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by **Pasarga** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:23 pm

Season 1927

Super League

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Santos Luega              30  15   9   6   57   41   16   54     Champions
   2  Tanrısal                  30  16   5   9   72   55   17   53     TQCC
   3  Stein-los Turkish         30  15   4  11   43   37    6   49     GC
   4  CA Paulinthal             30  15   2  13   45   40    5   47     GC
   5  Baskita FC                30  14   3  13   53   52    1   45     GC
   6  Lunas FC                  30  12   8  10   40   41   -1   44
   7  Galactica                 30  13   5  12   52   55   -3   44
   8  SC Sardin                 30  12   7  11   59   47   12   43
   9  Peynol-Lunas              30  12   6  12   38   40   -2   42
  10  Fetherdron United         30  11   7  12   41   39    2   40
  11  Club Stein-los            30  11   6  13   46   49   -3   39
  12  SC Troubalose             30  11   6  13   41   49   -8   39
  13  Paulinthal FC             30  11   2  17   42   51   -9   35
  14  Aleine United             30  10   5  15   39   50  -11   35
  15  FC Myrkan                 30   9   8  13   47   60  -13   35     Relegated
  16  Tulduroc United           30   8   7  15   32   41   -9   31     Relegated

Super League 2

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  SC Myrkan                 30  18   5   7   55   33   22   59     Champions
   2  SC Filwarfin              30  16   9   5   70   40   30   57     SBCC
   3  Evenfar FC                30  15   6   9   44   34   10   51     SBCC
   4  FC Felaton                30  13   7  10   56   50    6   46     SBCC
   5  Aleine FC                 30  11  10   9   40   37    3   43
   6  Targas City               30  11   9  10   41   36    5   42
   7  Sardin United             30  11   8  11   40   37    3   41
   8  RC Sardin                 30  11   8  11   44   43    1   41
   9  FC Belja                  30  11   7  12   34   40   -6   40
  10  Targas United             30   7  16   7   30   30    0   37
  11  Cillinas FC               30  10   7  13   33   35   -2   37
  12  Isnet'pa United           30  10   7  13   36   53  -17   37
  13  Darom United              30   9   6  15   40   47   -7   33
  14  Celesthem FC              30   7  11  12   23   30   -7   32
  15  SC Dendros                30   8   7  15   40   60  -20   31
  16  Tharg-calan               30   5  11  14   26   47  -21   26

by **Vephrall** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:57 pm

Collegiate Sporting Alliance, 1778 season

During the offseason, many fans raised concerns that not all teams were scheduling the same number of games. While most schools scheduled the full 15-game maximum, a few schools each year would schedule only 13 or 14. Usually the teams with the reduced number of games were so far out of contention for the conference title that it didn't really matter, but last year was an exception. #3 Dettune State went 10-0-4 in the regular season and finished second in the Lowland Conference just two points behind eventual national champion #1 Jishmid. With a 15th game on the Lobariks' schedule, a win would have given them the conference title instead. As such, the CSA instituted a new rule for the 1778 season stating that all teams must play the same number of games, in this case 15.

Big West Conference

Rank  Team                 P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   6  Seibeng             15   9   4   2   29   18   11   31  Q
   8  Dettune             15   9   3   3   29   15   14   30  Q
  11  Highland            15   8   4   3   32   21   11   28  Q
  12  Anhenir             15   8   3   4   24   14   10   27  Q
      Sirinis             15   5   5   5   20   20    0   20
      Dettune Mtn         15   4   7   4   11   15   -4   19
      Northern Darnai     15   4   5   6   23   18    5   17
      Western Dettune     15   5   2   8   24   28   -4   17
      Western Darnai      15   4   2   9   20   34  -14   14
      South Sirinis       15   4   1  10   17   36  -19   13
      Virdys              15   2   5   8   16   23   -7   11
      Sirinis Ag          15   2   4   9   14   22   -8   10

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[/float] Champions:
University of Seibeng
Acorns
(last season: Dettune)

East Coast Conference

Rank  Team                 P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   4  Calamen-Petaki      15  10   2   3   23   14    9   32  Q
   3  Rascenass           15  10   1   4   29   13   16   31  Q
  14  Solonds             15   8   2   5   26   19    7   26  Q
  21  North Salle         15   7   4   4   25   19    6   25
  19  Calamen             15   6   7   2   20   15    5   25
  25  Till                15   6   5   4   19   12    7   23
      Defae               15   6   4   5   17   15    2   22
      Salle Southern      15   5   5   5   22   26   -4   20
      Salle               15   5   2   8   18   25   -7   17
      Southeastern        15   4   3   8   24   29   -5   15
      Sheoron             15   3   6   6   16   23   -7   15
      Calamen-Custles     15   2   6   7   13   24  -11   12

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[/float] Champions:
University of Calamen, Petaki
Cougars
(last season: Solonds)

Isthmian Conference

Rank  Team                 P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  BTI                 15  11   2   2   38   17   21   35  Q
  13  Bektys Coastal      15   7   6   2   21   15    6   27  Q
      Fishbog             15   7   4   4   28   25    3   25
  22  Isthmian            15   6   6   3   24   14   10   24
      Eastern Darnai      15   6   4   5   24   22    2   22
      Bektys State        15   6   4   5   24   23    1   22
      Riestre-Clyddly     15   6   2   7   16   17   -1   20
      Scusenany           15   4   5   6   14   20   -6   17
      Flaarickug          15   3   7   5   16   20   -4   16
      South Bektys        15   3   7   5   16   21   -5   16
      Western Shentarong  15   4   2   9   22   29   -7   14
      North Bektys        15   2   3  10   20   35  -15    9

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[/float] Champions:
Bektys Technological Institute
Hornets
(last season: Scusenany)

Lowland Conference

Rank  Team                 P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   5  NW Sumbobor         15   9   4   2   21   11   10   31  Q
  15  Jishmid             15   7   5   3   26   17    9   26  Q
  20  Dettune State       15   7   5   3   25   18    7   26
  18  Middle Bektys       15   7   5   3   22   17    5   26
      Bayside             15   6   5   4   20   19    1   23
      Speilers            15   6   3   6   26   21    5   21
      Baseng              15   5   5   5   21   16    5   20
      Sumbobor Tech       15   4   5   6   15   22   -7   17
      Narrows             15   3   5   7   14   23   -9   14
      Mersira             15   3   4   8   14   24  -10   13
      Chezlot             15   4   1  10   15   26  -11   13
      Central Sumbobor    15   3   3   9   14   25  -11   12

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[/float] Champions:
Northwest Sumbobor University
Cardinals
(last season: Jishmid)

Midland Conference

Rank  Team                 P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   2  Siellal             15   9   5   1   29    9   20   32  Q
  10  Riestre State       15   8   3   4   23   11   12   27  Q
  17  Riestre             15   8   2   5   25   16    9   26
  24  Riestre Tech        15   8   2   5   18   21   -3   26
      Military            15   7   3   5   14   14    0   24
      Westlake            15   7   2   6   18   17    1   23
      Shentarong Tech     15   5   3   7   15   24   -9   18
      North Shentarong    15   4   4   7   17   19   -2   16
      NE Riestre          15   4   2   9    9   23  -14   14
      Taeschand           15   4   1  10   15   25  -10   13
      NW Salle            15   3   1  11    8   20  -12   10
      Till State          15   2   4   9   13   26  -13   10

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[/float] Champions:
Siellal University
Conquerors
(2nd consecutive season)

Southern Crescent Conference

Rank  Team                 P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   7  Astenast State      15   8   5   2   24   12   12   29  Q
   9  Southwestern        15   7   5   3   22    9   13   26  Q
  16  Fekliir State       15   7   5   3   26   17    9   26  Q
  23  Nenbondle           15   7   5   3   21   20    1   26
      Sumbobor            15   6   4   5   19   21   -2   22
      Darnai              15   6   4   5   18   22   -4   22
      Shentarong State    15   4   7   4   19   21   -2   19
      Shentarong          15   4   6   5   16   17   -1   18
      Twin Cities         15   4   6   5   18   21   -3   18
      Shentarong Southern 15   4   5   6   10   12   -2   17
      East Point          15   3   7   5   12   17   -5   16
      Sumbobor State      15   2   3  10   16   23   -7    9

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[/float] Champions:
Astenast State University
Stars
(last season: Fekliir State)

National Championship Tournament

First Round
BTI fans had high hopes after finishing the regular season ranked number one for the first time since anyone could remember, but an aggressive Fekliir State defense and effective counter-attacking strategy quickly dashed the Hornets' hopes in that favorite of the neutral, the 16-over-1 upset. The only other real news in the first round was the dominating performance of Siellal in a 5-1 rout of Jishmid.

(1) BTI 1-3 (16) Fekliir State
(8) Dettune 3-1 (9) Southwestern
(5) NW Sumbobor 2-0 (12) Anhenir
(4) Calamen-Petaki 2-0 (13) Bektys Coastal
(6) Seibeng 1-2 (11) Highland
(3) Rascenass 2-0 (14) Solonds
(7) Astenast State 3-0 (10) Riestre State
(2) Siellal 5-1 (15) Jishmid

Quarterfinals
If the Bulldogs hadn't made anyone take notice yet, they did now with their second upset, taking down Dettune after wresting home-pitch advantage from BTI. In addition, relatively obscure Calamen-Petaki, which had quietly grabbed the number four seed, picked up a win over equally obscure Northwest Sumbobor. The quarterfinals also saw the first match of the tournament that couldn't be decided in 90 minutes, as Rascenass held on through a penalty shootout to reach the final four.

(16) Fekliir State 2-1 (8) Dettune
(5) NW Sumbobor 0-1 (4) Calamen-Petaki
(11) Highland 1-1 (3) Rascenass (2-2 AET, 2-4 PKs)
(7) Astenast State 0-1 (2) Siellal

Semifinals
The clock finally struck midnight (well, okay, more like 12:30, since there was extra time involved) for Cinderella as 16-seed Fekliir State fell to Calamen-Petaki in the semis, guaranteeing the Cougars a trip to the IUCC. The other semi was a mouthwatering 2 vs. 3 matchup where a Rascenass win could've produced an all-ECC final matchup, but they just couldn't handle Siellal.

(16) Fekliir State 1-1 (4) Calamen-Petaki (1-2 AET)
(3) Rascenass 2-4 (2) Siellal

Third Place Playoff
Sorry, Cindy, you can't ride a pumpkin to the IUCC. Razz cruises to a comfortable two-nil win and heads abroad.

(16) Fekliir State 0-2 (3) Rascenass

Final
You can just file Calamen-Petaki under "happy to be here". In the end, the perennial power Conquerors would take home the national title without much trouble.

(4) Calamen-Petaki 0-3 (2) Siellal

The

Siellal University Conquerors are your new national champions! They will be joined in the IUCC by the

University of Calamen, Petaki Cougars and the

Rascenass University Panthers.

by **Valanora** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:25 pm

Season 20,023/4

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

Premiership

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Raynor City United        38  21   7  10   87   65   22   70     Champions
   2  Soldarian FC              38  20   6  12   81   54   27   66     TQCC
   3  Hondo FC                  38  16  13   9   74   61   13   61     TQCC
   4  Juavi FC                  38  18   5  15   91   80   11   59     TQCC
   5  Club ESF                  38  16  11  11   75   64   11   59     GC
   6  Club Valanora             38  17   6  15   66   70   -4   57     GC
   7  FC Therathor              38  14  14  10   60   49   11   56
   8  FC Capri                  38  17   5  16   78   71    7   56
   9  AC Valanari               38  13  13  12   49   50   -1   52
  10  SC Ianisle                38  14  10  14   72   81   -9   52
  11  SC Rinaldi                38  14   9  15   58   62   -4   51
  12  Mar Sara FC               38  13  11  14   52   49    3   50
  13  Char Sara FC              38  13  10  15   74   81   -7   49
  14  Wexax United              38  12  13  13   62   71   -9   49
  15  Rolalas FC                38  12  11  15   61   62   -1   47     GC
  16  FC Wexax                  38  12  11  15   59   70  -11   47
  17  Straightdale FC           38  12   8  18   58   70  -12   44
  18  Everlin FC                38  12   6  20   67   76   -9   42     Relegated
  19  Kareen FC                 38  11   9  18   37   54  -17   42     Relegated
  20  AC Zul'Atun               38  10   8  20   71   92  -21   38     Relegated

Star League

Playoff: Qual'Thalas FC 5-2(3-1) Sharala AC

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  FC Travesian              38  19  10   9   53   36   17   67     Champions
   2  Baysleef FC               38  19   7  12   57   44   13   64     SBCC
   3  Quel'Thalas FC            38  19   6  13   61   45   16   63     SBCC
   4  Sharala AC                38  16   9  13   51   51    0   57     SBCC
   5  Manavawi Athletic         38  15  12  11   41   41    0   57
   6  Turmondale United         38  16   9  13   38   38    0   57
   7  Oliviena United           38  14  14  10   42   35    7   56
   8  AC Hartdale               38  16   8  14   51   47    4   56
   9  Turmondale FC             38  15  10  13   50   44    6   55
  10  FC Longview               38  16   7  15   55   50    5   55
  11  AS Zul'Daratar            38  13  13  12   68   57   11   52
  12  AC Stormguard             38  15   7  16   43   53  -10   52
  13  Athletic Rolalas          38  15   6  17   49   51   -2   51
  14  FC Vernad                 38  13  10  15   32   43  -11   49
  15  AS Sharala                38  12  11  15   43   44   -1   47
  16  Raynor City FC            38  12  11  15   55   58   -3   47
  17  FC Monaven                38  12  10  16   38   43   -5   46
  18  AS Soldar                 38  13   5  20   42   66  -24   44     Relegated
  19  Travesian AS              38  11   9  18   56   61   -5   42     Relegated
  20  AS Everlin                38   9   6  23   50   68  -18   33     Relegated

Green League

Playoff: Vaharia FC 1-3(0-2) Gladerial United

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  FC Vamas                  38  19  13   6   63   37   26   70     Champions
   2  FC Quel'Mathar            38  19   8  11   64   53   11   65     Promoted
   3  Vaharia FC                38  18   8  12   69   56   13   62     Playoff
   4  Gladerial United          38  18   7  13   62   46   16   61     Playoff
   5  AC Cartmot                38  16  11  11   46   37    9   59
   6  Mar Sara AC               38  17   7  14   71   66    5   58
   7  AC Goldsan                38  15  11  12   71   56   15   56
   8  RC Rikana                 38  15  11  12   63   57    6   56
   9  FC San Diromia            38  15  10  13   70   74   -4   55
  10  Arouw United              38  12  15  11   51   42    9   51
  11  Char Sara United          38  14   9  15   59   56    3   51
  12  FC Silvershire            38  14   9  15   62   60    2   51
  13  Cartmot Pride             38  13  10  15   62   64   -2   49
  14  DC Aulian                 38  11  14  13   55   62   -7   47
  15  Inter Gladerial           38  11  11  16   57   67  -10   44
  16  Aras United               38  11  11  16   44   60  -16   44
  17  FC Rosenthal              38  12   7  19   56   74  -18   43
  18  Quel'Tir United           38  12   6  20   44   57  -13   42     Relegated
  19  AS Zul'Atun               38  10  10  18   51   65  -14   40     Relegated
  20  RC Elunita                38   9  10  19   42   73  -31   37     Relegated

Blue League

Playoff: SC Quintal 4-2(2-2) Erran United

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  RC Durmosa                38  21   4  13   73   58   15   67     Champions
   2  Erran FC                  38  20   6  12   54   44   10   66     Promoted
   3  SC Quintal                38  17   9  12   53   48    5   60     Playoff
   4  Erran United              38  17   7  14   70   55   15   58     Playoff
   5  AS Char Sara              38  17   7  14   71   64    7   58
   6  Suax United               38  16   8  14   60   66   -6   56
   7  AS Vaharia                38  14  12  12   49   44    5   54
   8  Zanabia City              38  16   6  16   66   64    2   54
   9  AC Rinaldi                38  16   6  16   46   44    2   54
  10  Zul'Daratar FC            38  15   8  15   67   62    5   53
  11  Ironwind United           38  14  11  13   34   29    5   53
  12  SC Longview               38  15   8  15   51   54   -3   53
  13  RC Vahama                 38  15   8  15   49   52   -3   53
  14  Bree FC                   38  15   7  16   56   65   -9   52
  15  Turbani FC                38  14   8  16   45   48   -3   50
  16  FC Ispan                  38  13   9  16   60   65   -5   48
  17  FC Kilai                  38  13   7  18   47   53   -6   46
  18  AC Ispan                  38  11  12  15   41   50   -9   45     Relegated
  19  AS Solqual                38  11   7  20   50   60  -10   40     Relegated
  20  Arouw FC                  38   9  12  17   47   64  -17   39     Relegated

Rose League

Playoff: AC Rosenthal 3-2(1-2) AC Port Swell

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Yolan FC                  38  19  10   9   71   50   21   67     Champions
   2  FC Solqual                38  20   7  11   66   48   18   67     Promoted
   3  AC Rosenthal              38  18  11   9   61   46   15   65     Playoff
   4  AC Port Swell             38  18  10  10   66   41   25   64     Playoff
   5  RC Liogan                 38  16  15   7   48   39    9   63
   6  SC Soldar                 38  18   6  14   76   63   13   60
   7  AS Rikana                 38  17   7  14   55   44   11   58
   8  RC Jumangas               38  15   9  14   52   43    9   54
   9  AC Therathor              38  15   8  15   57   56    1   53
  10  AS Aras                   38  14  11  13   45   44    1   53
  11  RC Quel'Mathar            38  15   8  15   43   53  -10   53
  12  DC Liogan                 38  14   9  15   48   60  -12   51
  13  AC Jumangas               38  13  11  14   53   52    1   50
  14  FC Suax                   38  11  14  13   55   54    1   47
  15  AC Durmosa                38  11  13  14   57   51    6   46
  16  DC Melikkiaz              38  11  13  14   43   56  -13   46
  17  DC Quel'Tir               38   9  13  16   36   54  -18   40
  18  DC Kilai                  38  10   9  19   39   55  -16   39
  19  DC Bree                   38   9   7  22   38   73  -35   34
  20  FC Melikkiaz              38   6  11  21   38   65  -27   29

Silver Cup 20,023
Holders ~ Raynor City United

Due to broadcast restrictions we pick up action in the Quarterfinals

Quarterfinals
Straightdale FC 0-2 FC Longview
FC Wexax 0-3 Rolalas FC
Arouw United 0-3 Quel'Thalas FC
AS Everlin 1-0 AC Valanari

Semifinals
FC Longview 1-1(1-1 AET)[2-3 PKs] Rolalas FC
AS Everlin 3-1 Quel'Thalas FC

3PPo
@ The White Fortress, Gladerial
Quel'Thalas FC 2-1 FC Longview

Final
@ Artani, Mar Sara
Rolalas FC 3-2 AS Everlin

Navy Cup 20,023
Holders ~ Hondo FC

First Round
Club Valanora 0-0 Straightdale FC | Straightdale FC 0-0 Club Valanora (1-1 AET) (Club Valanora wins 3-2 on penalty kicks)
Aggregate: Club Valanora 1-1 Straightdale FC

Everlin FC 1-1 Rolalas FC | Rolalas FC 3-1 Everlin FC
Aggregate: Everlin FC 2-4 Rolalas FC

SC Ianisle 3-0 SC Rinaldi | SC Rinaldi 2-1 SC Ianisle
Aggregate: SC Ianisle 4-2 SC Rinaldi

Kareen FC 1-1 FC Therathor | FC Therathor 1-0 Kareen FC
Aggregate: Kareen FC 1-2 FC Therathor

Second Round
Soldarian FC 4-0 SC Ianisle | SC Ianisle 3-3 Soldarian FC
Aggregate: Soldarian FC 7-3 SC Ianisle

Club Valanora 2-1 Wexax United | Wexax United 1-3 Club Valanora
Aggregate: Club Valanora 5-2 Wexax United

Hondo FC 0-0 FC Capri | FC Capri 3-4 Hondo FC
Aggregate: Hondo FC 4-3 FC Capri

Raynor City United 3-0 Club ESF | Club ESF 4-0 Raynor City United
Aggregate: Raynor City United 3-4 Club ESF

Rolalas FC 2-2 FC Wexax | FC Wexax 2-2 Rolalas FC (2-2 AET) (Rolalas FC wins 3-0 on penalty kicks)
Aggregate: Rolalas FC 4-4 FC Wexax

FC Therathor 1-3 AC Valanari | AC Valanari 0-1 FC Therathor
Aggregate: FC Therathor 2-3 AC Valanari

Mar Sara FC 3-0 Char Sara FC | Char Sara FC 0-1 Mar Sara FC
Aggregate: Mar Sara FC 4-0 Char Sara FC

AC Zul'Atun 3-4 Juavi FC | Juavi FC 0-4 AC Zul'Atun
Aggregate: AC Zul'Atun 7-4 Juavi FC

Quarterfinals
Rolalas FC 5-2 AC Zul'Atun | AC Zul'Atun 1-3 Rolalas FC
Aggregate: Rolalas FC 8-3 AC Zul'Atun

Soldarian FC 2-2 AC Valanari | AC Valanari 0-2 Soldarian FC
Aggregate: Soldarian FC 4-2 AC Valanari

Club ESF 0-3 Hondo FC | Hondo FC 1-1 Club ESF
Aggregate: Club ESF 1-4 Hondo FC

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

Semifinals
Hondo FC 4-1 Mar Sara FC | Mar Sara FC 1-2 Hondo FC
Aggregate: Hondo FC 6-2 Mar Sara FC

Soldarian FC 3-0 Rolalas FC | Rolalas FC 1-3 Soldarian FC
Aggregate: Soldarian FC 6-1 Rolalas FC

Final
@ Hatire Memorial, Capril
Hondo FC 4-4(4-4 AET)[1-3 PKs] Soldarian FC

End of Season Awards

Manager of the Year
Anion Nororen - Juavi FC

Golden Boot
Darko Soro (26 goals) - Raynor City United

Player of the Year
Artulcdhron Zetaback (12 goals, 16 assists) - Soldarian FC

Striker of the Year
Darko Soro (26 goals) - Raynor City United

Midfielder of the Year
Artulcdhron Zetaback (12 goals, 16 assists) - Soldarian FC

Defender of the Year
Tandion Aeraglinaeth - Soldarian FC

Best XI
GK: Mariaddren Undodhen - FC Therathor
CB: Tandion Aeraglinaeth - Soldarian FC
CB: Placibus Hardsworth - Hondo FC
CB: Lemos - Soldarian FC
RW: Veassen Nelandal - Raynor City United
MC: Faeron Soldarian - Raynor City United
AMC: Artulcdhron Zetaback - Soldarian FC
LW: Elarwen Tallaion - Juavi FC
ST: Darko Soro - Raynor City United
ST: Lucas Hearts - Hondo FC
ST: Nicole Maitland-Banks - Hondo FC

International Qualifiers
TQCC: Raynor City United, Soldarian FC, Hondo FC, Juavi FC
GC: Club ESF, Club Valanora, Rolalas FC
SBCC: FC Travesian, Baysleef FC, Quel'Thalas FC, Sharala AC

International Stadia Bids
TQCC: Artani (74,000), Mar Sara
GC: The Battleground (78,000), Raynor City
SBCC: Donna Cathedral (60,000), Mar Sara

by **Commerce Heights** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:16 pm

The Academy Sporting Association belatedly confirms, now that its short-term storage devices pass the most primitive of integrity tests, that Paruvia Institute of Technology, Great Northern University, and Van Prooijen University, in that order, will compete in the twenty-second International University Challenge Championship.

by **Vephrall** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:27 pm

International University Challenge Championship 22
presented by Nakiti Corporation

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

A total of twenty-four institutions from eight nations were entered into this year's tournament, all of which will be placed directly into the group stage.

Rankings by association prior to IUCC22 (bold = founding member; italics = not participating in IUCC22):
1. Vephrall (VPH)
2. Dancougar (DAN)
3. Candelaria And Marquez (CAM)
4. West Zirconia (WZI)
5. Academy Sporting Association [Paripana] (ASA)
6. Ad'ihan (ADN)
7. Taeshan (TAE)
8. Unreal229 (UN#)
T-9. Sorthern Northland (SNO)
T-9. The Babbage Islands (TBI)
11. Valanora (VAL)
12. Cafundéu (CAF)

The 24 teams were seeded by ranking into six pots and drawn into four groups accordingly. The top two finishers in each group will advance to the quarterfinals.

Group A
University of Gilderome [DAN]
Arrigo Polytechnic [CAM]
Bove University [CAM]
Universidad de Melin [CAM]
Bradley University [WZI]
Cecile Area Blue Devils [TAE]

Group B
University of Calamen, Petaki [VPH]
Frontier College [ADN]
Stanley College [ADN]
St. Martin Medical Institute [WZI]
Great Northern University [ASA]
Babbage Academy of Engineering [TBI]

Group C
Siellal University [VPH]
Rascenass University [VPH]
Prifysgol Gymraeg Caernewydd [WZI]
Air Force Aeros [TAE]
University of Gernsback [TBI]
Van Prooijen University [ASA]

Group D
Thane College [DAN]
Aiken College [DAN]
Technical Institute at Dalinn [ADN]
Paruvia Institute of Technology [ASA]
Strawberry Fields University [TAE]
Berkley University [TBI]

Quarterfinal matchups
Q1. A1 v B2
Q2. C1 v D2
Q3. B1 v C2
Q4. D1 v A2

Semifinal matchups
S1. Q1 v Q2
S2. Q3 v Q4

Final: S1 v S2

Results will be posted tomorrow.

by **Pays de Horreur** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:02 pm

The Horreur Ligue! For the first time ever! At last!

Pays de Horreur's premier footballing league has finally reached international shores. Consisting of 20 teams playing each other twice in a season, once at home and once away.

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 La Sangre de Dios 38 20 10 8 73 40 33 70 2 Wolf Creek 38 17 12 9 42 28 14 63 3 Raccoon City F.C. 38 18 7 13 57 46 11 61 4 Wheelsy 38 17 9 12 50 42 8 60 5 Crystal Lake Victoria 38 15 14 9 48 36 12 59 6 Kassel County Rangers 38 16 11 11 41 34 7 59 7 Cherry Falls 38 14 14 10 36 41 -5 56 8 Sunnydale Athletic 38 14 12 12 39 40 -1 54 9 Aquatica Albion 38 16 5 17 42 48 -6 53 10 Valentine Bluff Rovers 38 14 8 16 53 60 -7 50 11 Ambrose County 38 12 12 14 43 46 -3 48 12 Silent Hill 38 13 8 17 59 62 -3 47 13 Bailey Downs F.C. 38 11 14 13 36 39 -3 47 14 Sleepy Hollow Hotspur 38 11 13 14 45 43 2 46 15 Amityville 38 10 16 12 34 36 -2 46 16 Amity Island 38 12 9 17 45 55 -10 45 17 Springwood United 38 11 10 17 49 57 -8 43 18 Sherwood 38 10 13 15 32 40 -8 43 19 Haddonfield Town 38 10 11 17 49 66 -17 41 20 Woodsboro 38 10 10 18 40 54 -14 40

La Sangre de Dios, hailing from the South of Pays de Horreur took the first ever Horreur Ligue Title by 7 points. Down at the bottom of the league Woodsboro came last by a single point and only three behind Sherwood and Springwood United.

The Highest scoring match of the season took place between Haddonfield Town 5-2 Amity Island
The Honor of Largest home win went to 17th placed Springwood United 4-0 Amity Island
Whereas the Largest away win went to Haddonfield Town 0-4 Crystal Lake Victoria

Pays de Horreur's Golden Boot award went to international striker and La Sangre de Dios player Lester Crabtree who managed a 27 goal haul in the 38 league appearances.

by **Adihan** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:37 pm

Season 22

After a long time off, the United Islands League Championship returned for its 22nd season with one big change — eight new teams were inducted into the championship, and four existing teams were given the go-ahead for 'B' teams. Four of the new teams and the four 'B' teams formed the new Third Division (from which the 'B' teams were ineligible to be promoted); the other four new teams were entered into the Second Division. The Premier Division expanded to 18 teams from 16 (the two teams meant to be relegated after last season, Flitton Rangers and Olympique Protectorat, were spared the drop), with the Second Division becoming a ten-team contest, up from eight. The bottom three teams will now be relegated from the Premier Division, with two teams relegated from the Second Division.

The AFF League Cup also made a return, featuring all 32 first teams in the 36-team pyramid in a two-legged direct elimination tournament, with the final being played at Protectorate Stadium.

The top four qualify for the TQCC. The fifth, sixth and seventh placed teams (depending on the winner of the League Cup) qualify for the Globe Cup, while the top three from the Second Division and the Third Division champion qualifying for the SBCC.

The format of what used to be the AFF Challenge Trophy was unchanged, with the trophy awarded to the team that led the league after 17 games of the season. The trophy was renamed the AFF Silver Trophy beginning with this season, however, as in its new role it no longer is a challenge tournament. The Silver Trophy will continue to be awarded to the team leading the top flight at the halfway stage of the season.

United Islands League Championship — past winners
United Islands Premier: Protectorate United (10; seasons 1–3, 14–19, 21); CF Mont-Pluie (7; 5–6, 8–12); Olympique Protectorat (1; 4); Oldbridge City (1; 13); Mountbatten Junction (1; 20)
Ad’ihan Championship: Dalinn Wanderers (This championship is recognised as a national championship, but not a top-flight league title. This was the predecessor of the Challenge Trophy; a few seasons later it was established.)
AFF Challenge Trophy: CF Mont-Pluie; Kelssek national team (2); CF Outineau (Kelssek); Protectorate United; Orean United (Liventia); Mountbatten Junction

Celebrated former Ad’ihani national manager Devida Cal was fired as manager of Dalinn Wanderers eleven games into the season after just one win from those 11 matches left his side staring at what was on course to become the worst league season ever recorded by a professional team. The relegation fight was close all the way, with Dalinn Wanderers eventually improving enough to finish second-from-bottom over the woeful AFC Hatton, who conceded an astounding 95 goals during the season. Olympique Protectorat failed to make use of their second chance and missed out on safety by one point, joining the other two teams in being relegated to the second division.

At the top, Mountbatten Junction took the title back from Protectorate United in style, winning the league by a clear 11 points and scoring 82 goals in the process. Third-placed County Stanley might have set a new record for the most boring team, scoring just 38 goals and conceding just 27 over the course of their 34 matches. Flitton Rangers were the surprise of the season. Escaping relegation last season because of the league expansion, their work over the long close-season saw them finish fourth, good enough for a TQCC qualification slot. The League Cup, meanwhile, was won by Hatton Town in a thrilling 4–3 final over second division Southcast Town.

AFF Silver Trophy — United Islands Premier halfway point
 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Mountbatten Junction      17  11   2   4   40   18   22   35
   2  County Stanley            17   9   5   3   23   14    9   32
   3  Flitton Rangers           17   8   6   3   21   18    3   30
   4  Protectorate United       17   8   5   4   36   25   11   29
   5  Altsend                   17   7   5   5   31   25    6   26
   6  Tallyn Rovers             17   6   8   3   24   18    6   26
   7  Grand Arsenal             17   7   4   6   41   37    4   25
   8  CF Mont-Pluie             17   5   8   4   34   21   13   23
   9  Hatton Town               17   5   7   5   35   35    0   22
  10  Pilminster Rovers         17   5   7   5   19   21   -2   22
  11  Flitton City              17   5   7   5   11   17   -6   22
  12  South Barrier Utd         17   5   6   6   24   23    1   21
  13  Oldbridge City            17   3  10   4   25   25    0   19
  14  Navon Beach               17   5   4   8   33   39   -6   19
  15  Northtown Utd             17   3   8   6   21   26   -5   17
  16  Olympique Protectorat     17   4   5   8   24   42  -18   17
  17  AFC Hatton                17   4   4   9   24   44  -20   16
  18  Dalinn Wanderers          17   1   3  13   16   34  -18    6

United Islands Premier

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Mountbatten Junction      34  24   2   8   82   40   42   74  C/TQCC
   2  Protectorate United       34  19   6   9   73   44   29   63    TQCC
   3  County Stanley            34  18   7   9   38   27   11   61    TQCC
   4  Flitton Rangers           34  15  10   9   42   38    4   55    TQCC
   5  Oldbridge City            34  12  14   8   60   55    5   50    GC
   6  Grand Arsenal             34  15   5  14   77   75    2   50    GC
   7  Tallyn Rovers             34  12  13   9   58   50    8   49
   8  CF Mont-Pluie             34  12  12  10   58   40   18   48
   9  Hatton Town               34  12  11  11   75   67    8   47    GC (LC)
  10  Altsend                   34  12   9  13   54   57   -3   45
  11  Navon Beach               34  13   5  16   70   81  -11   44
  12  Pilminster Rovers         34  10  12  12   37   45   -8   42
  13  Flitton City              34  10  11  13   34   46  -12   41
  14  South Barrier Utd         34  10  10  14   44   49   -5   40
  15  Northtown Utd             34   9  10  15   51   62  -11   37
  16  Olympique Protectorat     34   9   9  16   59   74  -15   36  R
  17  Dalinn Wanderers          34   8   6  20   47   63  -16   30  R
  18  AFC Hatton                34   7   6  21   49   95  -46   27  R

Second Division

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Island Athletic           36  18  10   8   67   51   16   64  C/P/SBCC
   2  Dullham and Oldbridge     36  16  12   8   63   44   19   60    P/SBCC
   3  T’chéy Park               36  15  13   8   39   22   17   58    P/SBCC
   4  Southcast Town            36  12  17   7   32   25    7   53
   5  Kinney Road               36  12  12  12   35   33    2   48
   6  Riverston Town            36  13   7  16   37   44   -7   46
   7  Djei Sporting Club        36  11  10  15   42   52  -10   43
   8  Ad’ihan Military Forces   36  12   6  18   43   52   -9   42
   9  Interior FC               36  10  12  14   41   51  -10   42    R
  10  GIAW FC                   36   6  11  19   28   53  -25   29    R

Third Division

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Airport City FC           28  13   3  12   53   45    8   42  C/P/SBCC
   2  Harley County FC          28  10  12   6   30   28    2   42    P
   3  Junction B                28  10  11   7   44   43    1   41
   4  Protectorate Utd B        28  12   4  12   52   40   12   40
   5  Coastal County FC         28   9  13   6   29   27    2   40
   6  CF Mont-Pluie II          28   9   8  11   36   38   -2   35
   7  Dullham Town FC           28   7  12   9   35   44   -9   33
   8  Oldbridge City B          28   6   9  13   41   55  -14   27

AFF League Cup
Round One
South Barrier Utd (PRM) 1-1 Oldbridge City (PRM) (2-1 AET)
Flitton Rangers (PRM) 1-1 Dullham and Oldbridge (2DV) (1-1 AET) (Flitton Rangers (PRM) wins 4-2 on penalty kicks)
Hatton Town (PRM) 3-1 CF Mont-Pluie (PRM)
Dalinn Wanderers (PRM) 1-0 GIAW FC (2DV)
Harley County FC (3DV) 0-1 Grand Arsenal (PRM)
Airport City FC (3DV) 1-3 County Stanley (PRM)
Dullham Town FC (3DV) 1-2 Djei Sporting Club (2DV)
Coastal County FC (3DV) 0-0 T’chéy Park (2DV) (0-0 AET) (T’chéy Park (2DV) wins 4-3 on penalty kicks)
AFC Hatton (PRM) 0-2 Southcast Town (2DV)
Northtown Utd (PRM) 2-2 Navon Beach (PRM) (3-4 AET)
Flitton City (PRM) 1-3 Olympique Protectorat (PRM)
Protectorate United (PRM) 4-1 Riverston Town (2DV)
Island Athletic (2DV) 1-3 Pilminster Rovers (PRM)
Interior FC (2DV) 1-5 Mountbatten Junction (PRM)
Altsend (PRM) 1-5 Tallyn Rovers (PRM)
Ad’ihan Military Forces (2DV) 0-2 Kinney Road (2DV)

Round Two
South Barrier Utd (PRM) 0-0 Flitton Rangers (PRM) (0-1 AET)
Hatton Town (PRM) 3-3 Dalinn Wanderers (PRM) (4-3 AET)
Grand Arsenal (PRM) 2-0 County Stanley (PRM)
Djei Sporting Club (2DV) 1-0 T’chéy Park (2DV)
Southcast Town (2DV) 2-2 Navon Beach (PRM) (4-2 AET)
Olympique Protectorat (PRM) 1-2 Protectorate United (PRM)
Pilminster Rovers (PRM) 1-0 Mountbatten Junction (PRM)
Tallyn Rovers (PRM) 2-0 Kinney Road (2DV)

Quarterfinals
Flitton Rangers (PRM) 1-1 Hatton Town (PRM) (1-1 AET) (Hatton Town (PRM) wins 5-4 on penalty kicks)
Grand Arsenal (PRM) 6-2 Djei Sporting Club (2DV)
Southcast Town (2DV) 1-0 Protectorate United (PRM)
Pilminster Rovers (PRM) 0-1 Tallyn Rovers (PRM)

Semifinals
Tallyn Rovers (PRM) 5-5 Hatton Town (PRM) (5-5 AET) (Hatton Town (PRM) wins 4-3 on penalty kicks)
Southcast Town (2DV) 1-1 Grand Arsenal (PRM) (2-1 AET)

FINAL
Hatton Town (PRM) 4-3 Southcast Town (2DV)

Season 20

Just as the professional leagues underwent a major revamp, the university league and cup did too. The 16 schools involved in the league will now play as one single competition, with each team playing each other once (15 games). The top three teams qualify for the IUCC, with the University Cup now scrapped.

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Frontier College          15   9   2   4   24   13   11   29  IUCC
   2  Stanley College           15   8   3   4   18   15    3   27  IUCC
   3  Tech. Inst. at Dalinn     15   7   5   3   23   14    9   26  IUCC
   4  Dullham Tech              15   7   5   3   20   14    6   26
   5  Tech. Inst. at Hatton     15   8   1   6   23   18    5   25
   6  L'Uni Dz’ai               15   6   5   4   21   16    5   23
   7  Oldbridge Sports Dev      15   6   4   5   20   16    4   22
   8  Navon Beach Uni           15   4   8   3   18   14    4   20 
   9  L'Uni française du MN     15   6   2   7   16   18   -2   20 
  10  Uni Grand Island          15   5   3   7   15   21   -6   18
  11  Hatton Med College        15   4   5   6   19   23   -4   17
  12  Flitton University        15   4   4   7   17   18   -1   16
  13  AUSM                      15   3   7   5   16   21   -5   16  
  14  Dalinn College, Journ     15   4   4   7   18   25   -7   16
  15  City of Ad’ihan Uni       15   4   4   7   10   19   -9   16
  16  Altsend Southern Uni      15   1   6   8   14   27  -13    9

by **Valladares** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:18 pm

(OOC: Due to RL matters, I couldn't finish the Super League season before TQCC 18. Therefore, to end that season, this post will feature the Clausura Tournament, and Marinos Metropolis -the Apertura champion- is awarded with the first berth to the TQCC 19)

IC:

The Valladar Super League, better known as the Hydro Super League for sponsorship reasons, returns this time after not reaching the deadline for UICA competitions the last season. After the Apertura Tournament finished, our footballers organized a strike, and the Clasura Tournament was discontinued. In this season, we will continue with the last season's results, and Marinos Metropolis will defend their title.

Standings after Matchday 19 - Clausura Tournament

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Marinos Metropolis       19  11   5   3   34   21   13   38  GROUP A SEEDED TEAM
   2  Metropolis Alligators    19  10   4   5   28   20    8   34  GROUP B SEEDED TEAM
   3  Eterna Stars             19  10   2   7   22   21    1   32 
   4  Slateport Bulls          19   9   4   6   32   18   14   31 
   5  Fontvielle Impact        19   9   4   6   29   20    9   31 
   6  SC Caimanes              19   8   6   5   27   19    8   30 
   7  Tannenberg FC            19   8   6   5   24   21    3   30 
   8  AD Cerro                 19   8   5   6   29   27    2   29 
   9  Pumas Maldonado          19   8   4   7   33   23   10   28 
  10  AS Bezieres              19   8   3   8   25   25    0   27 
  11  Valencia FC              19   8   3   8   16   22   -6   27 
  12  FC Lili                  19   7   5   7   19   24   -5   26 
  13  Chiquito FC              19   7   4   8   23   24   -1   25
  14  AS Vaud                  19   6   5   8   31   33   -2   23
  15  Pradera FC               19   6   4   9   19   22   -3   22
  16  AS Montreux              19   6   4   9   18   24   -6   22
  17  Hamanos Athletic Club    19   5   5   9   22   31   -9   20
  18  Dep. Aguablanca          19   5   4  10   15   27  -12   19
  19  Universitario Maldonado  19   5   3  11   18   29  -11   18
  20  Cardenales FC            19   2   8   9   21   33  -12   14

The eight teams qualified to the Play-Off Round were drawn in two groups of four teams each one. Marinos Metropolis and Metropolis Alligators are the seeded teams. Here are the groups:

GROUP A:

Marinos Metropolis
Slateport Bulls
Fontvielle Impact
AD Cerro

GROUP B:

Metropolis Alligators
Eterna Stars
SC Caimanes
Tannenberg FC

by **Vephrall** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:27 pm

International University Challenge Championship 22
presented by Nakiti Corporation

Group stage

Group A

Matchday 1
Univ of Gilderome [DAN] 4-2 Cecile Area [TAE]
Arrigo Polytech [CAM] 0-2 Bradley Univ [WZI]
Bove University [CAM] 1-1 Univ de Melin [CAM]

Matchday 2
Bove University [CAM] 2-2 Univ of Gilderome [DAN]
Cecile Area [TAE] 1-4 Arrigo Polytech [CAM]
Bradley Univ [WZI] 2-2 Univ de Melin [CAM]

Matchday 3
Univ of Gilderome [DAN] 2-0 Bradley Univ [WZI]
Arrigo Polytech [CAM] 2-2 Univ de Melin [CAM]
Bove University [CAM] 1-2 Cecile Area [TAE]

Matchday 4
Arrigo Polytech [CAM] 1-2 Univ of Gilderome [DAN]
Bradley Univ [WZI] 0-0 Bove University [CAM]
Cecile Area [TAE] 0-1 Univ de Melin [CAM]

Matchday 5
Univ of Gilderome [DAN] 0-1 Univ de Melin [CAM]
Arrigo Polytech [CAM] 1-1 Bove University [CAM]
Bradley Univ [WZI] 1-0 Cecile Area [TAE]

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Univ of Gilderome [DAN]    5   3   1   1   10    6    4   10  Q
   2  Univ de Melin     [CAM]    5   2   3   0    7    5    2    9  Q
   3  Bradley Univ      [WZI]    5   2   2   1    5    4    1    8
   4  Arrigo Polytech   [CAM]    5   1   2   2    8    8    0    5
   5  Bove University   [CAM]    5   0   4   1    5    6   -1    4
   6  Cecile Area       [TAE]    5   1   0   4    5   11   -6    3

Group B

Matchday 1
Calamen-Petaki [VPH] 1-1 Babbage Acad Eng [TBI]
Frontier College [ADN] 4-0 Great Northern U [ASA]
Stanley College [ADN] 1-2 St Martin Medical [WZI]

Matchday 2
Stanley College [ADN] 3-1 Calamen-Petaki [VPH]
Babbage Acad Eng [TBI] 1-2 Frontier College [ADN]
Great Northern U [ASA] 1-3 St Martin Medical [WZI]

Matchday 3
Calamen-Petaki [VPH] 1-2 Great Northern U [ASA]
Frontier College [ADN] 2-2 St Martin Medical [WZI]
Stanley College [ADN] 2-2 Babbage Acad Eng [TBI]

Matchday 4
Frontier College [ADN] 2-2 Calamen-Petaki [VPH]
Great Northern U [ASA] 1-1 Stanley College [ADN]
Babbage Acad Eng [TBI] 1-4 St Martin Medical [WZI]

Matchday 5
Calamen-Petaki [VPH] 1-3 St Martin Medical [WZI]
Frontier College [ADN] 3-0 Stanley College [ADN]
Great Northern U [ASA] 2-0 Babbage Acad Eng [TBI]

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  St Martin Medical [WZI]    5   4   1   0   14    6    8   13  Q
   2  Frontier College  [ADN]    5   3   2   0   13    5    8   11  Q
   3  Great Northern U  [ASA]    5   2   1   2    6    9   -3    7
   4  Stanley College   [ADN]    5   1   2   2    7    9   -2    5
   5  Calamen-Petaki    [VPH]    5   0   2   3    6   11   -5    2
   6  Babbage Acad Eng  [TBI]    5   0   2   3    5   11   -6    2

Group C

Matchday 1
Siellal Univ [VPH] 2-0 Van Prooijen Univ [ASA]
Rascenass Univ [VPH] 1-3 Univ of Gernsback [TBI]
P.G.C. [WZI] 2-0 Air Force [TAE]

Matchday 2
P.G.C. [WZI] 2-1 Siellal Univ [VPH]
Van Prooijen Univ [ASA] 2-1 Rascenass Univ [VPH]
Univ of Gernsback [TBI] 2-1 Air Force [TAE]

Matchday 3
Siellal Univ [VPH] 3-1 Univ of Gernsback [TBI]
Rascenass Univ [VPH] 3-0 Air Force [TAE]
P.G.C. [WZI] 3-1 Van Prooijen Univ [ASA]

Matchday 4
Rascenass Univ [VPH] 2-0 Siellal Univ [VPH]
Univ of Gernsback [TBI] 0-2 P.G.C. [WZI]
Van Prooijen Univ [ASA] 0-3 Air Force [TAE]

Matchday 5
Siellal Univ [VPH] 3-1 Air Force [TAE]
Rascenass Univ [VPH] 0-1 P.G.C. [WZI]
Univ of Gernsback [TBI] 1-2 Van Prooijen Univ [ASA]

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  P.G.C.            [WZI]    5   5   0   0   10    2    8   15  Q
   2  Siellal Univ      [VPH]    5   3   0   2    9    6    3    9  Q
   3  Rascenass Univ    [VPH]    5   2   0   3    7    6    1    6
   4  Univ of Gernsback [TBI]    5   2   0   3    7    9   -2    6
   5  Van Prooijen Univ [ASA]    5   2   0   3    5   10   -5    6
   6  Air Force         [TAE]    5   1   0   4    5   10   -5    3

Group D

Matchday 1
Thane College [DAN] 0-0 Berkley Univ [TBI]
Aiken College [DAN] 0-2 Strawberry Fields [TAE]
Dalinn Tech [ADN] 0-1 Paruvia Tech [ASA]

Matchday 2
Dalinn Tech [ADN] 0-4 Thane College [DAN]
Berkley Univ [TBI] 1-2 Aiken College [DAN]
Strawberry Fields [TAE] 1-1 Paruvia Tech [ASA]

Matchday 3
Thane College [DAN] 5-1 Strawberry Fields [TAE]
Aiken College [DAN] 0-1 Paruvia Tech [ASA]
Dalinn Tech [ADN] 2-0 Berkley Univ [TBI]

Matchday 4
Aiken College [DAN] 1-3 Thane College [DAN]
Strawberry Fields [TAE] 1-1 Dalinn Tech [ADN]
Berkley Univ [TBI] 1-0 Paruvia Tech [ASA]

Matchday 5
Thane College [DAN] 2-1 Paruvia Tech [ASA]
Aiken College [DAN] 2-0 Dalinn Tech [ADN]
Strawberry Fields [TAE] 2-3 Berkley Univ [TBI]

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Thane College     [DAN]    5   4   1   0   14    3   11   13  Q
   2  Paruvia Tech      [ASA]    5   2   1   2    4    4    0    7  Q
   3  Berkley Univ      [TBI]    5   2   1   2    5    6   -1    7
   4  Aiken College     [DAN]    5   2   0   3    5    7   -2    6
   5  Strawberry Fields [TAE]    5   1   2   2    7   10   -3    5
   6  Dalinn Tech       [ADN]    5   1   1   3    3    8   -5    4

Knockout rounds

Quarterfinals
University of Gilderome [DAN] 2-4 Frontier College [ADN]
Prifysgol Gymraeg Caernewydd [WZI] 1-2 Paruvia Institute of Technology [ASA]
St. Martin Medical Institute [WZI] 2-1 Siellal University [VPH]
Thane College [DAN] 3-1 Universidad de Melin [CAM]

Semifinals
Frontier College [ADN] 1-0 Paruvia Institute of Technology [ASA]
St. Martin Medical Institute [WZI] 0-2 Thane College [DAN]

Final (Ellime e Vephrall, Meice)
Frontier College [ADN] 2-0 Thane College [DAN]

Frontier College of Ad'ihan is the new IUCC champion! This also means that the IUCC23 final will be held in Ad'ihan.

IUCC23 will be held on or around Sunday 13 December.

by **Valladares** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:33 pm

Standings after Matchday 6 - Play-Off Round, Clausura Tournament

GROUP A

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Slateport Bulls           6   3   2   1    9    6    3   11
   2  Marinos Metropolis        6   2   2   2    9    5    4    8 
   3  Fontvielle Impact         6   2   1   3    6   10   -4    7 
   4  AD Cerro                  6   1   3   2    6    9   -3    6

Matchday 1:
AD Cerro 1-1 Fontvielle Impact
Slateport Bulls 1-0 Marinos Metropolis

Matchday 2:
Marinos Metropolis 2-0 AD Cerro
Fontvielle Impact 1-3 Slateport Bulls

Matchday 3:
Slateport Bulls 0-0 AD Cerro
Fontvielle Impact 1-0 Marinos Metropolis

Matchday 4:
AD Cerro 3-2 Slateport Bulls
Marinos Metropolis 4-0 Fontvielle Impact

Matchday 5:
AD Cerro 1-1 Marinos Metropolis
Slateport Bulls 1-0 Fontvielle Impact

Matchday 6:
Fontvielle Impact 3-1 AD Cerro
Marinos Metropolis 2-2 Slateport Bulls

GROUP B

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  SC Caimanes               6   4   1   1    9    2    7   13
   2  Metropolis Alligators     6   2   2   2    9    6    3    8
   3  Tannenberg FC             6   1   4   1    3    4   -1    7   
   4  Eterna Stars              6   1   1   4    2   11   -9    4

Matchday 1:
Tannenberg FC 0-2 SC Caimanes
Metropolis Alligators 0-1 Eterna Stars

Matchday 2:
Tannenberg FC 1-1 Metropolis Alligators
SC Caimanes 2-0 Eterna Stars

Matchday 3:
Eterna Stars 0-0 Tannenberg FC
Metropolis Alligators 2-1 SC Caimanes

Matchday 4:
Tannenberg FC 1-0 Eterna Stars
SC Caimanes 1-0 Metropolis Alligators

Matchday 5:
Metropolis Alligators 1-1 Tannenberg FC
Eterna Stars 0-3 SC Caimanes

Matchday 6:
SC Caimanes 0-0 Tannenberg FC
Eterna Stars 1-5 Metropolis Alligators

THE FINAL: Slateport Bulls vs SC Caimanes


1st Leg: Estadio de la Riviera - Slateport City (Att: 34,504)

Slateport Bulls 2-1 SC Caimanes

2nd Leg: Estádio Armando Bozzelli - Campo Grande (Att: 49,771)

SC Caimanes 1-0 Slateport Bulls

Aggregate:

Slateport Bulls 2-2 SC Caimanes (Away goals: SLT 0-1 SCC)

CHAMPIONS
SC Caimanes (1st title)

With this title, SC Caimanes will be the second Valladar team in the TakilQuip Champions' Cup 19, alongside with Marinos Metropolis, the Apertura champion. The Overall Standings will announce the valladar teams to the next Globe Cup.

Overall Standings:

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Marinos Metropolis       52  28  17   7   88   45   43  101*
   2  Slateport Bulls          54  29  12  13   76   45   31   99** 
   3  SC Caimanes              52  24  14  14   76   52   24   86* 
   4  Metropolis Alligators    50  22  17  11   83   59   24   83**
   5  Tannenberg FC            50  19  19  12   60   52    8   76**
   6  Eterna Stars             50  20  14  16   57   59   -2   74 
   7  AD Cerro                 50  19  12  19   63   68   -5   69
   8  Fontvielle Impact        44  18  10  16   60   53    7   64 
   9  Chiquito FC              44  16  12  16   47   51   -4   60 
  10  Pumas Maldonado          38  14  11  13   46   40    6   53
  11  Valencia FC              38  14  10  14   34   39   -5   52  
  12  AS Bezieres              38  13  11  14   48   46    2   50 
  13  FC Lili                  38  13  10  15   41   47   -6   49 
  14  Pradera FC               38  13   7  18   44   50   -6   46
  15  AS Vaud                  38  11  10  17   46   58  -12   43
  16  AS Montreux              38  11   9  18   32   43  -11   42
  17  Hamanos Athletic Club    38   8  11  19   38   56  -18   35
  18  Dep. Aguablanca          38   6  15  17   33   52  -19   33***
  19  Cardenales FC            38   8   9  21   36   61  -25   33*** 
  20  Universitario Maldonado  38   8   6  24   32   63  -31   30***

* Apertura and Clausura Champions. Qualified to the TakilQuip Champions' Cup.
** Qualified to the Globe Cup.
*** Dep. Aguablanca, Cardenales FC and Universitario Maldonado finished 18th, 19th, and 20th in the
    Relegation Standings. Therefore, they will play in the Valladar B-League the next season.

The Canalave Crown (Sponsored by UltraTeam):

The Canalave Crown is an annual match played between the Apertura Champion and the Clausura Champion. It is going to define the Champion of the Season. The match will be played at the Dragon Stadium in Canalave City. (Cap: 35,000)

THE CANALAVE CROWN: Marinos Metropolis vs SC Caimanes


Dragon Stadium - Canalave City (Att: 33,071)

Marinos Metropolis 3-1 SC Caimanes

CHAMPIONS
Marinos Metropolis

Valladar B-League Final Standings

Pos   Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Alejandría SC             38  24   9   5   64   27   37   81  CH - SBCC    
   2  Nord Energie FC           38  19   7  12   53   38   15   64  P - SBCC    
   3  Canalave Dragons          38  17   7  14   44   43    1   58  P - SBCC   
   4  AC Tallin                 38  14  15   9   38   30    8   57  SBCC   
   5  Olympique de Fontvielle   38  15  12  11   47   41    6   57     
   6  Nacional                  38  16   9  13   39   35    4   57
   7  Atlético Robles           38  15  12  11   46   48   -2   57
   8  SC Alcázares              38  13  15  10   41   41    0   54     
   9  RC Corania                38  13  12  13   45   38    7   51
  10  RC Belfort                38  13  11  14   45   43    2   50
  11  Rexam                     38  14   7  17   52   50    2   49
  12  Club Osum                 38  11  16  11   45   46   -1   49
  13  Swangard Club             38  13  10  15   37   44   -7   49
  14  AC Talamonte              38  12  13  13   33   40   -7   49
  15  Minault United            38  12  12  14   42   42    0   48
  16  Tessano FC                38   9  16  13   34   40   -6   43     
  17  Lierravus AC              38  11  10  17   36   48  -12   43
  18  AD Valle                  38   9  12  17   39   54  -15   39  R
  19  Sport Valladar            38   7  14  17   46   58  -12   35  R
  20  Harley Sport              38   7  13  18   29   49  -20   34  R

SUMMARY OF THE SEASON:

Apertura Champion: Marinos Metropolis
Clausura Champion: SC Caimanes
Canalave Crown Champion: Marinos Metropolis
Relegated Teams: Dep. Aguablanca, Cardenales FC and Universitario Maldonado
Promoted Teams: Alejandría SC, Nord Energie FC, Canalave Dragons

INTERNATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

TakilQuip Champions' Cup 19:
Marinos Metropolis - Apertura Champion
SC Caimanes - Clausura Champion

Globe Cup 16:
Slateport Bulls - Best-placed team in the Overall Standings
Metropolis Alligators - Fourth placed team in the Overall Standings
Tannenberg FC - Fifth placed team in the Overall Standings

Samseong Series B Champions' Cup 16:
Alejandría SC - Valladar B-League Champion
Nord Energie FC - Valladar B-League Runner-up
Canalave Dragons - Valladar B-League third placed team
AC Tallin - Valladar B-League fourth placed team

FINAL STADIUM BID:

Also, for the first time ever, Valladares submits a stadium bid for hosting the final of any UICA competition. The selected stadium this time is the National Stadium of Valladares in Metropolis. (Cap. 85,000)

by **Sargossa** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:13 pm

Two things stood out from the traditional opening Saturday night fixture that marked the start of a new SuperLiga season. Firstly it didn't involve any of the big three. And secondly it showed a level of attacking intent that would become a familiar sight as the season progressed. Perennial underachievers Deportivo Soluca, inspired by tricky Marquezian playmaker Damián Jimenez, took Segunda Liga champions Machala Del Norte apart at the ediraf in a display of attacking edge that left the watching public licking their lips in anticipation at the season to come. And they would not go wanting.

Reigning champions CIudad Soluca set the early pace, winning their first four games with big Candelariasian Zac Adekunde particularly dangerous, but it was Sporting San Marquez who were making the headlines with the attacking triumvirate of Diego Lara, Agapito López Santos and Cafundéu's Marcinho, deployed behind lone striker Roberto Ordóñez, looking borderline unstoppable. Visitors to the Estadio Silva weren't so much beaten as torn asunder by José Felipe Cassumba Domingos' resurgent side. Ciudad were caught and then overhauled as the southerner's lead at the top of the table stretched into double figures.

The mind games between the two rival coaches, Sporting under their young Marquezian and Ciudad with wily Candelariasian Hane Davis at the helm, became a stable of the back pages in the final few months as the champions gradually whittled down Sporting's lead. Marcelo Cobían's winner four minutes into stoppage time at the Estadio Silva edged a five goal thriller in favour of Ciudad and started a frantic race for the finish line. Sporting bounced back in imperious form with a 5 - 1 win at third placed El Nacional but their gung-ho spirit led to points being dropped and the Ciudad charge getting closer and closer as the weeks went by.

One more week and Ciudad would have had them as Sporting stumbled over the finishing line with one win in their last four, but two points clear of the champions. They may have been run close in the end but few doubted that the side from San Marquez were clear and deserved winners. Their attacking verve may have cost a few cheap points but it always entertained and 100 goals scored speaks for itself. El Nacional finished some way off the pace down in third but there was still plenty to celebrate for Otto van Belhamel and his motley crew of Sargossans, Poconese and Nethertopians as the nation's improved coefficient ranking granted the SuperLiga a third spot in the TakilQuip Champions Cup.

Dínamo Maturín, now under former Mercadel manager Juan Manuel Del Rios following José Marín's ill-fated departure to take charge of the national side, kept up their run as the best of the rest in fourth while Deportivo Soluca made a welcome return to global competition with their fifth place finish. At the other end little Juventudé's top flight run came to an abrupt end, with Atlético Ensenada and S.C. Goza following them out the backdoor.

The managerial merry-go-round was in full spin throughout the season with Deportivo Cordova's Israel Quintana the biggest casualty following his side's 5 - 1 hammering in Maturín in week 32. Former Dínamo chief Marín, having now ended his blink and you'd miss it spell as national boss, replaced him at the Estadio Del Mar. One time El Nacional boss Esteban Recoba was lured away from his lucrative media commitments to take over at struggling S.C. Goza as the former SuperLiga stalwarts fought desperately to stay up. He replaced Jonathan Tomás who had in turn taken over from Eduardo Lopez but could do nothing to arrest the slide. Recoba didn't see out the season, stepping down in favour of Carlos Cuevas who took the club out of the dropzone for a whole week before defeats in the final two games confirmed their relegation. At Juventudé Francisco Javier Bauzá was replaced at the helm by his assistant Javier Luna while former Petro coach Roberto Estrada took over from Jonathan Rubio at Dunas Del Sol.

SuperLiga Season 7

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Sporting San Marquez      38  26   5   7  100   50   50   83   (TQCC)
   2  Ciudad Soluca             38  26   3   9   83   45   38   81   (TQCC)
   3  El Nacional               38  23   6   9   84   54   30   75   (TQCC)
   4  Dínamo Maturín            38  20   6  12   68   49   19   66   (GC)
   5  Deportivo Soluca          38  19   6  13   71   60   11   63   (GC)
   6  Estrella Torreón          38  17   5  16   51   46    5   56   (GC)
   7  Deportivo Cordova         38  14  11  13   68   64    4   53
   8  Porto Alegro Azul         38  14  11  13   53   51    2   53
   9  Mercadel S.C.             38  14  10  14   49   47    2   52
  10  Alianza Jucaro            38  15   6  17   57   58   -1   51
  11  Machala Del Norte         38  15   6  17   54   69  -15   51
  12  Defensor                  38  14   8  16   44   56  -12   50
  13  Rubio Bayamo              38  14   7  17   55   63   -8   49
  14  Cartago Rojo              38  14   6  18   45   56  -11   48
  15  Petro Mercada             38  12  11  15   50   61  -11   47
  16  Sportivo Maturín          38  10  10  18   48   68  -20   40
  17  Dunas Del Sol             38  10   9  19   46   62  -16   39
  18  S.C. Goza                 38   9  10  19   45   61  -16   37   (R)
  19  Atlético Ensenada         38   9   8  21   31   49  -18   35   (R)
  20  Juventudé                 38   8  10  20   55   88  -33   34   (R)

Lo and behold. A Segunda Liga season in which the three relegated SuperLiga sides didn't go straight back up again. Jaguarés did, comfortably too, but Racing Soluca and Atlético weren't expected to follow them. Fancy a table?

Segunda Liga
Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Jaguarés                  46  25  14   7  109   62   47   89   (C)
   2  Racing Soluca             46  23  15   8   85   63   22   84   (P)
   3  Atlético Almansa          46  22  15   9   82   61   21   81   (P)
   4  Moruga S.C.               46  22  14  10   75   44   31   80
   5  Daroca Marinos            46  22  13  11   82   55   27   79
   6  Santos                    46  19  19   8   79   47   32   76
   7  FC Valera                 46  20  14  12   69   61    8   74
   8  Deportivo Alcántara       46  19  17  10   66   58    8   74
   9  S.C. Motril               46  20  11  15   92   78   14   71
  10  Costa San Verdi           46  18  13  15   74   67    7   67
  11  Nuevo Onwere              46  18  12  16   85   82    3   66
  12  Rayo Viesca               46  17  12  17   66   71   -5   63
  13  La Serena                 46  16  13  17   70   61    9   61
  14  Atlético Goza             46  15  14  17   75   80   -5   59
  15  Club De Camíri            46  15  12  19   55   67  -12   57
  16  Ciudad Jucaro             46  15  10  21   58   69  -11   55
  17  Sportivo Montena          46  13  15  18   58   65   -7   54
  18  Estudiantes Soluca        46  13  14  19   56   74  -18   53
  19  Rio Claro SC              46  11  17  18   53   68  -15   50
  20  S.C. Vaterás              46  12  13  21   64   82  -18   49
  21  Celta De Chala            46   9  15  22   53   78  -25   42
  22  Ciudad De Oro             46   8  16  22   53   79  -26   40   (R)
  23  Cienfuegos SC             46   9  12  25   51   86  -35   39   (R)
  24  Sporting Torrienté        46   6  10  30   48  100  -52   28   (R)

Meanwhile, the Copa Sargossa provided yet another element of drama to what was an unusually exciting season. The final, played in San Marquez's Estadio Silva, would be none other than El Classico itself as bitter rivals Ciudad Soluca and El Nacional faced up for the cup. Typically though it wasn't quite the classic anticipated but a goal from Cafundéu's Zedervan just after the interval was good enough to give Ciudad the win.

The final would present something of an issue for the FFS as they pondered, with both finalists already qualified for the TQCC, just who would receive the Copa's Globe Cup place. In the end they just handed it over to Estrella Torreón, courtesy of their sixth place league finish. Much to the annoyance of the hierarchies at beaten semi finalists Rubio Bayamo and Deportivo Cordova.

International Cup Qualifiers

TQCC
Sporting San Marquez
Ciudad Soluca
El Nacional

GC
Dínamo Maturín
Deportivo Soluca
Estrella Torreón

by **Aguazul** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:47 pm

International competition

There is a school of thought--particularly popular when one's favored team is, I don't know, blowing a crucial halftime lead to Valladares or something--that a nation's football quality isn't really one-dimensional, but the total of a number of factors that can actually work against each other at times. Yes, there are plenty of countries with strong leagues and strong national teams to match. And there are plenty more with neither particularly strong. And then, there are some with a team far better than their league...or vice versa. As General Lopez put it, our league is better than Valladares', but perhaps with weaker clubs, their best players are more easily combined into a national whole. Or, as the world champions would suggest, a small, close-knit, dedicated group can overcome the best of a sprawling league. I don't know. Something to think about, anyway.

With that in mind, consider what might have happened if Aguazul had sent teams--or even just a team, singular--to the initial TQCC. I don't actually know. But we probably would have had higher expectations by now. Been seen as less of a threat? Less able to pull a surprise? Maybe. Just maybe.

The UICA involvement began with the news that Aguazul would host an international club final for the second time. The actual-playing portion of it began with a 1-1 draw between Club ESF and Mapabore Juventud. They'd play another before Alvaro Sáez's extra-time goal sent Mapabore through. Trecelunas FC lost to Grand Arsenal (no, not those guys, they're not grand...and Trecelunas FC should be able to beat them), and FC Nacional pulled their weight by defeating Mauntenbourg FC. Their crosstown rivals won on penalties, surprisingly enough, against Clube Comercial. Oh well, sometimes good coaching just isn't enough.

Mapabore won their playoff round, though only on away goals, but FC Nacional and CD Quemavilla had little trouble with Granger Island College and Real Santa Catalina (neener neener, monarchists) respectively. Radyukevich CSC got used to victory in Ciudad Peralta, winning 3-2 before a draw sent them through. But what about CF Clan Tropa? A nine-one demolition of the Calendara Kings. We're not used to being on this end of that sort of score, but it serves them right. (It's early 2039 by that one, uh, calendar, by the way. Either we moved the season up or the national team promised to start later, don't know which, but Delgado wants a full season of results before picking the lineup.)

12 de noviembre took Metalurgs to a penalty shootout and almost won, but didn't. Trecelunas FC were shut out by Central United, while Piratas de Grisolon defeated Stein-los Turkish. CD Quemavilla defeated Radyukevich (somebody had to), while CF Clan Tropa's defensive tendencies utterly deserted them. Other fans would have found a silver lining in thrilling defeats to Spoantects CE and...some Capitalizt fraternity, but Clan Tropa just sulked all the way to the bottom of the table. FC Nacional were great at home, hoping to stay there all the way through, but forgot to bring their goalscoring boots on the road and were also last. Arcrés Millos were third despite defeating Yuba United; Mapabore Juventud were too busy figuring out the tiebreakers to take notes, but they eventually advanced despite sporting the worst goal difference of the three teams tied for first.

Piratas de Grisolon clearly want to stay in the first division and be taken seriously, but not even a new TLA could help them advance to the Globe Cup knockout stages. Arcrés Millos got there, though; a 1-0 win in their first game and a 3-2 win in their second saw them through to face Albrecht Turkish--who they beat, impressively enough, 5-4. Their defeat to the Psychiatrists, alas, was merely four goals to two. Also making a quarterfinal exit were CD Quemavilla, who had previously defeated Kareen FC.

And meanwhile...

A second-leg comeback paved the way for Mapabore Juventud to defeat the Naquada Falls Demons on penalties. They beat Merpisms CE to qualify for the semifinals--the first time all tournament they'd made a new round without benefit of tiebreakers! The Sonoma Center Panthers won the first leg of the second semifinal, 3-2.

And so it was that the greatest victory took place in Mapabore yet again, with Naike Leiva scoring the first goal and Mapabore triumphing 3-1 to make the final.

They were looking to make an indelible impression upon the footballing world, but then thought better of it. Given the talent gap between the teams, the most likely ways for Mapabore to carve a niche in the collective consciousness were unsavory ones. So instead they decided to focus, try their best, and exploit gaps in the Silver-Blue defense. Which there weren't, but Mapabore played respectably even in the one-nil defeat that transpired.

Still, it was an unforgettable ride. Perhaps we really were in the right place at the right time.

International action

...Um. We just...wait, what? Oh. Yeah. That.

Right, so, we've apparently arrived in the big time, because the...a Cafundelense scout came by with contract offers! Which were accepted.

Rubén Saavedra -> to América
Sergio Bustamante -> to Cruzeiro do Sul
Peyo Alarcón -> to Atlético Insular

Most of the vintems received wound up back in Cafundéu (though the Pumas, unsurprisingly, are clinging to everything they can get). Arcrés Millos signed Gustavo Alvim, who'll hopefully be able to switch from being a left-back to winger or, erm, back should the need arise. This versatility is so far going unappreciated on the fans, who don't see the point in signing anybody from Cafundéu who has two names just like everybody else. Estudiantes de Íguen, for their part, came up with Betinho, an offensive midfielder who's nevertheless been criticized for inefficiency on the attack. So he'll fit right in...

Primera División

⁠                     W D  L GF GA GD Pts 
Mapabore Juventud    7 10 1 28 19 9  31  C/TQCC
Piratas de Grisolon  7 8  3 29 23 6  29  TQCC
Arcrés Millos        6 7  5 30 29 1  25  TQCC
CA Condadore         6 6  6 23 21 2  24  GC
Trecelunas FC        6 4  8 20 20 0  22  GC
Estudiantes de Íguen 5 7  6 18 18 0  22  GC
Alianza Ciruelas     5 7  6 21 22 -1 22
Unión de Ciudagua    5 7  6 26 30 -4 22
Ojedo Cerro          5 5  8 16 24 -8 20
12 de noviembre      4 7  7 22 27 -5 19

You know you're in the Liga Aguazuleña when...your last-place team could, had they won one of the games that they in fact lost, have wound up in a tie for Globe Cup places that would then have comprised half the league.

Let's get the shocks out of the system now--the last-place team was 12 de noviembre, who won the derby but not a whole lot else. Still, there's no need to panic--they're only a point behind Ojedo Cerro, who were average on the road but bad as expected at home.

So...about that tie. It worked out, actually, with two of the teams having nonnegative goal differences and two others lacking such, so that was nice. Particularly considering the alternative if we'd had one fewer spot--Estudiantes de Íguen really don't want to lose out on anything through goals scored again, even to Trecelunas FC. (Though despite the league failing to be an attacking one overall for the first time, those two played a 3-2 game. Weird.) Oh, and Trecelunas had the fewest draws of anyone in a draw-crazy season. No idea.

Missing out are Alianza Ciruelas, despite only losing once at home. (To 12 de noviembre, of all people.) Though it might have seemed as if they were taking lessons from the Mapabore school of doing a lot with a little, they only drew once on the road, where they lost five games.

That draw was with fellow twenty-two-pointer Unión de Ciudagua. They would draw twice more at home and lose three there as well, but their three victories came against the preseason big three. Weird. CA Condadore haven't quite been ousted from their niche, though; they lost at home to the newly promoted Ojedo Cerro and made the Globe Cup anyway.

Arcrés Millos came third, behind the resurgent Piratas de Grisolon. (Sorry about even wondering if we could enter them in the TQCC by the way. We're not arrogant...well yes we are, actually, but that was the fault of cluelessness. And jinxed us much less than I expected!)

Um...where was I? ¡Grisolon! Right, second, another golden boot for Chale Cobarrubias, I think we're going to have to take him seriously now. And in first place, with ten draws, (six of the one-one variety), and one loss, to Unión de Ciudagua, came Mapabore Juventud.

They're our first champions that weren't in the first division when the league was formed. Even their only SBCC outing, back in the day when...well, Yuba United were winning their second TQCC...predated their promotion. Nevertheless, they're quite a good team.

Segunda División

⁠                        W D L GF GA GD Pts 
Deportivo Peralta       9 4 5 37 30 7  31  C/SBCC
CF Clan Tropa           9 3 6 24 21 3  30  SBCC
2 de abril              7 6 5 22 21 1  27  SBCC
San Pablo               6 8 4 33 30 3  26  SBCC
Universidad de Dénprade 7 3 8 31 31 0  24 
Blén CA                 6 6 6 22 24 -2 24
CD Quemavilla           5 7 6 27 31 -4 22
AC Mineros              6 4 8 21 25 -4 22
FC Nacional             5 6 7 26 28 -2 21
Fábricas                4 5 9 27 29 -2 17

They decided to leave the complicated ties to the first. Thank you. We appreciate that.

Um...2 de abril look fairly safe. Blén CA are impressive. San Pablo are still sort of good. Fábricas have been on a long slow slide. Deportivo Peralta are finally back in, um...let's go with action.

Globe Cup Bid: Parque Parrar, Condadore, 30,000. We have a stadium that's not named "Estadio"! ¿Who knew?
SBCC Stadium Bid: Estadio Melpuerto, Grisolon, 20,000.
Super Cup Bid: Abakine (all caps, dark green, Tempus Sans ITC or something else ITC if that doesn't work)
SBCC Sponsorship Bid:

Um. Moacom? Same deal as last time, right? With the...wait, what? Um...you've suddenly become embittered by all these other people jumping into the field? And you're questioning the very validity of bothering, under these new and exciting circumstances? Right. Um...never mind.
SBCC Sponsorship Bid, if still necessary: NioRadio (case as given, bright blue, Braggadocio)

by **The Babbage Islands** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:49 pm

FFB Premier League Season 23

Four Towers secure their first championship in a season that was undecided until the final day, and keeper Nathan Taylor scored a well-deserved MVP for his stellar play in net that provided the crucial goal differential over Bloomfield National.

Premier League Season 23

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Four Towers               22  11   6   5   33   20   13   39
   2  Bloomfield National       22  12   3   7   45   39    6   39
   3  Parisian                  22  12   0  10   43   34    9   36
   4  Dover City                22  11   3   8   43   37    6   36
   5  Capital AC                22   9   7   6   34   25    9   34
   6  Real Santa Catalina       22   8   7   7   25   23    2   31
   7  Charleston FC             22   8   7   7   31   33   -2   31
   8  North Fork FC             22   8   6   8   39   37    2   30
   9  Southland FC              22   8   6   8   31   36   -5   30
  10  Cardiff FC                22   7   6   9   28   38  -10   27
  11  Greenville Rovers         22   4   6  12   31   40   -9   18
  12  Gernsback United          22   4   3  15   28   49  -21   15

Sporting Boulder promote in; Gernsback United relegate
Greenville Rovers 2-0 South Side AC (Rovers stay up)

FFB Championship Series Season 23

Sporting Boulder will get another crack at the Premier League after an embarrassing debut, leading the Championship Series start-to-finish.

Championship Series Season 23

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Sporting Boulder          22  13   2   7   43   26   17   41
   2  South Side AC             22  11   5   6   39   31    8   38
   3  Wye Celtic                22  11   4   7   33   22   11   37
   4  FC Green Star             22  10   5   7   31   22    9   35
   5  Viktoria Baden            22  10   5   7   28   26    2   35
   6  West Scoville Athletic    22  10   4   8   25   21    4   34
   7  Handcarters               22   8   7   7   30   27    3   31
   8  Forest Park Rangers       22   8   5   9   35   37   -2   29
   9  Baden 98                  22   8   3  11   22   28   -6   27
  10  Xianggang FK              22   7   4  11   27   34   -7   25
  11  Far Point Islanders       22   5   8   9   18   22   -4   23
  12  Centralia FC              22   2   6  14   22   57  -35   12

Great Falls Cymru promote in; Centralia FC relegate
Far Point Islanders 1-2 West Scoville Tigers (Tigers promote)

Tournament Berths:
TQCC: Four Towers, Dover City (last two Premier League champions)
Globe Cup: Sporting Boulder (Islands Cup XII holders), Bloomfield National, Parisian (last two Premier League runners-up)
Series B Champions Cup: South Side AC, Wye Celtic, FC Green Star, Viktoria Baden.

FFB Second Series Season 23

Second Series Season 23

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Great Falls Cymru         22  11   4   7   30   22    8   37
   2  West Scoville Tigers      22  11   4   7   33   29    4   37
   3  Brigham City Pioneers     22  11   3   8   36   28    8   36
   4  FK Maribor                22  10   5   7   36   32    4   35
   5  OGC Nancy                 22  10   4   8   26   26    0   34
   6  The Orange                22   9   5   8   34   37   -3   32
   7  Charleston United         22   5  13   4   22   20    2   28
   8  Blue Ridge FC             22   6   8   8   31   29    2   26
   9  Cardston FC               22   7   5  10   24   27   -3   26
  10  Fylkir                    22   7   5  10   22   27   -5   26
  11  Belgium FC                22   5   7  10   35   46  -11   22
  12  Urbana FC                 22   4   9   9   21   27   -6   21

Hooligans promote in; Urbana FC relegate
Belgium FC 0-3 Red Devils FC (Red Devils promote)

FFB Third Series Season 23

Third Series Season 23

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Hooligans                 22  13   5   4   30   18   12   44
   2  Red Devils FC             22  11   5   6   32   26    6   38
   3  Windsor FC                22  10   5   7   38   31    7   35
   4  Moroni White              22   9   6   7   38   33    5   33
   5  Tardis FC                 22   9   6   7   33   30    3   33
   6  Atletico Valencia         22   9   6   7   32   30    2   33
   7  Gimnastic                 22   9   5   8   30   28    2   32
   8  FK Verdurbo               22   6   9   7   34   36   -2   27
   9  Moundsville AC            22   7   6   9   39   42   -3   27
  10  FK Tesla                  22   7   5  10   21   31  -10   26
  11  Futbalo-Libereco          22   6   6  10   26   32   -6   24
  12  FK Kabe                   22   0   8  14   11   27  -16    8

Dover FC promote in; FK Kabe relegate
Futbalo-Libereco 0-0 Lehi FC (1-0 AET) (Libereco stay up)

FFB Fourth Series Season 23

Fourth Series Season 23

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Dover FC                  22  10   7   5   27   18    9   37
   2  Lehi FC                   22  10   4   8   26   27   -1   34
   3  Longview FC               22   9   7   6   20   21   -1   34
   4  Real Valencia             22   8   8   6   25   22    3   32
   5  Three Rivers Pilots       22   8   7   7   26   22    4   31
   6  Golden FC                 22   8   6   8   27   25    2   30
   7  Moroni Blue               22   9   3  10   31   31    0   30
   8  AS Paris                  22   7   7   8   20   18    2   28
   9  Wright FC                 22   7   7   8   24   26   -2   28
  10  AC Santa Catalina         22   6   8   8   16   21   -5   26
  11  La Movado                 22   6   6  10   15   20   -5   24
  12  FK Waringhien             22   6   6  10   21   27   -6   24

Islands Cup XI

Sporting Boulder win their first Islands Cup in the first extra-time final ever. They also spoil Gernsback United's bid for redemption after their relegation.

Code: Select all: Islands Cup XII (after season 23) Opening Round Capital AC 3-1 FK Waringhien Charleston United 1-4 Bloomfield National Futbalo-Libereco 0-0 Charleston FC (0-1 AET) Atletico Valencia 2-1 Handcarters FC Urbana 0-1 Wright FC Lehi FC 1-3 Centralia FC Southland FC 5-2 FC Green Star Moroni Blue 0-1 AC Santa Catalina FK Verdurbo 1-3 Forest Park Rangers Parisian 7-5 FK Tesla Baden 98 1-0 Red Devils FC Golden FC 0-2 Gernsback United Belgium FC 3-0 Moroni White AS Paris 1-3 The Orange Far Point Islanders 0-1 Real Santa Catalina Tardis FC 3-2 La Movado West Scoville Tigers 2-2 Blue Ridge FC (3-2 AET) Gimnastic 2-5 North Fork FC OGC Nancy 2-0 Brigham City Pioneers Xianggang FK 1-1 South Side AC (1-1 AET) (South Side AC wins 3-0 on penalty kicks) Cardston FC 1-4 Three Rivers Pilots Longview FC 1-0 Wye Celtic Real Valencia 0-2 Fylkir FK Maribor 2-4 Greenville Rovers Windsor FC 3-2 Cardiff FC Dover FC 0-3 Viktoria Baden West Scoville Athletic 3-0 Moundsville AC Dover City 1-0 FK Kabe Round of 32 Windsor FC 1-0 Baden 98 North Fork FC 3-1 Charleston FC Hooligans 2-0 Centralia FC Dover City 1-2 Real Santa Catalina Belgium FC 0-1 South Side AC Forest Park Rangers 4-1 Longview FC Tardis FC 0-3 Bloomfield National The Orange 0-1 Fylkir Capital AC 1-1 OGC Nancy (1-2 AET) AC Santa Catalina 2-2 West Scoville Tigers (2-3 AET) Atletico Valencia 1-2 Southland FC Four Towers 2-2 Parisian (3-2 AET) Sporting Boulder 1-0 Three Rivers Pilots Wright FC 2-4 West Scoville Athletic Greenville Rovers 3-1 Viktoria Baden Great Falls Cymru 0-1 Gernsback United Round of 16 Real Santa Catalina 1-0 South Side AC OGC Nancy 1-1 West Scoville Tigers (1-1 AET) (West Scoville Tigers wins 3-0 on penalty kicks) Four Towers 2-3 Gernsback United Hooligans 3-2 Windsor FC Sporting Boulder 2-1 Southland FC North Fork FC 6-2 Forest Park Rangers Bloomfield National 2-2 Fylkir (2-2 AET) (Fylkir wins 4-2 on penalty kicks) West Scoville Athletic 4-1 Greenville Rovers Quarterfinals Hooligans 5-2 Fylkir Sporting Boulder 4-0 North Fork FC West Scoville Tigers 0-3 Real Santa Catalina West Scoville Athletic 1-4 Gernsback United Semifinals Hooligans 1-3 Sporting Boulder Real Santa Catalina 0-0 Gernsback United (1-2 AET) Final Sporting Boulder 2-2 Gernsback United (3-2 AET)

(OOC: Domestic league scheduling runs on a RL calendar not synced to the international season. This update is running early because of the impending World Cup start, which will have me rather busy at the usual update time.)

by **Sargossa** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:32 am

Global Cup Round-Up

In addition to the prestige and prize money that comes hand in hand with competing in the global cup competitions there were two extra incentives for SuperLiga clubs this season. Firstly the final of the TakilQuip Champion's Cup would be heldon our own fair shores for the first time. And secondly, a good collective showing from Sargossa's representatives would move the league up into the next rankings bracket, earning an extra TQCC place for the next campaign in the process.

El Nacional started their TakilQuip Champion's Cup campaign well with a 3 - 0 first preliminary phase win over Swartaz's Vaarstrada FC, striker Francisco Fontova bagging all three of the goals, and Otto van Belhamel's side repeated the scoreline a week later in the away leg. Home advantage paid dividends in the second preliminary round with Dani Bravo hitting the pick of the bunch in a 3 - 1 win over Monteriano. A hard fought 1 - 1 draw in Carpathia and Ruthenia saw the Gozan giants safely into the playof round. Where they were joined by SuperLiga champions Ciudad Soluca who narrowly edged out unheralded Firewood City of Osarius, 3 - 2 on aggregate.

The Globe Cup selective stage through up an all Rushmore clash between Moruga S.C., relegated to the Segunda Liga but qualifying as last season's shock Copa Sargossa winners, and Nethertopian outfit Blue White Udenbergen. A 1 - 0 home loss in the opening game looked to have sunk Moruga's chances but a good 2 - 1 win in Udenbergen took the second tier side though on away goals. In the preliminary stage the side from south Sargosso held out for a highly creditable goalless draw with Central United at home but predictable crashed out 3 - 0 in Cafundéu.

Back in the TQCC El Nacional's dreams of reaching the final staged in their own stadium came to a depressingly early end. The Gozans kept up their impressive home form with a 2 - 0 win over Somewhereistonians Atlantas Klaipaada at the Independiente but fell apart in Klaipaada, losing 3 - 0 to continue the less than stellar Sargossan form against their southern Rushmori rivals. There were no such problems for Ciudad who breezed past Taeshani side Atlantea Hurricanes 4 - 1 on aggregate to enter the group stage draw.

Dínamo Maturín's Globe Cup charge ended almost as soon as it started, beaten home and away by Ἄργος ΛΠ in the eliminatory stage. But Sporting San Marquez fared better in another Rushmori derby, the Larissan side tasted victory in both ties with the moneybags Poconese of Royal Khaldoon to join TQCC losers El Nacional in the group stage.

Neither group stage was kind to the Sargossan representatives. A home win over San Solari was the highlight for Ciudad Soluca as they finished bottom of their Champion's Cup group while home and away wins over Dinamo Karrakiv couldn't prevent Sporting from suffering the same fate in Globe Cup Group H. Fortress Independiente again played it's part for El Nacional as Mylfe CE of Vephrall, Dancougar's Sporting Kildare and Sorthern Northland dependency An Blascaod Mór were all beaten in Goza but three defeats on the road left the SuperLiga runners-up stranded in third place.

A Sargossan club competing in the TQCC final would have been a huge shock but there would be a surprise side turning out in Goza for the final. Mapabore Juventud of Aguazul would have been a long way down most people's list of potential finalists but it was they who took on and were beaten by SLANI giants Yuba United, a third Champion's Cup victory for the Silver-Blues. And , athough not hugely impressive, the SuperLiga side's performances were good enough to advance one place in the coëfficients and to be rewarded with a third slot in TQCC 19.

by **Taeshan** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:03 pm

Eastern Athletic Association

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Wiechester Province Warriors 14   7   5   2   26   14   12   26
   2  X Island Isotopes         14   7   3   4   24   14   10   24
   3  Wiechester Province-wolfin White Knights 14   7   2   5   16   16    0   23
   4  MT Ceabring Mustangs      14   6   1   7   20   25   -5   19
   5  Blacklake State Bears     14   5   3   6   19   22   -3   18
   6  Reynea Area Community College Rays 14   5   2   7   21   20    1   17
   7  Greenville Community College Grays 14   4   3   7   16   24   -8   15
   8  Atlantea College Angels   14   3   5   6   13   20   -7   14

Western Athletic Association

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Machrobat Military Academy Martians 14  10   2   2   30   12   18   32
   2  Army Hellfire             14   7   5   2   25   18    7   26
   3  Bayern College Bucks      14   6   5   3   22   16    6   23
   4  Ojian College Orangemen   14   4   6   4   27   24    3   18
   5  Capetown University Crashers 14   5   3   6   19   19    0   18
   6  Capetown Communicty College Cavs 14   5   3   6   16   25   -9   18
   7  Docktown University Ducks 14   2   5   7   16   21   -5   11
   8  Pariot Panthers           14   1   3  10   12   32  -20    6

Taeshan Athletic Association

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Fadron University Fitin' Fish 14  11   2   1   34   11   23   35
   2  Navy Deystroyers          14   9   3   2   28   16   12   30
   3  De Fantes Myer University Governors 14   8   1   5   26   16   10   25
   4  Air Force Aeros           14   7   4   3   25   17    8   25
   5  Dodgeville Spiders        14   4   1   9   12   24  -12   13
   6  Los Riosa College Lakemonsters 14   3   3   8   14   30  -16   12
   7  Mierton Area College Mallers 14   2   4   8   19   23   -4   10
   8  Taeshan City College Rovers 14   2   2  10   13   34  -21    8

National Sports Conference

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Yaton Catholic University Shamrocks 14   9   3   2   24   11   13   30
   2  Machrobat College Micemen 14   7   4   3   19   14    5   25
   3  X Island Province Xeros   14   6   4   4   18   16    2   22
   4  Wolfin wolverines         14   6   4   4   17   15    2   22
   5  Atlantea Christian University Crusaders 14   5   4   5   23   17    6   19
   6  Los Riosa University Rams 14   4   3   7   17   22   -5   15
   7  Gieron University Grovers 14   4   0  10   18   31  -13   12
   8  Sufts University Savages  14   1   6   7   14   24  -10    9

Big Eight

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Calendara Mennonite College Canners 14   8   3   3   27   17   10   27
   2  Hershey's College Hammers 14   7   3   4   24   17    7   24
   3  Cape College Cornhuskers  14   6   2   6   20   12    8   20
   4  Quarant College Grizzlies 14   4   8   2   17   15    2   20
   5  Minor Islands University Manatees 14   5   5   4   15   16   -1   20
   6  Illytria College Iotas    14   5   2   7   13   19   -6   17
   7  Taeshan Overseas Academy Titans 14   2   6   6   17   22   -5   12
   8  Pwux University Pythons   14   3   3   8   11   26  -15   12

Tropical Belt Association

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Jinxtown Jammers          18  11   3   4   30   15   15   36
   2  Telquin Cadets            18  11   3   4   30   16   14   36
   3  Dake Tar Heels            18   9   3   6   23   16    7   30
   4  Uranus Hills Rams         18   7   7   4   27   20    7   28
   5  Qassimodo Fizzlers        18   7   7   4   25   20    5   28
   6  Graver's Point Bombers    18   6   9   3   21   22   -1   27
   7  Cecile Area University Blue Devils 18   6   5   7   22   22    0   23
   8  Oanu West Inchuns         18   3   4  11   15   31  -16   13
   9  Oanu East Starfish        18   3   4  11   14   30  -16   13
  10  Ying Jing Universty Rockets 18   1   7  10   15   30  -15   10

North Taeshan Conference

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Folain Hawks              14   9   4   1   27   18    9   31
   2  Strawberry Fields University Red Storm 14   9   3   2   40   16   24   30
   3  Saverhampton Swordsmiths  14   9   2   3   26   10   16   29
   4  Brighton Blue Whales      14   5   3   6   15   22   -7   18
   5  Parameter IronPigs        14   4   4   6   24   24    0   16
   6  Northern White Knights    14   3   5   6   18   21   -3   14
   7  North Atlantea Nordics    14   3   5   6   11   25  -14   14
   8  Capetown Community College Colts 14   0   2  12    9   34  -25    2

Academic Athletic Conference

Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Laffayette Laurettes      14   8   2   4   22   15    7   26
   2  Yein Acadmey Gladiators   14   7   3   4   21   20    1   24
   3  West University Wizards   14   6   2   6   21   15    6   20
   4  Populas Panthers          14   4   8   2   14   12    2   20
   5  Castle Hills Salamanders  14   5   3   6   20   17    3   18
   6  Berlin Heights Barnstormers 14   4   6   4   20   22   -2   18
   7  Eastern Qassimodo Tech Tarantulas 14   3   5   6   12   21   -9   14
   8  Western Qassimodo Tech Stormers 14   2   5   7   14   22   -8   11

Playoffs
Wiechester Province Warriors 1-0 West University Wizards
X Island Isotopes 2-4 Yein Academy Gladiators
Wiechester Province Wolfin White Knights 1-3 Laffeyette Laurettes
Machrobat Military Martians 1-2 Saverhampton Swordsmiths
Army Hellfire 0-2 Strawberry Fields Red Storm
Folain Hawks 1-0 Bayern College Bucks
Fadron Fitin' Fish 2-1 Dake Tar Heels
Navy Deystroyers 2-5 Telquin Cadets
De Fantes Myer Governors 1-3 Jinxtown Jammers
Yaton Catholic Crusaders 4-0 Cape College Cornhuskers
Machrobat Micemen 2-0 Hershey's Hammers
Calendara Mennonite 3-1 X Island Xeros

Round 2
Yein Academy Gladiators 2-0 Saverhampton Swordsmiths
Strawberry Fields Red Storm 1-0 Telquin Cadets
Machrobat Micemen 3-2 Jinxtown Jammers
Wiechester Province Warriors 1-2 Yaton Catholic Crusaders

Round 3
Laffayette Laurettes 2-3 Fadron Fitin' Fish
Folain Hawks 2-1 Calendara Mennonite
Yein Academy 1-0 Strawberry Fields
Machrobat Micemen 2-4 Yaton Catholic Crusaders

Round 4
Fadron Fitin' Fish 1-0 Folain Hawks
Yein Academy 2-3 Yaton Catholic

3rd Place Game
Folain Hawks 1-2 Yein Academy

Championship
Fadron 2-0 Yaton Catholic

So the next IUCC will see for brand new teams, and once again teh Aeros have failed. The Champions the Fadron University Fitin' Fish, the runners up Yaton Catholic Crusaders, and the third place champs Yein Academy Gladiators will head to the next IUCC in Adihan.

by **Queer Poco el Mono Ara** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:58 pm

Una Serie V Preview

The fifth season of Queer Poco el Mono Ara’s football league is upon us, but before Royal Khaldoon can try retain their title, it’s time for a rundown of the Una Serie and the prospects of the twelve teams involved.

1st. Royal Khaldoon – Royal became Champions at a canter and boss Tarmo Mae has such confidence in his team he has spent only $500,000 on MS Leighton’s highly rated 18 year old midfielder Jordi. The youngster played only 6 games last season but is seen as one of Queer Poco’s top prospects. Royal are favorites to reclaim the title and maybe more.

2nd Pyhtons – After three consecutive titles Pythons failed last year and Mark Sloan appears to be losing the dressing room. Lost influentional international Dean Bowyer to Cafundeu much to the fans dismay as the manager continues to replace international players with relative unknowns.

3rd. Augustus – Could make an all Khaldoon top three. Vianna’s crop of youngsters are coming of age and with the signing of 19 year old Cafundeu striker Zezinho his team could become Una Serie’s baby faced assassins and take a 4th Trofeo Royal.

4th. Skyte City – Bounced back wonderfully last season following their relegation scrap and it is expected Neil Howzer’s men will continue. Haven’t lost any players over the break but have failed to bring any in, will rely on last seasons big name buys.

5th. Ridgemont Town – Frank Le Tissier has gone to Candelaria and Marquez and has yet to be replaced. Another big name departure from one of the top teams may signal a change in the ICC monopoly. If anyone is likely to lose their place in the Globe Cup, it’s most likely Ridgemont.

6th Jonastown United – Will look to consolidate their upper-mid-table status and put in another strong performance. Manager Ricky Ortega wants to sink more money into the squad to bolster their chances but is having a hard time finding the funding.

7th Almondvale – Stuttered through last season and lost Fletcher Goodwin. Former Skyte City boss Daryl Ferguson has taken over and will be looking to re-establish himself in the Una Serie. He will however need to be prepared to do that at a team with no money, he has at least inherited a number of quality players.

8th Athletic Khaldoon – Look set to remain mid table fodder. No significant changes in our out, Athletic have however taken Benito Gabrini from Salaga for a nominal fee. Not much is expected from a striker who has scored 17 goals in 100 league appearances.

9th Real Minanda – Minanda should have enough about them to finish clear of the relegation scrap again, but manager Hector Gonzales is a man under fire and has to deal with the pressure of the fans high expectations. He’s not a miracle worker and fans are likely to be unimpressed with another 9th place finish.

10th Villa Ortiz – Back in the Una Serie after three years Villa Ortiz look stronger than before and under former PLR manager Alex Rowley the team have been instilled with confidence, something they were lacking last time they were here. Ortiz are expected to better Salaga and Valengren and if they fail there its curtains for Una Serie existence once again.

11th Salaga F.C. – Scrappy unattractive football is often complimented with gritty defence, however Salaga are just as prone to defensive collapses as shooting wide of the mark. They’ve got 44 games to prove they belong in the Una Serie.

12th Valengren Kickers- The ongoing off field troubles have surely consigned Valengren to relegation. They’ve lost 6 first team players as Chairman Ashley Joseph refuses to release funds for new players. The chairman is desperately looking to sell the team but it seems nobody is interested in a flat lining Pocoan club. Headed for League I and if the backroom problems don’t cease possibly follow PLR’s footsteps and do the double relegation.

by **Somewhereistonia** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:26 pm

So, lucky number seven. Seven seasons that is. An overhaul of the sponsorship system leaves us with a lot more logos, and a fair bit more money. This should increase the number of foreign signings a bit. Maybe.

So how did it all go?

The Results

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Code: Select all: Meistriliiga 7 Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Metalurgs 38 26 4 8 109 69 40 82 C/TQCC 2 Atlantas Klaipaada 38 24 5 9 109 66 43 77 TQCC 3 Ventspils Redwings 38 21 9 8 95 63 32 72 GC 4 Qasarian Sparta 38 20 9 9 119 77 42 69 GC 5 Dinamo Karrakiv 38 20 8 10 101 71 30 68 GC 6 Qasarian City 38 18 6 14 84 73 11 60 7 Ventspils Bluewings 38 18 6 14 95 94 1 60 8 Kalev Talla 38 18 5 15 74 66 8 59 9 Vetra Karrakiv 38 17 7 14 80 72 8 58 10 Skonto Liepaja 38 17 6 15 85 70 15 57 11 FK Koltelcia 38 15 10 13 78 78 0 55 12 Olimpiskais Kaljak 38 16 7 15 75 84 -9 55 13 Silute City 38 16 7 15 72 81 -9 55 14 Vetra Jurmala 38 14 7 17 66 69 -3 49 15 Kabano Zeppelin 38 15 3 20 88 98 -10 48 16 Tammeka Kuressaare 38 13 6 19 66 80 -14 45 17 FBK Kedainiai 38 9 8 21 58 95 -37 35 18 Hawks Sporting Academy 38 7 6 25 81 126 -45 27 19 Trans Lazvor 38 4 10 24 59 101 -42 22 R 20 FK Ekranos Panev 38 6 3 29 50 111 -61 21 R

Atlantas may have brought in Ian Betts of Krytenia for another $20 million and Brieuc Mercœur of Oberour Ar Moro for an undisclosed fee but they were not able to defend their title, perhaps something to do with the aging strikers. Still, they managed to keep a TQCC spot, and will hope to finally push beyond the group stage.

So, Metalurgs win the title again, a bit of a surprise there from a team expected to struggle given the spending of the other top teams. They didn't seem to get much from the massive influx of Han players from Han Hawks either. So where did they get everything from? Well, it was Kazys Xentolov, and almost entirely him it seemed at times. With 46 goals to his name, he really does look like he's going to go on to win everything, twice.

Ventspils Redwings really breaking into the top places again shows that perhaps they are capable of more. Perhaps they could win the league sometime soon. That would shock the pundits. The big two are.... fourth and fifth, oh dear. They really have struggled to keep themselves going with all the money coming in. At least they made it into the Globe Cup.

Qasarian City and Ventspils Bluewings are the next of the rest, and the ones who will be looking to break into the top spots. Everything else is just as it is, a bit 'meh'. Trans Lazvor and FK Ekranos Panev those unlucky enough to be relegated. Actually poor would be a better description. Not great seasons for those two.

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Liistriik Kruus – later rounds

Quarterfinals
Ventspils Bluewings 0-4 Atlantas Klaipaada
Qasarian City 2-2 Metalurgs
Replay: Metalurgs 3-2 Qasarian City
Qasarian Sparta 4-1 Dinamo Karrakiv
CS Sept-Onze Loksa 1-1 Hawks Sporting Academy
Replay: Hawks Sporting Academy 2-2 CS Sept-Onze Loksa (2-2 AET) (Hawks Sporting Academy wins 3-2 on penalty kicks)

Semifinals
Atlantas Klaipaada 2-1 Metalurgs
Metalurgs 2-4 Atlantas Klaipaada
Aggregate: Atlantas Klaipaada 6-3 Metalurgs

Qasarian Sparta 2-3 Hawks Sporting Academy
Hawks Sporting Academy 3-5 Qasarian Sparta
Aggregate: Qasarian Sparta 7-6 Hawks Sporting Academy

Final
Atlantas Klaipaada 2-0 Qasarian Sparta

International Club Qualifiers

TQCC:

Metalurgs
Atlantas Klaipaada

Globe Cup:

Ventspils Redwings
Qasarian Sparta
Dinamo Karrakiv

SBCC:

ISC Rig
FK Kabano
FK Alytus
FBK Karrakiv

International final bids
TaqilQuip Champions' Cup: Spartas Staadion (95,000), Qasarian
Samseong Series B Champions’ Cup: Spektakl-3-Arena (85,100), Qasarian

by **Candelaria And Marquez** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:27 pm

Code: Select all: Last Five Seasons CMSC Winners Runners-Up Third Place Cup Winners Runners-up XXXII A.Turks Caires City Albrecht FC MarquezOW Catedral XXXIII Albrecht FC A.Turks Green Island Albrecht FC MarquezOW XXXIV Green Island MarquezOW Tenderville Albrecht FC Tenderville XXXV Green Island Albrecht FC Caires City Tenderville El din Marbles XXXVI Green Island A.Turks PoC Portuguese Albrecht FC

CMSC XXXVII Preview

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Ah, yes. A preview for the preview. A scene setter, if you will.

We rather forgot about that.

Ooh… Erm…

Not really an awful lot to say, after all these years. You know the drill.

I could read you some poetry?

No… no, I’ve left my book at home.

Fortunately, I’m still at home.

Unfortunately, it’s just burnt down.

Fortunately, I still have my laptop.

Unfortunately, I’m about to be disconnected.

So… Let’s just crack on with it, shall we?

Don’t bother with the background bits. They’re pretty much the same as last time.

Well, you didn’t expect effort, did you?

Foreign transfers prior to XXXVII
James Masters (Ad’ihan) ----------> to Caires City
Muhammad Fairhope (Arroza) ----------> to Ironside-Talinger
Corentin du Guesclin (Oberour Ar Moro) ----------> to Ironside-Talinger
Jay Jay Anderson (Osarius) ----------> to Radyukevich CSC
Rafael Higuain (Osarius) ----------> to Radyukevich CSC
Lorí Sànchez (Pasarga) ----------> to Albrecht Turkish
Frank Le Tissier (Queer Poco el Mono Ara) ----------> to Ironside-Talinger
Kaeton Fishsnapperbottom (Sorthern Northland) ----------> to Marquez-Onwere
José María Gómez (Sorthern Nortland) ----------> to Marquez-Onwere
Will Hooper (Sorthern Northland) ----------> to Marquez-Onwere
Jack Armstrong (Taeshan) ----------> to Webley Stadium
Thomas Grey (Taeshan) ----------> to Webley Stadium
Petrarch Manilo (Taeshan) ----------> to Webley Stadium
Jake Smith (Taeshan) ----------> to Ironside-Talinger
Oliver Stone (Taeshan) ----------> to Turks’ Club
Javier Rodriguez (Taeshan) ----------> to Webley Stadium
Lee Vey (Taeshan) ----------> to Webley Stadium
Lewis Fox (West Zirconia) ----------> to Radyukevich CSC
Damion Hyde (West Zirconia) ----------> to Radyukevich CSC
Patrick Williams (West Zirconia) ----------> to Radyukevich CSC

Foreign moves between CMSC clubs prior to XXXVI
Greg Innisvale (Ad’ihan) ----------> Albrecht Turkish to Arrigo Portuguese
Dennis Williams (Ad’ihan) ----------> Cathedral City to Mayo Valley
Wanderley (Cafundéu) ----------> Albrecht FC to McDonald SC
Brittany Paxson (Cassadaigua) ----------> Albrecht Turkish to Turks’ Club
Ali Al-Fayoomi (Kura-Pelland) ----------> Arrigo Portuguese to Turks’ Club
William Lacamoire (Kura-Pelland) ----------> Arrigo Portuguese to Turks’ Club
Yannick de Woudt (Nethertopia) ----------> Arrigo Portuguese to AFC MN Smith
Tom van Dijk (Nethertopia) ----------> Port of Clotaire to Radyukevich CSC
Brittany Prescott (Newmanistan) ----------> Tenderville Utd to NAPPC
Gerzson Illés (Pasarga) ----------> Green Island to Ironside-Talinger
Fernando Lori (Pasarga) ----------> Albrecht Turkish to Arrigo Portuguese
Jurgis Ģipslis (Somewhereistonia) ----------> Candelaria-Allemali to McDonald SC
Rodrigo Silva (Starblaydia) ----------> Candelaria-Allemali to El din Marbles
Tyler Kenroe (Taeshan) ----------> Candelaria-Allemali to Turks’ Club
Marion White (Taeshan) ----------> McDonald SC to Webley Stadium

Players marked with a * are foreigners born in Rushmore or otherwise Rushmori citizens, and count only as ½ foreigners for the purposes of the four-player quota system. Nethertopian players moving to and between Nethertopian clubs are excluded from the above list, for sanity’s sake.

Players marked with a ** are those who were formally registered as members of C&M clubs’ youth academies, and thus counting as ‘home-grown’; C&M-born foreign internationals; or foreign-born players able to claim Candelariasian citizenship for quota purposes.

Green Island: Stockley – Paterson, Tinuviel**, Dorack, Raviranjan** – Kures – Aldren, va Drake (c), Young, Durosa – Anwamane**
Nickname(s): GIZ
Stadium: Marlow Park [cap. 40,144], Zapata, Green Island
Coach: Daft Massimo
Background: A bunch of backward inbreds from the Candelarias’ oft-maligned third-largest island; the denizens of Green produced little of note prior to Lloyd Donnelly’s title-winning GIZ side back in XVI. Years later, Hane Davies got them promoted again, signed an obscure elf, led the club to second in the league – and they’ve since emerged as one of the dominant forces of the International Era, with three straight league titles now under their belts. And lots and lots of Vanorians.
Team Style: Geared towards an offensive outlook, stunning enough; they ping it about like nobody’s business but their true strength arguably lies in moments of individual brilliance, with little Lúthien putting away any spilled saves that come her way. It really does work, y’know…
Star Names: Heavens to Betsy, where does one start? Well, with Espy va Drake, of course – the best player in CMSC history and quite possibly the best player in the multiverse right now. Now that Ug-Ug’s retired. And if he were to bludgeon Laborious Hawk over the head with a kettle. At any rate, he’s the heart of a superb midfield containing the island’s blue-eyed sweetheart Jhanna Young, the disappointingly plain Thingamabob Durosa, the fledgeling Big Blues Jameson Aldren and the hughly reliable Ogus Kures. And that’s all without mentioning the Golden Boot winner two seasons running. She’s quite handy and all.
On the Other Hand… Their major weakness almost goes without saying, and one has to wonder how much longer Dorack can continue to mask their defensive lapses sufficiently to make a proper TQCC bid a plausible reality. One might also add the possibility of staleness creeping in, given that…
Transfer Market: …they haven’t really signed anyone. Pointies were linked in the Candelariasian press (obliquely, anyway), but what they get instead is Thoma Oseku to push Raviranjan at full-back and Bkyka holding midfielder George t’son o’Henry, who’d waltz into almost any other side in the CMSC1.
Options: Though Valtheldorien Ealovaul’s career may have stalled, his fellow striker Ben Clayton must expect to make a real impact this term or move on to pastures new. Prize money over the last few years has ensured cover in every department, while Massimo’s enviable record in bringing through the kids may be furthered by another few lengths if left-footed midfielder Jacob Pond and the energetic seventeen year-old Ethan Robertson can impress amidst all this revolting talent.
The Fans Expect: Four in a row would be truly, truly historic. It’d put them up there with the legendary Turkish sides of the distant sixties. Perhaps beyond. A fourth straight title, and this is Candelariasian football’s greatest dynasty. Glorious as that’d be, though, there’s other things on their minds. You know… ‘it’? It has to end. Now. Bugger the football.
The Pundits Expect: Oh, they’ll probably win it again.

Albrecht Turkish: Gwyther – Rafaela*, Mihály*, Tashkir, Titenburg (c) – Alexander, Werner, Robinson, Randjelovic – Calabrese*, Bakker**.
Nickname(s): Turkish, Millermen, Kinsmen, A.Turks
Stadium: Solidarity Stadium [cap. 66,200], Hoxton, Albrecht, Candelaria
Coach: Fabio Mannasuch
Background: Second biggest club in the country, yesyoowar, yesyoowar; the capital’s more bourgeois outfit (albeit with a slightly more exotic heritage) have largely lived in Albrecht FC’s shadow, but were the first to take the TQCC and have more league titles than anyone over the previous ten. They too are only just recovering for the exit after a veryveryvery long time of Asdrubal Espinoza, but in their case their replacement was just a tad more experienced that Torrealba – witness Mannasuch, brought in by the club’s Vyintanese ownership, who’s been at this management lark for longer than you’ve had hot dinners, or… something. Even if he is going a bit weird.
Team Style: Nothing if not a master rotator, Mannasuch has been feted and mocked in equal measure for his predilections towards the tinkery since dropping in on the Candelarias, but last term he really did get it almost bob on, and one can expect this revoltingly even-keeled 4-4-2 to stay pretty much the same throughout the season – though perhaps with a little more width than last term.
Star Names: Dwier Titenburg Jr appeared late during the last transfer window, was immediately handed the armband, and rapidly established himself as one of the CMSC’s finest defenders – equally adept on the left or in the centre. Cafundéu international Werner remains both a fans’ favourite off-field and vital cog controlling the midfield, but it’s the true home-grown players that are valued the most – galloping Darren Robinson, Hoxton-born Nethie international striker Daniel Bakker, set-piece king Denny Alexander and newly-promoted ‘keeper Lyle Gwyther.
On the Other Hand… With the inexperienced Gwyther replacing Paxson between the sticks, the defence comes back under the spotlight – with the Yaforite Tashkir a highly unpredictable personality, and Áron Mihály being from Pasarga, ugh, and no less untested at this level. His countryman Ausilio “Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water” Calabrese also needs to buck his ideas up after a terrible goal return in XXXVI. Although almost having one’s leg snapped off seldom helps.
Transfer Market: S’all about the big signing of the summer, really – Koviljko Randjelovic, jumping ship from Portuguese for an extraordinary parcel of cash. If he can adapt his game to two smaller forwards and a slightly more central role, Turkish may just have their missing link on their hands – as well as one of the best left-sided midfielders on the bloody planet. Some lad called Lorí Sànchez fetches up on a season-long loan from new Pasargan champions Santos Luega, meanwhile.
Options: The squad’s proportions have been sensibly snipped somewhat, but it’s still pretty old. That said, creative midfielder John Yeoman and centre-half Pablo Estévez can still do a job, while one should anticipate young defenders Mohammed Evans and Brandon Qiu to make an impact.
The Fans Expect: Not that it’s actually their rupees that got splashed out for Randjelovic, but after paying through the nose like that most supporters think it would be highly uncouth if Turkish didn’t go and win it now.
The Pundits Expect: While Mannasuch has had plenty of time to develop a title-winning squad, key deficiencies will leave them clinging to Green Island’s coattails at best.

Port of Clotaire: John – Archer, Rachna, Andrews, Fuentes** – Hooper*, Edwards*, O’Airmeadhaigh (c) – Hamblett, Arrigorriagakoa**, Sánchez García*
Nickname(s): PoC, the Harpies
Stadium: Harper Street [cap. 26,600], Clotaire, Candelaria
Home Kit: Bright red shirt with white sash, black shorts
Coach: Winston Muscat
Background: An elderly club playing at the oldest stadium in the division, the PoC had little to shout about for most of the International Era, particularly during the inexplicably extended reign of Muscat. And then, last term, the Harpies became arguably the stories of the season – pushing Green Island (almost) all the way in the title race and playing kamikaze football that made a mockery of their dour image. A true people’s club, even if they are dominated by Sortherners these days in everywhere but the boardroom, the PoC appear set on a mission to completely rewrite their history of tedium.
Team Style: A hugely entertaining 4-3-3 for preference. It’s not necessarily what you’d call technically fantastic, but Muscat’s “eh what the fuck; chaaaaaarge!” approach after all these years is paying sizable dividends.
Star Names: Pointies and the time-displaced aside, Caleb Edwards is truly the father of the house these days but remains a dominant presence in the heart of the midfield, one he shares with lively C&M international Toirdhealbharch O'Airmeadhaigh in an ever increasingly well developed, if a trifle narrow, partnership alongside newcomer Will Hooper. Francisco Manuel Sánchez Garciá is, quite liderally, the big name up front now, though all the squad’s strikers have a tough act to follow in…
Options: …Ham Hyi-san, whose age will most likely prevent him from making regular stars, leaving him as arguably the division’s most fearsome impact sub. With teenage strikers Isaac Walker and Charlotte Fuller coming through, and Alan Cooper still likely to get his fair share of games at the back – particularly in the TQCC – Muscat has assembled perhaps the deepest squad in the PoC’s history.
On the Other Hand… One may wonder yet whether that’s truly deep enough though – while others have wondered if the impending era of squad rotation will, conversely, damage the unity of XXXVI.
The Fans Expect: Another consistent title bid would be rather smashing, though Muscat’s proclamations of imminent WORLD DOMINATION!!!11 has raised expectations somewhat.
The Pundits Expect: They’re Port of Clotaire. They can’t actually go and win it, can they? Top six with comfort; top four at best.

Marquez-Onwere: S’toris** – Villasenior, Fishsnapperbottom, Stewart, Cotuba (c) – Gómez**, Joaio*, Souto Maior, Gatti, Oliveira Tavares – Smit**
Nickname(s): MarquezOW, the Naranja
Stadium: La Escalera Naranja [cap. 38,080], Onwere, Marquez
Coach: Alejandro Blanco da Cruz
Background: Founded for the inaugural CMSC season, their fanbase consists of university students, former university students, and toothless Hispanic grandmothers. They were noted for perhaps the best youth development system in the country prior to the arrival of the now deceased Sam Wendell – who ploughed in enough cash to almost get them back towards their former glory. An… unusual last season saw manager Christopher Harvey sacked after just one game, Blanco da Cruz brought in from Castrograd SC, and the naranja taking the Globe Cup title just a handful of months later.
Team Style: Somewhat slower and more calculated than, say, Green Island; MarquezOW keep it on the floor and make liberal use of the available width… until they get into the area, where Bas Smit’s rather more belt-and-braces approach comes to the fore. Blanco da Cruz is another firm proponent of the art of squad rotation, being more than happy to drop big names and egos to the bench if needs be.
Star Names: Their days of dominating the C&M starting XI are long gone, but most naranja supporters are still chuffed as anything to see Cotuba and Ricardo Leopoldo Quirino Souto Maior in the Cafundéu squad. Macario Oliveira Tavares on the left remains their most reliable weapon, and one can still rave about Orange City product and Yaforite international ‘keeper Amern S’toris ‘till the cows come home.
On the Other Hand… The Sorthernisation of the side over the summer will take time to win over the fans, with pacey winger José María Gómez not even an international (a CMSC club signing an uncapped Sortherner? What has the world come to?), and young centre-half Kaeton Fishsnapperbottom carrying a worrying whiff of Bostopia about him. Rather more concerning, though, is whether the nervous little hobbit that is Wildash Gatti will ever be truly able to step up and mix it in the big time.
Options: My Christ, it’s a big squad. With recently retired C&M internationals Eric O’Brien and Diego Fernando Pappas still available, and a handful of halfways useful lads in their early twenties still on board, Blanco da Cruz won’t need to worry about injuries. One can’t help noticing how poor the current crop of teenagers are, however, with the club’s much vaunted and vital youth system appearing to have hit a significant sticky patch.
The Fans Expect: Both the Onwere faithful and young master Wendell would be chuffed if they could translate Globe Cup glory into – finally – the place in the TQCC knockout rounds they’ve craved for so long. Anything else is a bonus.
The Pundits Expect: Certainly up there fighting for second, providing Big Al doesn’t suffer any second season blues.

Arrigo Portuguese: Romero Fernández – Darby, Galindo, Parrott*, Wilkinson – Anderson*, Alvaréz, Oughton (c), Lori* – Innisvale, Macanás
Nickname(s): Portuguese, the Heuva
Stadium: Estadio Nacional [cap. 50,138], Arrigo, Marquez
Coach: Carlos Panadero
Background: Proper underachievers hailing from C&M’s second city, Portuguese have never won the league title and aren’t even as wealthy as they used to be (owner Eduardo Morales being stinking rich by Candelariasian standards, but Candelariasian standards hardly matter any more), while the lengthy obsession with all things Kura-Pellandi is now officially over. These days, they have stupid sexy Panadero to amuse us all instead – with Carlos leading Portuguese to a CMS Cup title last term.
Team Style: A bit ordinary, really, such is the feature of all Panadero’s prosaic teams, but he’s playing to Candelariasian strengths in that and, frankly, he’s the best manager we’ve got, sans Andy LL. We’ll forgive him anything.
Star Names: Koviljko Randje… no, no wait… no, he’s gone. Bugger. So, creativity’s all down to Hugo Anderson, with the Pocoan setting up big Gabriel Macanás to put ‘em away. A handy partnership, though the fans’ favourite is the slightly unconventional ‘keeper William Romero Fernández.
On the Other Hand… Anto Parrott can’t even get in the Somewhereistonia squad, his partner (but not like that. But maybe like that. But not like that) Carlos “the Jackal” Galindo is untested at twenty, and Harry Oughton can’t carry on like this forever. The money’s gone, that’s pretty much official now, and Panadero will surely be doing well to keep Portuguese in the top half.
Transfer Market: As part of Turkish’s package for Randjelovic, Greg Innisvale joins Macanás to form a horribly slow front two, which isn’t helped much by thirty-three year-old Fernando Lori’s presence. Adam Darby comes in from Mayo Valley after Al-Fayyoumi’s departure.
Options: An underwhelming bench with considerable pressure heaped on Justin Aldren, given Lori’s aging status, and Bethany Nicholls as an alternative to the injury-prone Anderson. Francisco Martinez isn’t training on and Panadero will be desperate for North Randall and Harvey Roberts to keep the first XI fit as fiddles.
The Fans Expect: Frankly, we shouldn’t have to tell you by now… Retaining their CMS Cup title, taking the Globe Cup, ten points clear of the field in the CMSC1. That’ll do for starters, anyway.
The Pundits Expect: No Randjelovic, and injury-prone Anderson, a thirtysomething Oughton… Mid-table, and you can forget about yer cup title an’ all.

KT Hotspur: Van Linschoten – Naysmith, Maxwell, Szathmári*, Cummins (c) – Rataran, González, Makedonski, Clayton, Collins – Dariegan
Nickname(s): The Spur, KT, the Lilies
Stadium: The White Palace [cap. 41,472], Rose of Sharon, Candelaria
Coach: Juan Carlos Revault
Background: By some distance the most famous export of their depressed-former-mining-town home, the Spur were formed from the off as the product of the Adamczyk clan, whose cash handed them a league title and made them a consistent force in the top-flight. Without a title challenge for a good few years now, they’re now known pretty much singularly for their traditionally… cautious style of football – and even that’s slowly dying a sad death now. The Pcnannystate hand-wringing liberals are destroying our heritage piece by piece! When will it end, dear Emily? When will it end!?
Team Style: Defensive. But not that much… Indeed, they have an actual back four now and – get this – are starting to play it on the floor. It’ll never catch on.
Star Names: Vorin Dariegan has been a proper hero here for years now, taking almost single-handed responsibility for goalscoring, but the Yaforite’s powers must surely be on the wane – especially following a horrible season-ending injury early on during the last Clausura. That could give Andy Nilsson a chance to shine in his stead, but his fellow youngsters will need to step up as a block, with veterans Gonzaléz and Lopulalan set to give way to Cobus van Linschoten and William Naysmith. They just might be up to the task.
On the Other Hand… If the kids are alright, they may have to make up for the general mediocrity of the rest – the midfield pairing of Miguel González and the slightly less pronounceable Blagojce Makedonski in particular is hardly top-half class however long Revault stands by it, but the former C&M international in the dugout has worked wonders on a limited budget thus far and his support for the duo should probably be trusted.
Transfer Market: It’s oh so quiet, shh, shh, it’s oh so still, shh, shh, we’re all alone, shh, shh, and so peaceful until…
Options: … you bring on Mark Maas, who starts kicking people. Asides from him? Eh. Emma Jenkins could probably do a job on the left and Leon Aitkin is a sizable young lump up front, but they’re another side desperately reliant on the usual suspects. It’s almost as though we’ve all been too busy these last few weeks to worry about moving people around, isn’t it?
The Fans Expect: Robin Smith to explain why he buggered off to the Dome, and Revault to lead a peaceful season spent integrating the kids.
The Pundits Expect: A struggle… but then, they were supposed to do that last year as well… Revault’s clearly a top manager in waiting, and they’ll be comfortable if unspectacular.

Albrecht FC: Rosalia – Logan, Van Aulen**, William**, St. Louis (c) – Tekeste, Nakatsuru, Go**, Kouakou Kouamé, Morrison – Hamizi
Nickname(s): The Scorpions
Stadium: Millerman Sheppard Stadium [cap. 40,614], Songstress, Albrecht, Candelaria
Coach: Luis Enrique Torrealba
Background: The capital giants, the biggest club in the country, two-time TQCC winners, ten-time CMSC1 winners, a couple of recent CMS Cups in the bag an’ all… they’re the undisputed dominant force, at least in theory, but they’re still getting to grips with being owned by nefarious yellow foreigners, particularly ones who have gone all silent again and left Torrealba to rely on bringing through the kids. Which he’s done in fine style, actually, leaving the emergence of Torrealba’s Tots as one of the potential major stories of the next few seasons. Gotta do better than seventh, though.
Team Style: 4-5-1, but by no means defensive with an extremely talented but oh-so immature midfield packed with creativity.
Star Names: With William the heart of the Cafundelense defence and Jesse Nakatsuru still the fulcrum of C&M, Albrecht FC can still lay claim to one or two big stars despite their current decline. Of course, Fahmi Hamizi may just be one of the best young strikers in the multiverse, and Adam Kouakou Kouamé one of the most naturally gifted advanced midfielders around. But how would we know?
On the Other Hand… Inexperience is certainly their biggest flaw, but Torrealba’s apparent desire – and subsequent failure – to replace Matthew Logan at right-back and improve on the less-than sparkling Xavier Tekeste suggests that the Scorpions’ right flank may well be rather more suspect that their all-but immortal left side.
Transfer Market: The big out sees Wanderley making a surprise move, along with veteran midfielder Ben Zec, with the manager seemingly having fallen out in pretty terminal style with both.
Options: Joe Hayter may be the one to step up and oust Logan, while Kim Mihyeon will presumably pressure a return to 4-4-2 if Adam KK fails to step up, but holding midfielder Jiwani Pankharia (gotta love Songstress) looks the most promising of David Stone’s latest cadre of teenage academy graduates.
The Fans Expect: Plagues of locusts, rats, sheep and first-born sons. They barely signed like anybody, and they like still have to make do with their pokey little forty-thousand all-seater stadium, and it’s like so unfair, and they might as well just pack up and go home now, what’s just the point of living, I hate you, I wish I was dead.
The Pundits Expect: Top four, at a push. They’re kids, but they’re good kids.

Caires City: Becker (c) – Neal, Masters, O’Connell, Rosenthal**, – Jones, Zoric, Agostinho**, González, Lloyd – Williams
Nickname(s): City, the Errant Knights, the Towers
Stadium: McNeil Bingo Arena [cap. 40,144], Caires, Candelaria
Coach: Dionísio Madeira Lobos
Background: Once the smallest of Caires’ three professional clubs, City would instead emerge in the last decade-and-a-bit as standard bearers for the once dominant north of Candelaria, and the perfect model for a Candelariasian club. Two league titles under the great Elgin Dannat gave way to a (very) modest decline, but most fans still saw the subsequent sacking of Hane Davies as a big mistake and the arrival of utterly untested new manager Dioníso, a proper club legend, as nothing more than a sop. Major challengers to Green Island throughout XXXV; they suffered a dramatically poor XXXVI Apertura in which relegation looked a genuine possibility, and the failure of a side now past its prime suggests a return to former glories should be a way off.
Team Style: More prosaic than they once were, but Dionísio is certainly a man and a manager committed to upholding the free-flowing values of the Dannat era.
Star Names: Though short on C&M stars these days, City’s Salvador González must wonder what he has to do to get in the international frame (experiment with skin whitening and shift over to Albrecht FC would probably help, alas), while the presence of Anthony Jones and now James Masters upholds the Errant Knights’ popular status in Ad’ihan. Newmanistan centre-half Shawn O’Connell is a proper rock, meanwhile, and certainly doesn’t need Tuomas Hindenburg to hold his hand anymore.
On the Other Hand… World Cup winning captain Hindenburg’s retirement may not be a disaster (and that’s the last time we can ever make that reference), but Colin Marshall has been sewing up the midfield for a looong time and the fact that Dannat products Austin Neal and Nic Lloyd are still hanging around in the first XI doesn’t bode especially wonderfully. What is more, the over-reliance on the potentially fantastic but horribly injury-prone forward Leo Williams borders on the baffling.
Transfer Market: Besides Masters, Dionísio makes a rather rare big-money Candelariasian signing by bringing in Patrick Zoric from Mayo Valley. A big boy with plenty of promise, but does his switch suggest the board are preparing for another valiant struggle?
Options: Luke Lewis won the Supporters’ Player of the Season award from the bench last term, with his goals proving vital. Teenager Samuel Murray – coming from the same route as Williams as a signing from amateur football in the north-east – may need to step into his shoes, while Warren Shepherd looks a good bet to oust Neal.
The Fans Expect: The TQCC places at half-time or Dionísio out, if you don’t mind, sir. They can’t just be sweet little Caires City anymore. They’ve come too far.
The Pundits Expect: Mid-table, Dionísio stays.

Caires Sports: Kolukernin** – Actarish**, Plunkett, K’latris, Tascarnin, T’saal** – Valinial (c), Made’er**, Smith Adirondu – Belmore
Nickname(s): CSC, the Knights, oh yeah them bloody Yaforites
Stadium: AAC-Dimrar Dome [cap. 38,838], Caires, Candelaria
Coach: Keron Alhrem… theoretically
Background: They’ve been around since forever, give or take, but their success rate during the CMSC era has been pretty much woeful. Only recently have they begun chasing City anew and reaching something close to their potential, ever since the club fell (well alright, not “fell”… jumped enthusiastically, let’s say) into Yaforite hands. Top-half regulars now, they’ve had three successive sixth-place finishes under Alhrem, though many a cynical critic may point out that the octogenarian manager can’t actually dress himself these days, much less pick a team. Might explain why they slipped to eighth last time, though.
Team Style: Eight Yaforites in the starting XI. I want you to think about what that means, then come back to me. Show your working.
Star Names: No-one’s going to argue that, defensively, they’re not a superb unit. The fivesome and Ahadris Kolukernin have been together for a long while now, but this consistency is yet to benefit them in quite the same manner as the GIZ or PoC. Perhaps the arrival of Robin Smith from KT Hotspur will liven things up – he’s certainly their first Candelariasian signing for a really very long time indeed – though the team will still remain overly reliant on Josh Belmore’s ability to put away most of the scant chances gifted by moments of Aherskh Valinial brilliance.
On the Other Hand… *Yawn*
Options: Where once the young denizens of the Docklands could be expected to fill out the old stadium in front of the CSC’s vocal Cavalry, now they merely sit on the bench. Still, it’s not a bad life for theoretical goalscorers Jarrell Reuberson-Mohammed, Robbie Sinjinir, Fran Willemot, Alex Davies et al – they certainly get well reimbursed for their trouble – while even another Yaforite in Sorin Acraan has to sit about kicking his heels most of the time, poor love.
The Fans Expect: Sm… Smi? S’meeet… Smee-tuh…t’h…tuh… “Smith”? What kind of a name is that? What’re you doing to our football clubs, you maniacs?!?!
The Pundits Expect: Mid-table. The Yaforite national team is worse than Nethertopia, for the love of Gods.

Tenderville United: Water – Lilithian, Gaggioli, Meesschaert – Van Patten, Robbert, Kuypers (c), Rau, Holtz* – Deleks**, Night
Nickname(s): Tenderville, the Dragons, the Blue Storm
Stadium: Home of the Dragon [cap. 45,200], Tenderville, Nethertopia
Coach: Andrés García
Background: The grey squirrels of the CMSC1, the Nethertopians came over ‘ere, employed our Candelariasians, added to our national coffers… No wait, that doesn’t sound right… So, the Ratos Island club were never expected to make the kind of impact they have, making the top four for a couple of seasons before dropping away modestly last term – they’d’ve qualified for the TQCC once or twice if they hadn’t reverted back to NeFA control a while back, the silly billies – and becoming the first side from beyond the Candelarias to win the CMS Cup. That just isn’t cricket, which is presumably why it’s worked, because they suck at cricket. Poor benighted fools…
Team Style: A 3-5-2, these days, but otherwise it’s much the same – lots of passing along the floor and flowing moves (ponces), all into the feet of a particular Mister…
Star Names: Drunn Deleks. He’s still there. We thought he wouldn’t be, but he is. The last of the Rennidanians (unless there are any players still lurking in Cafundéu or summat, we can’t be asked to check), he remains a sublime natural goalscoring and his relationship with Roel Kuypers – the roving midfielder belatedly taken to Nethie hearts – is one of the most dangerous in the division. A sexy little threesome at the back sees new C&M international Carlo Gaggioli alongside former C&M international Marc Meeschaert and some pale bint from out Valanora way.
Transfer Market: Juicy newness comes in Nethertopian form (that’s daring), with the arrival of hugely promising and exceptionally eloquent teenager Mertijn van Patten from Sportivo Gretor. Ousting Harvey Lewis (the bastard), he looks equally comfortable on either flank, so Sorthern international Tim Holtz might also have cause to up his game (pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease). Ab Rau, which is much easier to say, holds the midfield after joining from the Marbles. But not those Marbles. Some other Marbles.
On the Other Hand… Ariel Night’s good. I mean, we’re really quite sure she’s good. It’s just… we can’t quite, y’know, place the face. The shirt’s fine, remember the shirt, got ‘NIGHT’ on the back, wears 99, but… There’s just a distinct lack of a head, or hands, or calves, and… ANYway, er, Roef Robbert’s probably crap. Yeah.
Options: Erm… Ooh… Ah, well. Yes. Harry Reargold’s still about, I think. Unless he’s been sold. And, um, Mike Pohl might prod at Meesschaert’s buttocks a tad. We’re guessing, to be honest. Update the bloody wiki page, someone.
The Fans Expect: Fans would pretty please like the title, if Green Island miraculously explodes. The board is more realistic and expect García to build a more Nethertopian-orientated team, aiming for the theoretical UICA positions (seventh or higher).
The Pundits Expect: I dunno. Sixth or summat.

Mayo Valley: Tipping – Williams**, Gaynor, Johansson**, Lilja – NorthWalker, Tillström, Allbright, Warren (c) – Subudhi*, Szatmári*
Nickname(s): Mayo, Valley, the Sky Blues
Stadium: The Wall [cap. 21,867], Hodgehill, Candelaria
Coach: Zachary Telemans
Background: Their presence retains the “Eh?” factor, with Mayo simply not expected to stay up at all last term – never mind do so at an absolute canter. Based in a tiny little town in western Candelaria, they remain the definitive team for a huge swathe of the rural part of the country, and last term managed the curious achievement of matching their XXXV result – 11th with a 10-9-15 record – to the letter. Same again plz, Zach.
Team Style: Safety-first, 4-4-2, but surprisingly pretty for it. One can’t rave, as such, but they’re not a bad advert for mid-table sides, all things considered.
Star Names: Jaival Subudhi’s still just a wee boy, really, but the Sterogan looks extremely ready to take up his place among the cadre of brown-hued striking talents coming through. A surprisingly foreigner-heavy group alright, Ilga NorthWalker on hi… her last legs but Toyur’s Justin Tillström is still a fine CMSC player and Taeshanese wide man Manny Warren is quite possibly the finest human being to ever have lived.
On the Other Hand… Comfortably upholstered across the board though they are, the unavoidable losses of Darby and Zoric will leave what is still a pretty young defence and goalkeeper horribly unprotected.
Transfer Market: The key newcomers are at the back, with centre-half Alice Gaynor arriving from Albrecht Independent to continue Mayo’s modest but developing record in appreciating female talent, while Ad’ihani teenager Dennis Williams comes in on the right. Mark Allbright, joining from Melin & Nader, has sizable shoes to fill at the heart of the midfield.
Options: Home-grown midfielders Joseph Milošević and Archie Zelic (guess which ethnic community is increasingly prevalent in west Candelaria) can still do a job, as can alternative strikers Niek Hostetter and Zach Witt, bit otherwise it’s just a little threadbare.
The Fans Expect: Staying up, some decent football, and COME ON TOYUR!!!
The Pundits Expect: Unpatriotic inbred Serbian so-and-sos… Strugglers, anyway. Or eleventh ago. I dunno.

McDonald SC: Andu** – Ģipslis*, Davies, Shannon, Doswell – Williams, Connah, García, Munir – Andryan, Wanderley**
Nickname(s): Dons, Flying Fish
Stadium: Oakley Park Self-Catering Holidays Arena [cap. 16,921], Saurin, Candelaria
Coach: Mike Alvintzi
Background: A slightly tedious team from northern Candelaria, who we’d all rather weren’t here. I mean, nothing against them personally, you understand. But there are so many more interesting clubs out there… Anyway, tend to bounce up and down, never done anything of merit, formed by fascists, force their players to play charity cricket matches every now and again… *yawn*
Team Style: Rather pleasant, actually, like a spring picnic or a surprisingly adept amateur production of Othello. Nothing to write home to your mam about, but they bucked a trend last term by both staying up with relative comfort and keeping it more-or-less on the floor.
Star Names: Their trio of Jesseltonians are that which they’re most fond of – pacey little Nashroy Andryan and the wise left peg of Siraj Munir being lusted over by bigger clubs without success. Otherwise they’re kinda meh, and not having Ryan Sheppard anymore is a blow…
Transfer Market: Sheppard’s big-money sale to Ironside precipitated the arrival of Wanderley for a club record fee, with the Cafundelense taking a considerable pay-cut to join up with his boyhood team (eh?). He’s not the only one – talented teenager Rubén García is an international star in the making after declining a new contract with Catedral, while McDonald have also benefited from Sam Doswell’s realisation that getting past Francois St. Louis in the Albrecht FC side probably wasn’t going to happen any time this century.
Options: They have a striker called Cuthbert Bastard. I think that tells you everything, no?
The Fans Expect: Wanderley for Sheppard looks a fair exchange, so more of the same should be on offer.
The Pundits Expect: Certainly among those battling the drop… and quite possibly among those not surviving it. Thank heavens for that.

NAPPC: Meléndez – Veldkamp, Singer, Merselis, De Opper – Barentstochter of Bergkamp of Drotske of Groethuysen of Hackenbroch of Struycken*, Prescott**, Thwante, Cuesta* – Van Dyke* (c), González Rodríguez**
Nickname(s): Peregrines, Knights Templar
Stadium: Falcon Stadium [cap. 51,300], Peregrinus City, Nethertopia
Coach: Victor Wildeman
Background: The other Nethie club in the CMSC1, and no less evil. The black squirrels, if you will. While they’re yet to reach the heights of their rivals, the Peregrines have been clinging onto their topflight status like grim death the past couple of seasons, just about justifying their not-playing-in-Nethertopianess.
Team Style: Wildeman (growl, roar, snarl) looks set to try something a little more offensive this time out but, as we always say, they have a history of playing a quick paced defensive game, looking for goals out of counters. Mm-hm.
Star Names: Talismanic (that’s official an’ everything) Pocoan striker Ishmael “Gor blimey, Mary Poppins” Van Dyke and underrated (if we do say so ourselves) Sargossan Daniel González Rodríguez should, in theory, form a pretty inspiring strike partnership, if such a thing really exists these days. The man they call Martijn is the true star name, of course. Or would be, if they didn’t just call him ‘Martijn’. I mean, what a wasted opportunity, honestly…
Transfer Market: Brittany “Partly Cloudy” Prescott makes the awkward journey from Tenderville to the Nethertopian capital (I think it involves a ferry, and possibly several changes of bus), with Laurens Cassou off to collect yet another passport in Cafundéu.
On the Other Hand… Promoting from within is novel – Hendrik Merselis coming into the defence – but, well, y’know… Nethertopia are ranked thirty-third in the world. That’s, like, so totally embarassing. And half of this lot can’t even get in their national team. I mean, what d’you expect?
Options: A healthy bench, featuring two (decent) quality midfielders in veteran Newmanistanian and former club captain Kevin Taylor and the Sargossan Rubén Santos, who has a fine first name going for him but not a startling amount else. Koen Groothuizen’s still about at the back, though. Yay.
The Fans Expect: A season a bit more decent than the last one. Please.
The Pundits Expect: A season a bit more decent than the last one. Possibly.

AFC MN Smith: Mirakel* – Nykvist, De Woudt*, L. Tiller, Littlefellow – Van der Laan* (c), Small, Rogers, D. Tiller, Yeboah – Budden
Nickname(s): MN Smith, the Smudgers, the Smith, Smiths
Stadium: City of Bove Stadium [cap. 20,568], Bove, Candelaria
Home Kit: Bright red with random blue bits
Coach: Will Medlin
Background: Zey haff no monies, can’t really afford foreigners or, indeed, anyone good for very long, and yet the Smith have been ever-presents in the top-flight for a couple of decades and always appear capable of hanging on in their despite their fractious and forever inter-warring supporters (who probably can’t even remember why they started fighting anymore… seriously, someone airdrop marmite into Bove, for heaven’s sake), boardroom full of numpties, and the presences of Quodites. This time around, the trust has been placed in former player Medlin, who at least knows the youth system here – and an enviable one it is – and can put his trust in the most recent generation of kids.
Team Style: 4-5-1. And as bad as that sounds.
Star Names: The fact that Yannick de Woudt is their much trumpeted new signing says pretty much everything, really. Peter Rogers will be around forever, but the Quintessential midfield is hopelessly inconsistent and it’s the home-grown Bove locals that are truly loved and valued here – the Tiller brothers of powerful centre-half Leon and creative midfielder Daniel foremost among them. Newcomer Alfonso Yeboah, meanwhile, has yet to live up to the hype but could unnerve more than a few left-backs.
On the Other Hand… They’re not very good. They’re never very good. And it never, ever seems to matter.
Options: The likes of Loren Meyer and Siiri Eenpalu have been cut free, but the reliable presence of Arnold Postman is hanging around to nibble at young Alex Budden’s heals, and there’s… there’s… Erm…
The Fans Expect: Well, I thi– No, sorry Alex, didn’t mean to interrupt you. Not at all, Joel, you go ahead. No, you were speaking first. I don’t want to make an issue of it, Joel, but I’m pretty sure you were. In either case, Alexander, I’m giving up my right to speak in favour of your good self. Oh bless you, Joel, but your mother sleeps with men for money! ALL SAINTS EFF SEE!! You come here and say that, skum! AAAAAGH!! YEAAAAGH!!!
The Pundits Expect: They’re going to survive again, aren’t they? Jesus…

El din Marbles: Kay – Cantero, González* (c), Hastings, Díaz García* – Herráez, Schaak*, Pavoni, Nixon – Erik Visser*, Silva**
Nickname(s): Marbles
Stadium: The Marble Ground [cap. 40,052], El din, Marquez
Coach: Félix Barreto
Background: With a fanbase drawn from amongst both the poorest urban districts in the land and some of its most opulent neighbourhoods, the Marbles have gone through many different lives before finally emerging from Cathedral City’s shadow. They may not yet have offered a genuine title challenge, but they’re inching ever closer – assisted just a bit by their Sargossan ownership and, now, management. For all their wealth, last season was simply dire and they were fortunate indeed to stay up. Which is what we wrote last time too, and it was actually even dire…er. Bless.
Team Style: Okay, get this: No 3-6-1, no 4-5-1… Nope, this is what we in da biz call a ‘4-4-2’. We’re not quite sure what one of these beasties looks like in the flesh, but we’re certain it’s going to be exciting!
Star Names: With experienced ex-internationals Cody Horrigan and Jacin Raellis having departed, their biggest name is arguably the Man they Called Ricky, Erik Visser. The Nethertopian had a brief return to form late last term, though he – and the rest of the side – remain highly dependent on one of the few Candelariasians present, tinkerbelle-footed local lad Luis Pavoni.
On the Other Hand… They’re probably not very good. Unless they are. Completely unknowable, we can only guess at whether Professor Barreto can gel the newcomers, and if young Darren Hastings is up to the task of protecting Raheem Kay.
Transfer Market: Green Island reserve Antonio José Cantero pops up at the back, presumably because he’s Hispanic, while Kayben Nixon – arriving from Gamboa, the club the Marbles relegated on the final day of last term – takes a role on the left. Key to it all will be the goals of the Starblaydi Rodrigo Silva, who may be a full international now, for all we know.
Options: An aging bench, but versatile defender Joe Rodríguez will be very useful despite losing the armband while Adrián Gallo and teenager Hastings could be on for a good scrap over the spare centre-half spot. Arouna Soro’s still hanging around up front, for some reason.
The Fans Expect: Top half, if not better. We’re all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking to the stars. Actually, we don’t have a gutter system, with sewage instead flowing freely through the streets, but… You get my point. ¿Crikey, that dog really doesn’t look well, does it?
The Pundits Expect: A much better showing. They’re not quite sure why, but there’s going to be no end of bother if they’re not right.

Ironside-Talinger: Giménez – Palmer, Smith, Fairhope, Du Guesclin* – Le Tisser*, Illés* (c), Sanroman, Zec, Haskay – Sheppard
Nickname(s): The Irons
Stadium: West End Park [cap. 17,212], Talinger, Candelaria
Coach: Ebbrell Klein
Background: One of the oldest clubs in the country still alive and kicking, Ironside’s green kits are just about the only other notable element of a history spent bouncing around the top couple of divisions. Making a CMS Cup final as a CMSC2 club, losing the SBCC2 final, hiring Candelariasian football’s first female manager for a while, until it all went tits up – as it were – as they were relegated… it’s not especially thrilling. They do a nice line in chants mind you, and sell some decent pies at their historic old venue, but… now what was that other thing…? Oh yes, they’re now owned by a Pocoan millionaire and are absolutely stinking rich. I remember now.
Team Style: Disappointingly negative, which is unlikely to impress Deacon Farley or his minions for too long.
Star Names: Having won the CMSC2 title with over a hundred points, you’d think they’d be pretty well set to stick with what they’ve got and make a decent fist of it, wouldn’t you? Yeah, not a bit of it. A near total revolution – and it’s almost certainly not over yet – sees former star Illés and Albrecht FC veteran Ben Zec create a powerful midfield alongside Le Tis, with rising starlet Ryan Sheppard tempted over from McDonald to put ‘em away. You can add a totally new defence to that, featuring experienced (if oft-relegated) full-back Ben Palmer among a host of international… people. ‘Stars’ is probably pushing it just at this moment, but they look solid… right?
On the Other Hand… Questions might be raised over the new personnel, but the main concern is whether this bold move will leave the squad all torn apart emotionally. Already, several sizable names – and, more to the point, voices in the dressing room – have been shipped out, and the possibility of seriously cliques developing if things don’t start well is a rather real one.
Options: Depends who hasn’t been kicked out in favour of some shiny newness by the time you skim over this. They have a striker called Denver Anastasiadis, if that helps.
The Fans Expect: They’re enjoying the ride, really. The board looks to be after top half.
The Pundits Expect: Not a chance, possums. You’ll be lucky if you avoid a relegation battle. Sorry.

Turks’ Club: Paxson* – Al-Fayoomi, Kennedy, Letcher (c), Stride – Kenroe, Reva, Newman, Stone* – Wetl, Lacamoire
Nickname(s): Turks, TurksKT
Stadium: Khatib Together Stadium [cap. 27,044], Khatib-Gassett, Candelaria
Coach: Neil Robinson
Background: Another club with history on its side, the northern Turks grew out of Albrecht Turkish but predated the capital club’s era of success by several years by becoming major forces at amateur and later NFBL level. Though two CMSC titles would later follow, the era in which Khatib-Gassett could claim to be the heartland of Candelariasian football has long since past and TurksKT have only now returned to the top-flight after several years absence. Far from well supported these days, this season may represent something of a make-or-break effort for one of the multiverse’s few big sides with an apostrophe to write home about. With respec’ to Union d’Ourseville, AC Quarant Xa’virt and Taylor’s Cross, obviously.
Team Style: Ordinary.
Star Names: Back in the day (as a nation, I reckon we’ve been around long enough to bandy around expressions like that) Turks’ Club were one of the foremost importers of Kura-Pellandis to C&M before it became properly fashionable. The exodus from Portuguese sees striker William Lacamoire (who we believe now might also play for FC Capri… but don’t blame us, we’re entirely blameless, oh yes) and the extremely versatile Ali Al-Fayoomi drop by to add a more traditional look to a side otherwise full of exotic Taeshanese and Cassadaiguans. Signing foreign rejects and perennial relegation victims doesn’t tend to be a great plan, on the whole, but young Candelariasian Daniel Stride – a talented left-back in from Gamboa – and Steve Newman, who played a major part in their promotion push whilst on loan from Green Island, add a bit of class.
Options: Erm… No-one you’ve ever heard of, no.
The Fans Expect: Survival. We deserve survival frankly, don’t we? Yes we do, George. Yes we do.
The Pundits Expect: Nah, not a bit of it.

Radyukevich CSC: Lanchini – Anderson, Fox* (c), Higuain, Edwards – Van Dijk*, Williams*, Hyde*, Endecott – McDermott, Redzic
Nickname(s): Jukos, Lilacs, Pigmen
Stadium: Hilltop Stadium [cap. 31,039], Clotaire, Candelaria
Coach: Wayne Davis
Background: Hailing from the posher half of Clotaire, Radyukevich are one of the most popular clubs in the Candelarias thanks to a heritage of off-field quirkiness and progressive football. Overseas their profile is limited, despite a recent Series B Champions’ Cup title to their name, thanks to several years of unrestrained mediocrity, and current finances don’t suggest a return to the glory days any time soon.
Team Style: Those days of pretty, pretty passing have long since past and, though Davis’ side are by no means the most defensively oriented in the league, they may well be one of the most robust and direct.
Star Names: The Candelariasians on offer don’t inspire one with particular confidence – especially local lads like Jermaine Endacott and Jasari McDermott, for whom a footballing education the Radyukevich way has meant a schooling in blah (frankly, the academy hasn’t produced anyone halfways decent since Abdul Ibadulla) – so it’s left to the shiny new foreigners to keep them safe. They being West Zirconian reserves and Osarian defenders, who we suspect of being rather rough boys, I have to tell you. But who knows. Some of ‘em might do alright, I suppose…
Options: A sizable squad gives Davis the chance to take things slowly with last term’s bemusing Fans’ Player of the Season, Francesco Gaggioli, while Amy Idle and Aldo Diarra mean that goals shouldn’t, in theory, be hard to come by. Of the other kids, playmaker Manny Soriano looks vaguely promising but he’s unlikely to get too many games in a regular battle.
The Fans Expect: We’re not. Going down. Again. Or else there’ll be trouble. Very whimsical trouble, granted. Zooey-Deschanel-being-all-kooky kind of trouble. But trouble none the less. Grrr.
The Pundits Expect: D’you know what? They’re really not that bad. Pushing mid-table, if they’re lucky.

by **The Weegies** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:57 pm

OOC: This will fill up as I generate more results, and generate some commentary to go with them.

Weegie Premiership

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Mackintosh Thistle Celtic 30 23 4 3 72 32 40 73 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Lylia Foresters 30 20 2 8 73 37 36 62 3 The Distillery 30 16 9 5 71 38 33 57 4 Buchanan L.F.C 30 16 8 6 63 37 26 56 5 Trams Union United 30 16 5 9 51 27 24 53 6 Cialtag Rovers 30 13 7 10 49 36 13 46 7 Aigh nas Chlalnachan 30 8 15 7 45 48 -3 39 8 Schialtas Niaghuan 30 9 11 10 39 42 -3 38 9 Carlsson Rangers 30 9 10 11 32 43 -11 37 10 Bearsden Pandas 30 9 9 12 41 53 -12 36 11 Mauchit Park F.C. 30 8 6 16 38 54 -16 30 12 Jamestoun City 30 8 6 16 34 58 -24 30 13 Mackintosh Armadillos 30 6 11 13 30 46 -16 29 14 Easter House Islanders 30 6 8 16 39 61 -22 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Hanover Town 30 6 5 19 38 73 -35 23 16 Farlandh United 30 4 10 16 23 53 -30 22

The Weegie League, First Division

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Aigh nas Raidhraillinan 26 18 3 5 71 34 37 57 2 Sauchiehall Rovers 26 14 6 6 49 29 20 48 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 Plai-na-laich F.C. 26 13 8 5 56 38 18 47 4 Port Gustav Longshoremen 26 13 5 8 49 36 13 44 5 Teighan Fiealdains 26 11 10 5 35 20 15 43 6 Lylia City Pirates 26 11 8 7 36 33 3 41 7 Pittingstown 26 12 4 10 45 38 7 40 8 Soothside City 26 10 7 9 36 29 7 37 9 Allbensborgs 26 8 8 10 31 44 -13 32 10 Lilland Athletic 26 5 12 9 34 39 -5 27 11 Ferghla'ian Rangers 26 6 9 11 37 43 -6 27 12 Nortkirk 26 8 2 16 24 60 -36 26 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Duncegarden Park 26 4 6 16 22 45 -23 18 14 Plarghlain F.C. 26 1 8 17 20 57 -37 11

The Weegie League, Second Division

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Rossiemannock Rose 26 17 4 5 50 21 29 55 2 F.C. Aberdunkirk 26 17 3 6 56 27 29 54 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Sonskirk Tigers 26 15 5 6 61 29 32 50 4 St. Andrew's 26 14 7 5 40 23 17 49 5 The Fell Men 26 15 4 7 48 36 12 49 6 Drumnavog Thistle 26 13 6 7 42 26 16 45 7 Tyndwichamburnock F.C. 26 11 9 6 38 23 15 42 8 Aberbell Masons 26 10 8 8 32 36 -4 38 9 Gonaidh Gaeis F.C. 26 9 3 14 24 30 -6 30 10 South Calloch Hillmen 26 6 7 13 28 61 -33 25 11 F.C. Scheigh’chean 26 6 4 16 26 42 -16 22 12 Sgloibh Weighain 26 4 7 15 23 45 -22 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 The Floaters F.C. 26 4 5 17 20 55 -35 17 14 Grantocher United 26 3 4 19 20 54 -34 13

The Weegie League, Third Division

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Mackintosh Old Boys 26 19 0 7 58 24 34 57 2 Drumacher Town 26 17 6 3 46 20 26 57 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Lylia Rangers 26 14 6 6 46 24 22 48 4 Bairingh Last Chancers 26 14 6 6 33 23 10 48 5 Inbhir Mór 26 10 10 6 33 27 6 40 6 Hanover Celdonian F.C. 26 9 11 6 32 25 7 38 7 A.F.C Ploidhan 26 9 8 9 44 33 11 35 8 Finnieston Cranes 26 8 9 9 31 27 4 33 9 Sconfoot Rovers 26 9 5 12 40 51 -11 32 10 F.C. Keel of Buchanan 26 8 7 11 39 43 -4 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Nights of Fairwind F.C. 26 8 4 14 22 44 -22 28 12 Soibh’lan Young Team 26 5 7 14 22 44 -22 22 13 Port Gustav Redoubters 26 5 3 18 29 62 -33 18 14 F.S.C. Nas Deiull 26 3 6 17 28 56 -28 15

Twelve Islands Championship, Combined Weegie Division

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Ochilean Pears 34 24 6 4 55 20 35 78 2 Loachenn United 34 22 7 5 67 26 41 73 3 Colmadh Labhrann F.C. 34 23 4 7 65 26 39 73 4 Dontabhrainn Flaich F.C 34 19 6 9 59 38 21 63 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Jamestoun Pearls 34 18 7 9 75 44 31 61 6 Feilsan Town 34 18 6 10 80 51 29 60 7 Carlsson Railmen 34 16 9 9 54 30 24 57 8 Haegleish Rovers 34 13 6 15 47 51 -4 45 9 Cailcanhlie Rovers 34 13 5 16 39 39 0 44 10 Maichle F.C 34 11 10 13 47 63 -16 43 11 Aberachie United 34 11 7 16 38 43 -5 40 12 Aigh nas Monteith 34 9 12 13 48 44 4 39 13 Duninverkirk Hibernians 34 10 9 15 39 47 -8 39 14 Connicht City 34 8 11 15 35 52 -17 35^ 15 Harossan Town 34 9 7 18 49 68 -19 34 16 Welachie Utd 34 8 9 17 28 50 -22 33* 17 The Shipyarders 34 8 3 23 32 80 -48 27^ 18 Weir of Kintorrich 34 2 4 28 28 113 -85 10* *Relegated to Twelve Islands Championship League, Weegia Conference. ^Relegated to Twelve Islands Championship League, Lesser Isles Conference.

Twelve Islands Championship League, Weegia Conference

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Flower of Dechaidhu 26 15 6 5 35 20 15 51 2 Dunwedherie United 26 13 11 2 41 22 19 50 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Muchaill F.C 26 14 6 6 44 21 23 48 4 Grendalmone F.C. 26 14 4 8 48 24 24 46 5 Cloidhann Rovers 26 13 6 7 39 25 14 45 6 Mhairisburgh Utd 26 14 3 9 47 42 5 45 7 Aberordie City 26 11 7 8 40 39 1 40 8 Locholaendh United 26 8 9 9 30 37 -7 33 9 Roarchaigh City 26 8 8 10 34 39 -5 32 10 Tobaidhston Rovers 26 7 9 10 29 31 -2 30 11 Aridhaigh Town 26 6 9 11 27 31 -4 27 12 Solidhin City 26 4 10 12 22 38 -16 22 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Dunsatrie United 26 5 6 15 13 31 -18 21* 14 F.C. Fairdh’fordh 26 2 2 22 24 73 -49 8* *Relegated to League of Weegia, First Division.

Twelve Islands Championship League, Lesser Isles Conference

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Malchoibh South Bankers 26 16 6 4 48 31 17 54 2 Lochbheinn Midnighters F.C. 26 16 4 6 43 27 16 52 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Longbroom Vale 26 16 2 8 50 37 13 50 4 Lochmiedhinn Athletic 26 13 6 7 34 19 15 45 5 Corchy Atties 26 12 4 10 38 32 6 40 6 Banarandhra Town 26 11 5 10 57 44 13 38 7 Monthrantie United 26 11 5 10 31 30 1 38 8 Dunsaidh Town 26 10 7 9 33 33 0 37 9 Aberotin Wanderers 26 11 3 12 37 39 -2 36 10 Abermichtie Town 26 9 8 9 32 28 4 35 11 Abermachantie City 26 8 4 14 25 36 -11 28' 12 Conragrahan Rangers 26 6 5 15 35 58 -23 23^ 13 Dunorrochie United 26 5 4 17 33 57 -24 19 14 Colmichteann United 26 4 5 17 25 50 -25 17* ' Relegated to Central Island Belt League ^ Relegated to Northern Islands League * Relegated to Eastern Isles League

League of Weegia, First Division

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Auchteroder Athletic 44 24 11 9 76 40 36 83 2 Auchtershilich Town 44 23 10 11 55 48 7 79 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Weir of Suildhanain 44 22 9 13 73 48 25 75 4 Abernorghie City 44 21 9 14 76 60 16 72 5 Avieondhrie United 44 20 11 13 62 47 15 71 6 Aberlouie Town 44 17 14 13 62 54 8 65 7 Banreibhrich Athletic 44 15 14 15 48 64 -16 59 8 Dunshillich Town 44 13 17 14 35 36 -1 56 9 Dunoferlie City 44 12 11 21 52 64 -12 47 10 Pailglichteann City 44 12 9 23 40 64 -24 45 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Garrie F.C. 44 9 12 23 53 80 -27 39* 12 Bancromnie City 44 9 7 28 49 76 -27 34* * Relegated to League of Weegia, Second Division

Northern Islands League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Dunnain Blair 44 26 12 6 81 39 42 90 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Garrie A.F.C. 1943 44 23 10 11 85 58 27 79 3 Laurieston Reef Divers 44 22 9 13 81 54 27 75 4 Allanton City 44 20 14 10 82 64 18 74 5 Ponlachie Town 44 20 13 11 59 40 19 73 6 Chiann Dunaibh 44 20 12 12 64 48 16 72 7 Auchtercock United 44 17 11 16 62 58 4 62 8 Strees F.C. 44 13 13 18 52 59 -7 52 9 Buchlyvie Jungle Cats 44 10 13 21 30 53 -23 43 10 Peilgann Freemen 44 10 8 26 41 80 -39 38 11 Aigh nas Ruiranh 44 9 7 28 36 79 -43 34^ 12 Porbey Rangers 44 7 12 25 38 79 -41 33* * Relegated to Stramach League ^ Relegated to Fisherman's League

Central Island Belt League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Auchterceildh United 44 26 5 13 97 62 35 83 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Elstrees F.C. 44 23 12 9 63 37 26 81 3 Blairdunnain FC 44 23 9 12 66 54 12 78 4 Gormladicchin Central 44 21 9 14 61 48 13 72 5 Nethern Town 44 19 12 13 70 59 11 69 6 Lonstron F.C. 44 16 10 18 61 54 7 58 7 Gorbeyhill Rangers 44 16 10 18 59 59 0 58 8 Dallotinhie United 44 12 16 16 72 75 -3 52 9 Breraldie Welfare 44 13 13 18 65 75 -10 52 10 Stregha Thistle 44 12 10 22 56 75 -19 46 11 Bollichitie F.C. 44 11 10 23 45 71 -26 43^ 12 Langcaddie Vale 44 10 8 26 65 111 -46 38* * Relegated to Lylia League ^ Relegated to Achtil & Farentan League

Eastern Isles League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Calstrees United 44 23 15 6 62 35 27 84 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Auchtermallachie Avengers 44 22 13 9 75 45 30 79 3 Dunnarn United 44 21 12 11 62 41 21 75 4 Aberhourie Athletic 44 17 16 11 47 35 12 67 5 Baighness F.C. 44 15 14 15 49 50 -1 59 6 Nethen Rovers 44 16 11 17 48 54 -6 59 7 Lermstron Laurels 44 14 12 18 51 55 -4 54 8 Dallot Ramblers 44 11 16 17 51 62 -11 49 9 Brarney Miners Welfare 44 12 12 20 46 71 -25 48 10 Porbey Town 44 13 8 23 60 68 -8 47^ 11 Longbroom Athletic 44 9 19 16 37 52 -15 46 12 Streghanthara City 44 11 12 21 53 73 -20 45* * Relegated to Stemil League ^ Relegated to Dreich League

League of Weegia, 2nd Division

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Lethskirn Brosnach 44 28 6 10 86 41 45 90* 2 F.C. Lochanter 44 24 12 8 62 35 27 84* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 Dunlichlan Orchard 44 20 11 13 50 43 7 71 4 Doneichrie Gorge F.C. 44 19 9 16 66 45 21 66 5 Aigh nas Avieolaendh 44 18 11 15 67 58 9 65 6 Duncromich Pathfinders 44 19 7 18 60 57 3 64 7 Aigh nas Avieratich 44 13 17 14 55 65 -10 56 8 Bannachanich United 44 13 14 17 46 59 -13 53 9 Kepplen F.C. 44 11 15 18 48 62 -14 48 10 Dulchie United 44 11 13 20 50 69 -19 46 11 Wilodden Shipyard 44 10 11 23 48 72 -24 41 12 Alnan Thistle 44 8 14 22 31 63 -32 38 Promoted to League of Weegia, First Division

Strammach League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Holarrine Athletic 44 24 16 4 69 32 37 88* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Aberonfie Rovers 44 24 12 8 90 57 33 84 3 Alvier F.C. 44 24 9 11 68 33 35 81 4 Cochule Maroon 44 24 8 12 59 40 19 80 5 Abertefladh F.C 44 22 8 14 70 46 24 74 6 Lochnorgie Town 44 16 12 16 68 65 3 60 7 Kingdochy United 44 16 10 18 53 60 -7 58 8 Newtouston F.C. 44 15 12 17 73 63 10 57 9 Abermorgow Lily 44 15 11 18 43 48 -5 56 10 Restow F.C. 44 13 11 20 47 64 -17 50 11 Bank O' Stray 44 9 7 28 54 91 -37 34 12 The Balmore Family 44 1 6 37 16 111 -95 9 *Promoted to Northern Islands League

Fisherman's League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Auchterflandarich Frost Giants F.C. 44 26 12 6 73 39 34 90* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Firkin Rovers 44 26 11 7 86 44 42 89 3 Lochsadhrie Town 44 25 8 11 102 67 35 83 4 Easemuir Fisher 44 23 8 13 72 57 15 77 5 Aberkirkie Coasters 44 20 11 13 82 58 24 71 6 Lochiedhu Villagers 44 15 13 16 82 80 2 58 7 Auchan Park 44 13 14 17 63 68 -5 53 8 Auchan Local Transport Authority 44 15 8 21 71 101 -30 53 9 Maxtow Clansmen 44 11 11 22 45 62 -17 44 10 Dunmanich F.C. 44 11 8 25 60 86 -26 41 11 Kilchar F.C. 44 10 11 23 47 79 -32 41 12 Lancekirk F.C. 44 5 13 26 50 92 -42 28 *Promoted to Northern Islands League

Lylia League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Appleban Star 44 29 8 7 86 39 47 95* -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Hutheswick Strollers 44 19 17 8 57 37 20 74 3 Whinlengan Reighald 44 19 14 11 54 44 10 71 4 Dalmale Island 44 18 14 12 61 46 15 68 5 Auchterney Town 44 16 15 13 64 56 8 63 6 Cumbathmar Athletic 44 16 13 15 58 51 7 61 7 Alnel Rangers 44 15 9 20 43 49 -6 54 8 Strown-Onpath Bankies 44 12 14 18 55 72 -17 50 9 Carterneltan Bridge 44 11 15 18 54 73 -19 48 10 Easterlie Puffins 44 12 10 22 54 78 -24 46 11 Finnuirie Rangers 44 12 8 24 42 65 -23 44 12 Blachan 2005 44 8 17 19 50 68 -18 41 *Promoted to Central Island Belt League

Achtil & Farentan League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Aigh nas Choill 44 29 8 7 105 55 50 95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Calgigha Beachcombers 44 27 8 9 97 50 47 89 3 Cranachan Treann F.C. 44 24 9 11 78 53 25 81 4 Rialch Town 44 23 11 10 87 59 28 80 5 Gronaichann Haverers 44 21 10 13 65 54 11 73 6 Kilphanane F.C. 44 17 14 13 58 42 16 65 7 Dunkelack County 44 18 9 17 73 75 -2 63 8 Sioghnaol Tereghan'tich Warriors 44 18 5 21 65 77 -12 59 9 Durneftie United 44 11 13 20 55 89 -34 46 10 Aigh nas Chaildonneadh 44 9 5 30 52 90 -38 32 11 Cannan Gaels 44 5 12 27 45 91 -46 27 12 Gratennochaoll United 44 5 10 29 31 76 -45 25 *Promoted to Central Island Belt League

Stemil League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Jedmeirgh Thistle 44 25 9 10 100 51 49 84* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Vale of Aedhrahan 44 24 12 8 85 44 41 84 3 Irshallie Hermits 44 24 10 10 65 33 32 82 4 Quindippie Welfare 44 22 11 11 68 41 27 77 5 Poilanter Celtic 44 24 5 15 85 71 14 77 6 Glenmarrurie Still 44 22 8 14 67 48 19 74 7 Connichtie United 44 18 11 15 67 49 18 65 8 Inchkillinan Islanders 44 15 8 21 52 65 -13 53 9 Kilnie Town 44 12 11 21 57 90 -33 47 10 Renfurn Mackerels 44 10 7 27 54 104 -50 37 11 Rosanter Dissenters 44 6 11 27 48 92 -44 29 12 Hochantran F.C. 44 7 7 30 32 92 -60 28 *Promoted to Eastern Isles League

Dreich League

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Weirmalloch Town 44 27 9 8 86 39 47 90* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Brentichie Thistle 44 26 10 8 62 32 30 88 3 Scoonerie Welfare 44 24 10 10 65 39 26 82 4 Lochclein Town 44 21 10 13 70 46 24 73 5 Ballintyre Rovers 44 21 9 14 74 50 24 72 6 Mofferan City 44 19 14 11 73 53 20 71 7 Lalachrenner Oilmen 44 17 10 17 52 55 -3 61 8 Skilkineradhie Grouse 44 11 11 22 59 89 -30 44 9 Ochalinter Fishermen 44 12 7 25 53 73 -20 43 10 Saildinnie Dwellers 44 12 7 25 64 90 -26 43 11 Tardacuill Lighthouse F.C. 44 11 7 26 55 91 -36 40 12 Kilmlachnortie Prowlers 44 7 8 29 26 82 -56 29 *Promoted to Eastern Isles League

TQCC: Mackintosh Thistle Celtic, Lylia Foresters
GC: The Distillery, Buchanan L.F.C, Trams Union United
SBCC: Aigh nas Raidhraillinan, Sauchiehall Rovers, Plai-na-laich F.C., Port Gustav Longshoremen.

The Weegie Football Association have submitted a bid to host the Series B Champions' Cup final. The stadium submitted is The Dear Green Place. This stadium, located in the capital city of Mackintosh on the island of Weegia, is the home of Weegie Premiership champions Mackintosh Thistle Celtic and seats 73,211. It is a rectangular, all-seater stadium, built in 1928 in a handsome art-deco style purpose-built for association football matches.

The most recent stand was completed before the beginning of the most recent season, built to replace the smaller-capacity Portside End. It is currently known by the fans as the "New Stand", and is yet unnamed. The board of Mackintosh Thistle Celtic have decided that if The Dear Green Place does win the hosting bid, they will name the stand after the nickname of the losing team, as a slight consolation. The other stands are the Jamie Smith Stand, Keirlie Side, and the Cromlie Street End.

by **Balida** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:41 pm

Balida Futball League

Balida Futball League 5027 Season
League Table/Results

Balida Futball League Division B 5027 Season
Leauge Table

Cup Winners: FC Ribth

TQCC Entries: Lakia City Dragons, FC Ribth
GC Entries: Mil Rovers, Scarworth Strikers, Pensa Islanders
SBCC Entries: Zoi City Strikers, Actona Bottles, Bolicis Rockets, Open Land Rovers

Balida College Futball Association

BCFA(Balida College Futball Association) North Division

Code: Select all: POS Team Name ABV P W L D Pts GS GA GD 1 Zatia City University ZCU 10 8 1 1 17 39 22 17 2 Lakia City University LCU 10 6 4 0 12 35 27 8 3 Balida Union University BUU 10 5 4 1 11 30 30 0 4 Anglopos State University ASU 10 4 3 3 11 19 24 -5 5 Norabul University NBU 10 3 6 1 7 27 37 -10 6 Ribth City University RCU 10 1 7 2 4 22 32 -10

IUCC Entries: Zatia City University, Lakia City University, Balida Union University

by **Candelaria And Marquez** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:25 pm

League of Candelarias University Sports Team Football Championship [Pre-IUCC 23]

We're still doing this, apparently.

Albrecht Conference

 Pos  Team                                   P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  New Hall, Albrecht                    30  18   7   5   55   30   25   61*
   2  Bove University                       30  18   5   7   66   40   26   59*
   3  St. Mary’s College, Albrecht          30  15   9   6   51   38   13   54*
   4  Gifton College, Albrecht              30  16   5   9   46   32   14   53
   5  Liverpool Hills Girls Grammar School  30  13  11   6   43   33   10   50
   6  Rupert Haining College, Albrecht      30  13  10   7   29   23    6   49
   7  New College, Albrecht                 30  13   8   9   45   37    8   47
   8  McMillan Institute of Technology      30  11   9  10   37   35    2   42
   9  University of Lexaton                 30  10   9  11   39   38    1   39
  10  University College, Albrecht          30   9  12   9   39   39    0   39
  11  People’s College, Albrecht            30  10   7  13   40   34    6   37
  12  Royal College of Albrecht             30   8   7  15   35   53  -18   31
  13  Mathieu’s College, Albrecht           30   6  10  14   22   37  -15   28
  14  National College of Medicine          30   7   5  18   36   59  -23   26
  15  Lippey University                     30   5   7  18   25   50  -25   22
  16  Hoxton University of Technology       30   4   7  19   21   51  -30   19

Arrigo Conference

 Pos  Team                       P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Arrigo Polytechnic        20  13   4   3   39   22   17   43*
   2  Ciudad Española, UIGA     20  12   3   5   44   24   20   39*
   3  Arrigo Harbour, UIGA      20  10   1   9   31   33   -2   31
   4  Rasgones del Ángel, UIGA  20   8   4   8   29   28    1   28
   5  Lalla Bay University      20   4   3  13   22   40  -18   15
   6  El Matthews, UIGA         20   1   9  10   16   34  -18   12

Onwere Conference

 Pos  Team                                  P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Onwere University College of Arts    18  10   3   5   31   20   11   33*
   2  Onwere University Political College  18   9   3   6   22   20    2   30*
   3  Onwere Johnson College               18   7   5   6   22   20    2   26
   4  Royal College, Onwere University     18   2   5  11   11   26  -15   11

North Candelaria Conference

 Pos  Team                                      P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Clotaire School of Arts & Science        18  12   3   3   30    9   21   39*
   2  Gassett College of Sports Development    18   8   4   6   24   17    7   28*
   3  Caires Metropolitan University           18   8   3   7   27   20    7   27*
   4  Carpenter University-College             18   7   6   5   18   22   -4   27
   5  Khatib William Collins University        18   5   9   4   22   26   -4   24
   6  University of Webley                     18   6   5   7   16   17   -1   23
   7  C&M Open University [Wikeley]            18   6   4   8   19   22   -3   22
   8  Candelarias College of Natural Medicine  18   4   8   6   20   21   -1   20
   9  University of Saurin                     18   4   5   9   27   39  -12   17
  10  Thomas Perperna Dental College           18   3   7   8   17   27  -10   16

South Candelaria Conference

 Pos  Team                                          P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  University of Vo                             18  12   3   3   40   21   19   39*
   2  National Maritime Warfare School             18  11   5   2   34   16   18   38*
   3  Allemali University                          18  10   3   5   29   14   15   33*
   4  Portsmouth Institute of Higher Education     18   7   3   8   17   21   -4   24
   5  Pearson Hills School of Art & Science        18   6   5   7   24   24    0   23
   6  Hanlon Institute of Higher Education         18   6   5   7   16   23   -7   23
   7  Catherin College                             18   6   3   9   14   23   -9   21
   8  Brayton & Derby College of Higher Education  18   5   4   9   17   29  -12   19
   9  Orchard College of Learning                  18   4   4  10   15   23   -8   16
  10  Abiodun College of Culinary Arts             18   3   5  10   17   29  -12   14

Marquez & the Outliers Conference

 Pos  Team                                   P   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD  Pts
   1  Universidad de Melin                  18   9   6   3   28   14   14   33*
   2  Rummery School of Cheese Studies      18  10   3   5   29   17   12   33*
   3  University of El din                  18  10   1   7   32   27    5   31*
   4  University of Sloane                  18   9   2   7   26   23    3   29
   5  Fasnia College                        18   7   5   6   27   33   -6   26
   6  Zapata School of Tertiary Education   18   6   6   6   25   25    0   24
   7  Universidad de Castillo               18   3  12   3   21   20    1   21
   8  Instituto Tecnológico de Nader        18   4   5   9   16   24   -8   17
   9  Marquez College of Pharmacy           18   3   6   9   17   26   -9   15
  10  Catholic University of Pastrana       18   3   6   9   13   25  -12   15

Knockout Rounds

First Round
Clotaire School of Arts & Science 2-2 St. Mary’s College, Albrecht (2-2 AET) (Clotaire School of Arts & Science wins 3-2 on penalty kicks)
Arrigo Polytechnic 3-0 Gassett College of Sports Development
National Maritime Warfare School 1-1 University of El din (1-2 AET)
Onwere University College of Arts 0-1 Rummery School of Cheese Studies
New Hall, Albrecht 1-2 Onwere University Political College
University of Vo 2-1 Ciudad Española, UIGA
Bove University 2-1 Caires Metropolitan University
Universidad de Melin 1-0 Allemali University

Quarter-Finals
University of El din 2-2 Bove University
Bove University 0-2 University of El din
Aggregate: University of El din 4-2 Bove University

Universidad de Melin 2-1 Rummery School of Cheese Studies
Rummery School of Cheese Studies 0-2 Universidad de Melin
Aggregate: Universidad de Melin 4-1 Rummery School of Cheese Studies

University of Vo 1-0 Clotaire School of Arts & Science
Clotaire School of Arts & Science 0-0 University of Vo
Aggregate: University of Vo 1-0 Clotaire School of Arts & Science

Arrigo Polytechnic 0-0 Onwere University Political College
Onwere University Political College 0-0 Arrigo Polytechnic (0-1 AET)
Aggregate: Arrigo Polytechnic 1-0 Onwere University Political College

Semi-Finals
Universidad de Melin 3-1 University of Vo
University of Vo 2-1 Universidad de Melin
Aggregate: Universidad de Melin 4-3 University of Vo

University of El din 1-3 Arrigo Polytechnic
Arrigo Polytechnic 2-1 University of El din
Aggregate: University of El din 2-5 Arrigo Polytechnic

Grand Final

Universidad de Melin 0-5 Arrigo Polytechnic

Third-Place Play-Off

University of Vo 2-0 University of El din

IUCC 23 Qualification

1) Arrigo Polytechnic
2) Universidad de Melin
3) University of Vo

by **Candelaria And Marquez** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:28 pm

We're still doing this, apparently

Matchday One… *Glances shiftily to the left*

*Glances shiftily to the right*

*Crouches*

*Peers under the table*

*Rescues part of a sandwich and a venerable lump of lego*

*Glances shiftily in all available directions*

Okay. Don’t nobody shout too loud, but I think we got past the first weekend without anyone being sacked.

In fact, it was an opening matchday largely devoid of any notable incident whatsoever, which is exactly how I likes ‘em.

Oh, there was a massive punch-up in Talinger, with Ironside’s return to the top-flight marked with a mass brawl after MN Smith were denied a clear penalty to take a two-one lead. Leon Tiller ultimately saw red for stroking Muhammad Fairhope’s cheeks (although this incident was probably unrelated, and prompted an extensive war of words between the Association of Muslim Professional Sportsmen and the Muslim Gay & Lesbian Alliance, bless ‘em) and several others saw yellow cards, though it was the CMSC who came under the most fire (as is the way of such things) from the press, Klein and Medlin alike for failing to appoint a top-quality referee for a big central Candelarian derby game such as this. To be fair, who knew they were even rivals? I certainly didn’t, and I make this stuff up.

Frank Le Tissier, a very popular player in the making one suspects, popped up with a free header late on to earn three entirely undeserved points.

There was the issues of an Erik Visser dive, as well, with the never especially popular striker (he shall never be forgiven for ‘Ricky’, or for that matter being Nethertopian, among the denizens of sensible, honest, upright, hard-working, tax-paying, grumbling-about-tax-paying conservative shit holes like Saurin) blatantly tumbling over McDonald centre-half Aaron Davies when he could easily have, let’s say, broken every bone in his right leg instead. The big girl’s blouse got the nod from the wussy referee, had the temerity to put it away himself, and the Marbles took all three points. Darren Hastings’ brave header from a well-worked corner two minutes later just made things all the more frustrated for the hard-done-by locals.

Oh yeah, and Leo Williams got injured again, but that’s not really news, per se. Stretchered off after ten minutes, his right ankle could well be beyond repair at this stage… he’s off to get the horse placenta rubbed in and, failing that, he’ll be joining ‘em in the glue factory. Say what you like about both the CMSC and the CAMAFA, but it’s sensationally rare that an established player’s career ends due to injury, never mind at the age of twenty-two. But that’s the way it’s looking for a forward once tipped – still tipped, in many quarters – to lead the line for the Big Blues for years to come. The word ‘tragedy’ is overused on these occasions, as are the words ‘overused’ and ‘word’, but it would take a cold heart indeed not to feel for a young man whose future hangs in the balance.

Still, it’s an ill wind that blows no good – enter Luke Lewis, again, who promptly put a screamer past Ciaran Stockley inside three minutes. Marlow Park was momentarily silenced; finding their voice after Lúthien Anwamanë brought Russ Becker to his knees (let us take a moment to savour the image… right, onward) in the twentieth minute and opened up a concerted spell of Green Island pressure.

Funny thing is, though… the goal never came. The shiny new partnership between Shawn O’Connell and James Masters looks very effective indeed, serving to strangle both Anwamanë and va Drake and leave the rest of the champions’ midfield able to conjure up distant shots at best. A fine performance from Patrick Zoric in the Caires City midfield too suggests that Dionísio is back on form when it comes to picking his players, and this weekend he got it tactically spot on. Williams or no, City took all the points from Zapata, and a nation cheered.

Elsewhere, the Scorplets raced to a three-nil lead at home to a lethargic PoC, though they were upstaged by Tenderville – three goals to the good after eleven minutes, they promptly went to sleep and only just avoided being held to a draw by Mayo Valley. Radyukevich’s return was jolly enough – Jasari McDermott blasting home a late winner against a highly disappointing Portuguese – while there were away wins for Turkish at the Dome and the Spur in Peregrinus City.

The happiest manager of all though was Alejandro Blanco da Cruz – a simple victory in Khatib-Gassett, despite Macario Oliveira Tavares’ straight red for a hideous tackle on Turks’ Club captain Kam Letcher, ensuring that the Sortherner fails to fall to his predecessor’s fate of a first-day exit.

Albrecht FC 3-1 Port of Clotaire (Rachna og 17, Morrison 39, Kouakou Kouamé 42; O’Airmeadhaigh 89)
Caires Sports 1-2 Albrecht Turkish (Valinial 90+1; Alexander 12, Robinson 70)
Green Island 0-1 Caires City (Lewis 13)
Ironside-Talinger 2-1 AFC MN Smith (Smith 22, Le Tissier 87; Littlefellow 68)
McDonald SC 0-2 El din Marbles (Erik Visser 87, Hastings 89)
NAPPC 0-2 KT Hotspur (Clayton 21, Collins 43)
Radyukevich CSC 1-0 Arrigo Portuguese (McDermott 87)
Tenderville United 3-2 Mayo Valley (Deleks 5 and 9, Williams og 11; Subudhi 49, Warren 75)
Turks’ Club 0-2 Marquez-Onwere (Smit 21 and 87)

Matchday Two… Ahh, two games in and Albrecht FC lead the way. It’s like the good old days are finally back.

It doesn’t get much more comfortable than a three-nil away win, as the Scorpions outclassed Mayo Valley in Hodgehill. At least Gustav Johansson and Mikael Lilja can consol themselves that they’re just a tad more experienced at coping with Jesse Nakatsuru after this footballing lesson, ahead of Toyur’s meeting with the Big Blues. Now fully comfortable with his own brilliance and infinitely happier now that Go Songji is watching his back; the Anglo-Ilbonese (possibly… we’re just guessing, really) twenty-five year-old is a very different player than when he first appeared on the scene – all off-the-ball runs and one-touch football now, leaving the dribbles to his new mate Adam Kouakou Kouamé – and certainly wiser, if still prone to the occasional burst of hot-headedness. Perhaps he needs that to make him the increasingly assertive force he his. Or perhaps we’re just making excuses for the lad. I dunno.

Frankly, we don’t like going all gooey over Candelariasians. It feels unnatural. They never win any of the big individual gongs, Young Player of the Etcetera aside, but dear Jesse’s on course at this rate as the star of a perfectly balanced Albrecht FC team. What a difference a summer makes.

I could coo over Koviljko Randjelovic at this point too, but that’d just be getting silly. Let’s just leave it that he was also in fine fettle in the Turkish derby, and get back to the comforting business of praising elves.

Eh? We can’t? But… but we always praise elves at this point of the season. You don’t care? Don’t care was made to care, my boy! We shall praise ‘em and be damned, ‘cos… Hm? They’ve not won a game yet? Jaysus…

Yus, Green Island’s descent into mid-table mediocrity continued with an admittedly sparkling three-all in Arrigo. In equal parts inspired and baffling, the GIZ defence looked like strangers for much of the game; easily pulled apart by the combination of Hugo Anderson and Harry Oughton. Portuguese – carrying Fernando Lori as they are at the moment, and with Innisvale and Macanás clearly needing time to hit it off – should not have been allowed to punish Valaina Tinúviel and Paul Paterson’s slack play, with Stockley left screaming at his defenders on several occasions throughout the second half. Up front they’re undoubtedly as awesome as ever – individual brilliance from Durosa and a beautiful team goal tucked away by Aldren earning them a point – but the manner in which they folded late on following Ogus Kures’ second yellow was less than inspiring for a club side ranked in the multiverse’s top ten, and only Stockley stood between them and a second defeat.

We should probably find some good foreigners to talk about, then.

Uhm…

Oh, Rodrigo Silva played a blinder for the Marbles in their victory over Caires Sports. Yeah, that’ll do.

In other news, Port of Clotaire – mostly foreigners, you know – have got off to a truly awful start and better buck their ideas up if they don’t want to be this year’s Caires City, tumbling from the top four into a relegation battle. The Harper Street faithful rather enjoyed their two-one home defeat to NAPPC, mind. Nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia now and again.

MarquezOW, the Spur and City all sit alongside the capital clubs at the top of the table – though the Errant Knights’ off-field problems, in the wake of Williams’ injury nightmare, continued despite this weekend’s victory after they were forced to pay record compensation to the Lower Wessaxontown Magicians following an illegal approach for winger Harvey Wilkinson days after the boy had turned sixteen during the off-season. It’s quite a big deal over here.

But you don’t care about that.

Why on earth should you?

Albrecht Turkish 3-0 Turks’ Club (Rafaela 49, Randjelovic 54, Robinson 74)
Arrigo Portuguese 3-3 Green Island (Innisvale 10, Oughton 57 and 68; va Drake 3, Durosa 66, Aldren 71)
Caires City 1-0 AFC MN Smith (Zoric 49)
El din Marbles 2-1 Caires Sports (Silva 5, Soro 54; Valinial 46)
KT Hotspur 3-1 Ironside-Talinger (Dariegan 22, González 66, Nilsson 90+1; Sanromán 19)
Marquez-Onwere 3-0 Radyukevich CSC (Sáez 3 and 64, Gatti 80)
Mayo Valley 0-3 Albrecht FC (Morrison 17, Nakatsuru 19 and 56)
Port of Clotaire 1-2 NAPPC (Hamblett 90+3; Cuesta 46, Van Dyke 90)
Tenderville United 2-2 McDonald SC (Deleks 77, Night 80; Gaggioli 66, Lilithian 90+2)

Matchday Three… Saturday morning brought us arguably the biggest game of the season thus far, as the mists cloaking Marlow Park (there are always mists cloaking Marlow Park these days. We’re not at all sure why, but someone somewhere appears to find it appropriate) parted momentarily to allow the struggling champions and on-form naranja of MarquezOW to enter the field in front of a worldwide television audience of… several. With representation from nine nations, this presents the perfect opportunity to finally start bigging up the foreigners.

Wait… no… No, I’m being told we’ve got to talk about Luís Sáez. My God, this is frustrating.

He’s a funny one, is Sáez, a once highly promising career having petered out rather in recent times. Stocky, slow and not especially lethal in the box; there’s still a general consensus that there’s a player in there somewhere if only someone could work precisely why. Everyone knows he’s better than Bas Smit, that it’s only a matter of time before he rediscovers his form and replaces the lumpen frog in the MarquezOW first team. Don’t they…?

The idea that they could actually make decent partners, in an oh-so traditional little-and-large partnership, doesn’t appear to actually have occurred to anyone before now. Even Blanco da Cruz was forced into it, facing a reshuffle during Oliveira Tavares’ continued absence and the club’s total lack of left-sided alternatives (well, there was Thjis Stot, but… come on). With Gómez switched to his less-than-preferred flank and Souto Maior dumped out wide, Green Island were well-set to take advantage of the naranja’s confusion.

What all this is leading up to is that they didn’t. They really, really didn’t.

A Gloria Villasenior long ball, cleared by Dorack, finding Gómez who passes back to Stewart and through to Cotuba, who launches another long ball headed down by Smit to Sáez, who swivels to avoid Paterson’s challenge and lashes a shot past Stockley… and that was one-nil after seven minutes. Fine, progressive football there, and the gentle pop of elven telly sets being turned off across the planets.

The GIZ certainly got back into the game, but it was heavy going indeed. Sáez and Smit really were one hell of a handful and – in the absence of the player widely considered the naranja’s best – Blanco da Cruz may have hit upon a set-up to make MarquezOW domestic contenders once more. If the second-half equaliser came against the run of play, then the naranja were far from punished for failing to put the game to bed – the late introduction of Pappas, coupled with some Souto Maior magic, saw the visitors hand Green Island their most embarrassing fifteen minutes for years; Chris Stewart adding insult to injury in injury time, heading in a corner for four-one.

Yes’m. Something’s rotten in the state of, er, Zapata.

Later in the day, it was Radyukevich’s turn to spring a major surprise against one of the title favourites. Clinging onto an early lead gifted when Áron Mihály failed spectacularly to deal with Patrick Williams and the Zirconia was able to sneak a shot under a blindsighted Lyle Gwyther; the Jukos’ performance served to underline concerns over Turkish’s overall quality. Most top sides carry at least someone, but are the likes of the Pasargian centre-back, Denny Alexander and Ausilio Calabrese – who missed a bevy of chances during the second half and really can’t be enjoying life at the moment – up to the job of pushing for a return to first? Compare and contrast Albrecht FC’s cheep and cheerful two-nil walkover of McDonald.

Elsewhere, in a prelude to Nethertopia versus Sargossa in World Cup qualifying, it was Barreto’s Marbles who drew first blood with a two-nil away victory; while Port of Clotaire got back on track in easily disposing of Klein’s not-really-very-inspiring-yet Ironside.

AFC MN Smith 1-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Van der Laan 73; Oughton 87)
Albrecht FC 2-0 McDonald SC (Kouakou Kouamé 14, Nakatsuru 68)
Caires Sports 3-1 Turks’ Club (Made’er 6, Belmore 14, Adirondu 29; Reva 83)
Green Island 1-4 Marquez-Onwere (Young 68; Sáez 7, Smit 79, Souto Maior 81, Stewart 90+2)
Ironside-Talinger 1-2 Port of Clotaire (Sheppard 90; Hamblett 2, Sánchez García 12)
KT Hotspur 1-1 Caires City (Szathmári 10; Murray 62)
Mayo Valley 1-0 NAPPC (Szatmári 36)
Radyukevich CSC 1-0 Albrecht Turkish (Williams 6)
Tenderville United 0-2 El din Marbles (Herráez 39, Silva 69)

Matchday Four… Just a week after having their pert pointy arses handed to them by MarquezOW, Green Island made the long journey from Zapata to, um, Zapata again, to face Albrecht Turkish in the Eesseffian derby.

Of course, despite the fears that surrounded the Viella takeover a few years back, Turkish are yet to become a second proper Vanorian outpost in the Candelarias. Instead, Mannasuch has – rather curiously, if we’re being entirely honest – relied on a mix of imported Rushmoris, locally-reared talent (both, in the case of Daniel Bakker) and the occasional random super-pricey sort-of Squornshelan. The first XI looks pretty settled, with Mannasuch declining to make any changes after last weekend’s misery in Clotaire, but with the biggest squad in the division to juggle there may be more than a few unhappy benchwarmers about before the Clausura hits home.

Green Island, for their part, are currently cack.

Preamble over then, and the goals were flooding (arright, trickling… running… swishing) in after just four minutes. Lyle Gwyther will make an excellent ‘keeper before too long, but on his first full season of senior football we have to expect the odd untimely rush of blood to the head or, indeed, the… head, if you will, with the sight of an onrushing Anwamanë – the Candelarias’ fourth-favourite sporting pin-up girl (oh, if only they knew, eh?) – clearly sending the poor boy into a hormonal flap from which the Vyintanese striker capitalised with ease.

Gwyther regathered his composure – though not without a stern glare at his goalkeeping understudy Cockburn Wu, who frankly hasn’t got any right to laugh at anybody else about anything, sitting on the bench – and pulled off a couple of decent saves, while Ben Clayton – the striker making a rare start alongside li’l Lúthien in Jhanna Young’s unexpected absence – twice missed embarrassingly from close range. Turkish, for their part, simply never got into gear and well deserved to fall two-nil behind before half-time – Anwamanë again, though on this occasion Gwyther couldn’t be blamed.

The match was done and dusted early into the second period, Dorack heading in a corner from a period of play that saw Alex Rafaela pick up a potentially nasty-looking groin injury (because we just like making life difficult for the Nethie national team, to be honest). Mannasuch accepted as much, handing Lorí Sànchez, Brandon Qiu and Joe Czajkowski substitute appearances and admitting that the visiting side were second best by a mile.

A first victory of the season for the GIZ then, but they’re a comfortable way behind the pace setters. MarquezOW moved top on goals scored, though they needed a fairly late winner against MN Smith to secure all the points in Onwere, while Albrecht FC turned over Tenderville without barely breaking a sweat. The Scorpions might as well be playing with ten men at the moment, with Fahmi Hamizi being given next to nothing to do; the Jesselton striker being Torrealba’s luxury double quilted incontinence pants, a special little extra in the event of an emergency. The five-man midfield is more than capable of holding off most everyone else, while the budding partnership of William and Gijs van Aulen at the back means that Albrecht currently have little need to put anyone to the sword. They’re strolling, and it’s all going swimmingly all of a sudden.

One can say much the same for the El din Marbles, improbably enough. With a 100% record under their belts, they’ve already won half as many games as they managed all season – seemingly thanks to the switch to a 4-4-2, the introduction of Silva, and the unceremonious dropping of one of the Vissers, but not that one. Even with Alberto Herráez suspended they won comfortably this weekend, though their opponents have to be taken into account. Turks’ Club are quite as gash as everyone rather feared they’d be. Perhaps we’ll take a closer look at both teams next weekend. Perhaps we won’t. Who can say.

Elsewhere, ten-man KT Hotspur still had enough to overcome Portuguese, with Juan Carlos Revault surely in line for bigger things sooner rather than later now. Radyukevich are having another storming start, as they do occasionally do, with Caires Sports losing Valinial to injury and losing all heart in a Zirconian-orchestrated two-one victory for the Jukos. And Port of Clotaire are officially Back. And Caires City officially Aren’t.

Thank you, and good night.

Albrecht FC 2-0 Tenderville United (Kouakou Kouamé 5, Morrison 30)
Caires City 1-2 Port of Clotaire (Jones 1; Edwards 6, Sánchez García 36)
El din Marbles 2-0 Turks’ Club (Bachuijs 40, Nixon 60)
Green Island 3-1 Albrecht Turkish (Anwamanë 4 and 40, Dorack 54; Bakker 90)
KT Hotspur 2-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Maxwell 22, Nilsson 83; Oughton 37)
Marquez-Onwere 2-1 AFC MN Smith (Smit 12, Gómez 84; Budden 45+1)
Mayo Valley 1-1 Ironside-Talinger (Witt 27; Sheppard 45)
NAPPC 1-2 McDonald SC (Van Dyke 75; Wanderley 9 and 32)
Radyukevich CSC 2-1 Caires Sports (Hyde 1, Williams 59; Smith 34)

Matchday Five… Right. We rather promised we’d offer some flim-flam about the Marbles and Turks’ Club before we got back to the more important business of detailing Green Island’s season in revoltingly exhaustive details, didn’t we?

Alright, you demanding tosspots. Goodness knows why I waste my time on you all.

Turks’ Club are really very, very good. They’d smash double figures past the Dog & Duck. Your average footballer would quake in their boots if the likes of Tom Wetl, Georgia Kennedy and Daniel Stride, um, strode onto the field of play. One really mustn’t denigrate them too much.

It’s just that, at this level, there’s simply no point in them turning up. It was even worse with Letcher suspended this weekend, with the Roberts-Kennedy axis torn apart (or assassinated, if you prefer) by, um, Radyukevich. That the side that finished below them in the CMSC2 last term was so patently better in every way underlines that you really have got to buy and – more to the point – buy well if even a big ol’ club like the Turks are going to have a hope in hell of staying up. And they haven’t. One goal in five games, all of them defeats, we really should just relegate them now and have a seventeen team division.

Radyukevich, by the by, are up to fourth. Ooh.

The Marbles, meanwhile, are in a different league. Well. Not literally, obviously. That’d be silly. But they are a much finer football team – infinitely better organised than they were, entirely comfortable with the new set-up and content to let Luis Pavoni do his own thang rather than rely on him for every ounce of their creativity. The introduction of Kayben Nixon out on the left (fringe C&M players – they’re the future, you know) has certainly helped in that regard, while Néstor González’s leadership skills show a distinct improvement over his predecessor Joe Rodríguez’s although, it must be pointed out, it’s just a bit of cloth and it DOESN’T MATTER WHO THE BLOODY CAPTAIN IS.

Sadly, for all that, they got eaten three-nil by Albrecht FC this weekend. Shit happens.

Right. Green Island.

Or, more to the point, Caires Sports. Now, what’s that fact we all know about Yaforites?

Yeah, apart from that.

No, they’re not all raging ho… No, the other thing.

Yes, that’s right. Good at the back, ain’t they? Keep it tight, ooer missus. Don’t give much away. Safety first. And, since Caires Sports are a Yaforite team in all but name (and ethnicity in one or two instances, but… shut up), they wouldn’t go and do something as silly as go and ship six goals, now would they? Not after taking the lead seconds before half-time. No. Certainly not.

A game of two halves? Aye, just a bit. One in which the home side were booed off at the break after another Youngless, listless performance (the crowd, admittedly, appears to be getting sparser and more grumpy by the day, though we can only guess as to whether that’s actually connected to their football team’s current patchiness), and then proceeded to wake up in dramatic style.

Espy va Drake starts seasons slowly, you know. Famous for it. On matchday five, however, he scored with his left, his right, his head and his left again, and very nearly racked up five in the dying few seconds – Kolukernin just about diverting his shot away into Anwamanë’s path for her own second in the space of six minutes. As it is, only a handful of CMSC1 players have managed four in a match since the International Era began. Well done him. And as for Caires Sports… Well, they’re not going to be troubling sixth again. Let’s put it like that.

Elsewhere, MN Smith came back from a couple of goals down to earn a three-all draw in a pulsating encounter against (drum roll please)… Albrecht Turkish, whose record against the Smudgers over the years is approaching Silly territory. Patrick Zoric, as is the way of these things, got sent off for Caires City against his former club Mayo Valley in another draw, one in which Mayo ‘keeper Greg Tipping was stretchered off after fracturing his collarbone, which isn’t a good thing at all. Unless you’re second-choice ‘keeper Eric Jenkins, anyway.

Port of Clotaire picked up a third two-one away win on the bounce, despite George Rachna’s injury absence and Alan Cooper’s week’s compassionate leave, while… oh. The Nethertopian derby.

Erm.

We probably ought to put them two back in the spotlight next week, or summat. Yes.

AFC MN Smith 3-3 Albrecht Turkish (Rogers 37, Budden 80, Yeboah 90; Robinson 26, Bakker 45+1, Calabrese 55)
Albrecht FC 3-0 El din Marbles (Go 15, Logan 22, Hamizi 78)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-2 Port of Clotaire (Lori 15; Sáchez García 8, Hamblett 18)
Caires City 1-1 Mayo Valley (Murray 75; Williams 9)
Green Island 6-1 Caires Sports (va Drake 49 and 61 and 68 and 85, Anwamanë 87 and 90+3; Made’er 45)
KT Hotspur 0-1 Marquez-Onwere (Gómez 35)
McDonald SC 0-1 Ironside-Talinger (Sheppard 9)
Radyukevich CSC 2-0 Turks’ Club (Van Dijk 30, Redzic 50)
Tenderville United 2-1 NAPPC (Deleks 12, Night 17; Van Dyke 39)

Matchday Six… There are certain countries out there where managers seldom last more than a season at your average club. Not in these parts. Here, experience is valued ahead of the possibility of staleness. That’s probably why Victor Wildeman still has a job.

Although NAPPC aren’t actually from ‘here’, are they? So scratch that.

Alright, maybe it’s simply because Jan-Walter Ijmuiden doesn’t expect any better than this. Never Give Up, Always Keep the Ball Forward & The Peregrines Peregrines City Sports and Soccer Combination aren’t Tenderville United, they can’t yet anticipate the possibility of winning things. Instead, they’re hanging about in a directionless limbo – too good for the CMSC2, too big for the WendellCorp and, seemingly, incapable of making any breakthrough in the Candelariasian top-flight. The possibility of dropping back into the NeFA’s own competition clearly isn’t on the radar – more than anything else, it would be utterly demeaning – but with one win from six they’re really not going anywhere fast.

O’course, if they don’t want to go back from whence they came, there’s plenty other who might. What’re the odds on FC San Juan or Club Atlético Fasnia trying to break into Nethertopian football in search of silverware any time soon…?

Defeat this weekend was hardly a shocker, as unpleasantly definitive as the nature of the four-one crushing by Albrecht FC was, but an improvement over the remainder of the Apertura will surely be demanded. As for Tenderville, since we promised we’d mention them and all, they’re… okay, really. Three-one in Talinger, can’t especially argue with that. Let’s not give them the oxygen of publicity though, eh?

Elsewhere, MarquezOW had the returning Souto Maior to thank for their late draw at Port of Clotaire, a result that leaves them still undefeated by two points behind six-wins-from-six Albrecht in the table. One cannot formally predict a two-horse race just yet though, with Green Island starting to mosey on back up the table following an Anwamanë hat-trick in Khatib-Gassett, while on current form one would be foolish to discount the El din Marbles entirely, or even KT Hotspur. Or City, for that matter, despite succumbing to a third draw of the season at home to McDonald. Or Turkish, indeed, despite suddenly being a bit awful.

Rather more awful though are Arrigo Portuguese. With no wins as yet, they picked up just a draw against a Mayo Valley side missing their inspirational ‘keeper and had Gabriel Macanás sent off for a petulant kick out at Mikael Lilja just minutes after scoring the equaliser. Condemned as unacceptable in a rare public commentary by Portuguese owner Eduardo Morales, the team’s form may well see Carlos Panadero become the season’s first managerial casualty.

Of course, on current form, there may be a high-profile international role up for grabs an’ all…

AFC MN Smith 0-1 Caires Sports (Smith 86)
Albrecht Turkish 0-1 KT Hotspur (González 18)
Caires City 1-1 McDonald SC (Shannon og 6; Wanderley 68)
El din Marbles 3-1 Radyukevich CSC (Pavoni 49, Silva 53, Smits 61; Higuain 45+1)
Ironside-Talinger 1-3 Tenderville United (Zec 32; Deleks 48 and 71, Kuypers 55)
Mayo Valley 1-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Subudhi 32; Macanás 64)
NAPPC 1-4 Albrecht FC (Cuesta 70; Tekeste 24 and 70, Kouakou Kouamé 52, Kim G. 87)
Port of Clotaire 2-2 Marquez-Onwere (Hooper 31, Sánchez García 51; Smit 20, Souto Maior 90)
Turks’ Club 0-3 Green Island (Anwamanë 3 and 52 and 59)

Matchday Seven… Ahh, a managerial casualty. That always breaks the monotony, doesn’t it?

And you have to admit, Carlos Panadero has style. He has a long coat and doesn’t shave all that often, for one thing, and if that’s not worth a quick swoon I don’t know what is. This weekend, sensing his impending doom, he left the Oakley Park Self-Catering Holidays Arena at half-time with the McDonald-Portuguese score goalless – which is either a really swish way to go, or else he made a complete arse of himself.

Never short on self-confidence, Panadero was soon lambasting Morales for his failure to invest in the club following last term’s top five finish – a not unreasonable accusation, particularly in light of the sale of Randjelovic, though one might be tempted to suggest that, if he was half the coach he plainly believes himself to be, he’d have done rather more with both Portuguese and the Marbles before them. It’s entirely clear that the two most powerful figures at the club parted company, emotionally and intellectually, many months ago – even whilst they were winning the CMS Cup and generally looking a club on the up – and it was only a matter of time before their relationship was formally severed. With no wins from seven games, Panadero’s decision to quit before he was kicked is hardly a shock, and only time will tell whether it was at all premature.

Sexy Carlos, meanwhile, is already linking himself with the not-actually-vacant C&M managerial position, which seems a pretty far cry all things considered, even if options to replace Le Lan, should that prove necessary, are a tad thin on the ground.

Former Vephrese centre-half Avilass Gackbang looks set to take the team next week, with Panadero’s assistant Iain Belling having apparently left following the two-nil defeat in Saurin, though there’s no clue as yet as to who the permanent replacement may be. A foreigner isn’t impossible (*clang*), though more than a few less high-profile Candelariasian clubs may be twitching nervously at this point as well.

Panadero’s former club up in El din, meanwhile, seriously are having an absolute whale of a time and remain hot on a slightly stalling MarquezOW’s tail for second place. Albrecht FC remain imperious – while Candelariasian authorities are yet to satisfy themselves that their owners Samseong are financially viable again, leaving work on the new stadium and such forth still terminally stalled, the team itself almost couldn’t be going any better. They’re becoming all insufferable again, frankly.

Ironside suffered an extra blow in their two-one defeat in Songstress, with star striker Ryan Sheppard ruled out for the rest of the Apertura. Albrecht Turkish have selection dilemmas too – Rafaela won’t be back for a week or two at least, and Oscar Smith is suspended for three games after a needless straight red late on in Clotaire, but they at least picked up three points after dominating the second half against a disappointing PoC. The Monday night game saw Green Island take a confident away win at Radyukevich to move ahead of the Jukos, Tenderville splitting the two sides in sixth.

Albrecht FC 2-1 Ironside-Talinger (Logan 7, Morrison 49; Sheppard 58)
Caires Sports 0-0 KT Hotspur
El din Marbles 3-1 NAPPC (Silva 3 and 42 and 55; González og 18)
Marquez-Onwere 1-0 Mayo Valley (Smit 79)
McDonald SC 2-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Munir 50 and 55)
Port of Clotaire 0-2 Albrecht Turkish (Yeoman 64, Bakker 66)
Radyukevich CSC 1-3 Green Island (Williams 26; Tinúviel 11, Anwamanë 27, va Drake 49)
Tenderville United 2-1 Caires City (Van Patten 48 and 72; González 43)
Turks’ Club 1-2 AFC MN Smith (Lacamoire 60; Littlefellow 12, Budden 45)

Matchday Eight… Since we appear to be mercifully short on time this day (relatively speaking, you understand), and since not a whole lot of great import actually occurred, let’s make it brief.

Stuff:

* MarquezOW, not unlike a significant period early after Blanco da Cruz’s arrival last term, are suffering somewhat under their desire to avoid a first defeat. Things have just started to become juuust a little bit stiff and nervous, while even relatively lowly sides are using their extra time on the ball to poke holes in the previously impenetrable looking triumvirate of Souto Maior, Gatti and Joãio. This weekend, McDonald SC picked up a valuable point in Onwere, and were good for it an’ all.

* Inexplicably useful as the Marbles suddenly are, Green Island are better – though the GIZ far from rolled over their opponents, so… yeah. Um. I did say we’d have to be quick. Draw your own conclusions, for God’s sake. Be a man.

* Except if you’re a woman.

* Not that I’m suggesting that gender isn’t largely a social construct, and that you can be whatever you want to be, when it comes right down to it.

* Even a bear.

* The Triple City derby, rather unsurprisingly, went KT Hotspur’s way – with Turks’ Club now left battling for that Worst International Era CMSC1 side gong.

* Ten-man Albrecht FC were brought back to two-all by Caires City, but Famhi Hamizi is apparently playing and is apparently awake. Awake enough to score his second of the afternoon when it mattered, anyway.

* Caires Sports are even worse than their neighbours, however. Torn apart by Port of Clotaire, they’ve conceded more goals than anyone else bar Turks’ Club.

* Wtf?

* Srsly, though.

* Albrecht Turkish are also really very average at the moment. Ha-ha!

* Avilass Gackbang is one from one – Portuguese really performed for their caretaker boss against Tenderville, and perhaps he won’t be only the caretaker boss for much longer.

* Or perhaps he will.

* Or perhaps he’ll be replaced by a bigger name, and go back to his role as first team coach. Dude must be about sixty now in any case.

AFC MN Smith 1-0 Radyukevich CSC (Rogers 69)
Albrecht Turkish 0-0 Mayo Valley
Arrigo Portuguese 3-1 Tenderville United (Innisvale 12, Richardson 22, Anderson 64; Deleks 27)
Caires City 2-3 Albrecht FC (Zaczek 75, Agostinho 77; Morrison 44, Hamizi 57 and 86)
El din Marbles 0-1 Green Island (va Drake 61)
KT Hotspur 3-2 Turks’ Club (Collins 1, Rataran 17, Clayton 50; Lacamoire 19, Wetl 41)
Marquez-Onwere 1-1 McDonald SC (Sáez 23; Andryan 80)
NAPPC 3-0 Ironside-Talinger (González Rodríguez 33, Thwante 48, Cuesta 87)
Port of Clotaire 4-0 Caires Sports (Ham 43, Hooper 66, Hamblett 74, Walker 84)

Matchday Nine… More than a quarter of the way through the season now – and my Christ, are Albrecht FC flying, or are Albrecht FC flying?

With the thousands of Songstress locals who couldn’t barge their way into a packed Millerman Sheppard Stadium crowding out the district’s largest open square – where a bloody massive Samseong video screen has been erected in recent days (we don’t think it’s been cleared with the city council, who may well end up doing them for littering or somesuch, but nobody’s issued a formal complaint just yet). Demand for this weekend’s match – a perceived chance to crush almost-arch-rivals Arrigo Portuguese – was exceptionally high even for the biggest club in the country. You know that 90,000ish seater stadium they might get around to finishing one of these days? That figure suddenly looks not nearly so ludicrous…

In the event, Portuguese put up stiff residence. Two-nil down before the half-hour mark the visitors soon pulled one back and arguably had the better of the second half; Álvarez, Oughton and Macanás sparking rather well even if Greg Innisvale still looks a complete fifth wheel. It’s a threesome that Gackbang may well be able to make work even if Panadero seemingly couldn’t – assuming the Vephrese gets the nod in the ensuing weeks – but against the frankly terrifying partnership of William and Van Aulen there was little hope of achieving what they couldn’t do to a host of rather less impressive sides.

The home team clung on for three points – their ninth league win in succession. They’ve already got more points than they managed all last Clausura, and they’re doing it with eight home-grown players in the regular starting XI alone (granted one of them’s Cafundelense, one’s Nethertopian, one’s Imperial Han and one’s Jesseltonian, but… shut up) – Portuguese, by comparison, fielded just three academy graduates. Albrecht FC used to be insufferable because they could buy anyone they wanted and win the league with ease. Now, they’re bloody annoying because they don’t have to. Grr, and such forth.

But, on another level, let’s hope they do – because it would certainly make a change from Green Island. A comprehensive doing over of MN Smith saw them move ominously into third, though eight points is still quite a hefty gap to make up if they want to take the Apertura trophy. Although God knows why they would. Just putting it out there, anyway.

Meanwhile, Caires City – who are still, as it were, no better than they should be – were reduced to ten men when Russ Becker took down Ishmael Van Dyke as the last man, but sub ‘keeper Mario Herrera saved the Pocoan’s subsequent penalty with his legs and went on to keep a rather impressive clean sheet against the Nethertopian side in Peregrinus City. Lowly as they may feel, squatting in tenth, City fans can still giggle at their neighbours – the Knights falling two-one at home to Mayo Valley, despite Keron Alhrem dramatically dumping half his Yaforites in favour of a load of Candelariasians you’ve never heard of (Fran Willemot? Naomi Carter? God knows how many people called Davies? Wtf?). Or his assistant Damien Dulars doing so, more accurately, since Alhrem – as has become a proper tradition down at the Skitzo Dome – spent most of the game wandering the touchline accusing stewards, linesmen and, on one memorable occasion early in the second half, the match ball of being his granddaughter. Bless. Such a shame, isn’t it?

Elsewhere, the Marbles only picked up a point in Talinger and dropped to fourth – but hey, we reckon they’d’ve taken that at the start of the season – while Turks’ Club really are very bad, you know, and Radyukevich are running horribly low on left-backs but still managed to overcome KT Hotspur.

Albrecht FC 2-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Nakatsuru 6, Hayter 28; Lori 32)
Caires Sports 1-2 Mayo Valley (Willemot 19; Walker 52, Tillström 81)
Ironside-Talinger 0-0 El din Marbles
Green Island 3-0 AFC MN Smith (Dorack 16, Young 57, Clayton 73)
Marquez-Onwere 3-1 Tenderville United (Smit 23, Gómez 60, Joãio 68; Night 58)
McDonald SC 0-3 Albrecht Turkish (Calabrese 10, Alexander 43, Robinson 72)
NAPPC 0-0 Caires City
Radyukevich CSC 2-1 KT Hotspur (Van Dijk 3, Endacott 26; Cummins 61)
Turks’ Club 1-2 Port of Clotaire (Reva 45; Hamblett 48, Arrigorriagakoa 67)

Matchday Ten… Into double figures now, then. How very dare us?

If you were in Clotaire this weekend, the big game was without question the city’s long-awaited derby, with Radyukevich making the short journey to the eastern, working-class suburbs (not the actual port part of the city… but don’t bring that up, it’s a touchy subject) to face Port of Clotaire.

Predictably, perhaps, it was a one-all draw – a slightly drab affair, in all honestly, with only one pig released onto the field of play, though the usual chants of “Where’s Yer Feckin’ Wall of Noise!?” and “Only Girls Play in Lilac” were sung with typical gusto and a jolly time was had by all. No-one got sent-off or had their leg hacked off, granted, but there wasn’t in fact a single red card nor noteworthy injury across the entire division from Saturday right through to Monday. This is possibly because someone forgot to run the matchday through the injurinator, but one doesn’t like to cast nasturtiums.

Let’s take a gander – pardon my French – instead at the proper big game of the weekend, as the top two clashed in front of fifty thousand in Onwere. Just a quick one, though, since we’re rather in a hurry again.

Albrecht FC won three-nil.

Okay, moving on…

No, no, but seriously now – Jesus, they were good. MarquezOW were pretty poor, I’ll grant you, but the Scorpions simply outplayed them, the battle of the two five-man midfields won decisively by the visitors.

There, will that do? Honest t’God, it’s been a long day.

Bless you. You’re a beautiful man, you know that?

In other news, then, Green Island and the Marbles (still!) are just a point behind the naranja after two more victories, while Turkish now have precisely half the points Albrecht FC do – fifteen, after being held at home by Tenderv

Right, bored now, got several days of alligator-based warfare to catch up on.

Laters.

Albrecht Turkish 1-1 Tenderville United (Alexander 45; Rau 25)
Caires Sports 0-0 McDonald SC
El din Marbles 1-0 AFC MN Smith (Silva 15)
Ironside-Talinger 0-2 Caires City (Agostinho 16 and 67)
KT Hotspur 1-4 Green Island (Nilsson 90+1; Dorack 12, Anwamanë 74 and 86, Aldren 80)
Marquez-Onwere 0-3 Albrecht FC (Hamizi 1 and 44, Nakatsuru 78)
Mayo Valley 1-0 Turks’ Club (Tillström 63)
NAPPC 1-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Van Dyke 63)
Port of Clotaire 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (Sánchez García 59; Williams 23)

Matchday Eleven… Albrecht Turkish – one of the world’s most famous clubs and a former world champion, don’t’chaknow (just ask that nice man from Dancougar) – travelled to Albrecht FC, oneoftheworld’smostfamousclubs and aformerworldchampion this weekend, in a match known colloquially as the ‘Albrecht Derby’ (oh, those kooky capital city types). Salt-of-the-Earth rolling-in-Vyintanese suburban Turkish against the posh currently-unexpectedly-impoverished inner-city Scorpions (we’re still not quite sure how all that happened) facing off in the final derby at the Millerman Sheppard Stadium until the next one. They’ll probably draw each other in the cup, anyway. They usually do.

Point is, this should have been a very good game indeed. And it was.

Since we’ve currently lost our matchday reporting mojo down the back of the sofa, it won’t sound particularly thrilling. But with a 50/50 in possession, a sizable collection of shots on and off target for both sides and a pleasing clash of styles between the organised, sensible visitors and the fluid, creative home side there was plenty there for all the family. The sheer numbers of locally-reared players – be they Albrecht boys or otherwise – in both teams added some extra spice, and there was little surprise that we got a sending off. The identity of the chap shown the straight red was more of a shock though, with Albrecht’s Mr Reliable, William, receiving what we’re pretty sure is the first such punishment of his already pretty lengthy career following an altercation with his countryman Werner. These two have clearly gone just a little too native; the already heated nature of the occasion boiling over with a less than pleasant remark aimed by the seldom less than mordant (a good word… possibly not remotely accurate, but a good word none the less) Werner towards his compatriot re: Ellen Schinn-Jerônimo, the popular Candelariasian volleyball player and missus of the Albrecht FC’s centre-half.

But you didn’t need to know that.

Anyway, the score stood at one-all by this point – Hoxton native Daniel Bakker having put the visitors one up against the run of play, receiving a precise ball from a right back in-form Randjelovic and popping his shot past Rosalia with similar accuracy. Turkish had grown in stature after that, suburban Albrechters Robinson and Alexander both testing the Scorpions defence before half-time. The second period brought the home side right back into it, and their superior man-power in midfield soon brought a series of shots and a Nakatsuru goal.

With their opponents down to ten men and forced to drop Kouakou Kouamé, by far their sparkiest player, in favour of reliable young(ish) defender Joe Hayter; Turkish went back in search of restoring their advantage – the once hotly-tipped Darren Robinson proving that he still has plenty to give when muscling past both Nakatsuru and Go Song-ji (dashes are apparently back in fashion over in the Empire) to lash an effort towards Rosalia from twenty-five yards. The ‘keeper saved, but everyone’s favourite member of the cabbage family took hold of the rebound and put it away with two minutes of normal time to spare.

Both sides ultimately went away happy enough – Albrecht had gone the monkey of defeat of their backs, and could still justly claim that William’s unbecoming slap had made all the difference, while Turkish moved back up into sixth. Now, they just have to go on and prove that they don’t just lift themselves for the big games.

The other big game of the weekend saw Green Island host Port of Clotaire – a match which contained rather fewer goals than it promised but still plenty of action. Indeed, up until the eightieth minute it was goalkeepers on top – and given that they were both Candelariasian uncapped at senior level, that really is something – and it took a moment of individual brilliance from Will Hooper (and, granted, a godawful slip-up from Valaina Tinúviel, who really is never going to get any better by the looks of it) to break the deadlock and put the visitors a goal up.

You cannot keep the GIZ down though (it’s the gag reflex, there’s not much you can do about it), and Espy va Drake – and I’m not sure whether we’ve mentioned this at all – is quite a good footballer. Taking control of the ball in the right-back position of all places, just a minute after Hooper’s finish, he powered his way the length of the pitch and crossed for Durosa to put the equaliser away. The dust had barely settled before he had wriggled past three PoC defenders to score the winner. Like mice with a… no wait, that’s not right… like cats with a mouse, or mice plural, like… Whatever, they’re just toying with us. Albrecht FC’s lead suddenly looks a much more inviting five points, and it would stun absolutely no-one if Green Island went on to win the Apertura from here.

MarquezOW failed to find the winner in Pereginus City meanwhile, and remain only just about clear of the congested pack in midtable. That group most assuredly does not include Turks’ Club, who lost three-nil at home to McDonald – a performance enough to see manager Neil Robinson accept that he simply can’t keep this lot up and depart, the Saurin side meanwhile doing for their second manager of the season. That’s probably the height of their ambition, really. How very sad.

AFC MN Smith 1-1 KT Hotspur (Budden 35; Cummins 70)
Albrecht FC 1-2 Albrecht Turkish (Nakatsuru 54; Bakker 18, Calabrese 88)
Caires Sports 0-0 Tenderville United
El din Marbles 2-2 Caires City (Silva 10, Erik Visser 61; N. González og 29, Lewis 40)
Green Island 2-1 Port of Clotaire (Durosa 82, va Drake 86; Hooper 80)
Ironside-Talinger 1-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Illés 86; Oughton 55)
NAPPC 0-0 Marquez-Onwere
Radyukevich CSC 2-1 Mayo Valley (Endacott 40, Redzic 55; Warren 29)
Turks’ Club 0-3 McDonald SC (Wanderley 9, Andryan 15, Bastard 90+3)

Matchday Twelve… Since the less than joyful weather conditions in the Candelarias mean that XXXVII is making rather low progress at the moment, let us see if we can’t bang this one out as quickly as possible.

?

No matter. Asterisks a go-go.

* Turkish are giggling all the way of fifth place. While there was little in the way of style in their own one-nil home win over NAPPC (save for a rare goal from Randjelovic), they had the pleasure of seeing Albrecht FC held for the first time this season – and at godawful Caires Sports, to boot. While the Scorpions have publicly shrugged off last week(ha!)’s defeat, one wonders how much this young side may have been wobbled by losing to their old foes.

* Well I do, anyway.

* With the leaders dropping two points, Green Island move closer still with victory in Hodgehill. This one came at a price, however – a knee injury to young Jameson Aldren, which could well put the boy out of the remaining World Cup qualifiers if we remember to update the roster page, as well as the Apertura. Reuben Hardy will presumably come in, though it may be a real test of Massimo’s nerve to avoid switching around a winning formation and go with a 4-4-2 with Ben Clayton partnering Anwamanë. We shall see.

* Well I will, anyway.

* New manager syndrome struck this weekend in the unlikely locale of Khatib-Gassett. With Neil Robinson’s office chair barely cool, Sloane Wanderers manager and former Turkish winger Reuben Kennedy moved in the hot seat and promptly masterminded a first victory of the season, against poor old Tenderville.

* They’re still going down, mind.

* Portuguese, on the other hand, have been dithering like nobody’s business over who should replace the increasingly long-gone Panadero. Extracting Revault from the Spur still looks the most likely option, with Adamczyk (one of ‘em, anyway) holding out for as much compensation as he can possibly get. His club, meanwhile, remain in the implausibly safe position of sixth.

* Meanwhile in ninth, and now in the top half of the table, are Mike Alvintzi’s McDonald – a second injury time goal from Cuthbert Bastard in as many matchdays handing them victory over Radyukevich.

Daft.

Albrecht Turkish 1-0 NAPPC (Randjelovic 24)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-1 Caires City (Macanás 74; Mulder 19)
Caires Sports 1-1 Albrecht FC (Smith 52; Go 63)
El din Marbles 0-1 KT Hotspur (Royle 69)
Marquez-Onwere 3-0 Ironside-Talinger (Smit 21 and 70, Oliveira Tavares 63)
Mayo Valley 1-2 Green Island (NorthWalker 79; va Drake 42, Clayton 66)
McDonald SC 2-1 Radyukevich CSC (Munir 74, Bastard 90+3; Redzic 71)
Port of Clotaire 2-1 AFC MN Smith (Sánchez García 40 and 66; Van der Laan 72)
Turks’ Club 1-0 Tenderville United (Roberts 34)

(Forgotten I hadn't posted the next handful of MDs. Life is hard... er... Jemima?

Matchday Thirteen… Rushing through the matchday, in a one-horse open sleigh, over fields we go, smiling wanly all the way.

* Lots of jolly injury news this weekend, as the current cold snap and highly strung tendons and whatnot merged to hand us some nasty looking knocks – Rodrigo Silva’s done his hammy (though that didn’t stop the Marbles snatching a stoppage time victory in Arrigo); Anamer Tascarnin’s got a thigh injury (though Caires Sports have plenty more defender where he came from (literally, in fact) and could desperately do with shifting things around anyway); James Masters is out for a couple of games with a groin strain (though that didn’t stop Caires City clinging on to hold MarquezOW to a point and help convince those left to be convinced that the title really is a two-horse race); Gerszon Illés sacrificed himself rather to keep Ironside’s claws on a dramatic point at home to Turkish (who may well have an unexpected fight on their hands to make the top four, given Port of Clotaire’s resurgence and the Marbles’ continued showing); and Drake Malan broke his wrist.

Malan’s involvement in Albrecht FC’s entirely competent victory over Turks’ Club was thanks to Rosalia’s mid-week, training ground collarbone fracture, that suddenly hands the Scorpions a bit of a goalkeeping crisis. Or it would, except they’ve got rather a lot of them on their books, leaving Aaron Kiddle a rare string of shouts between the sticks (though eighteen year-old Armand Zamora is supposedly pushing him). Whether the loss of Rosalia and his immediate deputy will plunge Albrecht’s Apertura into disaster, dear friends, only time will tell.

Elsewhere, other shit happened.

Right, MD14. C’mon, we haven’t got all day…

AFC MN Smith 2-2 Mayo Valley (Yeboah 19, Budden 25; Subudhi 5, Witt 86)
Albrecht FC 3-0 Turks’ Club (Morrison 20, Hamizi 27 and 45+1)
Arrigo Portuguese 1-2 El din Marbles (Macanás 69; Erik Visser 52, Darby og 90+3)
Caires City 1-1 Marquez-Onwere (Lewis 23; Oliveira Tavares 66)
Ironside-Talinger 1-1 Albrecht Turkish (Anastasiadis 29; Bakker 3)
McDonald SC 1-2 Green Island (García 21; va Drake 33, Anwamanë 65)
NAPPC 2-0 Caires Sports (González Rodríguez 69 and 63)
Port of Clotaire 4-0 KT Hotspur (O’Airmeadhaigh 5, Sánchez García 7 and 60, Hamblett 27)
Tenderville United 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (Deleks 34; Redzic 87)

Matchday Fourteen…

Some Time Later…

Who… who are you? What are you doing in my house? Le… leave me alone! I’m just an old man! Seemessee? Bu… but I don’t know what that is! I can’t help you! I’m sorry, jus… just leave me be!

Oh alright, erm… Asterisks, it’ll have to be asterisks. Up until MD17, any road.

* The Jukos hosting the Scorpions – a proper, old-fashioned encounter, none of this Green Island versus Tenderville muck (more on that later), but with only one plausible outcome on current form. Except…

Yus, Albrecht’s poor month (or… several) continued with a defeat – and not merely that, but what turned into a rather embarrassing whupping. Young Wayne Davis outthought Torrealba (we’d tell you exactly how, but, y’know…) and poor Aaron Kiddle was left to concede four times. Two of them were arguably his fault, with Jasari McDermott and Zlatko Redzic recognising the ‘keeper as the weak link and peppering his with shots, but the fact that they were able to get so many chances is to the shame of Go and Nakatsuru, and the eternal credit of Patrick Williams – a proper find since Davis brought him in from faraway West Zirconia.

* So, that handed Green Island a chance to take the lead on goal difference. And they did. Sweet mother of mercy, didn’t they just? With Tenderville down to ten men inside three, count ‘em, three minutes after Carlo Gaggioli (these bloody Nethert… ah) brought down va Drake in the box; the GIZ eased to a five-nil drubbing of the Dragons. With NAPPC getting their inevitable three points off of Turks’ Club; Tenderville slipped behind their countryfolk – and the curious chant of “Ping-Pong! Ping-Pong! Ping-Pong!” no doubt rattled in poor Andrés García’s ears (hehe, that wymes!) all the way home on t’ferry.

* Juan Carlos Revault’s final outing for the Spur, meanwhile, saw a one-nil win over Mayo. He then upped and joined Portuguese in mid-week – and has, it would appear, a bloody massive job on his hands. The Arrigo side put up a decent fight against MarquezOW but were plainly never going to get anything out of it. Still, they’re not marooned – Caires Sports and Ironside, neither of whom are up to much, shared a point to remain deep in the sticky stuff themselves.

* Oh, and Turkish lost at home to City. Mannasuch’s side really aren’t going to do anything this term, are they…?

AFC MN Smith 2-1 McDonald SC (Tiller 78, Yeboah 81; Ģipslis 59)
Albrecht Turkish 1-2 Caires City (Bakker 30; González 24, Murray 46)
Caires Sports 1-1 Ironside-Talinger (Belmore 39; Sanromán 54)
El din Marbles 2-3 Port of Clotaire (Herráez 39, Erik Visser 64; O’Airmeadhaigh 57, Arrigorriagakoa 58, Hooper 71)
Green Island 5-0 Tenderville United (Anwamanë 3 and 40 and 74, Robertson 5, va Drake 17)
KT Hotspur 1-0 Mayo Valley (Nilsson 17)
Marquez-Onwere 2-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Oliveira Tavares 65, Smit 90+2)
NAPPC 2-0 Turks’ Club (Van Dyke 21, González Rodríguez 82)
Radyukevich CSC 4-2 Albrecht FC (Williams 8, McDermott 48 and 90+1, Van Dijk 58; Hamizi 22, Morrison 38)

by **Docky** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:46 pm

Dockian League turns professional
The Dockian Amateur League as of today. The participating teams will be:

The Doca-Cola Premier Division
Bairinok United
Lanesra Athletic
Steven Waters FC
Royal Fleet Island Rangers

The Doca-Cola Secondary Division
Dockish Community CF
Borderline Rovers
Sporting Holocronians
AFC Dockian Amateurs

Each team will play each other 6 times, each gameweek being every fortnight. When the season finishes on the 18th July, 1 team will be relegated from each division, with a new team joining the secondary division and the Premier Divison getting the winner of the secondary division. And it all starts this weekend!

by **Queer Poco el Mono Ara** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:20 pm

Una Serie season V reaches the ¼ mark after match day 11 with surprise league leaders Jonastown United maintaining their good form and picking up another 3 points away to Skyte City.

Skyte City 0 – 1 Jonastown United
It took 4 minutes for table topping J Town to score the winning goal in this away day fixture. Jonastown have lost only one game in their opening 11 and currently sit three points at the table summit.
Taeshan midfielder Logan Jordan’s smart strike proved enough to seal the win as Skyte’s attacking ineptitude continued with forward James Phillips proving to be the worst culprit scuppering several chances. His biggest miss coming just after the hour when bearing down on goal the striker planted his foot firmly into the ground and scuffing his shot.

Pythons 6 – 2 Salaga F.C
An all too familiar Pythons attacking master class resulted in the demolition of Salaga.
A superb hat trick for striker Enrico Dossena won the tie in the first half hour as the visitors collapsed. Pythons added a fourth just before half time when new face Ruud Seedorf rifled in from the edge of the box.
Salaga pulled one back early on in the second half when Emile Karembeu found space at the back post to head home. Pythons defence was again left exposed when midfielder Giovanni Van Dyke side footed beyond Wilf Laudrup inside the six yard box. Were it not for Salaga’s attacking frailties Pythons terrible defence could have been overrun. However Pythons reestablished their 4 goal lead through Sargossan striker Sergio Costa and completed the route after 86 minutes when former international striker Frederico rounded the Salaga keeper and slotted home into the empty net, exhibiting the kind of form that may keep him in the international fray.

Athletic Khaldoon 0 – 2 Royal Khaldoon
The battle of Khaldoon saw reigning league champions Royal come out on top.
A man of the match performance from Somewhereistonian Vytautas Tork proved to be the catalyst in propelling Royal forward. Tork set up the opening goal by threading a neat ball through the Athletic defence for Juan Segura to run onto and fire into the goal.
Tork came close to doubling the lead after 57 minutes when his powerful long range effort crashed against the bar. However he was involved in the second as he whipped in a cross from the right for fellow Somewhereistonian Karbul Bak to head home, out jumping the Athletic keeper. Tork capped his man of the match display in extra time clearing a goal bound effort off the line to maintain Royal’s clean sheet.

Valengren Kickers 0 – 3 Augustus
Shambolic Valengren collapsed in front of their home fans and remain only two points ahead of bottom placed Real Minanda and Augustus managed to remain firmly in second with the comfortable win.
Cafundeu striker Zezinho scored his first goal of his Augustus career after 16 minutes turning on the edge of the box to find space and then blast the ball beyond Chris Foster.
Substitute Wayne Ullrich squeezed home Augustus second goal with ten minutes to go, benefiting from a short back pass.
Toyur international Kristofer Svensson’s speculative late effort completed the victory when the ball ricocheted off Rowan Askwith’s heel wrong footing Foster in goal.

Almondvale 2 – 0 Villa Ortiz
A late brace from Steve McBrin was enough to clinch the three points over Villa Ortiz who were mightily unlucky not to go home with at least a point.
McBrin’s first, on 89 minutes stunned home fans and silenced the vociferous away support when he fired goalward from 40 yards.
His second four minutes later sealed the win as Ortiz came looking for a reply, Almondvale countered and slid through the exposed defense. After the game McBrin commented on his goal
“It was an absolute fluke. I was actually just looking to loft the ball into the box for Ulli, but hit it pretty sweetly. It curled in the air and beat the keeper. I’m well chuffed it went in.”

Real Minanda 2 – 4 Ridgemont Town
Despite taking a 2-0 lead Minanda were unsuccessful in winning only their second game of the season.
Veteran Candelarian striker Tom Smith sparked the Ridgemont comeback with a clever back heel at the front post. The aging striker then assisted Ridgemont’s second making space in the box to pull back for Manuel Reina.
Ridgemont took the lead through Nethertopian midfielder Kees Van Zundert whose stunning freekick wrong footed the Minanda keeper. Van Zundert was involved in the fourth as he played the ball over the top for Craig Jones to volley into the roof of the net.

Una Serie Table

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Jonastown United 11 7 3 1 19 10 9 24 2 Augustus 11 6 3 2 23 10 13 21 3 Royal Khaldoon 11 6 2 3 20 11 9 20 4 Pythons 11 6 2 3 26 23 3 20 5 Athletic Khaldoon 11 6 2 3 21 18 3 20 6 Ridgemont Town 11 5 2 4 20 18 2 17 7 Skyte City 11 4 2 5 15 14 1 14 8 Villa Ortiz 11 4 2 5 14 15 -1 14 9 Almondvale 11 3 5 3 27 30 -3 14 10 Salaga F.C 11 2 3 6 10 19 -9 9 11 Valengren Kickers 11 1 3 7 9 20 -11 6 12 Real Minanda 11 1 1 9 10 26 -16 4

League I Table

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 1860 Flumineiro 11 6 3 2 23 16 7 21 2 Racing Cruzeira 11 6 3 2 18 13 5 21 3 Belle-Isle on Sea 11 5 4 2 18 11 7 19 4 Burston Wanderers 11 4 5 2 19 12 7 17 5 Valengren Rovers 11 4 3 4 14 16 -2 15 6 Garrincha F.C 11 4 2 5 16 19 -3 14 7 Sunset Village 11 4 2 5 12 18 -6 14 8 Barbossa 11 4 1 6 24 24 0 13 9 New Boys Royceton 11 2 6 3 9 10 -1 12 10 MS Leighton 11 3 3 5 15 18 -3 12 11 Hunslet Wanderers 11 2 6 3 15 20 -5 12 12 Rydell United 11 2 2 7 11 17 -6 8

League II Table

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Ajax Khaldoon II 11 6 3 2 19 13 6 21 2 Port Los Renato 11 5 4 2 20 11 9 19 3 Stourton Town 11 5 4 2 12 7 5 19 4 East Khaldoon Park 11 5 1 5 13 13 0 16 5 Athletico Palampas 11 4 4 3 14 15 -1 16 6 Old Forrest 11 3 6 2 17 14 3 15 7 Racing Minanda 11 3 5 3 10 14 -4 14 8 Palampas 11 3 4 4 13 14 -1 13 9 Allied Motor Trade 11 3 4 4 12 15 -3 13 10 Burley United 11 3 2 6 15 22 -7 11 11 Villa Flumineiro 11 2 4 5 11 15 -4 10 12 Renato Albion 11 2 3 6 14 17 -3 9

The Coorsberg Non-League Table

Code: Select all: Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Al-Alikhad 11 9 0 2 69 46 23 27 2 Whitfield 11 8 0 3 58 34 24 24 3 Inglby 11 6 2 3 50 45 5 20 4 Basham F.C. 11 6 2 3 35 30 5 20 5 Rydell County 11 6 2 3 47 46 1 20 6 Universidad de Palampas 11 6 1 4 41 39 2 19 7 Al-Famiera 11 6 1 4 37 35 2 19 8 Churwell Amateurs 11 5 2 4 42 37 5 17 9 Oxcastle Wanderers 11 4 3 4 33 30 3 15 10 Newsham Town 11 4 3 4 31 28 3 15 11 Redfern and Bridges 11 4 3 4 44 45 -1 15 12 Royceton Town 11 4 3 4 28 30 -2 15 13 Nacional 11 4 2 5 28 38 -10 14 14 Al-Hossam 11 4 1 6 46 50 -4 13 15 Greenhope Forrest 11 3 3 5 40 40 0 12 16 Al-Sameria 11 2 5 4 47 53 -6 11 17 Ambrose F.C 11 3 1 7 55 57 -2 10 18 Al-Alfaria 11 2 4 5 38 49 -11 10 19 Salaga Athletic 11 3 0 8 34 54 -20 9 20 Barbossa Orient 11 0 4 7 15 32 -17 4

by **Cafundeu** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:23 pm

CAFUNDÉU - PREVIEW OF THE NEW SEASON
“The Mother of modern domestic football”

The same introduction as ever, although this time I finally decided to add some changes in this as this was very outdated: the most international league of the world, mother of modern domestic football, which is the number one in the international coefficients for a long, long time but doesn't win the TQCC since its 8th edition, returns to activity, and the teams are ready to fight for trophies again. The Cafundelense teams, followed by the entire world due to their quality and the tough dispute for the many titles available, get reinforced once again, to dispute in the national and international competitions.

See the transfers involving foreign players and/or teams:

Foreign Players – Coming from abroad to play in Cafundéu:

*NOTE: if there is a player from your nation that should be but isn’t in this list, contact me.

Peyo Alarcón (Aguazul) ----------> to Atlético Insular
Sergio Bustamante (Aguazul) ----------> to Cruzeiro do Sul
Rubén Saavedra (Aguazul) ----------> to América
Stephane Barison (Cassadaigua) ----------> to América
Stephane Reeves (Cassadaigua) ----------> to São Jorge
Darren Letson (Dancougar) ----------> to Petardos S/A
Magnus Bjornssund (Isselmere-Nieland) ----------> to Internacional de Penderia
Kevin Ickx (Krytenia) ----------> to Petardos S/A
Laurens Cassou (Nethertopia) ----------> to Serrano
Michael Bosler (Newmanistan) ----------> to A.F.F.
Dean Bowyer (Queer Poco el Mono Ara) ----------> to Clube Comercial
James Leahey (Secristan) ----------> to Clube Imperial
Margh Bastian (Sorthern Northland) ----------> to Atlético Jutense
Frank Vroon (Sorthern Northland) ----------> to América
Tarmo Sikkah (Somewhereistonia) ----------> to Porto Lacruz
Rasmus Björn (Swartaz) ----------> to Metropolitano
Tritor Maníac (The Macabees) ----------> to América
Kel Kanis (The Macabees) ----------> to SC Lasft
Kristian Olsen (Toyur) ----------> to SC Lasft
Ellad Minanad (Vephrall) ----------> to Serrano
Smait Pembace (Vephrall) ----------> to Porto Lacruz
Pinteps Sarashe (Vephrall) ----------> to Dunboor FC
Damir Vaduun (Yafor 2) ----------> to Internacional de Penderia

Cafundelense Players - leaving Cafundéu:

Mauro Zatte (América) ----------> to Athletic Khaldoon (QPM)
Gustavo Alvim (Clube Imperial) ----------> to Arcrés Millos (Aguazul)
Plínio (Dunboor FC) ----------> to Almondvale (QPM)
Nélio (Engenheiro Peres) ----------> to Mercia Bromham (Krytenia)
Oberdan (Khalmar-Tijhus) ----------> to Villa Ortiz (QPM)
Menakilis (Metropolitano) ----------> to Salaga FC (QPM)
Nenê (Petardos S/A) ----------> to Sembulan (Jesselton)*
Rildo (Porto Lacruz) ----------> to Jonastown United (QPM)
Betinho (São Jorge) ----------> to Estudiantes de Íguen (Aguazul)
Rudinei (SC Lasft) ----------> to Kolombong (Jesselton) – on loan*
*mid-season deals

Foreign Players - between Cafundelense teams, retiring or other changes (there is possibility of error in first name, and in some cases I won’t even write it to avoid the error, as I don’t have rigid records for those):

Danny Adams (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> from Dunboor FC to Petardos S/A
Lawrence Amey (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> from A.F.F. to Dunboor FC
Jamie González (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> retired, will travel all around the world just for pleasure
Aaron Kortsarian (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> retired, reads the newspaper everyday after a new job
David Spooner (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> from Clube Imperial to Dunboor FC
Will Sussex (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> from Atlético Jutense to SC Lasft
Dale Gordon (Capitalizt SLANI) ----------> retired, returns to his country
Nikos Papadiamántis (Capitalizt SLANI) ---------> retired, becomes a player agent in Cafundéu for U-12 kids
An Pilrip (Daehanjeiguk) ----------> from Porto Lacruz to Cruzeiro do Sul
Kim Yongji (Daehanjeiguk) ----------> retired, will buy a car dealership to keep earning money
Pak Yongho (Daehanjeiguk) ----------> from Petardos S/A to Atlético Insular
Yi Yeongpyo (Daehanjeiguk) ----------> retired, will become a hermit
Lyle Dylandy (Dancougar) ----------> retired last season, got a coaching job in Dancougar
Dan Florentino (Dancougar) ----------> retired, returns to Dancougar
H. Ueda (Dancougar) ----------> retired, lives in Lasft with family
Gunther Janicke (Jaseuyeon) ----------> from Engenheiro Peres to Clube Comercial
Miguel Eswart (Jesselton) ----------> from Galáxia to Nova Éden
Nashreeq Idlam (Jesselton) ----------> from CR Submiria to Clube Comercial
Edzhar Jaafar (Jesselton) ----------> from Santa Cruz do Norte to Metropolitano
Syariezhan Samri (Jesselton) ----------> from CR Submiria to São Jorge
Moricz Vincze (Pasarga) ----------> from Clube Imperial to Metropolitano
Ben Davis (Sarzonia) ----------> from Atlético Jutense to Petardos S/A
Matt Lynch (Sarzonia) ----------> from A.F.F. to Cafundó do Juta
Zack Wilson (Sarzonia) ----------> from Central United to Ranca Toco
Calvin Freeman (Secristan) ----------> from Serrano to São Jorge
Eugene Gagnon (Septentrionia) ----------> from Atlético Jutense to Cruzeiro do Sul
Gérard Labrie (Septentrionia) ----------> retired, sleeps all day
Panther Doctor (Silexhera) ----------> from Engenheiro Peres to Porto Lacruz
Klass Oim (Somewhereistonia) ----------> from Internacional de Penderia to Nova Éden
Gerard Labbé (Sorthern Northland) ----------> retired, returns to Sorthern Northland
Nicola Morini (Sorthern Northland) ----------> from Petardos S/A to A.F.F.
Gregory Pinoc (Sorthern Northland) ----------> retired, returns to Sorthern Northland against his will, for mysterious circumstances
Ariel Bogota (Starblaydia) ----------> from Metropolitano to Atlético Insular
Nei Samba (Starblaydia) ----------> retired, returns to Starblaydia
Motallbazadeh (Steroga) ----------> from Engenheiro Peres to Ranca Toco
Sergi Bert (The Macabees) ----------> from SC Lasft to Porto Lacruz
Santi Vervánt (The Macabees) ----------> from Cafundó do Juta to São Jorge
Norstrom (Toyur) ----------> from Engenheiro Peres to Clube Imperial
Talnae (Valanora) ----------> from Porto Lacruz to Cruzeiro do Sul
Nikali Zubo (Valanora) ----------> from América to SC Lasft
H. Minanad (Vephrall) ----------> retired, returns to Vephrall

Foreign Coaches:

Christophe Argentier (Ariddia) ----------> coach of América
Ke Sho (Ariddia) ----------> coach of Atlético Insular
Connor Mengucci (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> coach of Eldorado (2nd Div)
Javier Sanchez (Candelaria And Marquez) ----------> coach of Dunboor FC
Big Gay Al (Jeruselem) ----------> coach of Agreman FH (3rd Div)
Dale Stevens (Newmanistan) ----------> coach of Santa Cruz do Norte (2nd Div)
Ryan Fullerton (Secristan) ----------> coach of Clube Imperial
Patrik Hermanni (Squornshelous) ----------> coach of Pico da Neblina (3rd Div)
Ensio Varg (Squornshelous) ----------> coach of Atlético Jutense
Alfonso Di Angelo (Starblaydia) ----------> coach of Serrano
Caladil Gatamyr (Valanora) ----------> coach of CR Submiria (2nd Div)
Aranaderelion Shalandragina (Valanora) ----------> coach of Penders (2nd Div)
Eddie Barnes (Zwangzug) ----------> coach of Clube Comercial

The line-ups of the 20 best teams of the country(First Division Teams) will probably be the following (foreigners in italics, best 3 players in bold) – (Experts’ Ratings details - the three journalists give the team a rating, from 1 to 5 stars [* - practically relegated; ** - intermediate team, battling against relegation; *** - intermediate team, battling for a top 8 place; **** - top 8 team, battling for a phase title; ***** - battling for the main title]). Finally the writers have decided to look at the uncountable number of mistakes which happened in many of previous editions, and now we hope that there aren’t any more name repetitions or wrong info:

PETARDOS S/A: Taniquentar; Davis, Alfonso and Amandíl; Marcus Vinícius, Letson, Ickx and Hawk; Razov, Alves and Adams.
Coach: Waldenyr Caldas.
President: Augusto Brown.
Team Full Name: Petardos Sociedade Anônima de Futebol.
Team Style: Offensive, uses the centre, passing style.
Strongest Point: all around.
Weakest Point: team balanced in all areas.
Nickname: Bilionários (Billionaires).
Stadium Used: Obelisco Monumental, in Lasft (cap. 300,000).
State: Lasft.
Team Sponsor: Globo Multimedia.
Home Kit: blue shirt and white shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt with blue narrow stripes and blue shorts.
Other facts: oh my... the chairman Augusto Brown really kept his promise to build a super-team for Petardos S/A. And, even after winning all the possible domestic titles last season, he decided to invest more, this time to pursue international trophies. Players who underperformed left the team. And more stars came to create what can be considered one of the best teams ever of the Cafundelense League. With such an expensive team, victories must come, or the supporters and the demanding chairman will heavily criticize Waldenyr Caldas’s squad.
Transfer Market: Morini and Schmidt, who came last season, didn’t play well enough to keep their places. But Brown didn’t only decide to replace them, he wanted to invest further. One attacker – which actually is likely to send idol Kiso Night and the most promising striker of Cafundéu Welton to the bench – comes, being the lethal Danny Adams. Two midfielders in the names of Darren Letson and Kevin Ickx. And the defender Ben Davis. Bruno Pinto arrives as an option as a defender and winger. In the end, Waldenyr Caldas is able to send two teams for the league if he wants to, given the squad depth.
Fans’ Favourites: with no doubt the fans’ favourite is the midfielder Laborious Hawk, the eternal #10 of Petardos S/A and team captain. Other players, especially the Vanorians Kiso Night and Ikles Razov, have already conquered the heart of the fans too, due to their efficient and brilliant service for the Billionaires so far. Mané appears as another liked player, due to his strong link with the team.
Good Bench Players: Welton (attacker), Mané (midfielder), Bruno Pinto (defender), Kiso Night (attacker), Ricardinho (midfielder).
The Fans Expect: international success – the League title.
Fans’ style: fanatic (big number) – usually seen as being part of high-class; considered mercenaries who would do anything for money... and they actually do, we heard many cases of some of them selling their mothers-in-law.
Club Tradition: very traditional – worldwide success and fame.
Experts’ ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (*****), Jorge Lang (*****), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (*****).

CAFUNDÓ DO JUTA: Fernández Montes; Lühmann, Radicci, Davies and Hocn; Luisinho, Montego and Dante; Lynch, Jeong Jihun and Rafael Nunes.
Coach: Andreas Gilsoweller Veiga.
President: Tarcísio Castro Sahid.
Team Full Name: Esporte Clube Cafundó do Juta.
Team Style: offensive, passes a lot, but mixes short and long passes.
Strongest Point: the defence.
Weakest Point: offensive midfield, players too old.
Nickname: Esquadrão de Prata (Silver Squadron).
Stadium Used: Praça Maior, in Cafundó do Juta (cap. 180,000).
State: Juta.
Team Sponsor: Banco Econômico.
Home Kit: grey (silver) shirt with white vertical stripes and grey shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and grey shorts.
Other facts: the team that has the most number of supporters in the country. In the last seasons, the team became a “permanent runner-up”, being ever in the top positions but failing to win titles. Not much is being invested in the team, and its main players are reaching the end of their careers, which worries the fans. Maybe this is a time of adapting for the famous team, but the ambition is still the league title.
Transfer Market: as said, not much was invested this time for Cafundó do Juta, with the only players coming being to replace retirements. Matt Lynch has confidence of the supporters, and the new midfielder Luisinho managed to reach the Cafundelense NT.
Fans’ Favourites: the defender Hizzen Hocn is the fans’ favourite with a good margin over his opponent, mostly due to his many years of service with the silver shirt. Jeong Jihun is another idol, due to his participation in many titles of the team. Rafael Nunes and Fernández Montes would come after.
Good Bench Players: Raulzito (midfielder), Hélio (goalkeeper), Estradas (midfielder), Paulistinha (attacker) and Lapela (defender).
The Fans Expect: the League title.
Fans’ style: extremely fanatic (huge number) – team is seen as the “people’s team”, due for it having people from all classes and even different regions! There are rumours of extraterrestrial beings among its fanbase, and I wouldn’t doubt it.
Club Tradition: one of the football pioneers in the country – highly successful.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (*****), Jorge Lang (*****), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (*****).

RANCA TOCO: Melkezedeck; Motallbazadeh, Guilherme and Tonhão; Underdark, Boimoks, Morose, Wilson and Paquetá; Andrews and Hubert.
Coach: Renário.
President: Maníaco do Parque.
Team Full Name: Associação Atlética Ranca Toco de Carandirú.
Team Style: Extremely defensive, focuses on counterattacks and long shots.
Strongest Point: strong midfield.
Weakest Point: no natural wingers.
Nickname: Sarrafeiros.
Stadium Used: Presídio, in Carandirú City (cap. 75,000).
State: Central.
Team Sponsor: Canabrava Cachaça.
Home Kit: purple shirt with yellow vertical stripes and purple shorts.
Away Kit: yellow shirt and purple shorts.
Other Facts: team famous for its violence, which is incentivized by the directors of the club. Gives high value to pride and home games. Its supporters are very violent too, as most of them are prisoners in the prison city. The team maintained its best players, with few adjustments... which can’t be seen as a good thing, differently from the last seasons... after all, the campaign in the previous seasons was disastrous, with the team missing even a top 8 spot, something unthinkable for a team that has already won the TQCC once. It is necessary to return to the right path.
Transfer Market: not many new things inside this team. Good points are the arrivals of defenders Guilherme and Mottalbazadeh, in the place of retired idols. In the midfield, Zack Wilson substitutes Kléber, in an exchange deal with Central United.
Fans’ Favourites: the attacker Hubert is curiously the idol of a team which supporters love a physical, rough and defensive game. Behind him, there is Underdark, who showed his love for the team by dying his hair purple. Salathiël rose to the position of third idol.
Good Bench Players: Haesumé (defender), Curupira (goalkeeper), Davino (midfielder), Júrangil (midfielder), Penado (attacker).
The Fans Expect: international success – the League title.
Fans’ style: extremely fanatic and highly violent (huge number) – are seen as violent people, vandals and “terrorists” (an accurate view, to be honest... they really get associated with terrorism acts). Sometimes people tend to associate Ranca Toco with the lower classes too. Also, the team is the favourite inside Cafundéu’s prisons... some are even painted with the team’s colours!
Club Tradition: very traditional – worldwide famous and successful
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (****), Jorge Lang (****), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (****).

A.F.F.: Zecão; Leonardo, Batoré, Tingacens and Higgins; Hawker, Mijak, Morini and Serrano; Bosler and Kuniyoshi.
Coach: Benjamin Oliveira.
President: Sir Petrônio Barbugli.
Team Full Name: Abbade Futebol Familiar Clube.
Team Style: Offensive, uses the wings, long passes style.
Strongest Point: wings, especially full-backs.
Weakest Point: central defence – surprise!.
Nickname: Os Monges (The Monks).
Stadium Used: Arena América, in Abadia (cap. 120,000).
State: Old Cities.
Team Sponsor: Banespa Investments.
Home Kit: red shirt with black hoops and black shorts.
Away Kit: black shirt and black shorts.
Other facts: this team is controlled by a powerful family, and has a lot of money. Finally they decided to use this wealth, and bought many players. After the title, A.F.F. started to downfall and is now clearly outside the major contenders for the title, and may be well fighting only for a Globe Cup spot. Lack of money invested helps to worsen the situation, after one of the worst campaigns in the country’s history.
Transfer Market: it was negative for A.F.F. Matt Lynch and Lawrence Amey, two of the best players of the team, left, forcing Sir Barbugli to go after replacements. Bosler and Morini are the ones, although it isn’t certain if they’ll keep the level of the former A.F.F. members.
Fans’ Favourite: from those who started their careers in A.F.F., only Leonardo remains with huge fame. Serrano has popularity, but some supporters believe he is too much a “superstar”.
Good Bench Players: Srion (defender), Mano Firmeza (midfielder), Ezequiel (defender), (midfielder), Hércules (attacker).
The Fans Expect: qualification for the Globe Cup.
Fans’ style: passionate but calm (good number) – majority of fans are adults or old people, and because of that other teams’ supporters generalize A.F.F. as being the “retirement club team”. It isn’t any secret that A.F.F. is the team that asks for more “minutes of silence” before the games due to the death of some influential team member.
Club Tradition: one of the football pioneers in the country – enjoyed a lot of success.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (***), Jorge Lang (****), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

DUNBOOR FC: Hodgson; Sarashe, Eiras, Marshall and Schmidt; Amey, Miguel Silva, Schiermeier and Kries; Spooner and Fiero.
Coach: Javier Sanchez.
President: Isidoro de Paula Farías.
Team Full Name: Dunboor Futebol Clube.
Team Style: slightly defensive, uses the centre, passing style.
Strongest Point: good offensive midfield.
Weakest Point: lack of solid defensive midfield.
Nickname: Leões do Norte (Northern Lions).
Stadium Used: Maracatuzão, in Dunboor (cap. 135,000).
State: Dunboor.
Team Sponsor: Editora 25 de Maio.
Home Kit: dark blue shirt with dark blue shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt with white shorts.
Other facts: team that likes to use foreigners, takes advantage of the cold climate of the city in its home games. Dunboor keeps among the top, one season in, one season out of the TQCC. The team is constantly posing as a threat to the top four teams, but seems to be losing terrain to Atlético Jutense and Porto Lacruz. So, the team’s mission is to regain the condition of fifth force of Cafundelense football.
Transfer Market: the reaction of the team in the Cafundelense League motivated Farías to invest some money. Lawrence Amey and David Spooner come due to the request of the coach, and full-backs Pinteps Sarashe and Eiras complete the signings. But not everything is nice for the team: some retirements and the transfer of Danny Adams can weaken the team instead of strengthening it.
Fans’ Favourites: the favourite players of the fans left the team, with the only remaining being the midfielder Miguel Silva. Goalkeeper Hodgson is considered the second, due to his long spell at the club.
Good Bench Players: Gérson (midfielder), Índio (midfielder), Didi (defender), Oreme (midfielder), Tocha (attacker).
The Fans Expect: qualification for the TQCC.
Fans’ style: festive (good number) – they are one of the most festive and motivating supporter groups of the country, but their mood can change suddenly from good to bad. They love to play songs during the games, so you can check their mood according to the music.
Club Tradition: just slightly traditional – enjoyed a lot of success.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (****), Jorge Lang (***), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

CLUBE IMPERIAL: Nakama; Norstrom, Manuso, Vítor Martins and Leahey; Diego, Vanderhak, Jacobs and André Diniz; Anti Ilmari and Robinson.
Coach: Ryan Fullerton.
President: Prince Hector Van Tocco.
Team Full Name: Real Clube Imperial.
Team Style: Extremely offensive, uses the centre and with a fast passes style.
Strongest Point: the offensive midfield.
Weakest Point: the central defence.
Nickname: Time Real (Royal Team).
Stadium Used: Estádio Rei Albieri Van Tocco, in Cafundó do Juta (cap. 210,001).
State: Juta.
Team Sponsor: Velog Automóveis.
Home Kit: dark blue with green vertical stripes and green shorts.
Away Kit: light green shirt with dark blue shorts.
Other Facts: unable to keep the main players and fight for the TQCC, the team continues to fail in the league and miss the international competitions. Another time, the team changed many players and the coach too. Clube Imperial seems to be far away from the times when it successful in both national and international stages, and the changes seem ineffective. If it continues, soon the team will fight to escape to bottom positions.
Transfer Market: some few changes in the team, with the absence of attacker Spooner and midfielder Schneider, alongside others. The new signings seem promising, with Norstrom from Engenheiro Peres and Diego, who joined the Cafundelense National Team. Anti Ilmari, though, is the biggest bet: the player alternates good and bad moments, and the supporters can only hope he is in good form.
Fans’ Favourites: due to the many changes in the team, only André Diniz enjoys big popularity in this team.
Good Bench Players: Alcir (goalkeeper), Zorba (attacker), Dirlei (midfielder), Campineiro (attacker) and Osmar Cantiga (midfielder).
The Fans Expect: position in the top 8.
Fans’ style: emphatic (average number) – mostly composed by nobles and people related to the Royal Family. If the team isn’t playing well, they usually attempt to bribe opponents, but as they already earn a lot of money this doesn’t work.
Club Tradition: not very old, with just recent tradition conquered by titles – highly successful.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (***), Jorge Lang (***), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

ATLÉTICO JUTENSE: Garrido; Bastian, Gregory, Maximus and Yi Beomsuk; Rubiano, Vavasour and Adamílson; Splebist, Jean Carlo and Fresco.
Coach: Ensio Varg.
President: Maciel Arango, Baron of Tijhus.
Team Full Name: Clube Atlético Jutense.
Team Style: Very balanced, uses more the centre, passing style.
Strongest Point: the attack.
Weakest Point: wingers, both in defence and midfield.
Nickname: Galo.
Stadium Used: Cerradão, in Cafundó do Juta (cap. 60,000).
State: Juta.
Team Sponsor: Canfudea Canned Food.
Home Kit: yellow shirt and red shorts.
Away Kit: red shirt and red shorts.
Other Facts: once again, Atlético Jutense did a marvellous season, and is set to become one of Cafundéu’s top teams. The team continues to have some of the most promising players from Cafundéu, together with experienced players from foreign National Team, a very interesting combination, able to be a threat to any opponent. In the end, it really seems they have the most talented Cafundelenses nowadays.
Transfer Market: differently than the previous season, this was a calm window for Atlético. Ben Davis didn’t resist the Petardos S/A money and left, but the other main players were kept. Arriving is Sortherner Margh Bastian, and the promising players Henrique, Cerro and Soneca.
Good Bench Players: Cerro (defender), Henrique (midfielder), Marco Aurélio (midfielder), Batata (defender), Soneca (attacker).
The Fans Expect: qualification for the TQCC.
Fans’ style: passionate (big number) – seen as peaceful supporters, who enjoy good rivalries... but unfortunately their rivals don’t enjoy when they lose. The second team of the city.
Club Tradition: very traditional – very successful.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (****), Jorge Lang (*****), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (****).

AMÉRICA: Murilo; Bourassa, Figueroa, Barison and Orton; Salivani, Cook, Vroon and Maníac; Amate and Kennedy.
Coach: Christophe Argentier.
President: Cidão Varteiro.
Team Full Name: América Esporte Clube Lasftense.
Team Style: bit offensive, turns defensive when playing away.
Strongest Point: the offensive midfield.
Weakest Point: a balanced team, although not world class.
Nickname: Diabos de Lasft (Lasft Devils).
Stadium Used: Estádio Marte, in Lasft (cap. 40,000).
State: Lasft.
Team Sponsor: Guaraná Muquirana.
Home Kit: red shirt and white shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and red shorts.
Other Facts: founded by fanatic football supporters, it grew fast and now is the third biggest team of Lasft. América lately has been facing ups and downs in the Cafundelense league, and for this season invested hard to improve. Another coach change was planned to send the team to a higher position in the league, and the results seem positive so far. América wants to establish itself in the top 8.
Transfer Market: many changes this season for América, with more players coming than leaving. Stephanie Barison comes from Cassadaigua, Saavedra from Aguazul, Vroon from Sorthern Northland, Maníac from The Macabees, and Amate from inside the Cafundelense league. It is promising.
Fans’ Favourites: currently the biggest idol of the team is the young goalkeeper Murilo, considered to “finally be the goalkeeper Cafundéu deserves”.
Good Bench Players: Titi (defender), Marino (midfielder), Saavedra (attacker), Cockbadger (midfielder), Gnomo (attacker).
The Fans Expect: qualification for international competitions.
Fans’ style: fanatic (average number) – love to make jokes about their rivals, and to provoke and be provoked. Can cause some confusions, involving even violence, with opponents. But what they really love are jokes, especially ones related with stereotypes.
Club Tradition: weak tradition – consolidated 1st Division team.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (****), Jorge Lang (***), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

CENTRAL UNITED: Subodnir; Igor, Rilin, Millsand Tiago; Nakombi, Prescott, Kléber, Particle and Arsenault; Ainsley.
Coach: Júlio Mercegues.
President: Renan Pedrosa.
Team Full Name: União de Futebol do Estado Central.
Team Style: offensive one, using the centre of the field and long ranged shots.
Strongest Point: the midfield.
Weakest Point: the defence.
Nickname: Alvinegro.
Stadium Used: Toca do Tatu “Bola”, in Cidade Central (cap. 118,000).
State: Central.
Team Sponsor: Tio João - food in general.
Home Kit: white shirt and black shorts.
Away Kit: black shirt with white stripes and black shorts.
Other Facts: Central United is a traditional team which got used to win titles, and had to get used to just stay in intermediate positions. Slowly, the team is returning to get to the top positions, but there is still a lot of work to be done. It currently faces an up-and-down situation, with the last season being an up season. The objective is to avoid a down season this time.
Transfer Market: the line-up from the last season did a good job, but it was difficult to maintain it. Wilson and Anti Ilmari are the two key players who left, and the substitute were mainly players already in the squad. Only the former NT player Kléber arrives.
Fans’ Favourites: Fugiro Nakombi is the team idol, one which the players identify themselves with, with little space for the other teams to be considered as real idols.
Good Bench Players: Diguinho (defender), Maicosuel (midfielder), Ananias (defender), Lindolfo (attacker), Sérgio Soares (attacker).
The Fans Expect: top 8 position.
Fans’ style: passionate (good number) – usually have inventive songs to motivate the team and joke with their opponents. But, although they are creative, they are simply horrible, so no one stands playing or hearing them for a long time, especially the players.
Club Tradition: one of the football pioneers in the country – successful at domestic stage.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (***), Jorge Lang (***), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

PORTO LACRUZ: Taylor; Juliano, Kaufman, João Carlos and Rodríguez; Capstraw, Doramílton and Colwyn; Gutiérrez, Sikkah and Pembace.
Coach: Júlio Vargas.
President: Compadre Washington Axé.
Team Full Name: Sociedade Esportiva Porto Lacruz.
Team Style: very balanced, likes to make many passes without haste.
Strongest Point: defence, entirely.
Weakest Point: offensive midfield.
Nickname: Praianos.
Stadium Used: Estádio Nacional dos Cocos, in Porto Lacruz (cap. 72,500).
State: Espinal.
Team Sponsor: CMG Medicines.
Home Kit: orange shirt and white shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and orange shorts.
Other Facts: Porto Lacruz is growing, and fast. The team has money, although no one knows exactly from where this money comes from. The midfield of this team is among the best, and in general this team can really become a top eight of the Cafundelense league, if it is not already one of them. Aims to become a power of Cafundelense football, and seems to be in the right path.
Transfer Market: the team was able to strengthen itself even more, although only the attack went through this process. With Sikkah and Pembace helping Cafundelense NT player Gutiérrez, the team has a top attack – although the defence is still its key part of the field.
Fans’ Favourites: the biggest idols were Colwyn and An Pilrip. With An Pilrip leaving due to lack of commitment to the trainings, the defender Rodriguez entered in this list due to his good form in the last seasons.
Good Bench Players: Lisandro (defender), Doctor (attacker), Roubanis (defender), Januário (midfielder), Bert (midfielder).
The Fans Expect: a spot in international competitions.
Fans’ style: empathic but calm (average number) – the supporters usually don’t get overexcited, preferring to rest rather than getting stressed with the game... some even bring beds and pillows to the stadiums, something accepted by the police, as they are too tired to start a fight to use the pillows as weapons.
Club Tradition: just slightly traditional – established in 1st Division.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (****), Jorge Lang (*****), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

SERRANO: Vachon; Cassou, Célio Santos and Korkmaz; Lewton, Schneider, E.Minanad, Krestenitis and Sporadic; McAllister and Cromsumé.
Coach: Alfonso Di Angelo.
President: Victor Correia Aquino.
Team Full Name: Serrano Futebol Clube.
Team Style: defensive, explores the wings.
Strongest Point: the goalkeeper Vachon.
Weakest Point: defensive midfield.
Nickname: Alpinistas (Climbers).
Stadium Used: Cume da Montanha, in Serra Cabral (cap. 30,000).
State: Central.
Team Sponsor: Pechincha Supermarket.
Home Kit: brown shirt with details in yellow and white shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and brown shorts.
Other Facts: Serrano has an average team, and now escaping relegation isn’t the objective of the team, as it clearly has capacity for more, for example reaching the top eight. This is something that was done before and seems a realistic target for this season. The two most promising players of the team, Lewton and McAllister, stay in the team, so good things can come.
Transfer Market: the defender Guilherme, after another good season, left the team for a bigger club, but that was the only major loss. Laurens Cassou will replace him, and the midfield becomes stronger with Ellad Minanad and Schneider from Clube Imperial.
Fans’ Favourites: no one really has this status in this team, and the most loved one is currently midfielder Nico Lewton.
Good Bench Players: Hawthorne (midfielder), Ayrton (defender), Deschamps (attacker), Reyes (midfielder), Diguinho (goalkeeper).
The Fans Expect: intermediate position.
Fans’ style: fanatic (small number) – really crazy for their team, the Serrano supporters are completely unpredictable, so unpredictable we don’t know what to write here about them... honestly, we tried to, sending one of our reporters to join their biggest fan group, and we lost contact to him since then.
Club Tradition: weak tradition – established in 1st Division.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (***), Jorge Lang (***), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

SC LASFT: Moore; Mesquita, Kanis, Salvador and H.Mohammed; Olsen, Sussex, Zubo and Da Costa; Ruiz and Matoso.
Coach: Eduardo Bosschaart.
President: Alcides Mattos.
Team Full Name: Sport Club Lasft.
Team Style: balanced, likes to control the game’s pace.
Strongest Point: good midfield.
Weakest Point: attack.
Nickname: Golden Team.
Stadium Used: Estádio Padre Anchieta, in Lasft (cap. 70,000).
State: Lasft.
Team Sponsor: Imperial Lottery.
Home Kit: black shirt with details in gold and black shorts.
Away Kit: golden shirt and black shorts.
Other Facts: although the team now seems solid in the First Division, it is far from repeating the good performances of the past, when it was among the best teams of the entire league. It has been difficult for the supporters of SC Lasft to understand the new phase of the team, but now they seem used... they shouldn’t, according to the chairman, who now wants SC Lasft back to success.
Transfer Market: many changes in SC Lasft, looking forward a good season. Three new players arrive to compose the midfield: Olsen, Sussex and Zubo, and it seems promising. Kel Kanis builds an interesting defence with Mesquita.
Fans’ Favourites: the favourites of the supporters are the two ones who came from the youth team of SC Lasft and enjoyed success, being those Ruiz and Mesquita. Though goalkeeper Moore has many fans too.
Good Bench Players: Ivan (defender), Fernando Borges (midfielder), Misina (attacker), Marinho (goalkeeper), Lithsumé (midfielder).
The Fans Expect: intermediate position.
Fans’ style: passionate (big number) – usually associated with poorest people of the region, due to the rivalry with Petardos S/A. Curiously, the second richest person of the city supporters SC Lasft.
Club Tradition: one of the football pioneers of the country – successful at domestic stage.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (***), Jorge Lang (**), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (***).

INTERNACIONAL DE PENDERIA: Felipe; Young, Vaduun and Gut; Pingo, Bjornssund, Bond, Carney and Kabir; Farías and Adraktas.
Coach: Edgar Gastão.
President: Renato Saulo Meirelles, Count of Penderia.
Team Full Name: Sport Club Internacional de Penderia.
Team Style: offensive, uses long ranged passes.
Strongest Point: the goalkeeper.
Weakest Point: the midfield in general.
Nickname: os Cavaleiros (the Knights).
Stadium Used: Campo do Forte Meirelles, Penderia (cap. 50,000).
State: Old Cities.
Team Sponsor: Estilo Menswear.
Home Kit: red shirt with white stripes and red shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and white shorts.
Other Facts: this one is a traditional team, in fact, but got lost in time. Now, suddenly, it was revived by loyal supporters and could reach the first division. Good seasons have put the team in a good situation in the Cafundelense league, and raised the investment on the team. Now with some good players, it wants to slowly improve in the competition, to reach the top eight soon.
Transfer Market: Internacional managed to keep Felipe, which is already a conquest. But some players were signed. Bjornssund for the midfield and Vaduun for the defence. Yes, only this.
Fans’ Favourite: due to the team being a newcomer to top league football, the supporters like the players who helped them to reach this stage. This case, their favourite player is the goalkeeper Felipe.
Good Bench Players: Vainarell (full-back), Rocha (defender), Diors (midfielder), Mixto (attacker), Zacarias (defender).
The Fans Expect: intermediate position.
Fans’ style: extremely fanatic, slightly violent (average number) – the revival of the team revived the violent percentage of the Internacional fan base, which now dominates the team’s fan groups. Their supporters simply can’t stop talking about football, they talk about it on work, with the family, with their wives/husbands, with the dog, to themselves...
Club Tradition: very traditional – nearly established to 1st Division environment.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (***), Jorge Lang (**), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (**).

METROPOLITANO: Vincze; Rabicó, Escória, Lurich, Bjorn and Freudigmann; Romeu, Stigur and Laranja; Celebrindal and Sinclair.
Coach: Ciro Legrettini.
President: Everaldo Fobrett.
Team Full Name: Clube Esportivo Metropolitano.
Team Style: offensive, uses the wings.
Strongest Point: the central defence
Weakest Point: offensive midfield.
Nickname: Urbanos.
Stadium Used: Arena Multiuso Dra. Veiga, in Astari (cap. 100,000).
State: Titã.
Team Sponsor: Curandeiro Cosmetics.
Home Kit: dark purple shirt with silver details, silver shorts.
Away Kit: gold shirt with purple hoops, gold shorts.
Other Facts: Metropolitano returned to the First Division just one season after getting relegated, and with an international title. Okay, it was a SBCC, but at least it is a title. Now back to the reality of losing games, Metropolitano will have to work hard to stay in the first division, just like previous season and that’s why I haven’t bothered to change the previous part of this section about them. Now they lost even more players, and even their coach, so relegation is a strong possibility.
Transfer Market: who came? Defender Björn from Swartaz, which now builds a good defence with Freudigmann and Lurich, who is planning his retirement.
Fans’ Favourites: current favourite is the midfielder Romeu, due to him playing for Metropolitano for his entire career.
Good Bench Players: Artur Neto (defender), Jaafar, Lino (midfielder), Ulisses (midfielder), Peixeira (defender).
The Fans Expect: escape relegation.
Fans’ style: cold (average number) – the supporters aren’t much enthusiastic for the team, although they are loyal. They are the typical kind of supporter that would prefer to watch a movie than the football game, but that would not accept a good amount of money to wear the shirt of their rivals – even if they don’t have a major one.
Club Tradition: slightly traditional team – trying to consolidate in the 1st Division.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (**), Jorge Lang (*), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (*).

SÃO JORGE: Rossiter; Evandro, Nelsinho, Silva and Teteo; Reeves, Freeman, Vervánt and Omar; Kelson and Rosário.
Coach: Wendell Diácono.
President: Jorge Henrique de Menezes.
Team Full Name: Real Clube São Jorge de Futebol.
Team Style: offensive, focuses on passing.
Strongest Point: the offensive midfield.
Weakest Point: central defence.
Nickname: Esquimós.
Stadium Used: Estádio Municipal do Norte, in São Jorge (cap. 25,000).
State: Dunboor.
Team Sponsor: Churrascarias Brasa Mora.
Home Kit: white shirt and blue shorts.
Away Kit: light blue shirts and shorts.
Other Facts: São Jorge was ever a solid team in the Second Division, but only recently the team was able to get the promotion. Things, however, are going to be very difficult now, as the team doesn’t have top players – at least compared to the other Cafundelense major clubs – and don’t have tradition. The fight against relegation has been fairly easy recently, but the level of their opponents seem higher this time.
Transfer Market: in order to stay in the division, São Jorge brought some players who lost space in other clubs, as Freeman and Vervánt. From abroad, only one player: Stephanie Reeves from Cassadaigua.
Fans’ Favourite: attacker Kelson is very popular due to the fact he has played in São Jorge for the last 10 years, but defender Nelsinho is also very famous and respected in the team.
Good Bench Players: Samri (mid), Nestor (defender), Pedrão (defender), Túlio (midfielder), Rosário (attacker).
The Fans Expect: escape relegation.
Fans’ style: passionate (low number) – nice supporters, involving many families, but in a restricted area. They love their city, and that’s why they end supporting São Jorge... that’s why they hate to go to away games.
Club Tradition: recent team – newcomer to 1st Division environment.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (*), Jorge Lang (**), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (*).

CRUZEIRO DO SUL: Tejera; Ritalino, Thorvaldsson, Duílio and Dinei; S. Donnchadh, Súrion, Bustamante and An Pilrip; Griffiths and Abelardo.
Coach: Diogo Avarel.
President: Lord Denílson Caveira.
Team Full Name: Associação Atlética Cruzeiro do Sul.
Team Style: offensive, uses long passes.
Strongest Point: the midfield in general.
Weakest Point: the central defence.
Nickname: Celestes.
Stadium Used: Caixão Beira-mar, in Cruzeiro do Sul (cap. 30,000).
State: Coast.
Team Sponsor: Agora Saúde.
Home Kit: blue shirt with black shorts.
Away Kit: White shirt with blue shorts.
Other Facts: an old team, but one that only recently became professional, Cruzeiro do Sul reached the First Division with speed two seasons ago, counting with good organization of its board of directors. With money to sign with players and devoted supporters, the team now is focused in staying in the top division for now. With the objective achieved in the first attempt, the mission seems a bit easier this time.
Transfer Market: the team lost some well known players for Clube Comercial, but the reinforcements came in good number and quality. Duílio and Dinei will compose an average defence, but better than what it was before. Bustamante and An Pilrip bring more technique to the midfield, and Gagnon experience to the bench.
Fans’ Favourite: curiously, both the former idols left for Clube Comercial. So, who is the idol now? No one is really the biggest one, but we could point our the attacker Abelardo and goalkeeper Tejera, who are well seen by the fans.
Good Bench Players: Renan (defender), Amat (midfielder), França (attacker), Gilson (attacker), Gagnon (midfielder).
The Fans Expect: escape relegation.
Fans’ style: fanatic (low number) – composed by residents of the city, they usually have two passions: football and the beach. How to decide between one or another? Just bring the television to the beach – the city hall built many walls close to the sea with electrical outlets for the football fans.
Club Tradition: slightly traditional – newcomer to 1st Division environment.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (**), Jorge Lang (*), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (**).

ATLÉTICO INSULAR: Tom; Aparecido, Garcia, Brutamontes and Dézinho; Matador, Pak Yongho, Alarcón and Bogota; Ramón and Alexandre.
Coach: Ke Sho.
President: Nilrei Braga.
Team Full Name: Clube Atlético Insular.
Team Style: defensive, using counterattacks a lot.
Strongest Point: midfield.
Weakest Point: the defence in general.
Nickname: Eremitas.
Stadium Used: Cúpula Tropical, in Ilha Eremita (cap. 45,000).
State: Coast.
Team Sponsor: SGI Insurance.
Home Kit: light blue shirt with yellow stripes and light blue shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and light blue shorts.
Other Facts: ah, so Atlético Insular is back to the first division. They were fast to return, but now there is a big worry about whether they have enough strength to continue in the top tier of the league. Few signings were made, and as the level of the league seems bigger than ever, the mission won’t be easy.
Transfer Market: Atlético Insular worked hard and well in order to bring new players to their limited team. Tom comes to wear the number one shirt. Pak Yongho, Peyo Alarcón and Ariel Bogota will compose the team’s midfield.
Fans’ Favourites: the defensive midfielder Matador is far from being the best player, but impressively is the most loved player of the team, due to his dedication to Atlético Insular.
Good Bench Players: Neneca (goalkeeper), Morais (attacker), Fagundes (midfielder), André (defender), João Gustavo (midfielder).
The Fans Expect: escape relegation without problems.
Fans’ style: calm (small number) – used to the life away from the big city, they like to bring their animals to the stadium. Unfortunately for them, they also have to pay tickets to enter too.
Club Tradition: traditional team – used to 1st Division.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (*), Jorge Lang (**), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (*).

NOVA ÉDEN: Öim; Muriega, Tomás, Wellington and Fabinho; Amaral, Sanderson, Eswart and Mário Moura; Hilton and Carrasco.
Coach: Nelson Yaschter.
President: Miguel Borges Jordanel.
Team Full Name: Grêmio Esportivo Nova Éden.
Team Style: balanced, likes to keep the ball possession.
Strongest Point: the goalkeeper.
Weakest Point: the attackers.
Nickname: Iluminado.
Stadium Used: Campo do Seminário, Nova Éden (cap. 30,000).
State: Dunboor.
Team Sponsor: Aurora Electronics.
Home Kit: yellow shirt and white shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt with details in yellow and white shorts.
Other Facts: a newcomer to the top division of the Cafundelense league, can be clearly considered the weakest of them all. Did a good job in finishing second in the second division last season, but even among the promoted teams seems now to have a poor team, although União also has one. Brought some players from relegated teams that can save the team, or repeat their feat of the previous season.
Transfer Market: as said, many players from teams that got relegated in the previous season. Also the goalkeeper Klass Öim comes from a bad spell at Internacional de Penderia, and wants to do a good job.
Fans’ Favourites: who should be... I don’t know. Most of the players arrived for this season. Let me take a guess... attacker Hilton.
Good Bench Players: Sarende (defender), Guga (midfielder), Júnior Lopes (attacker), Marquinhos Juta (attacker), Marcão (defender).
The Fans Expect: escape relegation.
Fans’ style: cold (low number) – this team’s supporters are few, not passionate and don’t care much for football. So, the stadium will be far from filled. We expect more birds watching the game than supporters.
Club Tradition: recent team – newcomer to 1st Division.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (*), Jorge Lang (*), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (*).

UNIÃO TRABALHADORA: Edson; Tarso, Aluízio, José Paulo and Santos; Campos, Caipira, Arantes and Gilmar; Gustavo Couto and the Cow.
Coach: Célio Macumba.
President: Reginaldo Pedreira.
Team Full Name: União da Força Sindical.
Team Style: very defensive, a draw means a win for them.
Strongest Point: good defensive midfield.
Weakest Point: poor offensive midfield.
Nickname: Sindicato.
Stadium Used: Estádio Erasmo Carlos Jowenguard, Espinal (cap. 60,000).
State: Espinal.
Team Sponsor: Novocarro Mechanic Equipment.
Home Kit: red shirt and red shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and white shorts.
Other Facts: the team of the workers of Cafundéu returns to the First Division, and again in a bad condition. Without any international players, the team lacks both experience and quality, due to the fact that they don’t have enough money to invest. But the fanbase hopes for a good campaign.
Transfer Market: the only big signing of the team for this season is the return of the Cow to First Division football, coming from Tabajara. For some seasons, the Cow was considered the most impressive player of the league.
Fans’ Favourites: it is the Cow, of course. It may be her first season in the team, but she already is loved by the fans.
Good Bench Players: Godofredo (midfielder), Aldir (goalkeeper), Ned (attacker), Valcenir (defender), Macunaíma (defender),
The Fans Expect: escape relegation.
Fans’ style: fanatic (medium number) – it is the team of the workers of Cafundéu, so no rich people allowed. If anyone appears to have some money in the middle of the fans, this person will be accused of being a slaver of the masses, and may be in serious danger. But, even though they may have this dark side, they usually are very nice people, who host some very good parties and barbecues.
Club Tradition: traditional – trying to consolidate in the 1st Division.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (*), Jorge Lang (*), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (*).

CLUBE COMERCIAL: Cleston; Calvo, Janicke, André Coutinho and Ivan Lopes; Bino, Castelo, Idlam and Bowyer; Neves and Zezinho.
Coach: Eddie Barnes.
President: Director Santa Claus.
Team Full Name: Clube do Comércio Cafundelense - CCC.
Team Style: offensive, likes to play long balls and shots.
Strongest Point: the midfield.
Weakest Point: the attack.
Nickname: Mercenários.
Stadium Used: Olímpico Imperial, in Lux (cap. 80,000).
State: Central.
Team Sponsor: AUGECC – the Cafundelense group of companies.
Home Kit: black shirt and white shorts.
Away Kit: white shirt and black shorts.
Other Facts: so one of the teams that has the biggest number of investors returns to the top division, and this time with the full backing of the AUGECC and one of the most famous businessmen of the world as its chairman. With a lot of money and support from important groups in the country, Clube Comercial’s objective is to easy escape relegation and maybe even grab a fine intermediary position. May be difficult... or not... or yes... or no.
Transfer Market: only arrivals in Clube Comercial! Wait, goalkeeper Tom and midfielder Sérgio Paredes left, but they’re nothing compared to the players coming: goalkeeper Cleston and attacker Zezinho from Cruzeiro do Sul, Janicke from Internacional, Bowyer from abroad and Idlam from a relegated club. All to transform what seemed only an average team into a... above average team.
Fans’ Favourites: midfielder Bino is currently the favourite of the fans, although full-back Calvo is a very funny player, whose style is admirated by the supporters and even some opponents.
Good Bench Players: Jim Hill (defender), Paulinho (attacker), Pedroso (midfielder), Castanhal (midfielder), Hermano (goalkeeper).
The Fans Expect: escape relegation easily.
Fans’ style: demanding (low number) – rich businesspeople from all around Cafundéu who invest in the team and demand results. Some are a bit eccentric, doing things like throwing money to the real fans of Clube Comercial – which are very few – but they mostly are sane people.
Club Tradition: somewhat traditional team – used to 1st Division environment.
Experts’ Ratings: Sílvio Ruiz (**), Jorge Lang (**), Carlos Alberto Gujabre (**).

FAVOURITES: survey’s results:

33% - Petardos S/A
15% - Atlético Jutense
12% - Cafundó do Juta
10% - Dunboor FC
8% - Porto Lacruz
7% - Ranca Toco and A.F.F.
4% - Clube Imperial
2,5% - Central United
1,5% - América

WORST TEAM:

45% - União Trabalhadora
41% - Nova Éden
7% - Atlético Insular
5% - São Jorge
1% - Clube Comercial and Cruzeiro do Sul

SECOND DIVISION (participating teams) - Santa Cruz do Sul, Galáxia, Engenheiro Peres, CR Submiria, São José, Rio Bonito, Eldorado, Khalmar-Tijhus, Carandirú, Sambarilove, EC Elville, Tabajara, Tênis Clube, Varzeano, SC Haja Coração, Real Jaçanã, Clube dos Banqueiros, Pernetas EC, Bandeirantes, Imperatriz.

Favourites: Santa Cruz do Sul, Galáxia, Engenheiro Peres, Eldorado, Khalmar-Tijhus.

THIRD DIVISION (participating teams) - Nacional da Cruz, Vila Velha, Aliança, Coqueiros, Agreman FH, Coríntios Jutense, Mondragon Warriors, Palestra, SC Carnavalesco, Faculdade de Medicina, Petrol, Penders, Ferroviário, Grêmio Lux, Pico da Neblina, Espinalense, Independência, Estrela da Manhã, Desportiva de Pinheiros, Atlético Central.

Favourites: Nacional da Cruz, Aliança, Coqueiros, Agreman FH, Palestra.

FOURTH DIVISION (participating teams) - Tio João, Esportivo Jutense, Miragaia FC, Dínamo de Natal, Aldeia Vigiah, Tropicália, Vitória de Espinal, Mocidade, Cosmopolita, Clube do Conde, Associação Imobiliária, Royal Pollvogarad, Zeca Futebol, Massaranduba FC, Peladeiros, Amigos do Pebolim, Supersônicos, Real Ouro Branco, São Longuinho, Legião de Srieth.

Favourites: Tio João, Esportivo Jutense, Vitória de Espinal, Mocidade, Royal Pollvogarad.

FIFTH DIVISION (participating teams) - Forças Armadas, Sport Clube, Moto Clube, Globo Multimídia, Baback FC, Ribeirão, Guaraense, Boiadeiros, Teatro Seta, Santo Expedito, Clube do Fusca, Montes Negros, Ilha do Mel, Clube Náutico, União, Dunbooritano, Templo Maior, Acadêmicos, Império de Flores, Novo Milênio.

Favourites: Sport Clube, Guaraense, Santo Expedito, Montes Negros, Império.

NON-LEAGUE – favourites: Beira-Mar, Arranhacéu, Poder Estadual, Universitário, Atleticano da Baixada.

TQCC/GC/SBCC teams and/or venues to be decided on the Jowenguard Crown, to come soon.

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