League competition – Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, Post-Season.
BFFA-wide tournaments – Champions League, BFFA Cup, Intramural League, Best-ish.
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-scoring teams from Season One forming 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!
Previous Winners:
Season 2: GoFYS FC
Season 3: SB Town UAOB
Season 4: Bigo1
Season 5: Vanishing Spray FC
Season 6 – Abandoned
Season 7: Smash & Grab
Season 8: Route 57 FC
Season 9: Mighty Fine Feeling
Season 10: __________________
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: | Se.10: | Se.10: Goleta Hotspur |
| Se.11: | Se.11: | Se.11: |
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 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.
PRIZES: Champion: $150 and auto-entry into the following season’s CL Group Stage
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
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.
PRIZES: Champion: $150 and auto-entry into the following season’s CL Group Stage
Previous Winners:
Season 1: SB Town United Athletic Onion Baggers
Season 2: SB Town United Athletic Onion Baggers
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: ___________________
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.
PRIZE: $150
Previous Winners:
Season 1: Bigo1 – 1745 points
Season 2: Smash & Grab – 1722 points
Season 3: Mighty fine feeling – 1858 points
Season 4: Bigo1 – 2087 points
Season 5: Mighty fine feeling – 1891 points
Season 6: Tralfamadore Zoo – 1152 points*
* Season 6 finished after 29 gameweeks
Season 7: Housewives Favourite – 1762 points
Season 8: Drafty – 1959 points
Season 9: Housewives Favourite – 1930 points
Season 10: >>> Current Leaderboard >>>
THE BFFA INTRAMURAL LEAGUE
The IML is 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 will qualify from the previous season. The winners of the First Round play the four third-placed teams leaving the CL at the Group Stage. Two-legged knockouts all the way to the Final, a single match, played in the week before the Champions League Final.
PRIZE: Champion: $50
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
Exhibition Matches
THE SUPER CUP
UEFA hold an annual match between the Champions League Winners and the Europa League Champions. For 2023, Man City will be playing Sevilla on Wed, 16th August.
The BFFA Super Cup sets up a similar matchup at the start of the season for the winners of the CL and the IML. We will be showcasing Champions League Champions Gloopy Yarbles against the Intramural League Champions, Sporting WIcker Park, in their first gameweek after the Draft.
For Season 7, 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: Sporting Wicker Park 37 – 42 Gloopy Yarbles (played: S10, GW1)
THE DARE HOLDREN SHIELD
As a curtain-raiser, The FA puts the Premier League Champions up against the FA Cup Winners in The Community Shield. In thanks for the contribution of a retired manager, one of the original members, and someone who won both competitions, we have named it after the former manager of SB Town United Athletic Onion Baggers.
The first BFFA Community Shield saw the season open with BFFA Cup Winners The El Dude Bros (who drafted from 7th place in Season 9) soundly beating the reigning Premier League Champions Route 57 FC (draft position 9th).
This season will open with the BFFA Cup winners – Mighty Fine Feeling – against the top-scoring League Champion – Housewives Favourite.
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)
Play-offs and the Postseason Format
After Gameweek 36 every team will have played each league opponent four times each. The Regular Season ends there. The top two sides (Ch., L1, L2) will get promoted and the bottom two teams (PL, Ch., L1) will be relegated.
Then, in the Postseason there will be Play-Offs for the 3rd-placed teams trying to earn promotion and the 8th-placed teams fighting to avoid relegation.
Postseason mini-tournaments:
In an effort to keep managers firmly involved right into the final gameweek we have brought back the post-season, and this time there is something for every team to compete for.
League Champions: The four League Champions will go into a two-week knockout to be crowned Champion of Champions.
2nd- & 3rd-placed teams + BFFA Cup & Champions League winners: Will go into a Runners-Up mini tournament. All ten teams will have qualified for next season’s Champions League, so for the final two weeks they will amass matchpoints for a runners-up prize.
4th-placed teams: There will be two more Champions League places remaining, and 4x fourth-placed teams playing for them. Best-scoring 4th-placed team plays the worst, the other two play each other over two legs. The two winners qualify for the Season 10 Champions League. In the event that the CL Winners and/or the Cup winners finish in the top four, then the best-scoring yet-to-qualify team will be entered into this Champions League Qualifier.
5th-, 6th-, 7th-, and 8th placed teams: The 2023 Intramural League will begin with four teams, one from each League. To qualify for next season’s Europa League equivalent, teams finishing in these places will play in a knockout for that place; 5th v 8th, 6th v 7th; then winner v winner. In the case that any of those four teams are competing for next season’s Champions League, then the highest-placed of the remaining three will get a bye.
9th & 10th: The bottom two in the Premier League, the Championship and League One will be relegated. They, plus the bottom two from League Two, will fight to avoid new Wooden Spoon. The worst two scores in GW37 will play each other in the final week and one team will be declared “The Worst”.
Play-Offs: Finally, there will be three playoff matches as described above. They will be two-legged games between the 8th-placed teams in the higher leagues and the 3rd-placed teams in the lower leagues.
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:
8th-place Premier League -v- 3rd-place Championship
8th-place Championship -v- 3rd-place League One
8th-place League One -v- 3rd-place League Two
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