SA Footy

OK, maybe scraping the barrel now. I know there might not be much interest in the European leagues, outside Spain, Germany, and Italy who have thier own threads, but I thought maybe a monthly wrap on the rest wouldn't hurt and there might, just might, be someone out there who is descended from the old world.

Finland kicked off a couple off last month so here is June's results

30th Jun
KuPS 6 2 Tampere
FC Lahti 2 4 Honka
FC Haka 1 3 FC Inter
23rd Jun
TPS Turku 0 3 FF Jaro
Mariehamn 1 2 MyPa
HJK Helsinki 1 0 JJK Jyväskylä
21st Jun
VPS Vaasa 1 1 FC Lahti
FC Haka 2 1 KuPS
20th Jun
MyPa 0 1 FF Jaro
Honka 0 2 Tampere
FC Inter 0 0 HJK Helsinki
19th Jun
AC Oulu 0 2 TPS Turku
18th Jun
JJK Jyväskylä 0 2 Mariehamn
14th Ju
FC Inter 1 0 VPS Vaasa
Tampere 1 1 TPS Turku
13th Jun
KuPS 0 2 Honka
HJK Helsinki 2 0 MyPa
Mariehamn 2 3 FC Haka
12th Jun
FC Lahti 0 3 AC Oulu
11th Jun
FF Jaro 1 3 JJK Jyväskylä
7th Jun
VPS Vaasa 2 1 FC Haka
MyPa 1 1 KuPS
6th Jun
TPS Turku 1 4 Mariehamn
HJK Helsinki 2 1 FF Jaro
JJK Jyväskylä 0 3 FC Inter
5th Jun
AC Oulu 2 0 Honka
4th Jun
Tampere 0 0 FC Lahti
1st Jun
FC Lahti 0 0 JJK Jyväskylä
FF Jaro 2 2 Tampere
KuPS 2 1 TPS Turku

Updated table end July

Like Finland, Norway kicked off early, in fact they started way back on March, took a break for a month in June and started back in July.

Here's the table so far

Pos Team.......Pld W D L..... F A Diff Pts
1 Rosenborg 17 10 7 0 30 9 21 37
2 Valerenga 17 10 4 3 38 19 19 34
3 Tromso 17 9 5 3 20 13 7 32
4 Viking 17 8 5 4 28 16 12 29
5 Aalesund 17 8 3 6 25 19 6 27
6 Strømsgodset IF 17 8 2 7 26 32 -6 26
7 Start 17 7 4 6 30 29 1 25
8 Lillestrom 17 5 9 3 27 19 8 24
9 Stabaek 17 6 6 5 27 24 3 24
10 Odd Grenland 17 5 7 5 27 28 -1 22
11 FK Haugesund 17 5 6 6 25 24 1 21
12 Brann 17 4 6 7 23 27 -4 18
13 Molde 17 4 6 7 26 33 -7 18
14 Hønefoss BK 17 3 4 10 10 32 -22 13
15 Kongsvinger IL 17 3 2 12 14 36 -22 11
16 Sandefjord 17 1 4 12 11 27 -16 7

A few more hardened followers of European comps (CL, Europa Cup UEFA Cup) might recognise a couple of the teams. Who can forget NOT ME Rosenborg who killed off Blackburn's European dreams a few years ago, and Lillestrom who tasted some European success in the 80's.

The Russian Premier League also started back in March, but they decided to take 2 months off through May and June. I guess they must have decided thet they were going to qualify for the WC.

Here's the table so far

Pos Team.... Pld W D L.... F A Diff Pts
1 Zenit 13 10 3 0 20 5 15 33
2 CSKA Moscow 13 8 3 2 21 10 11 27
3 Rubin Kazan 13 7 5 1 13 3 10 26
4 Spartak Nalchik 13 6 4 3 17 13 4 22
5 Lokomotiv Moscow 13 6 3 4 18 12 6 21
6 Rostov 13 6 1 6 14 19 -5 19
7 Tom Tomsk 13 5 3 5 16 18 -2 18
8 Dynamo Moscow 13 4 6 3 15 13 2 18
9 Terek Grozny 13 4 5 4 13 12 1 17
10 Spartak Moscow 12 4 4 4 14 13 1 16
11 Anzhi Makhachkala 13 3 4 6 15 16 -1 13
12 Amkar Perm 13 3 3 7 9 15 -6 12
13 Alania Vladikavkaz 13 3 3 7 13 21 -8 12
14 FC Saturn 13 2 5 6 9 13 -4 11
15 Sibir Novosibirsk 12 2 2 8 14 24 -10 8
16 Krylia Sovetov 13 2 2 9 8 22 -14 8

I guess there are a few more teams here that many would recognise. Zenit (St Petersburg) of course beat Glasgow Rangers two years ago to win the UEFA Cup. But ther have been other great sides to come out of Russia. Spartak, Dynamo, CSKA and even Locomotiv have all had success in European competitions.

And on to the Swedish League.

Pos Team....... Pld W. D. L... F A. Diff Pts
1 Helsingborg 14 11 2 1 20 6 14 35
2 Malmo 15 9 3 3 29 18 11 30
3 Orebro 15 8 2 5 20 17 3 26
4 Mjällby AIF 15 7 4 4 18 11 7 25
5 Elfsborg 15 6 6 3 30 19 11 24
6 Kalmar 15 5 7 3 19 18 1 22
7 IF Brommapojkarna 15 5 4 6 12 15 -3 19
8 Gothenburg 15 4 6 5 19 12 7 18
9 GAIS 15 4 6 5 12 16 -4 18
10 Halmstads 15 5 2 8 15 21 -6 17
11 Djurgarden 15 4 4 7 14 18 -4 16
12 Gefle 15 4 4 7 14 18 -4 16
13 Hacken 14 4 4 6 13 18 -5 16
14 A.I.K.Solna 15 4 3 8 13 19 -6 15
15 Trelleborg 15 4 3 8 12 24 -12 15
16 Åtvidabergs 15 3 4 8 14 24 -10 13

Trelleborg actually have an official supporters club in Burnley. Why? Because it was little, semi-proffessional side Trelleborg that knocked out the "mighty" moneybags Blackurn in the European Cup way back in 1995. Forever in our hearts Malmo is the most successful club with Gothenburg also making many european appearances.

johntheclaret wrote:The Russian Premier League also started back in March, but they decided to take 2 months off through May and June. I guess they must have decided thet they were going to qualify for the WC.

Here's the table so far

Pos Team.... Pld W D L.... F A Diff Pts
1 Zenit 13 10 3 0 20 5 15 33
2 CSKA Moscow 13 8 3 2 21 10 11 27
3 Rubin Kazan 13 7 5 1 13 3 10 26
4 Spartak Nalchik 13 6 4 3 17 13 4 22
5 Lokomotiv Moscow 13 6 3 4 18 12 6 21
6 Rostov 13 6 1 6 14 19 -5 19
7 Tom Tomsk 13 5 3 5 16 18 -2 18
8 Dynamo Moscow 13 4 6 3 15 13 2 18
9 Terek Grozny 13 4 5 4 13 12 1 17
10 Spartak Moscow 12 4 4 4 14 13 1 16
11 Anzhi Makhachkala 13 3 4 6 15 16 -1 13
12 Amkar Perm 13 3 3 7 9 15 -6 12
13 Alania Vladikavkaz 13 3 3 7 13 21 -8 12
14 FC Saturn 13 2 5 6 9 13 -4 11
15 Sibir Novosibirsk 12 2 2 8 14 24 -10 8
16 Krylia Sovetov 13 2 2 9 8 22 -14 8

I guess there are a few more teams here that many would recognise. Zenit (St Petersburg) of course beat Glasgow Rangers two years ago to win the UEFA Cup. But ther have been other great sides to come out of Russia. Spartak, Dynamo, CSKA and even Locomotiv have all had success in European competitions.

Good thing they did - Luke Wilkshere was our best player at the WC and he's with Dynamo Moscow.

The Russian league is actually a pretty good standard IMO. Saw a bit of it while living in the motherland and it was generally pretty good.

The Austrian Bundesliga kicked off this week

Sun 18th Jul

FK Austria Wien 2 0 SV Mattersburg
FC Wacker Innsbruck 4 0 Rapid Vienna
SV Stadtwerke Kapfenberg 0 0 RB Salzburg
SV Josko Ried 0 3 Sturm Graz
FC Magna 5 0 LASK Linz

The Czech GAMBRINUS LIGA also kicked off this week

Jul 23rd
Mladá Boleslav 1 1 Ceské Budìjovice
Jul 19th
FK Jablonec 1 0 FC Brno
Jul 18th
Ceské Budìjovice 0 0 Slovan Liberec FC
Viktoria Plzen 2 2 SK Sigma Olomouc
FK Ústí nad Labem 0 2 Mladá Bolesla
Marila Príbram 0 0 Baník Ostrava
Jul 17th
Slovácko 3 0 FK Teplice
Hradec Králové 2 1 AC Sparta Prague
Jul 16th
Bohemians 1 1 Slavia Prague

The Danish SAS LIGAEN kicked off this week too

Jul 19th
Lyngby Boldklub 2 4 AaB Aalborg
Jul 18th
SønderjyskE 1 3 FC Copenhagen
Randers 3 2 Brondby
FC Nordsjælland 4 1 Silkeborg IF
AC Horsens 0 2 Midtjylland
Jul 17th
Odense 3 0 Esbjerg

Just a few players you might know plying their trade in the SAS.

Brondby have Dutch star Remco van der Schaaf and Aussie Brent McGrath

FC Copenhagen have Jesper Grønkjær. He is obviously at the end of his career but some might remember him at Chelsea for 4 seasons before moving onto birmingham and then Ath Madrid.

Odense have Irish keeper Roy Carroll in goal. Caroll spent 4 years at Man U before moving onto West Ham where he spent 2 years before ending up at Derby. He also played for Hull City and Wigan. Also at Odense is Andreas Johansson who spent a couple of years at Wigan in the mid 00's

Silkeborg have Peter Degn in thier ranks. Another old hand who played in th eEPL making 4 appearances for Everton way back around 94/95. Also there is Henrik Pedersen, another player in the twilight of his career, who was at Bolton for 6 seasons until 2007. He spent a year at Hull too.

SønderjyskE have an Australian in their ranks -Nathan Coe

Finlands VEIKKAUSLIIGA results for last week

Jul 25th
FC Lahti 2 1 KuPS
Jul 19th
JJK Jyväskylä 0 1 VPS Vaasa
Tampere 3 1 AC Oulu
Jul 18th
TPS Turku 1 1 FC Haka
MyPa 2 2 Honka
Mariehamn 3 0 FC Inter
Jul 17th
HJK Helsinki 1 2 KuPS
Jul 16th
FF Jaro 2 0 FC Lahti

johntheclaret wrote:Like Finland, Norway kicked off early, in fact they started way back on March, took a break for a month in June and started back in July.

Here's the table so far

Pos Team.......Pld W D L..... F A Diff Pts
1 Rosenborg 17 10 7 0 30 9 21 37
2 Valerenga 17 10 4 3 38 19 19 34
3 Tromso 17 9 5 3 20 13 7 32
4 Viking 17 8 5 4 28 16 12 29
5 Aalesund 17 8 3 6 25 19 6 27
6 Strømsgodset IF 17 8 2 7 26 32 -6 26
7 Start 17 7 4 6 30 29 1 25
8 Lillestrom 17 5 9 3 27 19 8 24
9 Stabaek 17 6 6 5 27 24 3 24
10 Odd Grenland 17 5 7 5 27 28 -1 22
11 FK Haugesund 17 5 6 6 25 24 1 21
12 Brann 17 4 6 7 23 27 -4 18
13 Molde 17 4 6 7 26 33 -7 18
14 Hønefoss BK 17 3 4 10 10 32 -22 13
15 Kongsvinger IL 17 3 2 12 14 36 -22 11
16 Sandefjord 17 1 4 12 11 27 -16 7

A few more hardened followers of European comps (CL, Europa Cup UEFA Cup) might recognise a couple of the teams. Who can forget NOT ME Rosenborg who killed off Blackburn's European dreams a few years ago, and Lillestrom who tasted some European success in the 80's.

I guess a few of you will remember Jade North who is at Tromso. Jade played for Brisbane Strikers and Sydney Olypic Sharks before cracking the A League with Perth Glory before moving onto Newcastel United Jets for 4 years.

johntheclaret wrote:

johntheclaret wrote:Like Finland, Norway kicked off early, in fact they started way back on March, took a break for a month in June and started back in July.

Here's the table so far

Pos Team.......Pld W D L..... F A Diff Pts
1 Rosenborg 17 10 7 0 30 9 21 37
2 Valerenga 17 10 4 3 38 19 19 34
3 Tromso 17 9 5 3 20 13 7 32
4 Viking 17 8 5 4 28 16 12 29
5 Aalesund 17 8 3 6 25 19 6 27
6 Strømsgodset IF 17 8 2 7 26 32 -6 26
7 Start 17 7 4 6 30 29 1 25
8 Lillestrom 17 5 9 3 27 19 8 24
9 Stabaek 17 6 6 5 27 24 3 24
10 Odd Grenland 17 5 7 5 27 28 -1 22
11 FK Haugesund 17 5 6 6 25 24 1 21
12 Brann 17 4 6 7 23 27 -4 18
13 Molde 17 4 6 7 26 33 -7 18
14 Hønefoss BK 17 3 4 10 10 32 -22 13
15 Kongsvinger IL 17 3 2 12 14 36 -22 11
16 Sandefjord 17 1 4 12 11 27 -16 7

A few more hardened followers of European comps (CL, Europa Cup UEFA Cup) might recognise a couple of the teams. Who can forget NOT ME Rosenborg who killed off Blackburn's European dreams a few years ago, and Lillestrom who tasted some European success in the 80's.

I guess a few of you will remember Jade North who is at Tromso. Jade played for Brisbane Strikers and Sydney Olypic Sharks before cracking the A League with Perth Glory before moving onto Newcastel United Jets for 4 years.

I nearly forgot Thomas Myhre at Kongsvinger IL. Myhre spent many years in and around the EPL, starting at Everton for 3 seasons, then Birmingham and Rangers, before moving back to Everton. He also went on to play for Tranmer, Sunderland, Palace, then sunderland again and finally Charlton. Another player at the end of his career

devilsadvocate wrote:

johntheclaret wrote:The Russian Premier League also started back in March, but they decided to take 2 months off through May and June. I guess they must have decided thet they were going to qualify for the WC.

Here's the table so far

Pos Team.... Pld W D L.... F A Diff Pts
1 Zenit 13 10 3 0 20 5 15 33
2 CSKA Moscow 13 8 3 2 21 10 11 27
3 Rubin Kazan 13 7 5 1 13 3 10 26
4 Spartak Nalchik 13 6 4 3 17 13 4 22
5 Lokomotiv Moscow 13 6 3 4 18 12 6 21
6 Rostov 13 6 1 6 14 19 -5 19
7 Tom Tomsk 13 5 3 5 16 18 -2 18
8 Dynamo Moscow 13 4 6 3 15 13 2 18
9 Terek Grozny 13 4 5 4 13 12 1 17
10 Spartak Moscow 12 4 4 4 14 13 1 16
11 Anzhi Makhachkala 13 3 4 6 15 16 -1 13
12 Amkar Perm 13 3 3 7 9 15 -6 12
13 Alania Vladikavkaz 13 3 3 7 13 21 -8 12
14 FC Saturn 13 2 5 6 9 13 -4 11
15 Sibir Novosibirsk 12 2 2 8 14 24 -10 8
16 Krylia Sovetov 13 2 2 9 8 22 -14 8

I guess there are a few more teams here that many would recognise. Zenit (St Petersburg) of course beat Glasgow Rangers two years ago to win the UEFA Cup. But ther have been other great sides to come out of Russia. Spartak, Dynamo, CSKA and even Locomotiv have all had success in European competitions.

Good thing they did - Luke Wilkshere was our best player at the WC and he's with Dynamo Moscow.

The Russian league is actually a pretty good standard IMO. Saw a bit of it while living in the motherland and it was generally pretty good.

Agreed.

Dynamo also have Andriy Voronin who was at Liverpool for a couple of years. I don't think he got enough opportunities with the Reds, but he does have a good scoring average of 1 in 3 over the last 10 years, which is pretty consistent.

The Swiss SUPER LEAGUE kicked off this week

Jul 20th
Basel 3 2 FC Zurich
Jul 18th
AC Bellinzona 0 2 FC Sion
FC Luzern 4 0 St Gallen
Jul 17th
FC Thun 1 1 BSC Young Boys
Grasshoppers 1 1 Neuchatel Xamax FC

Lining up for Basel is Scott Chipperfield, who has spent 10 seasons there since his move from Wollongong Wolves

Sat 24th Jul

Swedish Allsvenskan
Malmo FF 1 - 0 AIK
Brommapojkarna 1 - 0 Mjallby
Atvidabergs FF 0 - 1 GAIS

Austrian Bundesliga
SV Mattersburg 1 - 4 SV Ried
SV Red Bull Salzburg vs FC Wacker Innsbruck Postponed - new date to be confirmed
SK Sturm Graz 2 - 0 SV Kapfenberg

Danish SAS-Ligaen
FC Midtjylland 2 - 0 Silkeborg
Esbjerg 1 - 2 FC Copenhagen

Norwegian Tippeligaen
Aalesund 1 - 0 Valerenga

Swiss Axpo Super League
Young Boys 1 - 1 Lucerne
FC Sion 1 - 2 Basle

Sun 25th Jul

Swedish Allsvenskan
Halmstads BK 1 - 0 IFK Goteborg
Kalmar FF 0 - 1 Djurgardens IF
Gefle IF 1 - 3 Trelleborgs FF

Austrian Bundesliga
LASK Linz 3 - 4 FK Austria Vienna
Rapid Vienna 1 - 2 FC Magna Wr. Neustadt

Danish SAS-Ligaen
Lyngby 1 - 0 AC Horsens
FC Nordsjaelland 1 - 2 Sonderjyske
AaB 0 - 2 Brondby

Norwegian Tippeligaen
Molde 1 - 2 IK Start
Odd Grenland 2 - 0 Stromsgodset
Haugesund 4 - 0 Viking FK
Kongsvinger 1 - 1 Tromso
Sandefjord 1 - 4 SK Brann
Stabaek 1 - 2 Rosenborg

Swiss Super League
Neuchatel Xamax 2 - 3 FC Thun
St Gallen 3 - 2 Bellinzona
FC Zurich 2 - 0 Grasshoppers

Mon 26th Jul

Swedish Allsvenskan
Orebro SK 3 - 0 IF Elfsborg
Helsingborgs IF 3 - 1 BK Hacken

Danish SAS-Ligaen
Odense BK 1 - 1 Randers FC

Norwegian Tippeligaen
Honefoss 3 - 2 Lillestrom

Czech GAMBRINUS LIGA

Mon 26th Jul
Hradec Králové 1 1 Bohemians
Sun 25th Jul
Baník Ostrava 1 1 Slavia Prague
FK Teplice 1 2 Marila Príbram
SK Sigma Olomouc 4 1 FK Jablone
FC Brno 1 3 FK Ústí nad Labem
Sat 24th Jul
Slovan Liberec FC 2 3 Viktoria Plzen
AC Sparta Prague 2 1 Slovácko

Russian PREMIER LEAGUE

Sun 25th Jul
CSKA Moscow 1 2 Spartak Nalchik
Krylia Sovetov 0 0 Spartak Moscow
Anzhi Makhachkala 1 0 Terek Grozny
Amkar Perm 0 1 FC Saturn
Sat 24th Jul
Sibir Novosibirsk 2 2 Lokomotiv Moscow
Rubin Kazan 2 0 Dynamo Moscow
Rostov 1 3 Zenit 24/07/2010
Alania Vladikavkaz 2 1 Tom Tomsk

Pos Team Pld W D L... F. A Diff Pts
1 Zenit 14 11 3 0 23 6 17 36
2 Rubin Kazan 14 8 5 1 15 3 12 29
3 CSKA Moscow 14 8 3 3 22 12 10 27
4 Spartak Nalchik 14 7 4 3 19 14 5 25
5 Lokomotiv Moscow 14 6 4 4 20 14 6 22
6 Spartak Moscow 14 5 5 4 19 16 3 20
7 Rostov 14 6 1 7 15 22 -7 19
8 Tom Tomsk 14 5 3 6 17 20 -3 18
9 Dynamo Moscow 14 4 6 4 15 15 0 18
10 Terek Grozny 14 4 5 5 13 13 0 17
11 Anzhi Makhachkala 14 4 4 6 16 16 0 16
12 Alania Vladikavkaz 14 4 3 7 15 22 -7 15
13 FC Saturn 14 3 5 6 10 13 -3 14
14 Amkar Perm 14 3 3 8 9 16 -7 12
15 Sibir Novosibirsk 14 2 3 9 19 31 -12 9
16 Krylia Sovetov 14 2 3 9 8 22 -14 9

Czech GAMBRINUS LIGA

Fri 30th Jul
FK Ústí nad Labem 0 0 Slovan Liberec FC
Mon 26th Jul
Hradec Králové 1 1 Bohemians

Pos Team.............. Pld W D. L. F A Diff Pts
1 SK Sigma Olomouc 2 1 1 0 6 3 3 4
2 Mladá Boleslav 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 4
3 Viktoria Plzen 2 1 1 0 5 4 1 4
4 Hradec Králové 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4
5 Marila Príbram 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 4
6 FK Ústí nad Labem 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
7 Slovácko 2 1 0 1 4 2 2 3
8 AC Sparta Prague 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3
9 FK Jablonec 2 1 0 1 2 4 -2 3
10 Bohemians 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
11 Slavia Prague 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
12 Baník Ostrava 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
13 Ceské Budìjovice 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
14 Slovan Liberec FC 3 0 2 1 2 3 -1 2
15 FC Brno 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0
16 FK Teplice 2 0 0 2 1 5 -4 0

Does anyone remember Tomáš Řepka? He put in 5 years for West Ham before returning to AC Sparta Prague in 2006.