Season 9

The 9th season of the J-League looks to build upon the competitive nature of season 8. We are now down to only one sim team in the league after adding five new squads in the offseason while losing none. That bodes well for us in the future!

Here are the newest entrants into the J-League this season:

BYOND - mrkurtz
FC Hiroshima - shirotenshi
MANITEES - scottyd7
Takenaka - flames612

The following teams have submitted press releases for the upcoming season:

FC Hiroshima - taken from the Godai Hiroshima blog

Takenaka - taken from the Takenaka Chūō-ku blog

Kobe Beef
Spurs

World 80 Invitational Cup, January 2010

First things first - hats off to bagocious1 for spearheading this tournament! The user-driven tournaments in FC Dynasty provide a big element that is currently missing in the game and I certainly appreciate the time and effort it takes to orchestrate them.

The groupings break down as follows:

• The league winners of each country automatically advance to the Championship Group.
• The winners of each preliminary group advance to the Championship Group also.
• The 2nd place finisher of each league automatically advances to the Secondary Group.
• The 2nd place finisher of each preliminary group advance to the Secondary Group also.

Here is the link to the groupings and fixture results for the tournament - http://sites.google.com/site/w80cup/

Preliminary Group winners

Group	Club	Country	W-D-L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
A	Miami Stars	USA	3-1-0	15	5	+10	10
B	Madere Bulls	POR	3-1-0	8	1	+7	10
C	KH Shoguns	JPN	3-0-1	12	4	+8	9
D	Banana Boys	JPN	2-2-0	9	5	+4	8
E	Tel Aviv	ISR	3-0-1	15	6	+9	9

Season 8

Quick Links

Table after 10 games

Table after 19 games

Table after 30 games

Table after 33 games

Final Table

League History

The dawn of season 8 brings several new faces; bringing Division 1 closer to being completely human coached, with only 5 remaining sim teams. Here are the newest entrants into the J-League this season:

Butterflies of Death (BDSC) - worksux
Glen Allen Death Touch (Gim Mok) - stockman
FC Asia Superstar (FCA) - jl1015
The Rising Sun (TRS) - ffbplayergod
Misawa Vypers (Vypers) - tdrexf16

Season 7

Quick Links

League History

Final Table

Position	Club	Owner	W-D-L	GF	GA	+/-
1st	Kobe Beef	hoosiers76	31-3-4	137	35	+102
2nd	Ants	sportsfix22	28-6-4	81	24	+57
3rd	KH Shoguns	paellis11	28-5-5	96	33	+63
4th	Banana Boys	joannes3000	27-5-6	93	29	+64
5th	Spurs	GM_Zamjahn	25-5-8	102	40	+62
6th	Robots	cyno	24-7-7	75	35	+40
7th	FC Fishsticks	tasteit2	23-4-11	92	47	+45
8th	Suns	luvbuzzrdp	18-7-13	78	57	+21
9th	SWIFT		15-8-15	40	48	-8
10th	RD		14-8-16	58	71	-13
11th	OST		11-10-17	43	62	-19
12th	626		11-6-21	39	79	-40
13th	CRU		10-8-20	37	71	-34
14th	Fullerton		9-8-21	39	79	-40
15th	Mia		9-8-21	35	81	-46
16th	soccer sucks	bangarang7	9-6-23	50	89	-39
17th	Drift	spdracer	7-10-21	36	74	-39
18th	Japan		6-9-23	31	71	-40
19th	Raindrops		4-9-25	19	70	-51
20th	Workman	lcworkman	3-4-31	18	104	-86

World 80 Japan League - A historical perspective

Quick Links

Past Winners

Top 4 Finishes

The Big 4

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After reading the post that hoosiers did for World 80, I approached him about blogging for the league we compete in - The J-League. I had jokingly dubbed my team (the Banana Boys) the Liverpool of our league, given that we routinely finish in the top 4 but can't ever seem to finish in 1st. Hopefully we will see some built-in competitions for the top teams in the future, akin to the AFC Champions League.
I started to do a little homework to see if we did indeed have our own version of the Big 4, like in the Premier League. In the past seven seasons, the J-League has seen four teams take home first place. Godzilla - now defunct - took home the silverware in season 1, followed by two time winners Kobe Beef, the KH Shoguns, and two time winners in the Robots. As our seventh season comes down the final stretch, it comes as no surprise that a member of the Big 4 leads the way - the Kobe Beef. As I looked further into how the top 4 positions have panned out thus far, you can see a pretty clear picture.