The Meisterschaft League : The Draw

With the individual league cups about to reach their conclusion, it is time to announce the Meisterschaft League competition, an inter-league contest between all 25 teams in 3 leagues.

The first stage of this competition will be a group contest with 5 sections of 5 teams competing over 5 weeks in January, February and March.

The top three from each group will qualify for the second stage, a knock-out contest culminating in the Meisterschaft League Final on the very last weekend of the season in May.

The highest-scoring group winner will seal a bye through the first knockout stage, with the remaining group winners and highest-scoring runner-up seeded to be drawn against one of the third-placed teams in the knockout round.

No seeding was applied in the draw, so you may well have been drawn with four great teams or four poor teams - that's just the way it goes. The only seeding I've applied is to ensure that I don't draw two of my teams together, otherwise I could be accused of fixing the result between two of them. I also ensured that each group had one team from each league in it.

The draw was made from the CSMCL Champions Cup and here are the results.

Group A	Manager	League
Finntastic FC	David Mason	MMM
Gusset Rovers	Matt Small	VBCL
Done Like A Kipper 2.0	Ken Yau	MMM
Cabernet United	Shiraz Cassim	CSMCL
Forthy's Tractor Boys	Peter Forth	MMM
Group B	Manager	League
Berbie Goes Bananas	Leon Hayes	MMM
Dinorben Tigers	David Trice	CSMCL
Bobby Robson's Old Boys	Marc Bradbrook	MMM
Hoad Harriers	Paul Hoad	CSMCL
Scott Arnold	Scott Arnold	VBCL
Group C	Manager	League
AFC Richmond's Rovers	Pete Fuller	CSMCL
Prancing Show Ponies	Ben Renshaw	CSMCL
Farcelona	Gavin Short	CSMCL
We Were Leeds	Suresh Mistry	VBCL
It's Only Ray Parlour	David Trice	MMM
Group D	Manager	League
Basingstoke Beavers	Jon Small	VBCL
AC Tricey	David Trice	VBCL
Oi Oi Saveloy	Andy Holmes	CSMCL
You Gotta Have A System	Jon Ryder-Oliver	VBCL
The Piemen	Chris Lamy	MMM
Group E	Manager	League
Snaiks 11	Shalin Naik	MMM
The Who	Anthony Trice	CSMCL
Golden Eagles	Glyn Wilmshurst	VBCL
AFC Cornwall	Stuart Guard-Ward	VBCL
Rennet Rovers	Andy Jewitt	CSMCL

The first games will be played on the week of 15th-21st January, so why not check out your opponents and look out for news about the fixtures in the next couple of days.