Team of the Week:
Goleta Hotspur ^{(1st TotW)}
64 points

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
➤ There is a tied game in the CLQ’s! AFC Chester & HLAB both unable to claim a lead after huge scores this weekend. Saliba (Chester) will miss the second leg through injury, Brantwaite (HLAB) a concern for the final game away at Newcastle. Both played Morgan Rogers (6FPts); will they both start him again?
➤ The CL Reserve list incredibly tight with Prelim looking like qualifying through their CLQ and Smash far above the rest. Any one of nine could take the last Champions League place next season.
➤ Shams Army of League Two will play Gloopy Yarbles of the Premier League for the Champion of Champions title.
➤ Whiskey De Bruyne and Harambe Hotspur face off in the Sacko Final.
➤ The three playoffs have all started with massive margins in the first leg. Only one of the third-placed hopefuls are playing catch-up next week; Eberechi Eze giving The Phenoms just a glimmer of hope.
➤ Uncle Monty and Partey Time qualify for the next round of the IML from eighth place in their leagues.
➤ Goleta Hotspur record the highest score of the week with double figures from Rice, Strand Larsen and Ndiaye.

🫣 Next Week’s Ones to Watch:
CLQ: AFC Chester (56 – 56) HLAB
This Season: BFFA Cup First Round – GW20: 36 – 24
Last season: GW7: 18 – 87 // GW16: 37 – 33 // GW25: 55 – 81 // GW34: 67 – 110
All Time: AFC Chester: 5 wins; Drawn: 1; HLAB: 7 wins

CoC Final: Shams Army -v- Gloopy Yarbles
First Meeting

RUT: Atletico Topo Chico -v- Boudi’s Crew and the field
(Links to teams in red text below)

Ps-Week 1 in a nutshell:

Pro/Rel Playoffs

After the First Leg:
Gnonto Seed 13 – 34 IB Lausig
For a place in the Premier League

Uncle Monty 52 – 23 The Phenoms
For a place in the Championship

Borussia Teeth 25 – 49 Boudi’s Crew
For a place in League One

Champions League Qualifiers / Reservists

After the First Leg:
Preliminary Version 53 – 38 Jaysokker
AFC Chester 56 -v- 56 HLAB

There are two more roads into next season’s Champions League – 2 places via the Qualifiers (above) and 2 places via the Reserve List (right).

Preliminary Version have a controlling 15-point lead after the first leg. In the (short) history of BFFA playoffs, no teams have overcome such a big lead, but games have been won by bigger margins. And in the other CLQ we have a dramatic tied game between Chester and HLAB!

In the Reserve List, it would take a disaster for Preliminary Version to fall out of the top two, so they are practically guaranteed a Champions League place either way. Similarly, Smash & Grab look like a shoe-in for the other place.

The real excitement surrounds that last Reserve space. If Prelim hold their CLQ lead on Sunday, then there will be one more Champions League place open and nine teams which could realistically take it: AFC Chester (if they lose to HLAB), BVAR, ASG and R57 are all within just two points of each other! Also SkyPlayer, BtB, Slots Fired, HLAB (if they lose to Chester) and Barons (1518 FPts) could also steal it in the last 90 minutes of the season, so they will all be rooting for Prelim to beat Jaysokker!

Intramural League Qualifiers

*Premier League Path*	Smash & Grab 52 – 13 Gnonto Seed Vanishing Spray 24 – 59 El Dude Bros
Gameweek 38:	Smash & Grab -v- El Dude Bros
*Championship Path*	Barons 34 – 52 Uncle Monty All Star Gunners 39 – 47 Bigger than Brolin
Gameweek 38:	Uncle Monty -v- Bigger than Brolin
*League One Path*	Slots Fired 31 – 25 Borussia Teeth SkyPlayerInFPL 50 – 36 East Loop United
Gameweek 38:	Slots Fired -v- SkyPlayerInFPL
*League Two Path*	Sporting KhilMaan 27 – 38 Partey Time FC AI-Jiggery-Pokery 38 – 25 Flubbing Yanks
Gameweek 38:	Partey Time FC -v- AI-Jiggery-Pokery

The Champion of Champions

After the Group Stage:

Shams Army	57 FPts
Gloopy Yarbles	42 FPts
De Bruyne Trousers	35 FPts
Peltier	33 FPts
mighty Fine	30 FPts

FINAL :
Shams Army -V- Gloopy Yarbles

3rd-Place Playoff:
De Bruyne Trousers -v- mighty Fine -v- Peltier

Runners-Up Trophy

8 teams, 2 weeks, most total points win.
After Week 1:

Atletico Topo Chico	54 FPts
Boudi’s Crew	49 FPts
Tino’s Legacy	43 FPts
Route 57 FC	42 FPts
Housewives Favourite	40 FPts
Alleviate the Tedium	39 FPts
IB Lausig	34 FPts
The Phenoms	23 FPts

The Wooden Spoon

After the Group Stage:

Whiskey De Bruyne	19 FPts
Harambe Hotspur	31 FPts
GoFys FC	33 FPts
BattleVAR Galactico	39 FPts
StillluvQPR	41 FPts
Route 57 FC	42 FPts
Sporting Wicker Park	48 FPts
Goleta Hotspur	64 FPts

Round 2 – Wooden Spoon Final
Whiskey De Bruyne -V- Harambe Hotspur

The Best-ish 2025

Although the league tables have been finalised, the Best-ish tournament will rage on until the end of GW38. The top five going into the final gameweek are:

Pos	Team	Pts
1	Peltier	1851
2	Gloopy Yarbles	1814
3	De Bruyne Trousers	1788
4	Tino’s Legacy	1712
5	Boudi’s Crew	1699

Friendlies

The end-of-season friendlies this season have been decided by the Best-ish rankings. Going top-to-bottom (with the exception of ASG versus R57), the teams without a remaining postseason fixture are:

All Star Gunners^#13 -v- Route 57 FC^#13
BattleVAR Galactico^#11 -v- Barons^#22
Sporting KhilMaan^#26 -v- Gnonto Seed^#29
Goleta Hotspur^#30 -v- Borussia Teeth^#31
Flubbing Yanks^#32 -v- East Loop United^#33
Sporting Wicker Park^#35 -v- Vanishing Spray^#36
StillluvQPR^#38 -v- GoFys FC^#40

Dynasty League

😬 The Run-In 🕑
It’s simply Tino’s to win/lose now. If they win (or draw) against Vanishing Spray, they win the inaugural BFFA Dynasty League title. If they lose, the title will go to the winner of TrevAI versus Peltier. What a fantastic end to the season!!!

Final Matches:
Haven’t Jota Clue -v- Vanishing Spray
Jaysokk -v- Wonder Struijk
Rot-Weiss Barefoot -v- Waikauri Bay FC
Tino’s Legacy -v- Vanishing Spray
TrevAI -v- Peltier

The Big One

It’s the BFFA Big One. The tried and tested (albeit inferior) traditional form of English Fantasy Football
that requires each manager to build a team with a budget of £150 million.
These teams must have no more than three players from the same PL club, excessive transfers are penalised by point deductions, and everyone gets a Haaland (if they want one).
Every team also gets to pick a Captain and there are bonus chips to play across the season.
This is a classic-style fantasy league, open to all BFFA managers past and present.

Last season The Big One was won by Prestige Worldwide, a subsidiary of The Premier League’s El Dude Bros, and The One Cup was won by Alleviate the Tedium.
This season’s One Cup is also underway. Results below.