South Africa: The First Official FM12 Tour

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Can you please turn that racket down. Racket? Its not a racket, its a vuvuzella the national instrument made famous by our first FMV Tour destination, it is of course.. South Africa. The host of the 2010 world cup event.

Bafana Bafana brought us a bizare atmosphere and culture to the event saw around the globe. With a lot of their stars known around the world after playing in the Barclay’s Premier League including Aaron Mokena, Steven Pienaar and the ever popular Benni McCarthy.

In the inagural FMView tour we are going to look at the South African Premier Soccer League in a more in depth basis.

It’s a pretty normal format in the PSL, with 16 teams playing each other home and away, with the usual 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a defeat the usual scoring used over the 30 games.
The champions of the PSL and the 2nd place team both qualify for the CAF Champions League whilst 3rd place and the Nedbank Cup champions qualify for the CAF  Confederation Cup which is the African version of the Uefa Europa League.

Relegation wise, the bottom team is relegated alongside the loser of a relegation playoff between the team in 15th place and the team the advances from the promotion playoffs between the top 2 teams in the Coastal and Inland Stream competitions.

They have a basic rule on foriegners where only 5 non-South Africans can be registered. Nambians born before 1990 do not count.

Cup wise there are two competitions, your Nedbank cup is just your South African version of the F.A Cup and the MTN 8 is the other competition. The MTN 8 imo is a great idea. It’s contested between the top 8 clubs in the division. 8 clubs will play in the a knock out format with each loser getting 800,000 rand, and the winner getting a lucrative 8million rand.

For the tour our chosen team is the Orlando Pirates….. OAR OAR OAR Matey.

The club were founded in 1937 and we’re named the Pirates after the 1940 film “The Sea Hawk”. Orlando became the first club since the beginning of the PSL in 1996 to win the domestic treble of the PSL, Nedbank cup and the MTN 8. They achieved this last season.

Overall the club has 31 honours including 3 PSL’s. The club have also never finished outside the top 8 since the beginning of the PSL.

The club has also had a few “FM” legends over the years, including midfielder’s Teko Modise and Benedict Vilakazi, Defender Mbulelo Mabizela and the champ man legend Sibusiso Zuma.

The club participate in the Soweto derby with the Kaizer Chiefs. Its one of the fiercest derbies in world football and pretty much the only PSL that will attract a full house everytime without fail. This rivalrly was based on Kazier Chiefs being founded by ex Orlando Pirates star Kaizer Motaung. He left Pirates to play in American and upon his return found a lot of internal fighting between the higher ups at Pirates. He formed the Kaizer XI which initally just played friendlies with various clubs and they eventually evolved into Kaizer Chiefs.

*According to wikipedia their overall record stands at Kaizer Chiefs winning 13 games, Orlando Pirates winning 11, whilst there has been 12 draws. Kaizers have outscored there opponents by 34 goals to 33.

They also have a great stadium built for the 2010 World Cup. This high standard of facilities across the country is why there is a lot of hope for the future of South African football – both domestically and on the international stage.

CHALLENGE DYNAMICS

This challenge will last for three years, upon completing your third season in South Africa

(1st July 2014), you can no longer collect points for this destination.

You must start set your manager experience as “Automatic” and play in a new save from June 2011.

You have until the midnight of 30th November 2011 to submit your screenshots in this thread, and accumulate as many points as you can within the confines of a maximum of 3 seasons in the game.

You may not manage any other teams, or use other programs to aid you in this challenge

HOW TO SCORE POINTS

Submit screenshots via reply within this thread of your progress.

Unclear or doctored screenshots will not be rewarded with points.

ABSA Premiership

Relegated: -10 points

15th-9th: 0 points

8th: 2 points

7th: 3 points

6th: 4 points

5th: 5points

4th: 8 points

3rd: 10 points

2nd: 15 points

1st: 25 points

Nedbank Cup

Losing Quarter Finalist: 2 points

Losing Semi Finalist: 5 points

Losing Finalist: 10 points

Winners: 15 points

Telkom Knockout

Losing Quarter Finalist: 2 points

Losing Semi Finalist: 5 points

Losing Finalist: 10 points

Winners: 15 points.

MTN 8

Losing Quarter Finalist: 2 points

Losing Semi Finalist: 5 points

Losing Finalist: 10 points

Winners: 15 points

CAF Champions League

Group Stage Exit: 0 points

Second Round Exit: 5 points

Losing Quarter Finalists: 10 points

Losing Semi Finaists: 15 points

Losing Finalist: 20 points

Winner: 30 points

RIVALRIES

(Competitive Fixtures Only)

Beat Kaizer Chiefs: 5 points

Beat Ajax Cape Town: 3 points

Beat Mamelodi Sundowns: 3 points

Beat Moroka Swallows: 3 points

POINT DEDUCTIONS

Sacked: -25 points (and the challenge is over)

LOGOS

Premier Soccer League

National First Division

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