Clinched… 2 games to go

Sorry it’s late out, hardly breaking news now. There’s two very short turnarounds between gameweeks unfortunately for me, but here is a summary of the places clinched after 34 weeks.

League Champions!

We have our first League Champions of Season 10!
With a 9 point lead and just two games to go, Goleta Hotspur are the new League Two Champions!
Congratulations! 🥳🥳🥳

Champions League Places

We have a few more confirmed names going into the Champions League draw in August. That’s eight of sixteen. The BFFA Cup winners will be announced at the end of this gameweek and maybe one or two more promotions.
From the Premier League: Housewives Favourite, Sporting Wicker Park (Holders)
From the Championship: Hung Like a Bony, Vanishing Spray FC
From League One: De Bruyne Trousers, Uncle Monty, Whiskey De Bruyne
From League Two: Goleta Hotspur

The Champions League Qualification matches are still undecided and unlikely to be set until the very end of the regular season (GW36). Keep an eye on those fourth-placed spots.

Relegation

We still only have the names of those five teams that will be relegated this season. They will playing to avoid the Wooden Spoon in GW37 and, obviously, we hope they’ll be back next season to make a bid at bouncing straight back up again. There is one automatic relegation place still undecided in League One that could befall one of potentially four teams.

This week could also see confirmation of who will appear in the play-offs. Teams caught in eighth place at the end of the season no longer automatically go down, but instead will get second chance at survival.

Intramural League Qualifiers

In case I haven’t mentioned before, the final two gameweeks of Season 10 will act as the pre-season qualification stage for the IML.

Next season, one team from each league will be going forward to the IML Quarter-Finals. There they will each face a team dropping out of the CL at the group stage (à la the UEFA CL). To decide which team will be going there as a league representative, the teams finishing 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th get to play a mini-knockout tourney.

We know of four teams that will be competing for the lesser inter-league prize next season. They are:
From the Premier League: Farkelife, Mighty fine feeling
From the Championship: Webuiltthis City, Atletico Topo Chico
From League Two: Ole’s at the Wheel, Harambe Hotspur