A quick update. Three rounds of games have been played already and the league is starting to take shape. I am sure you are all keeping an eye on it but the link to the league table is here.
All payments received (well, bar one but I know I’ll get it from him eventually!) so it is now confirmed as 44 participants in the league, so that means £440 prize monies.
The prize pot will be split as below:
League
1st – £140
2nd – £65
3rd – £40
4th – £20
5th – £15
Knockout & League Cups
Winner – £60
Runner-up – £20
I will be looking to start the cups soon. I will be seeding the draws, based on the league placings after the games played in the round of games over 3rd/4th September – giving you another 3 rounds of games to make a move up that table! I am on holiday from 11th September for 10 days so to make things easier for me, I will kick off the cup comps with the games from the weekend of 17th September. I am avoiding weeks where there FA cup games etc. If you didn’t play last season – on a given cup weekend, your score will be put head to head against your opponent to create a result. I will publish the draws week commencing 5th September.
Schedule is below.
Knockout competition:
This will be 6 rounds. The top ten teams in the league will receive a bye to Round 2. The other 44 teams will play in 22 games, with the winners joining the 10 byes in Round 2. In the event of a draw, a replay will be played the following week. In the event of a drawn replay then the tie will be determined by the number of correct results, followed by the nearest guess to the Golden Goal.
Round 1 – 5th November (replay 12th November)
Round 2 – 14th January (replay 21st January)
Round 3 – 4th February (replay 11th February)
Quarter Finals – 4th March (replay 11th March)
Semi Finals – 8th April (replay 15th April)
Final – 13th May (replay 20th May)
League Cup competition:
This will be in the style of the Champions League – ie a set of groups with the top two from each group progressing to a knockout tournament. There will be 4 groups of 5 teams and 4 groups of 6 teams, playing each other twice. The top two in each group will progress to the last 16 and a knockout tournament of single matches.
The group games will be played on:
Round 1 – 17th September
Round 2 – 1st October
Round 3* – 8th October
Round 4 – 22nd October
Round 5 – 29th October
Round 6 – 5th November
Round 7 – 12th November
Round 8*- 14th January
Round 9 – 21st January
Round 10 – 4th February
* no games for the groups with only 4 teams
Knockout games:
Round of 16 – 4th March (replay 11th March)
Quarter Finals – 1st April (replay 8th April)
Semi Finals – 29th April (replay 6th May)
Final – 20th May (replay 28th May)
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