NeoAC

The Sporting affiliated club is sure to head back to Champs league glory this year. Lantisia FTW!

Wegason

Just to let you know, i've run the second season (some interesting surprises it contained too) and will be compiling my update tonight with a view to hopefully releasing it tonight or tomorrow night.

MachinegunHead

Nodnol City for the league! C'monnnnn the royals.

Wegason

BIRTH OF A NEW NATION

Season 2008/2009



Transfer Market

Over the summer of 2008 there was a host of activity as players jumped between teams within the First Division and there was a lot of activity between Ellisian teams and English Premier League/Championship sides as players moved both ways. The young stars of the Ellisian league were leaving the Ellisian teams in their droves for either the big clubs of the Ellisian league, or for lower Premiership clubs.

Port Nelson’s young star attacking midfielder, Owen Kellogg, left for Bolton Wanderers in a £1.2m deal, he is now worth £8m. As the summer dragged on the young stars, like Ribaldo of Argyres, Justin Harle of Lantisia, Paul Harris of Balanvinski, and Phillip Gagnon of Grimme Athletic left for teams in England (In Gagnon’s case, Espanyol in Spain) for deals worth much less than they are now valued. It seemed the top premier league sides and top Spanish sides were not aware of the star talents in the EFD.


European Competitions

In the First Qualifying Round of the Champions League the EFD Champions, FC Jasque, faced Maribor of Slovenia. Both legs were drawn 1-1 and extra time was goalless, eventually FC Jasque triumphed on penalties and advanced to the next round.

They were drawn to face Malmo FF of the Sweden. A battling 1-0 performance away from home together with a gutsy 1-1 draw at home meant that FC Jasque progressed to the third qualifying round of the Champions League, they were also guaranteed a place in the UEFA Cup if they failed to get to the group stages.

A harsh draw saw them drawn against Olympiakos of Greece. FC Jasque lost the away leg 2-0 which was most unfortunate and meant they had an uphill battle in the return leg. No matter, FC Jasque put in the performance of their lives at Bastiat Crescent to win the game 5-3. Unfortunately for them this meant that they failed to advance on the away goals rule! They had come so close to the group stages!

The draw for the First Round of the UEFA Cup was not kind either as they had to play Paris Saint-Germain. FC Jasque lost the first leg 2-0 at home and could only battle to a 1-1 draw in Paris to fail to advance to the Second Round.

In the UEFA Cup Lantisia, runners up on goal difference the previous season in the EFD, failed to progress past the first qualifying round, going down 3-1 on aggregate to Austria Wien. Whitefield United, who had qualified as winners of the Emperors Cup, got knocked out 5-1 on aggregate by IFK Gothenburg.

Grimme Athletic opened the first round of the Intertoto Cup by beating Maag Tammeka of Estonia 6-1 on aggregate before being knocked out on penalties by Dundee United after drawing both games 1-1 in the second round.

Overall, Europe was disappointing this season for Ellisian clubs with the exception of FC Jasque’s real close call on making the Group Stages of the Champions League.


Isoeph Cup

The group stages were played at the beginning of the season and the following teams advanced from the groups: Argyres, Stravchine Balanvinski, Faradafry, Nodnol City, Lantisia, Diamond Heights, Whitefield United and Wegason.

In the quarter finals, Lantisia beat Diamond Heights, and Farafafry beat Wegason on penalties. Whitefield United and Agyres recorded narrow 1-0 wins over Stravchine Balanvinski and Nodnol City respectively.

Argyres and Farafafry advanced on penalties in the semi finals against Lantisia and Whitefield after 1-1 draws to set up a final where Agyres triumphed 2-0 over Faradafry City. It would remain to be seen whether history would be repeated and see the Isoeph Cup winners go on to win the league like FC Jasque did last season.


Emperors Cup

Picking it up from the quarterfinals, Newtonia beat Nodnol City, Bozarburg beat Lantisia, Farafafry thumped Whitefield United, and San Angel beat Shasarazade.

In the semi finals Newtonia beat Faradafry in extra time and San Angel beat Bozarburg. The final saw last year’s finalists, Newtonia, defeat San Angel 2-1 thanks to two goals from Malcolm Christie.


The Ellisian National team

The effect of the new division still does not seem to be having much of an effect as losses to Portugal (0-3) and Bosnia (2-3) were followed by an expected 3-0 triumph over Armenia. In the friendlies Ellisia lost to Chile 2-1 and only narrowly beat Chinese Taipei 1-0. Luxembourg were beat 3-0 before World Cup Qualifiers resumed where Ellisia lost 2-0 to Turkey before recording their best result thus far, a 3-0 annihilation of Belgium in Port Nelson, then they lost to Portugal away from home. After six games they sat 4th in the group, ahead of Belgium and Armenia but behind Turkey, Portugal, and Bosnia.

Wegason

BIRTH OF A NEW NATION


Season 2008/2009


Ellisian First Division

Four teams dominated the division this year, right from the start. Port Nelson, Argyres, Shasarazade, and surprisingly, Grimme Athletic all took up positions in the top four at the start of the season and maintained those positions throughout the season pretty much.

As the season reached its climax with five games to go Grimme Athletic were sitting pretty on top of the table with 51 points, much to everyone’s surprise, and their closest challengers were Argyres on 46 points, Port Nelson on 45 points, and Shasarazade on 43 points.

Grimme Athletic won match 26 of the season, beating Whitefield United 4-1 at home, while Argyres triumphed over Nodnol City 3-0. In a title challenger clash, Port Nelson defeated Shasarazade 3-2 to make it almost mathematically impossible for Shasarazade to win the table. The next round of matches saw Lantisia hold Grimme to a draw while Shasarazade put a dent in Argyres title challenge by beating them 2-0 at Shangrila Gardens. Port Nelson squeezed a one goal win out over Whitefield United to put pressure on Grimme. Port Nelson stood on 51 points to Grimme’s 55.

Grimme then beat United Commonwealth Club 1-0 while Port Nelson beat rivals Nodnol City 2-1 to keep the gap at just 4 points with two games remaining. Grimme Athletic needed a victory to secure the title, if they drew and Port Nelson drew then they’d also secure the title.

Port Nelson managed a 1-0 victory over U.C.C. but unfortunately for the Admirals the Austrians managed to beat San Angel to secure the title, this was most unfortunate for Port Nelson and for fans of Ellisian football as the last day of the season could have seen a title deciding game as Port Nelson were facing Grimme Athletic. Neutrals may have wished it had gone to the last day as Port Nelson came back from behind twice before snatching a winner in the dying minutes, what a game that would have been if it had meant something.

The last day of the season saw a decisive game for the place in the Intertoto Cup as Shasarazade needed a victory to secure 3rd position in the league while Argyres had to win against arch rivals UCC in order to put pressure on the Slicing Hammers. Unfortunately for Slicing Hammers fans they lost 1-0 to Faradafry while Argyres won 2-0 against the Drakes.

The loss to Argyres condemned UCC to a relegation playoff as they needed the victory in the last game to leapfrog Newtonia who lost to Diamond Heights.

In the relegation play-off United Commonwealth Club won the first leg against Bozarburg 1-0 but lost the return 1-0. The game went to penalties to decide who would earn a place in the First Division next season, Bozarburg triumphed in the end 4-2 on penalties to condemn the Drakes to relegation.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">| Pos | Inf | Team | | Pld | Won | Drn | Lst | For | Ag | G.D. | Pts | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1st | ECC | Grimme Athletic | | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 56 | 30 | +26 | 61 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2nd | EC | Port Nelson | | 30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 38 | 25 | +13 | 60 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 3rd | EV | Argyres | | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 49 | 34 | +15 | 51 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 4th | | Shasarazade | | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 64 | 51 | +13 | 50 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 5th | | Stravchine Balanvinski | | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 48 | 44 | +4 | 47 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 6th | | FC Jasque | | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 43 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 7th | | Lantisia | | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 31 | 29 | +2 | 43 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 8th | | Wegason | | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 40 | 49 | -9 | 39 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 9th | | Nodnol City | | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 38 | 37 | +1 | 38 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 10th | | San Angel | | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 40 | 52 | -12 | 38 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 11th | | Diamond Heights | | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 32 | 31 | +1 | 35 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 12th | | Faradafry City | | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 34 | 37 | -3 | 35 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 13th | | AFC Posul | | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 46 | 56 | -10 | 34 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 14th | EC | Newtonia | | 30 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 34 | 49 | -15 | 32 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 15th | R | United Commonwealth Club | | 30 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 29 | -7 | 30 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 16th | R | Whitefield United | | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 29 | 51 | -22 | 26 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| </pre>
Grimme Athletic were the unexpected champions of the First Division, I expected them to be a top four finisher, with the potential to mount a title challenge, I really didn't expect them to go and win it! They'll be playing in the Champions League next season but I think they'll struggle.

Port Nelson surprised me, they made some wise purchase in the transfer market and gelled as a team and could so easily have won the league but in the end secured a UEFA Cup birth, they should be able to do well. Argyres and Shasarazade put in strong performances and as can be seen by the goals columns, Shasarazade maintained their all out attacking ways as they scored a huge 64 goals, the highest in the league and conceded 51, 22 more than UCC who were relegated and the same as bottom of the table Whitefield United! Newtonia secured the other UEFA Cup spot thanks to their victory in the Emperors Cup, fortunately for them that UCC didn't win their last game against Argyres otherwise they'd of been playing in the UEFA Cup while possibly playing Second Division football.



Ellisian Second Division

Grimme City would be joining fierce rivals Grimme Athletic in the EFD after securing the Second Division title by six clear points from Bozarburg who also achieved a promotion straight back to the First Division after beating United Commonwealth Club in the play-off. Linfield were a close third and Rayleigh fourth. At the other end of the table, Wolverton and Portadown were condemned to Third Division football, Wolverton going down on goal difference as Spark Rovers had a better one by four goals. Coming up from the Third Division would be Old Castle Swifts and Hendon.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">| Pos | Inf | Team | | Pld | Won | Drn | Lst | For | Ag | G.D. | Pts | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1st | C | Grimme City | | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 17 | +14 | 43 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2nd | P | Bozarburg | | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 24 | +7 | 37 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 3rd | | Linfield | | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 37 | 30 | +7 | 35 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 4th | | Rayleigh | | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 31 | -3 | 32 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 5th | | Windsor Castle | | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 28 | 26 | +2 | 31 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 6th | | Adelphia Spartans | | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 28 | -2 | 31 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 7th | | Estaag United | | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 30 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 8th | | Midchestnut United | | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 32 | 31 | +1 | 28 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 9th | | Malastaire Rovers | | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 28 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 10th | | Spark Rovers | | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 27 | -4 | 28 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 11th | R | Wolverton | | 22 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 25 | 33 | -8 | 28 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 12th | R | Portadown | | 22 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 27 | 41 | -14 | 17 | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| </pre>

Bozarburg bounced straight back up thanks to a penalty shoot-out victory over United Commonwealth. The other Faradafry team, Spark Rovers, survived on goal difference while Adelphia, rivals of Argyres, did better this season than last. A good season for Grimme City will see them join city rivals Grimme Athletic in the First Division.

mista T

very good idea, will be following intently
'mon the wegasun dragons!

ManUTDBoi17

This is absolutely brilliant! Just one thing, why on the Clubs Info screens do they have Nation: Northern Ireland?

I say you release the database for this as id admire playing in these leagues as the Mighty Admirals!

mwalker99

good update and good to see port nelson up at the top as they surely have the biggest potential in europe will be intresting to see how they do

though san angel were robbed in the emporers cup i tell ya

KUTGW :thup:

matty_8

Disappointed season for FC Jasque after last year, but at least we finished above Nodnol again

Wegason

Thanks for all the appreciative comments guys


That's because if you change the actual name of the nation, you cannot play the leagues, the nation disappears from the leagues selection menu when you set up the game.