Bedistan Premier League, 2080 season

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The Alexandria Porcupines found themselves looking for a third consecutive Bedistan Premier League title in the 2080 season, while the other two "Big Three" clubs, Floral and Rolestu, hoped to break the 'pines' stranglehold. But there was more competition arriving on the scene, as South Coast United and Sokojiwa City FC were beginning to come into their own and become serious threats. This season was sure to be an exciting one for all the fans.

Replacing the three relegated teams from last season were Dawson Springs, Washington, and Midway. None of the three had really seemed to make a huge impact with the fans, so their success was projected to be minimal at best.

Spring semester

After the usual start-of-season shakeup that saw Bucks Lake Athletic, of all teams, reaching as high as second place, the league settled down and the top slots were contested by five clubs. As usual, Alexandria was the team most frequently out in front, but South Coast and Sokojiwa City were keeping pace, no more than three points behind. Jiwa dropped off slightly at midterm back to third and fourth place, while Rolestu and Floral, as always, fought each other for the remaining top-four slot. The relegation slots stayed mostly constant in the spring semester, almost always holding three clubs out of Washington, Yuba, Carter, and Midway.

MD 1st Place Team 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place
1 Jervis Griffin South Coast Sokojiwa City
2 Sokojiwa City Alexandria Rolestu Jervis
3 Sokojiwa City Alexandria San Solari Bucks Lake
4 Sokojiwa City Bucks Lake Alexandria South Coast
5 Alexandria South Coast Floral Bucks Lake
6 Alexandria Sokojiwa City South Coast Dionte
7 Alexandria Sokojiwa City South Coast Floral
8 Alexandria Sokojiwa City Rolestu South Coast
9 Alexandria Sokojiwa City South Coast Rolestu
10 Alexandria South Coast Floral Sokojiwa City
11 Alexandria South Coast Floral Sokojiwa City
12 Alexandria South Coast Sokojiwa City Rolestu
13 Alexandria South Coast Rolestu Sokojiwa City
14 Alexandria South Coast Rolestu Sokojiwa City
15 South Coast Alexandria Sokojiwa City Rolestu
16 South Coast Alexandria Sokojiwa City Floral
17 Alexandria South Coast Sokojiwa City Rolestu
18 Alexandria Rolestu Sokojiwa City South Coast
19 Alexandria Rolestu Floral Sokojiwa City

Bedistani Cup

Bucks Lake Athletic was the club perhaps most closely watched in this year's Cup after pulling off a major coup and reaching the final in 2079 despite a sixteenth-place finish in the BPL. As it so happened, Bucks Lake resided in sixteenth at the end of the spring semester, leaving fans wondering whether this season could be a repeat. Obviously, other candidates for reaching the final were seemingly-perennial league champions Alexandria, last year's Cup champions Esto, who had a mediocre 6-9-4 spring semester and were in 11th place in the league, and last year's semifinalists Rolestu and San Diego, at the time 2nd and 10th in the league, respectively.

Early rounds

One of the biggest matchups in the first round pitted Jervis FC against South Coast United, and surprisingly Jervis pulled off an upset 3-1 victory to proceed to the second round, leaving South Coast fans fuming. But for a while it looked like that upset would be comparatively small change. Incredibly, Floral FC found the score deadlocked at 1-1 after ninety minutes against non-league RC San Antón, making Floral manager Mike Davidson very nervous indeed. Luckily, his team pulled through in extra time to pick up the 3-1 win. Likewise, Dennis also was held to 1-1 by non-league Cheongju United, but they became even angrier and fired three goals past Cheongju's keeper in extra time for a 4-1 win. Floral continued its rough start with another 1-1 draw, this time against First Division RKA Warriors; again Floral won in extra time. San Solari fell 0-1 to relegation candidates Carter in the third round, which also saw the highest-scoring match in the Cup: 8-0, Uk-Tow Ri United over Jennerstown FC.

Round 4

Round four had another big-name matchup: Sokojiwa City versus Rolestu. This exciting match saw the teams tied at two after 90 minutes, then they each picked up one more goal in extra time, sending the match to a penalty shootout, which Rolestu edged out 4-2. Bucks Lake's dreams of a repeat performance ended in the fourth round when they were unfortunate enough to face Floral, the latter winning the match 3-1.

  • Dennis Bears 3-2 Midway Wolves
  • San Diego Iguanas 5-1 Khikhi United
  • Sayle United 0-5 Washington Tigers
  • RC Los Triesto 1-4 Carter FC APK (1-1 FT, 1-1 AET)
  • Bucks Lake Athletic 1-3 Floral FC
  • Alexandria Porcupines 3-0 Eastfield Rogues
  • Navarre Town 2-0 Ilium Dragons
  • Aeon United 0-3 Dawson Springs FC
  • Afton FC 1-2 Yuba United AET (1-1 FT)
  • Brooklyn FC 1-2 Esto Wanderers
  • Sokojiwa City FC 2-4 Rolestu FC APK (2-2 FT, 3-3 AET)
  • Springfield FC 0-5 Paradise Town
  • La Porte Rangers 1-5 Cdredika City
  • Dionte City 3-1 Leeco Rangers
  • Uk-Tow Ri United 0-2 Griffin Zebras
  • Jervis FC 2-0 Eagle's Rest United

Round 5

Of the sixteen clubs in the fifth round, only three were not from the BPL, and of those, only Navarre Town would reach the quarterfinals after an extra-time win over Dawson Springs. League leaders Alexandria fell in the fifth round as Floral continued their rampage, winning 2-1.

  • Dennis Bears 3-1 San Diego Iguanas
  • Washington Tigers 0-1 Carter FC
  • Floral FC 2-1 Alexandria Porcupines
  • Navarre Town 2-1 Dawson Springs FC AET (1-1 FT)
  • Yuba United 1-3 Esto Wanderers
  • Rolestu FC 3-2 Paradise Town AET (2-2 FT)
  • Cdredika City 0-4 Dionte City
  • Griffin Zebras 0-2 Jervis FC

Quarterfinals

Navarre and Floral would meet in the quarterfinals, and Floral wasted no time eliminating the last non-BPL contender with another 2-1 win.

  • Dennis Bears 1-0 Carter FC
  • Floral FC 2-1 Navarre Town
  • Esto Wanderers 0-3 Rolestu FC
  • Dionte City 1-3 Jervis FC

Semifinals

With Rolestu, Floral, Jervis, and Dennis making the final four, virtually all bets were on one of the first two. Floral held up their end of the bargain with their third consecutive 2-1 win over Dennis, but Rolestu's offensive cylinders failed to fire and they crashed 0-1, putting Jervis FC in the final.

  • Dennis Bears 1-2 Floral FC
  • Rolestu FC 0-1 Jervis FC

Final

At that time, Jervis had no Cups or league titles to their name, and Floral had only their Cup win from six years previously, so both were hungry for the win. The final match, though, proved to be no contest, and the final 2-0 scoreline was actually quite flattering to Jervis as Floral cruised to their second Bedistani Cup trophy.

  • Floral FC 2-0 Jervis FC

Fall semester

Alexandria quickly jumped out to a five-point lead at the top, but the teams below them slowly reeled the Porcupines back in. The whole way through the fall semester, the title was contested by just four teams – Alexandria, Floral, South Coast, and Rolestu. Most of the way, it looked like Alexandria was well on its way to its third consecutive league title, but a poorly-timed 1-1 draw with Carter in week 36 cut Alexandria's lead over Floral to a single point. To make matters worse, Alexandria proceeded to lose to Bucks Lake the following week, giving Floral a two-point lead with just one match left to play. Both teams were to play opponents who had not done very well this season. Floral faced Yuba United, locked into a 17th-place finish, and Alexandria faced already-relegated Dawson Springs. Alexandria's match was first, and they got a rather easy 3-0 victory. This put Alexandria on 77 points and Floral on 76, but to make things even more interesting, they had identical goal difference – +28. This meant that all Floral needed to finally win their first league title was a draw, as they had already scored five goals more than Alexandria in the season. But it seemed unlikely that they would pull it off after Sara Knight's 65th-minute header gave Yuba the 1-0 lead. Like so many times before, Floral would fall at the final hurdle. Or so it seemed. But then Billy English came to save the day for Floral after a rare mistake by Yuba defender Kansu Kynsu left him wide open for the equalizer in the dying minutes. 1-1 was the final score, and Floral at long last won the league on goals scored.

MD 1st Place Team 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place
20 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
21 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
22 Alexandria South Coast Floral Rolestu
23 Alexandria South Coast Floral Rolestu
24 Alexandria South Coast Floral Rolestu
25 Alexandria South Coast Floral Rolestu
26 Alexandria Floral South Coast Rolestu
27 Floral Alexandria Rolestu South Coast
28 Floral Alexandria South Coast Rolestu
29 Floral Alexandria South Coast Rolestu
30 Alexandria Floral South Coast Rolestu
31 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
32 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
33 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
34 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
35 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
36 Alexandria Floral Rolestu South Coast
37 Floral Alexandria Rolestu South Coast
38 Floral Alexandria Rolestu South Coast

Final standings

P W D L F A GD Pts
C 1 Floral 38 23 8 7 65 37 +28 77
  2 Alexandria 38 22 11 5 59 31 +28 77
  3 Rolestu 38 18 13 7 54 37 +17 67
  4 South Coast 38 18 9 11 55 35 +20 63
  5 Griffin 38 16 13 9 58 46 +12 61
  6 San Diego 38 16 10 12 51 36 +15 58
  7 San Solari 38 14 14 10 52 41 +11 56
  8 Sokojiwa City 38 15 11 12 56 46 +10 56
  9 Dennis 38 15 10 13 55 52 +3 55
  10 Jamaica 38 13 11 14 45 48 -3 50
  11 Bucks Lake 38 13 11 14 44 48 -4 50
  12 Dionte 38 14 8 16 46 52 -6 50
  13 Esto 38 11 16 11 46 49 -3 49
  14 Jervis 38 11 13 14 44 47 -3 46
  15 Carter 38 11 11 16 39 55 -16 44
  16 Charleston 38 11 10 17 46 54 -8 43
  17 Yuba 38 8 13 17 36 51 -15 37
R 18 Dawson Springs 38 7 10 21 36 59 -23 31
R 19 Washington 38 7 10 21 31 59 -28 31
R 20 Midway 38 6 10 22 33 68 -35 28

Foreign players

coming soon

End-of-season transfers

The transfer window was ordered closed by the Bedistan Football Association during the 2080-81 offseason due to internal restructuring.


Football in Bedistan
Bedistan national football team
International Association Football League
Súprelige | Áltelige | Médilige | Báïelige | Fíbelige
Cup competitions: Bedistani Cup | League Cup | BFA Trophy
Old leagues: BPL | BFL ('65) | BFA | BFL ('14) | West | North | Heartland | Deep South
Governing bodies: Bedistan Football Association
Notable clubs
Alexandria | Bucks Lake | Carter | Dennis | Esto | Floral | Forest Hill | Graceville | Hundon
Jamaica | Justus | Lolestu | San Diego | San Solari | Sokojiwa | South Coast | Yuba Utd