COMPETITIONS

League Championships – Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, Postseason.
BFFA-wide competitions – Champions League, BFFA Cup, Intramural League, Best-ish.
Showcase tournaments – Belyea Memorial Tournament, The Big One, The One Cup.
Exhibition games – Super Cup, Community Shield.

League Championships

There are four leagues again this year.
Mirroring the English Football League ladder, we have The BFFA Premier League, The BFFA Championship, BFFA League One and BFFA League Two.

THE BFFA Premier League

The Premier League was formed in 2015 with the top ten highest-scoring teams from Season One creating the new top flight competition.

The BFFA came into existence in the form of two ten-team leagues – Div. Left Foot and Div. Right Foot – operating side-by-side. These divisions were played out over 35 gameweeks, followed by a play-off for the top four. The play-off winners were:
DLF: Bigo1
DRF: KH Granitza Sting FC

Since then, the BFFA Premier League has been a pinnacle of greatness in the fantasy football community, increasing in intensity, competitiveness and prestige each and every year. The Champions will forever be remembered for their glory, their managers hailed as experts and heroes. This is the ultimate mark of dominance, the gold certification of excellence, the stamp of supremacy!

The Lower Leagues

Previous Winners:
The BFFA Championship	BFFA League One	BFFA League Two
Se.2: Cornballers FC	Se.2: All Star Gunners	Se.2: No tournament
Se.3: Smash & Grab	Se.3: Bigger than Brolin	Se.3: Mighty Fine Feeling
Se.4: AC Reykjavik BayCobblers	Se.4: Webuiltthis City	Se.4: Tralfamadore Zoo FC
Se.5: Boss’ Blues	Se.5: Tralfamadore Zoo	Se.5: Route 57 FC
Se.6 – Abandoned	Se.6 – Abandoned	Se.6 – Abandoned
Se.7: Route 57 FC	Se.7: Webuiltthis City	Se.7: Housewives Favourite
Se.8: Boss	Se.8: Housewives Favourite	Se.8: Atletico Topo Chico
Se.9: Housewives Favourite	Se.9: AFC Chester	Se.9: RB Monty
Se.10: Hung Like a Bony	Se.10: Uncle Monty	Se.10: Goleta Hotspur
Se.11: De Bruyne Trousers	Se.11: Peltier	Se.11: Shams Army

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Inter-League Competitions

There are also some inter-league competitions during the BFFA season. Here they are…

THE BFFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

The BFFA Champions League features 16 teams in group-style play, followed by quarterfinal and semifinal knockout rounds and finally a championship match. It traditionally takes place in the first half of the EPL season, ending before the new year.

The CL features the previous year’s top 3 finishers from each division, plus the returning Champions League holders and the BFFA Cup winners of that year.

Previous Winners: Season 2: K.H. Granitza Sting FC Season 3: SB Town Baggers Season 4: Mighty fine feeling Season 5: All Star Gunners Season 6: Tralfamadore Zoo FC Season 7 – No Champions League competition

Season 8: Mighty fine feeling Season 9: Gloopy Yarbles Season 10: Sporting Wicker Park Season 11: Gloopy Yarbles Season 12: TBC

THE BFFA CUP

All teams in the BFFA compete in this knockout style competition. Teams are drawn at random and the best-scoring teams at the time of the First Round Draw get a bye to the Second Round. This competition traditionally takes place in the second half of the EPL season, in the first or second gameweek of the calendar year. If teams play to a draw they then play a replay match in the following gameweek, similar to the real-life FA Cup.

Previous Winners: Season 1: SB Town UAOB Season 2: SB Town UAOB Season 3: Bigger Than Brolin Season 4: Tralfamadore Zoo FC Season 5: Smash & Grab Season 6: Abandoned

Season 7 Winter Cup: stilluvQPR Season 7 Spring Cup: Bigger than Brolin Season 8: The El Dude Brothers Season 9: Mighty Fine Feeling Season 10: StillluvQPR Season 11: Mighty Fine Feeling Season 12: TBC

THE BEST-ISH AWARD

The Best-ish: It’s the award that goes to the highest total matchpoints in BFFA every year. It is an accolade based on the fact that no matter how well you do in BFFA, no matter the amount of points your squad may score, you will never, ever be as cool as George Best.

You can try. But, yeah. Good luck with that.

Previous Winners: Season 1: Bigo1 – 1,745 points Season 2: Smash & Grab – 1,722 points Season 3: Mighty fine feeling – 1,858 points Season 4: Bigo1 – 2,087 points Season 5: Mighty fine feeling – 1,891 points Season 6: Tralfamadore Zoo – 1,152 points* * Season 6 finished after 29 gameweeks

Season 7: Housewives Favourite – 1,762 points Season 8: Drafty – 1,959 points Season 9: Housewives Favourite – 1,930 points Season 10: Hung Like a Bony – 1,937 points Season 11: Peltier – 1,889 points Season 12: >>> Current Leaderboard >>>

THE BFFA INTRAMURAL LEAGUE – Defunct

The IML was the BFFA’s answer to the UEFA Europa League. It started in 2018 as a way to give more teams (teams that weren’t quite good enough to qualify for the Champions League) an extra opportunity to compete for mediocre inter-league glory. One team from each league would qualify from the previous season.

Previous Winners: Season 5: FC Santa Barbara Season 6: Cornballers FC Season 7 – No IML tournament Season 8: Drafty

Season 9: Sporting Wicker Park Season 10: Route 57 FC Season 11: Route 57 FC Season 12: No tournament

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Showcase Tournaments

THE BELYEA MEMORIAL TROPHY

The antidote to Survival games, a competition where everyone (except one) is a winner.
In Seasons 10 & 11, we honoured the memory of former BFFA stalwart, keen fantasy football manager and Liverpool superfan Bryan Belyea.
The competition involved all forty teams and the object was to be eliminated by getting the best score of all the remaining teams each week.

Season 10: Harambe Hotspur were the last team remaining.
Season 11: Partey Time were the last team remaining.

THE BFFA BIG ONE

In a drive to involve the other side of fantasy football, the “classic” budget format, all BFFA managers past and present are invited to enter their standard fantasy team and compete in an old-skool league. Due to uncertainty surrounding S12, the league was destroyed and re-generated.

Season 10: Prestige Worldwide – 2,563 points
Season 11: De Bruyne Trousers – 2,474 points
Season 12: TBC

THE ONE CUP

A contender for the least-famous, least-prestigious fantasy football tournament in the world – The One Cup is the BFFA’s secret baby. Towards the end of the season, The FPL runs a quiet little knockout tourney for every mini-league and sometimes we remember to see who won it…

Season 10: Alleviate the Tedium
Season 11: Smoky Bacon Athletic
Season 12: TBC

Exhibition Matches

THE SUPER CUP

UEFA hold an annual match between the Champions League Winners and the Europa League Champions.
We do something similar with The BFFA Super Cup. At the start of the season the winners of the CL and the IML meet for this pre-season warm-up. For Season 8, without either CL or IML, it was contested between the winners of the two BFFA Cups.

Previous Super Cups:
Season 8: Bigger than Brolin 56 – 46 StillluvQPR (played: S7, GW35)
Season 9: Mighty Fine Feeling 44 – 38 We have Kompany (played: S9, GW1)
Season 10: Gloopy Yarbles 42 – 37 Sporting Wicker Park (played: S10, GW1)
Season 11: Sporting Wicker Park 33 – 51 Route 57 FC (played: S11, GW1)
Season 12: Gloopy Yarbles 73^½ – 55 Goleta Hotspur (played: S12, GW1)
Note – S11 IML champions Route 57 FC retired from the BFFA.

THE COMMUNITY SHIELD

As a curtain-raiser, The Football Association puts the Premier League Champions up against the FA Cup Winners in The Community Shield. We’ve done the same thing. In thanks for the contribution of a retired manager, one of the original members and someone who won both competitions, we named our first Community Shield after the former manager of SB Town United Athletic Onion Baggers – Mr. Dare Holdren.

Previous BFFA Community Shields:
Season 9: The El Dude Bros 46 – 24 Route 57 FC (played: S9, GW1)
Season 10: Mighty fine feeling 43 – 56 Housewives Favourite (played: S10, GW1)
Season 11: Housewives Favourite 46 – 24 StillluvQPR (played: S11, GW1)
Season 12: Gloopy Yarbles 73^½ – 44 Mighty Fine (played S12, GW1)

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Play-offs and the Postseason Format

For three seasons between 2022 and 2025, the regular season was concluded after GW36, when everyone had played each other exactly four times each. The final two gameweeks were reserved for Promotion Playoffs, Champions League Qualification and postseason mini-tourneys.

Postseason mini-tournaments:

In an effort to keep managers firmly involved right into the final gameweek we ran a postseason where there was something for every team to compete for.

Champion of Champions: The four League Champions, the Champions League Champions and the BFFA Cup Champions went into a two-week knockout.
The Runners-Up Trophy: The 2nd- & 3rd-placed teams, the BFFA Cup runners-up & the Champions League runners-up went into a two-week pool comp.
4th-placed teams: Two two-legged play-offs for qualification into the following season’s Champions League.
5th-, 6th-, 7th-, and 8th placed teams: Qualification for the following season’s IML, our former Europa League equivalent. One team from each League we put forward to the IML the following season.
9th & 10th: Eight teams – a GW37 pool and a GW38 Final for the Wooden Spoon.
Play-Offs: Finally, but perhaps most importantly, the 8th-placed teams in the higher leagues and the 3rd-placed teams in the lower leagues played off for a league place, Bundesliga-style!

Play-Off Results:

Season 9:
Route 57 FC 102 – 84 Gloopy Yarbles (on aggregate). R57 retained their place in the Premier League.
Atletico Topo Chico 80 – 70 StillluvQPR (on aggregate). ATC were promoted to the Championship.
De Bruyne Trousers 104 – 98 Ole’s at the Wheel (on aggregate). DBT were promoted to League One.

Season 10:
Mighty fine feeling 92 – 87 Cullen the herd (on agg.). MFF retained their place in the Premier League.
Whiskey De Bruyne 116 – 89 Atletico Topo Chico (on agg.). WDB were promoted to the Championship.
Chicken and Bane San 103 – 97 Alleviate the Tedium (on agg.). C&BS retained their place in League One.

Season 11:
IB Lausig 67 – 44 Gnonto Seed (on agg.). IB Lausig were promoted to the Premier League.
Uncle Monty 96 – 80 The Phenoms (on agg.). Uncle Monty retained their place in the Championship.
Boudi’s Crew 101 – 55 Borussia Teeth (on agg.). Boudi’s Crew were promoted to League One.

Champion of Champions

Season 9: Housewives Favourite
Season 10: Hung Like a Bony
Season 11: Shams Army

Runners-Up Trophy

Season 9: Hung Like a Bony
Season 10: SkyPlayerInFPL
Season 11: Boudi’s Crew

Wooden Spoon

Season 9: Chicken and Bane San
Season 10: Boudi’s Crew
Season 11: Whiskey De Bruyne