This is how the league table looked at the end of the 1st season: 

Apparently seasons don't work. Boring. Very well, first team:

 

                          Undrið Fótbóltsfelag

 

 

I joined in the midst of a relegation battle, and sucessfully moved Undrið up in the table to 8th. They had already been knocked out of the cup by then, so my work was cut out for me: Points, as many as possible.

 

@Jammmu "I'm thinking of using it as a base to make a version of my own, as you've done all the hard work already. If I get round to doing this, I'll create some graphics for each competition and share here too. Could I ask, is it possible to create further continental club competitions which clubs that have already qualified for a UEFA competition can play in? Specifically, I'm trying to create a 'British Isles Cup' including all GB and Ireland teams, but I want that to be totally separate to the UEFA qualification system. Is this possible?"

Yeah it is indeed possible

"A separate question, how does each country decide how the places are allocated? Is it possible to make the FA cup winner qualify for the Champions League, for example?"

Qualification is decided on a ranking system. In my case, the ranking for european competitions is ChampsL-CupWCup-EULeague-EUConfLeag-Intertoto. You can then choose how to rank teams, which are assigned to the highest ranked competition available. So for example, the league winner is assigned the best competition (UCL), the cup winner the 2nd best (CWC; can also be the cup runner-up if the winner has already qualified for the UCL) and so on. Therefore I'm not sure you can have the league and cup winner qualify for both, because the way I do it UCL qualification overrules CWC qualification.

"On this database, I agree with the premise that UEFA's new third-tier competition was an opportunity wasted, but I'd actually go the other way and reduce the prevalence of lower-tier clubs in the Champions league. Realistically, England's 6th best club will beat the best team in Moldova or Andorra, so UEFA are more likely to keep the Champions League for the elites and let the lower-tier competitions be more democratic. Clubs from the smaller nations should be able to qualify for the Champions League by winning a lower-level UEFA competition. Equally, Spanish, English and German clubs should be kept away from the lower tier UEFA competitions. It would just be a distraction for them and could be better to keep those as a 'best of the rest' international club competition for the smaller nations."

My goal was to achieve the opposite, that is, a more level playing field for all nations. Theoretically, in the long-term leagues from other countries would catch up with the top 5 but I'm not sure this happens.

"Another quick question, with your database the cups that each team have qualified for no longer show up on the left hand side of the league table (see screenshot below with the standard database)- how difficult would this be to fix?"

Pretty sure that's impossible - the 3 letters on the side and colour-coding are tied to the coefficient system I believe, and are as broken as the latter, after being edited

Before I finally leave the Faroe Islands, I figured it would be time to show you the highlights of my one-month stay here:

Thanks for watching!

In all seriousness, I'm a bit sad I didn't get the chance to stay here for longer. In all my time in Argir I barely had enough time to meet the residents (even though there aren't many around, I'm pretty sure all the playing and coaching staff make up around 5% of the population of the town). Nobody has told me yet how our star Belgian right winger got here and I won't be around to find out.



Huh, that was a lot faster than I expected

When I accepted the job I might have failed to notice that in the Faroese 1st Division teams play against each other 3 times and not 4. With the transfer window also closing a week before I joined I was stuck with a poorly-chosen 25 man squad (we had some pretty decent players in the club that were unregistered). But, and perhaps most importantly, I also inherited a 10 point gap to safety. With 18 games yet to be played that might have been manageable, with 10 it was definitely trickier. But let me stop complaining and show you how my 1 month managerial tenure actually played out



I only lasted 7 games. Oops. In all fairness, the results are a bit unfair. But I'm biased, I suppose.

My first league match was against Vikingur and the end result definitely fancied them a lot more than it fancied us. Now I'm no statistical expert, but I believe that when our xG is higher than theirs we played better football and created better opportunities



I might have lied about the "better football" bit, unless you're a fan of hoofing balls forward and defending all match, WBA style. But if you ignore the 3 goals conceded in 10 minutes we played remarkably well.

The next 2 matches, against IF and HB, were boring defeats (for us of course, I bet their managers were pleased) in which we showed no signs whatsoever of being able to get at least one point.

Following this we did get our first point, thanks to a 2 goal draw with Skála, which I was quite happy with, especially since we got a last-minute goal. But then again, the first goal of the match was in the 78th minute so I guess all goals were last-minute goals in a way.

After this match we were rewarded with a trip to Malta to get away from our small, cold island to play some football in a small, warm island. We had beaten Mosta FC 2-1 at home and we could really use those £50k given out to the winner. However, for once, the result fancied us a lot more than it should've.



It do be disappointing to lose after scoring our 2nd, which gave us a two-goal cushion, but fair play to them I guess.

After this, we had an absolutely must-win game with fellow relegation contenders TB (I love Faroese club names, just two letters. Thank God I didn't have to pronounce Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag). Such a crucial game treated me to an excruciating piss-take:



"We put out a fantastic performance according to our xG"

1 missed pen

1 disallowed goal

This was when I became sure we were going down. Thanks, FM Gods.

My career as a manager got off to a start in the Faroe Islands. And what a start it was! Won the league title in my first year after taking Argja Bóltfelag from 9th and almost certain relegation by winning all of our 18 games! With such a brilliant start I got a phonecall from London asking me to replace Frank the Fraud with a £100M budget! And I've been told there's a great party awaiting me in Argir (our hometown) with blackjack and

Hmmm