The run-in for the real Premier League title continues to be one of the best ever. Plenty of exciting battles raging on here too. Here are the latest results:

On this page:
Premier League // Championship // League One // League Two
Gameweek 33 // The Belyea // The Big One // Postseason Preview

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Team of the Week:
Smash & Grab (4th time)
65 Points

Score of the Season:
Smash & Grab – 89 FPts (GW27)

Game of the Season:
Smash & Grab 89 – 68 Sporting Wicker Park (GW27)

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Premier League

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• With El Dude and Gloopy winning this week, the battle for third place really heats up. Route 57 & El Dude both still have to play second placed Housewives Favourite and each other at the end of the season.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Gloopy Yarbles -v- Smash & Grab
5th -v- 1st
GW 6: 61 – 70 // GW 15: 57 – 33 // GW 24: 36 – 37

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Championship

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• The top of the league remains highly competitive, no quarter drawn from any of the top four combatants. Hung and Spray both win and remain six points clear of the chasing pair, Cullen and ASG who are also both in good form, both winning five of the last six.

🫣 The One to Watch:
All Star Gunners -v- Cullen the herd
4th -v- 3rd
GW 6: 43 – 45 // GW 15: 32 – 28 // GW 24: 33 – 21

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League One

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• East Loop United collect a seventh-straight win and return to fifth for the first time since GW11.
• BattleVAR and Chicken and Bane San could not be separated, and so the fight for survival rages on.

🫣 The One to Watch:
BattleVAR Galactico -v- Whiskey De Bruyne
8th -v- 3rd
GW 6: 45 – 31 // GW 15: 32 – 34 // GW 24: 46 – 64

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League Two

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Goleta’s seventh-consecutive victory not only keeps them top, but due to Jaysokker’s win over The Phenoms, they are now seven points clear at the top of the league and nine points above third. This means that they could get propmoted next weekend!
• A huge score from Jaysokker (second-best overall and worthy of escaping the Belyea) closes the gap to third from six points to four. What’s more, they have games reamining against the two teams above them and could still snatch third, or second!

🫣 The One to Watch:
Alleviate the Tedium -v- Jaysokker
4th -v- 5th
GW 6: 42 – 61 // GW 15: 36 – 53 // GW 24: 51 – 33

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🌎 World Rankings 🌍

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Next Up:

Gameweek 33

BFFA Premier League	BFFA Championship
Boss -v- Barons 9th -v- 10th GW 6: 22 – 48 // GW 15: 52 – 26 // GW 24: 35 – 42 El Dude Bros -v- Farkelife 4th -v- 6th GW 6: 53 – 38 // GW 15: 30 – 54 // GW 24: 35 – 35 Gloopy Yarbles -v- Smash & Grab 5th -v- 1st GW 6: 61 – 70 // GW 15: 57 – 33 // GW 24: 36 – 37 Housewives Favourite -v- Sporting Wicker Park 2nd -v- 7th GW 6: 38 – 61 // GW 15: 31 – 30 // GW 24: 30 – 70 Route 57 FC -v- Mighty fine feeling 3rd -v- 8th GW 6: 41 – 40 // GW 15: 33 – 39 // GW 24: 49 – 13	A.F.C. Chester -v- Fergi Time 10th -v- 6th GW 6: 33 – 68 // GW 15: 44 – 34 // GW 24: 47 – 47 All Star Gunners -v- Cullen the herd 4th -v- 3rd GW 6: 43 – 45 // GW 15: 32 – 28 // GW 24: 33 – 21 Atletico Topo Chico -v- Allison Wonderland 8th -v- 9th GW 6: 52 – 45 // GW 15: 41 – 42 // GW 24: 39 – 18 GoFYS FC -v- Hung Like a Bony 5th -v- 1st GW 6: 51 – 46 // GW 15: 50 – 42 // GW 24: 28 – 44 Webuiltthis City -v- Vanishing Spray FC 7th -v- 2nd GW 6: 39 – 37 // GW 15: 32 – 26 // GW 24: 34 – 64
BFFA League One	BFFA League Two
BattleVAR Galactico -v- Whiskey De Bruyne 8th -v- 3rd GW 6: 45 – 31 // GW 15: 32 – 34 // GW 24: 46 – 64 East Loop United -v- Uncle Monty 5th -v- 2nd GW 6: 52 – 47 // GW 15: 23 – 36 // GW 24: 31 – 36 FC Santa Barbara -v- Chicken and Bane San 10th -v- 7th GW 6: 17 – 33 // GW 15: 40 – 27 // GW 24: 7 – 50 Peltier -v- CG XI 6th -v- 4th GW 6: 46 – 34 // GW 15: 45 – 37 // GW 24: 32 – 47 StillluvQPR -v- De Bruyne Trousers 9th -v- 1st GW 6: 67 – 62 // GW 15: 41 – 34 // GW 24: 32 – 58	Alleviate the Tedium -v- Jaysokker 4th -v- 5th GW 6: 42 – 61 // GW 15: 36 – 53 // GW 24: 51 – 33 Boudi’s Crew -v- Goleta Hotspur 10th -v- 1st GW 6: 31 – 62 // GW 15: 25 – 29 // GW 24: 36 – 54 Shams army -v- Ole’s at the wheel 9th -v- 6th GW 6: 31 – 46 // GW 15: 30 – 35 // GW 24: 23 – 46 SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA -v- Harambe Hotspur 3rd -v- 7th GW 6: 39 – 41 // GW 15: 38 – 25 // GW 24: 46 – 18 The Phenoms -v- Don’t Tripp on Silva 2nd -v- 8th GW 6: 50 – 42 // GW 15: 38 – 30 // GW 24: 32 – 33

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The Belyea Cup

Welcome back to The Belyea Memorial Cup, ‘Rewarding Excellence in Its Many Forms’, where everyone is a winner (except one).
The game is simple – if you get the best score of the remaining teams, you escape.
Each week at least one team gets out, sometimes more, because they are excellent!

▲ You get up to 38 gameweeks to remove yourself from consideration. ▲
The last team to be eliminated… gets the Belyea Cup. ▼🏆▼
If there’s more than one team left after the final gameweek then they all, you know, jointly receive this unique award!

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It would be wrong to think that the remaining teams here are not very good. In fact, they’ve hit some of the highest scores of the season, but they simply haven’t been #1 amongst the Belyea group. This can be evidenced here by Jaysokker who hit the second-best score of the week and are (finally) not in the shadow of the likes of Smash & Grab et al. 65 points was a tremendous score to exit with. Six remain.

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Week Thirty-Three – only 6 teams remain:
A.F.C. Chester, BattleVAR Galactico, Boudi’s Crew, Harambe Hotspur, Ole’s at the wheel, The Phenoms.

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The Big One

On top of hosting a league for the BFFA faithful, we are also involving some unsuspecting stars of the game in our classic league. Last week was Fabian Schär, who nearly did us proud by scoring this week. Unfortunately, his goal was ruled out by VAR, but he did pick up a bonus point for his hard work. He doesn’t play himself in his own team, “fab“, but he did put Anthony Gordon back in his squad, so there may be more to come from him in the final few games…

This week we want to add James Justin to the fray with his team – Just In Time. Justin was part of the Luton Town team that were promoted as League Two runners-up in 2018 and then League One Champions in 2019. He then signed for Premier League Leicester City in June 2019 for an undisclosed fee. His debut came in an EFL Cup game against Luton, where he scored against his former club and helped Leicester to go as far as the Semi-Finals.

Justin is now a regular in The Foxes’ back four as they lead the Championship. Next week they face Millwall midweek and Plymouth at the weekend, both opponents just two points above the relegation zone. Earlier on in his career he twice won Luton Town’s Young Player of the Year and was included in both the EFL’s and PFA’s Team of the Season in 2019. And he’s good at FPL too. He once finished 5,459th overall (pretty damn good for a game played by approx. 10 million!) and could finish better than that this season. He is currently 1,117th in the world and is top of the Bandits League that features such names as Trippier, Harvey Barnes, Ben Foster and Manor Solomon.

Postseason Preview

Over the next few gameweeks I will try to keep you updated here on how the postseason is shaping up and what to look out for. Here’s a brief overview of how the postseason will play out.

Postseason Tournaments

In the final two gameweeks, all forty teams will be involved in one of the postseason tournaments. Click on the drop-downs to see more detail about each:

⚽︎ Champion of Champions

⚽︎ The Champions of each league, the BFFA Cup winners and the Champions League winners will take part in a Champion-of-Champions tournament.
This season, as there is potentially five or six teams in the CoC, the top two scores will qualify for the GW38 Grand Final.

⚽︎ Runners-Up Trophy

⚽︎ The 4x Second-placed teams, the 4x Third-placed teams, the Champions League Runners-Up (Gloopy Yarbles) and the BFFA Cup Runners-Up will play in a Runners-Up pool. They will play to see who can get the best total out of the final two gameweeks.

⚽︎ Champions League Qualifiers

⚽︎ The 4x Fourth-placed teams will play-off for two Champions League places.

The teams will be seeded by their Fantasy Points total.
#1 will play #4 over two legs, and #2 faces #3.

If, however, either the Champions League winners (Sporting Wicker Park) or the BFFA Cup winners (TBD) finish in fourth place, then the topscoring fourth-placed team will automatically be entered into next season’s Champions League, and the other two will playoff (across GWs 37 & 38) for the remaining slot.
If something strange happens and both the CL winner AND the Cup winner both finish in fourth place, then both of the other two fourth-placed finishers will automatically go to the Champions League.

⚽︎ The Intramural League Qualifers

⚽︎ The teams in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th will play in IML Qualifiers.
One team from each League will play in next season’s Intramural League.

For the 2024 Intramural League, each league hosts a mini-qualifying tournament to put one team forward.
GW37: 5th v 8th and 6th v 7th
GW38: Winner v Winner.
If the CL/Cup winner(s) finish in 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th, then the highest-placed remaining team gets a bye to their division’s IML Qualifier Final.

⚽︎ The Wooden Spoon

⚽︎ The teams finishing the season in 9th and 10th will play in a Wooden Spoon pool. The worst two scores in GW37 will play in a GW38 head-to-head where the loser gets the Last Place Trophy.

Some teams will be involved in more than one competition (for example, the Playoff teams will also be involved in the RUT or IMLQ’s).

In the graphic above, if the tables remain as they are at the end of GW36, the teams in yellow would be involved in the Champion of Champions tournament. This will also include the BFFA Cup winners. The remaining four teams in the Cup have a ‘(c)’ beside their name. Sporting Wicker Park will also be involved as CL Winners.

The teams in grey (including the CL runners-up Gloopy Yarbles) will be entered into the Runners-Up Trophy, and the teams finishing in the green positions will start next season early with the IML Preliminary Rounds.

And finally, the teams finishing in the purple positions (3rd and 8th) will also have a playoff game to contend…

Playoffs

After the end of Gameweek 36, we will be able to confirm the final league positions of all 40 teams.
All the top three teams will be awarded a payout.
The top two teams (Champ., Lge 1 & Lge 2) will get promotion and the bottom two teams will be doomed to relegation.

We will then also have the fixtures for our three Play-offs:

⚽︎ 8th, Premier League -v- 3rd, Championship ⚽︎
⚽︎ 8th, Championship -v- 3rd, League One ⚽︎
⚽︎ 8th, League One -v- 3rd, League Two ⚽︎
Two legs, best aggregate score wins the place.

The 2024 Champions League

There will be sixteen teams entered into next season’s Champions League:
⚽︎ The top three from each League,
⚽︎ 2x postseason qualifiers (from the fourth-placed finishers),
⚽︎ The current Champions League Winners (Sporting Wicker Park),
⚽︎ The BFFA Cup Winners (one of the four remaining).

If the Champions League Winners (Sporting Wicker Park) and/or the BFFA Cup Winners finish in the top three in their league, then there will be an open place which will go to the highest-scoring team(s) that finish below a top three place (see the reserve list in the graphic above).

If the CL winners and/or the Cup winners finish in fourth place then the highest-scoring other fourth-placed team will get an automatic place in the 2024 Champions League.

If the Champions League winners also win the BFFA Cup (!) then there will definitely be at least one of the reserve teams in the CL next season.

The Best-ish Team of the Season

Finally, the Best-ish tournament will continue right until the end of Gameweek 38.
The team that finishes top of the leaderboard will win the prize money and have their names written down in history (by which we mean – on the Teams page here). Shiny.