Soccer Points Pool ⚽

The World's First And Only Soccer Pool With Promotion & Relegation 🛗

Tier 1

Complete Standings

Winners

Tier 1

• 2024-25 - Tom D. (357)
• 2023-24 - Chris J. (341)
• 2022-23 - Omar Z. (345)
• 2021-22 - Andy M. (333)
• 2020-21 - Jay M. (346)

Original Pool w/o Tiers

• 2019-20 - M. Carter (346)
• 2018-19 - Andy M. (354)
• 2017-18 - Neil D. (???) <-- EPL only

Tier 2

Standings

Winners

• 2024-25 - Pete B. (466)
• 2023-24 - Matt C. (526)
• 2022-23 - Seamus H. (472)
• 2021-22 - JD (398) <-- No Turkish League yet
• 2020-21 - Chris J. (403) <-- Tier 2 leagues only

All-Time Standings

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Rules

Want to start your own pool? Here are the full rules:

Overview

• Teams: Each entrant drafts a set of soccer teams and follows them for the whole season.
• Scoring: The standings are determined by adding up the point totals of everyone's teams (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). First place goes to whoever has the most combined points at the end of the season.
• Special pandemic-era rules addendum: If one or more leagues abandon their seasons like Ligue 1 did in 2020, the final standings will be based on the games actually completed during the season (in other words, don't prorate the points based on games played).
• Special corruption-related rules addendum: If any team has points docked by a sport governing body like Juventus did in 2023, the final standings will reflect that point deduction.

Tier 1

• 13 entrants draft 6 teams from top 4 leagues in Europe (English PL, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga).

Tier 2

• 18 entrants draft 8 teams from the top 8 leagues in Europe (English PL, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, Dutch Eredivisie, Portuguese Primeira Liga, Turkish Süper Lig).

Promotion + Relegation

• The bottom 6 entrants from the tier 1 pool at the end of the season will be relegated to the tier 2 pool for next season.
• The top 6 entrants from the tier 2 pool at the end of the season will be promoted to the tier 1 pool for next season.

The Draft

• Use a snake draft with the order randomly determined.
• Drafts take place in google sheets, using Slack/email to communicate who is up next.
• In tier 1 you must pick a team from each of the 4 leagues with your first 4 selections. In rounds 5 and 6 you can take teams from any league.
• In tier 2 you can only take 1 team from each of the 8 leagues.
• Double picks - After round 4 in both tiers, each entrant will draft 2 teams in a row to speed up the later rounds of the draft.

Tie-Breakers

• If there's a tie in the final standings, the first place tie-breaker goes to the entrant with the highest single-team total, and the last place tie-breaker goes to the entrant with the lowest single-team total.
• Similarly, entrants vying for promotion break a tie with the highest single-team total getting promoted, and entrants trying to avoid relegation break a tie with the lowest single-team total getting relegated.