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== Competition format == | == Competition format == | ||
Premiership's competition format follows a [[w:Round-robin tournament|round-robin]] format. The season usually takes place from August to May, with matches being played on Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays. Member clubs play each other twice, once home and the other away, for a total of 38 matches, over a total of 40 weeks (each club receives two off-weeks). Clubs receive 3 points for victories, 1 point for a draw, and no points for losses. For the 2005–06 season only, 1 point was deducted for every loss that a club received. This resulted in Cuervos C.F. winning the Primera Liga for the first time in club history, despite having an overall record of 23–13–2, where they would've had 82 points, but since they lost 2 matches, their point total was reduced to 80 points. Cuervos finished on top of Olímpico de Taisgol, who finished with a record of 24–10–4, where they also would have had 82 points, but would still finish above Cuervos due to Olímpico having 1 more win, however because Olímpico lost 4 matches in the season, their point total was reduced to 78 points, therefore placing them at second place. Because of this, and with strong protest from Olímpico and Internacional de Santiago, the point deduction system was eventually abandoned in June 2006. | Premiership's competition format follows a [[w:Round-robin tournament|round-robin]] format. The season usually takes place from August to May, with matches being played on Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays. Member clubs play each other twice, once home and the other away, for a total of 38 matches, over a total of 40 weeks (each club receives two off-weeks). Clubs receive 3 points for victories, 1 point for a draw, and no points for losses. For the 2005–06 season only, in what was referred to as the '''stupidest football decision ever made''', 1 point was deducted for every loss that a club received. This resulted in Cuervos C.F. winning the Primera Liga for the first time in club history, despite having an overall record of 23–13–2, where they would've had 82 points, but since they lost 2 matches, their point total was reduced to 80 points. Cuervos finished on top of Olímpico de Taisgol, who finished with a record of 24–10–4, where they also would have had 82 points, but would still finish above Cuervos due to Olímpico having 1 more win, however because Olímpico lost 4 matches in the season, their point total was reduced to 78 points, therefore placing them at second place. Because of this, and with strong protest from Olímpico and Internacional de Santiago, the point deduction system was eventually abandoned in June 2006. | ||
===Promotion and relegation=== | |||
The Premiership follows a system of promotion and relegation with the Tierradorian Football League. The three lowest placed teams in the Premiership are relegated to the TFL Championship. The top two teams from the Championship are automatically promoted to the Premiership, with a third team promoted following a series of playoffs involving the third, fourth, fifth and sixth place clubs. From 1945 to 1986, the Premiership was contested by eighteen clubs. In 1986, the league was expanded to twenty-two clubs, following the mass joining of several newly founded clubs. Four of these newly-founded clubs were assigned to the Premiership to balance out the competition, an extremely controversial decision amongst numerous clubs, who believed that the new clubs were getting an easy route into the Premiership and perhaps the UCFA Champions League by simply "getting lucky." Football Tierrador's board of governors simply ignored these complaints. The Premiership was then reduced to twenty clubs in 2006. In 2014, UCFA requested that the Premiership, along with several other Cronan football leagues, be reduced to 18 teams by the 2017–18 season. This was met with heavy resistance, and even got to the point where Football Tierrador threatened to depart the UCFA. Eventually, the UCFA halted its demands of reduction, and the 2017–18 season kicked off with twenty clubs, where it has been locked at since then. | |||
== Organizational structure == | == Organizational structure == | ||