Giant Zucchini Premier League

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The Giant Zucchini Premier League is the only professional league competition for Giant Zucchini Football clubs, making it Giant Zucchini's primary football competition.

Overview

The Giant Zucchini Premier League comprises the top 8 football clubs in Giant Zucchini football. It had been around since before Giant Zucchini's untimely collapse. Little is known about the pre-collapse Premier League, except that Marauding FC had great success then. However, However, as of present, a new Premier League has been set up.

The Competition

There are 8 clubs in the Premier League. During the course of a season each club plays the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents for a total of 14 games for each club, and a total of 56 games in a Premier League season. The bottom club at the end of the 14 match season will be have a 2-legged playoff with the top representative from the semi-professional leagues. The team which scores the greater aggregate number of goals qualifies for a place in the Premier League. Away goals rule applies. If both teams are still tied after the away goals rule, a third leg will be played at a neutral venue.

Premier League clubs, Season 5

Club
Finishing position
last season
First season in
top division
First season of
current spell in
top division
AC Romanic 2nd Season 1 Season 1
Anglo FC 8th Season 1 Season 1
Deutsch SV 6th Season 1 Season 1
FC Spartak Vostochno 5th Season 1 Season 1
Gallo FC 1st Season 1 Season 1
Iberia CF 3rd Season 1 Season 1
Nordic IF 4th Season 1 Season 1
Sino FC 7th Season 1 Season 1

Premier League Winners to date

Winners and Runners Up of the Premier League since its inception.

Season Winner Total wins Remarks Runner-up
Season 1 Gallo FC 1 First Premier League winners AC Romanic
Season 2 Deutsch SV 1   Gallo FC
Season 3 Iberia CF 1   Nordic IF
Season 4 Gallo FC 2   AC Romanic

Top scorers

By season

Season Top scorer, club Goals
Season 1 Carl Hohenzollern, Deutsch SV 11
Season 2 Johann Rilke, Deutsch SV 14
Season 3 Johann Rilke, Deutsch SV
Vicente de Silva, Iberia CF
11
Season 4 Michelangelo Concici, AC Romanic 11

All-time

As of end of Season 4

Rank Player Goals
1 Johann Rilke * 39
2 Vicente de Silva * 33
3 Dino Nuvolari * 26
4 Wayne Carragher * 24
5= Armand Boyer * 23
5= Carl Hohenzollern 23
7 Benno Rimsky-Korsakov 21
8 Michelangelo Concici * 18
9= Álex Iglesias * 17
9= Jami Saarinen * 17
9= Malpaso Lee 17
* Playing in the Premier League in Season 5.