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works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Wed Oct 29, 2025 8:33 am

The Fleftic Premier League has entered uncharted territory. Never before in the history of the FPL has a team won the title three times in a row. Not even the most dominant Riuwiee United and Arsenal de Releinthi sides managed such a feat. In fact, going back to back was a rare feat in and of itself. But three in a row? A three-peat? One would have to go back into the days of the Liga ng Abanhfleft, the days when Unang Liga was actually the first league in the country, to find something similar to the domination that Ludogorets Markovsky is now exerting upon Fleftic football. The last time another team won the top flight title in Abanhfleft three times, Ludogorets was bouncing around the third and fourth tiers! How quickly times change, indeed. And now that they have conquered the improbable, the Foresters have set their sights on the downright impossible: win FOUR titles in a row. Now that is a feat that has literally never been done in the entire history of football in Abanhfleft. But that also sounds par for the course for Markovsky. After many years of rewriting history, now they want to make it themselves. And who’s going to stop them? Malabon tried, and then Sarvusdalamoive tried, but everyone else has fallen short so far. Can the Foresters really ride this wave of momentum into their own place in the history books? Or will they have finally bitten off more than they can chew? Nineteen other teams out there will do all that they can to make Ludogorets’ quest for a fourth straight time a living hell, but as the previous seasons had shown, when history beckons, it can be downright impossible to prevent a team from fulfilling their self-appointed destiny. Here are ten of the twenty teams that will duke it out in the Fleftic Premier League for the 2039-40 season.

Admiral Porcusces

Key players: Youssouf al-Basoomi, Ryker Travkin, Shawn Alogrin
Manager: Korbin Watson (52 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: Filibusters' Street (capacity 35,712)
Location: Porcusces, Ceneisis Province
Home colors: Blue with white trim and gold lettering
Away colors: Black with white lettering and trim
Third colors: White with blue lettering and gold trim
Position last season: 8th
Season objective: Top Five finish

What is it that makes recruitment difficult for Admiral Porcusces? It’s not just the international transfer market that’s making it difficult for the Sea Foxes; even domestic transfers have been few and far between for the team on the southern coast of Ceneisis Province. One would think that playing in a beautiful seaside resort town like Porcusces would be a strong pull if nothing else; neither the allure of a championship nor IFCF football had been particularly good enough to attract anyone (especially considering that Porcusces hadn’t come close to either in recent seasons). Heck, there actually is a bit of an exodus of players heading away from Porcusces, although it’s mostly been confined to their academy players. Whether it’s because Korbin Watson doesn’t believe that they’re good enough or if the academy lads think that there’s no pathway to the first team available for them, no one really knows. Maybe it’s a bit of both. But now that Sami Saab has decided to go back to his boyhood club in the Sultanate of Oontaz, Porcusces’ attacking options are looking a bit thin. Fortunately, Shawn Alogrin has been convinced to leave his homeland of Doubeia to fill the Saab-sized hole on the left flank. Alogrin, alongside his fellow countryman Ryker Travkin and Porcusces’ main man Youssouf al-Basoomi, is going to lead the line for the Sea Foxes, and the obvious hope is that they will help the team score more than 44 goals this coming season. Doable, but a tall order for Porcusces nonetheless.

Antslinngs Islands FC

Key players: Leo Kane, Kennedy Clinton, Botanu Kurisi
Manager: Artyom Avvakumov (51 y/o, Estorvipa and Estorpiva)
Stadium: Estadio Nacional de los Islas (capacity 18,020)
Location: Antslinngs City, Trendstart Colony
Home colors: Red and black striped shirts and white shorts
Away colors: White shirt and black shorts with red trim
Third colors: Black with red trim
Position last season: 16th
Season objective: Avoid relegation

Antslinngs Islands has managed to survive its first season back in the FPL, but the road is not going to get any easier for the Islanders. In fact, it’s only going to get more difficult as Antslinngs is once again one of the favorites for relegation, and after losing some veteran backups, the bench looks frighteningly thin. That said, Leo Kane has adjusted to life in the top flight much faster than his strike partner Stavros Georgiou, and while Artyom Avvakumov will still deploy those two as his front line at the start of the season, there’s a feeling that Georgiou will be dropped sooner rather than later. But who’s going to step up? A certain Copperite striker named Botanu Kurisi looks like the most likely option, but as with most things in this league, nothing is truly guaranteed. At least they will still have the creative force of Kennedy Clinton serving up passes and balls for the front line to pounce on even if the speed of the FPL looked to be just a tad bit overwhelming for the Oontaznik playmaker. Now that everyone wearing the red and black shirt of the Trendstarter club knows what to expect though, surely they would now be capable of keeping up. They may be tipped as one of the relegation candidates, but at least they’re no longer one of the favorites. Another good run of results could see the Islanders maintain their status as a member of the Fleftic top flight for at least another season, so long as Antslinngs actually does get a good run of results somewhere.

Arsenal de Releinthi

Key players: Edgar Smith-Fernandez, Oliver Thornton, Edward Martinez
Manager: Oleg Mostovoi (58 y/o, Pridnestrovia)
Stadium: Monsanto Stadium (capacity 60,757)
Location: Releinthi
Home colors: Red shirt with white sleeves and white shorts
Away colors: Dark yellow shirt with navy blue trim and navy blue shorts
Third colors: Black with yellow trim
Position last season: 3rd
Season objective: Win the title, stop the four-peat

Fans of Arsenal de Releinthi have come to expect that active transfer windows go hand in hand with good seasons for the club that they follow. So when Oleg Mostovoi failed to recruit quality players over the last three seasons, a lot of Gunners fans just couldn’t escape the feeling that the league would not be kind to them. And they were right. The fact that Releinthi signed only one player last season, and not even the one that Mostovoi actually wanted to sign, had to be a sure sign that Releinthi’s season was over before it had even begun. And it might be a case of déjà vu for the Gunners and their supporters this season as once again, Releinthi was unexpectedly quiet in the transfer market. Oleg Mostovoi made only one appreciable change to his matchday squad, and that was to sign a replacement for the outgoing Noriyasu Hachisuka in the form of Crpostranian left back Garey Rogier from Locomotive Imgortur. Most of the main players remain the same for the Gunners: Edgar Smith-Fernandez, who came third in the Golden Boot standings last season and will hope to replicate or even exceed that performance this season; Oliver Thornton pulling the strings in midfield, and Edward Martinez providing another vital supply route for Smith-Fernandez and Releinthi’s other forwards. If there’s ever been a time that this team needed to get to the next level then this was it. Someone has to put a stop to Ludogorets Markovsky’s “reign of terror,” and despite all the odds, Arsenal de Releinthi is the club seemingly best poised to do it.

Bananas FC

Key players: Ricky Gomez, Akihiro Kobayashi, Ian Cleary
Manager: Ludovico Ynares III (40 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: NLighten Arena (capacity 37,955)
Location: Suwkpel, Berkner Bay Province
Home colors: Amber shirt and black shorts
Away colors: Black with amber trim
Third colors: Dark green with apple green trim
Position last season: 17th
Season objective: Avoid relegation

Here’s another team that just survived by the skin of their teeth, and for Bananas, that idiom really does neatly explain their situation. Any other season and the Gorillas probably would have gotten relegated. However, the Suwkpel-based club just so happened to be lucky enough to be playing in the FPL at the same time as a surprisingly woeful Marinos Thimpodopoulos team that really had no business being dragged down into a relegation dogfight. Nevertheless, Bananas managed to survive to fight another season, but things aren’t really looking up for the side in amber and black. If the Gorillas don’t get their act together then they will definitely end up back in Unang Liga once again. Their fans still remember how hard it was to come back last time and are understandably not very keen on repeating the experience. And with Raymond Chavez moving to the Chiefdom of Copper Cuprum after not receiving a contract extension, the job just got a little bit harder for Bananas. Sure, they’ve still got Ricky Gomez leading the attack, and Akihiro Kobayashi is probably the best left winger to ever put on a Bananas shirt in two decades, maybe three, but goals scored won’t mean much if the club also concedes a lot. Hence probably why the Gorillas opted to sign Ian Cleary from Port Maleficent Magic over in the Island of the Lost to shore up their defense, even if it’s just one side of it. Every little bit helps in the fight to stave off relegation, right?

Eielo Sunlight

Key players: Pedro Labindalawa, David Serrano, Ralf Harper
Manager: Octavius Edwards (48 y/o, Island of the Lost)
Stadium: Estadio Raimondo Cabanalan (capacity 23,682)
Location: Manilaonilao, Eielo Province
Home colors: Amber yellow shirt and green shorts
Away colors: Black shirt and shorts with white trim
Third colors: Orange shirt with blue shorts and trim
Position last season: 4th in Unang Liga
Season objective: Avoid relegation

Welcome back to the Fleftic Premier League, Eielo Sunlight! It didn’t take the Suns too long to make it back to the top flight, didn’t they? Eielo looks like it’s aiming to become the next “yo-yo club” in Abanhfleft after Athletic Dorfdifving had done the same thing for almost two decades by now. Of course, it’s still too early to tell if Eielo will actually fall victim to the drop once again but it has to be said that they are among the odds-on favorites. On paper, this Suns squad looks strong enough to survive in the FPL with the likes of Geert van Egmond and Lev Zakharenko still plying their trade for the team in yellow and green despite suffering the indignity of relegation. But the players to watch out for in this team has to be the new additions, most notably Zakharenko’s former Malabon SC teammate Pedro Labindalawa. The former Fleftic under-21 international goalkeeper requested a move away from San Roque Park once it was clear that there was just no way he was going to dislodge Radislav Kalyna from protecting the goal for the Ravens so it was time to make his name someplace else. If Labindalawa can save Eielo from relegation then that’s definitely going to get more than just a few eyeballs on him. But the pressure isn’t just on Labindalawa’s shoulders. After Eielo took advantage of another relegation release clause, David Serrano now has to provide goals to help keep the Suns afloat, just like what the South Newlandian did for his former club Dorfdifving. These men know the job that they have to do, but actually doing it would appear to be another matter altogether.

Fleftic Air Force

Key players: Joni Laurismäki, Mikhail Zakharov, Ousmane Marwany
Manager: Rufus Hernandez (50 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: Villahermosa Memorial Stadium (capacity 43,021)
Location: Pilken, Dav Province
Home colors: Blue with white sleeves and collar and white shorts
Away colors: Yellow with blue trim
Position last season: 14th
Season objective: Mid-table finish, avoid relegation if necessary

Fleftic Air Force Football Club seems like it’s going in the complete opposite direction that it wanted to go. Instead of marching ever closer towards the IFCF places, the Golden Eagles had slipped further and further down the table. They’re not looking like they’re going to be relegation material just yet, but a run of bad results could easily swing the balance against the Air Force club. And it also happens that the Eagles had just lost the services of two long-time servants of club, namely Darren Mayes and Liang Tao. Neither one of them could really be expected to play for as long as the Air Force wanted, considering that they’re not even serving in the Air Force itself or even Fleftic citizens for that matter. Joni Laurismäki remains the focal point of the Golden Eagles’ defense, but don’t expect him to remain in that role for too long as well. Thus it’s no surprise that Fleftic Air Force made a splash in the transfer market in order to fill the other two foreign player spots allowed to them by the SFA. One of those spots will go to Zenic’s Bastien Jolanda, although the wingback could find himself playing out of position in the three at the back system favored by Rufus Hernandez. And the other spot almost went unfilled until near deadline day when Fleftic Air Force finally managed to agree a deal with Estorvipa and Estorpiva’s Dinamo Durdenville for the services of Mikhail Zakharov. The Estorian winger will provide much-needed service up top to Laurismäki, although circumstances might make it so that Zakharov might have to become the new goalscoring threat for the Air Force club. Honestly speaking, it’s not really an enviable position.

Fleftic Army

Key players: Tuan Parthosi, Deuzimar Moreira, Madison Mullins
Manager: Antonio Juarez Vicario (41 y/o, Fhulghamous Peninsula)
Stadium: Alvarez Memorial Stadium (capacity 30,756)
Location: Sebet, Sarvusdalamoive Province
Home colors: Olive with white trim
Away colors: White with olive trim
Position last season: 2nd in Unang Liga
Season objective: Avoid relegation

The Fleftic Army Football Club is the second club returning to the top flight after the War Pigs finished in second place in Unang Liga last season. There had been moments when it looked like the Army club was actually going to win the title in the second division alongside gaining promotion, but Uranium City Radiation managed to get a second wind that propelled the Radiation beyond their title rivals towards a first ever appearance in Abanhfleft’s top flight. But the topic of this conversation right now is Fleftic Army, and it is their players and prospects of staying in the league that should be talked about. The War Pigs went back to the market once again after their foreign players ran out their contracts despite finally succeeding in the promotion push, but considering that playing for an armed forces football club isn’t exactly a great attractor for prospective players, it’s still almost a miracle that Fleftic Army actually got something done. Without a doubt their biggest coup was landing Squornshelan striker Tuan Parthosi, who took advantage of a relegation release clause to get him out of Gyouza. Obviously, Parthosi will be hoping that the service to him will be much better and more consistent across the entire season than what he had with Young Lads, some of which will undoubtedly be provided by midfielder Madison Mullins, fresh off of a campaign with Cruellaville Hounds. Army’s final addition in between the sticks is Deuzimar Moreira, a free transfer out of Kanzlia. Will these new faces be good enough to keep Fleftic Army in the FPL this time around, hopefully for a longer time than they did last time? That’s the hope.

Locomotive Imgortur

Key players: Mimis Abaris, Malcolm Preston, Kaden Manzano
Manager: Emilio Caravaggio (69 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: New Locomotive Arena (capacity 45,035)
Location: Imgortur, Verbergerkinnh Province
Home colors: Green shirt and red shorts and socks
Away colors: White with green and red trim and lettering
Third colors: Black with white and green trim and lettering
Position last season: 7th
Season objective: Top Five finish, challenge for the title if possible

Lack of activity in the transfer market appears to be a common theme among teams in the top half of the table, or more accurately those teams seeking to cement their presence in the top half of the table. One could say that Locomotive Imgortur had already done that and much more ever since Emilio Caravaggio took charge of the Engineers, but it’s clear that just being in the top half is no longer enough for the club’s fans and its ownership. However, the results haven’t really gone Imgortur’s way, and despite the owners being open to loosening the purse strings to throw money at reinforcements and additions to the squad, there isn’t really a line forming to suit up for Locomotive. In fact, a handful of Imgortur players actually wanted out of the club, specifically Garey Rogier, who went to a club currently with a much better chance of winning the FPL title in the form of Arsenal de Releinthi. Nevertheless, there’s still enough quality in this side to finally get them bumped up into the top five, and with the addition of Malcolm Preston from Marinos Thimpodopoulos, the Engineers’ front line just got that little bit beefier. At the same time, it’s quite telling that Caravaggio and company would rather bring in outside help than promote Ramiro Guerra from the bench to fill in the shoes of the retiring Haider El-Amin. Seems that Guerra’s hotheadedness has indeed turned him more of a liability than a help for this team, although the cool head of goalkeeper and team captain Mimis Abaris should help keep heads cool. Most of the time, that is.

Ludogorets Markovsky

Key players: Sven Fahrni, Steinthor Freyr Steingrimsson, Alexander Buenaflor
Manager: Roberto Hoya (53 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: Stadium of the Old Forester (capacity 40,202)
Location: Markovsky, Mazaladbyi Province
Home colors: Dark green with white trim
Away colors: White with dark green trim
Third colors: Gray with dark green trim
Position last season: 1st
Season objective: Four-peat, complete and utter domination of the league

All hail the three-time defending champions of the Fleftic Premier League. And if everything should go according to plan then by the end of this season Ludogorets Markovsky should be four-time defending FPL champions. However, unlike last season, there might actually be more than just a handful of factors which might actually work against the Foresters with regards to winning four straight league titles. The biggest of them all is, without a doubt, the fact that Markovsky did absolutely nothing at all during the transfer window. On one hand, it’s clearly a stamp of approval from Roberto Hoya and his belief that his current squad is good enough to bring home the bacon yet again. On the other hand, complacency is the silent killer, and Hoya might have become complacent in his squad’s ability to get the title race over the finish line. All of that said, there’s still no doubt in most people’s minds that Sven Fahrni is still capable of doing the business when it comes to both scoring and assisting goals, and Alexander Buenaflor will be there to pounce when Fahrni isn’t. The biggest question mark hangs over the head of Paolo von Montanari, who despite contributing his fair share in the goals and assists department last year looks to have lost a step or two, which could be the difference between four titles and second place. At least there’s the likes of Steinthor Freyr Steingrimsson and Gideon Nightwalker to pick up the slack, both in defense and attack. It’s not yet the end of the world for Markovsky, that’s for sure. But they might just be that little bit more vulnerable this season, which itself could open up all sorts of possibilities for the fate of the title.

Malabon SC

Key players: Radislav Kalyna, Denny Hobbs, Jeremy Onus
Manager: Kirill Kucherenko (49 y/o, Pridnestrovia)
Stadium: San Roque Park (capacity 52,001)
Location: Malabon
Home colors: White and black striped shirts and black shorts
Away colors: Orange with light blue trim
Position last season: 2nd
Season objective: TItle challengers

Malabon SC didn’t really cover themselves in glory last season. The Ravens really looked like they were going to be the team in the best position to stop Ludogorets Markovsky from winning three titles in a row. But Malabon just couldn’t get it over the line. Whether it was a combination of injuries, misfiring players or sheer bad luck, Malabon didn’t prove itself to be the obstacle to Markovsky’s three-peat that fans of the nineteen other teams in the FPL wanted them to be. It’s easy to point fingers at Malabon’s aging squad, with the likes of Manuel Wheeler no longer being quick enough to catch up to the opposition and Anwar Bugarani no longer quick or strong enough to get on the end of a long pass to smash the ball into the back of the net. Thus it was really no surprise that Denny Hobbs finally got the starting striker job (as well as the number 9 shirt) when Bugarani announced his retirement after the end of the previous season. But who’s going to back him up? One of those guys is definitely going to be Talal Akabi, who made the switch to San Roque Park after winning three titles of his own with Pasargad Manitogoro. It might just be that kind of title-winning consistency that Malabon needs to dethrone the mighty Foresters, but none of that is going to mean anything if the defense that won the Ravens the championship four seasons ago. Hence why Kirill Kucherenko injected more young blood into that defensive line in the form of Auprussian left back Vitore Enetac and center back Emil Cobb from the Island of the Lost. This is a group that might not get the job done immediately, but at the very least the building blocks are already there just waiting to be erected into an actual title-chasing (or maybe even title-winning) squad.

This concludes Part One of the preview for the 2039-40 Fleftic Premier League season. Part Two will cover the rosters, transfer market moves, and prospects of the other ten teams with regards to winning the league or staying in it. Stay tuned.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Sat Nov 01, 2025 8:10 am

Here is the second part of the preview for the 2039-40 Fleftic Premier League season. The other ten teams in the league have now done all that they could when it comes to wheeling and dealing and making transfers in and out. Now it’s time to see if they’ve actually done a good job setting themselves up for the future or if the present is going to become a painful prospect for any one of these teams.

Paulsen FC

Key players: Karl Fenenko, Joseph Clarke, Virgil Skovenborg
Manager: Djordje Ilicic (63 y/o, Estorvipa and Estorpiva)
Stadium: Paulsen City Arena (capacity 20,922)
Location: Paulsen, Dorfdifving Province
Home colors: Old gold shirt and shorts with black trim
Away colors: Black shirt and shorts with old gold trim
Third colors: White shirt and shorts with old gold lettering and black trim
Position last season: 10th
Season objective: Mid-table finish

Last season, Paulsen Football Club was as mid-table as any football club could ever get. The Boilermakers were neither good enough to ever challenge for even the lowest IFCF place, but at the same time they weren’t bad enough to see them slide into a relegation dogfight. Now whether all of that was a matter of the pieces finally falling into place for Djordje Ilicic and his men or if it was all just a matter of getting some good luck going their way at just the right moments is another question altogether. Paulsen has never been known to be a spending team, and this preseason proved to be no different than any other for the Boilermakers. The team sold off some players and picked up a few others on free transfers, but most of the important faces are still there. No doubt Karl Fenenko is ready and eager to take the Golden Glove fight to his compatriot Radislav Kalyna, while the midfield trio of Fisher Gerwin, Virgil Skovenborg, and Kirill Timofeyev looks like it has finally achieved that fine balance of defensive solidity and attacking creativity. However, there’s one familiar face that isn’t going to be present anymore, and that’s courtesy of Patrick Mangubat announcing his retirement from professional football at the end of last season. Good thing Paulsen already had Joseph Clarke ready and waiting to slot into that center forward position when needed, but now who’s going to back up the backup who’s now become the starter? For that, one need look no further than Micha Bachmann from Siovanija and Teusland who will get to spend a few seasons cooking and simmering while Clarke does most of the dirty work for the Boilermakers.

Riuwiee United

Key players: Marat Tkachev, Aalipdis Marec, Muhammad Anwar
Manager: Joe Warren (61 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: May 26 Revolution Memorial Stadium (capacity 71,385)
Location: Riuwiee
Home colors: Dark blue shirt with yellow trim and yellow shorts with dark blue trim
Away colors: Yellow shirt with black trim and black shorts
Third colors: Neon green shirt with dark blue trim and dark blue shorts
Position last season: 4th
Season objective: Win the title or finish in the Top Five

The main reason why Riuwiee United decided to hire Joe Warren as their new manager last season was to bring the Blue Tribesmen back into title contention after the spectacular failure of Volker de Veen to do just that. And, in a way, Warren succeeded. He did manage to get the capital club back into the IFCF places, but to say that Riuwiee actually managed to nose into the title race is like saying that the mosquito defeated the buffalo. In their defense though, that had more to do with the fact that Ludogorets Markovsky and Malabon SC sometimes treated last year’s title like a hot potato. They dropped enough points to make the other teams below them think that they might actually have a chance of getting into the mix. This season though, this might actually be more of a reality than most people think. While neither Markovsky nor Malabon did much recruiting in the offseason, Riuwiee has actually been splashing the cash to attract new faces to the capital of Abanhfleft, specifically defenders to help bolster one of the leakier back lines among the “title favorites” last season. Vielfaltig’s Theodore Jerome is a much-needed addition to the Blue Tribesmen’s defense, especially now that Illya Shabanenko has hung up his boots, and bringing in Damien Neusa on loan from Burnaby SC in Kelssek will provide Warren with some defensive depth. However, things aren’t all looking up for Riuwiee; Undeio Dettmann will find himself playing out of position as a right-sided fullback instead of a right wingback. That could affect the way he plays, or it might not have an effect on Riuwiee United’s campaign at all. Still too early to tell.

Rosenpfelblatz City

Key players: Lucas von Wolfberg, Amisa Fatabbujbi, Quentin Hartman
Manager: Sheila Berg (38 y/o, Island of the Lost)
Stadium: Aeroflot Stadium (capacity 56,097)
Location: Rosenpfelblatz, Mezaladbyi Province
Home colors: Sky blue shirt and white shorts with black trim
Away colors: Black shirt and shorts with white trim
Third colors: Dark violet shirt and shorts with orange trim
Position: 13th
Season objective: Top Five finish

It’s no secret that things haven’t always gone the way of Rosenpfelblatz City, especially considering that it’s now been almost two decades since the Citizens won the Fleftic Premier League. Some seasons, the Citizens have actually managed to come close, but other times luck simply hasn’t been on their side. And it could be said that luck actually spat on the face of Rosen City and its supporters last season because not only did their hated rivals Ludogorets Markovsky become FPL champions three seasons in a row but City also finished below their intra-city rivals Rosenpfelblatz North End for the first time in the club’s entire history. It probably helps that Rosen North’s heyday happened in the very early days of Fleftic football, way before Rosen City was even a thing, but City fans could hardly care about that distinction right now. For the first time, Rosenpfelblatz was not sky blue, and it’s really getting on their nerves. No wonder City’s owners decided to let go of Romeo Portnoy and hand the reins over to Sheila Berg along with a blank check. Berg must have had her eyes on Auprussia, or at the very least Auprussian players as she immediately signed two almost as soon as her appointment as Rosenpfelblatz City’s manager was confirmed. Ales Gile-Artevineair makes the medium-sized leap from Sarvusdalamoive to western Mezaladbyi to swap the pink shirt for a sky blue one, while Perin Caupet joins from Brasta FC to replace another outgoing Auprussian in Marc Apellaine. And while Lucas von Wolfberg looks like he’s still capable of banging in the goals, Sheila Berg has decided to take no chances and signed Juan Alvarado as backup for when the Schutzenphalian striker loses form or, God forbid, goes down with an injury. Clearly Berg must have been a Girl Scout or its equivalent back in the Island of the Lost.

Rosenpfelblatz North End

Key players: Christian Vacek Jr., Yuri Arshinkov, Alessio Caruso
Manager: Gareth Bunsen (49 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: Plainfields (capacity 23,844)
Location: Rosenpfelblatz, Mezaladbyi Province
Home colors: White shirt and navy blue shorts
Away colors: Aquamarine shirt and shorts with navy blue trim
Third colors: Black shirt and shorts with aquamarine trim
Position: 12th
Season objective: Avoid relegation

Things are going much, much better than Rosenpfelblatz North End’s management, ownership, and fanbase could have predicted. Not only did the Acolytes successfully survive a season in the Fleftic Premier League but they also finished in front of their intra-city rivals Rosenpfelblatz City for the first time ever! If that isn’t enough to inflate the egos of even the most level-headed fans then nothing short of a title win probably will. But as everyone who’s followed Fleftic football will know by now, the first season is oftentimes the easiest part of a newly promoted team’s life in the top flight. Maintaining that momentum into the second season has proved to be difficult, and many teams that had managed to beat the odds before and were tipped to continue surviving ended up going down anyway, usually due to a multitude of factors. Rosen North managed to overperform many of their metrics last season, and Gareth Bunsen has to be wary of his men regressing to the mean for this season, something that could mean the difference between surviving another season in the FPL and getting relegated yet again, especially when some of the players that helped the Acolytes survive in the first place are no longer going to be suiting up for them. Rosen North doesn’t have the bottomless pockets that their rivals to the south have so Gareth Bunsen had to be much more astute with his transfer moves, and it could be argued that him landing Alessio Carusso from Athletic Dorfdifving courtesy of a relegation release clause counts as one such astute move. And with their forward department also looking a bit thin, Bunsen signed Rurik Burås on a free transfer to serve as a backup to Yuri Arshinkov and company. It might not be much, but it might just be enough to keep Rosen North fighting for another season of FPL football.

Sarvusdalamoive

Key players: Jaidev Muthukrishnan, Sacit Közalmaz, Bruce Shuttlesworth
Manager: Taras Markov (44 y/o, Pridnestrovia)
Stadium: Stadio della Citta de Sebet (capacity 42,323)
Location: Sebet, Sarvusdalamoive Province
Home colors: Pink shirt and black shorts
Away colors: Black shirt and shorts with pink trim
Third colors: White shirt and shorts with pink and black trim
Position: 15th
Season objective: Finish in the top half of the table

Last season could not have gone much more poorly than it could have for Sarvusdalamoive. In fact, the only thing keeping last season from being a truly bad one for the Pinks is the fact that they haven’t been relegated, although there were definitely moments when they would have absolutely deserved going down to Unang Liga. The team that managed to take Ludogorets Markovsky to the wire just a couple of seasons ago is now nowhere to be found even though most of the same faces and players are still there in Sebet. But one person who won’t be there to begin this season is Yuri Kharitonov, who saw all the goodwill that he had managed to build up some time ago evaporate courtesy of the team’s absolutely piss-poor results. Kharitonov’s countryman Taras Markov now has the task of steering Sarvus back to the top half of the table, although Markov will have to do that with a limited budget. At least he managed to hold on to Fleftic international Sacit Közalmaz and keep this Sarvus attack as potent as it could be. Bruce Shuttlesworth is the lynchpin holding the midfield and consequently this entire team together on the field, and so retaining his services was almost as good as making a big signing in the transfer market. Meanwhile, Simeon Papadopoulos has been given the captain’s armband and will now take on the mantle of responsibility. Speaking of the transfer window, Sarvus didn’t make much of a splash as expected, but after the Pinks had to sell off Ales Gile-Artevineair to Rosenpfelblatz City, it was their turn to pick off a player from a fellow Fleftic team. Jeremy Collins-Lewis arrives from Athletic Dorfdifving looking to make a much bigger impact with his new team than he had with the Canaries last season.

Sporting Ceneisis

Key players: Guildenstern Cardew, Palmer Hicks, Brandon Meyers
Manager: Rico Van Zant (46 y/o, Island of the Lost)
Stadium: Throckmorton Bridge (capacity 47,630)
Location: Mereilles, Ceneisis Province
Home colors: Blue shirt and shorts with white trim
Away colors: White shirt and shorts with blue trim
Third colors: Pink shirt and shorts with black trim
Position last season: 5th
Season objective: Challenge for the title

If things went down the toilet for Sarvusdalamoive last season then everything couldn’t have gone much better for Sporting Ceneisis. After falling to an ignominious 10th place finish in the season previous, the Blues finally managed to claw their way back into the IFCF places and even won the SFA Cup to boot. Rico Van Zant’s appointment to the Ceneisis dugout could very well be one of the most astute managerial moves that Nikita Bellich has ever made. But now that Ceneisis has become relevant once again, the next step forward is obvious: knock Ludogorets Markovsky off of their pedestal and become the best football team in all of Abanhfleft once again. All of that said though, even Van Zant has admitted that his squad is growing a little bit too long in the tooth and that turnover would be inevitable. And with Freddie Altman finally hanging up his boots, Van Zant needed a new right winger in Throckmorton Bridge, and fast. It was no wonder that he then whipped out the checkbook and made an offer for Rosenpfelblatz City’s Marc Apellaine, but perhaps the biggest surprise is that the Citizens actually accepted the offer and sold arguably one of their best players to a direct title rival. Maybe the fact that Rosen City finished below Rosen North End last season without the Citizens ever looking capable of challenging for the title in the first place had something to do with it. But that wasn’t the only big transfer Rico Van Zant pushed through this offseason; Ceneisis also acquired the services of veteran defender Raymond DeGarmo in order to bolster a defense that now has a big piece missing courtesy of the departure of Kim Hoseok. But is it going to be enough to lift Ceneisis further up the table and to another title though?

Thereisnogodistan

Key players: Dan-Arne Kystebo, Ozzy Bocanegra, Julian Umanov
Manager: Samwell Crownover (44 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: Richard Dawkins Park (capacity 25,607)
Location: Thereisnogodabad, Fhulghamous Peninsula Colony
Home colors: Yellow and white half-and-half shirt and white shorts
Away colors: White shirt with yellow sash and yellow shorts
Third colors: Blue shirt with white sash and blue shorts
Position last season: 11th
Season objective: Mid-table finish

Thereisnogodistan looks like it might have taken a step back last season, but a lot of fans and pundits are still convinced that Samwell Crownover is the real deal. Of course, it’s easy to get caught up in the hype when the Atheists were flying high at the top of the league or near it during the first few games of the previous season, but the rest of the season quickly proved that there was still a lot of that both manager and team needed to learn before TNG could actually be considered a part of the title race. And here comes the truly difficult part of the challenge for Crownover: he has to show that he can do it for more than just a few games, and he has to do it with practically the same squad that he had from last season. That’s already a tough assignment in and of its own, but Crownover has to manage this team after one of the most notable failures to land a deal in the transfer market in current times in the Affan Hoang deal. One can expect rivals fans to not let him and the club live that particular blunder down, not even after Crownover signed Ronald Pilar from the Fhulghamous Peninsula instead. At least he still has constant Golden Boot contender Dan-Arne Kystebo under contract, as well as two prolific wingers in Julian Umanov and Felipe Carrizo[/b]. This current TNG squad definitely looks like it’s good enough to push for another top half finish, but finishing in the top five? That might actually be pushing their luck.

Uranium█City█Radiation

Key players: Vladislav Aristarkhov, Josiah Maldonado, Götz Göransson-Schmidt
Manager: Fernando Manriquez (52 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: Stadium of the Southern Lights (capacity 49,700)
Location: Uranium City, Fleftic Antarctica
Home colors: Yellow shirt with red stripes and red shorts
Away colors: Green shirt and shorts
Third colors: Orange shirt with black stripes and black shorts
Position last season: 1st in Unang Liga
Season objective: Avoid relegation

Welcome to the newest boys on the block! Here is twenty years’ worth of investment from local boy turned business magnate Leo del Rosario finally paying off, but it definitely hasn’t been a smooth ride for him or for his fellow supporters. There was a time in the late 2020s to early 2030s in which it looked like Uranium City was going to fall out of the professional leagues altogether, but a change in manager and philosophy would take the Atomics out of their negative spiral and back up the leagues, and now here they are in the big time. U-City’s defense worked overtime to get the team into the FPL, and thus it’s no surprise that goalkeeper Josiah Maldonado is set to continue leading this bunch through their very first season of top flight football. Assist leader Hermes Querubim is finally going to have what he hopes to be a clinical strike partner in Vladislav Aristarkhov, a center forward who honestly should have gotten a lot more opportunities in Gyouza with Young Lads than he actually did. Who knows if Aristarkhov could have meant the difference between Gyouza surviving the drop last season? In any case, it’s too late to think about what could have been and instead he should focus on what he can do for his new club now. Meanwhile, Fernando Manriquez also signed Miles Gerry from Sylestone’s Capital FC as a new pivot in the midfield for the Atomics, adding international experience and some veteran steel into Uranium City’s backbone to shore them up even further for the coming campaign.

Wanda Island Wanderers

Key players: Rostislav Chukreyev, Pertinax Tikeers, Yonatan Ochoa
Manager: Ruperto da Silva (68 y/o, Sultanate of Oontaz)
Stadium: IKEA Arena (capacity 58,973)
Location: Wanda City, Wanda Island
Home colors: Pink shirt and dark blue shorts
Away colors: Dark blue shirt and shorts
Third colors: Light blue shirt and shorts
Position last season: 6th
Season objective: Challenge for the title

Different season, same old Wanda Island Wanderers. There was literally no reason for the Wanderers to fall out of the IFCF places on the final day of the season, and yet they still managed to do it. There are just some things that not even a title victory will ever erase, and for Wanda Island, it’s a reputation for bottling it in the club’s biggest moments. There are still those who wonder how the Wanderers even managed to win the Fleftic Premier League in 2028 when they’ve dropped the ball on so many occasions, but despite all that, the Wanderers are still considered favorites for the title. Outside favorites, sure, but favorites nonetheless, meaning at the very least they’re expected to be part of the fight. And, judging by the moves that they had made in the transfer market this offseason, the Wanderers actually plan on living up to those expectations. Matyas Vass comes in from Pasarga to fill in the hole left behind by the departure of Oliver Freeland, and Wanda Island now has two new fullbacks in Ros deu Mapallier and Romulo Farro to keep their flanks secure. Wanda Island could really use the security there; they conceded so many goals from crosses in the previous season. Add to that the new rumors that Ruperto da Silva’s job may actually be on the line this season if he doesn’t bring home some silverware and one gets the feeling that this might be the beginning of a new, more ruthless Wanda Island Wanderers side.

Xemlice Rovers

Key players: Isaiah Ivy, Marc Lagmay, Jevon Eusebio
Manager: Peter Paul Montenegro (45 y/o, Abanhfleft)
Stadium: Oubie Park (capacity 47,312)
Location: Lotharstadt, Xemlice Province
Home colors: Light blue and dark blue checkered shirt and light blue shorts
Away colors: Yellow shirt and shorts with dark blue trim
Third colors: Gray shirt and shorts with light blue trim
Position last season: 9th
Season objective: Top Five finish

Last but most certainly not the least is Xemlice Rovers. Of course, there used to be a time when Xemlice was actually primus inter pares in Abanhfleft’s top flight, and the club’s recent actions seem to be pointing in a direction suggesting that the Gamekeepers want to get back to that lofty position. It’s not going to be easy; it never really is when it comes to Xemlice. But after coming close to breaking their drought when Malabon SC did exactly that a few seasons ago, Xemlice has got the taste for silverware once again, and it almost doesn’t matter that the Gamekeepers have finished mid-table since then. Just like Wanda Island’s manager Ruperto da Silva in the previous section, Peter Paul Montenegro is also under immense pressure to deliver the goods to Lotharstadt, and this time the ownership has opened up the purse strings to let Montenegro get the reinforcements that he sorely needs for such a campaign. Perhaps the biggest coup of them all is landing Bryan Edwards, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise disappointing campaign for Gyouza Young Lads last season, and Nobana Susuku going back to Copper Cuprum to wrap up his career, it was a good thing that Xemlice managed to seal the deal for Barsaam Khovkoitun. Someone has to provide assists to Marc Lagmay, and Isaiah Ivy sure as hell can’t do it all by himself. Well, he did try, and look at how that turned out for the Gamekeepers for the last two seasons. Surely Ivy and Lagmay will appreciate the new help that they’re about to get.

And that ends the preview for the 2039-40 season of the Fleftic Premier League. Can Ludogorets Markovsky actually do it? Can they win four titles in a row and truly cement their grip over the rest of Fleftic football? Or will one of the other teams finally have what it takes to end this current run of domination from the Foresters? Come to think of it, is there a team that can do what Malabon SC did a few seasons ago and win the league while coming out of left field? Will a team like Sarvusdalamoive or Thereisnogodistan finally break the iron grip of the old guard over the IFCF places? And what of the newly promoted teams? Does Uranium City Radiation have what it takes to make sure that their stay in the top flight lasts for more than just one season? Can Fleftic Army hang on and make the Armed Forces derby against Fleftic Air Force a regular thing once again? Is Eielo Sunlight going to be the next yo-yo club? As of right now, no answers are forthcoming, but come back to these questions at the end of the season. Surely by then there will be an answer for at least one of these questions.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Mon Nov 10, 2025 12:36 am

If there wasn’t a target on the back of Ludogorets Markovsky before then there should be one there now! Maybe it’s because nobody really thought that the Foresters would actually be able to do it that Markovsky actually managed to accomplish a feat never seen before in the era of the Fleftic Premier League, and that is win three titles in a row. Markovsky looked like nobody was going to be able to stop them at the start of the season, but thankfully Malabon SC stepped up to the challenge going into the second half of the year. Or at least that was what everyone thought until both Markovsky and Malabon went through the same cycle of dropping points and not taking advantage that happened between the Foresters and the Pinks of Sarvusdalamoive before Ludogorets finally emerged triumphant once again. Once was already bad enough, but two times? It almost feels like the football gods wanted Ludogorets to get the three-peat, and no other club in the country was going to get in their way. But even during the run-in, when Markovsky finally had the championship under lock and key yet again, there were signs that cracks were beginning to show. Sure, this team was still quite dominant, but the dominance wasn’t to the levels of the team that had claimed the first of these three consecutive titles. And with Markovsky remaining surprisingly quiet in the transfer market, it feels like the time is now ripe for another team to take the fight to the Foresters. But don’t get too excited just yet, Malabon fans: the Ravens have also been quiet while rivals such as Riuwiee United and Rosenpfelblatz City have ramped up their recruitment in preparation for another grueling season. Everyone knows they can’t afford any slip-ups this time around. But for Sporting Ceneisis, their victory in the SFA Cup last season gives them an opportunity to throw a massive spanner in the works when it comes to Markovsky’s campaign for four titles in a row. The new season will begin with Ceneisis and Markovsky contesting the SFA Community Shield, and for Ceneisis, this has to be a chance to disrupt their bitter rivals’ season before it had even started.

2039 SFA Community Shield

Played @ May 26 Revolution Memorial Stadium, RIuwiee

  Sporting Ceneisis 1–2 Ludogorets Markovsky  
    Apellaine (50')     Fahrni (12')
                        von Montanari (78')

Referee: Goguro Kokuna (Copper Cuprum—Ras Deg)

Normally, the SFA Community Shield would be held at the home ground of the team that won the SFA Cup (if it happens to be a different team to the winner of the Fleftic Premier League). However, due to the bitter and sometimes violent history between Sporting Ceneisis and Ludogorets Markovsky, the Samahang Futbol ng Abanhfleft (SFA) has once again made the decision not only to host this game at a neutral venue but to also bring in a foreign referee to officiate this match. It’s already been done before, most recently in the 2035 Community Shield match between Riuwiee United and Arsenal de Releinthi when the match was held at Pilken and the referee was a Pridnestrovian official. With the two teams contesting the Shield coming from practically opposite ends of the country, there was really one option for the neutral venue, and that was the May 26 Revolution Memorial Stadium in Riuwiee, and for the match officials the SFA decided to outsource to the Chiefdom of Copper Cuprum this time around. However, while there might have been increased security in the stadium itself, up to and including National Guard troopers to augment both the local stewards and police who were all actually needed to break up a handful of fights between the more vocal and raucous supporters’ groups from both sides, the match itself was a more respectful affair. Yes, there were still a good number of verbal spats and even the occasional hard tackle here and there, but for the most part it appeared that most of the vitriol was actually coming from the fans in the stands and not on the pitch. As for the match itself, it was a routine victory in the end for the Foresters. An early goal from Sven Fahrni set the tone for a dominant afternoon for Markovsky, and while new Blue Marc Apellaine returned his team to parity five minutes into the second half, Paolo von Montanari restored the Foresters’ advantage to make sure that the Shield will stay in Markovsky for one more season, just like the Fleftic Premier League trophy.

Congratulations to Ludogorets Markovsky, your 2039 SFA Community Shield winners!

Matchday One Scores
Fleftic Air Force 1–2 Ludogorets Markovsky
Fleftic Army 1–1 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Sarvusdalamoive 1–1 Rosenpfelblatz City
Admiral Porcusces 2–3 Thereisnogodistan
Sporting Ceneisis 0–0 Wanda Island Wanderers
Antslinngs Islands 0–4 Malabon SC
Xemlice Rovers 0–0 Uranium City Radiation
Eielo Sunlight 0–1 Arsenal de Releinthi
Paulsen 1–1 Locomotive Imgortur
Riuwiee United 3–1 Bananas

Once again, the Fleftic Air Force Football Club opens the new season of the Fleftic Premier League, and once again they’re doing it at home. The only difference between last season and the present day is that instead of going up against another side aiming for a mid-table finish, the Golden Eagles are up against the three-time defending FPL champions Ludogorets Markovsky. Talk about getting a very tough test to start the season! Thus it’s no surprise that the Air Force Club fell flat on this very first hurdle that they had to tackle, but at least they put up a good accounting of themselves against the Foresters. Joni Laurismäki may not have been able to find his name on the scoresheet this time around but he was a handful to deal with for the Markovsky defense, and it was Laurismäki preoccupying the likes of Foma Yevdokimov and Jean Duriez that opened up the space for Norman Lanta to score what would turn out to be a consolation goal for the Air Force Club. Meanwhile, a handful of the other title hopefuls started off their respective campaigns in the right direction, most notably Malabon SC which smashed Antslinngs Islands by four goals to nil to further diminish the Islanders’ already slim hopes of possibly surviving another season in the FPL. Riuwiee United and Arsenal de Releinthi also won their games against two sides favored to get relegated this season, but it has to be said that Releinthi struggled to break down a stubborn Eielo Sunlight defense before finally breaking through courtesy of a late Edgar Smith-Fernandez goal. Of course it’s still too early to tell who’s going to remain in the title race based on the evidence from a single matchday, but right now the signs are looking promising for the Capital Islands clubs.

Match of the Day
Admiral Porcusces 2–3 Thereisnogodistan

The very first Match of the Day of the 2039-40 season goes to… Admiral Porcusces versus Thereisnogodistan. On the face of it, this seems like an anticlimactic choice. These are two mid-table sides that don’t look like they’re fighting for any major honors at the moment, although both teams have made it known that they want to break into the top five. Porcusces has the pedigree, having been an FPL champions around fifteen years ago, but Thereisnogodistan has a young and “hip” manager going for them. And even though both teams had found themselves in similar circles over the past few years, there is a feeling among both fans and pundits that TNG is the team to watch in the near future. Sam Crownover finally brought stability to the Atheists after they had become a “yo-yo club” during the 2020s, and the ownership has trust that Crownover is also the man to help take them up to the next level. And even though Crownover’s squad might be getting a little longer in the tooth than he might actually like, for the moment they’re still doing exactly what he wants them to do. Dan-Arne Kystebo once again looks like a heavy favorite for the Golden Boot this season, especially considering that he still has his supporting cast around him. So long as both Felipe Carrizo and Julian Umanov are firing on all cylinders and providing passes and space to operate in, both Kystebo and TNG are going to be just fine. Two goals from Carrizo and Kystebo within ten minutes of each other inside twenty minutes? Yeah, Thereisnogodistan is gonna be just fine.

Matchday Two Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 3–0 Bananas
Locomotive Imgortur 3–3 Riuwiee United
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–1 Paulsen
Uranium City Radiation 2–1 Eielo Sunlight
Malabon SC 1–0 Xemlice Rovers
Wanda Island Wanderers 4–0 Antslinngs Islands
Thereisnogodistan 3–4 Sporting Ceneisis
Rosenpfelblatz City 1–0 Admiral Porcusces
Rosenpfelblatz North End 1–2 Sarvusdalamoive
Fleftic Air Force 2–2 Fleftic Army

Nobody was expecting the Armed Forces derby to happen just two matchdays into the new season, but that was how the schedule worked out and so Air Force and Army are going to meet each other in the league for the first time in a handful of years. One could tell just by the atmosphere at the Villahermosa Stadium that both sets of fans were actually looking forward to this encounter, and the mood extended to the players as well. The foreign players certainly took their time basking in the atmosphere, and it might have gotten to their heads a little bit. Perhaps Tuan Parthosi really should have known better considering that he now had at least a season of playing in Abanhfleft under his belt, but it appeared that Deuzimar Moreira managed to get under the Squornshelan striker’s skin during corner kicks deep enough to the point that both ended up in going into the book. As for the result itself, both teams ended up sharing the points, although Joni Laurismäki scoring in the 70th minute to equalize for the Golden Eagles set up a nerve-wracking final twenty minutes for both sets of supporters. Meanwhile, in the rest of the league, Ludogorets Markovsky gets another routine win over Bananas, Antslinngs Islands might be the first team to get relegated this season after they got smashed 4-0 once again (this time at the hands of Wanda Island Wanderers), Malabon SC maintains top spot courtesy of a vital 1-0 win over Xemlice Rovers, and Arsenal de Releinthi stumbles at home against Paulsen. The Boilermakers have been known to be a banana peel over the course of many seasons, and for this one Releinthi was the first victim. Is any other club going to trip over the team in old gold thought? No one knows the answer.

Match of the Day
Locomotive Imgortur 3–3 Riuwiee United

Match of the Day for matchday two without a doubt has to go to Locomotive Imgortur versus Riuwiee United. It’s got everything to qualify for MOTD honors: goals, high stakes, and even a controversial incident or two. When Imgortur is playing, it’s almost guaranteed that Ramiro Guerra is going to find his way into everyone’s attention sooner rather than later. And while the ever-controversial Terense striker may have started off the day on the bench, Emilio Caravaggio expectedly called upon his services once the Engineers found themselves 3-2 down against the Blue Tribesmen. Guerra immediately set about annoying anyone and everyone wearing a blue and yellow shirt on the pitch that he could see. However, the entire league had had an entire year to get used to Guerra’s tactics so this was no longer the semi-effective tactic that it was so he had to stir up his usual controversy another way. Guerra did that by planting both of his knees into the back of Pablo del Rosario while Riuwiee was defending an Imgortur corner kick just so Guerra could get a header on the ball and score the Engineers’ equalizer. Del Rosario and the rest of Riuwiee argued that it was a foul; Guerra obviously argued the opposite but his own teammates were not as quick to come to his defense. Nevertheless, Guerra’s goal stood, much to the dismay and anger of the Blue Tribesmen, and Guerra just couldn’t help but rub it in their faces. More words were exchanged, along with a few fists, and both Guerra and del Rosario would find themselves sitting out the next game for their respective clubs.

Matchday Three Scores
Fleftic Army 3–1 Ludogorets Markovsky
Sarvusdalamoive 1–1 Fleftic Air Force
Admiral Porcusces 3–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Sporting Ceneisis 1–2 Rosenpfelblatz City
Antslinngs Islands 4–4 Thereisnogodistan
Xemlice Rovers 3–3 Wanda Island Wanderers
Eielo Sunlight 1–3 Malabon SC
Paulsen 1–0 Uranium City Radiation
Riuwiee United 3–4 Arsenal de Releinthi
Bananas 3–3 Locomotive Imgortur

Three matchdays into this new Fleftic Premier League season and there is already a twist in the tale of the title chase. In all serious though, who would have thought that it was Fleftic Army of all teams that would be the first to defeat Ludogorets Markovsky this season? Then again, this is the kind of thing that makes the Fleftic Premier League a prime attraction for football fans: anything can happen, and as the War Pigs showed, it did. And this wasn’t just a lucky win squeezed out in the very last minute of time added on; Fleftic Army really was the better team on the pitch on this day. There’s no two ways about it; Roberto Hoya’s three-time FPL champions were outplayed by a team that only got promoted from Unang Liga last season, and they didn’t even get promoted as champions! Truly unexplainable and inexplicable. And if that wasn’t enough to whet the appetites of football-hungry fans who wanted more action on the pitch, they didn’t have to wait very long as the Capital Islands derby between Riuwiee United and Arsenal de Releinthi also happened on matchday three. For both teams, this was a massive opportunity to throw their hat in the ring when it comes to fighting for the title, especially now that Markovsky had been dealt a surprise blow by Fleftic Army. As expected, this match was a back and forth affair in which both teams suffered both peaks and valleys in terms of performance and momentum, and it was also a goal bonanza to boot. Riuwiee took an early lead through Christopher Colroy, but it would be Releinthi boy Edgar Smith-Fernandez who would be the hero for his side as the second goal of his brace would snatch all three points away from the Blue Tribesmen only three minutes from the end.

Match of the Day
Xemlice Rovers 3–3 Wanda Island Wanderers

The Capital Islands derby between Riuwiee and Releinthi could have been Match of the Day, and perhaps it should have been. But with Riuwiee having already been featured in the previous MOTD, it was only fair that the Blue Tribesmen should wait their turn before being featured again. But it’s not as if there aren’t other games out there that are deserving of the honor, and indeed it’s the clash between two other potential title contenders, Xemlice Rovers and Wanda Island Wanderers, that get the honor of being Match of the Day. It seems as if Ludogorets’ defeat at the Alvarez Memorial Stadium was the wake-up call that the rest of the contenders needed to finally get their respective campaigns going. Both Xemlice and Wanda Island had gone deep into the transfer market to get the players and reinforcements that they needed in order to keep up with Markovsky, but so far it hasn’t actually been working out well for the Gamekeepers. Nevertheless, this was only a small sample size; it would really take more than just two games to figure out if Xemlice’s new acquisitions were actually working out for the team. That said, the evidence from this game would suggest that Peter Paul Montenegro’s men need only work out a few more kinks before they can get their season back on track. The Gamekeepers already have their offense sorted out more or less. And if their defense can finally gel together into one cohesive unit, they would be a force to be reckoned with in the league. At the very least they wouldn’t suffer the indignity of turning the ball over to Wanda Island and allowing Samuel Holmes an unrestricted shot at goal which even a grandmother with two hip replacements could score from, let alone an FPL caliber football player.

Matchday Four Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 2–2 Locomotive Imgortur
Arsenal de Releinthi 3–1 Bananas
Uranium City Radiation 3–3 Riuwiee United
Malabon SC 3–0 Paulsen
Wanda Island Wanderers 1–0 Eielo Sunlight
Thereisnogodistan 1–1 Xemlice Rovers
Rosenpfelblatz City 5–0 Antslinngs Islands
Rosenpfelblatz North End 2–2 Sporting Ceneisis
Fleftic Air Force 0–1 Admiral Porcusces
Fleftic Army 0–0 Sarvusdalamoive

Nothing in football can be crazier than the first four matchdays of the Fleftic Premier League. Just when it seemed like a team was separating itself from the rest of the pack, something happens that drags it back into the quagmire and allows another team to use their carcass to get a leg up for themselves. It sounds ugly, but sometimes that’s just how this league works. One can take their picks as to which team they want to look at first. Rosenpfelblatz City boosted themselves up to second place by launching a no holds barred beatdown of Antslinngs Islands, who really look like they’re destined to become a member of Unang Liga once again. Arsenal de Releinthi also gave a good spanking to another relegation threatened side in Bananas FC, but at least the Gorillas managed to deny their opponents the clean sheet when denying the three points was no longer an option. But what about the team currently sitting at the top of the pile? To think that just five years ago this would have been almost unthinkable and now it’s to be expected that Malabon SC is going to lead the league at one point or another. That title win four seasons ago really was the kick up the bottom that the Ravens needed to prove to themselves and the rest of the country that not only were they here to stay, but they also wanted to claim as much silverware as they could while they were at it. Things haven’t gone so smoothly for Malabon after that, but at the very least they’re no longer under threat of getting relegated, which is definitely much worse for Ravens fans than coming in second in the league. And with Ludogorets Markovsky stumbling over their own feet in what should have been a historic title campaign, Kirill Kucherenko knows that there’s no better time than the present to lay claim to the title. Four wins in four games is most definitely a couple of steps in the right direction for this team.

Match of the Day
Ludogorets Markovsky 2–2 Locomotive Imgortur

This isn’t really the type of situation that Ludogorets fans would have thought that their team would be in when the Foresters finally had a match that was worthy of being called Match of the Day. Yet here they are, and all that Markovsky has to show for their efforts against Locomotive Imgortur was one measly point. It’s definitely not the title campaign the team and the fans were hoping to have, but that’s just football. At least the likes of Jean Duriez and Gideon Nightwalker didn’t have to deal with the controversial nutcase that was Ramiro Guerra, but going two goals down in the first half still wasn’t a good look for the defending three-time champions. Now how about another player from Tero el Disco becoming a hero for those who support the dark green side of Markovsky? Renato Marchiondo came off the bench to help shore up Markovsky’s defense against the onslaught from the likes of Malcolm Preston and Bas Langeveld, but not even Marchiondo himself probably expected that he would be the hero for the Foresters on this day. He was just doing his job of getting on the end of a Sven Fahrni free kick and giving Mimis Abaris something to worry about. He probably didn’t think that it was even on target, and yet the ball sneaked into the top left corner of the goal anyway. Some might think it weird that Markovsky fans are celebrating the fact that they scored a point in the league, but it definitely could have been much worse. The Foresters could have had no points at all at home against Locomotive Imgortur.

Fleftic Premier League After Matchday Four

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Malabon SC                  4    4   0   0    11    1  +10    12   Champions League qualification
 2 Rosenpfelblatz City         4    3   1   0     9    2   +7    10   Champions League qualification
 3 Arsenal de Releinthi        4    3   1   0     9    5   +4    10   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Wanda Island Wanderers      4    2   2   0     8    3   +5     8   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Ludogorets Markovsky        4    2   1   1     8    6   +2     7   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Admiral Porcusces           4    2   0   2     6    4   +2     6
 7 Fleftic Army                4    1   3   0     6    4   +2     6
 8 Sarvusdalamoive             4    1   3   0     4    3   +1     6
 9 Riuwiee United              4    1   2   1    12   11   +1     5
10 Thereisnogodistan           4    1   2   1    11   11    0     5
11 Sporting Ceneisis           4    1   2   1     7    7    0     5
12 Uranium City Radiation      4    1   2   1     5    5    0     5
13 Paulsen                     4    1   2   1     3    5   −2     5
14 Locomotive Imgortur         4    0   4   0     9    9    0     4
15 Xemlice Rovers              4    0   3   1     4    5   −1     3
16 Fleftic Air Force           4    0   2   2     4    6   −2     2
17 Rosenpfelblatz North End    4    0   2   2     4    8   −4     2
18 Bananas                     4    0   1   3     5   12   −7     1   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Antslinngs Islands          4    0   1   3     4   17  −13     1   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Eielo Sunlight              4    0   0   4     2    7   −5     0   Relegation to Unang Liga

Malabon SC fans used to pray for times like these. There used to be a time when winning the first four games in a row in the league seemed almost impossible for the Ravens, but now it’s become more of a common occurrence. All of that said though, winning the first four games in the league isn’t always a good indicator that this is going to be a successful season for that particular team. No team in recent history has been able to do it. But Malabon fans want to believe that this is not going to be like those other times. Kirill Kucherenko built this team on the back of a solid defense and an insanely determined goalkeeper in Radislav Kalyna, and for the moment at least, it looks like things are coming together nicely for the Ravens once again. But there’s no time for Malabon to rest as the likes of Rosenpfelblatz City, Arsenal de Releinthi, and Wanda Island Wanderers are hot on their heels. This isn’t the first time that the Citizens have been in second place, but most of the time that hasn’t come to anything for them. Rosen City needs to build upon this good start in order to reclaim their place among Abanhfleft’s top clubs, but recent history hasn’t really been kind to them on that regard. At the same time, both Releinthi and Wanda Island had always been in the title mix at one time or another, but they just can’t get it over the line. However, given the circumstances surrounding Ludogorets Markovsky’s currently faltering title defense, if there was any good time for the top four to become champions of Abanhfleft once again, now is most definitely the time to do it.

It’s funny to think that while Antslinngs Islands getting smashed almost every matchday had been noteworthy news every time, somehow they still aren’t the worst team in the Fleftic Premier League this season. That dubious “honor” goes to newly promoted Eielo Sunlight, which once again appears to be having much difficulty struggling to adapt to life in the top flight. The Suns hadn’t been getting battered as bad as the Islanders had been, but they had also lost four games in a row. Antslinngs managed to get a draw, which is literally the only thing keeping them away from the foot of the table. It’s hard to tell which team is going to be the first one to be officially relegated: Eielo loses all the games, but then Antslinngs gets battered hard as well. Bananas is also in the final relegation place, but for the moment it’s not yet a truly dire situation. There’s still some hope that they can bounce back sooner or later, along with Rosenpfelblatz North End. But it still doesn’t make for good reading for fans of the aforementioned teams.

Race for the Golden Boot
T1. Talal Akabi (Malabon SC) - 4 goals
T1. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 4 goals
T1. Dan-Arne Kystebo (Thereisnogodistan) - 4 goals
2. 8 players - 3 goals

Three men currently lead the chase for the Golden Boot, but one of those is not like the others. Talal Akabi is listed as a winger while the other leading scorers in the league are strikers like Marat Tkachev and Dan-Arne Kystebo. Both of those men had also already won the Golden Boot while Akabi is still searching for his first top scorer award in Abanhfleft. That said, it should also be noted that Akabi accounts for a little more than a third of Malabon’s goals in the league so far. It’s been good enough to send the Ravens to the top of the league, but what happens when Akabi enters a rough patch of form? Who’s going to pick up the slack for the Ravens then? One would expect Denny Hobbs to do that, and with three goals already to his name, things are still looking good for Malabon.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 3 clean sheets
T2. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 2 clean sheets
T2. Pertinax Tikeers (Wanda Island Wanderers) - 2 clean sheets
T2. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 2 clean sheets
3. 8 players - 1 clean sheet

Is anyone really surprised to see this? Radislav Kalyna is once again sitting at the top of the standings, at least when it comes to the Golden Glove. The Pridnestrovian goalkeeper has made it a point that he is the best goalkeeper in all of Abanhfleft, a veritable achievement given how much this country loves to see goals being scored. Emelio Lontok, Pertinax Tikeers, and Dan Cartwright are chasing after Kalyna but it’s still too early to tell if any one of them is going to be able to keep up, or if Radislav is going to run away with it yet again.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 12:25 am

Matchday Five Scores
Sarvusdalamoive 3–0 Ludogorets Markovsky
Admiral Porcusces 3–0 Fleftic Army
Sporting Ceneisis 1–1 Fleftic Air Force
Antslinngs Islands 0–1 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Xemlice Rovers 2–1 Rosenpfelblatz City
Eielo Sunlight 1–3 Thereisnogodistan
Paulsen 2–5 Wanda Island Wanderers
Riuwiee United 3–1 Malabon SC
Bananas 1–2 Uranium City Radiation
Locomotive Imgortur 3–1 Arsenal de Releinthi

Things have gone from bad to worse for the defending champions. Just a few months ago, Ludogorets Markovsky felt untouchable, like no one else could even hope and dream of getting to their level. But as soon as that aura of invincibility was shattered by Fleftic Army, the other teams in the league have now realized that Markovsky may not be the juggernaut that it once was, and thus it was now time for the kill. There was perhaps no team who wanted a win over Markovsky more than Sarvusdalamoive, who just two years ago managed to take the Foresters all the way to the end in the fight for the title. Markovsky had had Sarvus’s number back then, but not today. This Ludogorets team was, quite frankly, a shadow of its former self, but it’s also hard to tell how exactly they have fallen off from their own lofty heights. Nevertheless, the Pinks smelled blood in the water and they struck hard. And if that wasn’t enough to compound the misery now being felt by Markovsky’s fans, the hero of the previous matchday, Renato Marchiondo, has now become the villain, at least in the context of this particular match. Marchiondo had already shown just how good he could be with his headers, but on this occasion he would end up steering Jeremy Collins-Lewis’s free kick away from his keeper, making Markovsky’s defeat in Sebet even heavier than it already was. And Markovsky wasn’t the only title hopeful to sustain blows to their championship aspirations; Emilio Caravaggio haunted his old team Arsenal de Releinthi once again as the Gunners fell to a 3-1 defeat at Imgortur, and Xemlice Rovers shocked everyone (including probably even their own fans) by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat when Rosenpfelblatz City paid them a visit. But the biggest shock of them all without a doubt happened in game that has been declared Match of the Day.

Match of the Day
Riuwiee United 3–1 Malabon SC

The Fleftic Premier League is truly the league where anything can happen. Just as nobody thought that Malabon SC could be at the top of the league after winning four games in a row, nobody thought that that same undefeated run could come to an end on the fifth matchday. All of that said, it was possible for something like this to happen; after all, form counts for nothing in a derby, and Riuwiee United versus Malabon is still a derby match. Even then, nobody expected the Blue Tribesmen to have such a convincing victory over the current league leaders, especially not with Radislav Kalyna being on the form of his life at the moment. He’s not going to take this defeat lightly, especially since it’s going to count against his quest for yet another Golden Glove, and it’s not like his defense let him down either. It’s just that, on this day, Riuwiee was imperious, almost nigh-on unstoppable. Some might even say that things could have been much worse for Malabon had it not been for Kalyna. Marat Tkachev definitely could have had a hat trick if it weren’t for the Pridnestrovian in between the sticks for the Ravens, and Kalyna saving a literal point blank shot from Aalipdis Marec was equally unlucky for the Tribesmen. Perhaps now the Ravens can focus on the task of actually winning the title instead of worrying about other things like going undefeated.

Matchday Six Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 3–2 Arsenal de Releinthi
Uranium City Radiation 1–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Malabon SC 3–0 Bananas
Wanda Island Wanderers 0–4 Riuwiee United
Thereisnogodistan 3–4 Paulsen
Rosenpfelblatz City 3–1 Eielo Sunlight
Rosenpfelblatz North End 0–2 Xemlice Rovers
Fleftic Air Force 4–2 Antslinngs Islands
Fleftic Army 2–4 Sporting Ceneisis
Sarvusdalamoive 0–0 Admiral Porcusces

Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Malabon SC are back to winning ways, and Radislav Kalyna once again has another one of his beloved clean sheets. Sure, one could argue that the Ravens did it against a Bananas team that’s looking more and more like a side destined for relegation, but in a title race that looks like it could be hotly contested and go right down to the wire, every occasion that a title chaser can get three points can only be a good thing. Although it’s probably still too early to call it, it would appear that Talal Akabi, one of the early favorites for the Golden Boot, has gone a little bit off the boil. Thankfully for him and for Malabon, teammate Denny Hobbs has gladly taken up the goalscoring slack from Akabi, and it was indeed a brace from the Katzeburgian striker that helped the Ravens take down the Gorillas. Ludogorets Markovsky have also seemingly righted their own ship as well by winning their game, and it also had the added benefit of knocking back another potential challenger in Arsenal de Releinthi. The Gunners and their fans had never had a good time on the pitch whenever Sven Fahrni is involved, and this game was no exception as the Fleftic international put two past Emil Groshev to secure a much-needed victory for the Foresters. And in the meantime, Riuwiee United had taken advantage of the momentum that they gained by beating Malabon to quietly put together their own run towards the top, and after having already taken down one Capital Islands rival, now it was Wanda Island Wanderers’ turn to feel the wrath of the Blue Tribesmen. Watch out for the club from the capital city of Abanhfleft; they might have just become the sneaky favorites while everyone else is trying to gather or rebuild momentum.

Match of the Day
Fleftic Army 2–4 Sporting Ceneisis

Matchday six’s Match of the Day is Fleftic Army versus Sporting Ceneisis. This is the first MOTD since the very first one this season not to feature a side that is counted among this season’s title contenders, although it has to be said that Sporting Ceneisis looks like the kind of team that can be off the pace at the start of the season but builds up steam to end the campaign on a high note. Whether that high note will be enough to take the Blues to a fifth league title remains to be seen, but in a highly competitive environment like the FPL in which any stumble could be the difference between title glory and missing out on IFCF football, a win against even a newly promoted team is truly vital. That said, for over eighty minutes, a Ceneisis victory actually didn’t look very likely. The Blues struggled to break down the War Pigs for most of the match, and while both Brien Chapaux and Brandon Meyers were able to find the back of the net after some effort, the Army club was shockingly quick in responding with goals of their own. Fleftic Army actually looked like they were on course to picking up a point (although it could be argued that this was more denying Ceneisis two points), but then something happened. Perhaps it was exhaustion, or maybe it was overconfidence leading to Fleftic Army taking its foot off the gas. But whatever it was, the end result was that Ceneisis managed to find two goals in nine minutes to secure their victory. Now some might say that that isn’t enough to make this game Match of the Day, but the panel of judges have handed in their verdict, and they say that Fleftic Army versus Sporting Ceneisis is Match of the Day for matchday six.

Matchday Seven
Admiral Porcusces 3–1 Ludogorets Markovsky
Sporting Ceneisis 1–0 Sarvusdalamoive
Antslinngs Islands 1–0 Fleftic Army
Xemlice Rovers 0–0 Fleftic Air Force
Eielo Sunlight 0–1 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Paulsen 2–5 Rosenpfelblatz City
Riuwiee United 3–1 Thereisnogodistan
Bananas 2–2 Wanda Island Wanderers
Locomotive Imgortur 2–0 Malabon SC
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–0 Uranium City Radiation

Ladies and gentlemen, there is a new team at the top of the Fleftic Premier League. Please welcome the new league leaders Rosenpfelblatz City! The Citizens have been here before, having won the league five times, but it’s been so long since the last one that Rosen City’s fans have almost forgotten what it feels like to sit on top of the pile. How did the Citizens manage to get themselves here in the first place though? By taking advantage of the situation, of course. Rosen was already off to a hot start and breathing down the neck of Malabon SC, and while their match against Paulsen could have been a potential banana peel for the Citizens, Sheila Berg’s men navigated the challenge easily enough. The scoreline does flatter them a little bit, and Vladimir Perevozchikov steering the ball into his own net was about as unlucky as both he and the Boilermakers could have gotten, but Rosenpfelblatz was still good value for their win. At the same time, the former league leaders Malabon SC ended up slipping on a Locomotive Imgortur-shaped banana peel just when it looked like the Ravens had recovered some of the momentum they had lost when Riuwiee United defeated them just a few matchdays ago. Are the title contenders going to play another game of “the championship is lava” again? Why do these teams want to make it feel like it’s so hard to put together a good run of form that takes them away from the rest of the chasing pack? Even Ludogorets Markovsky went through a couple of phases in which they were dropping points left and right, but it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things because they can find their form right when it matters the most. Will someone else be able to take a page out of the three-time defending champions’ book? Or will Markovsky do it once again to clinch their fourth straight title?

Match of the Day
Bananas 2–2 Wanda Island Wanderers

It’s looking like it’s going to be a long and tough season for Bananas FC. The Gorillas currently have only one point in six games, and the signs are already pointing to the possibility that Bananas is going to be relegated from the Fleftic Premier League once again. That said, it definitely could have been much worse for the Suwkpel-based club; they could be winless in seven games like what’s happened to Eielo Sunlight, which is currently going through literally its worst start ever to life in the Fleftic top flight. Eielo Sunlight isn’t included in Match of the Day; Bananas is. And Bananas got that honor because they managed to overturn a two-goal deficit against top five team Wanda Island Wanderers to put just a little bit more distance between themselves and Eielo. On paper, this seemed to be yet another easy victory for the Wanderers. And when the visitors were already two goals up within twenty minutes, everyone in Suwkpel who supported the team in amber had already mentally prepared themselves for yet another defeat. But the message must not have made it to both Ricky Gomez and Roque Manaloto because these two came out of the blocks in the second half and took the fight right back to the Wanderers. In just seven minutes, 2-0 to Wanda Island had become 2-2, and just like that what had been an easy victory slipped away from the Wanderers and turned into a mad pursuit for the third goal that would win it for the visitors. But the same defense that had split apart like the Red Sea just one half of football ago was no longer cracking open, and because of that Bananas got another vital point in their fight against relegation while Wanda Island dropped out of the IFCF places. That’s just so typically Wanda Island to lose two points from a literal no-lose situation.

Matchday Eight Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 2–3 Uranium City Radiation
Malabon SC 0–2 Arsenal de Releinthi
Wanda Island Wanderers 1–1 Locomotive Imgortur
Thereisnogodistan 4–2 Bananas
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–2 Riuwiee United
Rosenpfelblatz North End 1–0 Paulsen
Fleftic Air Force 2–0 Eielo Sunlight
Fleftic Army 1–4 Xemlice Rovers
Sarvusdalamoive 3–0 Antslinngs Islands
Admiral Porcusces 1–0 Sporting Ceneisis

It’s all falling apart now for the top two teams in the FPL from last season. What is happening to both Ludogorets Markovsky and Malabon SC? Those two teams were the teams to beat just a few months ago, and now it looks like anyone and their mother can actually beat them. It’s harder to tell whose drop-off is bigger because while Malabon had led the league after four matchdays or so before finally plummeting down the rankings, Markovsky seemingly can’t get a good run of form together to save their lives. Even a near-guaranteed three-pointer against newly promoted Unang Liga champions Uranium City Radiation has now turned into the nightmare scenario for the three-time winners of the FPL in which they went away from this game with zero points to their name. Perhaps this is what happens when one doesn’t refresh their roster, even just a little bit. Look how well that has gone for the likes of Rosenpfelblatz City, but more on them later. For the moment, the focus is on both Markovsky and Malabon. The Foresters are making a mess of their title defense right now, but at the same time this is something that fans of the FPL have seen before, and they’re all just waiting for the moment when Roberto Hoya’s men turn it around again. But there’s no such optimism when it comes to Malabon, because in this same situation last season, the Ravens let it slip through their fingers. It’s why the meme of “the championship is lava” was born, because both of the teams that actually stood a chance of winning the FPL title weren’t playing like they actually wanted to win. Seriously though Malabon, how hard is it to just win games? Ignore the fact that they played the likes of Riuwiee, Releinthi, and Imgortur in this particular run. The Ravens are letting this title opportunity slip through their fingers again, plain and simple!

Match of the Day
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–2 Riuwiee United

There were two good candidates for Match of the Day on matchday eight, but only one game could actually receive the honor. It was an honestly tough choice between the Ceneisis derby between Admiral Porcusces and Sporting Ceneisis and the titanic clash between title contenders Rosepfelblatz City and Riuwiee United. The Ceneisis derby had received the honor of being Match of the Day many times before, but this time it simply had to be denied because of the implications of the other match. Whoever won between Rosenpfelblatz and Riuwiee could take top spot in the league, and thus the Citizens and the Blue Tribesmen treated this fixture with the utmost seriousness. If it was Rosenpfelblatz then the win would propel them three points clear of the pack, and that was exactly what happened. No Lucas von Wolfberg? No problem, said Sheila Berg and company. They have Perin Caupet and Juan Alvarado. Yes, Alvarado’s name may not be on the scoresheet but he doesn’t always need to be there. His work alone in dragging defenders away and opening spaces in which his teammates could operate is just as good as actually putting the ball into the back of the net. Alvarado has also opened up a new dimension for Rosenpfelblatz in terms of getting fouled and providing more set piece opportunities for the Citizens. They haven’t always been able to capitalize, but this was one of those games in which everything seemed to be going well for the team in sky blue. When even a substitute midfielder is capable of scoring a goal against one of the top teams in the league, it’s practically a sign that this season and title might be Rosenpfelblatz’s to lose.

Matchday Nine Scores
Sporting Ceneisis 0–1 Ludogorets Markovsky
Antslinngs Islands 2–2 Admiral Porcusces
Xemlice Rovers 1–0 Sarvusdalamoive
Eielo Sunlight 2–2 Fleftic Army
Paulsen 3–2 Fleftic Air Force
Riuwiee United 4–4 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Bananas 3–5 Rosenpfelblatz City
Locomotive Imgortur 2–2 Thereisnogodistan
Arsenal de Releinthi 2–5 Wanda Island Wanderers
Uranium City Radiation 0–1 Malabon SC

Rosenpfelblatz City just cannot stop winning! Yes, it’s still definitely too early to call anything just yet, but for the moment it does look like the Citizens are the current frontrunners to win the 2039-40 Fleftic Premier League title. And it’s not as if they’ve just snuck into the picture out of nowhere; Rosenpfelblatz has always been right behind Malabon since the start of the season, and when the Ravens began to stumble the Citizens were there to take full advantage. Now that they’re on top though, Rosenpfelblatz shows no intent of ever moving away from it though, and judging by their recent performances, they could actually hang on until the end of the season. Citizens fans would surely love that, and so would Sheila Berg and the Oontaznik owners of the club. It’s been seventeen years since their last one after all, and the team would surely love to finally break that particular duck. But who would have thought that the man who could possibly take Rosenpfelblatz to its sixth FPL title was originally signed to the team only as a backup? It’s no secret that not everyone was keen on Juan Alvarado when Berg brought him from Emerald Coast from the Squornshelan Remnant States. Citizens supporters clearly thought that Lucas von Wolfberg was more than good enough to lead the line. But then von Wolfberg got injured, and Alvarado had to step up against Riuwiee United, and the rest is history, as they say. Alvarado may not have gotten on the scoresheet last time out, but this time he did, and he did more than just score one goal. He scored three! Yes, he might have only scored a hat trick against relegation candidate Bananas FC, but can anyone else say the same thing this season? No? Then clearly Juan Alvarado is the future of Rosenpfelblatz City’s forward department.

Match of the Day
Eielo Sunlight 2–2 Fleftic Army

Here is another tough choice for the panel of judges that determines the Match of the Day: do they go for the Strait of Carrizozo derby between Arsenal de Releinthi and Wanda Island Wanderers, or do they go for the game in which the only remaining pointless side in Fleftic football finally picks up a point? It truly is a tough choice. One would think that the Strait of Carrizozo derby would be a shoo-in because of both the fixture’s history and its current implications for the title picture, but on the other hand, Eielo Sunlight had just been so dire to start off this season that the moment that the Suns secured a draw against Fleftic Army was literally a cause for celebration for almost everyone in the league (except for many War Pigs supporters). At least there was now proof that Eielo can get a point here and there in the league this season, but of course now the question becomes can they do that enough times to escape the drop? And can the Suns actually win a game this season? When one thinks about it, this might have actually been one of Eielo’s best chances to get all three points, hosting a fellow promoted side in Fleftic Army. But Eielo right now is in a similar situation as that of Ludogorets Markovsky in that everyone and their mother knows that this team can be beaten, and so it was only a matter of actually doing it. But Eielo did manage to hold out for the better part of an hour against the War Pigs before Shane Sanchez finally found the breakthrough via exploiting a gap in Eielo’s defense. One could almost see the entirety of the Estadio Cabanalan deflate in disappointment and quiet acceptance of their fate, only for Sandro Halter to say “not today” and bring the Suns back on level terms just five minutes later. This game looked like it was going to end as a 1-1 draw until Markus Moran finally netted his first goal of the season just two minutes away from the end of regular time, only for Anthony Acuña to steal both a goal and a point in the last two minutes of added time. And there are actually people who think that this doesn’t deserve to be Match of the Day?

Fleftic Premier League Table After Matchday Nine

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Rosenpfelblatz City         9    7   1   1    27   12  +15    22   Champions League qualification
 2 Malabon SC                  9    6   0   3    16    8   +8    18   Champions League qualification
 3 Admiral Porcusces           9    5   2   2    15    7   +8    17   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Wanda Island Wanderers      9    4   4   1    21   14   +7    16   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Xemlice Rovers              9    4   4   1    13    7   +6    16   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Arsenal de Releinthi        9    5   1   3    17   16   +1    16
 7 Riuwiee United              9    4   3   2    28   21   +7    15
 8 Uranium City Radiation      9    4   2   3    11   10   +1    14
 9 Sarvusdalamoive             9    3   4   2    10    5   +5    13
10 Ludogorets Markovsky        9    4   1   4    15   17   −2    13
11 Locomotive Imgortur         9    2   6   1    17   14   +3    12
12 Thereisnogodistan           9    3   3   3    24   23   +1    12
13 Sporting Ceneisis           9    3   3   3    13   12   +1    12
14 Rosenpfelblatz North End    9    3   3   3    11   14   −3    12
15 Paulsen                     9    3   2   4    14   21   −7    11
16 Fleftic Air Force           9    2   4   3    13   12   +1    10
17 Fleftic Army                9    1   4   4    11   18   −7     7
18 Antslinngs Islands          9    1   2   6     9   27  −18     5   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Bananas                     9    0   2   7    13   28  −15     2   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Eielo Sunlight              9    0   1   8     6   18  −12     1   Relegation to Unang Liga

There is a new team at the top of the Fleftic Premier League, and that team is Rosenpfelblatz City. The Citizens and their fans had been waiting for this moment for a very long time, but nobody thought that they would actually be there this season. Most of the fans were expecting Sheila Berg’s first season in charge at the Aeroflot Stadium to be one of transition and possibly some rebuilding, but now it would appear as if the rebuild has been finished ahead of schedule. It’s still a little bit too early to see if it’s actually going to stick, but things are currently looking good, especially considering that Rosenpfelblatz is four points clear of their nearest challenger. Things could still change though as there are definitely a lot more games left to be played, but for the moment, but for the moment it’s the Citizens who are sitting pretty at the top of the pile. Malabon SC is currently in second place, but given how poorly they’ve been doing recently, it almost doesn’t feel like they deserve to be there. To think that there was a time (just a few matchdays ago admittedly but still) when everyone thought that Malabon could actually go undefeated on their way to a fourth title. Obviously, three losses out of nine games isn’t the best situation that any team could find themselves in, but it could have been much, much worse. It could have been boom or bust like what three-time defending champions Ludogorets Markovsky is going through right now. If the Foresters aren’t winning then they’re losing. It’s like they’ve forgotten that drawing is an actual option in football. Such a strange situation for the current champions to be in right now.

The good news for Eielo Sunlight is that they have finally picked up a point this season. The bad news is that it’s nowhere near enough to get them off of the foot of the table. But that’s what happens when a team loses its first eight games in the league in a row. Most of the blame can be laid on the Suns, but not all of them. Sometimes luck hasn’t been on their side, but the players and especially the fans have let those moments of bad luck get into their heads and the vicious cycle of “we can’t win because we’re not good enough because we can’t win.” But this draw against Fleftic Army shows that this Eielo squad is definitely good enough to compete in the FPL, and so there’s still some hope that this could be the start of a good run of form that could at least give them a fighting chance of escaping the drop. The team in 19th place, Bananas FC, is only slightly better off in that they’ve got two draws instead of just one, but at the same time they’re still searching for their first ever win in the league this season. Things have really gone downhill for the Gorillas ever since Mustafa Bensoussan left them a few years ago, and they’re still struggling to fill that massive gap that he left behind. Ricky Gomez and Akihiro Kobayashi are good footballers without a doubt, but are they good enough to save Bananas from relegation? Current evidence says no, but obviously the hope remains. And as for Antslinngs Islands, it also definitely could be much better. But at least they’re within touching distance of safety, not like the teams below them. Another escape from possible relegation is still on the cards for the Islanders, but they have to play their cards right or else an ill-timed to go all in could result in Antslinngs going bust in the league.

Race for the Golden Boot
1. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 8 goals
T2. Denny Hobbs (Malabon SC) - 7 goals
T2. Aalipdis Marec (Riuwiee United) - 7 goals
T2. Dan-Arne Kystebo (Thereisnogodistan) - 7 goals
T2. Montez Tubman (Wanda Island Wanderers) - 7 goals

One man has finally managed to pull ahead of the rest when it comes to the race for the Golden Boot, but while Marat Tkachev may currently have top spot in the Golden Boot standings all to himself, there is a crowd of people waiting for just the slightest dip in form to usurp the Pyazhnayan striker playing for Riuwiee United, including his own teammate Aalipdis Marec. Will Tkachev be able to hang on and collect his second consecutive Golden Boot, or will someone like Dan-Arne Kystebo come along to take it away from him and become the top scorer in Abanhfleft for a second time?

Race for the Golden Glove
T1. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 5 clean sheets
T1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 5 clean sheets
T1. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 5 clean sheets
T2. Emil Groshev (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 3 clean sheets
T2. Landon Collins (Rosenpfelblatz North End) - 3 clean sheets

It isn’t too much of a leap to say that Radislav Kalyna currently isn’t too fond of his current situation. Not only did Malabon SC drop out of the top of the Fleftic Premier League despite his best efforts, but now there are two other goalkeepers at the top of the Golden Glove standings with him. Honestly though, who would have expected either one of Emelio Lontok or Dan Cartwright having as many clean sheets as Kalyna himself, let alone both of them? Both Lontok and Cartwright certainly didn’t expect it themselves, and now the challenge is seeing which one of them can hang on and keep up with the mad Pridnestrovian between the sticks at San Roque Park.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Thu Nov 13, 2025 6:25 am

Matchday Ten Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 1–0 Malabon SC
Wanda Island Wanderers 1–0 Uranium City Radiation
Thereisnogodistan 3–3 Arsenal de Releinthi
Rosenpfelblatz City 1–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Rosenpfelblatz North End 4–3 Bananas
Fleftic Air Force 1–1 Riuwiee United
Fleftic Army 2–3 Paulsen
Sarvusdalamoive 4–0 Eielo Sunlight
Admiral Porcusces 0–1 Xemlice Rovers
Sporting Ceneisis 1–0 Antslinngs Islands

Rosenpfelblatz City’s seemingly inexorable march to the Fleftic Premier League title continues, although there was a time when it looked like Locomotive Imgortur might have actually managed to steal a point or two away from the Citizens. The Engineers had already met most of the title protagonists for this season and taken points off of them, most notably against defending champions Ludogorets Markovsky and former league leaders Malabon SC, and it was clear to see that Emilio Caravaggio intended to do the same against Rosenpfelblatz. With it looking less and less likely that Imgortur is actually going to get involved in the furball this season, it would appear that Caravaggio and his men had decided to become the FPL’s kingmakers instead. They had already said no to both Markovsky and Malabon, and evidence pointed to them denying the crown to Rosenpfelblatz (or at least its sky blue side) as well. And for 73 minutes, it looked like the Engineers were going to deny the Citizens as well. Not even Rosen’s fast-rising star Juan Alvarado looked like he was going to be able to break apart Imgortur’s brick wall defense, and for a while it also looked like Rosenpfelblatz’s players had run out of ideas. However, it turned out that one Perin Caupet did have one last trick up his sleeve, and that was a rocket of a shot into the top right corner of Mimis Abaris’s net with his own “weaker” left foot. To say that it took everyone in the Aeroflot Stadium by surprise would be a bit of an understatement. The spectators had already accepted the possibility that the Citizens would only be able to get a point out of this match, and Caupet’s previous attempts at scoring from long range had gone poorly, so the fact that he actually managed to score this time around was a surprise, but it was also a welcome one for Rosenpfelblatz since it keeps them six points clear of the rest of the league.

Match of the Day
Ludogorets Markovsky 1–0 Malabon SC

Now here is the clash that everyone has been waiting for: Ludogorets Markovsky versus Malabon SC, the top two best in the Fleftic Premier League last season. However, recent weeks had shown that neither team actually deserves the moniker of “best team in Abanhfleft” at the moment, so now this has turned into a more memeable contest of “stoppable force meets movable object.” All of that said, this match could still present an opportunity for the winner (if there is one) to get their season back on track even just a little bit. A Malabon victory would allow the Ravens to keep the pace against the current leaders Rosenpfelblatz City, while a Markovsky win could be the start of one of their patented resurgences to break the hearts and minds of those wanted to see another team win the FPL this season. No wonder this match started off quietly, nothing like what one would expect from one with the moniker of “Match of the Day.” Perhaps a better way to describe this whole thing would be something more akin to a chess match with the managers as the actual players and the fooballers as their pieces. And in extending this chess metaphor, one would then begin to think that the Pridnestrovian Kirill Kucherenko would emerge victorious owing to his country’s affinity for producing masters in the aforementioned board game-cum-sport. Alas, it wasn’t to be. Once Markovsky found their breakthrough via an Alex Buenaflor header in the 33rd minute, Roberto Hoya ordered his men to turtle up and absorb as much pressure as possible. But can the Foresters capitalize on this victory, or will be more stop-start action for the three-time defending champs? And how will Radislav Kalyna recover from losing out on yet another clean sheet?

Matchday Eleven Scores
Antslinngs Islands 1–2 Ludogorets Markovsky
Xemlice Rovers 1–0 Sporting Ceneisis
Eielo Sunlight 1–3 Admiral Porcusces
Paulsen 2–3 Sarvusdalamoive
Riuwiee United 5–2 Fleftic Army
Bananas 2–2 Fleftic Air Force
Locomotive Imgortur 4–4 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Arsenal de Releinthi 2–4 Rosenpfelblatz City
Uranium City Radiation 1–3 Thereisnogodistan
Malabon SC 2–0 Wanda Island Wanderers

Another matchday, another opponent dealt with. Was Arsenal de Releinthi ever actually in the title picture this season, or was that just the early season patch of good form talking once again? Things have never looked bleaker for the Gunners this time around, and now their latest attempt to retain a sense of relevancy in this title race has now gone up in smoke thanks to Rosenpfelblatz City. But it’s not the defeat itself that’s going to sting for Releinthi’s fans; it’s the fact that the Gunners had a 2-1 lead over the current league leaders but couldn’t hang on until the end of the game. The city of Releinthi is still busy cursing the name of Juan Alvarado up to this moment, as it could be argued that it was his goal that broke Releinthi’s defense and opened the floodgates for his teammates to finally put the Gunners to the sword. It has to be infuriating when even the opponent’s substitute center back, one Alexis Savvides, can actually score a goal against a team with such lofty aspirations as the FPL title. But it would appear that this season is not going to be Releinthi’s season once again. However, for Xemlice Rovers, there might actually be a chance for the Gamekeepers to become Rosenpfelblatz’s nearest challengers this season. It’s not a great chance, but it’s also not zero, so basically Xemlice has a chance. They may not have gotten off to a great start this season but they’ve more than made up for it since. While everyone else’s attention has been focused on the likes of Ludogorets Markovsky and Malabon SC slipping up and Rosenpfelblatz City taking advantage, Xemlice had been working behind the scenes picking up as many points as they could in order to set themselves up nicely just in case the Citizens also slip up. That six-point gap looks intimidating right now, but then again, larger gaps had been overcome before, and in less time to boot. For the moment, Xemlice is in the best possible position in the league outside of actually being Rosenpfelblatz City.

Match of the Day
Paulsen 2–3 Sarvusdalamoive

It’s easy to forget that the Fleftic Premier League isn’t just about Markovsky and Malabon or Rosenpfelblatz and Releinthi. Twenty teams take part in the FPL every season, but most of the attention is usually only on the top six and sometimes the bottom three. It’s way too easy to forget about the other teams, those who sit in the middle of the league who are too good to get relegated but not good enough to challenge for a spot in the IFCF. It’s only fair that these “mid-table” teams get the spotlight shining on them at least a couple of times, and that’s why Match of the Day exists. Sometimes, two teams who might not be challenging for the title or fighting off relegation end up coming together to create a match that neutrals and even supporters from both sides can look back on fondly no matter the result. And it is the feeling of the expert panel of judges that determines the Match of the Day that Paulsen versus Sarvusdalamoive fits all of that criteria perfectly. Paulsen and Sarvus had been mainstays in the FPL for more than two decades, barring the occasional relegation or two, but it almost feels like these two teams keep flying under the radar simply because they haven’t done anything of note lately, although Sarvus did manage to push Ludogorets almost all the way just a couple of seasons ago. Another title challenge might be too far out of the picture for Sarvusdalamoive this season, but with everyone else around them dropping points, maybe the Pinks can sneak into the IFCF for next season. And as long as they can keep winning against the teams around them, just like what they did against Paulsen, Sarvus playing in the IFCF again isn’t as farfetched as it might seem for some.

Matchday Twelve Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 0–4 Wanda Island Wanderers
Thereisnogodistan 0–1 Malabon SC
Rosenpfelblatz City 1–0 Uranium City Radiation
Rosenpfelblatz North End 2–4 Arsenal de Releinthi
Fleftic Air Force 4–2 Locomotive Imgortur
Fleftic Army 2–2 Bananas
Sarvusdalamoive 2–1 Riuwiee United
Admiral Porcusces 2–0 Paulsen
Sporting Ceneisis 0–1 Eielo Sunlight
Antslinngs Islands 1–0 Xemlice Rovers

Matchday twelve might well be one of the craziest matchdays in the recent history of the Fleftic Premier League. In a league where at least one upset happens almost every matchday, two upsets happened that might just have implications and repercussions reaching way beyond the present and immediate future. It’s hard to pick which upset to discuss first, so how about going alphabetically? Just when Xemlice Rovers was getting praised for putting themselves in a good position to capitalize on a potential slip-up by Rosenpfelblatz City in the title race, the Gamekeepers are the ones who suffer a setback that has actually pushed them beyond the IFCF places. They really should have been able to beat this Antslinngs Islands team easily, and yet Peter Paul Montenegro’s men struggled to create chances against an Islanders squad that was still searching for their second victory of the season. Surely Artyom Avvakumov would have never thought that that was going to come against the team in second place in the league, but he’s definitely going to take the three points and run away without looking back. Also, nobody panic. Eielo Sunlight has finally won a game in the FPL! And they won against Sporting Ceneisis of all teams! Seriously, is the Fleftic Premier League actually a serious league or what? Does being a favorite actually mean anything in this league? In all seriousness though, after eleven games without so much as a single clean sheet, it would appear as if Pedro Labindalawa had become possessed by the spirit of his mentor Radislav Kalyna and put in the performance of his life to keep the Blues out of his net. But the man who would actually give all three points to the Suns was not one of Eielo’s usual suspects, not David Serrano, not Sandro Halter, not one of those guys. Instead, it was defender Boguslav Morovitsky who headed in Illya Shabanenko’s corner kick to score his first and possibly only goal of the season. But what a moment for Morovitsky to score it, eh?

Match of the Day
Ludogorets Markovsky 0–4 Wanda Island Wanderers

Is this finally the end of the Ludogorets Markovsky dynasty? There are definitely a lot of people out there who would hope so, and a fair-sized chunk of them would be from or support Wanda Island. Technically speaking, Wanda Island Wanderers are still rank outsiders when it comes to the current title race, but considering how tightly the rest of the IFCF places is being contested, any chance to pick up maximum points is welcome for the men in pink and dark blue. Yes, it’s become almost a meme by now how Ludogorets Markovsky have become a shadow of their former selves and everyone should take advantage before they remembered who they were, but surely nobody could have expected just how much Wanda Island was going to deliver the beatdown on the Foresters. The Wanderers can win and have won away to Markovsky before, but this could very well be the largest margin of victory that Wanda Island has ever attained against Ludogorets, at least in recent memory. This truly is an unexpected and unprecedented downfall from the three-time defending FPL champions, and nobody is more grateful and appreciative of the fact than their West Mezaladbyi rivals and current league leaders Rosenpfelblatz City. Every defeat suffered by Markovsky, every goal conceded is one more step towards the Citizens getting their sixth FPL championship. Expect statues of Montez Tubman and Yonatan Ochoa to be erected in Rosenpfelblatz should the balance of power remain in favor of the team in sky blue at the end of the season.

Matchday Thirteen Scores
Xemlice Rovers 1–0 Ludogorets Markovsky
Eielo Sunlight 0–0 Antslinngs Islands
Paulsen 2–2 Sporting Ceneisis
Riuwiee United 1–0 Admiral Porcusces
Bananas 0–1 Sarvusdalamoive
Locomotive Imgortur 6–1 Fleftic Army
Arsenal de Releinthi 6–3 Fleftic Air Force
Uranium City Radiation 1–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Malabon SC 1–0 Rosenpfelblatz City
Wanda Island Wanderers 3–1 Thereisnogodistan

What are the odds of this happening?! Two matches where the winning side scores six goals? Only in the Fleftic Premier League, everybody! Only in Abanhfleft can such a thing happen, at least in the top level of football. And isn’t it also an amazing coincidence that both teams on the losing side of these goalfests happens to be the two armed forces clubs playing in the Fleftic leagues? Is this a sign that the gap between the fully professional teams and the technically “amateur” armed forces clubs (excepting the six foreigners who are allowed to play for them) is growing ever wider? Eh, who knows at this point? Both the Golden Eagles and the War Pigs had managed to win the SFA Cup before, but as far as the league is concerned, the Army and the Air Force should actually be concerned. The Air Force club has managed to keep their place among Abanhfleft’s elite for more than just a few years now, but things aren’t looking as rosy for the Army club. But does anyone want to know what the real problem with these back-to-back six-goal drubbings is? There is now a three-way tie between three players for the Golden Boot! There are now three players on eleven goals each in the FPL! How incredible is that! Usually at this point in the season most players are still struggling to get into the double digits, but now? Has there been another Ripperonin leak somewhere in the country? What have they been feeding these football players this season? And is it safe for the rest of the country to consume? So many questions to ask, so little time to get answers...

Match of the Day
Malabon SC 1–0 Rosenpfelblatz City

It would appear as if form is not actually a thing in the Fleftic Premier League. The best that any team can hope for in this league is to accumulate enough points during a good run before the bad run comes in and chips away at some of that points gap. At the start of the season it was Malabon who was looking like they were going to pull away from the rest of the league after they had won their first four games on the trot. And then it was Rosenpfelblatz City’s turn to build up a gap over everyone else, a gap that’s grown to as large as seven points. And that’s why this meeting between the Citizens and the Ravens was so important, because it could mean the difference between Rosenpfelblatz’s sixth title and Malabon’s fourth. A victory for the Sky Blues would put them nine points clear, while a win for Malabon would take them just four points adrift, so this truly was a win or bust situation for both teams. To beat another overused cliché into the ground, this was a clash between the unstoppable force and the immovable object, also known as Juan Alvarado versus Radislav Kalyna. Rosenpfelblatz City’s fast-rising star striker looked like he was actually in a great position to deny the mad Pridnestrovian yet another clean sheet, but at the same time Malabon’s defense was beginning to remember just how good they were at the start of the season so this was basically a matter of who was going to blink first. It was at this moment that Alvarado realized that Kalyna doesn’t actually blink though, and when that spooked the Brook striker it opened the door for Malabon to take the lead via a Kyle dos Santos free kick. Watch out, everyone. Malabon might be planning a comeback.

Matchday Fourteen Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 6–2 Thereisnogodistan
Rosenpfelblatz City 0–2 Wanda Island Wanderers
Rosenpfelblatz North End 0–1 Malabon SC
Fleftic Air Force 5–3 Uranium City Radiation
Fleftic Army 1–2 Arsenal de Releinthi
Sarvusdalamoive 2–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Admiral Porcusces 2–1 Bananas
Sporting Ceneisis 2–1 Riuwiee United
Antslinngs Islands 1–1 Paulsen
Xemlice Rovers 2–1 Eielo Sunlight

Is this the beginning of Rosenpfelblatz City’s collapse? In the Fleftic Premier League, a bad run of form is always just around the corner, but it’s fair to say that a lot of Rosenpfelblatz fans were hoping that it wouldn’t happen to their team this time around, or at the very least it wouldn’t happen this early into the season. But on the other hand, would an early run of bad form actually be preferable to having it happen during the run-in? In any case, Rosenpfelblatz’s current downturn might be similar to what happened to their West Mezaladbyi rivals Ludogorets Markovsky: once someone finally managed to beat them, everyone else realized that the current league leaders were actually vulnerable and was now ready and prepared to take the fight to them. Malabon SC landed the first blow to the Citizens’ campaign to win title number six, and now it’s the turn of Wanda Island Wanderers to snatch another three points away from the Aeroflot Stadium. Conceding a goal to Montez Tubman is just part of the business; he’s Wanda Island’s striker after all. But when a backup defender who came off the bench like Nicolas Colon also manages to find a way to put his name on the scoresheet in perhaps the most convoluted way possible then maybe it’s a sign that this just isn’t going to be the Citizens’ day. And with Ludogorets Markovsky also hitting Thereisnogodistan for six and inching ever closer towards the top of the table, perhaps now is the time that Citizens fans should start worrying. To think that their team was seven points clear just two matchdays ago, and now Rosenpfelblatz is barely keeping ahead of everyone else.

Match of the Day
Antslinngs Islands 1–1 Paulsen

It’s time to shift attention away from the top of the table and move to the bottom. There are three teams that are still yet to reach double digits when it comes to points on the table, and it would have been four had it not been for Antslinngs Islands somehow managing to salvage a draw against Paulsen. Antslinngs and Paulsen are the two teams currently hovering just above the relegation places, although it could be argued that Paulsen has already put some distance between themselves and the drop just like they always do. If the Boilermakers could win this game, it could actually boost them all the way up into mid-table. However, if Antslinngs could somehow find a way to take all three points then that would narrow the gap between them and the rest of the league, something that the Islanders would dearly love to do. But if any team was actually going to win between the two of them, it was going to be Paulsen. They have the edge in practically every important metric: more goals scored, less goals conceded, and while Paulsen could definitely use a couple more clean sheets, at least it’s not as dire as what the likes of Eielo Sunlight and Bananas are experiencing. All of that said, one has to admit that Paulsen looked like they were on course for another victory after Francois Bernard had opened the scoring in just the 24th minute. But Paulsen isn’t really a team that knows what to do when they score first because that usually doesn’t happen, but they did give a good accounting for themselves in terms of withstanding the onslaught from the Islanders. Eventually, it would be a set piece that would be the downfall of the Boilermakers, at least as far as this particular match was concerned, but Rohan Desai still had to put some curve into his free kick to make sure that it went past Karl Fenenko’s fingertips. Points shared between the teams, and Antslinngs is still not as close to safety as they would like to be.

Fleftic Premier League Table After Matchday Fourteen

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Rosenpfelblatz City        14   10   1   3    33   17  +16    31   Champions League qualification
 2 Malabon SC                 14   10   0   4    21    9  +12    30   Champions League qualification
 3 Wanda Island Wanderers     14    8   4   2    31   17  +14    28   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Sarvusdalamoive            14    8   4   2    22    8  +14    28   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Xemlice Rovers             14    8   4   2    18    9   +9    28   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Admiral Porcusces          14    8   2   4    22   11  +11    26
 7 Arsenal de Releinthi       14    8   2   4    34   29   +5    26
 8 Riuwiee United             14    6   4   4    37   28   +9    22
 9 Ludogorets Markovsky       14    7   1   6    24   25   −1    22
10 Sporting Ceneisis          14    5   4   5    18   17   +1    19
11 Fleftic Air Force          14    4   6   4    28   26   +2    18
12 Uranium City Radiation     14    5   2   7    16   20   −4    17
13 Locomotive Imgortur        14    3   7   4    29   26   +3    16
14 Thereisnogodistan          14    4   4   6    33   37   −4    16
15 Rosenpfelblatz North End   14    4   4   6    21   27   −6    16
16 Paulsen                    14    4   4   6    22   31   −9    16
17 Antslinngs Islands         14    2   4   8    12   31  −19    10
18 Fleftic Army               14    1   5   8    19   36  −17     8   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Eielo Sunlight             14    1   2  11     9   27  −18     5   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Bananas                    14    0   4  10    21   39  −18     4   Relegation to Unang Liga

Just a few matchdays ago, Rosenpfelblatz City’s advantage over the rest of the league was a whopping seven points, and if things had gone their way just a little bit more it could have gone all the way up to nine points. Unfortunately, the nature of the Fleftic Premier League means that in just a matter of two matchdays, that points advantage has pretty much evaporated. Now Rosenpfelblatz is barely hanging on to the top of the league by a single point, and another screw-up means that Malabon SC can reclaim the place that they had once held during the first month of the new season. Now don’t get it wrong; fans definitely want a good title fight between these two teams. But the fans would rather that it happened because both teams keep winning rather than both teams keep dropping points, as had become the case in recent seasons. Once again, memes about the FPL title being lava have popped up all over social media, and if either one of Rosenpfelblatz or Malabon actually wants to claim the honor of being the best football team in all of Abanhfleft, they’re going to have to clean up their acts sooner rather than later because there is a literal logjam of teams right behind waiting for their own chance to sit atop the pile, even if just for one matchday. Unfortunately, being on top for one matchday might end up being enough simply because the potential for turnover in these top five spots could see one team finish above everyone else at the end of the season without having done so in any previous matchday. So far, that hasn’t happened in the FPL yet, at least not during the IFCF era, but no one’s sure if they want to see it happen now.

Things have become absolutely dire now for Bananas FC. The Gorillas are now the only team in the FPL yet to pick up a win, and by this point, nobody really knows where they’re going to get that first victory of the season. Of course, given that this is the Fleftic Premier League, expect Bananas to win against one of the teams fighting for the title this season before getting blown out once again by their relegation rivals. If this goes on the way it is then Bananas could end up setting or breaking some unwanted FPL records: fastest time to get relegated in a season and least points scored in a single season. To think that there were those who believed that Bananas might have a chance simply because Eielo Sunlight didn’t pick up any points for their first eight games in the league! And now the Suns have more points to their name than the Gorillas! Could these be the worst three teams that have ever played in the FPL? And is that yet another sign that the gap between the Premier League and Unang Liga is growing ever larger to the point of being almost insurmountable? Perhaps, but for the moment hope remains eternal that there are still teams currently playing in Unang Liga that are good enough to compete in the Premier League, with one of those teams being Uranium City Radiation. So far, one of the early favorites for immediate relegation has currently placed themselves solidly in mid-table, but this kind of thing has happened before. A promoted team does well enough to secure another season of top-flight football, only to suffer a drop-off in the next season that sends them right back down the league. Can Uranium City break this pattern though? Maybe, but like most things this season it’s still too early to tell.

Race for the Golden Boot
T1. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur) - 11 goals
T1. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 11 goals
T1. Dan-Arne Kystebo (Thereisnogodistan) - 11 goals
2. 4 players - 9 goals
3. 3 players - 8 goals

There is currently a three-way battle for the Golden Boot between two of the FPL’s most prolific strikers and a relative newcomer. Marat Tkachev is still on the path towards claiming his second consecutive Golden Boot, while Edgar Smith-Fernandez is trying to be the first Fleftic player to get the Boot in four years. Meanwhile, Malcolm Preston has somehow found his way into this race, but saying that he “somehow” found his way here is a bit of a misstatement. Preston had shown signs that he was a very capable striker in the right team, but it just so happened that he was playing for a dire Marinos Thimpodopoulos side last season. Now that he’s playing for Locomotive Imgortur, it would appear that Emilio Caravaggio has finally managed to unlock Preston’s potential.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 9 clean sheets
2. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 8 clean sheets
3. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 6 clean sheets
T4. Jaidev Muthukrishnan (Sarvusdalamoive) - 5 clean sheets
T4. Pertinax Tikeers (Wanda Island Wanderers) - 5 clean sheets

Once again the world is right once again for Radislav Kalyna. Balance has been restored to the universe, and he is once again sitting at the top of the Golden Glove standings. There were times when it looked like either one of Dan Cartwright or Emelio Lontok looked like they might actually be able to overtake the mad Pridnestrovian, but once again Kalyna is edging ahead of the other goalkeepers in the league. Part of it is just the nature of the league; the Fleftic fandom loves to see goals and the teams try to oblige them more times than not. But the other part, the part in which Malabon SC’s defense is beginning to wake up once again, should be cause for concern not only for Kalyna’s fellow goalkeepers but for the rest of the league as a whole.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Fri Nov 14, 2025 8:26 am

Matchday Fifteen Scores
Eielo Sunlight 0–4 Ludogorets Markovsky
Paulsen 1–2 Xemlice Rovers
Riuwiee United 2–0 Antslinngs Islands
Bananas 4–2 Sporting Ceneisis
Locomotive Imgortur 0–1 Admiral Porcusces
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–1 Sarvusdalamoive
Uranium City Radiation 2–0 Fleftic Army
Malabon SC 1–0 Fleftic Air Force
Wanda Island Wanderers 3–2 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Thereisnogodistan 4–3 Rosenpfelblatz City

It has finally happened. Rosenpfelblatz City has been dethroned, and the usurper is none other than Malabon SC. Is this the start of a new title race? Is this the Ravens finally getting back on the right track after having been derailed near the start of the season? Or are these two teams going to drop points left and right and let another team sneak into the picture? Again, it’s still too early to tell, but what is definitely for certain is that Malabon looks to have found the right moment to regain their momentum, which is almost exactly the same moment that Rosenpfelblatz is beginning to lose theirs. Kirill Kucherenko and company can take full credit for the Citizens’ current downward spiral since they started it off in the first place, but the actual important thing for the Ravens is that they managed to capitalize on the momentum that they took away from the then-league leaders. Sure, right now they’ve only won two games since winning against the Sky Blues but everyone else has also only played two games since then. And it might not be the most exciting football being played but it worked for Malabon some years ago, and it could be effective for them yet again. Meanwhile, Rosenpfelblatz City really has been on a downward spiral since that fateful meeting with Malabon. The Citizens have not won another game since losing to the Ravens, and things had now gotten to the point where their fans were now happy with getting a point from Thereisnogodistan. Yet even that would be just a little bit beyond reach for the Citizens, and they will have no one but poor Wayan Rai Mantra to thank for that. The left back from Pemecutan doesn’t always score goals, but when he does, it usually goes against his own team. That’s how rotten Rosenpfelblatz’s luck has become lately.

Match of the Day
Bananas 4–2 Sporting Ceneisis

Bananas FC hadn’t yet won a single game in the Fleftic Premier League this season, but there was also this feeling that should they finally win a game, they were going to win against one of the big boys. And, in a way, that “prophecy” has finally come to pass. Most people had agreed that Bananas was going to beat a team inside the top five, but unfortunately Sporting Ceneisis is nowhere near the top five this season, much to the chagrin of Blues fans. That was the only thing that didn’t come to pass in this “prediction.” Bananas could have beaten the likes of Rosenpfelblatz City, Wanda Island Wanderers, or even Xemlice Rovers, but instead they decided to bring out the best of themselves while playing host to Ceneisis in Suwkpel. The title was already looking more and more like a pipe dream for the Blues, but now that the Gorillas had handed them perhaps their most embarrassing defeat of the season, maybe even making it back into the IFCF is moving out of their grasp. And the thing that’s really going to hurt the Sporting Ceneisis organization is the fact that one of its own products, Ricky Gomez, is responsible for their current downfall. Yes, Ceneisis’s “loan army” is as much of a reality as it is a meme, but when stories of former Ceneisis products coming back to haunt them keep getting told time and time again because they constantly keep happening, maybe there’s actually something wrong in the way Ceneisis processes and retains its academy products.

Matchday Sixteen Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 3–2 Rosenpfelblatz City
Rosenpfelblatz North End 2–2 Thereisnogodistan
Fleftic Air Force 2–3 Wanda Island Wanderers
Fleftic Army 0–1 Malabon SC
Sarvusdalamoive 0–0 Uranium City Radiation
Admiral Porcusces 2–2 Arsenal de Releinthi
Sporting Ceneisis 2–4 Locomotive Imgortur
Antslinngs Islands 1–0 Bananas
Xemlice Rovers 5–2 Riuwiee United
Eielo Sunlight 0–1 Paulsen

The West Mezaladbyi derby between Ludogorets Markovsky and Rosenpfelblatz City has become one of the most eagerly anticipated fixtures in the Fleftic Premier League, especially after both teams became legitimate contenders for the Fleftic Premier League title in recent years. But this one just might have some of the biggest stakes that this fixture has ever had, considering the falloff that Markovsky is seemingly going through as well as the fact that Rosenpfelblatz is currently going through a very rough patch of form. The title may have finally gone out of reach for the Foresters, but if they could beat the Citizens today and it ends up being the difference between Rosenpfelblatz winning the title and another team claiming it then it would make victory in this fixture all the more sweeter for Markovsky and its fans. Yes, sometimes supporters can be that petty, and this would be one of those occasions when such pettiness would actually be funny. On paper, this was a game that was finely balanced, with the only difference being who wanted the three points more. Rosenpfelblatz got off to a fast start thanks to their new star striker Juan Alvarado, who found the back of the net just four minutes into the game to sow disappointment and discontent in Markovsky fans’ hearts. But this was a derby game; anything can happen, and even though Rosenpfelblatz went into the half-time break with a 2-1 lead, the second half could be summarized in just four words: the Sven Fahrni show. The massively built Fleftic international constantly memed by all sides as an unstoppable robot broke through Rosen’s defenses with two supersonic rockets (read outside the box goals) to snatch all three points away from the Citizens, and if the latter should lose the title by that amount of points or less, everyone knows who to thank for that.

Match of the Day
Xemlice Rovers 5–2 Riuwiee United

In all honesty, the West Mezaladbyi derby between Ludogorets Markovsky and Rosenpfelblatz City could have been Match of the Day for matchday sixteen, but for some reason the expert panel of judges had decided that this honor should instead go to Xemlice Rovers versus Riuwiee United. Perhaps there are those who still remember the old times (of a few months ago) when it looked like RIuwiee could have been a dark horse in the rapidly developing title race given how the Blue Tribesmen had been flying under the radar collecting decent results while everyone else was busy tripping over each other. However, it would seem that those days are now long gone because not only has Riuwiee fallen down to the middle of the table, but now Xemlice has also used this opportunity to boost themselves up into third place. Honestly though, this result only comes as a surprise because Riuwiee had almost always had the better of Xemlice for most of the league, even during the very early days of the Fleftic Premier League when the Gamekeepers won the very first FPL title in history. Another other season and the result probably would have gone the other way, with the Blue Tribesmen emerging triumphant over the Gamekeepers once again. But Xemlice has been on a roll this season, and if they play their cards right, they might end up taking part in the title race at the very least. But if things really go the Gamekeepers’ way? The title itself is not that farfetched anymore.

Matchday Seventeen Scores
Paulsen 1–3 Ludogorets Markovsky
Riuwiee United 2–2 Eielo Sunlight
Bananas 1–2 Xemlice Rovers
Locomotive Imgortur 3–2 Antslinngs Islands
Arsenal de Releinthi 5–3 Sporting Ceneisis
Uranium City Radiation 1–1 Admiral Porcusces
Malabon SC 2–0 Sarvusdalamoive
Wanda Island Wanderers 2–2 Fleftic Army
Thereisnogodistan 0–0 Fleftic Air Force
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End

Everyone has been so focused on the likes of Malabon SC, Rosenpfelblatz City, and now Xemlice Rovers duking it out for the Fleftic Premier League title that they have pretty much ignored the one team that’s won the league more recently than two of the three aforementioned teams. Yes, everyone loves to make fun of Wanda Island Wanderers and how they always seem to drop the ball whenever the opportunity to claim silverware beckons to them, but after an active transfer window, Wanda Island is beginning to make an impact on the top five this season. That said, perhaps this isn’t the best time to discuss the Wanderers’ chances of claiming the trophy considering that they just got held to a 2-2 draw by Fleftic Army. The Army club was just up for the fight on that day, and it almost feels like the Wanderers weren’t expecting such a thing to happen to them. Were they really expecting the War Pigs to roll over for them just because Fleftic Army was a newly promoted team and Wanda Island was in the top five? If so then that probably explains why Wanda Island has had such a hard time things over the finish line: they all act like the win against the “worse” team on paper is already guaranteed, almost forgetting that anything can happen in the Fleftic Premier League. Looks like Anthony Acuña and Tuan Parthosi aren’t going to make them forget about this particular lesson anytime soon though, along with the four-point gap between the Wanderers and the top of the league.

Match of the Day
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End

The Rosenpfelblatz derby between City and North End has become a rarer affair after City received massive investments from the Sultanate of Oontaz, and in the brief instances when both Rosenpfelblatz teams are actually playing in the same league, results have become quite lopsided in favor of the Citizens. And although derbies usually make it as Match of the Day, usually it depends on whether one or both teams in the derby have some stakes attached to the result. That hadn’t been the case for either Rosenpfelblatz side lately, but this season thanks to Rosen City’s resurgence, the Rosenpfelblatz derby now has title implications and thus the expert panel of judges has named this fixture as matchday seventeen’s Match of the Day. However, if the Acolytes were hoping that City’s form would go out the window courtesy of this match being a derby then they would have to be disappointed by reality. Juan Alvarado was just too good for them on the day and the Brook striker racks up another brace to his name. Lucas von Wolfberg’s injury may have actually been a blessing in disguise for the Citizens because while they may have lost their number one striker, turns out they might have actually have a much better striker in Juan Alvarado. But is he good enough to take the Citizens to their sixth Fleftic Premier League title? City fans would dearly love for that to come true.

Matchday Eighteen Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 2–1 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Fleftic Air Force 4–2 Rosenpfelblatz City
Fleftic Army 0–0 Thereisnogodistan
Sarvusdalamoive 3–3 Wanda Island Wanderers
Admiral Porcusces 1–0 Malabon SC
Sporting Ceneisis 1–0 Uranium City Radiation
Antslinngs Islands 1–2 Arsenal de Releinthi
Xemlice Rovers 2–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Eielo Sunlight 2–2 Bananas
Paulsen 1–2 Riuwiee United

And then there was a new league leader. Like a thief in the night, Xemlice Rovers has emerged from the shadows to snatch first place in the table away from Malabon SC. The Ravens really have no one else to blame but themselves for ending up in this situation in the first place, but more on that later during the Match of the Day discussion. For the moment, one must turn their attention to Lotharstadt, capital of Xemlice Province, where the Gamekeepers had just won against Locomotive Imgortur in order to become FPL leaders for the first time in some time. There’s nothing much to talk about in this match; Imgortur was defensively solid for most of the game but fell apart when it mattered the most, and their attack was effectively neutered by Xemlice’s back line to the point that not even the ever-controversial Ramiro Guerra could manage to find a way past the Gamekeepers’ defenders. Perhaps one of the biggest signs that everything was going Xemlice’s way was the fact that one of the defenders that Peter Paul Montenegro brought on to close out this match, Fhulghamousian left back Aitor Peñaranda, actually scored with his very first attempt on goal. Of course, it wasn’t all of his own doing; Barsaam Khovkoitun sent a free kick into the box for his teammates to attack, but the fact that this was literally Peñaranda’s first contribution on the field in this game has to count for something when it comes to Xemlice’s luck, right? And does it count for something regarding the luck of the other teams in the league too?

Match of the Day
Admiral Porcusces 1–0 Malabon SC

How did it take so long for the two greatest goalkeepers of the current generation (or at the very least two of the greatest goalkeepers in the season according to clean sheets kept) to actually go face-to-face just now? Emelio Lontok was one of the few who actually dared to compete for the Golden Glove alongside Radislav Kalyna, the mad Pridnestrovian, and while Lontok has fallen away thanks to his defense letting him down just a little too much for his own liking, there’s still a non-zero chance that he can overtake Kalyna further down the stretch. But now here was Lontok’s chance to get just a little bit closer to Kalyna head-to-head, but with the whole of Malabon currently in white-hot form and chasing after the title, it might just be too tall of a task for the Sea Foxes. But, as with pretty much most things in the Fleftic Premier League, no result is actually guaranteed, and even though most people expected this one to be a close, if decisive, win for the Ravens, Emelio Lontok’s defense actually did their job for him for once. The Porcusces defense kept the likes of Denny Hobbs, Talal Akabi, and even Jeremy Onus quiet, and on the surprisingly rare times that Lontok was actually called to action, he made his saves look easier than they actually probably were. And while Porcusces was keeping Malabon off of the scoreboard, Shawn Alogrin struck the Ravens on the counterattack and even had the audacity to go around Radislav Kalyna to hand all three points to the Sea Foxes, much to the chagrin of the mad Pridnestrovian. Because of this, Xemlice Rovers now leads the Fleftic Premier League for the first time in a long time, adding another player into the already complicated title race for this season.

Matchday Nineteen Scores
Riuwiee United 3–3 Ludogorets Markovsky
Bananas 4–3 Paulsen
Locomotive Imgortur 1–0 Eielo Sunlight
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–2 Xemlice Rovers
Uranium City Radiation 4–1 Antslinngs Islands
Malabon SC 2–2 Sporting Ceneisis
Wanda Island Wanderers 0–1 Admiral Porcusces
Thereisnogodistan 4–5 Sarvusdalamoive
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–1 Fleftic Army
Rosenpfelblatz North End 3–2 Fleftic Air Force

This year might just actually be Xemlice Rovers’ year. Yes, there’s still one more half of a season to go, but given just how hard the Gamekeepers have fought to be in this position in the first place, there might actually be a chance that this is the season that they finally secure only their second title in the FPL era. Everyone else had been keeping their attention on the likes of Malabon SC and Rosenpfelblatz City for most of the season so far, which allowed Xemlice to get into just the right position to take advantage when both of these teams inevitably began tripping over themselves throughout the course of the season. And now that they’re there, it’s time for the Gamekeepers to consolidate, and one of the ways to do that effectively is to win their upcoming games. Said next game is none other than the twelve-time league champions Arsenal de Releinthi who are once again struggling to make themselves relevant in the current conversation. While a victory here probably wouldn’t be enough to bring Releinthi back into the IFCF places, perhaps it could derail Xemlice’s own title challenge, which might have to be enough for the Gunners and their fans. But they couldn’t have even that thanks to Barsaam Khovkoitun. The Squornshelan central attacking midfielder was a nuisance for Oleg Mostovoi’s defenders, and it would be Khovkoitun’s set pieces that would actually open up Releinthi to Xemlice’s onslaught. First Rugerro Rossi headed in Khovkoitun’s free kick, and then Khovkoitun scored directly from a free kick himself for good measure, making sure that Martin Fenton’s equalizer would not actually mean anything for the Gunners in this game.

Match of the Day
Thereisnogodistan 4–5 Sarvusdalamoive

How does Sarvusdalamoive keep doing it? Every time the expert panel of judges for Match of the Day needs to choose a match from the mid-table to feature for the program, Sarvusdalamoive almost always steps up to the plate and smashes it. And once again the Pinks have provided the fans everything that they could ever want: goals, momentum shifts, lead changes, the whole nine yards. And because most of the usual suspects have been having a harder time hanging on to a place in the top half of the table, Sarvus’s latest win now has them sliding into seventh place, sidled in between Ludogorets Markovsky and Arsenal de Releinthi. If one was to look at these three teams in isolation then it would almost feel as if the Pinks had found themselves in title contention once again. Alas, that’s not really happening right now, but it’s a “never say never” situation for Taras Markov. If Wanda Island Wanderers and then Xemlice Rovers can do it then why not Sarvusdalamoive? However, if the Pinks are actually serious about putting together a title challenge then maybe it’s time for them to invest in some new attacking players. Sacit Közalmaz can’t carry almost the entire load on his back, nor would it be fair to expect him to do so. Unfortunately, for all of his years of service to the men in pink, Richard Luyindula is not what one would consider a title-winning striker because he just doesn’t score that many goals. Maybe it’s tactics, maybe it’s his age, or maybe it’s Luyindula himself. Right now, he’s just lucky that he has a great supporting cast that’s actually capable of taking the load off of his shoulders and contribute because that had been the downfall of Sarvus’s previous campaigns over the past five seasons. But he can’t expect that to last forever as well, can he?

Fleftic Premier League Table After Matchday Nineteen

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Xemlice Rovers             19   13   4   2    31   14  +17    43   Champions League qualification
 2 Malabon SC                 19   13   1   5    27   12  +15    40   Champions League qualification
 3 Rosenpfelblatz City        19   12   1   6    48   29  +19    37   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Admiral Porcusces          19   11   4   4    28   14  +14    37   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Wanda Island Wanderers     19   10   6   3    42   27  +15    36   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Ludogorets Markovsky       19   11   2   6    39   32   +7    35
 7 Sarvusdalamoive            19    9   7   3    31   18  +13    34
 8 Arsenal de Releinthi       19   10   4   5    45   38   +7    34
 9 Riuwiee United             19    8   6   5    48   39   +9    30
10 Locomotive Imgortur        19    6   7   6    37   33   +4    25
11 Uranium City Radiation     19    7   4   8    23   23    0    25
12 Sporting Ceneisis          19    6   5   8    28   32   −4    23
13 Fleftic Air Force          19    5   7   7    36   35   +1    22
14 Thereisnogodistan          19    5   7   7    43   47   −4    22
15 Rosenpfelblatz North End   19    5   5   9    29   40  −11    20
16 Paulsen                    19    5   4  10    29   42  −13    19
17 Antslinngs Islands         19    3   4  12    17   42  −25    13
18 Bananas                    19    2   5  12    32   49  −17    11   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Fleftic Army               19    1   7  11    22   45  −23    10   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Eielo Sunlight             19    1   4  14    13   37  −24     7   Relegation to Unang Liga

First it was Malabon SC. Then it was Rosenpfelblatz City. Now it’s Xemlice Rovers sitting at the top of the table, and the Gamekeepers currently have a three-point gap to their nearest challengers. Could this finally be the year of Xemlice? It’s been said many times before, mostly during the early days of the Fleftic Premier League before Riuwiee United emerged as the new dominant force in the country. And it’s also been said before when Malabon finally managed to break their thirty-year duck and win their third FPL title. So why can’t Xemlice be the next team to end their title drought? Well, as always, it all depends on their form, and when the good and bad patches happen. If the Gamekeepers can time their good runs at the same time that title opponents such as Rosenpfelblatz and Malabon are struggling then it indeed finally be Xemlice’s time. Otherwise, everyone watching the FPL will once again be treated to a display of “the championship is lava,” and after having seen that twice in two seasons already, everyone is just getting sick and tired of the whole experience. And what about the teams directly below them? Wanda Island Wanderers sitting and waiting to pounce is to be expected, but who would have thought that both Admiral Porcusces and Ludogorets Markovsky would be right next to each other just outside the IFCF places? This was supposed to be the year that the Foresters made history. This was supposed to be when a team finally won four titles in a row in Fleftic football. Instead, Markovsky is suffering an unprecedented falloff that saw them end up as far down as 15th place, but now it looks like Roberto Hoya’s men had finally gotten their act together. Could there still be time for an incredibly shocking comeback? Again, never say never.

Things are once again looking completely dire for the teams at the bottom of the Fleftic Premier League. At least only one team is still yet to reach double digit points at the halfway point of the season, but that only means that Eielo Sunlight is in actual danger of being the first team to fall out of the top flight this season. Not only that, but if things continue going this poorly for the Suns, they could actually break the record for least points scored in a single top flight season, which is 14 points scored by Effelenendro FC back in the 1999-2000 season. That said, Eielo has shown an ability to squeeze draws from nowhere, so maybe they won’t be as bad as that horrible Effelenendro side from the turn of the millennium. And shockingly, Fleftic Army had been equally poor this season. This wasn’t how this was supposed to be, especially after they managed to steal Tuan Parthosi away from Gyouza Young Lads courtesy of a relegation release clause. Could it be that Parthosi himself is cursed, and that any team he plays for eventually ends up falling victim to the drop? Well, if one ignores the fact that Gyouza managed to survive getting relegated during Parthosi’s first year with the club (and at the expense of their rivals Miroz Old Boys) then it really does seem like Parthosi is the one who is cursed and that he doesn’t really have some rotten luck when it comes to picking his teams. Bananas FC also looks like a likely candidate for relegation, but at least they’re a lot more closer to safety than they were just a couple of matchdays ago. Still, it’s almost a shame that only four teams looks like they’re under threat from actually getting relegated. Perhaps there might be a grain of truth to the rumors and hearsay that the gap between the Fleftic Premier League and the rest of the Liga ng Abanhfleft is growing larger and larger by the day.

Race for the Golden Boot
T1. Edgar Smith-Fernandez (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 15 goals
T1. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 15 goals
2. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur) - 14 goals
3. Juan Alvarado (Rosenpfelblatz City) - 13 goals
4. 3 players - 11 goals

Edgar Smith-Fernandez and Marat Tkachev have finally managed to separate themselves from the rest of the group, at least as far as the race for the Golden Boot is concerned. But that doesn’t mean that either one of them have time to rest on their laurels; right behind them are Malcolm Preston and Rosenpfelblatz City’s newest star striker Juan Alvarado, and that isn’t even getting into all of the other players who have finally reached double digits in their respective goal tallies. There’s nothing truly shocking about the current field at the moment, although there definitely feels like a bit of a logjam between all of these Golden Boot hopefuls. Hopefully someone manages to separate themselves from the rest sooner rather than later.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 12 clean sheets
T2. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 9 clean sheets
T2. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 9 clean sheets
3. Jaidev Muthukrishan (Sarvusdalamoive) - 6 clean sheets
4. 3 players - 5 clean sheets

Radislav Kalyna is once again the undisputed leader of the Golden Glove standings, but once again it also looks as if this is not going to mean anything when it comes to Malabon SC lifting another Fleftic Premier League title. It really must feel like an interesting tradeoff for the mad Pridnestrovian: when he performs well, his team suffers, and when the other goalkeepers were able to catch up to him in the Golden Glove standings, that was when Malabon had the best chance of actually winning the league. Which is going to be more important to the man then? And if he does lose out on the Golden Glove, will the Faustian bargain be passed on to the one who actually wins the Glove this season?

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 1:17 am

2039-40 SFA Cup Third Round

Electric Yugal 0–1 Imperial Markovsky
Antslinngs Islands 2–1 Admiral Porcusces
Keephall Vikings 0–1 Dynamo Ja
Reyes United 0–2 Ludogorets Markovsky
North Iboyie Albion 1–2 Athletic Dorfdifving
Nnettekkebb Wanderers 0–1 Rodrigues
Khimik Ogovlich 1–2 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Southern Imgortur 0–0 Eielo Sunlight
Sarvusdalamoive 2–0 Keklavik United
Athletic Bergson 2–2 Selid Town
Mannerheim Town 0–0 Sporting Busov
Marinos Thimpodopoulos 3–6 Thereisnogodistan
Onghawesk East End 1–3 AFC Da
Riuwiee Metropolitan 1–1 OGC Oui
Riuwiee United 6–5 Fleftic Air Force
Duhblakk Rovers 5–1 FC United of Riuwiee

Wanda Island Wanderers 3–1 Sporting Wappinger
Arsenal de Releinthi 2–1 Olistan Presbyterians
Kimmirut Panhandle 1–2 Malabon SC
Nou Constantinopoli 5–3 Tutschkill Town
Jasvirabad Gems 1–0 AFC Hithamandhoo
Uranium City Radiation 1–0 Sporting Mykorrigan
Wabash Union 0–4 Miroz Old Boys
Paulsen 2–1 Tefel
Locomotive Imgortur 5–1 West Releinthi City
Rosenpfelblatz City 6–0 FC Afa-az
Effelenendro 0–2 Fleftic Army
Xemlice Rovers 5–2 Bananas
Malhall United 0–3 Gyouza Young Lads
All-Inclusive Haranguer 4–1 Upper Yil Vale
Sporting Ceneisis 0–0 Pilken Kickers
Koob Rovers 1–4 Atletico San Sebastian

It’s the halfway point of the 2039-40 season and we all know what that means! It’s time for the SFA Cup! The scramble for the tin idol begins again, with all forty teams from the Fleftic Premier League and Unang Liga joining the competition in the third round and joining the 24 survivors of the previous rounds. Given the nature of the cup competitions such as this, many fans are usually on the lookout for an exciting or intriguing clash that includes at least one side from the Fleftic Premier League because there is a possibility that one of the heavy hitters could get eliminated this early into the tournament. The defending cup holders have also sometimes found themselves in a very tight spot in the third round, and thus it’s a coin toss whether they move into the next round or not. Admittedly, this has been a problem only for sides lower down the FPL table, but once in a while a top six team who also holds the tin idol gets knocked out before their defense has even begun. Is that the fate that awaits Sporting Ceneisis in 2040? It might actually be. The Blues were drawn against Pilken Kickers, winners of the 2034 edition of the SFA Cup, and while the Kickers are currently languishing in the middle of the Unang Liga table, it would seem as if Pilken wants to bring the tin idol back to their city. Holding Ceneisis scoreless and forcing a replay at their home stadium is definitely going to help them out in that objective but at the same time, it could detract from Pilken’s own league campaign. Therein lies the conundrum of the SFA Cup: is it worth sacrificing league results to go after the tin idol? Many teams have come up with differing answers over the years. Perhaps a true answer to this particular question will never be known.

Setting aside the philosophy of league and cup competitions in football, a large part of why the SFA Cup remains relevant in the modern footballing landscape is the “magic of the cup.” This can be broadly described as “the hope that one of the top teams in the country will fall victim to a team playing in the lower leagues that otherwise might not have another opportunity to play a competitive match against said top team.” Everyone loves an underdog story, and the same can be said in Abanhfleft too. However, in recent years it could be argued that the “magic of the SFA Cup” has died down somewhat, and more often than not it’s one of the top teams that end up taking home the tin idol. Exceptions to the rule do exist, of course, most recently and notably just two seasons ago when Mannerheim Town beat the odds (and Gyouza Young Lads) to claim the SFA Cup for the very first time in their history. Speaking of Mannerheim, after they failed in their quest to defend the tin idol last season, they have made it into the third round once again, but unfortunately for them Sporting Busov was not in the mood to just let the Mountain Men walk over them. That’s another goalless draw in the third round and thus another replay that will have to be held, thus compounding the issue of whether it’s a good idea to focus on the cup or not.

As for matches that will not require a replay, there are plenty of options to talk about. But without a shadow of a doubt, the one match that most people are talking about is the one between Riuwiee United and Fleftic Air Force. On the face of it, it’s just a standard meeting between two FPL sides. There’s a possibility that the Air Force club could pull off the upset and win the tin idol for the first time since 2027, and by God did they try to make that possibility a reality. This is the first time this season that Fleftic Air Force has managed to score five goals in a single game, but unfortunately for the Golden Eagles, Riuwiee United had a reply for each and every single one of those goals. Not even bringing on Joni Laurismäki from the bench to augment their offense was enough to hold the Air Force get past the Blue Tribesmen, who didn’t even have to trouble Marat Tkachev in order to get into the next round of the SFA Cup. Kostyantyn Zazroyev and Ryan Phillips took care of business for the capital club, with some help from first team regulars Aalipdis Marec and Mamadou Haidara. Perhaps this was a sign that the “magic of the SFA Cup” is not going to be in effect for this edition of the competition, as apart from Ceneisis, literally no other Fleftic Premier League side has been eliminated from the Cup (with the exception of Bananas FC, but they don’t really count since they lost to a fellow FPL side in Xemlice Rovers anyway). But perhaps all is not yet lost. There are still more rounds to be held, after all, and as the field grows narrower, the chances of an upset grow larger. Don’t write off the magic of the SFA Cup just yet.

Matchday Twenty Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 3–1 Fleftic Air Force
Rosenpfelblatz North End 0–2 Fleftic Army
Rosenpfelblatz City 2–0 Sarvusdalamoive
Thereisnogodistan 1–1 Admiral Porcusces
Wanda Island Wanderers 3–0 Sporting Ceneisis
Malabon SC 0–1 Antslinngs Islands
Uranium City Radiation 2–2 Xemlice Rovers
Arsenal de Releinthi 5–3 Eielo Sunlight
Locomotive Imgortur 3–3 Paulsen
Bananas 3–2 Riuwiee United

Time now to return to FPL action, and right now it looks like two of the current top three is on shaky ground. Xemlice Rovers was held to a 2-2 draw by Uranium City Radiation, and Malabon SC lost yet another match! Yes, that’s right: Malabon SC lost another match, and Radislav Kalyna lost another clean sheet. Now what team would have the temerity, the balls to step up to the mad Pridnestrovian and tell him that he wouldn’t be adding to his tally in the Golden Glove standings? Antslinngs Islands, that’s who. Yes, a team that’s trying to fight off relegation actually had the balls to fight back against one of the top teams in the division and scrape a point off of them, let alone all three. At this point, it’s hard to tell whose fault it was that Malabon allowed itself to be lulled into a false sense of security to the point that Stavros Georgiou was allowed to let loose after he was played through by a most exquisite through ball from Kennedy Clinton. Pretty much the only team among the current title chasers to have a good time was Rosenpfelblatz City, who cruised to victory over Sarvusdalamoive courtesy of goals from Amisa Fatabbujbi and Perin Caupet. It really does feel like it’s going to be another one of those “the championship is lava” title races, isn’t it? It’s not necessarily what the fans want to see, but it is what they are going to see nonetheless.

Match of the Day
Uranium City Radiation 2–2 Xemlice Rovers

If it hasn’t already been made clear in the previous matchday review, one of the matches in which the current top three in the league was unable to take advantage of their position at the top of the table was going to be named Match of the Day, and that is indeed what happened for Uranium City Radiation against Xemlice Rovers. The league leaders surely must have recognized that this was the perfect opportunity for them to increase their advantage over the chasing pack when Malabon lost to Antslinngs Islands by a single goal. All the Gamekeepers needed to do was win against Uranium City and they would be six points clear of both Malabon and Rosenpfelblatz City. Unfortunately for Peter Paul Montenegro’s men, that was a task that was easier said than done as the Rays managed to hold them to a goalless draw on the opening day of the season. But back then, someone could also make the excuse that Montenegro’s new signings still needed to get bedded into the team and so a rough outing against the newly promoted Unang Liga champions was still to be expected. Today though, there was no room for excuses. Xemlice was in a tight battle for the FPL title and every point mattered, and thus by extension every goal they scored also mattered. Marc Lagmay and Barsamm Khovkoitun could have and should have won it for the Gamekeepers, but unfortunately for them and their supporters, it seemed as if Uranium City had an answer for each and every one of those goals. And it wasn’t as if the Rays scored some unstoppable bangers; both goals from Vladislav Aristarkhov and Hermes Querubim could have and probably should have been prevented; instead, Xemlice had to share a point with their opponents and keep themselves still within arm’s reach of the chasing pack.

Matchday Twenty-one Scores
Bananas 3–5 Ludogorets Markovsky
Riuwiee United 0–1 Locomotive Imgortur
Paulsen 1–1 Arsenal de Releinthi
Eielo Sunlight 2–0 Uranium City Radiation
Xemlice Rovers 1–0 Malabon SC
Antslinngs Islands 0–0 Wanda Island Wanderers
Sporting Ceneisis 2–0 Thereisnogodistan
Admiral Porcusces 2–0 Rosenpfelblatz City
Sarvusdalamoive 6–3 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Fleftic Army 2–1 Fleftic Air Force

Oh, so now it’s Rosenpfelblatz City’s turn to drop points in the title race? The Citizens used to have a seven-point lead at the top of the table just a few months ago, for goodness’ sake! What is going on with the title challengers of the current season? Even Malabon SC is on the start of a losing streak, and no one from that side of the Capital Islands wants to see that, not after the Ravens had come so close to being the team that finally manages to break Ludogorets Markovsky’s own title-winning streak. But at least Malabon had the excuse of losing to the league leaders Xemlice Rovers. What does Rosenpfelblatz City have to say for themselves? They got knocked out of the top three by Admiral Porcusces! Admiral Porcusces! Where in the world did the Sea Foxes come from? And are they actually seriously challenging for the title now, or are they only there because everyone else apart from the league leaders is busy dropping points? And it wasn’t as if Rosenpfelblatz was actually poor away from home. The Citizens had a couple of chances that could have ended up being goals had it not been for a matter of inches or even centimeters. Juan Alvarado being found offside by the skin of his teeth by the automatic linesman technology could come back to haunt the sky blue side of Rosenpfelblatz, and with their West Mezaladbyi rivals Ludogorets Markovsky now looking like they’ve finally gotten their act together once again, this could be yet another disappointing season for the Citizens.

Match of the Day
Fleftic Army 2–1 Fleftic Air Force

After being denied the first time round, the Armed Forces derby between Fleftic Army and Fleftic Air Force has finally made its way back to Match of the Day. But the true surprise here is that it’s actually the Army club that came out of this contest victorious! The Air Force club has the longevity and some might say the pedigree of having been in the top flight much longer than the Army club has, and yet it’s the War Pigs who walked away from this contest with all three points. Maybe it isn’t actually too farfetched, considering that Air Force had seemingly been coasting on the achievements (and more importantly goals) of Joni Laurismäki ever since they signed him as one of their three foreign players. It worked out well for the Golden Eagles for a long time, but now that age is beginning to catch up to the Savojar striker, maybe it’s time for the Air Force club to begin looking for a new striker. Laurismäki simply can’t keep doing what he’s been doing for the past five seasons, and the War Pigs exploited that weakness from their opponents as effectively as they could. Obviously, the Army club couldn’t keep Laurismäki quiet for all of 90 minutes, but it turned out all that they really needed to do was just keep him from scoring more than one goal while scoring at least two goals themselves. Army’s own foreigner striker Tuan Parthosi looked to have finally regained the form that got him into the Golden Boot conversation during his time with Gyouza Young Lads, and once he smashed in the equalizer for the War Pigs, the momentum permanently shifted the way of the Army club. That said, Army still needed a second goal, and they would get it from Shane Sanchez in the 82nd minute; fitting considering his service in 82nd Brigade of the 8th “Lucky” Division.

2039-40 SFA Cup Third Round Replays

Pilken Kickers 2–4 Sporting Ceneisis
Eielo Sunlight 1–0 Southern Imgortur
Selid Town 2–2 Athletic Bergson (4–3 pen.)
Sporting Busov 1–0 Mannerheim Town
OGC Oui 1–1 Riuwiee Metropolitan (4–5 pen.)

Time to take a short break from league action once again for third round replays of the SFA Cup. Only five ties needed to go to a replay this time around, and of those, only two actually involves FPL sides. But can one really count a tie involving Eielo Sunlight as a tie for an FPL team? God knows the Suns hadn’t played like they actually belong in the top flight of the Fleftic football pyramid, but for the moment they’re there so they’re going to have to be counted among the twenty FPL teams for this season. In any case, Eielo barely managed to scrape a goalless draw against Southern Imgortur, a team currently playing in the Southern Division of Liga Ikalawa, also known as Liga Ikalawa-Timog. It almost feels like Eielo is cursed in football, but even though they could only draw against Southern Imgortur, at least when they have to play the replay Eielo will now host the third tier team, and that actually turned out to be the difference between the Suns advancing to the next round playing only 90 minutes or having to go through a penalty shootout. Even though he really probably should be focusing on the league, Eielo manager Octavius Edwards still opted to field a strong lineup against Southern Imgortur, but of course it had to be a man from the bench who would actually rescue Eielo’s hopes of bringing home the tin idol. Who was the Suns’ savior on this night? None other than their new Oontaznik winger Mario Alberto, who finally played his first game in the yellow and green after suffering an injury during preseason. What a way for him to introduce himself to Eielo. Now can he replicate this performance in the league and push the Suns towards safety? That might be too gargantuan a task even for him, sadly.

Moving on to the other SFA Cup replay involving an FPL team, after managing to hold the current holders Sporting Ceneisis to a goalless draw at Throckmorton Bridge, Pilken Kickers now prepares to host the current holders of the tin idol at their own backyard. Things hadn’t been going well for the Blues in the league so it was perhaps no surprise that Rico Van Zant opted to heavily rotate his squad for this match, but he still had some first teamers such as Lachlan Ghannam and Antonio Galindez out there to provide leadership and experience for the B-team. The kids actually did well enough at the start of the game, with Ceneisis academy products tallying the first two goals and seemingly putting the Blues on cruise control on the road to the fourth round. However, no one could have possibly foreseen that the last twelve minutes of this particular replay would become some of the most exciting and chaotic minutes in Fleftic football this season. Against all the odds, Pilken somehow managed to pull themselves level in the dying minutes of the game to force the possibility of a penalty shootout. Sadly for the winners of the 2034 edition of the Cup though, the seven minutes of time added on to the end by the referee would turn out to be enough for Ceneisis to execute a turnaround of their own, and it was all thanks to the leadership and the skills of Lachlan Ghannam. While Ghannam himself didn’t get on the scoresheet for this game, he did provide both assists for both of Ceneisis’s winning goals, which were also both scored by the same person, Xannerian striker Max Spielenfeld. Sporting Ceneisis’ defense of the tin idol continues for at least one more round, but the Blues can hardly afford to rest on their laurels right now. There’s still much work left to be done.

Matchday Twenty-two Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 7–4 Fleftic Army
Fleftic Air Force 3–3 Sarvusdalamoive
Rosenpfelblatz North End 0–0 Admiral Porcusces
Rosenpfelblatz City 2–2 Sporting Ceneisis
Thereisnogodistan 1–0 Antslinngs Islands
Wanda Island Wanderers 3–1 Xemlice Rovers
Malabon SC 2–0 Eielo Sunlight
Uranium City Radiation 3–1 Paulsen
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–1 Riuwiee United
Locomotive Imgortur 2–0 Bananas

Is it time for Xemlice Rovers to start looking over their shoulders? Because now seems like a perfectly good time for Xemlice Rovers to start looking over their shoulders. Write off Ludogorets Markovsky from the title race at one’s own risk, people. Everyone was so sure that the Foresters would be nowhere near the top of the league after a less than convincing start to the season that saw them lose as many games as they have won. Heck, even Markovsky’s own fans had already written off their own team at the end of the first half of the season, and yet here is Ludogorets being a resurgent force once again. Everyone who supports literally any other team in Fleftic football should probably start to be afraid right now because, barring another poor run of form hitting the Foresters in literally the worst possible time, Markovsky could find itself sitting at the top of the pile once again. And it wasn’t as if Roberto Hoya’s men were flying under the radar this whole time; it was just that everyone else was so focused on what was happening with the “actual” title contenders such as Malabon, Rosenpfelblatz City, and Xemlice Rovers that Ludogorets had felt more an afterthought than anything else, especially given how far away they had been after the first couple of matchdays. But no one can argue that Markovsky didn’t announce their return to the title picture in the most spectacular way possible, an incredible thrashing of Fleftic Army that saw eleven goals scored in total and both Sven Fahrni and Paolo von Montanari each getting braces to their name. Be afraid, Abanhfleft; be very afraid: Ludogorets Markovsky is back.

Match of the Day
Wanda Island Wanderers 3–1 Xemlice Rovers

So how did Ludogorets Markovsky end up being given a way back into the title fight in the first place? Blame Xemlice Rovers for that. If it hadn’t been for the Gamekeepers losing what was practically a must-win game against Wanda Island Wanderers then they would still be six points safe from any Markovsky onslaught. Instead, the Foresters are now just three points away from the top of the table, and should Xemlice drop points yet again (which is always a possibility given that this is the Fleftic Premier League after all) the league could see the return of Ludogorets to the number one spot yet again. And everyone knows that when Markovsky gets their hands on top spot, it’s very hard if not downright impossible to dislodge them from there. For their part, Wanda Island has struggled to remain relevant in this title chase despite having numerous opportunities to do so, but even they and their fans probably weren’t expecting to win against the current league leaders like this. Maybe if the Wanderers won by just one goal then this result would have been a little bit more believable. But Wanda Island dominated Xemlice right from the start, and it wasn’t just because they were playing at home. This was perhaps the best that the likes of Montez Tubman, Matyas Vass, and Yonatan Ochoa had looked in some time, while Xemlice’s defense was surprisingly shocking, so it was practically inevitable that at least one of the aforementioned Wanderers players would find the back of the net sooner or later. In fact, Tubman probably should have had a hat trick in this game were it not for a combination of factors such as him being offside more times than not and Dan Cartwright showing himself to be a surprisingly great goalkeeper in the second half of his career. Now Wanda Island is in third place, and while it might still be too early to say if they’re going to be a factor in this title race or not, at the very least they’re in the right place at what could possibly be the right time as well.

Matchday Twenty-three Scores
Locomotive Imgortur 1–4 Ludogorets Markovsky
Bananas 1–1 Arsenal de Releinthi
Riuwiee United 1–0 Uranium City Radiation
Paulsen 0–0 Malabon SC
Eielo Sunlight 2–1 Wanda Island Wanderers
Xemlice Rovers 2–1 Thereisnogodistan
Antslinngs Islands 2–1 Rosenpfelblatz City
Sporting Ceneisis 2–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Admiral Porcusces 2–2 Fleftic Air Force
Sarvusdalamoive 3–1 Fleftic Army

Crisis averted for Xemlice Rovers, for now at least. Ludogorets Markovsky won’t be taking the lead in the Fleftic Premier League table just yet. The threat of a fourth consecutive Markovsky title is a growing specter on the horizon yet again, but for the meantime, Xemlice Rovers is doing what they can to make sure that this so-called “dark future” doesn’t come to pass just yet. Perhaps the real question here is if there is actually a team, any team, out there that can put an end to Markovsky’s momentum. It’s definitely not going to be Fleftic Army again, not after the thrashing that they received from the Foresters in the previous matchday. None of the other options look or feel particularly convincing, so the only thing that Xemlice can really do right now is to focus on themselves and their own schedule and win the games right in front of them. The Gamekeepers had to fight to get all three points against Thereisnogodistan, and they had to call upon their bench to find an answer to Sam Crownover’s tightly packed defense, but Donovan Exshaw answered the call and broke down TNG’s walls. A victory over the Atheists is perhaps the best that Xemlice can do now, but it must hurt for them to think that the best that they could do in the league might still end up not being good enough at the end of the day. Such is the power that Markovsky’s domination has exerted upon Fleftic football. As long as they’re around, no lead in the league is ever truly safe.

Match of the Day
Antslinngs Islands 2–1 Rosenpfelblatz City

How can two teams at almost opposite ends of the league table feel like they’re almost equally matched? Surely this shouldn’t be the case for either one of Rosenpfelblatz City or Antslinngs Islands, but then again, anything can happen in the FPL. It feels like it was just yesterday when Rosenpfelblatz City was leading the Fleftic Premier League comfortably and they had a lead as large as six points to their nearest challenger. Now leading the league feels like a distance memory for the Citizens, and after losing to a relegation threatened Antslinngs Islands side, the dream of a sixth title is slipping further and further away from their grasp. And right now, it’s all because luck doesn’t appear to be on the side of the sky blue side of Rosenpfelblatz. They really should have had this game in the bag once Eamon O’connor found the back of the net in the 16th minute. Juan Alvarado probably should have had a brace in this game as well but the woodwork decided that he was not going to get any goals to his name today. And then after Perin Caupet missed what was basically an open net to start off the second half, Artyom Avvakumov must have realized that this could actually be a winnable game for his side and so ordered his players to go on the attack. And even then, both of Antslinngs’s goals were a mess for Rosenpfelblatz to concede. Ilmar Golora’s attempt at a punching clearance on Teddy Guevara’s header only gave the ball an awkward loop that nobody in a sky blue shirt could accurately track down, and then Leo Kane’s winner in the 75th minute was an absolute calamity. Three chances to clear the ball away before Kane even touched it and nobody from City actually took it. For all intents and purposes, this is the end of Rosenpfelblatz City’s title hopes barring a turn in form similar to what Ludogorets is currently going through.

Fleftic Premier League After Matchday Twenty-three

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Xemlice Rovers             23   15   5   3    37   20  +17    50   Champions League qualification
 2 Ludogorets Markovsky       23   15   2   6    58   41  +17    47   Champions League qualification
 3 Malabon SC                 23   14   2   7    29   14  +15    44   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Wanda Island Wanderers     23   12   7   4    49   30  +19    43   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Admiral Porcusces          23   12   7   4    33   17  +16    43   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Rosenpfelblatz City        23   13   2   8    53   35  +18    41
 7 Sarvusdalamoive            23   11   8   4    43   27  +16    41
 8 Arsenal de Releinthi       23   11   7   5    53   44   +9    40
 9 Riuwiee United             23    9   7   7    52   44   +8    34
10 Locomotive Imgortur        23    8   8   7    44   40   +4    32
11 Sporting Ceneisis          23    8   6   9    34   37   −3    30
12 Uranium City Radiation     23    8   5  10    28   29   −1    29
13 Thereisnogodistan          23    6   8   9    46   52   −6    26
14 Fleftic Air Force          23    5   9   9    43   45   −2    24
15 Paulsen                    23    5   7  11    34   49  −15    22
16 Rosenpfelblatz North End   23    5   6  12    32   50  −18    21
17 Antslinngs Islands         23    5   5  13    20   44  −24    20
18 Fleftic Army               23    3   7  13    31   56  −25    16   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Bananas                    23    3   6  14    39   59  −20    15   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Eielo Sunlight             23    3   4  16    20   45  −25    13   Relegation to Unang Liga

Xemlice Rovers still leads the Fleftic Premier League for now, but with Ludogorets Markovsky now sitting pretty in second place, it almost feels like Xemlice losing their lead is now going to be a matter of when and not if. Xemlice has definitely gotten better than they have ever been in the past few seasons, but is that going to be enough to get them past the threat of the Foresters this time around? The Gamekeepers may have the edge in talent but Markovsky has tons more experience when it comes to these tight championship battles. And one could also argue that Markovsky has the edge when it comes to the mental battle as well because everyone has become used to Ludogorets having a slow start and then coming from behind to take it all away from whoever had the balls to take the lead in the league during their absence. Now, all of that said, there is still a chance that bad form could strike the Foresters at any moment, and when it does Xemlice or any of the other teams in the top five should be ready to take full advantage. Again though, that’s easier said than done because any team can get hit with a rough patch of form at any point in the season, and if Markovsky’s good form continues past that point then that’s probably curtains for the title race. Wouldn’t the men in dark green and their supporters love for that to happen though?

Twenty-three games on and it feels like the same four teams at the bottom of the league are still there despite everything else. Eielo Sunlight is still at the foot of the table, and both Bananas and Fleftic Army are right there with them. Antslinngs Islands isn’t far off, and it even looks like their points advantage over the bottom three has been eroded even further. It would be funny if it wasn’t so depressing, not just for their fans but also for Fleftic football in general. It’s almost as if neither one of Eielo or Fleftic Army is even attempting to put up a fight against the drop. Oh, they’re not good enough to hang with the big boys in the top flight? Okay then. Back down to Unang Liga they go. However, the problem clearly isn’t with all of the promoted teams. Uranium City Radiation is shockingly flying high in the table, right up to the middle of it even. Simply being a promoted team clearly isn’t the problem here; it must have something to do with the mentality and expectations on the promoted teams. There’s no other explanation that makes sense. It’s almost as if these Unang Liga teams are pulling a self-fulfilling prophecy: everyone believes that they’re going to get relegated so they’ve resigned themselves to the fact. And, honestly speaking, that’s just sad. Why can’t these lower division teams that they actually have a chance in the league? Clearly Uranium City hasn’t bought into that self-defeating talk, and look where they are right now. Are the Rays going to stay there? Probably not. But the longer they hang on to their place in the mid-table, the more comfortable they actually look in the FPL as a whole, something that right now can’t be said for their fellow promoted sides from last season.

Race for the Golden Boot
1. Edgar Smith-Fernandez (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 18 goals
2. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur) - 17 goals
T3. Tuan Parthosi (Fleftic Army) - 15 goals
T3. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 15 goals
4. Juan Alvarado (Rosenpfelblatz City) - 14 goals

Edgar Smith-Fernandez continues to maintain his edge over the rest of the field in the race for the Golden Boot. But while things may have slowed down a bit for the likes of Malcolm Preston and Marat Tkachev, the margins are currently so fine that only one hiccup from any given player could open the door for the others to swoop in and take the lead. And that’s not even getting into the likes of Tuan Parthosi, who looks like he’s getting into rhythm at just the right time to give Fleftic Army a fighting chance at staving off relegation. Anyone could still take the Golden Boot home, and while Smith-Fernandez aims to be the first Fleftic in many years to do just that, he has to remain on top form to do so.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 14 clean sheets
2. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 11 clean sheets
3. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 10 clean sheets
4. Pertinax Tikeers (Wanda Island Wanderers) - 7 clean sheets
T5. 4 players - 6 clean sheets

It feels like there are now only three goalkeepers who actually care enough about the Golden Glove to actually attempt to win it this season. Radislav Kalyna topping the standings is almost a given at this point, and the real excitement is figuring out who’s going to be the ones chasing after him. Speaking of which, Emelio Lontok and Dan Cartwright are still there. They’re adrift, but they’re also just a couple of good games away from Kalyna should he or Malabon enter their own patch of rough form. But beyond them, no other goalkeeper has managed to get into the double digits for clean sheets, and given how things are going at the moment, no one else might manage to break that barrier this season.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Tue Nov 18, 2025 8:39 am

2039-40 SFA Cup Fourth Round

Uranium City Radiation 1–0 Duhblakk Rovers
Rodrigues 1–1 Miroz Old Boys
Sporting Ceneisis 3–0 Antslinngs Islands
Dynamo Ja 0–1 Paulsen
Ludogorets Markovsky 4–0 Nou Constantinopoli
Fleftic Army 3–3 Rosenpfelblatz City
Arsenal de Releinthi 0–0 All-Inclusive Haranguer
Athletic Dorfdifving 4–2 AFC Da

Riuwiee Metropolitan 0–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Thereisnogodistan 4–2 Wanda Island Wanderers
Jasvirabad Gems 0–2 Eielo Sunlight
Gyouza Young Lads 2–1 Selid Town
Imperial Markovsky 0–2 Locomotive Imgortur
Malabon SC 2–0 Xemlice Rovers
Sporting Busov 1–2 Riuwiee United
Atletico San Sebastian 2–4 Sarvusdalamoive

Time to return to SFA Cup action, and… of course it had to be them. Of course it had to be Wanda Island Wanderers that fell victim to the “magic of the cup” for the first time this season. They really cannot escape their reputation, can they? The Wanderers can’t escape it in the league, and now they can’t escape from it in the SFA Cup as well! How in the world did Wanda Island manage to convince the rest of the country and even other people in other countries that they are a top five team in Abanhfleft? Apart from one extraordinary occasion twelve years ago, the Wanderers have come nowhere close to achieving the things that their fellow top five teams had done so in a similar amount of time. Maybe winning the league this season was a little bit too much to ask of Ruperto da Silva, but surely his squad would have been more than capable of winning the tin idol no matter the opponent that they were facing, right? Thereisnogodistan definitely wouldn’t have been a pushover no matter the circumstances, but surely the Wanderers would have found a way to get past the Atheists, even if league results hadn’t always been in the favor of Wanda Island in the past few years. Sam Crownover fielded the best team that he could for this tie, while da Silva had to rotate for stamina and injury issues, but Wanda Island really should have made this a much more difficult match for TNG than it actually ended up being. At least Dan-Arne Kystebo announced his return from injury in the most Dan-Arne Kystebo way possible: with a brace.

Wanda Island isn’t the only FPL team struggling to make it past the fourth round as well, it would seem. Arsenal de Releinthi and both Rosenpfelblatz teams had been held to a draw by their opponents, necessitating a replay sometime in the middle of the month, whenever the schedule opens up for these teams. At least Rosenpfelblatz City managed to score not one, not two, but three goals against Fleftic Army away from home, but Releinthi being held scoreless by All-Inclusive Haranguer is just embarrassing for Oleg Mostovoi’s men. Maybe not as embarrassing as actually getting knocked out by their lower league opponents as was the case with Wanda Island Wanderers, but for a team that prides itself in finding the back of the net every game, this SFA Cup tie isn’t really a good look for Releinthi. At least Rosenpfelblatz North End has the excuse of playing away from home in an unfamiliar pitch when Riuwiee Metropolitan forced them into a goalless draw as well. Now all these teams will have to deal with fixture congestion alongside the issues that they’re currently dealing with in the league. For Releinthi and Rosenpfelblatz City, it’s all about trying to get back into the top five, while for Rosenpfelblatz North, it’s about not getting relegated. The teams below them have looked woefully unprepared for this season, but the Acolytes don’t really have any room or reason to point and laugh just yet. A swing in form for any team around them one way or another could still throw RNE into a fight that they don’t want to partake in, not with a potential cup run looking like their best pathway to silverware this season.

Matchday Twenty-four Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 6–4 Sarvusdalamoive
Fleftic Army 3–4 Admiral Porcusces
Fleftic Air Force 2–2 Sporting Ceneisis
Rosenpfelblatz North End 3–0 Antslinngs Islands
Rosenpfelblatz City 2–1 Xemlice Rovers
Thereisnogodistan 1–2 Eielo Sunlight
Wanda Island Wanderers 0–2 Paulsen
Malabon SC 3–3 Riuwiee United
Uranium City Radiation 1–0 Bananas
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–3 Locomotive Imgortur

Truly, they are inevitable. Ludogorets Markovsky is back at the top of the Fleftic Premier League table once again, and once again all of their nearest challengers have wilted under the pressure. There’s a saying about how pressure can create diamonds, but unfortunately for most spectators and fans of the Fleftic Premier League, all that the pressure from Markovsky’s resurgent ascendancy has done is crush the hopes and dreams of literally every other team in the league. If the damned Foresters could come back from one of the biggest deficits that they’ve ever had in the recent history of the league then what hope does any other team really have in ever winning the title ever again? And how did Xemlice Rovers allow Markovsky to reclaim top spot in the league? Ask Rosenpfelblatz City about that. In the Citizens’ own attempts to get back into the title picture (remember, they led the league by as much as six points at one point in the season), the team in sky blue have ended up dealing a massive blow to the championship hopes of the now-former league leaders, and at the same time Rosenpfelblatz’s west Mezaladbyi rivals have put themselves at the top of the pile once again. There’s a healthy amount of animosity between these two rivals, but some Markovsky fans have already said that they were going to send gift baskets to the sky blue half of the city on the other side of the salt flats. And what can the rest of the league do to stop them? When a team can score four goals against Ludogorets and still lose, it only goes to show that this is actually Markovsky’s league and everyone else is just living and playing in it.

Match of the Day
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–3 Locomotive Imgortur

Some call it the Emilio Caravaggio derby simply because the man was in charge of Arsenal de Releinthi in the immediate post-Godric Wexler era before becoming the manager of Locomotive Imgortur. But others call it the Caravaggio derby because the fans of the Gunners practically ran Emilio Caravaggio out of Releinthi simply because he didn’t bring them a title in his very first season with the club. Caravaggio himself has denied that he holds any ill will against the Gunners for how his stint with them ended, but the attitudes of his players during matches against Releinthi tell a completely different story. Locomotive Imgortur players almost always look like they’re ready to go to war whenever they’re playing the Gunners, and the players are more aggressive than usual even as their manager maintains a more neutral face, at least for the public. Sometimes it works out for them, sometimes it doesn’t. Today was one of those times when that aggression from the Imgortur players actually ended up working in their favor, and this time they didn’t even have to bring in Ramiro Guerra to stir the pot against their opponents. Locomotive Imgortur was simply the better side on the day, plain and simple. It didn’t matter that they were playing Releinthi at the Monsanto Stadium, home of the Gunners. It didn’t matter that Releinthi was fighting to get back into the top five. They were outclassed by Emilio Caravaggio and his men, plain and simple.

Matchday Twenty-five Scores
Arsenal de Releinthi 2–1 Ludogorets Markovsky
Locomotive Imgortur 1–0 Uranium City Radiation
Bananas 0–2 Malabon SC
Riuwiee United 4–1 Wanda Island Wanderers
Paulsen 0–0 Thereisnogodistan
Eielo Sunlight 0–1 Rosenpfelblatz City
Xemlice Rovers 2–1 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Antslinngs Islands 5–3 Fleftic Air Force
Sporting Ceneisis 0–2 Fleftic Army
Admiral Porcusces 0–0 Sarvusdalamoive

Wait a minute. Hold on. Hang on for a moment. What just happened? Did Ludogorets Markovsky really just lose a game of football? And was that loss really enough to knock them out of first place in the league again? Is this for real? Just days after suffering one of their worst defeats at home, Arsenal de Releinthi played host to the league leaders and managed to beat Ludogorets Markovsky! This really is the league where anything and everything can happen! Who would have thought that it would be the Gunners of all teams that would put an end to Markovsky’s run of winning games and knock them off of first place to boot! This win for Oleg Mostovoi and his men was all about grit and determination. It would have been easier for the team to just give up and call it a day when Sven Fahrni found the back of the net just nine minutes into the game and no one would really blame them for it. So many other teams had tried and failed to do that. But there was something in the air in Releinthi that day, something that convinced the likes of Edgar Smith-Fernandez and eventual game winner Fabian Rice that it was time for someone to finally put an end to Markovsky’s dominance over the FPL. But is this loss going to be enough to get the Foresters off of their rhythm? Can Xemlice Rovers take advantage of this twist in the title race and finally win the championship that has eluded them ever since the foundation of the Fleftic Premier League? There are certainly a lot of people that hope so.

Match of the Day
Riuwiee United 4–1 Wanda Island Wanderers

It’s getting crowded at the top of the FPL table. The five slots for IFCF football are very tight at the moment, and any mistake or slip-up from the teams already in the top five could see them fall out altogether and be replaced by the next team up. Both Wanda Island Wanderers and Riuwiee United are two of the teams waiting for someone further up the table than they are to slip up and drop down so that either one of them can take their place. On the face of it, Wanda Island is the team that’s better poised to take advantage of such a situation given how they’re literally in sixth place, but their reputation has taught other teams to believe that the Wanderers would still find a way to mess up what basically amounts to an un-lose-able situation. And that is exactly what happened. Riuwiee versus Wanda Island is not the Capital Islands derby, but it’s still a derby between two teams in the Capital Islands of Abanhfleft so some animosity and trash-talking between the two sides is to be expected. But certainly no one, not even the most pessimistic Wanda Island fan, expected to see the capitulation that the Wanderers put up against Riuwiee. It’s like Wanda Island didn’t even bother trying to give a semblance of putting up a fight against the Blue Tribesmen. Ruperto da Silva’s men simply allowed their opponents to run roughshod over them in front of a raucous partisan crowd in the capital of Abanhfleft. Even Riuwiee’s bench striker Kostyantyn Zazroyev found the back of the net in this game. That’s how porous Wanda Island allowed themselves to become in this game. And they still wonder why people don’t take them seriously…

2039-40 SFA Cup Fourth Round Replays

Rosenpfelblatz North End 1–1 Riuwiee Metropolitan (4–2 pen.)
Miroz Old Boys 1–2 Rodrigues
Rosenpfelblatz City 0–0 Fleftic Army (5–4 pen.)
All-Inclusive Haranguer 0–1 Arsenal de Releinthi

Time for some SFA Cup replays once again! Only four ties need to have a replay for this round, but three out of four of them involve sides playing in the Fleftic Premier League, so having to play a replay is adding more fixture congestion into their schedules. The idea of a cup tie replay has always had its monetary and nostalgic values, but with the increasing number of fixtures and competitions that teams have had to play in modern football, once again there have been calls and clamors to scrap cup replays in favor of the one-and-done format that the SFA utilized during the Mezaladbyi bioterror attacks. The SFA is currently ignoring those calls because more fixtures equals more money, both for the clubs and for the Samahan, but if the clubs themselves start making some noise then maybe they might reconsider. But for now, the replays will remain, and the likes of Arsenal de Releinthi and both Rosenpfelblatz clubs will have to survive these fixtures if they want to move on to the fifth round of the SFA Cup. And it’s not just the ties themselves that are a problem; sometimes teams will have to fly the entire length of the country just to be able to play the other team. Thankfully for the Gunners and their fans, they wouldn’t have to go that far for Releinthi’s replay; they just have to go half that distance from the Capital Islands to the northern provinces for their meeting with All-Inclusive Haranguer. And while the heat was also a factor against Releinthi, Oleg Mostovoi’s men did manage to find a way past the Sand Tigers. Sure, they had to make use of a set piece, specifically a corner, and the goal had to come from an unlikely source (Adam Flowers), but at the end of the day they still won, so all’s well that ends well, yes?

Both Rosenpfelblatz teams, City and North End, are having a much better time when it comes to the fourth round replays. Since they were drawn away from home by the original SFA Cup draw, going to replays means that they will both be at home this time around, and both teams are hoping to use that to their advantage, but sadly for them, it wouldn’t really work out that way. Technically speaking, Rosenpfelblatz North End had the easier replay between the two as they were hosting Liga Ikalawa team Riuwiee Metropolitan, but the Guardians wanted to give the Acolytes a taste of the “magic of the cup.” And they actually came really close to doing it. Rosen North thought that they had already won it in regulation thanks to a 50th minute Rurik Burås strike only for Trevor Pantaleon to equalize for Riuwiee Met just one minute from the end of the ninety minutes to force a penalty shootout. Thankfully for Rosen North, they would actually win the shootout to book their ticket into the fifth round of the cup. The chase to bring the tin idol to Rosenpfelblatz is still on. At least the Acolytes actually managed to score in their replay though. Rosenpfelblatz City was held scoreless by Fleftic Army at the Aeroflot Stadium, though the penalty shootout would also end up working in favor of the Citizens, and once again Sky Blues fans have Juan Alvarado to thank for that. He must have ice in his veins and not blood because he thumped his penalty into the top left corner with authority despite the best efforts of Deuzimar Moreira to throw him off, and after that the Citizens simply went on a roll. Shame that the Army club that they won’t be able to repeat their heroics in the 2036 edition of the competition, but maybe now that they’re out of the cup, the War Pigs can focus on actually staying in the Fleftic Premier League.

Matchday Twenty-six Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 1–0 Admiral Porcusces
Sarvusdalamoive 0–0 Sporting Ceneisis
Fleftic Army 1–0 Antslinngs Islands
Fleftic Air Force 2–4 Xemlice Rovers
Rosenpfelblatz North End 0–0 Eielo Sunlight
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–2 Paulsen
Thereisnogodistan 2–1 Riuwiee United
Wanda Island Wanderers 5–3 Bananas
Malabon SC 1–1 Locomotive Imgortur
Uranium City Radiation 3–0 Arsenal de Releinthi

And now they’re back to winning ways. Sure ,it was against Admiral Porcusces and it was only a 1-0 win, but everyone at this point knows that all Ludogorets Markovsky needs to get back into the title fight is a single win and then that one win becomes two, which becomes three, and so on and so forth. Now that Xemlice Rovers have regained top spot in the league, literally the only thing that the Gamekeepers have to do now is to keep winning because God knows that that’s exactly what Markovsky is also going to do. Easy, right? No big deal for Peter Paul Montenegro and his men. But did someone ask Fleftic Air Force if they were willing to let Xemlice win at their home turf? The negative answer was obvious, but this was one of those times in which the Gamekeepers had to say that they didn’t care what the Air Force club thought of their chances of winning at the Villahermosa Memorial Stadium. Xemlice set the tone early on with two quickfire goals from Ruide Daraco and Marc Lagmay around the 22nd minute or so, and while the Golden Eagles managed to put up the pressure for most of the second half, the Gamekeepers were just too much for them on this occasion. Even Christof Vandoorne got in on the action, coming on for Barsaam Khovkoitun in the 75th minute and finding the bottom left corner just a couple of minutes afterwards. When even their opponent’s backup central attacking midfielder was capable of scoring goals against them, it really probably wasn’t going to be Fleftic Air Force’s day today.

Match of the Day
Uranium City Radiation 3–0 Arsenal de Releinthi

For all the pearl-clutching that a lot of fans had done with regards to the ever-widening gap in quality between teams in the Fleftic Premier League and Unang Liga, there has actually been one team that has been defying all of the expectations laid out for them at the start of the season. Even the most optimistic fan of the Uranium City Radiation didn’t really think that their team’s time in the Fleftic Premier League was actually going to last that long. A lot of people thought that the Rays would only be able to scrape enough points to barely survive at best, and at worst they would be propping up the rest of the table alongside one or even both of their fellow promoted teams. And yet Uranium City has now found themselves firmly entrenched in the middle of the table, and their grip in these mid-table places is only getting stronger thanks to wins against established top teams in the FPL such as Arsenal de Releinthi. And this wasn’t a fluke of a win for Fernando Manriquez or his men either; Uranium City was truly the more dominant team and had the goals and the result to show for it. So what exactly is it that Uranium City is doing right that the likes of both Eielo Sunlight and Fleftic Army are doing wrong, and is there anything that either one of those teams can do to copy it and save themselves? The one answer that Manriquez keeps repeating every time he gets asked the question is, “We believe in ourselves. We believe in this team. We believe we can stay up and become an established part of the Fleftic Premier League.” And so far, that belief is being paid dividends. But can the Rays keep this up for next season? Can they keep it up for at least five seasons? Hey, anything can happen in this league.

Matchday Twenty-seven Scores
Uranium City Radiation 1–3 Ludogorets Markovsky
Arsenal de Releinthi 2–1 Malabon SC
Locomotive Imgortur 3–1 Wanda Island Wanderers
Bananas 4–2 Thereisnogodistan
Riuwiee United 1–1 Rosenpfelblatz City
Paulsen 2–1 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Eielo Sunlight 1–1 Fleftic Air Force
Xemlice Rovers 2–0 Fleftic Army
Antslinngs Islands 3–3 Sarvusdalamoive
Sporting Ceneisis 2–0 Admiral Porcusces

Xemlice Rovers continues their campaign for only their second ever Fleftic Premier League title by going through the Armed Forces service clubs. After having dispatched of Fleftic Air Force in Pilken in the previous matchday, this time it was Xemlice that was playing host to Fleftic Army, and even though the War Pigs were already struggling to survive in the FPL this season, winning against the current league leaders when their air force rivals couldn’t do the same was another added incentive for Fleftic Army to win. Unfortunately for the Army club, there was a reason why they were in the relegation zone in the first place, and that was the unfortunate but true fact that their team was simply not built for life in the top flight of Fleftic football. Xemlice dominated this game right from the start, and after Barsaam Khovkoitun scored another goal for himself and for his team from a free kick, this match was all but over for both teams. Unlike their colleagues in the Air Force, the Army club didn’t even bother trying to fight back. Well, they did try to fight back, but Xemlice was able to stop the War Pigs before they had even begun. Fleftic Army is definitely no Uranium City, that’s for sure, and if they really are serious about surviving in the top flight the next time that it does happen for them, perhaps it’s time for the Army club to swallow some of their pride and do things the Air Force way. Clearly, it’s been working out for the Golden Eagles, even if it hasn’t brought them back to prominence or even just a spot in the mid-table.

Match of the Day
Bananas 4–2 Thereisnogodistan

It isn’t always that Bananas FC finds themselves being nominated for Match of the Day, let alone selected for it, and when it does happen, more times than not the Gorillas have found themselves on the losing end of such a match. Not this time though. Bananas’ struggles to remain relevant in Fleftic football after the departure of their most notable player Mustafa Bensoussan had been well-known for some time already, but it would appear that Bensoussan really was the glue that was holding the entire club together. With Bensoussan gone, Bananas has struggled in both levels of football that they have been in for the past five seasons. Getting promoted from Unang Liga has itself become a struggle, and when the Gorillas finally did manage to make it out of the second tier, playing in the Fleftic Premier League has turned out to be an even more difficult task. Bananas has not played a single matchday this season outside of the bottom three, and they are now among the odds-on favorites for going down. However, there are some matchdays which show that there might still be some fight left in the Gorillas, and today was one of those matchdays. Thereisnogodistan went into this match as the outright favorites, but the Thereisnogodistan team that set foot on the pitch of the NLighten Cosmetics Arena was nowhere near the team that had beaten Riuwiee United just one matchday ago. It probably didn’t help the Atheists’ cause that Dan-Arne Kystebo once again suffered a knock that forced him back onto the bench for only a second half appearance, but by then it was too late for him and his team. Bananas was three goals to the good, and Oyrat Orazaliev’s attempts to spark a comeback fizzled out almost as soon as he tried to light it. A few more games like this and Bananas might actually survive again, but the real problem with the Gorillas is that they simply can’t play like this for more than once in a blue moon. It hurts to say and accept, but sometimes the truth do be like that.

Fleftic Premier League Table After Matchday Twenty-seven

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Xemlice Rovers             27   18   5   4    46   25  +21    59   Champions League qualification
 2 Ludogorets Markovsky       27   18   2   7    69   48  +21    56   Champions League qualification
 3 Rosenpfelblatz City        27   16   3   8    61   39  +22    51   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Malabon SC                 27   15   4   8    36   20  +16    49   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Admiral Porcusces          27   13   8   6    37   23  +14    47   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Wanda Island Wanderers     27   13   7   7    56   42  +14    46
 7 Arsenal de Releinthi       27   13   7   7    58   52   +6    46
 8 Sarvusdalamoive            27   11  11   5    50   36  +14    44
 9 Locomotive Imgortur        27   11   9   7    52   43   +9    42
10 Riuwiee United             27   10   9   8    61   51  +10    39
11 Uranium City Radiation     27   10   5  12    33   33    0    35
12 Sporting Ceneisis          27    9   8  10    38   41   −3    35
13 Thereisnogodistan          27    7   9  11    51   59   −8    30
14 Paulsen                    27    7   8  12    40   54  −14    29
15 Fleftic Air Force          27    5  11  11    51   57   −6    26
16 Rosenpfelblatz North End   27    6   7  14    37   54  −17    25
17 Antslinngs Islands         27    6   6  15    28   54  −26    24
18 Fleftic Army               27    5   7  15    37   62  −25    22   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Bananas                    27    4   6  17    46   69  −23    18   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Eielo Sunlight             27    4   6  17    23   48  −25    18   Relegation to Unang Liga

Xemlice Rovers still leads the Fleftic Premier League, but there was a brief scare in which Ludogorets Markovsky actually retook the lead. If it wasn’t for Arsenal de Releinthi then the league might be “doomed” to the specter of yet another Markovsky championship. And for the Foresters, the mere threat that they could win the league yet again is almost as good as actually winning the title. Xemlice might have the lead, but everyone who supports the Gamekeepers knows that the only way that they will actually stay there is by winning the rest of their games for the rest of the season. No ifs, ands, or buts. It’s win-win-win or else Markovsky is going to retake the lead yet again. And this time around, it doesn’t look as if Xemlice can count on any other team to actually mess up Markovsky’s plans at a fourth straight title since the nearest challenger is five points adrift of the Foresters. To think that everyone was excited that someone else might finally win and that Markovsky was too far away to pose any real threat to the rest of the supposed title challengers. Now both Rosenpfelblatz City and Malabon SC are playing catch-up to the two teams at the top, and unless the Foresters suffers another downturn in fortunes like what they had at the start of the season, it’s going to be curtains for the rest of the league. And in the meantime, who’s going to fill out the final IFCF slot for this season? Can Admiral Porcusces hang in there or will they get dislodged by the likes of Wanda Island Wanderers or Arsenal de Releinthi or even Sarvusdalamoive? There are only eleven matchdays left to go, but it already feels like the longest eleven matchdays that have ever been played in the history of the FPL.

Technically speaking, every team currently in the relegation zone actually still has a chance of making it out of there and playing another season of top flight football. However, in the Fleftic Premier League, “technically” doesn’t actually mean anything. Either a team is good enough to play in the top flight of Abanhfleft or they’re not. And so far, evidence has shown that neither one of Eielo Sunlight, Bananas, nor even Fleftic Army are actually capable of hanging on. Sure, there have been glimmers of hope in an otherwise dark tunnel headed straight for relegation, but those glimmers have been very few and far between, and that simply isn’t enough to inspire confidence in anyone. But just because there have been three bad teams doesn’t mean that they’re also guaranteed to be the three teams getting relegated at the end of the season. A patch of bad form could hit anyone in the lower reaches of the table, and someone could start winning games on a level like what Ludogorets Markovsky is going through right now. Of course this isn’t comparing the likes of Eielo or Bananas to freaking Markovsky, but everything in this league boils down to winning games. If one of these relegation threatened teams can go on a run of five, four, or even just three wins then that could be enough to boost them out of the drop zone. But nobody should hold their breath for that possibility. There is a reason why these three teams are the ones currently propping up the rest of the division after all.

Race for the Golden Boot
1. Edgar Smith-Fernandez (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 20 goals
2. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur) - 19 goals
3. Tuan Parthosi (Fleftic Army) - 18 goals
4. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 17 goals
5. Juan Alvarado (Rosenpfelblatz City) - 16 goals

Edgar Smith-Fernandez still maintains a very slim lead over the other players, but the race is only going to get hotter from here. Malcolm Preston is hot on the heels of the Arsenal de Releinthi striker, and Tuan Parthosi is finally getting into his rhythm, although whether that’s going to be enough to save Fleftic Army from relegation is still up in the air. And then there’s the other “usual suspects,” Marat Tkachev and Dan-Arne Kystebo. Injury issues had meant that Kystebo isn’t right up there at the top with the likes of Smith-Fernandez and Preston, but once he gets back up to form, expect him to end up somewhere here or thereabouts. And how about Juan Alvarado? Does anyone think that he could be a dark horse for the top five at the end of the season? It sure looks like it.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 15 clean sheets
2. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 12 clean sheets
3. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 11 clean sheets
T4. Jaidev Muthukrishan (Sarvusdalamoive) - 8 clean sheets
T4. Guildenstern Cardew (Sporting Ceneisis) - 8 clean sheets

Even the chase for the Golden Glove is beginning to heat up. Radislav Kalyna still looks like he’s going to be untouchable, but even he is beginning to slip up when it comes to actually keeping clean sheets. As soon as the actual title became unreachable for Malabon SC, it almost feels like the rest of the team doesn’t care anymore about anything else. Now both Emelio Lontok and Dan Cartwright are beginning to close in on the mad Pridnestrovian, and for Cartwright, he really needs to pick up the pace with these clean sheets. It really could be the difference between Xemlice winning only their second FPL title or Ludogorets Markovsky claiming their fourth straight title.

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2039-40 SFA Cup Fifth Round
Locomotive Imgortur 0–0 Gyouza Young Lads
Athletic Dorfdifving 5–1 Rodrigues
Rosenpfelblatz North End 1–2 Riuwiee United
Uranium City Radiation 1–0 Sarvusdalamoive
Eielo Sunlight 0–0 Malabon SC
Paulsen 2–1 Ludogorets Markovsky
Sporting Ceneisis 2–0 Thereisnogodistan
Rosenpfelblatz City 3–3 Arsenal de Releinthi

Time to take a break from league action again and turn attention back to the SFA Cup. Anyone hoping for the “magic of the SFA Cup” to make a comeback this season looks like they’re about to be disappointed because out of the sixteen teams remaining in the competition, only two of them are from the lower leagues of Fleftic football. And even then, both Rodrigues FC and Gyouza Young Lads are playing in Unang Liga, the second tier of Fleftic football, so it’s not as if a story quite like Mannerheim Town’s victory in the SFA Cup just two years ago is actually in the cards. But there might still be an opportunity for an underdog team to shock everyone else at this round of the competition, and looking at the results, there actually are at least a couple of surprises in there. Without a doubt the biggest upset in the fifth round is Paulsen FC getting the victory over the boogeyman of Fleftic football, Ludogorets Markovsky. It’s no secret that Markovsky has been much more successful in the Fleftic Premier League compared to their results in the SFA Cup, but after it looked like the competition has become friendlier to the top teams for whatever, Roberto Hoya and his men have started believing that clinching the double was actually a possibility. However, nobody seemed to have told Paulsen about this because the Boilermakers went all out for this tie and they eventually reaped their rewards. Virgil Skovenborg, Paulsen’s midfield maestro, was critical in providing the through-ball that allowed Joseph Clarke to get past Markovsky’s defense and open the scoring, and Skovenborg also took the free kick that let Fisher Gerwin head home the game-winning goal just seven minutes after Tim Ashotov thought that he had secured a replay for Markovsky at the Stadium of the Old Forester. Looks like Ludogorets’ quest for an SFA Cup to add alongside their league titles will have to wait at least one more season.

Paulsen’s defeat of Ludogorets Markovsky isn’t the only upset that could potentially be on the cards here in the fifth round. Newly promoted team Uranium City Radiation also managed to make it past Sarvusdalamoive, which finished second in the FPL just a couple of seasons ago. And though forcing a replay will see them play at San Roque Park later in the month, the mere fact that Eielo Sunlight managed to put together a scoreless draw against Malabon SC to force a replay in the first place has to be commended. It’s not yet fully the “magic of the cup” just yet, but this result does go some way in preserving said magic. Even the other Unang Liga team still in the competition, Gyouza Young Lads, could do something against Locomotive Imgortur, and the Lads actually have the advantage of playing on home turf for the replay. The “magic of the cup” could still be alive! But one team whose chances of receiving that magic have gone down to zero is Thereisnogodistan. The Atheists were drawn away to the current holders Sporting Ceneisis, and Sam Crownover’s men must have fancied their chances against the Blues because they sent forth a team that was little different from the starting eleven that Crownover had named in the league when all of his best players were available. Unfortunately for TNG, that wasn’t enough to knock off the Blues, not nearly enough. There might be a little bit of criticism that’s going to go Rico Van Zant’s way when he named a lot of substitutes and B-teamers for this cup tie, but after both Hovhannes Avetisyan and Max Spielenfeld found the back of the net to send the current cup holders through to the quarterfinals, most of that criticism would be shelved, at least until the next controversy to hit Ceneisis.

Matchday Twenty-eight Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 2–1 Sporting Ceneisis
Admiral Porcusces 2–2 Antslinngs Islands
Sarvusdalamoive 1–1 Xemlice Rovers
Fleftic Army 2–0 Eielo Sunlight
Fleftic Air Force 3–4 Paulsen
Rosenpfelblatz North End 0–2 Riuwiee United
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–2 Bananas
Thereisnogodistan 2–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Wanda Island Wanderers 6–2 Arsenal de Releinthi
Malabon SC 0–1 Uranium City Radiation

Oh, no. That is one of the worst things that Xemlice Rovers could have ever done at this point in the season. The Gamekeepers already knew that they could ill afford taking less than maximum points in their remaining games with Ludogorets Markovsky breathing down their necks so the fact that they could only manage a draw against Sarvusdalamoive is going to put a massive dent into Xemlice’s title hopes at the very least. The first and perhaps the biggest sign that things could actually not be going Xemlice’s way was when Richard Luyindula opened the scoring within four minutes of the start. Richard Luyindula simply does not score within the first fifteen minutes of a football game, so the mere fact that he actually found the back of the net this early into a match was perhaps the biggest sign that Xemlice was not going to have the best of luck. And if it wasn’t for Barsaam Khovkoitun and Ruide Daraco combining to score the Gamekeepers’ equalizer at around the hour mark, this could have been even worse for the league leaders. Ludogorets Markovsky is back on the warpath once again, and the latest team to fall victim to them is their deadly rivals Sporting Ceneisis. Ceneisis was the latest team to attempt to deny the Foresters a fourth consecutive FPL title but the Blues, like many other teams, were going to be denied. Ryan McDonald was the unlikely opener for the Foresters, but nobody supporting the team in dark green really cares who scores so long as their team scores more than the other team. And thanks to McDonald and Alex Buenaflor, Markovsky is now just one point away from becoming the top dog in Abanhfleft yet again.

Match of the Day
Wanda Island Wanderers 6–2 Arsenal de Releinthi

The Strait of Carrizozo derby is always good enough to get a look into being named Match of the Day if not being outright given the distinction on the matchday that it’s played. The latest edition of the Carrizozo derby is no exception to this rule, and it might just be the most important edition of the derby yet. Arsenal de Releinthi had long ago given up on any hopes and dreams of winning the title this season, and now the only thing that Oleg Mostovoi and his men were fighting for was to get back into the top five. However, they were going to have to do that without their ever dependable number 9 Edgar Smith-Fernandez, who was ruled out of the match with a slight muscle issue. He might be well enough to play in the next game, but the fact that Releinthi’s top scorer was going to miss perhaps the most important fixture in the Gunners’ schedule was weighing heavily in the minds of both the team and the fans. And they were actually right to be worried for once. Without Smith-Fernandez’s presence out on the pitch, Wanda Island went through Releinthi like a hot knife through butter. There were points when it felt like the Wanderers were actually on the training ground doing crazy and outrageous stuff because Releinthi really just didn’t have much of an answer for them. And to further illustrate the point that Wanda Island was simply better than the Gunners on this day, central attacking midfielder Matyas Vass from Pasarga got a hat trick. Let that sink in. A central attacking midfielder scored a hat trick against supposedly one of the best sides in all of Abanhfleft! If the rumors are to be believed that this is going to be Oleg Mostovoi’s last season in Releinthi, it would be sad to see it end on such a disappointing note.

Matchday Twenty-nine Scores
Malabon SC 3–1 Ludogorets Markovsky
Uranium City Radiation 3–4 Wanda Island Wanderers
Arsenal de Releinthi 0–1 Thereisnogodistan
Locomotive Imgortur 3–2 Rosenpfelblatz City
Bananas 0–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Riuwiee United 2–0 Fleftic Air Force
Paulsen 4–0 Fleftic Army
Eielo Sunlight 1–1 Sarvusdalamoive
Xemlice Rovers 1–0 Admiral Porcusces
Antslinngs Islands 1–3 Sporting Ceneisis

Sir, a second twist has hit the FPL title race. Malabon SC’s chances of winning the title evaporated almost as soon as it was formed, and now the best that the Ravens can hope for is to finish in the top five, maybe even in second place. But Ludogorets Markovsky’s resurgence has further relegated the other chasing teams just a little further down the order, meaning basically they’re all fighting over qualifying for the IFCF Challengers’ Cup. But just because they’re out of the title running (if not mathematically then practically) doesn’t mean that Malabon is already going to give up on this season. If they can’t win the title then at the very least they can prevent Ludogorets winning it four times in a row. But almost every other team in the FPL has tried and failed to stop the juggernaut that is the Foresters, so what was it that Malabon had that these other teams didn’t? Turns out it might actually be spite. Markovsky was one of the first teams to beat Malabon this season and put a halt if not an outright stop to the Ravens’ title ambitions, and because of that it feels like Kirill Kucherenko and his men had now made it their mission to also deny the Foresters the biggest prize in Fleftic football. And by God, it actually worked. Talal Akabi drew first blood for Malabon just 12 minutes into the game, and once the Ravens edged ahead in this game there was simply no way out for Markovsky. Paolo von Montanari couldn’t save them, Alex Buenaflor couldn’t save them, and not even Sven bloody Fahrni could save them. Steinthor Freyr Steingrimsson tried, but the best he could do was a consolation free kick goal. Ludogorets doesn’t have this title sewn up just yet.

Match of the Day
Locomotive Imgortur 3–2 Rosenpfelblatz City

Another team that used to have a good chance to actually win the title this season is Rosenpfelblatz City. At one point, the Citizens had a seven-point lead over the rest of the league, but sadly for them and their fans, that lead vanished in just a couple of matchdays, and now only the most deluded of City fans believe that their team is still part of the title race. Those were the days, when everyone thought that this was the moment that Ludogorets’ dominance was finally over and a new name was going to be etched onto the base of the Fleftic Premier League trophy. But both Malabon and Rosenpfelblatz City ended up tripping over each other, and in the chaos both teams have ended up putting themselves out of contention. And now, thanks to Locomotive Imgortur, the Citizens can basically write off this season as a bust. The best that they can hope for now is a place in the IFCF Challengers’ Cup, and already there are doubts as to whether Sheila Berg is actually the right woman for the job. What a turnaround from the start of the season, when Citizens fans were optimistic about their club’s chances and Berg was looking more and more like the right fit for this team. So what exactly went wrong for this team? Was it the injuries? Probably not, because Juan Alvarado stepped in to fill the shoes of Lucas von Wolfberg and Rosenpfelblatz has barely noticed the absence of their Schutzenphalian striker. Was it the tactics? Sheila Berg came from the Island of the Lost before taking over the Rosen City job, and while she may have surprised the league at the start, it’s just stupid to think that nobody would have adapted to what she’s done with the Citizens by now. Or maybe she’s the one who’s grown just a little bit too reliant on Alvarado to save the day. In any case, it’s clearly not working out for the Citizens right now. Time to go back to the drawing board and start anew.

2039-40 SFA Cup Fifth Round Replays

Gyouza Young Lads 0–0 Locomotive Imgortur (4–5 pen.)
Malabon SC 1–1 Eielo Sunlight (4–5 pen.)
Arsenal de Releinthi 0–1 Rosenpfelblatz City

Time to cut away from league action once again to focus on the replays that have to be played after these three cup ties ended in draws a few weeks ago. Without a doubt, the biggest tie here is the one between Arsenal de Releinthi and Rosenpfelblatz City. After both teams’ league seasons ended up going off of the rails for various reasons, both the Gunners and the Citizens have come to realize that their best chance at picking up some silverware this season was here in the SFA Cup. The tin idol always beckons, and it beckons to all teams regardless of their place or form in the league. Either team going on to win the cup is going to be a culmination of a storyline. For Releinthi, winning the tin idol in Oleg Mostovoi’s potential final season with the team is about as fairy-tale ending as it could get, while for Rosenpfelblatz, Sheila Berg winning a trophy in her very first season with the club could be vindication in the ownership’s decision to appoint her to the position. Thus it was no surprise that the atmosphere at the Monsanto Stadium was so charged that anyone with an appropriately long metal rod could have gotten some free electricity right then and there. Unfortunately, the play on the field didn’t really reflect fans’ expectations of the whole thing. Unlike the original fixture in which both teams went all out in order to win the tie on the day, neither team looked like they were actually interested in scoring and would prefer that this whole thing just went straight to penalties. It’s understandable because both teams still have the league and potential IFCF qualification to worry about, but the capacity crowd in Releinthi didn’t come here to wait for a penalty shootout. No wonder the entire stadium (yes, even the Releinthi fans) let out a long sigh of relief when Alexis Savvides finally broke the deadlock 79 minutes into the game. Sure, for Gunners fans it sucks that Oleg Mostovoi could be ending his time with their team without one more piece of silverware to add to his cabinet, but he did win them three league titles, so all’s well that ends well?

Another team that isn’t going to have a good ending to their SFA Cup campaign is Malabon SC. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the “magic of the SFA Cup” still lingers on even in the replays. Eielo Sunlight knew that they had an uphill battle trying to make it into the quarterfinals of this competition even before the Suns managed to force a replay against the Ravens. Eielo already played Malabon at home so now the replay had them going to San Roque Park, perhaps one of the most intimidating atmospheres in Fleftic football, especially in recent years when the team finally became a proper title contender under Kirill Kucherenko. However, while most teams would have immediately wilted under the pressure from the home fans in Malabon, Eielo proved themselves to be made of sterner and sturdier stuff. Their heads could have gone down after Andriy Rybakov scored six minutes into the second half, but they didn’t. Instead, they actually mounted a heavy assault on Malabon’s goal, which was probably helped by the fact that they were playing against Rey Caeg and not the mad Pridnestrovian himself Radislav Kalyna. However, even though Malabon didn’t have Kalyna in between the sticks putting the fear of God (and the fear of the madman himself) in their hearts, the Ravens still held firm against Eielo’s onslaught, but it wasn’t something that could hold on for forever. Octavius Edwards was hoping that he could rest his star striker for this fixture but it would turn out that he would actually need David Serrano to crack open Malabon’s defense, and that was exactly the South Newlandian striker did in the 84th minute. It wasn’t enough for the Suns to win, of course, but it was enough to take the tie to a penalty shootout where anything could happen, and it actually did. Malabon’s first taker, Talal Akabi, sent his spot kick into orbit, and it threw the rest of the team into a loop. Eielo took advantage by scoring all of their penalties to see themselves through to the next round. After this, who doesn’t love the “magic of the SFA Cup”? Maybe Malabon fans, but then again, they’ve had their reasons to hate the tin idol. Just look back to six years ago when the Ravens were absolutely schooled by Pilken Kickers by a score of seven goals (yes, seven!) goals to two. Some fans still haven’t recovered from that humiliation.

Matchday Thirty Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 4–1 Antslinngs Islands
Sporting Ceneisis 0–0 Xemlice Rovers
Admiral Porcusces 1–1 Eielo Sunlight
Sarvusdalamoive 5–1 Paulsen
Fleftic Army 1–0 Riuwiee United
Fleftic Air Force 3–3 Bananas
Rosenpfelblatz North End 1–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Rosenpfelblatz City 1–3 Arsenal de Releinthi
Thereisnogodistan 3–1 Uranium City Radiation
Wanda Island Wanderers 0–1 Malabon SC

Well, that was about as disappointing a result as one could get, especially in a league where the fans value goals first and foremost. Once again, Xemlice Rovers drops points in the title race, and once again they have no one to blame but themselves. Well, not all of themselves. The Gamekeepers’ defense held up their end of the bargain, and Dan Cartwright even got another clean sheet to take him just that little bit closer to the mad Pridnestrovian Radislav Kalyna. It’s their attacks that let them down this game, the same attack that hat propelled them up to the top in the first place. What happened to the likes of Isaiah Ivy and Marc Lagmay? Why isn’t Barsaam Khovkoitun’s set pieces finding the target? What is Ruide Daraco’s purpose in this team even? And when Xemlice’s big guns are misfiring, who’s going to pick up the slack? Jevon Eusebio, scorer of the game winner against Admiral Porcusces just one matchday ago, did his best to replicate his own heroics, but how is he going to do that when he’s not getting any service from Khovkoitun’s corners or free kicks? It really is a good thing that Xemlice’s defense was just as good as Ceneisis’s defense in this game because Rico Van Zant and his men really could have walked away from this contest with all three points and provided Ludogorets Markovsky another opening in which they could retake the lead in the league table. Nobody in Abanhfleft except those who support the dark green side of Markovsky wants to see that happen once again and while Xemlice has looked like the country’s best chance of putting an end to the Ludogorets dynasty, it’s beginning to look less likely with every poor result from the Gamekeepers.

Match of the Day
Fleftic Air Force 3–3 Bananas

It almost doesn’t feel fair to focus exclusively on the title race simply because it almost feels like the three teams getting relegated this season have been pre-ordained from the start. There are still a couple of teams trying to fight fate and stave off falling victim to the drop until the next season at the very least. This wasn’t where Fleftic Air Force thought they were going to be, but this is where they have ended up anyway, and at the same time their interservice rivals Fleftic Army have finally managed to get away from the bottom three and are now scrambling to get as many points between them and 18th place as possible. On the other side, it almost feels like Bananas FC has not found a way out of the drop zone no matter what they did or how hard they tried. It feels like such a fall from grace even though Bananas hasn’t really been a big player in the history of Fleftic football except for a very brief period in the mid-1970s, but because the club produced one of the most prolific strikers for the Fleftic national football team it feels like Bananas has made its mark on the country’s football history. Mustafa Bensoussan’s absence is really beginning to hurt the Gorillas now, and all of the guys that they had tried to use to take his place aren’t really working out. Ricky Gomez hasn’t worked out and Akihiro Kobayashi also hasn’t worked out, and while most signs point to Freddie Salipada also not working out for Bananas, right now he’s a hero in Suwkpel simply because he scored a brace that allowed the Gorillas to scrape a point against Fleftic Air Force in a fixture that has suddenly become a relegation six-pointer. It probably won’t still be enough to save Bananas from the drop this season, but at least they’re trying to escape. Other teams don’t even feel like they’re trying at all.

Matchday Thirty-one Scores
Wanda Island Wanderers 0–1 Ludogorets Markovsky
Malabon SC 2–1 Thereisnogodistan
Uranium City Radiation 2–3 Rosenpfelblatz City
Arsenal de Releinthi 3–2 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Locomotive Imgortur 5–3 Fleftic Air Force
Bananas 3–2 Fleftic Army
Riuwiee United 2–1 Sarvusdalamoive
Paulsen 2–5 Admiral Porcusces
Eielo Sunlight 2–1 Sporting Ceneisis
Xemlice Rovers 0–0 Antslinngs Islands

Guess who’s back? Back again? Markovsky’s back! Tell a friend! Or maybe don’t, because for a lot of people, this is possibly the worst outcome possible for the Fleftic Premier League. Nothing against Ludogorets Markovsky, of course, but after they had won the last three seasons in a row, a lot of people are looking forward to seeing a new champion of Abanhfleft being crowned at the end of this season. Sure, it might be good for Abanhfleft’s coefficient in the IFCF but the Fleftic people also need some variety from time to time. And who’s to blame for Markovsky retaking the lead in the league? None other than Xemlice Rovers, of course. The now-former league leaders have once again dropped points in the most important stage of the season, and this time the Gamekeepers don’t even have the excuse of going up against one of the top sides in the FPL. They were held scoreless by Antslinngs Islands, for goodness’ sakes! Xemlice was playing against a team in the relegation zone that was also struggling to score goals! This was supposed to be an easy win for the Gamekeepers, but it wasn’t! Or was it actually supposed to be an easy game? Despite their lowly position in the table, Antslinngs Islands actually tries to be a defensively sound team, and Xemlice just happened to have the misfortune of playing the Islanders when they had finally figured out this whole “defense in depth” thing in football. At the same time, if the likes of Marc Lagmay, Isaiah Ivy, and Barsaam Khovkoitun can’t find a way past stubborn defenses like what Antslinngs had in this game, are they really deserving of the FPL title at this point in time?

Match of the Day
Eielo Sunlight 2–1 Sporting Ceneisis

Just when it looked like most people were right into having written them off for this season, Eielo Sunlight comes back and tries to prove them wrong. The key word here is “tried” because most of the evidence is still not in their favor, but it’s good to see them trying nonetheless. Eielo’s win over Sporting Ceneisis feels like a case of “too little, too late” for the Suns, but at the same time, it’s still another win to their name, and against one of the top dogs in Fleftic football as well. And once again, this win did not come about courtesy of a last minute winner but it was a result of Eielo simply being the better team on the day. Ceneisis and Rico Van Zant just didn’t have an answer to the questions that the Suns were posing to them, and in the blink of an eye Sandro Halter and David Serrano had put the bottom placed team in the FPL two goals to the good against the four-time Fleftic Premier League champions. Ceneisis’s attacking players couldn’t find a way past the normally leaky Eielo defense as well. Why are they even paying the likes of Brandon Meyers, Claude Mogie-Bernet and Marc Apellaine the big bucks when they can’t change the game when their team needs them the most? Thankfully for Ceneisis, this appears to be just a one-game thing but their place in the table is not looking good. What happened to the upwards momentum that the Blues got when they finished in fifth last year and won the SFA Cup to boot? Rico Van Zant’s stock is beginning to tank just a little bit, but his successes in his first year has earned him some leeway, some breathing room. There’s still time to turn things around, but he might have to wait until next season to do so.

Fleftic Premier League After Matchday Thirty-one

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Ludogorets Markovsky       31   21   2   8    77   53  +24    65   Champions League qualification
 2 Xemlice Rovers             31   19   8   4    48   26  +22    65   Champions League qualification
 3 Malabon SC                 31   18   4   9    42   23  +19    58   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Rosenpfelblatz City        31   18   3  10    71   49  +22    57   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Wanda Island Wanderers     31   15   7   9    66   49  +17    52   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Admiral Porcusces          31   14  10   7    45   29  +16    52
 7 Arsenal de Releinthi       31   15   7   9    66   62   +4    52
 8 Sarvusdalamoive            31   12  13   6    58   41  +17    49
 9 Riuwiee United             31   13   9   9    67   53  +14    48
10 Locomotive Imgortur        31   13   9   9    60   51   +9    48
11 Sporting Ceneisis          31   10   9  12    43   46   −3    39
12 Thereisnogodistan          31   10   9  12    58   62   −4    39
13 Uranium City Radiation     31   11   5  15    40   43   −3    38
14 Paulsen                    31    9   8  14    51   67  −16    35
15 Rosenpfelblatz North End   31    7   8  16    40   59  −19    29
16 Fleftic Army               31    7   7  17    42   69  −27    28
17 Fleftic Air Force          31    5  12  14    60   71  −11    27
18 Antslinngs Islands         31    6   8  17    32   63  −31    26   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Bananas                    31    5   8  18    54   78  −24    23   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Eielo Sunlight             31    5   8  18    27   53  −26    23   Relegation to Unang Liga

It’s the average Fleftic football fan’s nightmare writ large yet again: Ludogorets Markovsky is back at the top of the Fleftic Premier League table. And once again, the team that used to be at the top of the league was completely at fault for letting the Foresters come back and potentially extend their domination over the country for at least one more season. Xemlice Rovers’ mission up to the end of the season was a simple one: win every single game. But executing the plan turned out to be much more difficult than just laying it out, and after goalless draws against the likes of Sporting Ceneisis and Antslinngs Islands, the Gamekeepers are now second in the league. They have the same points as Markovsky, but Xemlice is in second place thanks to goal difference even though they already have a victory over the Foresters earlier in the season. Yet another piece of evidence for those who clamor for the FPL to make the switch to putting head-to-head results as a higher tiebreaker than plain old goal difference. Fleftic fans had always loved seeing goals being scored, but what’s the point of scoring four goals if the opponent scores three back? There is a growing section of fans who now believe that actual results between teams tied on points should be the all-important decider, and Xemlice falling to second despite winning over Markovsky earlier in the season is only going to add more fuel to the fire at the very least. And now the second meeting between these two teams at the Stadium of the Old Forester has just become possibly the most important game in the history of the FPL. Whoever wins that game could very well end up winning the league. Most people are praying for another Xemlice victory, but their form isn’t quite inspiring anyone to become full believers just yet.

Even though Eielo Sunlight won against Sporting Ceneisis, it doesn’t look like it’s going to matter much if at all in the grand scheme of things. The Suns are still at the bottom of the league, but just like Xemlice Rovers Eielo is only 20th because of goal difference. And this time they don’t even have a head-to-head result to be proud of against Bananas; their latest meeting ended in a 2-2 draw, and their second clash won’t happen until the penultimate matchday when both of their fates might have already been decided. But hey! Fleftic Army is out of the drop zone now, but the bad news for supporters of Antslinngs Islands is that the Islanders have taken their place in 18th spot. And they’re still nowhere near getting anywhere close to safety as practically the entire table has been getting congested. Maybe the real problem isn’t about the loss of parity between the top team in the FPL and the top teams in Unang Liga. Maybe the real problem is the fact that there really probably isn’t all that much difference between the bottom tier of the FPL and the top tier of Unang Liga. It feels like something that should be obvious and it probably is, but the fact that many teams in and around this tier of quality are comfortable with being “yo-yo clubs” bouncing in between the two tiers is kind of telling. It’s rare that a team like Uranium City Radiation actually manages to make it past this cluster of clubs, and when they do make it into the FPL they won’t last very long (Uranium City being the obvious outlier, at least for the moment). Something should probably be done about this, like maybe reducing the parachute payments being handed out to relegated clubs, but of course no one is going to agree to that. So, apart from Uranium City, be prepared to see the likes of Eielo and Antslinngs bouncing around the two divisions more times than not.

Race for the Golden Boot
1. Edgar Smith-Fernandez (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 23 goals
2. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur) - 21 goals
3. Tuan Parthosi (Fleftic Army) - 19 goals
T4. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 18 goals
T4. Juan Alvarado (Rosenpfelblatz City) - 18 goals

Two players have now broken the twenty-goal mark in the Golden Boot race, and there are also a handful of players already knocking on the door. Edgar Smith-Fernandez, despite suffering some muscular knocks at different points in the season, is currently riding high on 23 goals, but all it takes is one bad day from him and one good day for Malcolm Preston for the two of them to switch places like what’s just happened between Ludogorets Markovsky and Xemlice Rovers. The likes of Juan Alvarado, Marat Tkachev, and Tuan Parthosi have their work cut out for them, but there’s still some time for someone to get into amazing form and for others to suffer a slump. This is a real race for the Golden Boot, and everyone loves it.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 16 clean sheets
2. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 14 clean sheets
3. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 12 clean sheets
4. Guildenstern Cardew (Sporting Ceneisis) - 9 clean sheets
5. 3 players - 8 clean sheets

Now it’s Radislav Kalyna’s turn to start looking at his rearview mirrors more than just once. Dan Cartwright is closing in on him and on top spot in the league, but then again, at what cost? Cartwright’s latest clean sheets came on the very same goalless draws that had allowed Ludogorets Markovsky to close the gap even further to the point that they’re now topping the league on goal difference. Challenging the mad Pridnestrovian really has to come with its own warning label because there is at least one other aspect of a goalkeeper’s game that invariably gets affected whenever they come close to beating Kalyna for the Golden Glove. Clean sheets is good, but winning and taking all three points is undoubtedly better. Someone tell that to Xemlice Rovers.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Sat Nov 22, 2025 7:08 am

Matchday Thirty-two Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 1–1 Xemlice Rovers
Antslinngs Islands 0–1 Eielo Sunlight
Sporting Ceneisis 1–2 Paulsen
Admiral Porcusces 0–1 Riuwiee United
Sarvusdalamoive 6–1 Bananas
Fleftic Army 3–2 Locomotive Imgortur
Fleftic Air Force 0–1 Arsenal de Releinthi
Rosenpfelblatz North End 2–1 Uranium City Radiation
Rosenpfelblatz City 1–0 Malabon SC
Thereisnogodistan 2–3 Wanda Island Wanderers

Here it is, the moment that everyone has been waiting for. Top of the league versus second place. Three-time consecutive champions versus the inaugural winners of the Fleftic Premier League. A victory for Ludogorets Markovsky could see the sewing up the title for all intents and purposes for the fourth year running, while a Xemlice Rovers win could see the title race get dragged out all the way to the end of the season. Most football fans in Abanhfleft know the outcome that they’re actually rooting for, but at the end of the day Xemlice’s poor run of form has hit the Gamekeepers right when they couldn’t afford to have it happen to them, so no one is getting their hopes up. As for the actual result though, while it could have been better for either team it could also have been much worse. Xemlice Rovers has to settle for another draw, but it does mean that they are still level on points with Markovsky, and in a league where anything can and will happen, this result sets up the FPL for a potential barn burner of a finish. Xemlice actually managed to shock everyone (and possibly even themselves) when Marc Lagmay gave the Gamekeepers the lead after heading home Ruide Daraco’s cross almost halfway through the first half, and for the rest of the half Xemlice fans and most neutrals actually believed that the Rovers had a chance to retake the lead in the table and perhaps win the league as well. Markovsky would eventually get the upper hand once again though, as they were almost always guaranteed to do (especially at home), and eventually the Foresters would equalize via Gideon Nightwalker scoring from a Sven Fahrni corner. But despite this onslaught from Markovsky, Xemlice managed to keep themselves in the game, and most of that was thanks to none other than Golden Glove chaser Daniel Cartwright. One wonders where Xemlice could be or how far adrift of the top they could have gotten were it not for Cartwright’s heroics. Without Dan Cartwright, this title run might not actually even be a thing.

Match of the Day
Fleftic Army 3–2 Locomotive Imgortur

The struggle to survive in the Fleftic Premier League is a real one. Just ask anyone who plays for or even just supports the likes of Fleftic Army about it. The War Pigs had been absent from the top flight of Fleftic football for a number of years now, and it was almost beginning to look like they weren’t actually going to be able to get back for at least a couple more years. And now that the Army club actually did get promoted last season, they’re beginning to realize that hanging around in the top flight has become much more difficult than the last time that they were there. The teams that had actually survived getting promoted have now firmly entrenched themselves in the FPL, and only a demolition job worthy of the Corps of Engineers was going to be good or big enough to dislodge them. Unfortunately, the Corps of Engineers don’t actually play in the FPL, and in the meantime, Fleftic Army has a different set of Engineers to worry about: the ones from Locomotive Imgortur. Playing against Emilio Caravaggio’s Imgortur is always going to be a tough ask no matter if the team against them is a title contender or a relegation battler, but this is the FPL. Anything and everything can happen, and in the case of Fleftic Army versus Locomotive Imgortur, that was exactly what happened. Every point is important in the FPL, no matter if it’s for the title chase or fighting off relegation. Regular starters Anthony Acuña and Shane Sanchez would give the War Pigs an early lead in this fixture, but after Imgortur managed to turn it around in the second half, Antonio Juarez Vicario would end up having to turn to his bench for help, and said help would come in the form of Colton Patacsil, a 28-year old corporal from the 11th Infantry Division who’s been riding the bench for the Army club for a long time. Patacsil doesn’t always score despite being a striker, but when the team calls upon him, he steps up and does the job more often than not.

Matchday Thirty-three Scores
Thereisnogodistan 2–3 Ludogorets Markovsky
Wanda Island Wanderers 1–2 Rosenpfelblatz City
Malabon SC 1–0 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Uranium City Radiation 0–0 Fleftic Air Force
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–1 Fleftic Army
Locomotive Imgortur 2–1 Sarvusdalamoive
Bananas 2–4 Admiral Porcusces
Riuwiee United 2–1 Sporting Ceneisis
Paulsen 3–0 Antslinngs Islands
Eielo Sunlight 0–0 Xemlice Rovers

It’s beginning to look like another Ludogorets Markovsky league win. Once the Foresters had finally gotten their bad run of form out of the way in the first half of the season, Roberto Hoya’s men have become practically unstoppable. Not even losing a couple of games in the second half has been enough to take them off of their stride, and at this point that’s become a hallmark of their own success. No wonder there were still people who said “never count out Markovsky” even when the Foresters were stuck in the middle of the table. Markovsky almost always comes back no matter how far the gap to the top is for them. Sure, the Foresters may have had to fight to actually get all three points against Thereisnogodistan and they had to turn to an unlikely goalscorer in Anvar Pehlivan to take them over the line, but at the end of the day they still went away from the Fhulghamous Peninsula with all three points, which is the most important thing in the title race. And how did Xemlice Rovers respond to this development? By settling for yet another goalless draw against another team battling against relegation. No doubt that Eielo Sunlight will be much, much happier with this result than Xemlice is, and not just because they took points away from one of the top teams in the league. Three points would have been undoubtedly better for the Suns, but even at the Gamekeepers’ worst, Dan Cartwright is still keeping their sheets clean as much as he can. Could Eielo actually have won against Xemlice though? Probably not, but for Markovsky fans, it’s going to be one of those “what could have been” moments.

Match of the Day
Wanda Island Wanderers 1–2 Rosenpfelblatz City

The expert panel of judges that determines the Match of the Day has their work cut out for them on this matchday. There aren’t a lot of choices that many people would agree with, and that’s with the choice having already been narrowed down to just two fixtures: Riuwiee versus Ceneisis, or Wanda Island versus Rosenpfelblatz. Eventually the expert panel settled upon Wanda versus Rosen simply because this was a match that had implications for the race for the IFCF places. Wanda Island Wanderers’ reputation of getting so close to their objectives before inevitably falling short, and once again it looks like they’re going to live up to that reputation yet again. While they haven’t cemented themselves inside the top five for most of this season, the Wanderers have always been just below said places, waiting for a slip-up from the top five that eventually ended up not happening. That in itself was already typically Wanda Island, but now the Wanderers also got their behinds handed to them by Rosenpfelblatz City, and as a result Arsenal de Releinthi has now leapfrogged their Strait of Carrizozo rivals into the fifth and final IFCF place. Imagine that. After spending much of the season sitting comfortably above their rivals, now there is once again a chance that Releinthi could end the season higher than Wanda Island. The Wanderers really cannot escape their reputation for bottling things in football. Not even winning the league twelve years ago has helped get rid of that reputation, and unless the club literally turns around their internal culture, Wanda Island is absolutely never going to get rid of their reputation ever.

2039-40 SFA Cup Quarterfinals

Rosenpfelblatz City 2–2 Eielo Sunlight (4–3 AET)
Athletic Dorfdifving 0–2 Uranium City Radiation
Locomotive Imgortur 3–1 Sporting Ceneisis
Paulsen 2–2 Riuwiee United (2–3 AET)

On one hand, none of the true underdogs in these four quarterfinals ties actually made it to the next round of the SFA Cup, so technically speaking, the “magic of the cup” is once again dead and buried. On the other hand, two underdogs actually managed to force their respective ties to go to extra time, and there is actually one tie in which the historically less successful team actually managed to book their ticket to the semifinals, knocking out the holders in the process. Sporting Ceneisis’ defense of the tin idol ends here in the quarterfinals, and it’s all thanks to Emilio Caravaggio and Locomotive Imgortur. Both teams have practically nothing to play for in the Fleftic Premier League at this point so both managers now felt justified in playing their strongest possible sides in this cup tie. That said, Caravaggio opted to partner up Malcolm Preston and Ramiro Guerra for only the third time this season, clearly hoping that this partnership wouldn’t be as disastrous as the last two times that he did so. Thankfully for Caravaggio, he would actually get his wish this time. Guerra took care of harassing the Blues defense both physically and verbally while Preston quietly went about the business of actually getting into space and taking pot shots at Baptiste Rousset’s goal. And if it wasn’t Preston putting pressure on the Ceneisis defense then it was one of the four Imgortur midfielders on the pitch. Honestly though, it’s doubtful that even Guildenstern Cardew himself could have prevented the goals that Ceneisis actually conceded, but Rousset was at least able to prove himself with the saves that he actually made. Goals from Kaden Manzano and Preston as well as an 89th minute heartbreaker from Ramiro bloody Guerra would see Imgortur through to the semifinals, but as usual for the Terense striker, Guerra just had to rub it into Ceneisis’s faces. He was already on thin ice when he took off his shirt in celebration, but his subsequent verbal barbs with both Ceneisis fans in the away end and the Blues’ bench would see Guerra sent off and unable to participate in the Engineers’ next three games. Even then, the smile on Guerra’s face even as he marched down the tunnel told everyone that it was all worth it in his belief.

Imgortur beating Ceneisis wasn’t the only upset that was on the cards in the quarterfinals of this season’s edition of the SFA Cup. For a few brief moments, there was a possibility in which either one of Eielo Sunlight or Paulsen (or maybe even both of them) could have been possessed by the “magic of the SFA Cup” and eliminated two of the biggest heavy hitters still left in the competition. These were two teams that actually had momentum on their side; after all, it was Paulsen that had eliminated Ludogorets Markovsky from the cup and Eielo Sunlight was the one that beat Markovsky in the league and threw the title picture wide open once again. If either one of these teams could have actually played spoilsport to the rest of the field in the SFA Cup then it could have set up one of the most exciting and intriguing semifinals in the cup’s history. Instead, although both Paulsen and Eielo managed to push their respective ties into going to extra time, none of it was enough to actually take either the Suns or the Boilermakers into the semifinals. Lucas von Wolfberg finally came back from his injury just in time to break the hearts of Eielo supporters, finding the back of the net just three minutes into coming on from the bench to start off the extra time period and then assisting the eventual winner from Perin Caupet. But at least Eielo actually tried to go for the win against the Citizens. Once it was clear that it would take extra time at the very least to decide a winner between Paulsen and Riuwiee United, the Boilermakers hunkered down and did all that they could to play for a penalty shootout. And spot kicks might have actually decided who was going to move forward in this tie had it not been for Mamadou Haidara achieving the near-impossible and scoring directly from a corner kick, something that must have come out of left field even for an experienced manager like Djordje Ilicic. When a team has an Olympic goal scored against them despite doing their best to park the bus, maybe it’s a sign that they were never meant to get a positive result in the match.

Matchday Thirty-four Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 1–2 Eielo Sunlight
Xemlice Rovers 2–0 Paulsen
Antslinngs Islands 1–0 Riuwiee United
Sporting Ceneisis 1–0 Bananas
Admiral Porcusces 1–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Sarvusdalamoive 1–1 Arsenal de Releinthi
Fleftic Army 5–3 Uranium City Radiation
Fleftic Air Force 2–1 Malabon SC
Rosenpfelblatz North End 3–2 Wanda Island Wanderers
Rosenpfelblatz City 3–2 Thereisnogodistan

Wait, what? What’s going on here? Why are all the underdogs suddenly picking up wins? The Fleftic Premier League is the league where anything and everything can happen, but damn! Sure, it’s not all the underdogs that won their games, but enough of them did win to cause a stir among the FPL’s followers. Eielo Sunlight finally got some praise for holding Xemlice Rovers to a goalless draw, and what do they do next? They only went and beat the league leaders! Is Eielo going to be the new kingmaker in the FPL? Locomotive Imgortur tried to do that at the start of the season but that didn’t last long. Did the Suns just succeed where the Engineers failed? Perhaps, but no one will really know until the end of the season. What’s important to know at the moment is that Eielo beat Markovsky, and Xemlice actually finally managed to win a game for once, so now the Gamekeepers are back at the top of the league table once again. And it wasn’t just any old team that Xemlice finally managed to beat this time around, it’s Paulsen FC, a notoriously hard team to crack for even the top teams under the best of circumstances. Then again, the Boilermakers have firmly established themselves in the mid-table by now and gotten the so-called “40-point minimum” to boot so Djordje Ilicic’s boys are probably already in vacation mode. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record, Eielo Sunlight just beat Ludogorets Markovsky! Without a doubt, those three points are going to be very important for the Suns’ attempt at surviving until the next season, but the mere fact that they managed to get it against the supposedly untouchable league leaders have led some people to start believing that it’s possible for a new champion of Abanhfleft to finally be crowned this season.

Match of the Day
Fleftic Air Force 2–1 Malabon SC

The selection nightmare continues for the expert panel of judges for Match of the Day, but unlike last time, now they have so many matches to choose from that one almost doesn’t even know where to start. Eventually though, the expert panel has finally settled upon Fleftic Air Force versus Malabon SC. This season has been nothing short of a disappointment for Fleftic Air Force. This was supposed to be the time when the Golden Eagles finally took the next step forward and established themselves as being capable of fighting for a spot in the top half of the Fleftic Premier League. Unfortunately for them, through a combination of injuries, poor form, exposed tactics and players that are now apparently well past it, the Air Force club has fallen perilously close to the relegation zone. The Golden Eagles are now just one point away from falling victim to the drop, and if Eielo Sunlight manages to turn their unexpected victory over Ludogorets Markovsky into a springboard for future success, this could be the end of Fleftic Air Force’s time in the top flight. So there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that the Air Force club absolutely needed a good result against Malabon SC even if it looked like an impossible task. But, against all odds, the Golden Eagles actually managed to do it, and they have their old stalwart Joni Laurismäki to thank for their victory. The league may have gotten faster and more physical than when Laurismäki first came here, and it might be time for the Savojar striker to finally hang up his boots, but as long as he’s still playing for Fleftic Air Force he’s going to give it all. One just hopes that he still has a little bit more left in the tank for the final run of games to the end of the season.

Matchday Thirty-five Scores
Rosenpfelblatz City 6–2 Ludogorets Markovsky
Thereisnogodistan 2–2 Rosenpfelblatz North End
Wanda Island Wanderers 3–2 Fleftic Air Force
Malabon SC 3–1 Fleftic Army
Uranium City Radiation 1–0 Sarvusdalamoive
Arsenal de Releinthi 4–0 Admiral Porcusces
Locomotive Imgortur 1–0 Sporting Ceneisis
Bananas 2–1 Antslinngs Islands
Riuwiee United 4–1 Xemlice Rovers
Paulsen 1–0 Eielo Sunlight

Oh, no. Is this going to be another “the championship is lava” ending to the season? Why are the two top title contenders now choosing to lose at the same time? Now Rosenpfelblatz City has somehow managed to find a way back into the title picture, and while there is definitely a large portion of the FPL fanbase that’s now getting excited for an expanded title picture, surely it could have come without the other teams having to play “the championship is lava.” Where in the world did it go wrong for Ludogorets Markovsky? At the Aeroflot Stadium, apparently. What happened to the unshakeable confidence of the Foresters? Surely losing to Eielo Sunlight wouldn’t have been anywhere near enough to rattle their cages, right? Apparently it was, because the Ludogorets Markovsky side that showed up in Rosenpfelblatz was most definitely not the Ludogorets Markovsky side that had been hiding in the shadows of FPL fans’ minds waiting for the right moment to pounce. In fact, some have even gone as far as to claim that the Markovsky team that played Rosenpfelblatz City on this matchday was something more like the team that had been bad enough to get relegated from the FPL in the mid-to-late 2000s. Pretty much the only player in dark green who was playing like his regular self was Sven Fahrni, and the man is a damn robot anyway so does he really count? On the other side of the pitch, Juan Alvarado must not have been able to believe his luck. After struggling to get back on the scoresheet for the past month or so, Alvarado must have thought that he was going to continue to struggle against the team that everyone else in the league feared. However, it turned out that he might actually be the one that people need to fear because the Brook striker has become the first person to score four goals in a single game in the FPL since Gavriil Zolotarov did it for Arsenal de Releinthi against… Ludogorets Markovsky. When things are going wrong for the Foresters, they really do go wrong.

Match of the Day
Riuwiee United 4–1 Xemlice Rovers

Of course Ludogorets Markovsky can’t be the only title-chasing team going through some troubles to close out the season. Xemlice Rovers fans aren’t going to like the reason why this particular match has been named Match of the Day, but in the context of the whole season it probably definitely deserves to be here. After Markovsky ended up getting smashed by Rosenpfelblatz City in the West Mezaladbyi derby, surely this was the moment that Xemlice was waiting for in order to increase their lead over the Foresters (and the rest of the league) and finally win only their second ever Fleftic Premier League title. Unfortunately for the Gamekeepers, Riuwiee United had other ideas. Much as the Blue Tribesmen and their fans like the idea of another team winning the league over Markovsky, the fact that that team isn’t actually Riuwiee has got to sting for the team from the capital of Abanhfleft. It’s not exactly a case of “if I can’t have it then no one can!” but there is a feeling that Riuwiee wants to extend this title race for as long as they could, just to make the actual title contenders squirm a little bit. When Marat Tkachev scores a brace against a particular team in only nine minutes, said other team can only brace themselves for a world of hurt. Also, the fact that Riuwiee was able to neutralize what has become a potent attacking force for Xemlice has to be studied by the teams who are going to play against the Gamekeepers in the final three matchdays of the season. At least that’s what Markovsky fans are hoping and praying that Xemlice’s opponents are going to do, but at the same time maybe they should be praying for their own team’s success before anything else. Just something to think about.

Fleftic Premier League Table After Matchday Thirty-five

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Xemlice Rovers             35   20  10   5    52   31  +21    70   Champions League qualification
 2 Rosenpfelblatz City        35   22   3  10    83   54  +29    69   Champions League qualification
 3 Ludogorets Markovsky       35   22   3  10    84   64  +20    69   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Malabon SC                 35   20   4  11    47   27  +20    64   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Arsenal de Releinthi       35   17   9   9    73   64   +9    60   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Wanda Island Wanderers     35   17   7  11    75   58  +17    58
 7 Admiral Porcusces          35   16  10   9    50   36  +14    58
 8 Riuwiee United             35   16   9  10    74   56  +18    57
 9 Locomotive Imgortur        35   15   9  11    65   56   +9    54
10 Sarvusdalamoive            35   13  14   8    66   46  +20    53
11 Paulsen                    35   12   8  15    57   70  −13    44
12 Sporting Ceneisis          35   11   9  15    46   51   −5    42
13 Uranium City Radiation     35   12   6  17    45   50   −5    42
14 Thereisnogodistan          35   10  10  15    66   73   −7    40
15 Rosenpfelblatz North End   35    9   9  17    47   65  −18    36
16 Fleftic Army               35    9   8  18    52   78  −26    35
17 Fleftic Air Force          35    6  13  16    64   76  −12    31
18 Eielo Sunlight             35    7   9  19    30   55  −25    30   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Antslinngs Islands         35    7   8  20    34   69  −35    29   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Bananas                    35    6   8  21    59   90  −31    26   Relegation to Unang Liga

So that happened. Xemlice Rovers, almost despite their own efforts, is back at the top of the table, while Ludogorets Markovsky has gone all the way down to third place, although that’s only thanks to goal difference between them and their West Mezaladbyi rivals Rosenpfelblatz City. That result between the two rivals really was a total game-changer with regards to the title race, wasn’t it? Mind, the race itself isn’t over yet. Nowhere near it, in fact. But the games that these three teams will play in the final three matchdays will definitely play their part in determining the final destination of the FPL trophy come the end of the season. Will Markovsky be able to turn things around after such a devastating result and make sure that the trophy stays at the Stadium of the Old Forester for a fourth year running? Recent history says yes, the Foresters absolutely can, but then again they’ve never had a bad run of results this close to the end of the season. Can Xemlice finally claim the trophy that’s eluded them since the Gamekeepers won the very first season of Fleftic football’s top flight in its current form? They definitely can, so long as they don’t keep imitating Markovsky’s bad results as seemed to be the case in the most recent matchday. And as for Rosenpfelblatz City, if they can play the role of the boogeyman that Markovsky used to occupy until very, very recently, there’s still a chance that the Citizens can pick up championship number six this season somehow. They used to be favorites at the start of the season, fell away during the second half, and then against all odds they’re back. The title is far from decided at this moment, that’s for sure.

The good news for those people who were worried about the growing divide between the top two tiers of Abanhfleft’s football is that only one out of the three teams promoted from Unang Liga last season is currently in the relegation zone, and that all three teams still have a mathematical chance of making it out of there at the end of the season. The bad news is that the other two teams in the bottom three are teams that have been promoted from Unang Liga one or two seasons ago. All joking and memes aside, it really is sad to see how far Bananas FC has fallen once Mustafa Bensoussan left them for greener pastures. He really was the one man keeping the Gorillas semi-relevant in Fleftic football. Without Bensoussan, Bananas is now reduced to being a “yo-yo club” at best and remaining stuck in the Unang Liga quagmire in the foreseeable future. It’s a similar yet different story for Antslinngs Islands, which used to be the team that could always find a way to survive in the FPL no matter how poorly their season started, but that was way back in the 2000s. Things have gotten worse for the Islanders since then, and unfortunately it does look like this team is staring down the barrel of yet another relegation with no guarantee of when or even if they’re ever going to be able to come back. Meanwhile, Eielo Sunlight has finally managed to prove that they’re not the absolute worst team in the Fleftic Premier League. At the end of the day however, even with their shocking victory over Ludogorets Markovsky that appears to have started a domino effect at the top of the league, Eielo is still apparently one of the three worst teams in the top flight this season. There’s still a chance for the Suns to get out of this hole, but it also involves Fleftic Air Force or possibly Fleftic Army suffering a downturn in fortunes themselves, and that’s not something that anyone can easily predict.

Race for the Golden Boot
1. Edgar Smith-Fernandez (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 26 goals
2. Juan Alvarado (Rosenpfelblatz City) - 23 goals
3. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur) - 22 goals
4. Tuan Parthosi (Fleftic Army) - 21 goals
5. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 20 goals

Time’s beginning to run out for any players who want to catch up to Edgar Smith-Fernandez and deny the Abanhfleft and Arsenal de Releinthi striker the Golden Boot. Then again, there might actually be someone who could actually do that. Should Juan Alvarado somehow manage to tie or overtake Smith-Fernandez in the Golden Boot standings, he surely must thank Ludogorets Markovsky for getting him there. The four goals he scored against the Foresters really went a long way in boosting him in the standings, leapfrogging over the likes of Malcolm Preston, Tuan Parthosi, and Marat Tkachev in order to put himself in second place. Then again, imagine the scenes if one of these aforementioned players do what Alvarado did and score four goals or even more in a single game in the last three matchdays. Utter chaos for the Golden Boot!

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 17 clean sheets
2. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 16 clean sheets
3. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 13 clean sheets
T4. Guildenstern Cardew (Sporting Ceneisis) - 10 clean sheets
T4. Josiah Maldonado (Uranium City Radation) - 10 clean sheets

There is now a real chance that a goalkeeper not named Radislav Kalyna could actually finally win the Golden Glove. Yes, it might have come at the price of a much closer title race than it really needed to be, but Daniel Cartwright doing his part in helping Xemlice Rovers hang on to a couple of goalless draws could be just what the doctor ordered when it comes to him finally taking the Golden Glove away from the mad Pridnestrovian. However, Cartwright can’t really breathe easy just yet. Technically speaking, Emelio Lontok from Admiral Porcusces still has a chance to tie with him in second place if everything goes right for Lontok and wrong for Cartwright. That might end up being an outcome that Kalyna prays for if it’s what helps him hang on to the Golden Glove.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Tue Nov 25, 2025 1:33 am

Matchday Thirty-six Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 0–1 Paulsen
Eielo Sunlight 0–2 Riuwiee United
Xemlice Rovers 4–2 Bananas
Antslinngs Islands 0–2 Locomotive Imgortur
Sporting Ceneisis 2–3 Arsenal de Releinthi
Admiral Porcusces 0–1 Uranium City Radiation
Sarvusdalamoive 2–2 Malabon SC
Fleftic Army 1–4 Wanda Island Wanderers
Fleftic Air Force 3–2 Thereisnogodistan
Rosenpfelblatz North End 2–1 Rosenpfelblatz City

This could be it! This could be the moment that Xemlice Rovers has finally won the Fleftic Premier League again! For the first time in some time, a title-contending team actually won a game when their title opponents lost theirs. There are always questions that need to be asked when the likes of Ludogorets Markovsky and Rosenpfelblatz City lose games that are believed to be winnable ones for them, but the mere fact that they both lost at the same time when they were supposed to be chasing after a league title makes one question whether the game they’re playing is football or actually “the championship is lava.” And to think that Xemlice actually had the biggest chance of slipping up in the title race going into this matchday compared to the others. Bananas FC look like they’re relegation bait, but as long as there was still a mathematical chance that the Gorillas could actually make it to next season then they just couldn’t be counted out yet. But the Gamekeepers made sure that they didn’t lose their heads when they conceded first via Darius Everett, and this might be the key to this whole thing finally falling in Xemlice’s favor. For too long, Xemlice has had its head dip whenever things don’t always go their way. It’s been their downfall for so long, but for some reason things finally seemed to click this season. Bananas might have scored first, but in response Xemlice put four past the Gorillas and called it a day. Peter Paul Montenegro could finally see his work rewarded with some silverware. But he and his men can’t rest just yet. There are still two more matchdays left to play, and in the Fleftic Premier League, success can turn into failure in a faster time frame than that.

Match of the Day
Fleftic Air Force 3–2 Thereisnogodistan

Ludogorets Markovsky lost to Paulsen FC on this matchday, but almost every top team in Fleftic football has lost to the Boilermakers so this isn’t really big news; it’s only big news because the Foresters lost while being locked in a title race. Rosenpfelblatz City also lost to their intra-city rivals Rosenpfelblatz North End, but everyone also knows that form goes out the window in a derby match so, despite derbies being good candidates for Match of the Day most of the time, this one wasn’t chosen. Instead, Match of the Day goes to Fleftic Air Force versus Thereisnogodistan. How did the Air Force club even find themselves in this position? They were supposed to have been on an upward trajectory after finally winning the SFA Cup 12 years ago. Instead all they’ve ended up doing was hover in between the top and bottom reaches of the mid-table, and now the Golden Eagles are actually at risk of possibly getting relegated. Well, mathematically speaking they’re still at risk of going down to Unang Liga but realistically speaking the Air Force club might actually be safe. Nevertheless, they wouldn’t say no to more wins and more points, and while Thereisnogodistan made them fight long and fight hard for those three points, Fleftic Air Force actually managed to do it. No Joni Laurismäki? No problem for the Golden Eagles. They’ve got Norman Lanta and Ousmane Marwany anyway. Lanta in particular has to be praised for stepping up once it became clear that Laurismäki is no longer adapted to playing in the FPL. Sure, the Savojar striker is still the top goalscorer in the team but Lanta has picked up the slack when Laurismäki goes anonymous in a game. But the real hero for the Golden Eagles, at least as far as this game was concerned, was midfielder Carmelo Ponce. He came on as a substitute in the 84th minute and scored the winning goal just two minutes later. Truly hero stuff. He probably won’t get a medal but a commendation is definitely in the cards.

2039-40 SFA Cup Semifinals

Semifinal 1 @ Luxur Field, Kimmirut, Peninsula
Locomotive Imgortur 0–0 Uranium City Radiation (1–0 AET)

Semifinal 2 @ Piuui Coliseum, Piuui, Piddaddadda
Rosenpfelblatz City 3–3 Riuwiee United (4–5 AET)

Only four teams remain in the hunt for the SFA Cup here in the 2039-40 season. It was a tough journey for all four teams, but all that matters is that they’re actually here. The current field for the SFA Cup semifinals consists of two heavy-hitters (three if one counts Locomotive Imgortur courtesy of their title win in 2025-26), one consistent mid-table team and a newly promoted team that’s currently punching way above their weight. Believers in the “magic of the SFA Cup” would have definitely loved it if both Locomotive Imgortur and Uranium City Radiation made it to the final, but the draw for the semifinals would have disappointed them as that was literally the first tie that was drawn out of the bag. Then again, it does ensure that at least one of them is going to make it to the final to face one of the FPL’s big dogs. And it also means that one of Riuwiee United or Rosenpfelblatz City will be unable to lift the tin idol this season. For Riuwiee, this was their chance to make amends for the failure of last season when they were taken down by Sporting Ceneisis thanks to a Kim Hoseok goal. For Rosenpfelblatz, this could be an opportunity for them to secure a rare league and cup double should they be able to overcome the odds and leapfrog both Xemlice Rovers and Ludogorets Markovsky on matchday thirty-eight. But one of these two teams will have to give up those dreams at the end of the day simply because they cannot advance any further in the cup.

But before getting into the marquee match-up of the semifinals, first Locomotive Imgortur and Uranium City Radiation had to determine who between them was actually advancing to the SFA Cup final. A lot of neutrals as well as believers in the “magic of the SFA Cup” were rooting for Uranium City to beat Emilio Caravaggio and his men. The Rays’ exploits in the Fleftic Premier League was already becoming the stuff of legend and proving that any promoted team with a modicum of self-belief can actually cut it with the big boys of the FPL, and reaching the final and possibly winning the tin idol would be the cherry on top of what was already a wildly successful season for Fernando Manriquez and his team. That self-belief would be evident for most of the first half as it was Uranium City that opened this match on the front foot, and the Rays actually had a couple of chances to open up the scoring only for either the linesman or the woodwork to deny them. In the case of Rafa Manriquez, both things actually happened to him at the same time: a strong right-footed shot of his rattled the crossbar in the 23rd minute just before he was found to be offside. Some would say that being offside actually spared the younger Manriquez some blushes as him missing from close range would have been infinitely more embarrassing. But Imgortur was a team that was used to soaking up pressure from their opponents no matter the venue so Emilio Caravaggio and his men fell back on tried and tested tactics to withstand the onslaught from Uranium City while also waiting for their own opportunity to pounce. That opportunity though would not come until the 96th minute as after another extended spell of Uranium City pressure, Imgortur would go on the counterattack and, in an atypically pass-heavy sequence of play, Kaden Manzano would find the back of the net after side-footing the ball to the left of Josiah Maldonado. It wasn’t the end of their SFA Cup campaign that Uranium City would have wanted, but at least they’ve secured their place in the FPL for at least one more season. That has to count for something, right?

The other SFA Cup semifinal between Rosenpfelblatz City and Riuwiee United also needed extra time to decide a winner, but at least it didn’t have to go all the way to a penalty shootout like what the Blue Tribesmen had to go through last season. But part of them must have been wishing that it could have gone to a shootout once again because at least back then Riuwiee was actually able to keep their opponent scoreless. This simply wasn’t the case this time around, mostly because Rosenpfelblatz’s Lucas von Wolfberg wanted to prove that he hadn’t lost his goalscoring touch despite being sidelined for most of the season through injuries. Von Wolfberg may have scored the Citizens’ opening goal against Riuwiee but the longer the game went on, the more obvious it was that the Schutzenphalian striker was no longer suited to be City’s number nine. That shirt now belongs to Juan Alvarado whose main contribution in this game was Rosen’s third goal which the Sky Blues thought would be the winning goal that would see them through to the final only for Aalipdis Marec to deny them in the second minute of time added on. But while Juan Alvarado may be the new bright and shining star in the Rosenpfelblatz City constellation, he still has some way to go with regards to being the difference maker that wins trophies and titles. For all the good work that the Brook striker did in the second half and for the thirty-plus minutes of extra time, Alvarado always seemed to be just a split second too slow in getting on the end of a cross or a through-ball that could have led to a great scoring chance. On the other hand, Aalipdis Marec has finally found a way to come out of the shadow his teammates and establish himself as a vital cog in the Riuwiee United machine by pulling the strings and orchestrating the transition from defense to attack for the Blue Tribesmen. He had already made himself a hero by scoring the goal that forced extra time against the Citizens, but then he had to go and provide the assist to Kostyantyn Zazroyev’s winner to finally put an end to Rosenpfelblatz’s hopes of a potential double. If someone isn’t already building a statue of Marec outside the May 26 Revolution Stadium then who even is worthy of having a statue in Riuwiee?

Matchday Thirty-seven Scores
Rosenpfelblatz North End 4–4 Ludogorets Markovsky
Rosenpfelblatz City 4–4 Fleftic Air Force
Thereisnogodistan 3–0 Fleftic Army
Wanda Island Wanderers 1–2 Sarvusdalamoive
Malabon SC 1–1 Admiral Porcusces
Uranium City Radiation 2–0 Sporting Ceneisis
Arsenal de Releinthi 1–0 Antslinngs Islands
Locomotive Imgortur 1–0 Xemlice Rovers
Bananas 1–2 Eielo Sunlight
Riuwiee United 1–2 Paulsen

What in the name of drama is going on here? Apparently a champion will not be crowned until the final matchday of the season, and it’s hard to tell which among the title contenders deserves the most blame here. Both Ludogorets Markovsky and Rosenpfelblatz City failed to live up to their end of the bargain after these two teams could only muster up draws against the likes of Rosenpfelblatz North End and Fleftic Air Force. Both of Markovsky and Rosen City’s opponents were fighting against relegation so it was understandable that they would put their all into getting a positive result against their opponents from the top five in the table, but even then the Foresters and the Citizens should have found a way to get past them. Instead, both Markovsky and Rosen City ended up settling for 4-4 draws, perhaps one of the biggest coincidences in Fleftic football. Given the title picture, all Xemlice Rovers really needed to do now was to get a point against Locomotive Imgortur and the title would have finally returned to Lotharstadt. Instead Imgortur looked like they wanted to get back to playing at being the league’s kingmaker, something that they tried doing at the start of the season before abandoning it when the club was no longer getting a look into the IFCF places. Now that most of the rest of the league appears to have finally settled down, Imgortur looks like they want to do some practice with regards to taking down the top teams in Abanhfleft in preparation for their meeting with Riuwiee United in the 2040 SFA Cup final. Xemlice hasn’t really been part of that conversation for some time, but considering that they were a team chasing after some silverware, that was a close enough analogue as far as Emilio Caravaggio and his men was concerned, and in this particular case a single goal from Malcolm Preston assisted by Kaden Manzano was enough to take down the league leaders and delay the awarding of the title to the final matchday. Whether the same will apply against Riuwiee come the day of the final is another question though, a question that neither Caravaggio nor his men know the answer to just yet.

Match of the Day
Uranium City Radiation 2–0 Sporting Ceneisis

It’s been said before and it’s going to be said again before the season is over: Uranium City Radiation is beating all of the expectations laid out for them when they were promoted from Unang Liga. It doesn’t matter that those expectations were low to begin with; the Rays have already exceeded them by a magnitude of miles. Everyone thought that Uranium City was going to struggle to get going in the Fleftic Premier League, especially as a first-timer. But if one were to only look at the Rays’ matches this season, one would be forgiven for thinking that they had been FPL regulars for a long time. Most of the credit goes to their manager Fernando Manriquez, who took charge near the end of the 2036-37 season and saved Uranium City from getting relegated down to the newly regionalized Liga Ikalawa. Manriquez’s transformation of this team from a relegation target to a promotion contender in just one season with only a few changes in their lineup is nothing short of miraculous. As with most other teams promoted from Unang Liga, the worry is always the fact that what once worked in the lower leagues no longer works in the top flight of Abanhfleft. Gareth Bunsen had led Rosenpfelblatz North End to a mid-table finish last season, only for the Acolytes to come perilously close to getting relegated until the last few matchdays, and most people were worried that Uranium City could very well go through a similar trajectory. But there’s just something that feels different about the Rays, something about their style of play that suggests that they could actually become an established part of the Fleftic Premier League within the next few years. This win against Sporting Ceneisis that got the nod for Match of the Day is perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence in favor of the Rays actually establishing themselves in the FPL. Uranium City held the upper hand over the Blues and took advantage of that, and when Ceneisis tried to breach their defenses the Rays held firm. And once Ceneisis had finally exhausted themselves, Uranium City scored again to make sure that they would keep all three points with them at home. If that isn’t an FPL quality performance then what is?

Fleftic Premier League Table After Matchday Thirty-seven

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Xemlice Rovers             37   21  10   6    56   34  +22    73   Champions League qualification
 2 Rosenpfelblatz City        37   22   4  11    88   60  +28    70   Champions League qualification
 3 Ludogorets Markovsky       37   22   4  11    88   69  +19    70   Challengers' Cup qualification
 4 Malabon SC                 37   20   6  11    50   30  +20    66   Challengers' Cup qualification
 5 Arsenal de Releinthi       37   19   9   9    77   66  +11    66   Challengers' Cup qualification
 6 Wanda Island Wanderers     37   18   7  12    80   61  +19    61
 7 Riuwiee United             37   17   9  11    77   58  +19    60
 8 Locomotive Imgortur        37   17   9  11    68   56  +12    60
 9 Admiral Porcusces          37   16  11  10    51   38  +13    59
10 Sarvusdalamoive            37   14  15   8    70   49  +21    57
11 Paulsen                    37   14   8  15    60   71  −11    50
12 Uranium City Radiation     37   14   6  17    48   50   −2    48
13 Thereisnogodistan          37   11  10  16    71   76   −5    43
14 Sporting Ceneisis          37   11   9  17    48   56   −8    42
15 Rosenpfelblatz North End   37   10  10  17    53   70  −17    40
16 Fleftic Air Force          37    7  14  16    71   82  −11    35
17 Fleftic Army               37    9   8  20    53   85  −32    35
18 Eielo Sunlight             37    8   9  20    32   58  −26    33   Relegation to Unang Liga
19 Antslinngs Islands         37    7   8  22    34   72  −38    29   Relegation to Unang Liga
20 Bananas                    37    6   8  23    62   96  −34    26   Relegation to Unang Liga

The fate of the Fleftic Premier League title for the 2039-40 season is still not yet decided. For the first time in some time, three teams are going to go into matchday thirty-eight with a chance to win the biggest prize in all of Fleftic football. However, for two of those times, only a win is actually good enough to give them the title. It feels strange and almost even wrong to see Ludogorets Markovsky anywhere else but first place this deep into the season, but something has changed with this Foresters squad that meant that the other teams are no longer afraid to bring the fight to them. Consequently, Markovsky has now lost more games this season than they did in two of their three title-winning seasons, which is what put them in this position in the first place. It seems awfully simplistic, but it is true that Markovsky has now failed to reclaim points from losing positions in 15 out of 25 occasions this season, their worst performance in that particular statistic over the past decade. Meanwhile, their West Mezaladbyi rivals Rosenpfelblatz City were early favorites for the title this season, and there was even a point when Rosenpfelblatz had a six-point advantage over everyone else. What happened to that lead anyway? Oh yes, that’s right: the Citizens threw it away, which opened the door for Xemlice Rovers and then Markovsky to insert themselves into the title picture. But the biggest thing that has to be weighing on the minds of both Markovsky and Rosenpfelblatz players is the fact that even with either team (or maybe even both) winning their respective games, none of it is going to matter if Xemlice manages to draw their own final fixture. They’re quite capable of doing so, much to the distress of their own fans as the title could have already been wrapped up well before this point if the Gamekeepers realized that it was actually possible to win games instead of just settling for the draw. It’s almost ironic how after moaning after draws for much of the season, a draw could actually be enough for Xemlice to finally win only their second ever FPL title.

Everyone pay their respects and say goodbye to both Bananas FC and Antslinngs Islands. It was nice knowing them but now it’s time to let them go, potentially to the place where they truly belong: Unang Liga. It sounds cruel, almost offensive, to say this of any football club, let alone two, but the evidence from this season has been pretty clear. Neither one of these teams deserve to play in the top flight of Fleftic football, at least not as they currently are. Bananas in particular looked very woeful out there to the point that relegation actually almost feels like a mercy for them. Put the Gorillas and their fans out of their misery and make them forget about the times that Mustafa Bensoussan almost singlehandedly kept Bananas in the FPL for most of his time with the club that made him and gave him a football career in the first place. Maybe a full-on reset in Unang Liga is exactly what Bananas needs for the moment. It’s a similar but different story for Antslinngs Islands though. This might have actually been the best that the Islanders have looked in a long time, but unfortunately for them it appears to have coincided with the rest of the FPL also stepping up their quality of play, including the other relegation battlers. All of that said, it’s undeniable that the likes of Leo Kane and Kennedy Clinton have been surprisingly good FPL players despite having played most of their careers in Unang Liga. If Antslinngs can hang on to at least either one of them after this season then they stand a good chance of getting promoted once again. The final relegation place is still up for grabs, although at this point only two teams are really fighting not to end up in it. Eielo Sunlight had spent most of this season firmly rooted at the bottom of the table, but the Suns finally appeared to have figured out that they can actually win in the FPL. Sadly, that realization appears to have come just a little too late for them, something that might actually end up working out in Fleftic Army’s favor. This is nowhere close to being the Army club’s best season in the FPL, but if they could avoid getting relegated in their very first season back, that would be an achievement in and of itself.

Race for the Golden Boot
1. Edgar Smith-Fernandez (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 27 goals
2. Juan Alvarado (Rosenpfelblatz City) - 25 goals
3. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur) - 23 goals
T4. Tuan Parthosi (Fleftic Army) - 21 goals
T4. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 21 goals

Only two players have a realistic chance of claiming the Golden Boot at this point, and in the case of Edgar Smith-Fernandez, he already has one hand on the Boot. The best that Juan Alvarado can hope for is to share the Golden Boot with Smith-Fernandez unless he has a really, really good day against Fleftic Army. Actually, that isn’t that farfetched considering how poorly the War Pigs played against Rosenpfelblatz City the last time that these two teams met. But with the Army club finally picking up some form in their fight against relegation, will they allow the Citizens to run roughshod over them once again? Or can Malcolm Preston shock the entire league when Locomotive Imgortur goes up against Eielo Sunlight? It’s still all to play for in the Golden Boot race.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 17 clean sheets
2. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 16 clean sheets
3. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 13 clean sheets
4. Josiah Maldonado (Uranium City Radiation) - 12 clean sheets
5. Guildenstern Cardew (Sporting Ceneisis) - 10 clean sheets

Another man who already has one hand on a piece of silverware this season is Radislav Kalyna. He hasn’t been on top form lately but his work from earlier in the season is still paying dividends for him personally, if not necessarily for his team Malabon SC. Any thoughts of winning the title have long gone out the window, and hanging on to a place in the IFCF for next season is the only thing keeping the Ravens going. That said, Kalyna might still end up having to share the Golden Glove at the end of the season if everything goes the way of Xemlice Rovers. The knowledge that a draw would be enough to seal the title for the Gamekeepers could see Dan Cartwright finish with the same number of clean sheets as the mad Pridnestrovian, so long as Kalyna and Malabon don’t get one more clean sheet to end the season.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Thu Nov 27, 2025 6:38 am

Matchday Thirty-eight Scores
Ludogorets Markovsky 1–4 Riuwiee United
Paulsen 5–2 Bananas
Eielo Sunlight 1–0 Locomotive Imgortur
Xemlice Rovers 3–2 Arsenal de Releinthi
Antslinngs Islands 0–1 Uranium City Radiation
Sporting Ceneisis 1–2 Malabon SC
Admiral Porcusces 0–1 Wanda Island Wanderers
Sarvusdalamoive 1–0 Thereisnogodistan
Fleftic Army 2–4 Rosenpfelblatz City
Fleftic Air Force 5–3 Rosenpfelblatz North End

They’ve done it. They’ve finally done it. Xemlice Rovers is champions of Abanhfleft once again! It only took the Gamekeepers 45 years to win the title once again, but they did win, and that’s the only thing that matters now. Not even Peter Paul Montenegro would have thought that he would actually be the man to lead Xemlice to the biggest prize in all of Fleftic football when he took this job over six years ago. Managing Xemlice Rovers had not been the easiest task for Montenegro, and there were undeniably moments when the fanbase was calling for his sacking, but the ownership decided to stick to their guns and allow Montenegro to shape this football club into his vision of a title-winning team and it finally paid off. Forty-five years of pain, anguish and suffering had finally been erased, and it was all thanks to the men that Montenegro had brought in over the years. It was a gradual process and admittedly a slow one, but now no one can deny that everything had finally worked out to the Gamekeepers’ advantage. And even though everyone at the club knew that a draw would still be enough to clinch the title even if either one of Markovsky or Rosenpfelblatz won their respective games, Montenegro still sent his side out there to claim all three points against Arsenal de Releinthi, the twelve-time champions of the FPL. The Gunners for their part had already secured their place in the IFCF Challengers Cup but obviously three more points also wouldn’t go amiss, especially if the rumors are to be believed that this is going to be Oleg Mostovoi’s final season with the club. And credit to the Gunners, they at least gave a good accounting of themselves on the final matchday of the season, but Xemlice just wanted this win more than they did. The Gamekeepers actually had to come from behind to secure all three points and keep Rosenpfelblatz from knocking them off of top spot, but the fact that they actually completed the comeback is perhaps the biggest proof that anyone needed that this was a team that was finally ready to be champions of Abanhfleft.

Perhaps this truly is the beginning of the end of the Ludogorets Markovsky dynasty. No one is taking away everything that Roberto Hoya has achieved in the dark green side of Markovsky, and the Foresters have still made history with regards to having won three consecutive Fleftic Premier League titles in the past three years. But as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Ludogorets had done well to even be in a position to still win the title despite the numerous setbacks that they had suffered at the start of the season, but at the end of the day those defeats still ended up costing them. And it’s no secret that the Fleftic football fanbase had been looking forward to seeing another team be crowned champions of Abanhfleft. It just so happened that there was finally another team that actually managed to take advantage of Markovsky slipping up. The title was still up for grabs going into the final matchday of the season, and even though the Foresters were playing host to Riuwiee United on that occasion, there was still a mood of slight optimism tinged with apprehension in the Stadium of the Old Forester. Markovsky had beaten the Blue Tribesmen before, but now they had to beat the capital city club while literally everyone else was rooting against them. And this time around, not even the football gods wanted to see Markovsky win a fourth straight league title. Giving the Foresters and their fans hope was about as good as it was going to get, but actually winning the title was now a step too far for the football gods. But the manner in which Markovsky lost out on the title is also something that warrants some discussion. If Ludogorets had lost by a single goal or maybe two, it would have been disappointing but it would just be the way football is. But to lose to the Blue Tribesmen by four goals to one is a literal collapse no matter how one looks at it. Not making any moves in the transfer market at the start of the season looks to have bitten Markovsky in the rear hard. At least now they know what not to do come next season, so there’s that.

At least Rosenpfelblatz City lived up to their end of the bargain. It didn’t end up mattering in the end but at the very least the Citizens can claim that they did all that they could to win the title, and that will have to be enough. Also, Rosenpfelblatz’s win over Fleftic Army was enough to ensure that it would be the Sky Blues that would be playing in the IFCF Champions League while their West Mezaladbyi rivals will have to be content with playing in the Challengers Cup. Rosenpfelblatz’s win over the Army club also means that the War Pigs have been sent packing back to Unang Liga while allowing Eielo Sunlight to achieve perhaps the most unbelievable “great escape” of all time. The Suns had spent literally all of this season languishing in the depths of the relegation zone, propping up the rest of the division most of the time. Eielo had been picking up good results during the run-in but most people thought and believed that it was too little, too late. But Fleftic Army also had spent a lot of time in the bottom three and had only barely begun trying to creep their way out of it, so in a way this result was just the football gods’ way of saying that the Army club was always meant to be relegated at the end of this season. One man though who wouldn’t be happy with this particular turn of events is Juan Alvarado. The Brook striker had a gilt-edged opportunity to at least pull level with Edgar Smith-Fernandez in the Golden Boot standings but he spurned it. Whether it was the woodwork, Deuzimar Moreira being possessed by the spirit of Radislav Kalyna, or his own feet betraying him, Juan Alvarado had to know that he might have just let slip his best chance of actually getting the Golden Boot. As for the Fleftic Premier League title, the Citizens would love to believe that they will once again have a chance next year, but that’s never guaranteed. Even Markovsky at the peak of their dominance had moments when it looked like they were not going to be a factor, but they used to have grit and resilience back then. Sheila Berg and her man have yet to show that they have those things as well.

2039-40 SFA Cup Final

Played @ San Roque Park, Malabon

    Locomotive Imgortur 3–4 Riuwiee United             
  Malcolm Preston (18')     Aalipdis Marec (13', 89')
    Bas Langeveld (28')     Marat Tkachev (52')
    Ramiro Guerra (78')     Pablo del Rosario (70')

Referee: Gary Lualhati (Sarvusdalamoive)

It’s time for one more game of football to close out the season, and it is to decide who is going to go home with the oldest piece of silverware in Abanhfleft, the SFA Cup. Riuwiee United returns to the final attempting to exorcize the demons of last season when the Blue Tribesmen were denied a record-stretching eighteenth SFA Cup win by Sporting Ceneisis. Meanwhile, Locomotive Imgortur has only won the tin idol three times in its history, and the last time that they won it was literally the year before the establishment of the Fleftic Premier League. Cue the jokes and the memes that there is no footballing history before the FPL. But in all seriousness, Imgortur brought in Emilio Caravaggio to bring more silverware to this club after having gotten a taste when the Engineers lifted the 2025-26 Fleftic Premier League title against all the odds, and this is the closest that Imgortur has gotten since the start of Caravaggio’s tenure. It was always going to be an uphill battle for the Engineers no matter who they got to meet in the final, but the knowledge that they would be up against a Blue Tribesmen team still stinging from the loss of last season had just made their jobs even tougher. Can Locomotive Imgortur deny Riuwiee United from reclaiming the tin idol yet again, or will the Blue Tribesmen finally get over the hump and become eighteen-time record holders of the SFA Cup?

Imgortur’s game plan had been clear from the start: do the things that had gotten them to the dance in the first place. Emilio Caravaggio had drilled this team to be a defensive monolith and that was exactly what they were going to lean on in order to make sure that Riuwiee lost a second consecutive SFA Cup final. Clearly it worked out for Sporting Ceneisis, even though one could make the argument that that was more about nerves on both sides than anything that was actually tactical. But unlike last season, Riuwiee had now remembered what it feels like to play in a cup final and they went on the offensive almost immediately. That was exactly what Imgortur had been set up to deal with, but they were now dealing with a team that had also gone up a level in the past season even if the league results didn’t show it. And now that quality combined with the desire to claim the tin idol once again has come out to the forefront. Aalipdis Marec, a player who had been a background character before finally taking a step up this season, is now really showing why he deserves top billing in a post-Marat Tkachev Riuwiee team with the quality of his passes and assists, not to mention the goals that he had been getting recently. Also recently, Marec hasn’t even needed any invitation to attempt a shot at goal, and Armando Agbayani just gave the Gouvanarch midfielder a reason after Agbayani chopped down Mamadou Haidara for both a free kick and a yellow card. Aalipdis Marec had truly turned into a dead-ball threat this season, and Imgortur really did themselves no favors by giving him a gilt-edged chance to bang one in from 24 yards away, and thus only the most obstinate Imgortur fans were surprised when Marec actually converted this free kick into the opening goal of the game.

Despite their reputation as being a defensively focused team, and despite some of their own players’ efforts to boost said reputation, Locomotive Imgortur can and will go on the attack if needed. Most of the time though this is nothing more than a counterattack taking advantage of defenders being out of place so it really feels like Imgortur just turtles up and strikes when they see only a wide open gap. But sometimes the Engineers actually play like and believe that they can actually be an attacking team if they put their mind into it. They haven’t had a lot of opportunities to show off this side of their game but now that silverware was on the line, this was as good a time as any for Imgortur to pick up the pace and take the fight to their opponents instead of just sitting back and waiting for an opportunity to counter. And Imgortur really should try to take the fight to their opponents more because they actually have the attacking talent to back it up. Two goals in ten minutes doesn’t lie. This team has great potential to actually be a potential title contender if they would come out of their shells just a little more than they actually do, and this with realization comes the possibility that maybe Emilio Caravaggio had taken this club as far as he could and now it’s time for a new manager to help Imgortur take the next step. But all of that talk should be done in the future. Right now, the Engineers had a tin idol to take away from the record holders.

Locomotive Imgortur went into the halftime break with a slender lead of 2 goals to 1, but even though the Engineers had proved themselves masters of the defensive arts, there was this feeling inside San Roque Park that those were not the last goals that had been scored in this game. And indeed it wasn’t. Whatever the contents of Joe Warren’s halftime speech to his team was, it was apparently enough to light a fire underneath his players as they went into the second half with a renewed fire and vigor that not even Emilio Caravaggio could have expected coming out of the Blue Tribesmen. Marat Tkachev, who had been surprisingly anonymous for the capital city club in the first half, finally began asserting his authority right from the kickoff, and within seven minutes he had scored yet another goal for Riuwiee to equalize and put the final right back on a knife edge. Locomotive did all that they could to park the bus and hold on against Riuwiee’s onslaught, but the simple truth was that the Blue Tribesmen were not going to be denied another piece of silverware for two seasons running. It was one thing for a fellow “top” team like Sporting Ceneisis to do it to them; it was quite another for a regular mid-table finisher like Locomotive Imgortur to take the tin idol away. It didn’t matter that Riuwiee had to call upon their bench to find another goal; all that matters is that Pablo del Rosario actually scored what United thought was going to be the goal that won them the SFA Cup for a record-stretching eighteenth time. All’s well that ends well for the capital club, right?

Not quite though, not just yet. Enter one Ramiro Guerra. The Terense striker had not seen the pitch many times this season but that was more because of his suspensions and the inherent risk that actually putting him on the pitch carries. However, once it became clear that Cosmas Stamatelopoulos wasn’t doing the job alongside Malcolm Preston, Emilio Caravaggio didn’t really have a choice but to bring Guerra on in the hopes that he would at least sow enough chaos to throw off Riuwiee’s structure and open up space and opportunities for the Engineers. And it actually worked out, to a degree at least. Ramiro Guerra was nipping at the heels of Riuwiee players like a Chihuahua, doing everything that he could to try to take the ball away from their feet. It was more of an annoyance than anything else, but it also had the knock-on effect of not allowing the Blue Tribesmen to dawdle around and actually forced them to keep passing the ball. Guerra finally got the better of Hazuru Rayuti in the midfield and, once he saw that Muhammad Anwar was off his line, the Terense unleashed a shot from long range that, against all odds, managed to slip just underneath the crossbar and into the net. That alone would have already been enough to turn Riuwiee fans against Ramiro Guerra, but of course he just had to celebrate his goal like there was no tomorrow and then throw up a mocking gesture or two at the Riuwiee bench. The man is really trying to make some history by being the first player in the long history of the SFA Cup to come on as a substitute, score a goal, and get sent off in the final. Guerra didn’t actually get sent off, but there were definitely many Riuwiee fans who say that he should have gone for an early bath. Ramiro Guerra really knows how to get under the skin of some people.

And that wasn’t even the final twist in this particular tale. The reason why Guerra had been so quick to mock the Riuwiee bench was because he really thought that he had managed to force extra time at the very least against the Blue Tribesmen. That may turn out to be the biggest mistake that the Terense had actually committed in his footballing career as those gestures actually fired up Riuwiee to the point that players that had been on the pitch for the entirety of the game found a second wind that enabled them to ramp up the pressure on Locomotive Imgortur once again. And amidst all of that action, it would be none other than Riuwiee’s new hero Aalipdis Marec who would cement his legacy with the Blue Tribesmen by thumping home the actual game-winning goal with barely a minute left to play in regulation. Marec had been occupying a central space just in front of the box by virtue of his natural position as a central attacking midfielder which had given him plenty of opportunities to take shots from distance throughout the season. It doesn’t always work out but when it does, it’s a thing of beauty, at least as far as Riuwiee fans are concerned. And this time, with the specter of both extra time and possibly penalties hanging over everyone’s heads, Marec’s shot flying into the top left corner was perhaps the most beautiful thing these fans had ever seen.

Congratulations to Riuwiee United, your 2039-40 SFA Cup champions!

Fleftic Premier League Table After Matchday Thirty-eight

   FPL                       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                   
 1 Xemlice Rovers             38   22  10   6    59   36  +23    76   Champions, Champions League
 2 Rosenpfelblatz City        38   23   4  11    92   62  +30    73   Champions League
 3 Ludogorets Markovsky       38   22   4  12    89   73  +16    70   Challengers' Cup
 4 Malabon SC                 38   21   6  11    52   31  +21    69   Challengers' Cup
 5 Arsenal de Releinthi       38   19   9  10    79   69  +10    66   Challengers' Cup
 6 Wanda Island Wanderers     38   19   7  12    81   61  +20    64
 7 Riuwiee United             38   18   9  11    81   59  +22    63   Cup Winners' Cup
 8 Sarvusdalamoive            38   15  15   8    71   49  +22    60
 9 Locomotive Imgortur        38   17   9  12    68   57  +11    60
10 Admiral Porcusces          38   16  11  11    51   39  +12    59
11 Paulsen                    38   15   8  15    65   73   −8    53
12 Uranium City Radiation     38   15   6  17    49   50   −1    51
13 Thereisnogodistan          38   11  10  17    71   77   −6    43
14 Sporting Ceneisis          38   11   9  18    49   58   −9    42
15 Rosenpfelblatz North End   38   10  10  18    56   75  −19    40
16 Fleftic Air Force          38    8  14  16    76   85   −9    38
17 Eielo Sunlight             38    9   9  20    33   58  −25    36
18 Fleftic Army               38    9   8  21    55   89  −34    35   Relegated to Unang Liga
19 Antslinngs Islands         38    7   8  23    34   73  −39    29   Relegated to Unang Liga
20 Bananas                    38    6   8  24    64  101  −37    26   Relegated to Unang Liga

Congratulations to Xemlice Rovers. It was a long time coming, but come it finally did. It took the Gamekeepers 45 years of waiting, 45 years of disappointment and middling mediocrity, but now they have finally become champions of Abanhfleft once again. However, this wasn’t to say that Xemlice’s rise through the ranks was unexpected or unforeseen. This was nothing like when Malabon SC came from literally out of nowhere to claim the championship only four years ago. Back then, Malabon’s fate truly was an unknown quantity. Nobody knew if the Ravens were going to finish in the top half or if they were going to just barely escape the dreaded prospect of relegation. Thankfully in Xemlice’s case, they had never been relegated in the 45 years between their league titles but they had come close on a few occasions. All of that said though, there had been a slow but noticeable improvement in Xemlice, especially after Peter Paul Montenegro took over the club near the end of the 2034-35 season. The Gamekeepers finished in third place in his first full season at the club, but when Xemlice slipped down the table once again, everyone thought that Montenegro had taken this team as far as he could. But after finally getting the financial backing that he had been desperately calling for in the previous offseason, Montenegro finally got his hands on the players that he wanted in order to shape Xemlice into his vision. And though this wasn’t the smoothest ride to the title (and both Ludogorets Markovsky and Rosenpfelblatz City tried to spoil the party as best as they could), for the first time in a while a team actually managed to keep up the pace while their opponents stumbled and fell. Meanwhile, it’s time once again to say goodbye to the likes of Fleftic Army, Antslinngs Islands, and Bananas. The last two clubs actually managed to hang on in the FPL for more than just one season but it turns out that they are both just not good enough. As for Fleftic Army, well, there are just no words. They had the chance to escape the drop but the War Pigs simply had the misfortune of going up against one of the three teams still with a chance at the FPL title on the final matchday. Out of these three, it’s actually the Army club that has the highest probability of finding themselves coming back to the Fleftic Premier League sooner rather than later, maybe even as soon as the season after next. As for both Antslinngs and Bananas (especially Bananas), a few years consolidating themselves in Unang Liga is probably the better choice instead of trying their hand at being a yo-yo club. It’s just too painful to see how far these two have fallen, and they really look like they could do with some time away from the limelight of top flight football.

Race for the Golden Boot
1. Edgar Smith-Fernandez (Arsenal de Releinthi) - 27 goals
2. Juan Alvarado (Rosenpfelblatz City) - 25 goals
3. Malcolm Preston (Locomotive Imgortur - 23 goals
T4. Tuan Parthosi (Fleftic Army) - 22 goals
T4. Marat Tkachev (Riuwiee United) - 22 goals

For the first time in six years, a Fleftic player has won the Fleftic Premier League Golden Boot all by himself. It’s a shame that Edgar Smith-Fernandez isn’t going to be rewarded by more silverware beyond the Boot itself, but at least he could go out there and say that he did all that he could to bring another title to Releinthi. Some who could have gone and at least shared the Boot with Smith-Fernandez on the final matchday but didn’t though was Juan Alvarado, and that was also something that was his fault. The Brook striker missed so many chance that it was actually embarrassing, and if it hadn’t been for his teammates finding the back of the net themselves, perhaps Fleftic Army could have actually found a way to escape the drop this season.

Race for the Golden Glove
1. Radislav Kalyna (Malabon SC) - 17 clean sheets
2. Daniel Cartwright (Xemlice Rovers) - 16 clean sheets
T3. Emelio Lontok (Admiral Porcusces) - 13 clean sheets
T3. Josiah Maldonado (Uranium City Radiation) - 13 clean sheets
4. Guildenstern Cardew (Sporting Ceneisis) - 10 clean sheets

At the end of the day, Radislav Kalyna hangs on to his Golden Glove, and once again he doesn’t have to share it with anyone else. Then again, did Dan Cartwright really have a chance of pulling level with the mad Pridnestrovian? A goalless draw definitely would have been enough for Xemlice Rovers to win the title even despite either one or both of Markovsky and Rosenpfelblatz winning, but maybe it was too much to ask Cartwright to keep Arsenal de Releinthi out of the back of his net, especially if this was supposed to be Oleg Mostovoi’s final game with the Gunners. And poor Emelio Lontok. He really thought that he had third spot in the rankings locked down, only for Josiah Maldonado to end up sharing the third step on the podium on the final matchday. Them Uranium City lads are really going places, aren’t they?

Congratulations to Xemlice Rovers, your 2039-40 Fleftic Premier League champions!

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:30 am

2039-40 Fleftic Unang Liga Final Standings

   Unang Liga               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                                  
 1 Athletic Dorfdifving      38   22   9   7    72   39  +33    75   Champions, Promoted to Fleftic Premier League
 2 Gyouza Young Lads         38   23   6   9    63   33  +30    75   Promoted to Fleftic Premier League
 3 All-Inclusive Haranguer   38   23   4  11    80   61  +19    73   Promotion playoffs
 4 Marinos Thimpodopoulos    38   20  10   8    49   24  +25    70   Promotion playoffs
 5 Atletico San Sebastian    38   18  12   8    70   51  +19    66   Promotion playoffs
 6 Miroz Old Boys            38   19   8  11    50   32  +18    65   Promotion playoffs
 7 Dynamo Ja                 38   18   7  13    76   63  +13    61
 8 Pilken Kickers            38   18   6  14    69   55  +14    60
 9 Rodrigues                 38   16  12  10    40   30  +10    60
10 Kimmirut Panhandle        38   14  12  12    35   33   +2    54
11 Tefel                     38   16   4  18    59   56   +3    52
12 Imperial Markovsky        38   13   9  16    65   63   +2    48
13 Electric Yugal            38   13   9  16    58   66   −8    48
14 Keephall Vikings          38   12   9  17    50   60  −10    45
15 Khimik Ogovlich           38   12   8  18    64   84  −20    44
16 FC United of Riuwiee      38   11   7  20    66   86  −20    40
17 Duhblakk Rovers           38   11   5  22    61   92  −31    38
18 Effelenendro              38   10   5  23    50   77  −27    35   Relegated to Liga Ikalawa
19 AFC Hithamandhoo          38    6   8  24    60   95  −35    26   Relegated to Liga Ikalawa
20 Sporting Mykorrigan       38    6   8  24    52   89  −37    26   Relegated to Liga Ikalawa

Nnettekkebb Wanderers from Liga Ikalawa-Hilaga, OGC Oui from Liga Ikalawa-Gitna, and Vikrant Rovers from Liga Ikalawa-Timog are promoted to Unang Liga.

This has to go down in history as a generational fumble on the part of All-Inclusive Haranguer. The Sand Tigers were odds-on favorites not only to get promoted but to also win the Unang Liga title to boot, and they were actually living up to the predictions of most pundits and analysts even despite a handful of wobbles. Haranguer really should have secured both the title and promotion long before this point, but now all that everyone is going to remember about them and their season is the fact that the Tigers messed up promotion not just once but twice! And Haranguer didn’t even have the good sense to at least finish in second place and be assured of promotion. No, Haranguer just had to absolutely drop the ball and fall into third place in the league, into the promotion playoff spots! The Sand Tigers don’t even have another feel-good story for the championship like what happened to them last season when Uranium City Radiation stormed to the Unang Liga title; this time around all of the talk at the end of the season is about how Haranguer fumbled this opportunity. Now Haranguer has to go through the lottery of the promotion playoff once again, and they already got smacked around by Eielo Sunlight last time around. Who knows if Haranguer will even be able to make it to the playoff final this time around? And who’s going to go up to the Fleftic Premier League anyway? Who else but the yo-yo club of Abanhfleft, Athletic Dorfdifving. And the thing is that nobody could really say that Dorfdifving didn’t deserve to get promoted this season; the Canaries had been in and around the title picture for pretty much the entire season; it’s just that nobody expected them to come from behind and steal the lead from Haranguer. And who’s coming up with Dorfdifving? It’s Gyouza Young Lads. Are the Lads literally trying to copy Dorfdifving’s homework but making some minor changes? It’s definitely possible. Nobody thought that they would actually be back after only a season in Unang Liga, especially after they lost Tuan Parthosi thanks to a cheap relegation release clause, but those parachute payments from the FPL are really doing wonders for the Lads. The third team will be decided between Haranguer, Marinos Thimpodopoulos, Atletico San Sebastian, and Miroz Old Boys. That might be the most stacked promotion field yet. No wonder most people are already saying Haranguer fumbled promotion once again.

Congratulations to Athletic Dorfdifving, your 2039-40 Fleftic Unang Liga champions!

(6) Miroz Old Boys vs. (3) All-Inclusive Haranguer

Leg 1 @ Estadio Ricardo Valentin, Miroz, Eielo
Miroz Old Boys 3-2 All-Inclusive Haranguer

Leg 2 @ National Book Store Stadium, Haranguer, Myleikaf
All-Inclusive Haranguer 2-4 Miroz Old Boys

Miroz Old Boys advances to the Unang Liga promotion playoff final 7-4 on aggregate

(5) Atletico San Sebastian vs. (4) Marinos Thimpodopoulos

Leg 1 @ Estadio Arbeloa, San Sebastian, Duhblakk
Atletico San Sebastian 3-0 Marinos Thimpodopoulos

Leg 2 @ Arena Marinos, Port Thimpodopoulos, Fhulghamous Peninsula
Marinos Thimpodopoulos 0-0 Atletico San Sebastian

Atletico San Sebastian advances to the Unang Liga promotion playoff final 3-0 on aggregate

Unang Liga Playoff Final: (6) Miroz Old Boys vs. (5) Atletico San Sebastian

@ May 26 Revolution Memorial Stadium, Riuwiee
Miroz Old Boys 1-1 Atletico San Sebastian (1-1 AET) (3-1 PKs)

Miroz Old Boys is promoted to the Fleftic Premier League

by **Estorvipa and Estorpiva** » Sat Nov 29, 2025 2:21 am

Before the anarchist uprising in the north, before the subsequent chaos of the Estorian Civil War, Dinamo Durdenville was only a mid-table team at best in the old Estorvipan People’s First Division. Back in those days, the Pivan people really were underappreciated by their fellow countrymen. Pivan teams rarely if ever made it into the First Division, making Durdenville perhaps the biggest exception to the rule. Perhaps it was because Durdenville had already established itself in the league before the dictatorship of the Socialist Party firmly entrenched the superior position of the Vipan people in Estorvipa over the Pivans. Durdenville’s relatively isolated position within the Eastern Mountains meant that the town and its football club survived the ravages of the Civil War and subsequent Pridnestrovian intervention to a degree. Professional football may have been suspended and practically all football clubs in the country existed in a state of limbo, but at least for Durdenville the core of the team remained intact and only a few players found themselves getting caught up in the chaos of the Civil War. When the Federal Republic of Estorvipa and Estorpiva was established in the latest attempt to restore order upon Estorian lands, one of the things that the government thought would prove that that they had restored order in the country was the establishment of a football league. Dinamo Durdenville was one of the first teams invited to play in this new league partly because of its history but mostly because it was one of only a handful of teams in territory controlled by the Federal Republic that still had its infrastructure and roster mostly intact.

Despite looking like it was going to live up to its reputation of being a mid-table team once again in the newly formed Federal Top League, Dinamo Durdenville finally achieved the unthinkable and won their first ever Estorian league championship in the 2025-26 season, just three seasons after the creation of the Top League. Some people actually thought that it was going to usher in a new age of equality and parity in Estorian football, only for Spartak Rybolovlev (the most dominant team in Estorian history) to begin winning titles once again after finally getting used to the new league and its new format which splits the league into what can only be described as mini-leagues between the title contenders and relegation battlers. It wouldn’t be until last season that Durdenville would find itself being declared the best team in all of Estoria once again, and some would say that they actually have Mamai Ihorivtsi to thank for that. If it hadn’t been for Mamai proving that Spartak was actually not an unstoppable juggernaut then Durdenville probably wouldn’t even have dreamed about challenging for the title last season, or so they say. But most of those people are bitter Mamai fans who are apparently still salty that their team was unable to defend the title. But now all of the burdens are on Durdenville’s shoulders. Now it’s their turn to mount a successful defense of the title against a rearmed and resurgent Spartak Rybolovlev, and no one can really count out either one of Traktor St. Paulsburg or Mamai Ihorivtsi from this race either. And now there’s potentially the threat of SC Batgeyt-1 looming over the rest of the league. The threat of Denys Kucherenko’s money buying a league title (or two or maybe even more) for Batgeyt hangs heavy over the league’s heads. Just don’t ask Durdenville fans what they would do to get their hands on a fraction of the funding that Kucherenko can supply to his own team.

For two teams who started off their respective lives in the Federal Second League, their time in the top flight of Estorian football has come to an end. Both Dinamo Prurudak and Feniks Levadne 1948 had done well to survive in the Top League for a season, and in Prurudak’s case, they actually managed to sneak into the championship round and (try to) fight for the title alongside the likes of Mamai, Spartak, and the other Dinamo. But now the luck of both Prurudak and the Phoenixes have run out, and once again they will have to figure out what went wrong while playing in the Second League. The two teams replacing them in the Top League this season are Cavaleri Urodosarul, making a welcome return back to the Top League after a couple of seasons trying and failing to regain immediate promotion, and Shakhtyor Susskij, making their first ever appearance in the top tier of Estorian football since the last full season of the People’s First Division that was played before the breakout of the Estorian Civil War forced the suspension of all professional sports (among other things) in Estoria. Urodorasul will be welcomed back to the Top League with open arms even if their quality might not end up being good enough to keep them in the league in the long run, while Susskij is more of an unknown quality. Is Shakhtyor going to take to life in the Top League like a duck to water, or is it going to be too much for this team to handle?

2033-34 Federal Top League Regular Season Standings

   Federal Top League      Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                     
 1 Mamai Ihorivtsi          22   13   3   6    49   39  +10    42   Qualified for Championship Round
 2 Dinamo Durdenville       22   12   3   7    24   18   +6    39
 3 Batgeyt-1                22   11   3   8    43   32  +11    36
 4 Spartak Rybolovlev       22    9   9   4    32   18  +14    36
 5 Traktor St. Paulsburg    22    8   9   5    39   33   +6    33
 6 Chornyy Volodymyrivka    22    9   5   8    41   37   +4    32                                     
 7 CSK Armiya Supskij       22    6  10   6    31   32   −1    28   Qualified for Relegation Round
 8 Foc Feuerstadt           22    6   8   8    22   32  −10    26
 9 Shakhtyor Susskij        22    7   4  11    36   47  −11    25
10 Cavaleri Urodorasul      22    5   9   8    28   30   −2    24
11 Politehnica Humongalia   22    6   5  11    28   34   −6    23
12 Uran Bilohodar           22    4   4  14    21   42  −21    16

Perhaps the rumors that the order of Estorian football really has been shaken up might have some truth to it after all. Mamai Ihorivtsi is back on top of the pile, while Dinamo Durdenville is only three points behind in what has been an actually decent title defense. The mere fact that Durdenville is this high up the table at the end of the regular season already makes it a better defense than what the league has seen in recent seasons, and now here’s to hoping that Durdenville can actually make something out of it. That said, it should be noted that no team in either league has managed to score at least 50 points in the regular season. Usually the league leaders after 22 games has hit the 50-point mark, but that isn’t the case this season. Is that the first proof that the Top League is finally become a “fairer” league, or is it actually the other way around? Is it actually the top teams playing more poorly than previous seasons? Who knows? On the other hand though, only one team has failed to score 20 points in the regular season too. Usually that’s a sign that said team is headed for relegation, but this time only one team looks that poor. Uran Bilohodar had been flying under the radar for most of its time in the Top League, doing just good enough to not get relegated but not so good that they’re turning heads and entertaining talk about possibly making it into the championship round. This time though Uran is turning heads but for entirely the wrong reasons: the team is plum last in the Top League, and extrapolating their performances from the regular season into the relegation round doesn’t inspire much confidence (if any at all) that Uran can possibly survive this season. Looks like they might have used up all of their luck last season and didn’t have any to spare for this one.

2033-34 Federal Top League Championship Round Final Standings

  Championship            Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts     
1 Spartak Rybolovlev       10    6   2   2    13    6   +7    20
2 Traktor St. Paulsburg    10    4   3   3    11   11    0    15
3 Chornyy Volodymyrivka    10    3   3   4    10   10    0    12
4 Batgeyt-1                10    3   3   4    11   15   −4    12
5 Dinamo Durdenville       10    3   3   4     6    7   −1    12
6 Mamai Ihorivtsi          10    1   6   3    12   14   −2     9

Oh boy. This does not bode well for those who believe that the order of Estorian football has finally been shaken up. After dominating the regular season, both Mamai Ihorivtsi and Dinamo Durdenville now find themselves sitting at the bottom of the championship round table. Where did it all go wrong for these two teams? How could things have gone this poorly for them? Is there anything that either one could do to make sure that this doesn’t repeat in future seasons? Has Spartak Rybolovlev done it again? Has the most successful team in Estorian football just achieved more success? It wouldn’t be entirely out of the picture. Vissarion Zhivkov may be gone now but his legacy in Estorian football continues to be felt. Well, either that or Spartak actually made good use of the funds injected into the club by their new “minority stakeholders” from Pridnestrovia.

2033-34 Federal Top League Relegation Round Final Standings

  Relegation              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts     
1 CSK Armiya Supskij       10    6   1   3    19   10   +9    19
2 Uran Bilohodar           10    5   1   4     9    9    0    16
3 Shakhtyor Susskij        10    4   3   3    21   18   +3    15
4 Foc Feuerstadt           10    3   5   2     7    9   −2    14
5 Cavaleri Urodorasul      10    1   6   3    12   17   −5     9
6 Politehnica Humongalia   10    2   2   6    16   21   −5     8

Uran Bilohodar may have just found a way to play at least one more season of football in the Federal Top League. Their results during the regular season may have been abysmal, but it does look like the team has finally wised up and begun playing better football in their quest to retain Top League status. Now the team that actually looks like it’s in danger of being relegated is Politehnica Humongalia. Like Cavaleri Urodorasul getting relegated a few seasons, Humongalia’s loss in the top flight is going to be keenly felt even if the team itself hasn’t contributed much in the grand scheme of things. And Cavaleri itself isn’t doing too well right now. Will their regular season results be enough to stave off relegation as well, or did the Knights just do a “one and done” in the Top League?

2033-34 Federal Top League Final Standings

   Federal Top League      Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts  Qualification                              
 1 Spartak Rybolovlev       32   15  11   6    45   24  +21    56  Champions, Qualified for Champions League
 2 Dinamo Durdenville       32   15   6  11    30   25   +5    51  Challengers' Cup
 3 Mamai Ihorivtsi          32   14   9   9    61   53   +8    51  Challengers' Cup
 4 Traktor St. Paulsburg    32   12  12   8    50   44   +6    48  Challengers' Cup
 5 Batgeyt-1                32   14   6  12    54   47   +7    48
 6 Chornyy Volodymyrivka    32   12   8  12    51   47   +4    44                                             
 7 CSK Armiya Supskij       32   12  11   9    50   42   +8    47  **Ineligible for CAFA LigAnaia**
 8 Foc Feuerstadt           32    9  13  10    29   41  −12    40
 9 Shakhtyor Susskij        32   11   7  14    57   65   −8    40
10 Cavaleri Urodorasul      32    6  15  11    40   47   −7    33
11 Uran Bilohodar           32    9   5  18    30   51  −21    32  Relegated to Second League
12 Politehnica Humongalia   32    8   7  17    44   55  −11    31  Relegated to Second League

Dinamo Durdenville ahead of Mamai Ihorivtsi on H2H results [2-1-1 (IHO 1-0 DUR, DUR 1-0 IHO, IHO 0-1 DUR, DUR 3-3 IHO)]
Traktor St. Paulsburg ahead of SC Batgeyt-1 on H2H goal difference [PAU +1, BAT -1 (BAT 2-1 PAU, PAU 2-0 BAT, BAT 0-1 PAU, PAU 2-3 BAT)]
Foc Feuerstadt ahead of Shakhtyor Susskij on H2H results [1-3-0 (SUS 4-4 FEU, FEU 3-1 SUS, SUS 0-0 FEU, FEU 1-1 SUS)]

Success begets success. At this point it has to be made into the motto of Spartak Rybolovlev, or at least it should become a saying associated with that club. At the same time, it simply cannot be stressed just how much both Mamai Ihorivtsi and Dinamo Durdenville managed to drop the ball this season. Both teams had a good thing going in the regular season, and people were already getting excited about the old order of Estorian football finally getting up-ended. Or maybe it was exactly that hype that brought about this turn of events in the first place. There is another saying that goes, “never get high on your own supply.” At first it was associated with drug dealers who tried as much as possible never to get addicted to their own wares but now the saying’s meaning has been expanded to include things such as sports teams believing the hype that was being built around them by the fans. Ihorivtsi and Durdenville already thought that they had overthrown the old guard at the start of the season, only for Spartak to come along and show the young ones how and why the old guard has remained the old guard for so long.

Goodbye, Politehnica Humongalia. It was good and fun while it lasted, but now it’s time for this team to come down to the Second League. They and Uran Bilohodar didn’t end up doing much this season apart from switching places in the overall table, and most of that is because Uran actually managed to show up during the relegation round. Five wins is a decent haul for Bilohodar but on the other hand, four losses turned out to have been quite costly. Meanwhile, Cavaleri Urodorasul survives to fight another day, or more appropriately they will play another season of top flight football. It really would have been disappointing for all of Estorian football, not just Urodorasul’s fans if the Knights went down the season that they were finally promoted from the Second League. It would have proved that Cavaleri no longer had what it takes to be part of the new chapter of Estorian football, and nobody wants to see that. But survival not only means that Cavaleri gets to hang on to a greater piece of the pie but now they might also attract interest from a rich backer seeking to enter the football club market for a possibly cheaper price than usual.

by **Estorvipa and Estorpiva** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 1:06 am

A lot of people have said, and there were definitely a lot of people saying this, that Cavaleri Urodorasul really didn’t deserve to be in the Federal Second League of the Federal Republic of Estorvipa and Estorpiva. Never mind that the Knights had been a mainstay of the People’s Second Division for most of its professional existence; the mere fact that Cavaleri was one of the founding members of the new Federal Top League had given the club a place in the history books that nobody and nothing, not even relegation could take away from them. At the same time, there was a feeling from within the club itself that Cavaleri was on borrowed time with regards to staying in the Top League. Once the Second League was established, most people in the Cavaleri organization was convinced that relegation was only a matter of time. Did it turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy for the Knights? No matter the answer, none of that matters anymore as Cavaleri Urodorasul has won the Second League and secured promotion to the Top League as a result. Joining them in the top flight this season is Shakhtyor Susskij, another team that had been bouncing around the top two tiers back before the Estorian Civil War brought a halt to all professional sports. Susskij looks different yet similar to those teams of old in that their manager himself has said that he is going to take Shakhtyor’s time in the Top League season by season, assessing everything that went right and went wrong and figuring out how to keep playing to their strengths while minimizing the effects of their weaknesses. The mood is optimistic that only one of these teams, and maybe even neither of them, will get sent back down to the Second League at the end of this season.

Welcome back to the Second League, Feniks Levadne 1948 and Dinamo Prurudak. Once again, both teams found life in the Top League just a little too tough for them, even though Prurudak managed to sneak into the championship round and technically speaking had a shot at winning the Top League title. Of course it didn’t pan out for them, but this time around the pendulum has swung in the complete opposite direction. The Prurudak that had managed to sneak into the championship round was nowhere to be seen (except for a handful of games in the relegation round when it became a clear-cut case of “too little, too late”) and so it was no surprise that the “second Dinamo team” found itself getting relegated. But the real surprise is that the team joining them back in the second tier is Feniks Levadne 1948. Many people knew that the Phoenixes wouldn’t be good but this total drop-off came out of nowhere. It had always felt like Levadne was more mediocre than actually bad, good enough to coast by but not good enough to actually be at risk, and yet here they are back in the Second League. At least Levadne no longer has the threat of potential liquidation hanging over their heads thanks to the unprecedented agreement between billionaire owner Anatoly Dubinin and the Levadne supporters’ group, but falling back down to earth after a heady couple of seasons in the Top League has to feel painful for everyone involved. How will these teams go about their latest stint in the Second League? Will they attempt to regain a place in the Top League or will they consolidate their position once again before going for that promotion push?

2033-34 Federal Second League Regular Season Standings

   Second League           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                     
 1 Gepgorod                 22   12   5   5    38   33   +5    41   Qualified for Promotion Round
 2 Dinamo Prurudak          22   11   4   7    35   23  +12    37
 3 Panticapaeum             22   11   4   7    24   15   +9    37
 4 Feniks Levadne 1948      22   10   5   7    47   32  +15    35
 5 Molodets Pionersky       22   10   3   9    32   31   +1    33
 6 Velikiy Varadino         22    9   5   8    25   27   −2    32                                     
 7 Matrega Fanagoria        22    9   3  10    29   33   −4    30   Qualified for Relegation Round
 8 Avangard Biniuch         22    8   4  10    32   29   +3    28
 9 Delfo Yevdokiya          22    7   5  10    47   52   −5    26
10 Estorija Kladushnitsa    22    5   8   9    25   34   −9    23
11 Flota Hryhorivka         22    5   7  10    16   25   −9    22
12 Partizan Izumrudne       22    4   9   9    39   55  −16    21

Consolidation? What consolidation? As far as both Dinamo Prurudak and Feniks Levadne 1948 are concerned, consolidating in the Second League is for beginners. They’ve had a taste of life in the Top League and they have every intention of going back there as fast as they could. But it hasn’t really worked out for Levadne right now, has it? Yes, they’ll make it into the promotion round of the Second League but that was a close run thing for them. A poor result the other way and the Phoenixes might not have even made it! On the other side of the coin is Dinamo Prurudak which had a dominant outing in the regular season. The only thing that might be standing in the way of their immediate return to the Top League is Gepgorod, another team that started off Estorian football’s latest chapter in the Second League and then went up to the Top League after only a couple of seasons. It’s all a dogfight to get some of that sweet, sweet Top League money for most of the teams in the Second League that could actually afford to fight for it. One team that looks like they actually can’t afford to fight for it though is Avangard Biniuch. This was a team that was almost always in the promotion fight ever since the Second League was established and they even managed to get promoted once before. The fall-off from Biniuch is surprising in isolation, but as is often the case with good second-tier teams that manage to punch above their weight at least once or twice, they got dismantled by the teams with more money and Biniuch hasn’t actually managed to convert all of that cash into good investments. At least the “relegation” round in the Second League doesn’t actually mean relegation just yet. Now that would be a real problem for Avangard.

2033-34 Federal Second League Promotion Round Final Standings

  Promotion               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts     
1 Feniks Levadne 1948      10    7   2   1    22   13   +9    23
2 Velikiy Varadino         10    5   4   1    12    7   +5    19
3 Panticapaeum             10    5   1   4    11    5   +6    16
4 Gepgorod                 10    3   1   6    16   20   −4    10
5 Dinamo Prurudak          10    2   2   6    12   18   −6     8
6 Molodets Pionersky       10    1   4   5    11   21  −10     7

Perhaps the reports of the demise of Feniks Levadne 1948’s chances of getting promoted back to the Top League were greatly exaggerated. This isn’t to say that Levadne will actually get promoted once again this season, but one could say that if they had only played the way that they did in the promotion round in the regular season as well then nobody would even question the Phoenixes getting promoted. Instead, now everyone is wondering whether this is actually good enough to boost Levadne further up the overall table or if it’s yet another case of “too little, too late.” Levadne fans really hope that the latter isn’t the case because it would really be a waste of everyone’s time and talent if this specific teams wasn’t promoted. It’s just too good to remain in the Second League. Then again, the possibility of the top Estorian teams cannibalizing them isn’t entirely out of the question either no matter if they’re promoted or not.

2033-34 Federal Second League Relegation Round Final Standings

  Relegation              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts     
1 Avangard Biniuch         10    6   3   1    17    5  +12    21
2 Partizan Izumrudne       10    5   4   1    23   17   +6    19
3 Estorija Kladushnitsa    10    4   1   5    15   16   −1    13
4 Delfo Yevdokiya          10    4   1   5    15   15    0    13
5 Flota Hryhorivka         10    2   3   5     6   14   −8     9
6 Matrega Fanagoria        10    1   4   5     6   15   −9     7

Avangard Biniuch will not get relegated this season. Well, they were never going to get relegated anyway as long as the Federal Second League remains separate from the semi-professional and amateur tiers of Estorian football, but even if relegation from the Second League has become a thing, Biniuch will not be getting relegated this season. At least that’s how things look like in isolation. Biniuch definitely played like their lives depending on actually staying in the Second League, and if relegation to the lower tiers become a thing once again, it actually might. Not to say that the club has been horribly mismanaged, but losing access to the money generated by the Second League (even if it pales in comparison to the money earned by the Top League) is still a threat not to be taken lightly. But the main point to be taken away from this is that relegation is a serious business in football, and no one wants to fall victim to it.

2033-34 Federal Second League Final Standings

   Second League           Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts  Qualification                              
 1 Feniks Levadne 1948      32   17   7   8    69   45  +24    58  Champions, Promoted to Top League
 2 Panticapaeum             32   16   5  11    35   20  +15    53  Promoted to Top League
 3 Velikiy Varadino         32   14   9   9    37   34   +3    51
 4 Gepgorod                 32   15   6  11    54   53   +1    51
 5 Dinamo Prurudak          32   13   6  13    47   41   +6    45
 6 Molodets Pionersky       32   11   7  14    43   52   −9    40                                             
 7 Avangard Biniuch         32   14   7  11    49   34  +15    49  **Ineligible for promotion**
 8 Partizan Izumrudne       32    9  13  10    62   72  −10    40
 9 Delfo Yevdokiya          32   11   6  15    62   67   −5    39
10 Matrega Fanagoria        32   10   7  15    35   48  −13    37
11 Estorija Kladushnitsa    32    9   9  14    40   50  −10    36
12 Flota Hryhorivka         32    7  10  15    22   39  −17    31

Velikiy Varadino ahead of Gepgorod on H2H results [3-1-0 (VAR 3-3 GEP, GEP 0-2 VAR, VAR 4-3 GEP, GEP 0-1 VAR)]

They’ve done it. They’ve actually done it. Feniks Levadne 1948 managed to do well enough in the promotion round to actually haul themselves further up the table to the point that they actually won the title and got promoted. That is honestly something that hasn’t happened in the (admittedly brief) history of the Federal Second League, meaning that Levadne is now the proud owner and holder of a piece of historical trivia. It probably won’t be the last time that this will happen depending on the quality of teams that end up playing in the Second League, but Levadne was the first team to do it, and anything can be done only once. All kidding aside though, this Levadne squad is rapidly turning into something special. It wouldn’t be a real surprise if the Phoenixes do a Dinamo Prurudak and somehow sneak their way into the Top League’s championship round in the near future. Hopefully the big dogs wait a season or two to watch Feniks Levadne 1948 before going in and dismantling that squad for their own use. And joining Levadne in the Top League is… Panticapaeum?! How in the world did that happen? What happened to Gepgorod? They were the ones leading the Second League going into the league split. Where did it all go wrong for the Lynxes? Believe it or not, everything fell apart for Gepgorod in the very same place that things fell into place for Levadne: the promotion round. Three wins in ten games really is not going to win any team any favors in any league, let alone one where ten games can decide the destiny of the title and who gets promoted. Gepgorod has no one to blame but themselves for not only losing out on the title but also promotion to the Top League. Instead, it’s Panticapaeum that takes their place, although is the Top League really going to notice the difference? Gepgorod or Panticapaeum, either one of those two is probably going to get relegated immediately anyway. It’s harsh, but it’s also the truth.

by **Trans-Dniesters** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 7:21 am

International broadcasts have been limited to the Second Round onwards due to broadcaster obligations

Second Round

Traktor Bender 2–0 Admiral Novorossiysk

Baltika Belgorod 0–6 Dinamo Bender

Dinamo Vitebsk 2–1 Fortuna Novonikolaysk

Olimpia Strebsk 2–4 Wormatia Wewelsburg

Lokomotiv Novosverdlovsk 0–3 Vorpommern Nyqvist

FK Pridnestrovskaya Gavan 0–2 Dinamo Macaresti

Rotor Dnistrosh 1–0 CSKA Tiraspol

Antakyaspor 2–2 Ufa Verkhovyansk (2–2 AET) (3–4 pen.)

Avangard Brekonav 1–2 Szigetszentmiklos

Bierburger SV 0–0 Masyafspor (0–0 AET) (1–3 pen.)

Union Rheinburg 4–4 Metallurgist Beledor (4–4 AET) (4–3 pen.)

Kesselburger Kickers 0–1 Chernomorets Bratsk

Tennis Dacia Althaus 1–0 Submarin Yeralenko

Avion Topraisar 0–3 Sheriff Tiraspol

1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza 3–1 Submarin Admiralnaya

Nickel Novorossiysk 1–2 Spartak Tiraspol

Third Round

Tennis Dacia Althaus 1–2 Ufa Verkhovyansk

Dinamo Vitebsk 0–2 Union Rheinburg

Dinamo Macaresti 2–2 Sheriff Tiraspol (2–3 AET)

Rotor Dnistrosh 2–3 Masyafspor

Spartak Tiraspol 2–3 Chernomorets Bratsk

Wormatia Wewelsburg 0–1 Szigetszentmiklos

Traktor Bender 0–0 Dinamo Bender (0–0 AET) (3–5 pen.)

1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza 2–0 Vorpommern Nyqvist

Quarterfinals

Chernomorets Bratsk 2–0 Szigetszentmiklos

Dinamo Bender 1–1 Union Rheinburg (1–1 AET) (3–4 pen.)

Ufa Verkhovyansk 2–5 Sheriff Tiraspol

1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza 3–2 Masyafspor

Semifinals
Semifinals will be played across two legs. Away goals rule does not apply. Penalties will decide the winner if scores are level after both legs have been played.

Sheriff Tiraspol 3–1 Union Rheinburg
Union Rheinburg 0–1 Sheriff Tiraspol

Sheriff Tiraspol advances to the 2040 PFS-Kubok Final 4-1 on aggregate

1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza 0–0 Chernomorets Bratsk
Chernomorets Bratsk 0–0 1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza (5–6 pen.)

1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza advances to the 2040 PFS-Kubok Final 6-5 on penalties

Final

Sheriff Tiraspol 2–2 1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza (2–2 AET) (3–4 pen.)

Congratulations to 1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza, your 2039-40 PFS-Kubok winners!

by **Trans-Dniesters** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 7:54 am

2039-40 Pridnestrovian Super League Final Standings

   Super League                   P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts   Qualification                                      
 1 CSKA Tiraspol                  34  21   7   6  74  36  +38  70   Champions, Copa de Campeones
 2 Admiral Novorossiysk           34  21   6   7  72  33  +39  69   Copa del Este
 3 Sheriff Tiraspol               34  19   7   8  71  40  +31  64   Copa del Este
 4 Dinamo Bender                  34  18  10   6  45  15  +30  64
 5 Fortuna Novonikolaysk          34  18   7   9  49  31  +18  61
 6 Dinamo Macaresti               34  18   7   9  43  29  +14  61
 7 Union Rheinburg                34  17   6  11  56  40  +16  57
 8 Chernomorets Bratsk            34  16   9   9  47  34  +13  57
 9 Rotor Dnistrosh                34  12  12  10  55  46   +9  48
10 Metallurgist Beledor           34  11  13  10  54  54   +0  46
11 Exiles FK                      34  13   6  15  46  67  -21  45
12 Atom Zheleznogorsk             34  11  11  12  31  35   -4  44
13 Kesselburger Kickers           34   8   8  18  25  43  -18  32
14 Bierburger SV                  34   7  11  16  33  52  -19  32
15 FK Pridnestrovskaya Gavan      34   8   8  18  21  43  -22  32
16 Lokomotiv Novosverdlovsk       34   6   9  19  16  44  -28  27   Relegation playoff
17 Derinkuyuspor                  34   2  10  22  13  54  -41  16   Relegated to National Premier Football League
18 Dnistro Dnistropavlovsk        34   3   7  24  32  87  -55  16   Relegated to National Premier Football League

Congratulations to CSKA Tiraspol, your 2039-40 Pridnestrovian Super League champions!

2039-40 National Premier Football League Final Standings

   NPFL                       P   W   D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts   Qualification                           
 1 Masyafspor                34  22   3   9  57  19  +38  69   Champions, Promoted to Super League
 2 Shakhtar Rheinburg        34  20   9   5  50  21  +29  69   Promoted to Super League
 3 Dinamo Vitebsk            34  18  10   6  43  17  +26  64   Promotion playoff
 4 Torpedo Yeralenko         34  20   4  10  62  39  +23  64
 5 Spartak Tiraspol          34  19   6   9  73  31  +42  63
 6 Traktor Bender            34  17   8   9  59  36  +23  59
 7 Star City FC              34  16  11   7  39  27  +12  59
 8 Renechev Revolution       34  16   9   9  57  43  +14  57
 9 FC 23 August              34  13  10  11  57  44  +13  49
10 Nickel Novorossiysk       34  13  10  11  39  33   +6  49
11 Ufa Verkhovyansk          34  13   8  13  38  41   -3  47
12 Olimpia Strebsk           34  12   6  16  43  63  -20  42
13 Elektrik Admiralnaya      34  10   6  18  18  35  -17  36
14 1895 Lekhwiya Pepuza      34   9   4  21  36  70  -34  31   Cup Winners' Cup
15 CSKA Apollinarov          34   7   6  21  33  72  -39  27
16 SG 08 Chemie Mitwitz      34   5   8  21  20  54  -34  23   Relegation playoff
17 Tennis Dacia Althaus      34   3  12  19  15  42  -27  21   Relegation to Top League
18 Raketa Palatinsk          34   4   8  22  25  77  -52  20   Relegation to Top League

2039-40 Top League Final Standings

    Top League                 P   W  D   L For  Ag  +/- Pts   Qualification                                             
 1 Avangard Brekonav         34  21   7   6  83  33  +50  70   Champions, Promoted to National Premier Football League
 2 Gobekli Tepespor          34  19   9   6  66  43  +23  66   Promoted to National Premier Football League
 3 Submarin Admiralnaya      34  19   8   7  53  26  +27  65   Promotion playoff
 4 Szigetszentmiklos         34  19   7   8  47  21  +26  64
 5 Dimashqspor               34  17  11   6  61  33  +28  62
 6 Avion Topraisar           34  17   9   8  43  28  +15  60
 7 Baltika Belgorod          34  15  13   6  35  20  +15  58
 8 Submarin Yeralenko        34  14  10  10  46  29  +17  52
 9 Pobeda Vladikarpaty       34  12  15   7  55  48   +7  51
10 Aviapromet Olimp          34  11  10  13  38  43   -5  43
11 Wormatia Wewelsburg       34  11   7  16  47  50   -3  40
12 Vorwaerts Rheinburg       34   9  10  15  28  41  -13  37
13 FK Sonolovichyrevko       34   9   7  18  34  70  -36  34
14 Amzaceaspor               34   7  11  16  39  68  -29  32
15 Kavak Kavakkoy            34   7   9  18  24  41  -17  30
16 Vorpommern Nyqvist        34   7   5  22  19  44  -25  26   Relegated to State Leagues
17 Antakyaspor               34   4  14  16  20  49  -29  26   Relegated to State Leagues
18 Jinarspor                 34   4   6  24  24  75  -51  18   Relegated to State Leagues

Super League relegation playoff
Lokomotiv Novosverdlovsk vs. Dinamo Vitebsk

Leg 1 @ Lokomotiv Stadium, Novosverdlovsk, Transnistrian Socialist State
Lokomotiv Novosverdlovsk 2-0 Dinamo Vitebsk

Leg 2 @ Dynamo Stadium, Vitebsk, Leninov Socialist State
Dinamo Vitebsk 1-0 Lokomotiv Novosverdlovsk

Lokomotiv Novosverdlovsk remains in the Pridnestrovian Super League 2-1 on aggregate

National Premier Football League relegation playoff
SG 08 Chemie Mitwitz vs. Submarin Admiralnaya

Leg 1 @ Andreas-Ingenhoven-Sportpark, Mitwitz, Ixanian Socialist State
SG 08 Chemie Mitwitz 1-1 Submarin Admiralnaya

Leg 2 @ Sergey Markov Stadium, Tiraspol, Transnistrian Socialist State
Submarin Admiralnaya 0-2 SG 08 Chemie Mitwitz

SG 08 Chemie Mitwitz remains in the National Premier Football League 3-1 on aggregate

by **Oontaz Dert Li Ng** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 8:06 am

2034-35 Sultan's Cup First Round

Pasargad Manitogoro 3–2 Tarbayog Aguilas
Rayo La Presa 1–1 al-Suwayyil (1–1 AET) (3–0 pen.)
Red Horse Biñan 0–2 General Santos FC
Tall Afar FC 3–0 Gingoog Gymnastic Club
Habaniyyah Harriers 1–4 Esteghlal Omidinabad
al-Mutazz 1–0 Beitar Gibeon
Persephone Hojfsa 3–2 Paniqui CF
Al-Awqad 0–2 RCD Baler
Kota Nibabalu 1–0 Fudukwan FC
Vigan Athletic 3–1 Um al-Gwarif
Etazig Petroleum 3–3 Deportivo Cauayan (4–4 AET) (3–4 pen.)
Racing Club Antipolo 1–0 Deportivo Mangudadatu
Real Altamarino 3–0 Dasmariñas Dragons
Tikrit Wanderers 1–1 Gryphons Nubalochi (1–1 AET) (2–3 pen.)
Hapoel Nineveh 1–1 Botafogo de Maranao (1–2 AET)
Osmaniyah 3–1 Zama Athletic

2034-35 Sultan's Cup Second Round

Racing Club Antipolo 0–2 Botafogo de Maranao
Deportivo Cauayan 1–0 Kota Nibabalu
Real Altamarino 3–1 Esteghlal Omidinabad
Pasargad Manitogoro 1–2 Persephone Hojfsa
Rayo La Presa 3–4 Osmaniyah
General Santos FC 3–1 Gryphons Nubalochi
al-Mutazz 0–1 Vigan Athletic
RCD Baler 2–4 Tall Afar FC

2034-35 Sultan's Cup Quarterfinals

Persephone Hojfsa 3–2 Vigan Athletic
Botafogo de Maranao 4–3 Osmaniyah
General Santos FC 4–2 Real Altamarino
Deportivo Cauayan 1–0 Tall Afar FC

2034-35 Sultan's Cup Semifinals

General Santos FC 3–1 Deportivo Cauayan

Botafogo de Maranao 1–0 Persephone Hojfsa

2034-35 Sultan's Cup Final

General Santos FC 1–1 Botafogo de Maranao (1–2 AET)

Congratulations to Botafogo de Maranao, your 2034-35 Sultan's Cup champions!

by **Oontaz Dert Li Ng** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 8:10 am

2034-35 Oontaznik First Division Final Standings

   First Division        Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                 
 1 General Santos FC      38   24   9   5    92   54  +38    81   Champions, Hui La Sun League
 2 Botafogo de Maranao    38   22   7   9    68   43  +25    73   Cup Winners, Hui La Sun League
 3 Gryphons Nubalochi     38   23   2  13    67   45  +22    71
 4 Hapoel Nineveh         38   20   9   9    71   54  +17    69
 5 Red Horse Biñan        38   19   8  11    52   36  +16    65
 6 Vigan Athletic         38   19   6  13    66   54  +12    63
 7 Esteghlal Omidinabad   38   18   7  13    56   47   +9    61
 8 Pasargad Manitogoro    38   16  10  12    81   76   +5    58
 9 Real Altamarino        38   17   7  14    77   64  +13    58
10 Rayo La Presa          38   16  10  12    48   44   +4    58
11 Etazig Petroleum       38   14  10  14    75   81   −6    52
12 Tikrit Wanderers       38   15   6  17    57   64   −7    51
13 Dasmariñas Dragons     38   12  10  16    36   42   −6    46
14 Habaniyyah Harriers    38   11   9  18    46   53   −7    42
15 Kota Nibabalu          38   10  12  16    37   54  −17    42
16 Fudukwan FC            38   12   5  21    72   96  −24    41
17 Tarbayog Aguilas       38   10  10  18    70   87  −17    40
18 Um al-Gwarif           38   10   9  19    36   55  −19    39   Relegated to Second Division
19 Deportivo Cauayan      38    7   7  24    30   63  −33    28   Relegated to Second Division
20 Al-Awqad               38    6   5  27    23   48  −25    23   Relegated to Second Division

Congratulations to General Santos FC, your 2034-35 Oontaznik First Division champions!

   Second Division         Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                          
 1 Al Mazyunah              38   25   4   9    66   46  +20    79   Champions, Promoted to First Division
 2 Tall Afar FC             38   25   3  10    76   44  +32    78   Promoted to First Division
 3 Zama Athletic            38   24   6   8    59   32  +27    78   Promoted to First Division
 4 Persephone Hojfsa        38   20   7  11    87   74  +13    67
 5 Sasmuanense              38   19   9  10    65   41  +24    66
 6 al-Mutawakkiliyah        38   18   9  11    94   76  +18    63
 7 Samalense                38   17  12   9    84   73  +11    63
 8 RCD Baler                38   18   7  13    72   55  +17    61
 9 Osmaniyah                38   17  10  11    78   60  +18    61
10 Paniqui CF               38   17   9  12    73   67   +6    60
11 al-Mutazz                38   15  10  13    65   58   +7    55
12 Nasiriyah                38   15   9  14    80   67  +13    54
13 Beitar Gibeon            38   11  15  12    39   41   −2    48
14 al-Suwayyil              38   10  12  16    55   68  −13    42
15 Sulphur Sardasht         38   10   9  19    68   87  −19    39
16 Athletic Club Baguis     38   10   6  22    69   96  −27    36
17 Racing Club Antipolo     38    9   4  25    44   79  −35    31
18 Gingoog Gymnastic Club   38    6   9  23    59   88  −29    27   Relegated to Third DIvision
19 Real Meycauayan          38    5  11  22    60   97  −37    26   Relegated to Third DIvision
20 Deportivo Mangudadatu    38    6   5  27    43   87  −44    23   Relegated to Third DIvision

Taguigub One Love, Al-Okhowa Jalajal, and Samsimpen Penimbawan are promoted from the Oontaznik Third Division into the Second Division.

by **Copper Cuprum** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 8:17 am

2034-35 Copperite National League Final Standings

   National League                 Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification             
 1 Atletico Bed Deg                 30   19   6   5    68   35  +33    63   Champions, CEdC
 2 South Ons Deg Rabbitohs A.F.C.   30   19   6   5    57   33  +24    63
 3 Mah Deg Diamonds                 30   16   7   7    49   35  +14    55
 4 Vay Deg Eels A.F.C.              30   14   6  10    70   56  +14    48
 5 Athletic Wa Deg                  30   14   6  10    68   56  +12    48
 6 Sub Deg Raiders A.F.C.           30   12  11   7    62   53   +9    47
 7 Nel Deg Rovers                   30   13   6  11    61   52   +9    45
 8 Copper Cuprum Halal Commission   30   13   6  11    61   56   +5    45
 9 Bed Deg Bantams A.F.C.           30   10  10  10    30   25   +5    40
10 Al Deg Barracudas A.F.C.         30   10   8  12    55   51   +4    38
11 Sportif Ab Deg                   30    8  12  10    55   63   −8    36
12 Chicken Wings FC                 30    9   7  14    46   64  −18    34
13 Dan Deg Megatheriums             30    9   5  16    48   65  −17    32
14 Ken Deg United                   30    7   8  15    47   69  −22    29
15 Pad Deg Harriers A.F.C.          30    6   5  19    47   70  −23    23   Relegation to League Two
16 Bor Deg Bears                    30    4   5  21    41   82  −41    17   Relegation to League Two

Congratulations to Atletico Bed Deg, your 2034-35 Copperite National League champions!

   League Two              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                           
 1 Yon Deg                  30   18  10   2    56   24  +32    64   Champions, Promoted to National League
 2 Wa Deg Giants A.F.C.     30   20   3   7    67   29  +38    63   Promoted to National League
 3 Wa Deg City              30   17   8   5    40   23  +17    59
 4 Ob Deg Palms A.F.C.      30   17   8   5    44   21  +23    59
 5 Nay Deg Elephants F.C.   30   16   6   8    33   19  +14    54
 6 Ons Deg North End        30   14   9   7    30   18  +12    51
 7 Bed Deg Town             30   13   9   8    59   37  +22    48
 8 Af Deg Wanderers         30   10   8  12    28   27   +1    38
 9 Wip Deg United           30    9   9  12    49   60  −11    36
10 Hen Deg                  30    9   8  13    36   34   +2    35
11 Nat. Elec. Corp.         30    9   6  15    34   57  −23    33
12 Rif Deg United           30    9   5  16    26   52  −26    32
13 Jit Deg Royal F.C.       30    6   9  15    23   50  −27    27
14 Kip Deg                  30    5   9  16    18   36  −18    24
15 Nay Deg                  30    5   7  18    18   37  −19    22   Relegated to League Three
16 Ven Deg A.F.C.           30    5   2  23    21   58  −37    17   Relegated to League Three

Esk Deg Cavaliers and Noh Deg Steelers are promoted from Copperite League Three to League Two.

by **Fhulghamous Peninsula** » Sun Nov 30, 2025 8:45 am

2034 Fhulghamousian Premier League - Opening Final Results

   Premier League              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification             
 1 Deportivo Pequeña Melilla    22   17   3   2    55   26  +29    54   Opening Champions
 2 Nou Philippopolis            22   13   4   5    33   18  +15    43
 3 Airbus Fhulghamous Besanza   22   12   4   6    51   38  +13    40
 4 UD Nuevo Carthago            22   11   5   6    21   12   +9    38
 5 Besanza Emeralds             22   12   2   8    53   36  +17    38
 6 RCD Nueva Ceuta              22   12   1   9    36   30   +6    37
 7 Nuevo Guadix CF              22    7   6   9    43   44   −1    27
 8 Heliopolisspor               22    7   4  11    23   38  −15    25
 9 EA Tatouwine                 22    5   6  11    38   53  −15    21
10 Marble Arch Defenders        22    5   5  12    13   22   −9    20
11 Athletic Club Ixmurratin     22    4   5  13    26   45  −19    17
12 UD Albaracete                22    1   7  14    25   55  −30    10

2035 Fhulghamousian Premier League - Closing Final Results

   Premier League              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification             
 1 Deportivo Pequeña Melilla    22   16   2   4    49   30  +19    50   Closing Champions
 2 Besanza Emeralds             22   13   3   6    44   29  +15    42
 3 Nou Philippopolis            22   13   1   8    27   21   +6    40
 4 Airbus Fhulghamous Besanza   22   12   3   7    50   34  +16    39
 5 RCD Nueva Ceuta              22   11   1  10    40   29  +11    34
 6 UD Nuevo Carthago            22   10   3   9    31   23   +8    33
 7 Nuevo Guadix CF              22    9   4   9    44   45   −1    31
 8 Marble Arch Defenders        22    6   9   7    24   28   −4    27
 9 UD Albaracete                22    6   4  12    47   62  −15    22
10 Athletic Club Ixmurratin     22    5   6  11    23   37  −14    21
11 EA Tatouwine                 22    3   9  10    31   46  −15    18
12 Heliopolisspor               22    4   3  15    21   47  −26    15

2034-35 Fhulghamousian Premier League Final Standings

   Premier League              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                            
 1 Deportivo Pequeña Melilla    44   33   5   6   104   56  +48   104   Overall champions, Qualified for CEdC
 2 Nou Philippopolis            44   26   5  13    60   39  +21    83
 3 Besanza Emeralds             44   25   5  14    97   65  +32    80
 4 Airbus Fhulghamous Besanza   44   24   7  13   101   72  +29    73
 5 RCD Nueva Ceuta              44   23   2  19    76   59  +17    71
 6 UD Nuevo Carthago            44   21   8  15    52   35  +17    71
 7 Nuevo Guadix CF              44   16  10  18    87   89   −2    58
 8 Marble Arch Defenders        44   11  14  19    37   50  −13    47
 9 Heliopolisspor               44   11   7  26    44   85  −41    40
10 EA Tatouwine                 44    8  15  21    69   99  −30    39
11 Athletic Club Ixmurratin     44    9  11  24    49   82  −33    38   Relegated to Second League
12 UD Albaracete                44    7  11  26    72  117  −45    32   Relegated to Second League

RCD Nueva Ceuta ahead of UN Nuevo Carthago on head-to-head results [2-1-1 (CEU 0-2 CAR, CAR 0-1 CEU, CEU 2-1 CAR, CAR 0-0 CEU)]

2034 Fhulghamousian Second League - Opening Final Results

   Second League               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification             
 1 Thereisnogodabad Town        22   14   4   4    55   37  +18    46   Opening Champions
 2 Oxyrhynchus United           22   13   6   3    41   21  +20    45
 3 Haritzaga Albion             22   13   4   5    35   20  +15    43
 4 Charalambos FC               22   11   5   6    39   24  +15    38
 5 FC Aeaea Albion              22   11   4   7    24   20   +4    37
 6 SD Mimetiz                   22    9   5   8    40   36   +4    32
 7 Veterans Foundation          22    6   8   8    23   26   −3    26
 8 Nove Gossed                  22    6   7   9    26   33   −7    25
 9 Sycorax Kickers              22    4   9   9    29   38   −9    21
10 Pythagoras FC                22    4   7  11    35   51  −16    19
11 Absa Sallaspor               22    3   6  13    28   50  −22    15
12 Novasaguntum                 22    3   5  14    35   54  −19    14

2035 Fhulghamousian Second League - Closing Final Results

   Second League               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification             
 1 Thereisnogodabad Town        22   14   2   6    50   35  +15    44   Closing Champions
 2 Oxyrhynchus United           22   13   5   4    35   18  +17    44
 3 SD Mimetiz                   22   13   3   6    42   31  +11    42
 4 Sycorax Kickers              22   11   6   5    31   21  +10    39
 5 Haritzaga Albion             22   10   6   6    35   29   +6    36
 6 Charalambos FC               22    9   6   7    33   31   +2    33
 7 FC Aeaea Albion              22    9   2  11    30   34   −4    29
 8 Veterans Foundation          22    7   4  11    20   26   −6    25
 9 Novasaguntum                 22    6   5  11    47   53   −6    23
10 Absa Sallaspor               22    6   2  14    33   48  −15    20
11 Nove Gossed                  22    5   4  13    26   35   −9    19
12 Pythagoras FC                22    4   5  13    31   52  −21    17

2034-35 Fhulghamousian Second League Final Standings

   Second League               Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification                                  
 1 Thereisnogodabad Town        44   28   6  10   105   72  +33    90   Overall champions, Promoted to Premier League
 2 Oxyrhynchus United           44   26  11   7    76   39  +37    89   Promoted to Premier League
 3 Haritzaga Albion             44   23  10  11    70   49  +21    79
 4 SD Mimetiz                   44   22   8  14    82   67  +15    74
 5 Charalambos FC               44   20  11  13    72   55  +17    71
 6 FC Aeaea Albion              44   20   6  18    54   54    0    66
 7 Sycorax Kickers              44   15  15  14    60   59   +1    60
 8 Veterans Foundation          44   13  12  19    43   52   −9    51
 9 Nove Gossed                  44   11  11  22    52   68  −16    44
10 Novasaguntum                 44    9  10  25    82  107  −25    37
11 Pythagoras FC                44    8  12  24    61  103  −37    36   Relegated to Third League–North
12 Absa Sallaspor               44    9   8  27    61   98  −37    35   Relegated to Third League–South

Berenike Port from the Fhulghamousian Third League-South and Asparagus Thistle from the Fhulghamousian Third League-North are promoted to the Second League.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:55 am

Time waits for no man, and it also doesn't wait for any team in any sport. It may have taken some time for the new season of the Fleftic Basketball Association to even start up, but now it's underway, and it's time to see if the success of the Mykorrigan MonStars was only a one-season thing or if the team from the north of Abanhfleft is about to start a new dynasty in the country's top basketball league. It might be a little bit too much to ask for a Fleftic team to win the IUBC Trophy, but Mykorrigan definitely feels like a team good enough to win back-to-back championships.

2034-35 Fleftic Basketball Association Northern Conference Regular Season Final Standings

   NORTHERN CONFERENCE             Pld     W    L     PF    PA    PD    Win %   Qualification          
 1 Mykorrigan MonStars [x]          82    72   10   8805  7975  +830    0.878   Qualified for playoffs
 2 Effelenendro Piranhas [x]        82    66   16   9218  8477  +741    0.805   Qualified for playoffs
 3 Dorfdifving Steel                82    56   26   8762  8435  +327    0.683   Qualified for playoffs
 4 Real Haritzaga Baloncesto [x]    82    54   28   8811  8500  +311    0.659   Qualified for playoffs
 5 Zimp Kings                       82    51   31   8850  8613  +237    0.622   Qualified for playoffs
 6 Pilken Mammoths                  82    48   34   8582  8456  +126    0.585   Qualified for playoffs
 7 Malhall Raiders                  82    46   36   8790  8598  +192    0.561   Qualified for playoffs
 8 Sfax Scream                      82    43   39   8278  8253   +25    0.524   Qualified for playoffs
 9 Bytuch Wyk SaberTigers           82    39   43   8285  8326   −41    0.476
10 Affeddall Beasts                 82    36   46   8271  8433  −162    0.439
11 Braganopolis Braves              82    32   50   8557  8708  −151    0.390
12 Markovsky Red Army               82    30   52   8242  8570  −328    0.366
13 Selid Stars                      82    28   54   8278  8707  −429    0.341
14 Besanza Belugas                  82    22   60   8306  8770  −464    0.268
15 Albarecete Palominos             82    21   61   8250  8794  −544    0.256

[x] = division leader

2034-35 Fleftic Basketball Association Southern Conference Regular Season Final Standings

   SOUTHERN CONFERENCE             Pld     W    L     PF    PA    PD    Win %   Qualification          
 1 Wanda Island Wizards [x] [y]     82    64   18   8863  8286  +577    0.780   Qualified for playoffs
 2 Tentenaraya Thunder [x]          82    64   18   8824  8331  +493    0.780   Qualified for playoffs
 3 Mereilles Port Boys [x]          82    60   22   8934  8360  +574    0.732   Qualified for playoffs
 4 Vikrant Conquerors               82    55   27   8784  8363  +421    0.671   Qualified for playoffs
 5 Garufaloe Rattlesnakes           82    50   32   8420  8202  +218    0.610   Qualified for playoffs
 6 Wappinger Steam                  82    49   33   8565  8389  +176    0.598   Qualified for playoffs
 7 Riuwiee Presidents              82    43   39   8634  8532  +102    0.524   Qualified for playoffs
 8 Uranium City Nukes               82    40   42   8065  8077   −12    0.488   Qualified for playoffs
 9 Malabon Black Ops                82    33   49   8290  8434  −144    0.402
10 Releinthi Chiefs                 82    31   51   8461  8829  −368    0.378
11 San Seriffe Black Panthers       82    25   57   8454  8821  −367    0.305
12 Bendy Benny Wildcats             82    20   62   8104  8627  −523    0.244
13 Jasvirabad Jazz                  82    19   63   8281  8747  −466    0.232
14 Porcusces Giants                 82    18   64   8142  8823  −681    0.220
15 Lotharstadt Grenadiers           82    15   67   8242  8912  −670    0.183

[x] = division leader
[y] = Wanda Island ahead of Tentenaraya on H2H results (WI 3-1 TEN, 117-126, 103-96, 139-114, 123-113)

The Wanda Island Wizards were unable to replicate their unprecedented season in which they managed to win a record 77 games in an 82-game season, but it's probably reasonable to expect that nobody was really expecting the Wizards to at least equal that record again. Instead, Wanda Island has gone down to a more "reasonable" 64-18 record, and actually the only team this season to break the 70-win threshold is the defending champs Mykorrigan MonStars with a 72-10 record. Perhaps the previous season in which the dominant teams were truly dominant was simply a one-off, and the league has once again settled down to a more reasonable era of the best teams winning only 60-plus games at most. As for the fans of the "worst" team last season, they finally have something to "celebrate," at the very least. Not only is the Jasvirabad Jazz no longer at the bottom of the Southern Conference but the team has also massively improved its record, relatively speaking. They're definitely not going to be the laughingstock of the league anymore because, thankfully, no teams have a win-loss record with the wins in the single digits. The Jazz is definitely a long away from making their way back to the playoffs but at least there's some light at the end of the tunnel, and this time it doesn't look like it's actually a train headed right for them.

Speaking of the playoffs, it would appear that most of the usual suspects have made it back there. Defending champs Mykorrigan MonStars hold the 1 seed in the Northern Conference, six wins ahead of their nearest rivals from Effelenendro, themselves FBA champions just two seasons ago. Over in the Southern Conference, Wanda Island Wizards have the 1 seed in the conference, but only courtesy of their head-to-head record against the Tentenaraya Thunder. The odds are good that the league is going to see a repeat of last season's finals series between Mykorrigan and Wanda Island, but being the 1 seed is not always a guarantee that a team is going to make it all the way to the finals. Heck, there had been instances when a 1 seed that had been clearly dominant in the regular season ended up stumbling over the 8 seed simply because the 1 seed had underestimated their opponents. But surely Mykorrigan isn't the kind of team to mess up such a gilt-edged chance to become the newest dynasty in the FBA, right?

2034-35 FBA Playoffs

Northern Conference

(1) Mykorrigan MonStars vs. Sfax Scream (8)

(4) Real Haritzaga Baloncesto vs. Zimp Kings (5)

(3) Dorfdifving Steel vs. Pilken Mammoths (6)

(2) Effelenendro Piranhas vs. Malhall Raiders (7)

Southern Conference

(1) Wanda Island Wizards vs. Uranium City Nukes (8)

(4) Vikrant Conquerors vs. Garufaloe Rattlesnakes (5)

(3) Mereilles Port Boys vs. Wappinger Steam (6)

(2) Tentenaraya Thunder vs. Riuwiee Presidents (7)

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Sun Jan 04, 2026 6:55 am

2034-35 FBA Playoffs First Round

Northern Conference

(1) Mykorrigan MonStars 4–0 Sfax Scream (8)

(4) Real Haritzaga Baloncesto 4–1 Zimp Kings (5)

(3) Dorfdifving Steel 2–4 Pilken Mammoths (6)

(2) Effelenendro Piranhas 4–1 Malhall Raiders (7)

At first glance, it would appear as if the top seeds in the Northern Conference had made their way past the lower seeds comfortably, but upon closer inspection, it actually appears that it was only the defending champs from Mykorrigan that actually completed the sweep in the first round of the playoffs. It could be argued that both Haritzaga and Effelenendro did what has been termed a "gentleman's sweep," in that they allowed their opponents to win a game in the series before finally putting them out of their misery. Somewhat surprisingly, it was actually in the series between Dorfdifving and Pilken that something remotely close to an actually competitive series popped up in the Northern Conference, and it actually ended up going the way of the lower seed, something that hasn't always happened in the FBA playoffs in recent seasons. Dorfdifving will be sorely disappointed that they let the opportunity to advance to the conference semifinals slip through their fingers. Next year is always going to be Dorfdifving's year now, it seems.

Southern Conference

(1) Wanda Island Wizards 4–2 Uranium City Nukes (8)

(4) Vikrant Conquerors 4–0 Garufaloe Rattlesnakes (5)

(3) Mereilles Port Boys 4–2 Wappinger Steam (6)

(2) Tentenaraya Thunder 4–0 Riuwiee Presidents (7)

The Southern Conference actually turned out to be the conference with the more lopsided playoff results. The numbers don't lie, and they spelled disaster for both the Garufaloe Rattlesnakes and Riuwiee Presidents. It almost feels sad for the likes of Riuwiee to barely make it into the playoffs only to be swept aside by admittedly better competition in the very first round. The Presidents may have hoped that Leo Baxter's brief time with the team could inspire the rest of the roster to become a perennial playoff challenger, but so far they have yet to clear the first hurdle. And oh, how the mighty have fallen. There was once a time when the Uranium City Nukes was the biggest threat to any other team in the FBA seeking to win a championship. Now, with Jazz Higgs having long ago hung up his sneakers, Uranium City is a shell of its former self, much as the fans and the team itself wouldn't like to admit it. And on the other side of the bracket, Hayden Dorola's Mereilles Port Boys took care of business against Wappinger and is now preparing for another shot at the title.

2034-35 FBA Playoffs - Conference Semifinals

Northern Conference

(1) Mykorrigan MonStars 4–0 Real Haritzaga Baloncesto (4)

(2) Effelenendro Piranhas 4–1 Pilken Mammoths (6)

There once was a time in the history of the Fleftic Basketball Association when Real Haritzaga Baloncesto was considered the unluckiest basketball team that there ever was. Four times La Real made it to the FBA Finals, and four times Haritzaga was beaten, and three out of those four times they were beaten by the same team to boot. Yes, Haritzaga had what was arguably its best three seasons ever in the FBA some years ago, but they had the absolute bad fortune of peaking at the same time that Uranium City Nukes, under Jazz Higgs, was establishing a dynasty over the league. But at least back then there was still just that little bit of hope that La Real's next encounter with the Nukes was finally going to end differently. Now though, Haritzaga can't even make it past the conference semifinals, and once again it's the Mykorrigan MonStars at fault for Haritzaga's elimination from the playoffs. This time though, Mykorrigan didn't even let La Real have the courtesy of getting a few games against them. No, this time the MonStars swept Haritzaga out of the competition without a single care whatsoever. At least the Effelenendro Piranhas actually had the decency to let Pilken win the first game of their conference semifinals series and actually make some people think that the Mammoths could actually stage another upset like what they did against Dorfdifving in the first round of the playoffs. But the thing that everyone else has to remember is that this Effelenendro squad is no longer the team that always falls short. No, this Piranhas squad is now a championship-winning team, and after having finally won the big one just a couple of seasons back, Effelenendro really wants to get back to the finals and win another one.

Southern Conference

(1) Wanda Island Wizards 4–0 Vikrant Conquerors (4)

(2) Tentenaraya Thunder 4–2 Mereilles Port Boys (3)

It's a similar story of sorts in the Southern Conference, with the number 1 seed absolutely dominating and sweeping aside their conference semifinals opponent while the 2 and 3 seeds actually battled it out to determine an eventual winner between themselves. The conference semifinals between Tentenaraya and Mereilles was literally a rematch from last season, and both teams actually held the same seeds that they did last time around. Unfortunately for Hayden Dorola and his men though, his opposite number in Tentenaraya Leonid Zheltov took to heart the old saying of "familiarity breeds contempt" and studied everything that he could in order to gain every little advantage that he could against the Port Boys. It wasn't enough to stop Mereilles from winning games in the conference semifinal but the truly important thing was that the Port Boys didn't win four games, and that was exactly what happened. Leonid Zheltov and Tentenaraya did finally win over Mereilles and Hayden Dorola, but at what cost? A meeting against the Wanda Island Wizards? Would Zheltov say that winning against Mereilles was worth it? Of course he would. He and his team are now just one conference finals away from returning to the FBA Finals after more than a quarter of a century away from the most important seven games in the history of any Fleftic basketball franchise. But Zheltov really has to be on his A-game if he wants to knock Byron Pillman out of the playoffs as well.

2034–35 FBA Playoffs – Conference Finals

Northern Conference

(1) Mykorrigan MonStars 4–1 Effelenendro Piranhas (2)

Mykorrigan MonStars 122–120 Effelenendro Piranhas
Mykorrigan MonStars 108–88 Effelenendro Piranhas
Effelenendro Piranhas 111–116 Mykorrigan MonStars
Effelenendro Piranhas 130–113 Mykorrigan MonStars
Mykorrigan MonStars 150–138 Effelenendro Piranhas

Southern Conference

(1) Wanda Island Wizards 4–2 Tentenaraya Thunder (2)

Wanda Island Wizards 102–120 Tentenaraya Thunder
Wanda Island Wizards 95–94 Tentenaraya Thunder
Tentenaraya Thunder 92–84 Wanda Island Wizards
Tentenaraya Thunder 85–92 Wanda Island Wizards
Wanda Island Wizards 109–88 Tentenaraya Thunder
Tentenaraya Thunder 108–136 Wanda Island Wizards

Something seems very familiar about the conference finals of the 2034-35 FBA playoffs. It's almost as if this has already happened before between the exact same teams. That's because it actually is more of the same with regards to the conference finals of the previous season. Three of the four teams that took part in last season's conference finals have made it back, with the only new arrival being Leonid Zheltov's Tentenaraya Thunder. More on them later. For the moment, the focus is on the Northern Conference finals, a rematch between the Mykorrigan MonStars and the Effelenendro Piranhas. Unlike last year though, the roles have been reversed, at least as far as seeding goes. This time around, it's Mykorrigan with the number 1 seed while Effelenendro has to settle for number 2. The outcome of the conference finals however is the same as it was last year, or at least the end result was the same. The MonStars triumph over the Piranhas once again, but this time it's not because of a sweep. Effelenendro actually managed to win one of their home games in order to keep their chances of another FBA Finals appearance alive, even for just a couple of days. But after he finally picked up the first ring of his coaching career, Omar Sulaiman was in no mood to rest on his laurels. The results of the previous playoffs series are proof enough of that. In fact, Effelenendro was the first team in the current playoffs to have actually managed to win a game against the MonStars, which only goes to show just how determined Sulaiman is to go back-to-back. The only question that remains now is, which Southern Conference is going to be the latest to attempt to stop Mykorrigan's rampage towards the Agapito Benzon Trophy?

Surprise surprise, the Southern Conference's representative in the FBA Finals is none other than the Wanda Island Wizards. This would be the part where some would try to downplay Wanda Island's achievements by saying that the Wizards are going to bottle the opportunity to win the championship again just like what happened last season. It's no secret that Wanda Island has not had the best of luck when it comes to success in the world of sports, but it could also be argued that the Wizards have been perhaps the best team to represent this island in Fleftic sports in recent years, and they have Byron Pillman to thank for that. Pillman has always been a bit of a loose cannon even during his playing days, and transitioning to a coaching role hasn't really done much to change that. Some fans find Pillman's antics funny while others find it infuriating and going against the spirit of basketball, but one thing's for sure: no one is going to say anything about it to his face. Leonid Zheltov was the latest to attempt to decipher Pillman's antics and see if it was possible to get past him and his Wizards and book a ticket to the FBA Finals, but not even Zheltov's cerebral style was enough to figure out and unlock the Pillman system. Then again, no one can really tell what the Pillman system is doing if Byron Pillman himself has no idea. But Zheltov actually managed to get a couple of victories over the Wizards before they finally overcame the Thunder, so there's every possibility that this should be a matchup that, if it actually happens again in the postseason, will attract a lot of eyes from just the potential storyline about the battle between the thinker and the wild card.

2034-35 FBA Finals

Mykorrigan MonStars 120–113 Wanda Island Wizards
Mykorrigan MonStars 102–96 Wanda Island Wizards
Wanda Island Wizards 94–93 Mykorrigan MonStars
Wanda Island Wizards 96–91 Mykorrigan MonStars
Wanda Island Wizards 106–85 Mykorrigan MonStars
Mykorrigan MonStars 115–136 Wanda Island Wizards

Wanda Island Wizards wins 2034-35 FBA Finals 4–2

And then there were two. And is it really any surprise to anyone watching the FBA that the two teams contesting the FBA Finals this season are the same two teams that did this exact same thing last season? It had been an accepted fact for the vast majority of the regular season that both Mykorrigan and Wanda Island are the two best basketball teams in Abanhfleft, but a lot of people were still hesitant to say that a repeat of the 2033 FBA Finals was likely simply because it was never going to be guaranteed that the two best teams in both conferences would actually make their way to the finals. The FBA playoffs is a tricky animal, and many number 1 seeds had found themselves getting eliminated for a variety of reasons. But that doesn't seem to be the case this time around, and both the MonStars and the Wizards managed to navigate those treacherous waters in order to square off against each other once again. This time around, both Omar Sulaiman and Byron Pillman are now more familiar with their opposite number's tactics and strategy. This finals series is not necessarily one that is going to be won by who has the best players in their squad, but it definitely could be won by the coach who is actually willing to do what it takes to win it all.

There's no denying that Byron Pillman has some unfinished business with regards to both the FBA Finals itself and the Mykorrigan MonStars. After all, it was the MonStars that put an end to what everyone thought was a generational run towards the FBA championship by the Wizards under Pillman, and there's no question that the potential of getting revenge against Mykorrigan, especially in the finals, has been simmering in the back of Pillman's mind. Surely Pillman had a plan to avenge his defeat from last season, right? Yes, he actually does, but when the MonStars won the first two games of the finals, it sure didn't feel that way for Wanda Island fans. Could it be that Pillman was actually luring Sulaiman and Mykorrigan into a trap and letting them become overconfident in being able to repeat history? Maybe, or maybe not. Part of Byron Pillman's coaching genius apparently is that sometimes, even he doesn't know what strategy or tactic to go for against any given opponent. It didn't work out the last time these two teams clashed for the Agapito Benzon Trophy, but somehow, in some way, Byron Pillman actually got his revenge in 2035. Is the IUBC ready for the return of FBA champion Byron Pillman and company to the international stage? Probably, but the real question maybe should have been, is Byron Pillman and company ready for their IUBC return? Yeah, even he doesn't really know, but he will definitely enjoy the ride while it lasts.

Congratulations to the Wanda Island Wizards, your 2035 FBA Champions!

by **Trans-Dniesters** » Sat Jan 17, 2026 7:21 am

Some might say that the results of the regular season of the 2033-34 Pridnestrovian Basketball Super League was a surprise, while others will claim that this is merely the league returning to the mean. The Bratsk Buccaneers definitely were unable to reclaim the regular season championship, which finally returned to one of the big five basketball clubs in Admiral Novorossiysk. As for the playoffs, CSKA Tiraspol once again proves why they're the best in all of Pridnestrovia. The Army Team had to overcome the regular season champions of both the previous and current seasons of the PBSL before finally coming across their eternal rivals Dinamo Bender in the finals. However, if there was anyone who hoped for a long and drawn-out battle between these two would end up being disappointed as Dinamo looked like they didn't even bother showing up for the finals series. The most that the Derby of All Derbies ever got to being heated was in the decisive Game 3 of the series when Dinamo clawed their way back from a 30-point deficit to make the end result closer than it actually was. Go back to fifteen years or even just ten years ago to tell a Dinamo fan that their team was going to roll over for "those Army bastards" for the PBSL title and be prepared to get laughed out of town. Yet those same hypothetical Dinamo fans definitely aren't laughing now. Also, the less said about how Pridnestrovian ball clubs had performed in the IUBC Trophy, the better. And starting from the 2034-35 season, teams will no longer be awarded any points for a win. Wins and individual head-to-head results will be what matters the most now in the PBSL.

2034-35 Pridnestrovian Basketball Super League Regular Season Final Standings

   PBSL                       Pld    W   L    PF   PA   PD   Qualification                           
 1 CSKA Tiraspol               34   27   7  2772 2301 +471   Regular season champions, Playoffs
 2 Admiral Novorossiysk        34   25   9  2692 2484 +208   Qualified for playoffs
 3 Dinamo Bender               34   23  11  2688 2449 +239   Qualified for playoffs
 4 Prigava Harbormasters       34   21  13  2700 2379 +321   Qualified for playoffs
 5 Bratsk Buccaneers           34   21  13  2589 2502  +87   Qualified for playoffs
 6 Nord-Vest Team              34   20  14  2610 2507 +103   Qualified for playoffs
 7 Vladikrav Chiefs            34   20  14  2565 2509  +56   Qualified for playoffs
 8 Sheriff Tiraspol            34   20  14  2611 2501 +110   Qualified for playoffs
 9 Vladikarpaty Mountaineers   34   17  17  2595 2588   +7
10 Kesselburger Cagers         34   16  18  2547 2548   −1
11 Strigoni Macaresti          34   15  19  2517 2569  −52
12 Zolotovgrad                 34   14  20  2478 2588 −110
13 Unterspielsdorf             34   13  21  2550 2630  −80
14 Dnistrolvovsk Loggers       34   13  21  2479 2637 −158
15 Bacardi Derinkuyu           34   11  23  2440 2748 −308
16 Radomedix Dnistrosh         34   11  23  2485 2775 −290
17 Tukums                      34   10  24  2403 2670 −267   Relegated to Basketball Second Division
18 Energiya Suvorovo           34    9  25  2404 2740 −336   Relegated to Basketball Second Division

Novonikolaysk Bluefins and BK Spartak Sonolovichyrevko are promoted from the Pridnestrovian Basketball Second Division to the Pridnestrovian Basketball Super League.

Since the start of the season, it was painfully clear that there was really only one team that was going to come out on top, and that was the defending champions CSKA Tiraspol. Last season's regular season champs Admiral Novorossiysk did all that they could to find a way past the Army Team but CSKA simply will not be denied this time around. Of course, there's another chance for the Navy boys to knock off their rivals from the Ground Forces in the playoffs, although Novorossiysk might have to wait all the way to the finals before they could even think about exacting their revenge. And there's no guarantee that either one of these teams is actually going to make it all the way. Prigava, Bratsk, and even CSKA's intra-city rivals Sheriff Tiraspol are all looking to make a mark in the playoffs this season, and if one of these teams can knock off the top two, that's going to blow the championship picture wide open.

For the first time in over twenty years, two teams are going to make their debut in the PBSL. Energiya Suvorovo and Zolotovgrad are two clubs that had stayed in the lower reaches of the Pridnestrovian basketball pyramid before both teams were bought by oligarchs seeking "new business opportunities," aka more ways to launder their money or something like it. But even though both teams came under oligarch ownership within the past decade, these two teams went about their charge to the top very differently. Suvorovo charged their way up the leagues by amassing the best players that they could at those levels while Zolotovgrad went for a slower but apparently steadier approach of just playing well enough to become a good destination without having to throw lots of money around. And judging by the results of the regular season, Zolotovgrad looks to have been the more successful approach to attaining longevity in the PBSL. Of course, there's no telling if things are going to stay the same come next season thanks to the usual player poaching from the Basketball Big Five, but for the moment, Zolotovgrad could actually be here to stay.

Congratulations to BC CSKA Tiraspol, your 2034-35 Pridnestrovian Basketball Super League regular season champions!

2034-35 PBSL Playoffs - Quarterfinals

(1) BC CSKA Tiraspol 3–1 BC Sheriff Tiraspol (8)

(4) Pridnestrovskaya Gavan Harbormasters 2–3 Bratsk Buccaneers (5)

(3) BC Dinamo Bender 2–3 Nord-Vest Team (6)

(2) BC Admiral Novorossiysk 2–3 Vladikrav Chiefs (7)

This season is apparently the season of the lower seeds. And it's not just because some of the heavy hitters had a poor regular season that put them just a little bit lower down the table than most people would have expected them to finish. The teams with the lower seeds are more often than not the teams that have been the lower seeds in the playoffs for a majority of the time that playoffs have existed in the PBSL so it's hard to say or call what's really going on here. Then again, it could be argued that the Bratsk Buccaneers were not expected to be the fifth seed, if only for the fact that they had won the regular season championship just a few seasons ago. And all three of the series won by the lower seed followed a similar pattern as well: the lower seed won the first two games, the higher seed came back and won the next two, only for the lower seed to claim Game 5 and secure their ticket to the playoffs semifinals. It's a bit of a shame though that Sheriff Tiraspol couldn't do what the other lower seeds did and knock CSKA out of the playoffs. Typical Sheriff, always getting the short end of the stick in the playoffs.

2034-35 PBSL Playoffs - Semifinals

(1) CSKA Tiraspol vs. Bratsk Buccaneers (5)

(6) Nord-Vest Team vs. Vladikrav Chiefs (7)

CSKA Tiraspol 99–80 Bratsk Buccaneers
Bratsk Buccaneers 66–70 CSKA Tiraspol
CSKA Tiraspol 76–73 Bratsk Buccaneers

BC CSKA Tiraspol wins the series 3–0

Once again, the Army Team will not be stopped. Once again, the Bratsk Buccaneers fall in the semifinals, but at least now they have the excuse of being the lower seed, but can they really use it as an excuse? They didn't use it as an excuse when they overcame the Harbormasters, so why should they lean on it now? Besides, CSKA really was an unstoppable force. The call of a three-peat rings in the ears of every CSKA player and fan and nothing is going to stop this team from claiming another three PBSL championships in a row, especially not an underdog team from Bratsk. There's just no room for Cinderella stories in the land of the Red Army, not when they're hunting for another championship that will extend their record as the winningest team in all of Pridnestrovia.

Nord-Vest Team 103–68 Vladikrav Chiefs
Vladikrav Chiefs 59–84 Nord-Vest Team
Nord-Vest Team 84–58 Vladikrav Chiefs

Nord-Vest Team wins the series 3–0

No matter the winner of this semifinals series, the winner was always going to appear in the PBSL finals for the very first time in their history. The Vladikrav Chiefs had come close on a number of occasions but always fell short, and unfortunately for them and their fans, Vladikrav will continue falling short for at least one more season. Instead, the honor of a new team appearing in the PBSL finals goes to the Nord-Vest Team, the team composed of expats, refugees, and immigrants from the lands claimed by the Federal Republic of Nordskania and Vestania that fled to Pridnestrovia after the latter's failed first attempt at nation-building. Like most other things related to Nordskania and Vestania, Nord-Vest Team (then known as the Nord-Vest Representative Team) started off as a propaganda piece around which Pridnestrovia and Nord-Vest could rally support around their respective causes. Eventually, the team turned into a proper basketball club in its own right contesting for titles and eventually a place in the PBSL. Nord-Vest's victory in the semifinals appears to be vindication not only for the team itself but for the people of Nordskania and Vestania. Now there's only one thing left for them to do: take down the mighty CSKA Tiraspol.

2034-35 PBSL Finals

(1) CSKA Tiraspol vs. Nord-Vest Team (6)

CSKA Tiraspol 61–62 Nord-Vest Team
Nord-Vest Team 79–83 CSKA Tiraspol
CSKA Tiraspol 79–67 Nord-Vest Team
Nord-Vest Team 79–76 CSKA Tiraspol
CSKA Tiraspol 90–83 Nord-Vest Team

BC CSKA Tiraspol wins the series 3–2

The three-peat is complete. CSKA Tiraspol truly are the masters of all that they survey, and all that they survey is apparently all of Pridnetrovian basketball. How many champions have gone the way of the Army Team at this point? It has to be more than thirty by now, yes? But even in defeat, Nord-Vest Team can truly hold their heads high because they were the first team to push CSKA all the way, not just in the current season's playoffs but also during the three years that CSKA proved itself to be the best basketball team in all of Pridnestrovia. The Nord-Vesters actually shocked the rest of the league when they won Game 1 courtesy of a buzzer-beater three from Antonin Borisov. But unfortunately for Nord-Vest and the rest of Pridnestrovian basketball, all that seemed to do was provoke a response from the two-time defending champions, and the Army Team claimed Games 2 and 3 before another three-pointer, this time from Liubomir Colodin, managed to force a decisive Game 5 in the series. But there's a reason why CSKA Tiraspol won two championships back-to-back, and it was the fact that they simply wanted it more. Now if only the Army Team can carry over this momentum into the IUBC Trophy and at least not make themselves and all of Pridnestrovia look like fools on the international basketball stage...

Congratulations to BC CSKA Tiraspol, your 2034-35 Pridnestrovian Basketball Super League champions!

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Mon Feb 16, 2026 6:54 am

Surely it can’t get any worse for Fleftic rugby, can it? If one isn’t a fan of the Jokers Rugby Club then it definitely can get worse than this. It would really appear as if the Jokers are on a mission to cement themselves as the only rugby club worth following in Abanhfleft, and after one of the most dominant seasons ever in the history of top-flight rugby union in the country, one would be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t think that the Jokers had already accomplished that particular mission. All of that hope about the Bad Hombres and the Death Worms potentially upsetting the so-called “natural order of things” in the Rugby Premiership has come to nothing, and not even the Almohads can find a way past the utter dominance of the Jokers. The Jokers truly own the Rugby Premiership now. It would be funny if it wasn’t true. At least they haven’t been able to take over the rest of the multiverse, but really, it’s only a matter of time before that happens as well. But that’s all in the past. Will this be the season where another team finally manages to take the fight to the Jokers, or are we going to continue living in the era of the Joker?

2039-40 Fleftic Rugby Premiership Regular Season Final Standings

   Rugby Premiership     Pld    W   D   L    PF   PA   PD   Pts   TB   LB   Ttl   Qualification                       
 1 Pirates                26   18   2   6   731  536 +195    76   13    2    91   Bye to semifinals
 2 Almohads               26   20   1   5   739  365 +374    82    8    0    90   Bye to semifinals
 3 Jokers                 26   19   1   6   725  437 +288    78    8    2    88   Qualified for playoffs
 4 Bad Hombres            26   17   1   8   692  505 +187    70    9    2    81   Qualified for playoffs
 5 Oxen                   26   18   1   7   610  392 +218    74    2    3    79   Qualified for playoffs
 6 Death Worms            26   16   2   8   848  630 +218    68    8    2    78   Qualified for playoffs
 7 Dinosaurs              26   15   0  11   652  582  +70    60    5    2    67
 8 Admirals [x]           26   12   0  14   643  674  −31    48    5    5    58
 9 Aces                   26   12   0  14   653  682  −29    48    6    4    58
10 Ibex                   26   10   0  16   592  736 −144    40    3    5    48
11 Bull Sharks [y]        26    5   1  20   434  773 −339    22    2    5    29
12 Hercules               26    6   0  20   401  785 −384    24    3    2    29   Relegation playoff
13 Wingfoots              26    5   1  20   226  583 −357    22    2    4    28   Relegated to FRU Championship
14 Makos                  26    4   0  22   333  599 −266    16    1    4    21   Relegated to FRU Championship

[x] = Admirals ahead of Makos on head-to-head points difference (REY 37–36 PIL, REY 40–30 PIL)
[y] = Bull Sharks ahead of Hercules on head-to-head points difference (POR 37–23 HRC, POR 0–13 HRC)

Now hang on a minute here. What in the world is going on? How in the world did the Pirates just become the best rugby club in Abanhfleft (for the moment at least)? How in the world did this rugby club from the capital city of the Democratic Republic, a club that has missed more playoffs than it had actually made, now find itself standing on top of the pile? Bonus points, that’s how. Ever since the Fleftic Rugby Union introduced bonus points for any team that scored four tries in a game and/or lost by seven points or less, the system has been shaken up a little bit. Sometimes a team that had no hope of making the playoffs before the bonus points system came along has now become a contender. However, it hadn’t been enough to send any given team to the top of the pile that no one would have expected to be there, not until this season at least. The Pirates would have finished in third place and had the best seed for the qualifying final without the bonus points, but thanks to their haul of 15 bonus points (13 for scoring four tries or more and two for losing by seven points or less), the Pirates were able to claim their very first regular season championship. The shock of that event means that the Jokers finishing in third place has gone under the radar, but then again, everyone has seen this story before. The Jokers didn’t win the regular season title? That’s okay, they’re going to stomp everyone else in the playoffs anyway. No use for anyone getting their hopes up for anyone else winning the title.

Qualifying Finals

(3) Jokers 30–13 Death Worms (6)
(4) Bad Hombres 40–0 Oxen (5)

Just put the Haranguer Death Worms and their fanbase out of their misery already. Or maybe have someone find a way to help them get back into the Rugby Coalition. Things have simply fallen apart for the Death Worms ever since they had to join the FRU after a little kerfuffle with how Fleftic teams are actually supposed to qualify into the Rugby Union Champions Trophy. In the Rugby Coalition, Haranguer actually had a more than decent chance of making it far into the playoffs at the very least. But in the Rugby Premiership, there really appears to be no hope at all for the Worms. Not only are they apparently no longer good enough to secure themselves a good seed going into the playoffs, but even in the rare instances that that does happen, their opponent simply plays better than them. Maybe the Death Worms truly are cursed. Then again, they were up against the Jokers. No one beats the Jokers, at least not in the playoffs. Oh, and the Olistan Oxen got blanked by the Bad Hombres. It’s a shame to see what could have been a good playoff run for the Oxen get ruined like this, but sometimes that’s just the way that the sport is.

Semifinals

(1) Pirates 33–6 Bad Hombres (4)
(2) Almohads 24–22 Jokers (3)

So the Pirates of Riuwiee had managed to beat thirteen other teams to claim the regular season title in the Fleftic Rugby Premiership. Would they be able to keep up with the rest of the big players, or will the occasion get to their heads and overwhelm them right at the first hurdle? History would suggest the latter, but this appears to be a different Pirates team from all the other times that they had made (and crashed out of) the playoffs. Remember that this Pirates team earned thirteen bonus points for scoring at least four tries during the regular season. This really does feel like watching a different rugby club playing in the Premiership. And everyone was expecting a high-scoring affair between the Pirates and the Bad Hombres in light of San Seriffe’s demolition of Olistan in the qualifying finals, so what did the people get? The Pirates kicking the Bad Hombres to the curb. Yeah, they didn’t score four tries, but the Pirates definitely scored three more tries in this game than the Hombres did, and that’s the only thing that matters in this sport. Also, did the Jokers really just lose a playoff match? They did! Nobody thought that such a thing was possible, and yet here is proof that it absolutely can! And it was also the Almohads of all teams that made the impossible possible. For all the clowning that the Almohads received for failing to bring down the Joker juggernaut last season, the Moes learned their lessons and made sure that they wouldn’t commit the same mistakes against what had been the dominant force in Fleftic rugby. Now, can the Almohads finally make it over the hump and claim another Premiership, or will the Pirates crash the party one more time?

2040 Fleftic Rugby Premiership Grand Final
May 26, 2040 @ The Rugby Grounds, Releinthi

(1) Pirates 24–32 Almohads (2)

Unfortunately for the Pirates, this time around the Almohads will not be denied. Some would say that the Moes deserved to bring home the premiership after they were the ones who finally managed to bring down the Jokers. Others would claim that the Pirates were more deserving of the title owing to their performances throughout the regular season. But in sports, the only way a team or club can be “deserving” of a title is by being better than their competition, and on this day it was the Almohads who were the better team. The winningest team in Fleftic rugby finally manages to add another trophy to their cabinet, while for the Pirates, they are going to wonder if their window of opportunity to finally become a major player in the sport just passed them by. Not a pleasant thought to have in mind before going to sleep.

Congratulations to the Almohads, your 2040 Fleftic Rugby Premiership champions!

   Rugby Championship    Pld    W   D   L    PF   PA   PD   Pts   TB   LB   Ttl   Qualification                          
 1 Upper Caisse           26   18   2   6   852  470 +382    76   12    3    91   Champions, Promoted to FRU Premiership
 2 Dashers                26   19   1   6   602  362 +240    78    7    1    86   Promoted to FRU Premiership
 3 Makélé-Mbappé          26   18   1   7   679  420 +259    74    7    3    84   Promotion playoff
 4 Titans                 26   16   1   9   666  373 +293    66    9    4    79
 5 Doves                  26   15   2   9   610  499 +111    64    5    4    73
 6 Greens                 26   14   3   9   681  663  +18    62    8    1    71
 7 Wappinger              26   12   3  11   768  670  +98    54    9    2    65
 8 Red Wings              26   12   0  14   615  619   −4    48    6    7    61
 9 Oui                    26   12   1  13   684  710  −26    50    5    3    58
10 South Bay Blvd         26   10   1  15   473  539  −66    42    5    3    50
11 Islanders              26    8   4  14   355  549 −194    40    0    2    42
12 Penguins               26    7   0  19   427  762 −335    28    3    3    34
13 Hornets                26    6   0  20   448  853 −405    24    2    3    29   Relegated to FRU Conference North
14 Vikrant                26    5   1  20   387  758 −371    22    2    2    26   Relegated to FRU Conference South

NOTE: CDR Thereisnogodabad from the FRU Conference North and Lotharstadt Quicksilver from the FRU Conference South are promoted to the FRU Championship.

2040 FRU Premiership relegation playoff

Leg 1 @ San Bartolome Park, Qusquesien, Bendy Benny
Hercules 9–8 Makélé-Mbappé

Leg 2 @ Rural Bank of Calfragilis Arena, Calfragilis
Makélé-Mbappé 26–21 Hercules

Makélé-Mbappé is promoted to the Fleftic Rugby Premiership 34–30 on aggregate

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