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# ![@SweeperPod Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1364542632513404936.png) @SweeperPod The Sweeper

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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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Countries that play in a different geographical football confederation: Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Cyprus French Guiana Georgia Guyana Israel Kazakhstan Russia Suriname Trkiye *Transcontinental countries assigned to the continent where majority of territory is based"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1965852781262307785)  2025-09-10T19:00Z 49.3K followers, 17.1K engagements


"It is likely only temporary due to Qarabag having two games in hand but there is currently an unlikely leader in Azerbaijan: Turan Tovuz. They seem like a nice club: in 2024 they sent every other top-flight club a cake - featuring the Turan Tovuz logo - to wish them a Happy New Year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1982386729681342724)  2025-10-26T10:00Z 49.2K followers, 35.1K engagements


"The fixtures for the inaugural OFC Pro League which gets under way in Auckland on XX January 2026 have now been announced. The first-ever match in the history of Oceania's first professional competition will be contested between Vanuatu United & Fiji's Bula FC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993267698273292575)  2025-11-25T10:37Z 49.2K followers, 10K engagements


"It's the day of the 'Rhyming Micro-State Derby' in the UEFA Conference League as amrun Spartans (Malta) face Lincoln Red Imps (Gibraltar). There has never been a Maltese victory in the group or league phase of a European club competition. Could this be the day history is made"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993983146292052005)  2025-11-27T10:00Z 49.3K followers, 24.7K engagements


"🚨 We've got some very exciting news coming up later 🔜👀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994089656380477459)  2025-11-27T17:03Z 49.3K followers, 3743 engagements


"YouTuber Vinsky who already owns amateur clubs in & resurrected Sporting Club Escaldes & entered them into Andorra's second tier this season. Stating the aim of playing European football within three seasons the club have made an almost perfect start to the season and top the standings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994141680778535066)  2025-11-27T20:30Z 49.2K followers, 21.7K engagements


"🌊 We would love to see Atlantico FC of the Dominican Republic take on Pacific FC of Canada in a game we're billing as 'The Big Ocean Derby'. We can add it to our list of unofficial derbies including 'El Logistico' in Lithuania 'The Renaissance Derby in Congo' & the 'Good Camera Derby' in France"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994421031717499158)  2025-11-28T15:00Z 49.3K followers, 11.3K engagements


"There will be a 'Greek Derby' in the semi-final of the inaugural Australian Championship - the country's new second-tier competition - this weekend. The two clubs which are both based in Melbourne Victoria were founded by members Australia's Greek community in the late 1950s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994511620408823894)  2025-11-28T21:00Z 49.3K followers, 16.6K engagements


"🏟  🏟 Bulgarian journalist Teodor Borisov has been in Guadeloupe to watch the Coupe de France tie between local club AS Le Gosier & CMS Oissel from the mainland. AS Le Gosier won on penalties becoming the only overseas club to win a match in the competition this season"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995583681252249625)  2025-12-01T20:00Z 49.2K followers, 7532 engagements


"Morocco v Comoros is a rare example of two countries playing against each other in two different competitions in the same calendar month The Atlas Lions will open up their Arab Cup campaign against the islanders today then kick off AFCON v. the same opponent on home turf on XX December"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995779980962263433)  2025-12-02T09:00Z 49.3K followers, 40.5K engagements


"You rarely see an early-season lead on this scale: MC Alger are one point clear at the top of Algeria's Ligue Professionnelle X with FOUR games in hand The fixture backlog is largely due to the club's participation in the CAF Champions League whose matches tend to take place on weekends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996157470176411939)  2025-12-03T10:00Z 49.3K followers, 11.6K engagements


"📺 The draw for the 2026 World Cup in the USA Canada & Mexico takes place today with the likes of Curacao & Cape Verde set to find out their opponents You can watch the draw live from the Kennedy Center in Washington at 16:55 GMT / 17:55 CET on FIFA+ for free via the link below or in our Instagram stories. 🔗"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996897343858516165)  2025-12-05T11:00Z 49.3K followers, 13.7K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998485672953364491)  2025-12-09T20:11Z 49.3K followers, 23.9K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998784903757058302)  2025-12-10T16:00Z 49.3K followers, 14.1K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998830075110727682)  2025-12-10T19:00Z 49.3K followers, 32K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1938525850430808067)  2025-06-27T09:12Z 49.3K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1971930325803843682)  2025-09-27T13:30Z 49.3K followers, 14.8K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1977743629402636623)  2025-10-13T14:30Z 49.3K followers, 42.8K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1977805953002045604)  2025-10-13T18:37Z 49.3K followers, 357.3K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1985753911433838593)  2025-11-04T17:00Z 49.3K followers, 16.2K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1990079916180951187)  2025-11-16T15:30Z 49.3K followers, 22.1K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1990480057811546622)  2025-11-17T18:00Z 49.3K followers, 14K engagements


"SENSATIONAL SIMPLY SENSATIONAL The Faroe Islands have followed up their best-ever World Cup qualifying campaign by beating Kazakhstan For perspective Kazakhstan is 1949 times larger in terms of surface area and XXX times larger in terms of population than the Faroes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1990868534822355082)  2025-11-18T19:43Z 49.3K followers, 34.4K engagements


"🏆 The line-up for the inter-confederation play-offs for the 2026 World Cup: 🔴 Path 1: Semi-final: New Caledonia-Jamaica Final: Winner-DR Congo 🔵 Path 2: Semi-final: Bolivia-Suriname Final: Winner-Iraq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1991538920291778903)  2025-11-20T16:07Z 49.3K followers, 5468 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1992246698253697445)  2025-11-22T15:00Z 49.3K followers, 24.7K engagements


"✈ There are three football clubs worldwide that have participated in the top leagues of two foreign countries in addition to their own: Al-Hilal (Sudan Mauritania & Rwanda ) Al-Merrikh (Sudan Mauritania & Rwanda ) DPMM (Brunei Singapore Malaysia )"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1992609083342590450)  2025-11-23T15:00Z 49.3K followers, 34.2K engagements


"Shkupi who were champions of North Macedonia as recently as 2022 have the worst record of any top-flight club in Europe this season. With only one draw from XX matches they have the joint fewest points (1) and the most defeats (12) of any top-tier team across the XX UEFA nations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1992880876083085800)  2025-11-24T09:00Z 49.3K followers, 8508 engagements


"Bad news for Bolivia who will play their inter-confederation play-off matches in Monterrey (altitude: 540m) & not Guadalajara (1550m). High-altitude matches at Municipal Stadium El Alto which is over 4000 metres above sea level were a key reason Bolivia reached the play-offs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993016769770836040)  2025-11-24T18:00Z 49.3K followers, 21.5K engagements


"Puerto Rico will host FIFA Series matches in 2026 marking the first time the unincorporated territory of the USA has organised an official FIFA tournament. Guam American Samoa & US Virgin Islands have been put forward as the other participants with games to take place at Estadio Juan Ramn Loubriel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993401931013013612)  2025-11-25T19:30Z 49.3K followers, 25.5K engagements


"🏆 We're calling for the champions of Liechtenstein* & Uzbekistan - the world's only two double-landlocked countries - to play each other in the 'Double-Landlocked Super Cup'. Liechtenstein - FC Vaduz Uzbekistan - Neftchi Fergana *As Liechtenstein does not have its own league it would have to be its cup winner instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993733993863221520)  2025-11-26T17:30Z 49.3K followers, 29.7K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994073732369768751)  2025-11-27T16:00Z 49.3K followers, 67.4K engagements


"amrun Spartans have become the first club from the island micro-state of Malta to win a match in the group/league phase of a European competition. They came from behind to beat fellow minnows Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar to create a moment of history in the UEFA Conference League"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994129917437497542)  2025-11-27T19:43Z 49.3K followers, 16.6K engagements


"The Vatican is the only country in the world whose info we cannot find on live scores apps but instead get a weekly email with the results & league table. Pacao (Primary Catholic Artistic Worker Association of Charity and Mutual Aid) lead the way while the Swiss Guard are yet to get off the mark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994390829235122298)  2025-11-28T13:00Z 49.3K followers, 227.2K engagements


"🏝 Two Coupe de France eighth round matches take place in the CARIBBEAN this weekend Guadeloupe: AS Le Gosier v. CMS Oissel (tier six) Martinique: Espoir de Sainte-Luce v. GSI Pontivy (tier six) The two mainland teams that have volunteered to travel overseas will make 14000km roundtrips"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994443671488356381)  2025-11-28T16:30Z 49.3K followers, 21.2K engagements


"LaLiga2 Spain's second division is staking a claim to be the most competitive league across the XX UEFA countries in the 2025/26 season. Only FIVE points separate the final promotion play-off position (Castellon 6th) and the first relegation place (Eibar 19th) in the 22-team league"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994692818359493074)  2025-11-29T09:00Z 49.3K followers, 28.7K engagements


"🏆 .  &  Featuring teams with 🦈🐬 & 🐋 in their badge Sutherland Sharks Cape Verde national team Delfin 🏴 Poole Town Borneo Samarinda Pescara Island Bay United Rivers United Cebu Corpus Christi Who wins the trophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994843805275885603)  2025-11-29T19:00Z 49.3K followers, 27.2K engagements


"🌎 The XX members of CONCACAF the football confederation for North/Central America and the Caribbean by sub-region: 🔴 North America Zone (3): 🔵 Central America Zone (7): 🟡 Caribbean Zone (31):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994874011088503166)  2025-11-29T21:00Z 49.3K followers, 46.9K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995145803506315271)  2025-11-30T15:00Z 49.3K followers, 18.5K engagements


"🏆   - Featuring teams currently with a negative points tally: Aurora FC 🏴 Sheffield Wednesday Triestina Adana Demirspor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995206195901338054)  2025-11-30T19:00Z 49.3K followers, 44.9K engagements


"🦏🏆 The Rhino Cup Champions League is a league in Mozambique Zimbabwe & Namibia where many men get killed or arrested for poaching rhinos. Founded in 2016 its objective to"turn communities away from poaching one game at a time" & provide alternative economic opportunities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995515735427235981)  2025-12-01T15:30Z 49.3K followers, 4501 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995538388770750952)  2025-12-01T17:00Z 49.3K followers, 6651 engagements


"5 Fifth-division Portugalete & Cieza the lowest-ranked clubs left in the 2025/26 Copa del Rey will both take on La Liga opponents this week Portugalete who knocked out second-tier Real Valladolid in the last round face Alavs today while Cieza who eliminated second-tier Cordoba are in action against Levante tomorrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995802626294784107)  2025-12-02T10:30Z 49.3K followers, 10.6K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995847923930722411)  2025-12-02T13:30Z 49.3K followers, 25.2K engagements


"There will be two CONCACAF nations in the six-team inter-confederation play-off for the 2026 World Cup in March: Jamaica & Suriname. Both of their coaches Steve McClaren and Stanley Menzo have now stepped down from their roles since guiding the countries to the play-offs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995870571956150432)  2025-12-02T15:00Z 49.3K followers, 9732 engagements


"1) Madeiran mist 🌫 Situated up in the rolling hills of Funchal on the island of Madeira Nacional's Estdio da Choupana pretty much has its own micro-climate. When the game v. Porto was called off due to heavy fog in January it was the 18th game there postponed due to the weather this century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995913116971139420)  2025-12-02T17:49Z 49.3K followers, 2574 engagements


"2) Icelandic eruptions 🌋 In late 2023 a series of volcanic eruptions near Grindavk in south-west Iceland led its second-tier football team to temporarily relocate. They have since returned to play their home games but much of the local population have stayed away & there have been further eruptions this year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995913554965196819)  2025-12-02T17:50Z 49.3K followers, 2245 engagements


"4) Faroese wind 🌬 With nowhere in the Faroe Islands over 5km from the sea & fierce winds hitting the islands FIFA introduced a rule that applies only on the archipelago. When a set-piece is awarded a team-mate may hold onto the ball so that the wind does not blow it away during the run-up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995913963830165588)  2025-12-02T17:52Z 49.3K followers, 2160 engagements


"5) Marshallese sea defence 🌊 The Marshall Islands once the world's last country without a football team are building a brand-new stadium in the capital Majuro. Rather soberingly the venue will double up as a sea defence / coastal protection system due to the flood risk posed by rising sea levels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995914184995770587)  2025-12-02T17:53Z 49.3K followers, 3285 engagements


"🏴 As far as new ownership goes Sunderland have fared sensationally since Kyril Louis-Dreyfus bought a controlling stake in the club in 2020: 2022: Promoted from League One (third tier) 2025: Promoted from Championship (second tier) 2025: Challenging for the European spots in the Premier League"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996180113612742663)  2025-12-03T11:30Z 49.3K followers, 47.7K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996195213258416580)  2025-12-03T12:30Z 49.3K followers, 14.8K engagements


"AS Le Gosier the only overseas club still in the Coupe de France have been handed a hammer draw in the next round - a trip to Ligue X Lorient. They were drawn at home but even so the rules state they must travel to the mainland once they reach the round when top-flight teams enter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996255610581467610)  2025-12-03T16:30Z 49.3K followers, 32.5K engagements


"Falcons are an endangered species in Mongolia so the postponement of their clash with Hunters seems like a wise decision"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996512426288885909)  2025-12-04T09:30Z 49.3K followers, 5618 engagements


"To mark the 10th anniversary of the MOL Cup - Czechia's domestic cup - the draw for the quarter-final will take place today.in a petrol station. The competition is sponsored by the MOL Group which is a major oil and gas company with operations in Central and Eastern Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996874299680993428)  2025-12-05T09:28Z 49.3K followers, 4976 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996929984708178328)  2025-12-05T13:09Z 49.3K followers, 7103 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997372971934167509)  2025-12-06T18:30Z 49.3K followers, 28K engagements


"Shock in the Ekstraklasa as Bruk-Bet Termalica whose home village of Nieciecza has a population of only XXX have beaten Legia Warsaw The villagers who are currently in the relegation zone scored a 94th-minute winner to condemn Polands record champions to a surprise defeat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1987561685486580116)  2025-11-09T16:43Z 49.3K followers, 46.7K engagements


"Bad news for Bolivia who will play their inter-confederation play-off matches in Monterrey (altitude: 540m) & not Guadalajara (1550m). High-altitude matches at Municipal Stadium El Alto which is over 4000 metres above sea level were a key reason Bolivia reached the play-offs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993016773193638051)  2025-11-24T18:00Z 49.3K followers, 95.3K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993643395726692524)  2025-11-26T11:30Z 49.3K followers, 47.2K engagements


"🏃 We love that Excelsior supporter Dylan Metselaar ran XX kilometres to Amsterdam to watch his team play Ajax and claim a famous victory. He says he ran in protest at the unwelcoming reception at Ajax where parking costs XX and away fans get checked for Feyenoord tattoos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995055198503645397)  2025-11-30T09:00Z 49.3K followers, 24.9K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995477995033928183)  2025-12-01T13:00Z 49.3K followers, 6752 engagements


"Sad news from Italy where Rimini FC have opted for a voluntary liquidation after reporting a loss of more than X million in their financial statements. Rimini based close to San Marino on the Adriatic Coast were crowned Coppa Italia C Champions last summer & now face an existential threat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995825282109014317)  2025-12-02T12:00Z 49.3K followers, 57.2K engagements


"🌏 There are four former members of AFC the Asian Football Confederation that have either moved elsewhere or no longer exist: Israel: Left to play in OFC & UEFA Kazakhstan: Left to join UEFA New Zealand: Became a founding member of OFC South Yemen: Unified with North Yemen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1995893220710973579)  2025-12-02T16:30Z 49.3K followers, 47.9K engagements


"Arkadag the club created by former dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow have a goal difference X x higher than any other club in Turkmenistan If Arkadag continue their victorious form in December they will have won EVERY domestic game in their first THREE seasons since being founded in 2023"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996323558054637870)  2025-12-03T21:00Z 49.3K followers, 29.3K engagements


"It is being reported the United States are in talks to host the 2028 Copa America the main international tournament for the continent of South America. If that happens the USA - a CONCACAF member - will have hosted more of the last five Copa Americas than the XX CONMEBOL countries combined (3v2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996642402254159992)  2025-12-04T18:06Z 49.3K followers, 27K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997418270153163065)  2025-12-06T21:30Z 49.3K followers, 44K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1989411792976482378)  2025-11-14T19:15Z 49.3K followers, 30.4K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1990132766927655348)  2025-11-16T19:00Z 49.3K followers, 21.3K engagements


"📺 NEW VIDEO PODCAST 📺 Part 1: CONCACAF craziness with @ArnoldcommaJon Curacao: The World Cup's smallest country Haiti's triumph in the face of adversity The own goal that saved Suriname Part 2: Europe Africa & South America Promoted Thun's Swiss title tilt Sudanese duo's Rwanda move Argentina's invented champion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1993430368611881468)  2025-11-25T21:23Z 49.3K followers, 50.3K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1994116014397673944)  2025-11-27T18:48Z 49.3K followers, 44K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996210309753638950)  2025-12-03T13:30Z 49.3K followers, 491.4K engagements


"🏆 .  Featuring clubs that have either entered liquidation or been excluded from their league due to serious financial problems this season or calendar year: Western United FC SV Stripfing Guangzhou FC Rimini FC Sri Pahang FC Deportivo Binacional Boavista FCU Craiova 1948"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1996617997742666128)  2025-12-04T16:30Z 49.3K followers, 726.3K engagements


"Vancouver Whitecaps will become only the second Canadian club to win the MLS Cup - after Toronto in 2017 - if they beat Inter Miami tonight. The match is already being billed as a meeting of Lionel Messi and Thomas Mller who only made the move across the Atlantic in the summer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997282375995134254)  2025-12-06T12:30Z 49.3K followers, 15.6K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997338458293960981)  2025-12-06T16:12Z 49.3K followers, 22.8K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997350325305692320)  2025-12-06T17:00Z 49.3K followers, 16.7K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997409214470254910)  2025-12-06T20:54Z 49.3K followers, 44.4K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997614563924316407)  2025-12-07T10:30Z 49.3K followers, 31.1K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997699417181446616)  2025-12-07T16:07Z 49.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Austria have arguably been handed the worst schedule of any European country at the World Cup in terms of kick-off times back home. Having not been at the tournament for XX years their matches against Jordan & Algeria are on weekdays at 6am and 4am respectively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997712840720015468)  2025-12-07T17:00Z 49.3K followers, 34.2K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997735359845716415)  2025-12-07T18:30Z 49.3K followers, 564.9K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997765557358068167)  2025-12-07T20:30Z 49.3K followers, 53.7K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1997984628246999241)  2025-12-08T11:00Z 49.3K followers, 7045 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998007151818661980)  2025-12-08T12:30Z 49.3K followers, 947.4K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998029808693903653)  2025-12-08T14:00Z 49.3K followers, 26K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998116073590415556)  2025-12-08T19:42Z 49.3K followers, 16.9K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998120399801143319)  2025-12-08T20:00Z 49.3K followers, 58.4K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998369538174574752)  2025-12-09T12:30Z 49.3K followers, 44.2K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998395012027924893)  2025-12-09T14:11Z 49.3K followers, 14.7K 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998498373662388271)  2025-12-09T21:01Z 49.3K followers, 6272 engagements


"New episode for your morning commute 🤩 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998650731738673414)  2025-12-10T07:07Z 49.3K followers, 6436 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998716828659417559)  2025-12-10T11:30Z 49.3K followers, 3549 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998725148527018292)  2025-12-10T12:03Z 49.3K followers, 3061 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998751341338849790)  2025-12-10T13:47Z 49.3K followers, 2290 engagements


"ICYMI: New pod out with a special focus on Canada 🤩 🟢 Spotify: 🍎 Apple: 📺 YouTube:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998802097081618667)  2025-12-10T17:08Z 49.3K followers, 4498 engagements


"@Marco_Martell94 There is no *top-flight league* in Europe with longer domestic away days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998820814939107809)  2025-12-10T18:23Z 49.3K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/SweeperPod/status/1998867257661771853)  2025-12-10T21:27Z 49.3K followers, 2580 engagements