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Heidelberg United, a non-A League club, has a chance to make history by becoming the first non-A League club to win the Australian Cup in the final against Newcastle Jets. The team's players had initially booked a trip to Bali but pulled out after reaching the final. They sold their tickets to fellow Melbourne club Avondale FC.

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"🏆 Inspired by the Canadian Premier League's bottom club Vancouver FC qualifying for the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 2025 we have picked out the unlikeliest continental qualification story from each confederation - including a seventh-tier team in Europe and a reserve side in Africa Here is what we found. THREAD 🧵"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:15Z 49.6K followers, 13.2K engagements

"1) Promoted league leaders 📈 Wisa Pock were only promoted this summer but sit top of the table at the winter break despite having drawn half of their XX matches. Poland is one of only a handful of countries with a promoted leader along with the likes of Switzerland (Thun) & Belarus (ML Vitebsk 👑)"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:23Z 49.6K followers, 6413 engagements

"3) Nobody wants to win ❌ Both third-placed Jagiellonia Biaystok and fourth-placed Rakw Czstochowa had chances to go top for the winter break on Sunday. But Jagiellonia were held to a draw by mid-table Motor Lublin while Rakw fell to a late home defeat at the hands of Zagbie Lubin"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:25Z 49.6K followers, 6223 engagements

"7) Even smaller than Mjllby 🏙 In fact the only club below Legia Warsaw in the table is Bruk-Bet Termalica from Nieciecza a southern Polish village with only XXX people For comparative purposes that is even smaller than the tiny village that surprise Swedish champions Mjllby call home: Hllevik is twice as big"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:29Z 49.6K followers, 5486 engagements

"Message from us: If you enjoyed this thread please share it follow us @SweeperPod and keep an eye out for our next episode which will feature Poland Please also follow @DbAbsur for great Polish football information. He was the source for the statistic on slide X of this thread. Thanks"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:30Z 49.6K followers, 6205 engagements

"🏨 The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco will reportedly be the first edition of the tournament where every team stays at a 5-star hotel Meanwhile the Pacific nation of Tuvalu only has one hotel on the entire island meaning it does not meet the criteria for full membership of OFC ➡"
X Link 2025-12-17T11:00Z 49.6K followers, 58K engagements

"Despite not paying their players for four months Rnger's made a flying start to the season in Andorra and were top with five wins and two draws. Since recommencing salary payments at the end of November they have lost three matches in a row and dropped down to third in the table"
X Link 2025-12-17T15:30Z 49.6K followers, 10.1K engagements

"📧 Shamrock Rovers defender Pico Lopes could be the first-ever player recruited by his national team via LinkedIn to play in a World Cup Lopes was approached by the Cape Verdean federation but could not understand Portuguese & thought it was spam. Fortunately they tried again (in English) and the rest is history 🤩"
X Link 2025-10-13T18:37Z 49.6K followers, 357.3K engagements

"The tiny Pacific island of Niue which has under 2000 inhabitants has launched a fundraiser to develop football on the island. The rewards for donors to the fundraiser for Niue once an OFC Associate Member include the first-ever national team shirt & a limited-edition jersey"
X Link 2025-11-15T15:30Z 49.6K followers, 18.3K engagements

"For all the talk about the J1 League it is arguably the J3 League - the third tier - that is providing Japan's most closely contested title race this season. With two rounds of games to go both Tochigi City and Vanraure Hochinohe have the same points tally and goal difference. Photo finish incoming"
X Link 2025-11-17T18:00Z 49.6K followers, 14K engagements

"With no wins in their last XX games - a run stretching over two and a half years - Atltico San Cristbal of the Dominican Republic were staking a claim to be the worst top-flight team in the Americas. Now they have been expelled from the league by FIFA for alleged match manipulation"
X Link 2025-11-22T15:00Z 49.6K followers, 24.7K engagements

"💫 English-Australian coach Kevin Muscat has now won five league titles with three Asian clubs over the last decade of his coaching career. After winning two Australian Championships (Melbourne Victory) & the J1 League (Yokohama F. Marinos) he has now won two Chinese Super Leagues with Shanghai Port Amazing"
X Link 2025-11-26T11:30Z 49.6K followers, 50.3K engagements

"Sad news from Portugal where Boavista - one of only two clubs outside the big three to win the league - look to have reached the end of the road. With financial debts mounting Boavista's insolvency administrator has requested that the local court order the club to be wound up"
X Link 2025-11-27T16:00Z 49.5K followers, 67.5K engagements

"🏟 🏟 Follower Michael went to Serravalle in San Marino - the scene of one of our happiest football memories - to watch La Fiorita in action. Back in the summer he saw them play Vardar of North Macedonia and get eliminated from the Conference League despite a 2-2 draw"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:00Z 49.5K followers, 6966 engagements

"Map of countries the San Marino national team has never beaten once versus countries the San Marino national team has beaten three times: 🔴 Never beaten once 🔵 Beaten three times: Liechtenstein The victories came on XX April 2004 X September 2024 and XX November 2024"
X Link 2025-12-02T13:30Z 49.6K followers, 25.5K engagements

"🌉 Danish club FC Copenhagen have bought a XX% stake in Swedish third-tier men's team FC Rosengrd with the aim of developing young talent & helping their neighbours rise through the ranks. The two clubs are only XX kilometres apart as the crow flies separated only by the resund Bridge"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:30Z 49.6K followers, 491.7K engagements

"Second-tier Lillestrm have won the Norwegian Cup completing a remarkable season in which they also got promoted and were unbeaten They have become only the third lower-league club worldwide to win a primary domestic cup in 2025 after Vaduz & Nairobi United"
X Link 2025-12-06T20:54Z 49.6K followers, 44.6K engagements

"The 2026 World Cup draw has pitted Canada and Switzerland together two countries with significant French-speaking minorities (approx. 25%). We can't help thinking it is a shame that game is not taking place in Quebec the only Canadian province where French is the primary language"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:30Z 49.5K followers, 44.1K engagements

"@falsobohemio Honestly we're going to go by all the reporting which is reflected in our English wording but thanks for the comments"
X Link 2025-12-07T16:07Z 49.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Shock in Serbia where Red Star Belgrade have lost a home league game - against Vojvodina - for the first time in close to a decade. The last home defeat they suffered in the Serbian SuperLiga was by a 3-1 scoreline against cross-city rivals Partizan back on XX April 2017"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:30Z 49.6K followers, 54.4K engagements

"Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo are the only club in Japan's three professional leagues based on Hokkaido the northernmost of the main four islands. The club who are in the second-tier J2 League play their home games at the Sapporo Dome which hosted three matches at the 2002 World Cup"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:00Z 49.6K followers, 26.2K engagements

"Our brand-new episode is available NOW for Patreon subscribers to listen early. Join us at for early access. There's a special focus on Canada 🏔 Vancouver Whitecaps' relocation fears 🏆 Canada's bottom club's Champions Cup spot Supra du Quebec's Athletic Bilbao model & much more besides"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:37Z 49.6K followers, 2385 engagements

"Bucheon have achieved the first-ever promotion to the K1 League the top-flight division in South Korean football in their history. The club finished in third place in the K2 League but successfully navigated two play-off matches - including a victory over top-tier Suwon FC"
X Link 2025-12-10T11:30Z 49.5K followers, 4284 engagements

"Lille face Young Boys of Switzerland in the Europa League tonight - but French fans will not be able to watch their team in action on TV back home. This is due to Young Boys' shirt sponsor Plus XXX an investment company which is deemed risky by the French Financial Markets Authority & cannot be advertised during sporting events under French law"
X Link 2025-12-11T10:42Z 49.5K followers, 32.5K engagements

"Ultimate underdogs Vancouver FC have been drawn against reigning champions Cruz Azul of Mexico in the 2026 CONCACAF Champions Cup first round Vancouver FC qualified thanks to their run to the final of the Canadian Championship - despite finishing bottom of the Canadian Premier League"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:00Z 49.6K followers, 13K engagements

"It has been a week of Canadian focus at Sweeper HQ culminating in this fantastic giveaway with Vancouver FC. You can enter here on X and separately on Instagram:"
X Link 2025-12-13T11:27Z 49.5K followers, 4170 engagements

"@BartekGab We included Anderlecht as a Brussels club. You can put it up for debate but having been to Belgium its a capital club"
X Link 2025-12-16T19:09Z 49.6K followers, XXX engagements

"The Northern Mariana Islands - an unincorporated territory of the United States - have a so-called 'skunk Rule' in place in their domestic league. According to the RSSSF the rule means any win by a margin over five goals ends as a 5-0 though the teams keep on playing even if that margin is reached"
X Link 2025-11-14T19:15Z 49.6K followers, 30.4K engagements

"🏝 There are only two islands in the Caribbean that are shared by two CONCACAF members: Hispaniola: Haiti (west) Dominican Republic (east). Saint Martin: Saint Martin (north) Sint Maarten (south)"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:00Z 49.6K followers, 6751 engagements

"It seems as if Sheffield United have a badge lookalike: Digai Asu who play in the second tier of Azerbaijan's football pyramid It is the most random logo connection we have heard of in European football since we saw the similarities between Peterborough United 🏴 & Bli"
X Link 2025-12-07T10:30Z 49.6K followers, 31.2K engagements

"RB Omiya Ardija who play in the J2 League remain the only club in the Red Bull multi-club ownership model not in a national top tier. Based in Japan's Saitama Prefecture they lost their promotion play-off semi-final to JEF United 4-3 having led 3-0 with XX minutes to go. Map Key 🔑 🔴 Majority ownership 🔵 Minority ownership"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:30Z 49.6K followers, 47.1K engagements

"If you want to find out more about FC Supra du Quebec check out our brand-new special podcast on Canada. Episode links below: 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:03Z 49.6K followers, 2458 engagements

"New podcast out NOW with a special segment on Canada. For more on Vancouver Whitecaps and their memorable 2025 check out our brand-new episode: 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:55Z 49.6K followers, 2529 engagements

"New episode for your morning commute 🤩 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:07Z 49.6K followers, 7013 engagements

"@DrJMoneyPHD Auckland City aren't in the OFC Pro League. That's Auckland FC"
X Link 2025-12-14T15:27Z 49.6K followers, XXX engagements

"@oghenemaro_1 Would recommend doing a bit of research on Turkmenistan"
X Link 2025-12-15T12:19Z 49.6K followers, 7522 engagements

"🏆 We're calling for a 16-team tournament for European cross-border/exclave/island clubs: FC Andorra Araz-Naxvan PFK FC Kuressaare IFK Mariehamn SC Bastia BV Derry City FC Cagliari Calcio Palermo Calcio FC Vaduz AS Monaco CD Nacional CD Santa Clara San Marino AD Ceuta UD Las Palmas Rules 1) Max. two clubs per country 2) Max. one club per island/exclave 3) Top two divisions of national pyramid only"
X Link 2025-06-27T09:12Z 49.6K followers, 36.9K engagements

"Colorado Rapids will take on Minnesota United in the MLS tonight - and there will be a special treat in store for the fans at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. On their way out of the stadium they are invited to pick up a bag of home-grown potatoes courtesy of local company Colorado Potatoes"
X Link 2025-09-27T13:30Z 49.6K followers, 14.9K engagements

"👑 There are currently two promoted clubs worldwide that have become top-flight champions in 2025: US Sinnamary (French Guiana) Scottland FC (Zimbabwe) US Sinnamary are former three time champions of French Guiana whereas Scottland were only founded in 2023 & are already national champions"
X Link 2025-11-04T17:00Z 49.6K followers, 16.2K engagements

"🏝 The Caribbean island of Bonaire whose status is a special municipality of the Netherlands has been a member of CONCACAF since 2014. But there are also two other special municipalities of the Netherlands in the region that are not members of the confederation: Saba & Sint Eustatius"
X Link 2025-11-30T15:00Z 49.6K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Tuvalu's push for full OFC membership has been aided by DeepAI who sponsored the Pacific island's participation in the 2025 OFC Futsal Cup. The tech company which is based in Silicon Valley covered the costs of Tuvalu's 1100km journey from their home island to host country Fiji"
X Link 2025-12-03T12:30Z 49.6K followers, 14.8K engagements

"Now that's something you don't see every day: Deportes Melipilla beat relegation from Chile's third tier despite having -XX points They were deducted points for unpaid wages & failing to restore financial guarantees but were spared by San Antonio Unido finishing on -XX points"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:00Z 49.6K followers, 17K engagements

"Legia Warsaw Poland's most successful club & the only club not to have been relegated from the top flight since WW2 are in full-blown crisis They find themselves in the drop zone having not won in the Ekstraklasa since September & having lost to bottom club Piast Gliwice yesterday"
X Link 2025-12-07T18:30Z 49.6K followers, 566.9K engagements

"New podcast out NOW with a special segment on Canada. Check it out for more on Vancouver FC's quirky CONCACAF Champions Cup qualification: 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:01Z 49.6K followers, 6673 engagements

"York Uniteds rebrand as Inter Toronto featured in our special Canada segment. To find out more about the changes to the CPL line-up next season check out our new podcast: 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:47Z 49.6K followers, 2761 engagements

"🏆 Top-flight leagues where the points system is currently X for a win X for a draw and X for a defeat: French Guiana: Regional X Guadeloupe: Rgionale X Martinique: Trophe Grard Janvion - R1 Tahiti: Ligue X Vini Interestingly they are all overseas departments regions or collectivities of France"
X Link 2025-12-13T13:30Z 49.6K followers, 13.1K engagements

"🏴 UEFA: Merthyr Tydfil Perhaps the best is saved for last. As 1987 Welsh Cup winners while in the English seventh tier Merthyr Tydfil qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup. They faced second-tier Atalanta - whom they beat at home before losing on aggregate - in a rare continental tie between two lower-league teams"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:24Z 49.6K followers, 5008 engagements

"🌎 There are six members of CONCACAF that are not members of FIFA: Bonaire French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Saint Martin Sint Maarten This is because they are not fully independent countries recognised by the United Nations"
X Link 2025-10-13T14:30Z 49.6K followers, 42.8K engagements

"What a run for the Caribbean island of Grenada who have now won six matches in a row - the longest winning streak in their history The world's 165th-ranked nation have beaten CONCACAF teams Anguilla Bahamas St. Kitts & Nevis British Virgin Islands Cuba & US Virgin Islands"
X Link 2025-11-16T15:30Z 49.6K followers, 22.1K engagements

"There are two Dutch-speaking territories in the Americas that are CONCACAF members but not FIFA members & so not eligible for the World Cup. Bonaire (Special municipality of the Netherlands) Sint Maarten (Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)"
X Link 2025-11-16T19:00Z 49.6K followers, 21.3K engagements

"The stadium of FC Jurez from the Liga MX Mexico's top flight is located more or less on the border with the United States. The 19700-capacity Estadio Olmpico Benito Jurez is only XXX metres - or XXX feet - from the Ro Bravo river which serves as the border with the US"
X Link 2025-11-27T18:48Z 49.6K followers, 44.1K engagements

"🌎 Sovereign states or dependencies geographically in South America not affiliated with CONMEBOL: Aruba (CONCACAF) Bonaire (CONCACAF) Curaao (CONCACAF) Falkland Islands (No affiliation) French Guiana (CONCACAF) Guyana (CONCACAF) Suriname (CONCACAF) Trinidad and Tobago (CONCACAF) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (No affiliation)"
X Link 2025-12-01T13:00Z 49.6K followers, 6810 engagements

"Nine of the XX clubs in the Seychelles Premier League come from the largest two islands Mah & Praslin but there is one that is based elsewhere. Anse Runion are from the smaller island of La Digue and are therefore required to make ferry travel for every single away game"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:09Z 49.6K followers, 7165 engagements

"The XX kilometres of Atlantic coastline in the circle below have potentially denied us the World Cup's most landlocked football match ever. DR Congo could still make the 2026 tournament via the play-offs & would then be in a group with debutants Uzbekistan the only double-landlocked country to ever qualify"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:12Z 49.6K followers, 22.9K engagements

"There is not a single pairing in the 2026 World Cup draw of two countries who have a shared border although that could still change. If Italy qualify via the play-offs they will be in Group B with Switzerland - with whom they share a border that is approximately 750km long"
X Link 2025-12-06T18:30Z 49.6K followers, 28.1K engagements

"What an amazing achievement for Palestine who have secured top spot in their group at the Arab Cup and advanced to the quarter-finals It is the first time in six appearances at the tournament that the Palestine national team have made it through the group stages Historic"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:15Z 49.6K followers, 6704 engagements

"🏆 Second-tier clubs who won their primary domestic cup competition in 2025 while playing in their own country's football pyramid: Lillestrm Nairobi United *FC Vaduz of the Swiss Challenge League also won the Liechtenstein Cup"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:00Z 49.6K followers, 7174 engagements

"FC Supra du Qubec who will join the Canadian Premier League in 2026 are implementing a recruitment policy modelled on Athletic Bilbao. Like the Bilbao club's Basque only policy the new addition to the CPL plan to exclusively sign and develop Quebec-born players"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:30Z 49.6K followers, 949.4K engagements

"📉 Top-flight clubs in the shaded territory below without a single league win this season: Fiorentina San Marino Academy U22s Guardia Svizzera (Swiss Guard) San Marino and Vatican City - two of the world's three enclave countries along with Lesotho - are located inside Italy's borders"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:42Z 49.6K followers, 17K engagements

"🏆 . Featuring top-flight clubs from around the world with Inter in their name: Inter Club d'Escaldes Internacional Inter Toronto Inter Club de Brazzaville Inter Turku Inter Kashi Inter Milan Inter Nouakchott Inter Moengotapoe Inter Miami"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:00Z 49.6K followers, 58.9K engagements

"Martimo the club from the island of Madeira are on course to return to Portugal's Primeira Liga following a three-year absence. Although they are second in the league at the moment there are two automatic promotion spots and the leaders Sporting B are not eligible to go up"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:11Z 49.6K followers, 15.1K engagements

"📺 NEW VIDEO PODCAST 📺 Part 1: Canada 🏔 Vancouver Whitecaps' relocation fears ❓ Vancouver FC's curious continental qualification FC Supra du Qubec: Canada's Athletic Bilbao Part 2: Rest of the world 🌍 Four points for a win in the Caribbean Lillestrm: Norway's second-tier cup winners 🏆 The World Cup draw for the four debutants"
X Link 2025-12-09T20:11Z 49.6K followers, 31K engagements

"New episode is out & contains a quiz on the most bizarre location-specific football rules across the globe Some are true and some are false. Play along at home and let us know how you get on 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-10T12:03Z 49.6K followers, 3437 engagements

"The 2025 MLS Cup final between Inter Miami & Vancouver Whitecaps was a meeting of the two furthest-apart teams in the division (4300km). For the purposes of comparison for a European audience that is more than the journey from London to Baku - for a domestic league game"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:00Z 49.6K followers, 20.7K engagements

"ICYMI: New pod out with a special focus on Canada 🤩 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:08Z 49.6K followers, 6097 engagements

"🏆 . Featuring REAL teams who share the name of a Premier League club; max one namesake of each club: Aston Villa Newcastle (Jets) Everton (de Via del Mar) West Ham (Pinar) (Berekum) Chelsea Sunderland (Naivasha) Arsenal (Tivat) Crystal Palace (Gampola) Liverpool"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:00Z 49.6K followers, 53.8K engagements

"A new club taking inspiration from Athletic Bilbao will join the Canadian Premier League in 2026: FC Supra du Qubec. For more on their story check out our special Canada podcast episode: 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:27Z 49.6K followers, 3528 engagements

"Things have gone from bad to worse for FC Haka one of Finland's most storied clubs who finished last in the Veikkausliiga & were relegated. Now a teenager has set fire to their stadium burning down an entire stand damaging the artificial turf & causing significant costs"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:30Z 49.6K followers, 22.8K engagements

"Having already impressively beaten Polish champions Lech Pozna this season Lincoln Red Imps have followed it up by beating Czechs Sigma Olomouc Can teams from Central Europe do it on a balmy December Thursday on a peninsula overlooking the coast of Africa Apparently not"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:30Z 49.6K followers, 23.2K engagements

"Polish football is absolutely crazy this season: 🔝 League leaders Wisa Pock have drawn their last five matches Reigning champs Lech Pozna have lost to a team from UEFA's smallest member Record champs Legia Warsaw are in the relegation zone. 🏙 .level on points with Bruk-Bet Termalica a club from a village of XXX people"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:22Z 49.6K followers, 114.5K engagements

"No UEFA member has more top-flight football clubs for its population size than San Marino where XX clubs compete in the championship. With 33908 inhabitants in the micro-state which is surrounded by Italy that equates to a top-flight football team per 2119 people Map: @RiccardoDAgnese"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:00Z 49.6K followers, 27.3K engagements

"NEW GIVEAWAY We're teaming up with Canadian Premier League club & CONCACAF Champions Cup debutants Vancouver FC to give away one of their shirts 🤩 To enter: ➡ Repost this post ➡ Follow both @SweeperPod & @vanfootballclub We'll announce the winner on Tuesday 🔜"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:30Z 49.6K followers, 24.6K engagements

"Comunicaciones - which literally translates as 'Communications' - have finished BOTTOM of the Apertura table in Guatemala's Liga Nacional They are the most successful club in the country having won a record XX league titles in the professional era and two continental trophies"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:30Z 49.6K followers, 13.8K engagements

"Cameroon have not only made headlines for naming two squads for AFCON due to a rift between FA president Samuel Eto'o & coach Marc Brys. They have also called up Arnaud Mael Kamdem a free agent who has been playing in Brazil's regional leagues - the sixth tier to be precise this year"
X Link 2025-12-13T10:30Z 49.6K followers, 138.2K engagements

"Portugal is the only country in UEFA where reserve teams are currently top of the second & third tiers Liga Portugal 2: Sporting CP B Liga 3: Vitria de Guimares B* *The Portuguese third tier is divided into two groups. Vitoria B are top of Zone A while CF Os Belenenses are top of Zone B"
X Link 2025-12-13T12:13Z 49.6K followers, 60.8K engagements

"🏆 . Featuring clubs whose names contain punctuation; max. two teams per type of punctuation: Newells Old Boys 🏴 Brighton & Hove Albion Colo-Colo EB/Streymur X. FC Kln Shimizu SPulse Nouakchott King's Bod/Glimt Taipei Bravo So who do you think is winning (this league)"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:00Z 49.6K followers, 43.3K engagements

"It is almost a decade since Christmas Island & the Cocos Islands - both Australian external territories - have resumed one of football's most remote rivalries The two islands which are almost 1000km apart contested the Inter-Island Cup between 1994 & 2017 but have not played since"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:00Z 49.6K followers, 23K engagements

"HNK Neum who play in the Bosnia & Herzegovina's third tier are the only football club based in a coastal town in the entire country. With Croatia to the north and south Bosnia & Herzegovina has only XX kilometres of coastline - and Neum is its only proper town bordering the sea"
X Link 2025-12-14T13:30Z 49.6K followers, 15.3K engagements

"🏆 Even though the OFC Pro League is launching in January 2026 the amateur OFC Champions League will continue to run next year too: Qualification: 31/01-06/02 in Samoa Tournament proper: 09/08-22/08 in Fiji The difference now is that the winner - usually Auckland City of New Zealand - will no longer qualify for the Intercontinental/Club World Cup"
X Link 2025-12-14T15:00Z 49.6K followers, 15.1K engagements

"🌍 Despite being the second-smallest continent in terms of surface area - behind only Oceania - Europe's continental football confederation has more members than any other in the world. UEFA has XX member states narrowly ahead of CAF (54). AFC has XX & CONCACAF XX. OFC has XX with CONMEBOL last with only 10"
X Link 2025-12-14T18:00Z 49.6K followers, 7403 engagements

"🏆 . Featuring two clubs per continent with animal names: AFC: Blaublitz Akita Angkor Tiger CAF: Team Rhino Hungry Lions CONCACAF: San Pedro Seadogs Devonshire Cougars CONMEBOL: Delfn Jaguares de Crdoba OFC: Royal Puma FC Ifira Black Bird UEFA: 🏴 Wolves Go Ahead Eagles"
X Link 2025-12-14T19:30Z 49.6K followers, 59.8K engagements

"🏝 There will only be only island nation taking part at AFCON 2025: Comoros However Equatorial Guinea have also qualified & although the majority of its territory is in continental Africa its capital Malabo is on the island of Bioko which is about 32km from the mainland"
X Link 2025-12-14T21:00Z 49.6K followers, 8668 engagements

"Turkmenistan's dictator-founded football club Arkadag have now completed a third league season in which they have not dropped a single point. Since being set up on X April 2023 Arkadag have won all XX leagues they have played - as well as all XX cup ties they have contested too"
X Link 2025-12-15T11:00Z 49.6K followers, 86.9K engagements

"AFC: Ventforet Kofu As the winners of the Emperor's Cup in 2022 J2 League side Ventforet Kofu qualified for the AFC Champions League Asia's top continental competition. They sensationally became the first-ever lower-league club to reach the knockout stages before eventually bowing out to Korean club Ulsan HD"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:17Z 49.6K followers, 2330 engagements

"CAF: Barack Young Controllers II This blew our minds. The RESERVES of Barrack Young Controllers won the Liberian Cup TWICE in 2012 and 2015 qualifying for the Confederation Cup. They even won a tie the first time eliminating Johansen of Sierra Leone 1-0 on aggregate. The second time they were eliminated immediately"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:20Z 49.6K followers, 2357 engagements

"CONCACAF: Vancouver FC (2025) We've never heard of a league's bottom club qualifying for a top continental competition before but Vancouver FC will face Champions Cup holders Cruz Azul in 2026 They reached the final of the Canadian Championship and booked their spot as winners Vancouver Whitecaps had already qualified via MLS"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:22Z 49.6K followers, 2269 engagements

"CONMEBOL: Palmeiras Brazilian giants Palmeiras were relegated in 2012 - the same season in which they won the Copa do Brasil and qualified for the Copa Libertadores. They narrowly won their group as a second-tier side the following year - the same season in which they gained promotion back from Brazil's Srie B"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:23Z 49.6K followers, 4256 engagements

"Although instances of a lower-league cup winners do appear to exist in OFC we could not find notable examples of weird continental qualifications. If you know of one for Oceania or indeed for any of the other football confederations then please let us know - and please share this thread"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:25Z 49.6K followers, 3176 engagements

"If you want to find out more about curious continental qualifications then check out our new podcast episode which you can find via the following links: 🟢 Spotify: 🍎Apple: 📺 YouTube:"
X Link 2025-12-15T18:25Z 49.6K followers, 2759 engagements

"2 There are only seven UEFA nations without a standard one-league second tier. Split second tier: Greek Super League X (Groups A & B) Moldovan Liga X (Groups A & B) Bosnia First Leagues of FBiH & Republika Srpska 🏴 Cymru North & South No second tier: San Marino Gibraltar No second tier and first tier: Liechtenstein"
X Link 2025-12-16T11:00Z 49.6K followers, 29.4K engagements

"There is an interesting story unfolding in Indonesia where president Prabowo Subianto founded a football club called Garudayaksa FC in June 2025. They bought another team PSKC Cimahi and took their place in the second tier where they top the table and are on track for Super League promotion"
X Link 2025-12-16T12:30Z 49.6K followers, 215K engagements

"🏆 . Featuring football clubs worldwide associated with universities or the field of education 🧑🎓 Estudiantes Scholars International Universidad de Chile University College Dublin Universitatea Craiova Teachers FC Universidad Central 🏴 Cardiff Met University"
X Link 2025-12-16T15:30Z 49.6K followers, 31.3K engagements

"You might think you've seen it all in football but trust us you have rarely seen a season as mental as this one in Poland Here are eight things you need to know about the 2025/26 campaign in the Ekstraklasa Europe's craziest top-flight league THREAD 🧵"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:20Z 49.6K followers, 58.5K engagements

"2) Into top after five draws 🔝 The amazing thing is that Wisa Pock have drawn their last five matches - but have still moved up from second to first in that time They leapfrogged previous table-toppers Grnik Zabrze who have picked up only four points from their last five rounds of games"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:24Z 49.6K followers, 6524 engagements

"4) Conference League love-in 😍 There are four Polish clubs in the league phase of the Conference League which is twice as many as any other country. In fact on Matchday X - when Dynamo Kyiv played in Lublin - there were a record five games in the competition on Polish soil on one night"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:26Z 49.6K followers, 5862 engagements

"5) Gibraltarian giant-killing The stand-out result of the campaign from a Polish perspective has to be champions Lech Poznan losing to Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar. Gibraltar is UEFA's smallest member with a surface area of 6.8km2 & a population of 38000 - XX x fewer than the city of Poznan"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:27Z 49.6K followers, 5368 engagements

"8) Total unpredictability It is not just this season either: Poland has had three different champions in the last three years & three first-time title-winners winners in the last decade. Who is going to win the title in the end this season Who is going to get relegated to the second tier Honestly your guess is as good as ours"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:30Z 49.6K followers, 6083 engagements

"🏙 Only two UEFA countries have not had a league or national cup winner from their capital this century: Germany: The last club from Berlin to win a major domestic trophy in a unified Germany was Hertha lifting the national championship back in 1931 🏴 Wales: The last team from Cardiff to achieve the feat was Inter CableTel - now Cardiff Met - who won the Welsh Cup in 1999"
X Link 2025-12-16T18:30Z 49.6K followers, 89K engagements

"🦁 Brazil is becoming the land of the fast risers: Mirassol Remo & Vitria were all in Srie C together in 2022 but will all play in Srie A in 2026. Interestingly all three clubs have some variation of lion in their nicknames: Leo da Alta Araraquarense (Araraquense Highway Lion) Leo Azul (Blue Lion) & Leo da Barra (Barra's Lion) respectively"
X Link 2025-12-16T20:00Z 49.6K followers, 7871 engagements

"The people of Jordan will certainly be very low if their country loses to Morocco in the final of the Arab Cup on Thursday XX December. That is because Jordan is home to the lowest land elevation on Earth: the surface of the Dead Sea is currently about XXX meters below sea level"
X Link 2025-12-16T21:30Z 49.6K followers, 28.4K engagements

"📺 It's FIFA Intercontinental Cup final day as European champions Paris Saint Germain take on their South American counterparts Flamengo. You can watch the Intercontinental Cup live tonight at 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET on FIFA+ for free via the link below or in our Instagram stories. 🔗"
X Link 2025-12-17T12:30Z 49.6K followers, 8740 engagements

"We want two teams to support so were backing Cameroon 😃"
X Link 2025-12-17T13:10Z 49.6K followers, 4935 engagements

"Based in Saarland - then an independent entity post-WW2 - Saarbrcken competed as a guest team in France's Ligue X in 1948/49. Even though their games did not count and they were not listed in the table Saarbrcken would have come top. But they were denied promotion and excluded from French football"
X Link 2025-12-17T17:00Z 49.6K followers, 15.1K engagements

"🌍 The absence of Gambia & Lesotho from AFCON 2025 means there will be no games between countries who are only bordered by one other country. There are only two country pairs this applies to in Africa: Gambia (and Senegal ) Lesotho (and South Africa )"
X Link 2025-12-17T18:30Z 49.6K followers, 3830 engagements

"💥 Absolute coaching chaos in Belgium: All XX clubs that started & finished the 2025 calendar year in the Jupiler Pro League have changed head coach After Genk's sacking of Torsten Fink only the promoted duo of Zulte Waregem & La Louvire have had their head coach in place for over a year"
X Link 2025-12-17T20:00Z 49.6K followers, 33.5K engagements