CMSC

CMSC
Country	Candelaria And Marquez
Association	Candelaria And Marquez Association Football Association
Established	Prior to CMSC I
Divisions	CMSC1, CMSC2, 4 regional divisions
Number of teams	Eighty-six
Level(s) on pyramid	Four
Domestic cup	CMS Cup
Current champions	Albrecht FC (twelfth title) (CMSC XXXIX)
Most successful team	Albrecht FC (twelve titles)
Media partners	TV1, TTO Sport
Official website	www.cmsc.cam

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The Candelaria And Marquez Soccer Championship, most commonly known as the CMSC, was a six division football league, and the governing body thereof, based in Candelaria And Marquez. Since a lower-league restructuring prior to the XXVIII season the top division has been formally known as the CMSC1, though CMSC is still used colloquially. The league was placed on an indefinite hiatus following its thirty-ninth edition and can be considered disbanded in practise with no obvious sign of an imminent resumption of professional football in the Candelarias.

Formed to replace the defunct NFBL following a prior dissolution in the 1970s; the CMSC1 expanded to eighteen teams and became the most watched sports league in the Candelarias and Rushmore, thanks in part to the heavy financial backing of the country’s government and, latterly, a significant degree of foreign investment. Foreign players had been permitted since XXV and the start of what became known as the 'International Era', and the league has since been home to nationals from well over fifty countries. From the start of the XXXI season, the CMSC also took a major step forward in the integration of foreigners by electing NAPPC and Tenderville United, both of Nethertopia, to join the second division.

Since early in XXVIII, CMSC clubs participated in global football via the Champions’ Cup and related competitions, and have been ranked, collectively, as high as first in the formal global rankings system, with Albrecht FC and Albrecht Turkish having lifted world titles, and Caires City ranked for a time as the top side in international club football.

History

Pre-CMSC

**National Foot-Ball League Winners**
Season	Team
1935	Nader FC
1936	Brayton Town FC
1937	Dyce FC
1938	Radyukevich CSC
1939	All Saints FC
1940	Di Alfonso Stars
1941	Radyukevich CSC
1942	Melin FC
1943	Melin FC
1944	Cockyard Cocks
1945	Cockyard Cocks
1946	Cockyard Cricketers
1947	Alvery City
1948	Mayo Valley
1949	Sorres AFC
1950	Sorres AFC
1951	Sorres AFC
1952	Caires Sports
1953	Thompsontown Heroicals
1954	Deevin FC
1955	Deevin FC
1956	Gassett FC
1957	Gassett FC
1958	Caires Sports
1959	Caires Sports
1960	Deevin FC
1961	Swords of Bass
1962	Clotaire Dragons
1963	Albrecht FC
1964	Allemali Mariners
1965	Albrecht Turkish
1966	Albrecht Turkish
1967	Albrecht Turkish
1968	Albrecht Turkish
1969	Clotaire Dragons
1970	Trident FC
1971	Trident FC
1972	ClotaireAutos
1973	Albrecht FC

The original National Foot-Ball League was established in 1935, though the game had previously been played across the Candelarias since the islands’ colonisation. City-based and regional amateur leagues had been in place since the turn of the century, attracting vast crowds and being home to certain clubs – including Albrecht Turkish, Caires Sports and Port of Clotaire – that remain major sides to this day.

Not all big clubs opted to chase the moolah offered by regular nationwide play right from the start – indeed, only eight teams contested the 1935 championship – but in time the NFBL grew to become one of the country’s major past-times and a great source of national unity throughout the Civil War era and its aftermath.

In the immediate years following the conflict however, the league rapidly became a plaything for the wealthiest in the new Candelaria And Marquez – with most of the remaining clubs turning instead to businessmen and companies convinced that money could be made from the national sport. Their assertions, for the most part, proved incorrect; instead, several major clubs went bankrupt while the growth of hooliganism saw middle-class crowds dwindle elsewhere. The league folded following the 1973 season.

The increasing availability of television didn’t help matters, with football supporters now able to watch club matches of the highest quality from as far afield as Starblaydia and Vilita. Enthusiasm for C&M’s infinitely poorer product was inevitably dampened, despite the subsequent prohibition on the broadcast of matches from Antlantian Oceanian countries, as well as on the World Cup itself.

The CMSC

The short-lived era of international football on Candelariasian television at least brought back to the fore the notion of a C&M national team, and the CMSC was initially formed with that very concept in mind. The finest players of the country – both those who had been playing in minor divisions overseas and those still contracted to the floating, league-less local clubs – were drawn together into two Select XIs; one representing Candelaria, and the other Marquez and the Outlying Islands.

The CAMAFA came under a great deal of criticism over this move from a variety of quarters, in particular those who saw the two separate teams as potentially hugely divisive. Interest in the seven-game series that comprised CMSC I was vast however – particularly in Marquez, once it became clear that ‘their’ side were going to triumph over their Candelarian counterparts and with a team consisting of numerous Hispanic players.

After having moved around the country during the first ‘season’, the two teams became based permanently in Allemali and Onwere respectively for the second, before formally becoming Candelaria-Allemali and Marquez-Onwere. MarquezOW fans today generally include the Select XI’s first two championship titles as “their’s”, and the two trophies still reside in the club’s trophy cabinet, but in practical terms CMSC III is considered the first ‘proper’ league; when several clubs, new and old, were invited to join the championship.

The popularity of the CMS Cup, refounded to coincide with the inaugural CMSC season, proved decisively that the appetite was there once again for club football in the islands. However hard they tried however, the CAMAFA failed to avoid the sins of the past and keep their new baby in check. As with the NFBL, the CMSC soon became its own entity where money increasingly talked once more; Gamboa FC and KT Hotspur being among those to claim early success thanks to vast financial backing, though popular and relatively impoverished clubs including Albrecht FC and Turks’ Club also savoured early competitiveness.

The real difference between the NFBL and CMSC was that C&M was now a wealthier country all-round, and far better equipped to support a professional league with sponsorship and relatively high ticket costs. The overall standard remained mediocre, but attendances and media coverage increased almost every year.

In a country with long-time left-leaning sympathies, even in a post-Civil War era undergoing considerable free market reforms, the success of Castillo FC (three championships in six seasons) and later Albrecht FC (five in six) raised concerns among the supporters of other clubs, and still today many complain over the financial might of the two largest Albrecht clubs. However, the arrival of many dozens of foreign stars since XXV – and the quota in place to stop the wealthiest clubs bringing in more than their fair share – helped even-out the contest. Equally, many sides soon found themselves with one or more wealthy benefactors, allowing traditionally well-supported but less than successful sides such as Arrigo Portuguese, Cathedral City and Green Island to make in-roads in later seasons. At the same time, relatively impecunious sides such as AFC MN Smith and the El din Marbles proved able to hold their own in the CMSC1, whilst playing good football at the same time.

Probably the biggest success story of the league’s final few years – alongside the elven-dominated Green Island and financially flushed giants Albrecht FC – a were Caires City however, having taken advantage of modest financial backing, and exceptional management both from the sidelines and in the boardroom, to emerge from the shadow of the two traditional Caires powerhouses

Ironically, given the Candelariasian state policy on the non-existence of non-human sentients, elves were consistently among the CMSC’s marquee players – from Roger Zetaback, one of the first newcomers of the International Era, to Scott Soldarian and modern hero Espy va Drake (above, in action for Green Island), whose presence in the league was regularly used as a major selling point in overseas markets.

to become a major force both at home and abroad.

During the CMSC’s International Era, the league grew from an obscure entity in a backwater footballing nation and region to become arguably the most widely watched domestic competition in the sporting world. Following Albrecht Turkish’s victory at the third Champions’ Cup; Albrecht FC would lift no fewer than four TQCC titles (not to mention two Globe Cups – their final, at TQCC24 coming in the immediate aftermath of the league’s dissolution. Numerous other sides made the finals of competitions of various standards, with Candelariasian football’s competitive depth perhaps best indicated by the consistent performances of CMSC2 clubs in the SBCC.

Post-CMSC

The impact of the CMSC would perhaps be even greater on the Candelarias itself than the wider multiverse, with the league’s multilayered successes arguably doing more to open the country up to the worlds and expand the Candelariasian people’s once limited grasp on the nature of reality beyond their own shores than anything else. Club football, alongside the rise to prominence of the C&M national team, went beyond a mere national obsession to become arguably the primary focus of the country’s economy and society alike.

This fact would prove to be inherent in the league’s downfall, however, in the aftermath of the Hatching Incident. One of President Robyn Morton’s first acts over the ensuing days was to pull the national team out of World Cup 52 qualifying, believing that the ‘Big Blues’ would otherwise continue to provide an undue distraction for the Candelariasian public as they bid to rebuild the country and fully come to terms with their predicament. The move would ultimately be widely supported, with the public’s former love for international footballers and football administrators alike souring into something approaching loathing as it became clear that such influential individuals had for decades resisted, on mass, the chance to expose the depths of C&M’s media censorship and the activities of the M.O.R.T. and similar organisations.

The lack of a competitive national team would have inevitably and terminally degraded the CMSC’s standing and, with the government’s subsequent and equally inevitable decision to abandon the use of time dilation technology, it became clear that maintaining a league in tune with the international and UICA calendars would no longer be a feasible proposition. Most foreign players were immediately released from their contracts but, even then, initial plans were left in place for the resumption of league play inside a few months. This planned ‘CMSC40’, formed purely for the Candelariasian market with international television contracts abandoned, has yet to come to pass however.

Public distaste with professional football has already seen a number of smaller clubs go to the wall, with most others downsizing significantly. Many still maintain a presence in amateur or semi-professional competitions spread across the country, while the biggest clubs continue to cling onto life principally as social institutions with small numbers of full professionals playing in a complex fixture list of league, cup and exhibition matches as well as undertaking considerable community work. In almost all cases youth development has ground to a halt – with the factory-farming of young footballers no longer seen as being in C&M’s economic or social interests – and what youth coaching still exists is typically based around encouraging exercise or providing motivation to less academically engaged youngsters.

Certain big clubs have left the country altogether, meanwhile – NAPPC and Tenderville Utd initially to the ROFL and later joining their former CMSC colleagues in domestic obscurity. Caires Sports, in keeping with their proud status as one of the most important clubs in Yaforite football, moved almost their entire operation – including managerial and playing staff – to the city of Indigar (though, given the LIDYT’s own collapse, this would soon prove to be something of a false dawn); while Krytenian billionaire Anthony Swann, unwilling to see his considerable investment in Radyukevich go to waste, moved the franchise into the Liga Calania as RCSC Northwood, leaving only a ‘skeleton club’ behind in Clotaire – initially on a seemingly temporary basis, though not one that appears to have any more sign of being resolved than the status of the CMSC itself.

In all, Candelariasian football is now more than passingly reminiscent of its standing in both the pre-NFBL and pre-CMSC eras, suggesting a third emergence of the professional game is far from out of the question in the long term. It remains wholly unclear, however, whether the Candelariasian people can ever recover either their passion for, or prowess in, the worlds’ game.

Competition format

Having included sixteen clubs since the CMSC V season, the CMSC1 expanded to eighteen prior to XXIX, with each team now playing thirty-three league fixtures per season for a total of three hundred and six matches. League standings were determined by points, then goal difference, goals scored and games won, before an end-of-season one-off play-off – though this latter option was never required to resolve the league title, IUCC qualification or relegation.

Qualification for global competitions

The longer time-scale of the CMSC has resulted in the establishment in recent years of Apertura and Clausura stages in the season in order to determine global qualification.

In practise the divide, after seventeen matches have been played per team, is purely notional – the only reward for ‘winning’ either competition is a small and largely ignored trophy, and there is no promotion or relegation following the Apertura stage. However, the top four teams at the end of each stage qualified for the TQCC (either directly to the group stage, or for the preliminary rounds), while the fifth- and sixth-placed side in the CMSC1 were guaranteed a Globe Cup spot, as was the seventh-placed team after the Clausura stage. At the end of the Apertura stage, the winner of the previous season’s CMS Cup was granted a Globe Cup berth – as long as that team was not already placed in the top six at the time. Otherwise, the place reverted to the seventh-place side.

'Winners' since introduction of Apertura and Clausura

Season	Apertura Winner	Pts	Clausura Winner	Pts	CMSC Champion	Pts
XXIX	Albrecht FC	32	Albrecht Turkish	42	Albrecht Turkish	70
XXX	Caires City	39	Caires City	39	Caires City	78
XXXI	Caires City	40	Albrecht FC	38	Caires City	73
XXXII	Albrecht FC	37	Albrecht Turkish	41	Albrecht Turkish	71
XXXIII	Albrecht FC	40	Green Island	38	Albrecht FC	75
XXXIV	Albrecht FC	37	Marquez-Onwere	37	Green Island	71
XXXV	Caires City	41	Green Island	37	Green Island	77
XXXVI	Green Island	38	Green Island	43	Green Island	81
XXXVII	Green Island	41	Albrecht Turkish	37	Albrecht FC	76
XXXVIII	Green Island	39	Caires City	39	Green Island	70
XXXIX	Albrecht FC	37	Port of Clotaire	36	Albrecht FC	68

CMSC2

There were three relegation spots in the CMSC1, which lead into the CMSC2 (following pre-XXIX restructuring) – a twenty-team division operated along similar lines (though there were limits on the percentage of turnover spent on transfer fees, and a two-foreigner quota). The top two were promoted, along with a play-off winner from the third- to sixth-placed clubs.

CMSC2 sides enjoyed a modicum of success in the SBCC, with Albrecht Independent FC winning the first edition and the division supplying the next four defeated finalists. Candelariasian competitors at odd-numbered cups were drawn entirely from CMSC2 clubs rather than newly promoted sides in the top-flight, owing to the Apertura/Clausura system employed in C&M.

Recent promoted clubs

Season	CMSC2 Champion	Runner-Up	Third Place	Play-Off Winner
XXIV	Candelaria Arsenal	Melin & Nader	Ironside-Talinger	Green Island (from 5th)
XXV	Arrigo Portuguese	El din Marbles	AFC MN Smith	AFC MN Smith
XXVI	Caires Sports	Cathedral City	McDonald SC	Gamboa FC (from 5th)
XXVII	Caires City	Castillo FC	McDonald SC	Mayo Valley (from 4th)
XXVIII	Candelaria Arsenal	Caires Sports	McDonald SC	Candelaria-Allemali (from 4th)
XXIX	Albrecht Independent FC	Ironside-Talinger	Sloane Wanderers	No Play-Off
XXX	Gamboa FC	Radyukevich CSC	McDonald SC	Melin & Nader (from 6th)
XXXI	Turks' Club	Tenderville United	Alvery Blades	Albrecht Independent FC (from 6th)
XXXII	McDonald SC	Radyukevich CSC	NAPPC	NAPPC
XXXIII	Gamboa FC	Albrecht Independent FC	Melin & Nader	Sloane Wanderers (from 4th)
XXXIV	Melin & Nader	NAPPC	McDonald SC	Mayo Valley (from 4th)
XXXV	Cathedral City	Candelaria-Allemali	McDonald SC	McDonald SC
XXXVI	Ironside-Talinger	Turks' Club	Radyukevich CSC	Radyukevich CSC
XXXVII	Gamboa FC	Webley Stadium	Cathedral City	Cathedral City
XXXVIII	Turks' Club	AFC MN Smith	Brayton Town	Caires Sports (from 6th)
XXXIX	Gamboa FC	Candelaria-Allemali	Ironside-Talinger	Ironside-Talinger

Lower divisions

There were only two relegation places in the CMSC2 however, which lead into Candelaria1 and Eastern1 (referred to currently as the Patton-Carmichael Candelarian Premier League and the El Monstruo Verde Elite Championship respectively, the latter sponsored by a Kura-Pellandi company) – but only if the two sides finished in the bottom two positions were not both from either Candelaria or Marquez and the Outliers. If this is the case, only the eighteenth-placed side were relegated, and the champions of the other regional division were not promoted.

Beneath the two twelve-team regional divisions, the lowest levels of the professional pyramid were the Cristal Chemical Strategic Candelarian Second League (Candelaria2) and Campeonato de la Doble Vidriera de la Élite (Eastern2). Two teams were promoted and relegated per season between the four tiers of the regional competition, while Candelaria2 and Eastern2 also lost a team every year, with sides from below voted into the league based both on their on-field ability, support base and financial potential.

CMS Cup

At the time of the CMSC’s collapse, the CMS Cup was open to these eighty-six clubs, along with eight places reserved from non-league (usually amateur) sides. The forty-eight regional sides entered in the first round alongside these, with the eighteen CMSC2 clubs and the second-placed club and play-off winner from the previous year’s CMSC2 entering in the third round, and the remaining sixteen teams making up fully half of the Last Thirty-Two (fourth round) draw. All ties were one-off, with a single replay following a draw, while the semi-finals and final were played at neutral locations with no replays involved.

Historically, the Candelarias’ domestic cup competitions suffered for attention compared to the NFBL and went through numerous transformations over the years to leave results from that era considered largely irrelevant. The modern CMS Cup had become a more tantalising offering, though the relatively changeable nature of the top half of the CMSC1 table compared to certain other international leagues, along with the prospect of TQCC or Globe Cup qualification via league finishing positions, left the Cup a particularly popular competition only among a certain set of clubs considered consistent ‘cup teams’.

Despite this, the CMS Cup Final remains one of the single most important events in C&M’s sporting calendar regardless of which two teams are involved, and the games themselves were frequently memorable – indeed, of the more than thirty editions thus held, only one (following the XXVII season) finished goalless after ninety minutes and the cup was not decided on penalties until its final – to date – outing.

Finances and sponsorship

Compared to other organisations in C&M the football league was an extremely wealthy entity, though most of that wealth was tied up in the clubs rather than the communal pot. Though the league enforced a luxury tax on big-money transfers and high wages, and provided financial assistance to certain clubs looking to bring in expensive, big-name foreign stars; those clubs with significant financial backing still had a major competitive advantage – be it those such as Arrigo Portuguese, Caires City or KT Hotspur who had a single major benefactor or company behind them, or those such as Green Island and Candelaria-Allemali who were effectively owned by a conglomerate of businesses. Turks’ Club were a rare example of a fan-owned side, though in practise they too operate at the whims of a millionaire chairman. Albrecht FC, whose financial might was previously based on sponsorship, gate receipts and merchandise, are now owned by Han company Samseong – one of a growing number foreign-owned clubs in the CMSC1.

Most other teams had a primary shirt sponsor, ranging from supermarket chains and Kura-Pellandi online gambling firms, to kitchen outfitters and a chiropractic centre.

Owners of major clubs

Not all listed ‘owners’ controlled 100% of their football clubs even at the time of CMSC XXIX, and many of these arrangements have since slipped into abeyance or are otherwise of uncertain accuracy.

Club	Owner(s)	Source of wealth
Abiodun North	Michael Norman	Sportswear
AFC MN Smith	Largest shareholders: Alistair Parnell (23%), Adam Miller (20.4%), Franklin Kjellin (12%)	Manufacturing (Parnell), Media, publishing (Miller), Inherited, investments (Kjellin)
Albrecht FC	Samseong	Electronics, construction, retail, sports teams
Albrecht Independent FC	Independent Trust	Private donations, retail, publishing
Albrecht Turkish	Viella Inc.	Electronics
Arrigo Portuguese	Associação Universal das Gigantescas Empresas do Comércio Cafundelense	Various
Caires City	Ivor Fisher, David McNeil, Alex Ess	Betting (McNeil Bingo)
Caires Sports	Jagor Aiza	Motor vehicles, energy supply
Candelaria-Allemali	Largest shareholders: Richard Simmonds (32.4%), Carlos Bonilla (25.6%), Sons United (18.1%) Allemali City Council (15.2%), Green Light Group (8.7%)	Betting (Simmonds), Shipping (Bonilla), Industry, tourism (GLG)
Castillo FC	Luis Gerardo Movilla	Footwear, sports equiptment
Cathedral City	Cathedral City Supporters’ Trust	Private donations
El din Marbles	Daniel Gil	Meat processing, foot retail, agriculture
Gamboa FC	John Silver, Hayden Murray, Nathan Robinson	Retail (Silver), Construction, real estate (Murray), Legal services (Robinson)
Green Island	Allan Adams (50%+), Kukas Rüütel (<30%) The Raynor family (20%)	Waste disposal (Adams), Investments (Rüütel) Inherited (the Raynor family)
Ironside-Talinger	Deacon Farley	Inherited, sports teams
KT Hotspur	The Adamczyk family	Inherited, mining, industry, property, hotels, tourism
Melin & Nader	Hayden McDonald	Latex products
Marquez-Onwere	Ricardo Wendell	Inherited, motor vehicles, electronics, software, mining, gambling, tourism
Mayo Valley	Dick Dodds	Insurance
McDonald SC	Chris McGovern	Finance
NAPPC	Tociast	Television broadcasting
Port of Clotaire	Patrick Verde, Steven Bennett (32% of club)	Household goods (Verde), Ice cream (Bennett)
Radyukevich CSC	Anthony Swann (98% of club)	Television broadcasting
Sloane Wanderers	George von Strassenberg & Family	Inherited, food services
Tenderville United	Largest shareholders: NetherCars (33%), Tenderville4Sportswear (20%), Van Velde Logistics (12%), Deer-Proof Fencing Systems (7%)	Motor vehicles (NetherCars), Manufacturing (T4S), Logistics (Van Velde), Electronics (DPF)
Turks’ Club	Rupert Howell	Publishing
Webley Stadium	Fadron Pizza	Food services, sports sponsorship

Media rights

Media coverage in C&M

The rights to show the CMSC1 on Candelariasian television were split between several companies, though as a partially state-funded entity TV1 were guaranteed a live match on Monday evenings. A Saturday lunchtime game was usually available on a pay-per-view basis on TV3, while TV3 Digital made all Saturday afternoon games available simultaneously, despite concerns over the knock-on affect on ticket sales. The main highlights package for the top division was owned by TTO, the largest fully commercially-funded network in the country, and broadcasted on Saturday evenings under the station’s flagship title of The Football Show. Onwere TV held the rights to CMSC2 and regional league highlights, while CMS Cup games were shown on satellite network Cúchulainn Sport. Today, the presence of domestic – or even international – football on Candelariasian television is minimal.

Media coverage overseas

The CMSC has long been shown on Rushmori stations, but Kura-Pellandi sports channel NTV Sport 2 was the first beyond the region to take the plunge and buy the rights to live games and highlights. The CMSC board were keen to sell their product overseas over the years and to capitalise on the greater exposure of Candelariasian football via the TQCC, and similar deals were conducted with several foreign networks. In other markets, clubs were permitted to act as independent parties, particularly when broadcasters are interested primarily in the rights to live matches featuring their own national team players.

Former International Broadcasters
Country	Broadcaster(s)
Daehanjeiguk	MBC
Jesselton	Arena Bola
Kelssek	NSN, KBC Sport
Kura-Pelland	NTV Sport 2
Liventia	BCL 2
Malak Free State	MITV
Nethertopia	NPBC
Pasarga	PISN
Sargossa	SargoSport 1 Telex 1, Telex 4¹
Somewhereistonia	VTV Spordiga, SXITV
Sorthern Northland	SNTV AOSport
Taeshan	TSPN CMSC² TSPN World
Valanora	VIB
Vephrall	BCN2 BCN International³

¹ Live matches screened on SargoSport 1; twice-weekly highlights on Telex 1; Football Gazzetta Candelaria weekly on Telex 4
² TSPN CMSC is the only known channel solely dedicated to Candelariasian domestic football, and is available to some 80% of TSPN subscribers
³ Major matches live on BCN2, other matches aired Wednesdays and Sundays on BCN International

Past champions

CMSC Season	Champions	Runners-Up	Third Place	CMS Cup Winners	Score	Runners-Up
I	Marquez-Onwere	Candelaria-Allemali		Gamboa FC	3-2	Ironside-Talinger
II	Marquez-Onwere	Candelaria-Allemali		Caires Sports	3-1	Albrecht FC
III	Marquez-Onwere	Khatib FC	Candelaria-Allemali	Gamboa FC	1-0	KT Hotspur
IV	Candelaria-Allemali	Albrecht FC	Marquez-Onwere	Di Alfonso Club	1-1 [2-1 AET]	Bove FC
V	Gamboa FC	Caires Sports	Khatib FC	Dyce FC	2-1	Caires FC
VI	Albrecht Turkish	Albrecht FC	Gamboa FC	Dyce FC	2-0	Onwere FC
VII	Candelaria-Allemali	KT Hotspur	Abiodun North	Sloane Wanderers	3-0	Khatib FC
VIII	Albrecht FC	Turks’ Club	Candelaria-Allemali	Albrecht FC	3-1	Albrecht Turkish
IX	Albrecht FC	Ironside-Talinger	Marquez-Onwere	Albrecht FC	2-1	Dyce FC
X	KT Hotspur	Radyukevich CSC	Cathedral City	Marquez-Onwere	1-0	Albrecht FC
XI	Albrecht FC	Turks’ Club	Khatib FC	Fallon United	1-0	Gamboa FC
XII	Port of Clotaire	Turks’ Club	Albrecht FC	Bass FC	3-2	Gamboa FC
XIII	Khatib FC	Caires FC	Turks’ Club	Marquez-Onwere	3-0	Candelaria-Allemali
XIV	Turks’ Club	Candelaria-Allemali	Khatib FC	Albrecht FC	2-1	Turks’ Club
XV	Castillo FC	Turks’ Club	Caires FC	KT Hotspur	2-0	Turks’ Club
XVI	Green Island	Castillo FC	Albrecht FC	Albrecht FC	2-0	Turks’ Club
XVII	Castillo FC	Cathedral City	Marquez-Onwere	Ironside-Talinger	2-1	Turks’ Club
XVIII	Turks’ Club	Castillo FC	Albrecht Turkish	Turks’ Club	1-1 [2-1 AET]	Abiodun North
XIX	Castillo FC	Albrecht FC	KT Hotspur	Castillo FC	1-0	Mayo Valley
XX	Albrecht FC	Albrecht Turkish	Turks’ Club	KT Hotspur	2-1	Port of Clotaire
XXI	Albrecht FC	Candelaria-Allemali	Gamboa FC	Ironside-Talinger	3-2	Arrigo City
XXII	Gamboa FC	Candelaria-Allemali	Albrecht FC	Port of Clotaire	2-1	Turks’ Club
XXIII	Albrecht FC	Albrecht Turkish	Turks’ Club	Mayo Valley	1-0	Radyukevich CSC
XXIV	Albrecht FC	Marquez-Onwere	Turks’ Club	Radyukevich CSC	4-1	Turks’ Club
XXV	Albrecht FC	Green Island	Albrecht Turkish	Green Island	1-0	Radyukevich CSC
XXVI	Marquez-Onwere	Albrecht Turkish	Albrecht FC	Albrecht Turkish	1-1 [2-1 AET]	El din Marbles
XXVII	Albrecht Turkish	Green Island	Albrecht FC	KT Hotspur	0-0 [1-0 AET]	Marquez-Onwere
XXVIII	Albrecht FC	Albrecht Turkish	Marquez-Onwere	Marquez-Onwere	1-0	KT Hotspur
XXIX	Albrecht Turkish	Caires City	Cathedral City	El din Marbles	2-1	Ironside-Talinger
XXX	Caires City	Arrigo Portuguese	Albrecht FC	Albrecht Turkish	2-2 [3-2 AET]	Caires City
XXXI	Caires City	Albrecht FC	Candelaria-Allemali	Caires City	2-1	KT Hotspur
XXXII	Albrecht Turkish	Caires City	Albrecht FC	Marquez-Onwere	3-1	Cathedral City
XXXIII	Albrecht FC	Albrecht Turkish	Green Island	Albrecht FC	3-0	Marquez-Onwere
XXXIV	Green Island	Marquez-Onwere	Tenderville United	Albrecht FC	3-0	Tenderville United
XXXV	Green Island	Albrecht FC	Caires City	Tenderville United	2-0	El din Marbles
XXXVI	Green Island	Albrecht Turkish	Port of Clotaire	Arrigo Portuguese	3-1	Albrecht FC
XXXVII	Albrecht FC	Marquez-Onwere	Green Island	Tenderville United	3-1	Albrecht Turkish
XXXVIII	Green Island	Port of Clotaire	Albrecht Turkish	Port of Clotaire	4-0	McDonald SC
XXXIX	Albrecht FC	Port of Clotaire	Caires City	Albrecht FC	1-1 (4-1 on pens)	Port of Clotaire

Personnel

**‘International Era’ top scorers in the CMSC** **(XXV to XXXIX)**
Rank	Player	Goals
1	Lúthien Anwamanë	135
2	Espy va Drake	133
3	Wanderley	106
4	Vorin Dariegan	105
5	Drunn Deleks	102
6	Julius Rotherwell	92
7	Cas Richardson	85
8	Greg Innisvale	84
9	Kim Daeeui	83
10	Tom Smith	82
As of XXXIX MD34 (CMS Cup and pre-XXV goals not included)

Foreign players

The issue of the involvement of non-nationals in CMSC teams first came to the fore prior to the XI championship, when Caires Sports announced the signing of three young stars from continental Rushmore. Though sanctioned by the league itself without a hitch, the CAMAFA – which still held the balance of power in Candelariasian football in those days – objected to the moves on the basis that the country’s own young talent would suffer as a result of any influx from overseas, and damage their long-term hopes of joining the international footballing community.

The CMSC duly accepted the CAMAFA’s findings – grudgingly or otherwise – and installed a ban on all players without C&M passports; cracking down hard on any clubs which attempted to skirt around the new rules. The ban was finally lifted prior to the XXV season – the start of the ‘International Era’ – by allowing each top-flight club to sign a single foreign player.

The weeks that followed saw a mighty list of firsts – Kura-Pellandi midfielder Giorgio Pezzoni becoming the first foreigner from beyond the immediate region to join a CMSC club, the Ariddian teenager Naoki Tonnelier becoming the league’s first female player at Albrecht FC, and Roger (later 'Artulcdhron') Zetaback becoming the first non-human at Green Island (albeit unbeknownst to the Candelariasian populace right up until the league’s dissolution).

Though the majority of the Rushmori imports failed to make an impact, the CMSC voted in favour of expanding the limit to three per team the following season, despite the CAMAFA’s continued misgivings. Though debates over the affect on young Candelariasian talent continued ever since, particularly after poor performances by the C&M national team, a consensus remained that the presence of the foreign stars in the league served to enhance the technical abilities and tactical awareness of the current generation of C&M natives, while certain foreigners – most notably the Cafundelense Dionísio Madeira Lobos – went on to play in C&M colours at various levels. From the perspective of club supporters, the last few seasons have seen the arrival of numerous players who will go down as genuine legends.

Though Kura-Pelland, traditional sporting allies and rivals of C&M, previously supplied the largest percentage of non-natives to the league; the foreigners of the CMSC later became a diverse bunch indeed, hailing from over fifty different countries. Major world names to have plied their trade in C&M include the Zwangzugian forward pairing of Gary Maini and Peter Vanderpent, the Vanorian World Cup winners Scott (later 'Faeron') Soldarian and Espy va Drake, Starblaydi World Cup 47 winning captain Tuomas Hindenburg, Ad'ihan captain Anthony Jones, and noted strikers from the likes of Bettia, Cafundéu, Daehanjeiguk, Demot, Sorthern Northland and the Capitalizt SLANI.

Besides the valued additions to their playing squads, several clubs benefited financial from bringing in foreign players; be it in the form of overseas television contracts (in those markets where CMSC1 games are sold on an individual basis) or shirt sales (such as Caires Sports’ employment of vast numbers of Yaforites, which made the Knights a closely followed team in the players’ motherland). The attitude of the league itself to foreign signings certainly changed utterly during its final few seasons, with smaller clubs frequently given financial assistance to sign big names whose presence was deemed to enhance the quality of the CMSC product as a whole.

Though the four-player quota remained in place until the last, the CMSC, from the XXXI season, provided vague ‘special dispensation’ to certain clubs to enable them to field more than this number of non-Candelariasians. Equally, several clubs exploited rules treating academy players - whatever their nationality - as being 'home-grown', while Nethertopians and other Rushmoris were considered to be 'half-foreigners' for the purposes of the quota system.

The differing scales in which international footballers appear to age allowed several players to become true CMSC mainstays, with Albrecht FC captain Francois St. Louis, of Kelssek, now holding the record for top-flight league starts. The legendary left-back is one of a tiny handful of foreign players – and even fewer full internationals – to have remained in C&M following the end of the country’s involvement in UICA football.

Foreign coaches

No such restrictions on the employment of overseas coaching staff existed, nor ever have done, though prior to the start of the ‘international era’ only a handful of Rushmori coaches had joined the backrooms of CMSC clubs. At the start of XVI, Marquez-Onwere broke the mould by bringing in former Kura-Pelland national team manager Andy Woolworth, who led the naranja to the league title in his first season.

Woolworth was soon joined by Matthew Tortini and Felipo Curana at Arrigo Portuguese and Turks’ Club respectively, though none of that trio remain in place. Another former Kura-Pellandi international, Giorgio Pezzoni, was Turks’ Club manager at the start of the XXX season however, while KT Hotspur have also dabbled with overseas managers; legendary Praying2God striker Thomas Larson having a period at the helm, while former Bostopian international defender Karl Matthews later succeeded him. Naoki Tonnelier became the league's first female manager when she joined Ironside. Asdrubal Espinoza, of Aguazul was one of the more successful foreign coaches, having led Albrecht Turkish to CMSC1 and Champions’ Cup titles before leaving for the Queer Poco el Mono Ara national team role, but XXXVI saw the top four clubs all managed by foreigners – Winston Muscat at Port of Clotaire and fellow Sortherner Alejandro Blanco da Cruz at Marquez-Onwere; and two Vanorians – title-winning coach Daft Massimo at Green Island, and Fabio Mannasuch at Turkish.

Other foreigners in the dugout – but not in full managerial positions – included Endmile native Thjis Tullier at Candelaria-Allemali, Kura-Pellandi Larry Torrell-Whyte at the El din Marbles and Squornshelan Djabgor Cvecej at Arrigo Portuguese, with CMSC legends Kim Daeeui and Julius Rotherwell graduated recently to the assistant manager’s spots at Albrecht FC and Albrecht Turkish respectively.

Certain Candelariasians also moved in the opposite direction, those managing abroad including Connor Mengucci and Ignacio Vélez in Cafundéu, José Felipe Cassumba Domingos and Hane Davies in Sargossa, and Doug Szczechowicz in Nethertopia.

International Era award winners

Season	Players’ Player of the Season	Sportswriters’ Player of the Season	Golden Boot	Young Player of the Season	Foreigner of the Season
XXIV	Steven Fritz (Albrecht FC)	Steven Fritz (Albrecht FC)	Steven Fritz (25 goals, Albrecht FC)	Rex Sandstrom (Castillo FC)	No Award
XXV	Roger Zetaback (Green Island)	Roger Zetaback (Green Island)	Stuart Vidakovic (19 goals, Green Island)	Ben Edwards (Albrecht FC)	Roger Zetaback (Green Island)
XXVI	Gary Maini (Albrecht Turkish)	Gary Maini (Albrecht Turkish)	Gary Maini (19 goals, Albrecht Turkish)	Joe Cunningham (Albrecht FC)	Gary Maini (Albrecht Turkish)
XXVII	Scott Soldarian (Albrecht Turkish)	Rául Vélez (Green Island)	Jamie Watson (19 goals, AFC MN Smith)	Jason Federici (Port of Clotaire)	Jamie Watson (AFC MN Smith)
XXVIII	Matteo Corradini (Albrecht FC)	Careca (Marquez-Onwere)	Peter Vanderpent (18 goals, Albrecht FC)	Cas Richardson (Gamboa FC)	Careca (Marquez-Onwere)
XXIX	Dionísio Madeira Lobos (Caires City)	Peter Vanderpent (Albrecht FC)	Lee Waywide (17 goals, Port of Clotaire)	Tom Smith (Arrigo Portuguese)	Espy va Drake (Green Island)
XXX	José Felipe Cassumba Domingos (Caires City)	Dionísio Madeira Lobos (Caires City)	Careca (16 goals, Marquez-Onwere)	Wanderley (Albrecht Independent FC)	Avilass Gackbang (Arrigo Portuguese)
XXXI	Kim Daeeui (Albrecht FC)	Dionísio Madeira Lobos (Caires City)	Kim Daeeui (21 goals, Albrecht FC)	Gwynfardd Lopulalan (KT Hotspur)	Kim Daeeui (Albrecht FC)
XXXII	David Spooner (Caires City)	Greg Innisvale (Albrecht Turkish)	David Spooner (25 goals, Caires City)	Drunn Deleks (Tenderville United)	Espy va Drake (Green Island)
XXXIII	William (Albrecht FC)	Espy va Drake (Green Island)	Drunn Deleks (21 goals, Tenderville United)	Werner (Albrecht Turkish)	Julius Rotherwell (Albrecht Turkish)
XXXIV	Souto Maior (Marquez-Onwere)	Espy va Drake (Green Island)	Augustine Dennin (23 goals, Marquez-Onwere)	Jacob Davies (Marquez-Onwere)	Augustine Dennin (Marquez-Onwere)
XXXV	Espy va Drake (Green Island)	Tuomas Hindenburg (Caires City)	Lúthien Anwamanë (22 goals, Green Island)	Jhanna Young (Green Island)	Lúthien Anwamanë (Green Island)
XXXVI	Espy va Drake (Green Island)	Lúthien Anwamanë (Green Island)	Lúthien Anwamanë (21 goals, Green Island)	Jameson Aldren (Green Island)	Caleb Edwards (Port of Clotaire)
XXXVII	Jesse Nakatsuru (Albrecht FC)	George Morrison (Albrecht FC)	Bas Smith (23 goals, Marquez-Onwere)	Adam Kouakou Kouamé (Albrecht FC)	Patrick Williams (Radyukevich CSC)
XXXVIII	Francisco Manuel Sánchez García (Port of Clotaire)	Jhanna Young (Green Island)	Francisco Manuel Sánchez García (19 goals, Port of Clotaire)	Quentin Gorrie (Caires City)	Will Hooper (Port of Clotaire)
XXXIX	Jesse Nakatsuru (Albrecht FC)	Will Hooper (Port of Clotaire)	Tico (19 goals, Tenderville United)	Tadhg Ó Lorcáin (Port of Clotaire)	Ahershk Valinial (Caires Sports)