Bloims Premier League

Current BPL Logo (2020)

The **Bloims Premier League**, often referred to as the **The League** or the **BPL**, is the primary competition in the Bloims football league system. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates based upon the Official Fantasy Premier League (**Official FPL**). The League operates on a promotion and relegation system for clubs but all managers compete in a fixed league, where eligibility is based upon membership of **The Bloims**.

Teams who compete in the BPL also compete against each other in the **Subway Cup** and **Bloims Champions League**

The competition was founded as the Bloims Premier League prior to the 2014-15 Premier League Season. This fantasy league was to be comprised of ten managers now known as the **Founding Members** of the BPL. (Rogers, Alka, Speding, Duke, Aggarwal, Spav, Jalif, Jaspal, Marway, Moss)

Controversially Kent, was not invited to compete in the 2014-15 season despite his club regularly fielding a side in the Official FPL game. He would eventually join the league the following season. He would be joined by Docker in 2016-17, Pow controversially in 2018-19 and Quinn in 2020-21. The inaugural season faced numerous issues such as fixture congestion, a lack of understanding of the game's parameters and general confusion around the league's format. Since the 2014-15 Season the league has undergone significant reform, most recently in the summer of 2020 with the new Subway Cup format and Bloims Champions League qualification process.

The league is a corporation in which the member clubs act as shareholders, and generates €2.2 billion per year in domestic and international rights. The Bloims Premier League is the most-followed fantasy sports league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.

14 managers have competed since the inception of the Bloims Premier League in 2014. Five of them have won the title: Alka (2), Jaspal (1), Speding (1), Pow (1), Moss (1)

### Current BPL Clubs

The 2020-21 season saw the largest ever BPL line-up with the addition of a 14th team.

The teams currently competing for the title are:

Athletic Beeboi - Moss

A Job On Your Blaje - Duke

Barcebloima FC - Alka

Blackbloim Rovers - Quinn

Billington Town - Speding

The Builders - Rogers

Thotingham Forest - Kent

Dynamo Pornbots - Docker

Gleeb City FC - Marway

Jasperini's Roquetas - Jaspal

Hold the Line F.C - Aggarwal

Los Coq - Spav

AFC FitF\*nnatic - Pow

Shottingham Noshpur - Jalif

### Trophy

Managers in the league compete for the BPL Trophy, a gold cup formally named the *Omar Parry Kent Gentleman's Invitational Football Challenge Cup.*

The BPL Trophy is a gold plated cup, 38cm tall with two ornate handles. It was engraved with the words: Bloims Premier League. The trophy sits atop a black base which is engraved with the names of previous winners.

##### History

Prior to the 2019-20 season the Bloims Premier League was without a formal trophy. An informal practice of the lowest placed manager purchasing a trophy for the winner was irregularly followed but few of these early trophies have survived.
In 2019 Kent lead a campaign of fundraising to commission a permanent trophy for the league, citing the urgent need for a prize befitting a competition of such importance. His campaigned failed with no Bloims willing to provide funds. Undeterred, Kent procured a trophy raising the money by selling a 2014/15 Bloims Premier League Winners Medal given to him by Alka to pay for the cup.

Moss was the first manager to lift the new BPL Trophy.