‘Fantasy Fanbase Football League’

“With the support we’ve got, we don’t deserve to be in this League”

“We are fighting above our level in terms of fanbase and catchment area”

Do these questions ring a bell? Does your team’s crowds deserve better than their level of football?

Imagine, if you will, a world where the English football pyramid at the beginning of next season was restructed. Instead of previous league positions each leagues participants would be decided by the number of fans your club had. Lets imagine that the FA, fed up of half-empty stadiums and no away fans, decided they would re-structure English football depending on how big a fanbase your club has. Now with a little bit of calculating and rejigging here is my official ‘fanbase’ football league, based on attendences so far this season until last weekend.

Sunderland and Newcastle would battle it out for the Champions League places whilst Leeds finally return to the top. Portsmouth and Southampton battle with Nottingham Forest for Championship play off places. While in League Two AFC Wimbledon sit proudly in 23rd place with FC United lurking in the upper echelons of the Blue Square Premier! Where does your team fit in? Have they risen to their rightful place or fallen like an LDV Vans Tuesday night crowd?

Premiership

1. Manchester United
2. Arsenal
3. Newcastle
4. Liverpool
5. Sunderland
6. Man City
7. Chelsea
8. Aston Villa
9. Everton
10. Tottenham Hotspur
11. West Ham
12. Derby
13. Crystal Palace
14. Middlesbrough
15. Birmingham
16. Sheff United
17. Norwich
18. Leeds
19. Blackburn Rovers
20. Wolves

Championship

1. Reading
2. Fulham
3. Charlton
4. Ipswich
5. Sheff Wed
6. West Brom
7. Bolton
8. Leicester
9. Notts Forest
10. Portsmouth
11. Southampton
12. Wigan Athletic
13. Hull
14. Watford
15. Bristol City
16. Cardiff
17. Stoke
18. Bradford
19. Q.P.R
20. Plymouth Arygle
21. Burnley
22. Swansea
23. Preston
24. Barnsley

League One

1. Huddersfield
2. Milton Keynes Dons
3. Blackpool
4. Southend
5. Millwall
6. Bristol Rovers
7. Carlisle
8. Swindon
9. Scunthorpe
10. Tranmere
11. Doncaster
12. Luton
13. Oldham
14. Gillingham
15. Brighton
16. Bournemouth
17. Walsall
18. Shrewsbury
19. Northampton
20. Colchester
21. Stockport
22. Yeovil
23. Leyton Orient
24. Hartlepool

League Two

1. Peterborough
2. Crewe
3. Port Vale
4. Oxford
5. Cheltenham
6. Wycombe
7. Notts County
8. Grimsby
9. Wrexham
10. Brentford
11. Lincoln
12. Chesterfield
13. Rotherham
14. Darlington
15. Morecambe
16. Torquay
17. Cambridge
18. Hereford
19. Mansfield
20. Exeter City
21. Rochdale
22. Stevenage
23. AFC Wimbledon
24. Bury

Macclesfield, Barnet, Dagenham and Redbridge and Accrington Stanley are joined by FC United and the majority of the current Blue Square Premier in the fight for promotion to the Football League!

Leave any feedback to these new standings below!

 

~ by Peter Evans on December 5, 2007.