fielding: C: Juan Berganza - Infield: Kingsley Rust CMT, Arpit Seth SNL, Jaira (f) Hyllik CMT, Gustavo Farina - Outfield: Roibén Peredo, Xacinto Leyton, Liam Desjardins SLL / DH: Victor Cora
Pitching: Starters: Noah Harris HNS, Kristen (f) Osborn SNL, Ensa Suso BNJ, Fernan Mazon, Fidel Aguiar - Relievers: Roman Sotolongo, Arximiro Saravia, Kōlō Kamada, Atanasio Cervantes, Winfield Basshale - Closer: Montaro Wakajoshi

Echizen Dragons @ Uvesaki Field (24000), Echizen, Alara
Alara, the Garden Island, sees baseball as an important pastime (that maybe takes up a bit too much green space). Small field dimensions (and sea-level conditions) give a small advantage to batters. Beyond the fence, it's all picnic places. Along the foul lines and behind the plate, it's all stands.
This is your club if you like to see a team do a lot with a small budget in beautiful surroundings.
Prediction: Overall: 2 // Pitching: 3 / Fielding&Batting: 2 // Infield: 1 / Outfield: 9 / Starting pitchers: 3 / Bullpen: 5
Coaching Staff: Raymond McFadden (54) TKT
Fielding: C: Tevi Kagulazaka - Infield: Ré Fouquet, Len Pijpenbroek, Tsugahara Takata, Kenkichi Takata - Outfield: Yoshihito Oshita, Rosie (f) Ayslynn, Ruu Deguchi / DH: Hildegrim de Waard
Pitching: Starters: Grady Good SNL, Molovisa Gotou, Mochiyoshi Doi, Ryu Shinkai, Vibu Nishijama - Relievers: Tadajuki Joshivumi, Hidemichi Makino, Bernard Riqueti, Kazushi Watase, Nolisuke Minagawa - Closer: Benoit Everson QUE

Ferrovente Whales @ Ventovente (20000), Ferrovente, Finisterre
The Whales are a proud team from Ferrovente, a colourful city in the southeast. The stands, surrounding the entirety of the field, are one big party where you'll find the rowdiest fans of the Ko-orenite divisions. Their biggest rivalry is with the Stars, and beating them is as important as making the playoffs.
This is your club if you want to see all the tricks, bat flips, and other things that the old guard don't like.
Prediction: Overall: 3 // Pitching: 10 / Fielding&Batting: 1 // Infield: 4 / Outfield: 1 / Starting pitchers: 10 / Bullpen: 11
Coaching Staff: Rafael Miranda (55) KOR
Fielding: C: Fred Burn SNL - Infield: Anselmo Troche, Leonardo Jefferson CMT, Ian Pearce SNL, André Barreira - Outfield: Darrell Striker QAS, Nikko Norsholm SLL, Sev Ballak SNL / DH: Yorick Diamond CMT
Pitching: Starters: Xerman Figueredo, Jocelyn Chastain, Euloxio Rodis, Millan Vara, Xeremias Verdugo - Relievers: Bert Hoosier SNL, Moises Carballar, Fabian Troche, Xenaro Goya, Bernabe Reza - Closer: Pascoal Barreira

Katashi Generals @ Katashi Dome (58000), Katashi, Katashi
The Katashi Generals - from 'capital' Katashi on Royal Island Leleia - are the perennial team to beat. They have more titles, they're older than almost every team, they have the biggest stadium, they've got it all.
This is your club if you just want to see a lot of wins, bandwagoning be damned.
Prediction: Overall: 4 // Pitching: 2 / Fielding&Batting: 9 // Infield: 6 / Outfield: 11 / Starting pitchers: 1 / Bullpen: 3
Coaching Staff: Nobusada Ose (59) KOR
Fielding: C: Shukishi Kashiwa - Infield: Mateu Aldana, Sukenobu Tanikawa, Turner Kirkham, Katatake Gotou - Outfield: Ryozo Kikuchi, Jasuviro Esumi, Hannah Choe QUE / DH: Kagesuke Kagae
Pitching: Starters: Dae-Wook Kim CMT, Katsumi Kawai, Tovi Niva, Torazo Kanemaru, Michael Reischauer QUE - Relievers: Carla (f) McInnis SLL, Sanemitsu Murata, Atsuki Kotera, Namo Furuta, Habi Hoga - Closer: Teluvide Kamei

Katashi Giants @ Maesaki Park (31000), Katashi, Katashi
The Katashi Giants - from 'capital' Katashi on Royal Island Leleia - are a huge team that just can't get a win when it matters, and they're forever the smaller version of the Generals for it.
This is your club if you want a likeable team from a big city, with lots of fans, that will still win plenty, but never wins quite enough.
Prediction: Overall: 5 // Pitching: 7 / Fielding&Batting: 3 // Infield: 2 / Outfield: 10 / Starting pitchers: 8 / Bullpen: 6
Coaching Staff: Ken 'Fujiwara' Itou (72) KOR
Fielding: C: Paulo Rodela - Infield: Fred Hodgson BOL, Rei Himura, Manoel Candia, Dodo Ritsushima - Outfield: Joritoki Onaga, Suemoto Ishimaki, Kiro Ogasawara / DH: Mata Ogata
Pitching: Starters: Tsunehisa Kumagaya, Suta Akija, Mava Jukimuro, Ikemoto Ishida, Nocenci Monteverde - Relievers: Ernesto Vara, Sadaie Nawa, Vera (f) Mane CMT, Yoshitake Nakada, Sanemichi Kikuchi - Closer: Fabio Paul SNL

Aviansola Admirals @ Naminaka Park (11000), Aviansola, Leleia
Aviansola, on Leleia, the Royal Island, lost its team for a while when the owner was pursuing bigger markets. For the LPB, they're back, hoping to pick up where they left off. The fans reluctantly and suspiciously are back for the boys in blue.
This is your club if you like underdogs, especially in this southern division. They're the only team trying to get Yoshiman, Aviansolan, Korean and Chinese-speaking Ko-orenites on board.
Prediction: Overall: 6 // Pitching: 8 / Fielding&Batting: 6 // Infield: 8 / Outfield: 3 / Starting pitchers: 5 / Bullpen: 9
Coaching Staff: Miyako Mita (f, 61) KOR
Fielding: C: Woutre Bardemaker - Infield: Vianol Sivurila, Kaje Holtmaat, Amand Gallois, Harmisjesin Dunaltinden - Outfield: Zey Billings CMT, Ano Makkinga, Denis Caamano / DH: Bruno Pallares
Pitching: Starters: Jeff Bitches QAS, You Wassens, Ko Nijveld, Xesus Medal, Guust Blauwbroek - Relievers: Distehonan Lambirthingun, Tacaro Cevocalu, Monroe Keating, Sabuk Tepkusorenthen, Mauja Wijnberg - Closer: Parevu Uvulivelu

Furune Bees @ Obsidian Hive (21000), Furune, Selesi
Furune, on Selesi, the Tropical Island, is a city known for its academic and ecological tradition. The Bees are run as eco-friendly as possible, and that includes transport to and from the stadium. The Bees are an expansion team that inherits the full Suvira roster.
This is your club if you want to support a team from its very beginning in a lush and green location.
Prediction: Overall: 7 // Pitching: 6 / Fielding&Batting: 8 // Infield: 3 / Outfield: 12 / Starting pitchers: 6 / Bullpen: 8
Coaching Staff: Diego Lowe (45) SNL
Fielding: C: Roland Harlow BOL - Infield: Noriatsu Togashi, Devon Jimenez SLL, Henrique Toca, Géa (f) Reille CMT - Outfield: Sofu Nakao, Jasuviko Kaneshiro, Umeko (f) Ōbali / DH: Videtake Aoyama
Pitching: Starters: Suno Matsuda, Tojoaki Jabe, Kama Vokama, Kahi Nagamatsu, Arthfael yCwmols - Relievers: Michikiyo Togawa, Yukiari Chousokabe, Eisuke Fukuhara, Takuya Adachi, Koyo Igarashi - Closer: Teodoro Parada

Nitoya Silvers @ Twin Field (18000), Nitoya, Leleia
Nitoya, on Leleia, the Royal Island, are the team where all the hot new prospects hang out. Result-wise, they struggle to stand out versus the Giants and Generals, but some of the biggest in the business have their roots with the lovable Silvers. The ancient ballpark is another draw.
This is your club if you want to see all the good players before they go mainstream.
Prediction: Overall: 8 // Pitching: 5 / Fielding&Batting: 10 // Infield: 10 / Outfield: 5 / Starting pitchers: 7 / Bullpen: 2
Coaching Staff: Kiyohiko Akagi (56) KOR
Fielding: C: Mito Arima - Infield: Gasparo Lema, Hiroka Ryosuke DAS, Cyril Durand, Fumiaki Fuchizaki - Outfield: Kava Jamana, Vítor Vasquez, Kellie (f) Wiley CMT / DH: Terumoto Togoshi
Pitching: Starters: Nakazo Uranishi, Ienaga Vineno, Kijonori Nakama, Kyuichi Omori, Shigelu Sakijama - Relievers: Ryūsei Sakurazawa, Elethek Pargalgunden, Jasuvilo Hajakawa, Ventura de Castro, Satoru Wakuri - Closer: Tommy Kawasaki

Teragaseki Originals @ Vidari Stadium (22000), Teragaseki, Etena
Etena, the Festival Island, loves its rituals, legends, and memorials. No team has more special days than them. There's a good sense of community, though not everyone in the stadium shows up for baseball.
This is your club if you want to see a team connect with its fanbase and its history.
Prediction: Overall: 9 // Pitching: 4 / Fielding&Batting: 12 // Infield: 11 / Outfield: 6 / Starting pitchers: 4 / Bullpen: 4
Coaching Staff: Yumi Kasai (f, 48) KOR
Fielding: C: Arimoro Sano - Infield: Theodore Easter CMT, Toshitaka Nonaka, Sabino Lema, Jukichi Sakurano - Outfield: Shinta Oshita, Cora (f) Schwartz SNL, Xenaro Durán / DH: Miles Gill CMT
Pitching: Starters: Senzo Utada, Jason McAllister SLL, Tokuma Mulajama, Momo (f) Renbutsu, Gabriel Auclair - Relievers: Lauren (f) Allen NWM, Bernaldo Viveiros, Danno Makino, Detger Slotiep, Martiño Siqueiros - Closer: Bunji Yano

Amandine Wanderers @ Vamada Océanique (12000), Étouille, Cote Austral
The Wanderers have been shipped around the mainland (as their name would suggest) trying to find greener pastures. After Aminey, they have their home base in Étouille now - that's southern Cote Austral - the place with the best weather and easiest living in the country. The players are from all over: a bunch of misfits that are making it work together.
This is your club if you want to see more than just Yoshimans and Finisterrans, with decent support all over the country.
Prediction: Overall: 10 // Pitching: 11 / Fielding&Batting: 5 // Infield: 7 / Outfield: 4 / Starting pitchers: 9 / Bullpen: 12
Coaching Staff: Michelle Knox (57) SNL
Fielding: C: Xaaf Geele BNJ - Infield: Titi Barrande, Napo Corriveau, Mason Bennett, Simon Gray - Outfield: Pamela (f) Sullivan SNL, Aman Teklu BNJ, Barden Esheross / DH: Cativo Varivuliva
Pitching: Starters: Gus Gavreau, Greg Julius SNL, Éloi Michaeux, José Barbier, Naomichi Yoshigahara - Relievers: Ralph Ewing SNL, Gé Delacroix, Peio De Andrade, Gil Chaufourier, Baudilio Ferreira - Closer: Claude Veil

Arakura Knights @ Ginofruit Field (28000), Arakura, Selesi
Arakura, on Selesi, the Tropical Island, is a blue-collar port town. Knowing how similar Aonishi lost its team, Arakura - and other Yoshiman port towns - rallied behind the team. They're the best supported team on the island and a neutral's favourite. The on-field product need not apply.
This is your club if you have fuzzy feelings towards very well supported, blue-collar clubs.
Prediction: Overall: 11 // Pitching: 12 / Fielding&Batting: 7 // Infield: 12 / Outfield: 2 / Starting pitchers: 12 / Bullpen: 10
Coaching Staff: Daisuke Yamaguchi (68) KOR
Fielding: C: Tricia (f) Moreno SLL - Infield: Ben Descombes, Kishō Kurahashi, Papa Girard, Hidemichi Chiura - Outfield: Hiroharu Akiba, Harper Yumizuka DRC, Kenko Ueda / DH: Nalivalu Amakusa
Pitching: Starters: Teno Mochizuki, Tsuno Hatanaka, Sadatake Mijazaki, Basil Carreiro, Roxelio Solar - Relievers: Ayo Abe, Naganoli Tao, Marcelo Lamas, Yoson Kuroda, Ami (f) Amaja - Closer: Varunobu Ozawa

Desierto Challengers @ Colenario Municipal (14000), Colenario, Finisterre
A new team to unify the towns around the edge of the Finisterran desert, continuing the Challengers name from Aonishi, will have some of the strangest home conditions. Small stadiums and small field dimensions and the heat will make for a great combo. Expect a lot of local flavours.
This is your club if you want the best food and vibes in and around the stadium. Probably the only tailgate-like opportunity in the Ko-orenite divisions. Mind the alcohol ban, though...
Prediction: Overall: 12 // Pitching: 9 / Fielding&Batting: 11 // Infield: 9 / Outfield: 8 / Starting pitchers: 11 / Bullpen: 7
Coaching Staff: Océane Sauvage (51) KOR
Fielding: C: Daniel Fermin - Infield: Assefa Mulugeta BNJ, Clément Dubos, Suke Enya, Bran Souto - Outfield: Addison Paterson, Dillon CarMichael CMT, Tametoki Atagi / DH: Leonardo Valladares
Pitching: Starters: Napoleon Campbell, Cécé Cortot, Stéphane Benne, Clem Popkiss, Kikugolo Vola - Relievers: Oswald Hogwood, Bernal Troche, Micajah Darleston, Stéphane Monat, Ange Léger - Closer: Virovaru Janagimoto

by **Ko-oren** » Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:17 am

Ice Hockey - Season 5

Launott Polar Bears
Projected finish: 1
First Line: Per Janszoon; Riquard Winterhaag, Alaguna Aeniva; Folke Steenbok, Izan Aiamalod, Avfu Aev
Second Line: Samuel Isaakszoon; Emdo Aesarure, Erling Mirre; Jukivilo Tsuchivashi, Karst van Meijeren, Carl Matteuszoon
Star: Per Janszoon / Best Unit: Defencemen
The reigning champions are at it again. They were #1 in the previous previews, and then #1 in the final table. The team remains very strong: with the added salary cap and financial options for all clubs, the Polar Bears are pretty much the first team to focus on building their second line and putting some young talent on it that's also ready enough to make waves in the league. Aesarure is an especially good 2nd liner, for a league where 'line strategies' are somewhat of an innovation.

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
Projected finish: 2
First Line: Aeloris Ainerea; Arisife Alinise, Aovbu Aesuso; Aewen Ailise, Aone Aenec, Aorinne Aelloma
Second Line: Aesame Aubelin; Esero Aubime, Allan Molander; Airifo Aereph, Aralea Ailisirea, Obdhuk Genoruden
Star: Aewen Ailise / Best Unit: Wingers
Third last year, and the moneyball club of Aevanna only got better. They, like the team above, realised that spending more money on a decent second line works better than tyring to max out your first, so it feels like these two clubs will reside in the top echelon of the league while the rest tries to catch up.

South Aevanna Storm
Projected finish: 3
First Line: Ausugo Aurtinia; Aennirin Ehoni, Aodofe Aoalen; Aerine Aorifi, Augane Evos, Yaller Nyan
Second Line: Thomas Engdal; Aihoba Aomrella, Aonalaira Aune; Selene (f) Aholangaunen, Aidira Aelora, Aimefe Aedia
Star: Aennirin Ehoni / Best Unit: Defencemen
They're building something: after the two big clubs of Aevanna dropped a bit (Scouts, Explorers-Mariners), the Storm has assumed the role of challenger on behalf of the city (while people still don't really recognise the Wanderers). The Storm have arguably the most talent up and down the roster, but it's concentrated at the same few positions, resulting in a slightly lower rating than the two all-round teams above.

Aevanna Scouts
Projected finish: 4
First Line: Aran Aelolin; Azava Aielure, Aiane Auvia; Aenva Avdu, Aemeve Aenetinia, Ainoph Eriren
Second Line: Jonathan Laurissen; Aegdi Aumf, Aehinei Aomea; Abilu Aorogo, Aifa Aelise, Ainise Auvia
Star: Aenva Avdu / Best Unit: Wingers
The Scouts are up and down. The pundits want them to be good: they're the old boys' club of Aevanna, the 'capital' of the sport (let's ignore the cities that aren't Aevanna, as well as all islands that Aevanna isn't on, as well as the entire mainland which has started to produce some damn good players in the last decade). Yes, they're capable, but their 8th place last year after a decent pre-season rank also didn't pay off. They're fairly commonly believed to finish in the top half, though.

Egevea Islanders
Projected finish: 5/6
First Line: Anedel Aemel; Aovmu Aonp, Aleia Aorei; Aerca Aedeise, Aiaca Ailinia, Aorale Enibel
Second Line: Elmora Aessassa; Aiagune Aorenna, Aonele Aem; Bjorn Hoeij, Arru Auial, Area Aitea
Star: Aorale Enibel / Best Unit: Centre
Second last year, but failing to capture the same magic in the preseason. Some flaws here and there (goalie) but with some alright players on the second line, there's a potential there. Hoeij has a bright future.

West Coast Blizzards
Projected finish: 5/6
First Line: Wugeld Zudalu; Lisiku Lurthesinkhinten, Kaddarra Nammagun; Lerambee Werree, Galara Lyorrara, Hallady Buck
Second Line: Chilra Miabiddy; Winand Nedergard, Kyorlish Filigana; Ginmakin Maylebee, Galwin yCynalon, Durrall Kyotalla
Star: Wugeld Zudalu / Best Unit: Goalie
Once the pride of the mainland, now they're falling behind. Is there less talent coming through in WSR with the ascent of Southern Rules Football? The fact they barely filled their job opening on the wing suggests there's bad things coming. They still have a lot of players to fill the second shifts (and later), which saves their ranking.

Serevne Northerners
Projected finish: 7
First Line: Aiane Alacia; Elinei Aegarial, Aelada Aubime; Arinia Aolopei, Bren Groenstege, Aelocu Aurtinia
Second Line: Jurthulun Dhaulninthen; Aialin Aiethea, Rudolf Hooihaag; Adoda Aedise, Erpi Amonibel, Aufegale Aimea
Star: Bren Groenstege / Best Unit: Wingers
Seemingly stuck in midtable, Serevne have inherited a pre-move roster that they now need to bolster with local talent - the northern island of Aerellen has always been a little overlooked, but it's up to this team to do something about that. The winger combo of Aolopei and Groenstege should keep defences busy, but the Northerners ought to invest in their own defence more.

Noordrug Bi-state
Projected finish: 8
First Line: Théodoric Gauvreau; Paulus Versnip, Aedeti Aenec; Adelhard Avondster, Kjell IJsberg, Willem Gaaidoorn
Second Line: Lucas Vorstland; Yoshi Tsuruoka, Lukas Zeegroen; Elis Hermanszoon, Herman Ruitiaan, Borre Asheim
Star: Aedeti Aenec / Best Unit: Defencemen
The Bi-state existed in the pre-professional and continue to be a strong regional force, but they're losing the recruitment battle to Arboren, Lamau-Dartha, and Straudum. They can stay relevant, but the club feels to be in a standstill here. Their ability to find talent outside of Aerellen and the immediate northeast is laudable, but it needs to translate to wins at some point, rather than develop players that will be good on a different team once. That said, Aenec might be the single best defenceman out there, but they need to do more. The state of their second line is not great.

Straudum Ice
Projected finish: 9
First Line: Kristo Laaksoog; Harm Kraainetel, Ste Hartskamp; Woutre Heerekornuit, Baul Corwild, Melis van Ossendal
Second Line: Ronny Ketelsen; Stefan Palmen, Taro Yanagimoto; Torsten Groenbloem, Motoshi Mizuochi, Reinier Reigervlier
Star: Woutre Heerekornuit / Best Unit: Wingers
The once-proud organisation finished second to last with a roster made up of Intermareans and Yoshimans, and the odd Sudaefjoller (where Straudum actually lies). You'd expect them to work off ex-Banijan league talent more. With one of the worst starting lines but a decent second line, they probably would have been killed in the press previews last year. Heerekornuit is one of the best players in the entire league, but the centre position and the entire defence is lacking.

Aevanna Explorers-Mariners
Projected finish: 10
First Line: Eliun Aoporin; Aelelia Ailane, Aesfu Aurtinia; Aidaloph Autibel, Asea Aireisura, Aemu Aebure
Second Line: Aoeve Auwen; Aemis Aivimara, Aelidia Alaomeia; Masamura Misawa, Aolii (f) Aeroa, Olivier Schemering
Star: Aemu Aebure / Best Unit: Wingers
Fourth last season, many thought we're starting an era of the joint Explorers-Mariners organisation. A dynasty was in the making for a while, as these are Aevanna's second and third most popular teams joining forces to knock down the Scouts a peg - but a few years in, this is what we have. An up and down roster, that should have been a super strong roster based on both clubs' original teams, but several walkouts and 'you're ruining the culture' yells later, they have to build a new core entirely. No care was taken in putting together the second line: the depth isn't there.

Arboren Vortex
Projected finish: 11/12
First Line: Elen Amiranel; Aelige Airaf, Vilokatsu Akinaga; Alagen Acilea, Aoralin Aniamisa, Aoseso Aodatinia
Second Line: Aethia Edalia; Michil Heerendal, Jasnarkun Piraulerindhen; Wargiabor Daygorra, Aundilis Aeretina, Efefise Aolelia
Star: Vilokatsu Akinaga / Best Unit: Centre
Dead last in the previous season, we all knew the first few years would be difficult for the Vortex. Having to assemble a fully new roster - but having a decent talent pool to do so - would hopefully only take time and not much more. Akinaga is a strangely powerful player and a guy to build a team around to an extent, but with easily the worst goalie in the top shift, it's not all there yet. The second string is somewhat decent, and we're expecting them to get better every year to match a top half team.

Lamau-Dartha Hunters
Projected finish: 11/12
First Line: Arend Lepelaar; Assanor Aiaros, Shunsuke Yasumoto; Hannes Malmstroom, Aifia Emireno, Aoleris Aialod
Second Line: Aidame Aelora; Gerwin Reigervlier, Gerben Merelarend; Carl Bergland, Richard Rutfield, Gjur Bergman
Star: Assanor Aiaros / Best Unit: Defencemen
Another team that didn't exist pre-pro. Like the Vortex, they had an entirely new roster to build. And while they're probably more successful than the Vortex, they haven't hit on a true star yet in the way that Akinaga keeps together Arboren, that, and the focal point of the offence, a centre, is missing a little. We'd argue that there are better centres among the various second shifts than Aialod...

by **Ko-oren** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 2:10 am

Ice Hockey - Season 5

Regular Season

*  KIHL                           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD    Win % 
 1 Aevanna Plains Wanderers        66   43   8  15   217  158  +59    0.712 Final
 2 Launott Polar Bears             66   37   9  20    94   64  +30    0.629 Semi-final
 3 South Aevanna Storm             66   30  16  20   157  128  +29    0.576 Semi-final
 4 Serevne Northerners             66   29  12  25   218  176  +42    0.530
 5 Noordrug Bi-state               66   31   7  28   142  134   +8    0.523
 6 West Coast Blizzards            66   29  10  27   113  123  −10    0.515
 7 Aevanna Scouts                  66   28  10  28   167  169   −2    0.500
 8 Straudum Ice                    66   28  10  28   131  130   +1    0.500
 9 Egevea Islanders                66   26   7  33   195  200   −5    0.447
10 Arboren Vortex                  66   21   8  37   154  191  −37    0.379
11 Aevanna Explorers-Mariners      66   19  11  36   155  228  −73    0.371
12 Lamau-Dartha Hunters            66   17   8  41    89  131  −42    0.318

Team of the Year
G Per Janszoon (23) -

Launott Polar Bears
D Arisife Alinise (21) -

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
D Riquard Winterhaag (21) -

Launott Polar Bears
W Aone Aenec (23) -

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
W Aerine Aorifi (29) -

South Aevanna Storm
C Aelocu Aurtinia (23) -

Serevne Northerners

Stats
Goals:
1 W Bren Groenstege (29) -

Serevne Northerners
2 C Aorinne Aelloma (23) -

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
3 C Aorale Enibel (33) -

Egevea Islanders

Assists:
1 W Aone Aenec (23) -

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
2 W Arinia Aolopei (23) -

Serevne Northerners
3 W Aenva Avdu (21) -

Aevanna Scouts

Points:
1 W Aone Aenec (23) -

Aevanna Plains Wanderers
2 W Bren Groenstege (29) -

Serevne Northerners
3 W Arinia Aolopei (23) -

Serevne Northerners

The

Serevne Northerners appeared in 14 of these high scoring games, more than any other team - they only won five of these, however. The

Egevea Islanders came close, with 12, winning seven. Only the

Aevanna Explorers-Mariners come anywhere near (at 9), winning just one of these occasions. The most likely outcome of a high scoring game was either an Egevea win (7x) or a draw (7x)

The

Serevne Northerners and the

Aevanna Plains Wanderers beat up on their opponents more than other teams, recording six wins of a margin of 5 more each. The

Aevanna Explorers-Mariners are the only team to not win any of their 66 games by 5 or more.

Postseason
Semifinal

Launott Polar Bears 2–1

South Aevanna Storm

South Aevanna Storm 1–1

Launott Polar Bears (2–1 OT)

South Aevanna Storm 1–0

Launott Polar Bears

Launott Polar Bears 0–1

South Aevanna Storm

South Aevanna Storm advance 3-1

Final

Aevanna Plains Wanderers 4–1

South Aevanna Storm

South Aevanna Storm 6–2

Aevanna Plains Wanderers

South Aevanna Storm 3–1

Aevanna Plains Wanderers

Aevanna Plains Wanderers 0–0

South Aevanna Storm (0–1 OT)

Aevanna Plains Wanderers 0–2

South Aevanna Storm

South Aevanna Storm win championship 4-1

Postseason MVP:
1 D Aennirin Ehoni (26) -

South Aevanna Storm
2 W Aidira Aelora (25) -

South Aevanna Storm
3 W Augane Evos (21) -

South Aevanna Storm

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