BG Super Euro Clubs

EUROPEAN SUPER-CLUB MILLENIUM LEAGUE

This Set comprises thirty-two of the top European club sides over the past ten years, divided into two divisions, the Supreme Division and the Elite Division of the European Super-Club Millennium League (ESCML). The suggestion is that the bottom three of the Supreme Division be relegated and the top two of the Elite promoted, with the third promotion place going to the play-off winner from those who finished 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. But no doubt users will make up their own promotion and relegation rules.

In addition to the League programme the thirty-two teams can take part in the Millennium Super-Club Knock-Out Cup (MSCC). No Divisional adjustment of Ratings is necessary as all teams are rated on the same basis.

To keep cost of this Set down as much as possible we have not provided you with league fixtures but a visit to www.fixturelist.com/createlist1.php will quickly provide fixtures for both divisions while www.daftlogic.com/projects-cup-fixture-generator.htm provides a similar service for a Cup draw.

The degrees of greatness are finely drawn, and most teams included in this Set are capable of beating any of the others on their day, so don't expect one team to dominate the Supreme Division or another to lose all its matches in the Elite Division. Matches and league tables are likely to be close.

We have included the name of the Coach for all teams. In three cases (Jose Mourinho – FC Porto and Chelsea, Rafael Benitez - Valencia and Liverpool, and Miceau Lucescu – Shakhtar Donetsk and Galatasaray) coaches have been connected with two clubs, nothing we can do about that I'm afraid. By the same token in a few cases potential goal scorers appeared for more than one club - here we have taken them out of the list for one of the clubs and re-allocated the goals to other players, as we felt that users would not want a player to apparently play in a match for both teams !

Most of the research for this Set was carried out by Paul Bate, but don't blame him for the Team Ratings, they are down to me. It is difficult to be objective about goals scored and conceded in different eras and different leagues but I have attempted to calculate the Ratings as though the club was involved in some form of European competition, whilst reflecting a club's Attacking and Defensive potential and also their Home and Away comparative form. It is unlikely that the end result will please everyone.

Terry Goodchild

January 2009