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  • Season 27 Power Rankings

    Bayern back on top! After relinquishing the top power ranking spot to Hellas Verona last season, Bayern is back on top, with Chelsea also leapfrogging Verona. Holding down the basement for the 3rd year in a row is Stuttgart. Those poor supporters! My club CSKA climbed 8 spots to #45. Our first season ever in…

  • CSKA: A Taste of D1

    In September, I wrote that CSKA was heading to D2 for the first time since Season 14, well before I took over. My goal was to stay up, and the stats indicated that CSKA was in the hunt for relegation. Fast forward to the end of the season and CSKA is being promoted to D1…

  • Season 26 Power Rankings

    Biggest Risers from S25: Manchester United, Napoli, Wolfsburg Biggest Fallers from S25: Shakhtar, River Plate, Tottenham, Fener, PSG A change in #1: Hellas overtakes Borussia. It must be the going Gold! Biggest Risers from S20: Napoli, Sevilla, Zenit, Independiente Biggest Fallers from S20: Schalke, AZ, Werder, Gladbach, Stuttgart (it’s tough to be German apparently)

  • CSKA Season 26 – A Return to D2

    Season 25 saw a D3 title and promotion D2. As David stated, the jump from D3 to D2 is steep, but CSKA has greater ambitions than even D2 and hope not to regress in season 26. This will be CSKA’s first season in D2 under Chris Meida and its first season in D2 since season…

  • A Party in the USA

    CSKA Moscow TX fans were ecstatic as they witnessed their team lift the D3 trophy on Saturday. The second August trophy after lifting the Youth Shield was one for the ages. Lifting the trophy were the elder statesman and three top scorers: Immobile, Aspas, and Ziyech. Fan favorite and 26 assist man Simon Adingra was…

  • Season 25 Power Rankings

    Season 25 power rankings are out. This is a season-over-season and change since season 20 look at where teams stack up across divisions. Sevilla, Boca, St. Etienne, and Napoli are the biggest risers from last season. Unsurprisingly, Schalke, Celta, Stuttgart, and Man U are the largest fallers from last season. Looking at the change over…

  • CSKA: Season 25

    We enter our 3rd consecutive season in division 3, which is a fine accomplishment and a step up from where we found the team. But the manager, the fans, and the private equity group all envision a D1 team. After all, no one manages a club or a buys a club for them to flounder…

  • S24 – The Halfway Mark

    We are at the halfway mark of Season 24. Let’s see how the races are shaping up in the league… We’ll start in Division 5 where the spotlight rarely shines (perhaps due to D1 historically having the most active managers – though Gursi does appear to have forfeited EVERY cup match). Besiktas and Olympiacos head…

  • Season 24 Power Rankings

    This post comes with the usual caveats: it’s for fun, we’re on the verge of rating updates so this is a point in time look at power rankings. And a shout out to Malcolm on whose data this is based. Over time, I do think it reflects a manager’s impact on the team – which…

  • CSKA Entering Season 24

    We enter our 2nd consecutive season in division 3. The Brazilian ratings were kind to us with a +13 for Lorran, Matheus Pereira possibly entering our starting lineup, and our starting youth GK Mycael rising to 80. It is tough to write this post with many unknowns since rating updates have just started, but in…