Welcome to the start of the new tournament.
This is the second BFFA Cup of the season. All forty teams are back in contention for the title.
As with every BFFA Cup, the lowest-scoring teams at this point in the season make up the First Round, which will then reduce the field to 32 teams, then to 16, etc. You all know how knockouts work…
Above are the sixteen teams with the least Fantasy Points (FPtsF) after GW19. Vanishing Spray have scored the most of the group, 644, and Bielsaball the least, 503. The winningest team currently is Goleta Hotspur who have 12 League wins from 19, but of the sixteen Fossvogur got the furthest in the Winter Cup, finishing as Runners-Up. The number to the left of each team is their overall rank based on League Win%.
The First Round Draw
The First Round draw took place last night. The first eight matches of the tourney are as follows:
Sugar Daddies v Cumberland FC
This is the first match between the two teams.
Sugar Daddies Best Cup progress: QF (2019)
Cumberland FC Best Cup progress: QF (2020 & 2020WC)
Goleta Hotspur v Cornballers
This will be their 11th match against each other.
Goleta have won: 4, Drawn: 1, Cornballers won: 5.
They have met in the Cup before – BFFA Cup 2019. They drew 28-28; Cornballers won the replay 42-38.
Goleta Best: R3 (2017)
Cornballers Best: R3 (2019, 2020WC)
Harambe Hotspur FC v Banana Swans
1st Match
Harambe Best: SF (2017)
Banana Swans Best: QF (2018)
Bielsaball v Chicken and Bacon Sane
1st Match
Bielsaball Best: R2 (2020WC)
Chicken and Bacon Best: R2 (2017, 2018, 2020WC)
FC Santa Barbara v The Globes
5th Match
They played four games in the 2015/16 Championship. FCSB W3, D1, L0
FCSB Best: SF (2019)
The Globes Best: QF (2016)
Atletico Topo Chico v AC Reykjavik CobbleHill
1st Match
ATC Best: R3 (2020WC)
AC Reykjavik Best: SF (2015)
East Loop United v Fossvogur
1st Match
East Loop Best: Runners-Up (2017)
Fossvogur Best: Runners-Up (2020WC)
Vanishing Spray FC v Boss
7th Match
The pair have shared the Premier League in 2019/20 & Prem 2020/21.
VSFC have won: 3, Drawn: 0, Boss won: 3.
Vanishing Spray Best: QF (2016, 2020WC)
Boss Best: SF (2018)
The Second Round Draw
The Second Round was drawn immediately after. The winners of the First Round matches have their places highlighted in orange/yellow. The current Best-ish rankings of the Second Round teams are beside them in white.
The matches will take place in the following gameweeks:
First Round: Gameweek 21
(Any replays: Gameweek 22)
Second Round: Gameweek 23
(Any replays: Gameweek 24)
Third Round: Gameweek 25
(Any replays: Gameweek 26)
Quarter-Finals: Gameweek 27
(Any replays: Gameweek 28)
Semi-Finals: Gameweek 30
(Any replays: Gameweek 31)
The Final: Gameweek 33
(Replay: Gameweek 34)
The Super Cup
The Super Cup, like its big brother the UEFA Super Cup (or possibly the Liga MX Campeón de Campeones if you prefer your formats with a little more paprika), will put the two Cup Winners together in a single game for the right to call themselves the Best-of-the-best.
This means that in Gameweek 35 the Spring Cup Winners will play stilluvQPR for the title and a prize of another $50.
If, however, stilluvQPR manage to win the Spring Cup too, there will be no Super Cup match and they will be awarded the title by default. And we don’t want that, do we?
Good luck all. Enjoy the competition.
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