The Premiership

The Premiership

Organising body	Lisander Football Federation
Country	Lisander
Divisions	1
Number of teams	18
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Liga Nacional 1
Domestic cup(s)	Prince of Ermines Cup
League cup(s)	MEMA League Cup
International cup(s)	Champions League Challengers Cup
Current champions	AC Kasandora (P9)
Most championships	Club Sparta (19)

The Premiership, formerly Tristarbank Premiership, is the first division of the Lisander football league system.

History

Early Days and the Formation of Premiership

Football in Lisander dates from early 1900s, a time when the culture of sports clubs was flourishing in Lisander, like AS Virtus, Club Sparta and all of the clubs in The Soria League. The National Championship started to be held by the 1920s, under the guidance of the Lisanderian Sports Federation, and after under the Lisanderian Football Federation. It took more than 100 years to the Principality clubs finally manage the league themselves. By 2013, the previous iteration of National Championship, The !LIGA ( Oficially, I Liga, but the sponsor was Itel, whose logo was stylized !TEL) was losing in attention to an ever-growing Rugby and Basketball fanbase. The competition was in a sorry state, with most teams plagued by financial uncertainity. The 2011 season had extended itself to the following year due to the war with Brasilistan and economic problems caused by that.

By that time, Lisander was recovering its international ties that were severed by the war against Brasilistan, and the clubs started to spectate many league systems, in order to replicate and develop a proper league, run by the clubs that could defeat the advance of the other sports. Then by the association of the 10 teams then in the !LIGA (AC Kasandora, AS Virtus 1904, CA Oeste, Club Sparta, CF Thiéry sur-le-mer, Clube Naval de Sendas, Dawson FC, Liath Cuáin Chlub Peil, Racing Club de Soria and Shamrocks FC), backed by the FLF, Ministry for Sport and a major sponsorship from Tristarbank, among other sponsorships, The Premiership SRL, a private-owned company, was established to take care of the professional football in Lisander. Its first season happened in the following year.

Expansions

In the following ten seasons, with all the teams then in the three first levels agreeing to have its league governed by Premiership SRL, the number of professional clubs aligned and pushing for the inclusion in the ladder started to grow. The Lisander football league system then started to push up. Premiership started to grew, operating in a non-relegation system for the first seasons. The number of teams grow from 10 to 12 in Premiership 2, Then to 14 in Premiership 3, then Promotion and Relegation Started. The second promotion wave came in Premiership 7, when the number of Promotions and Relegations was defined in three per season, in order to match with the number of Qualifiers for the Liga B Champions Trophy. One relegation and three promotions pushed the number after 16. Then, by the end of Premiership 8, the number of the teams in each one of the three divisions organized by Premiership SRL and The National League is fixed in 18.

Clubs

The following 18 clubs are competing in the Premiership 10.

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AC Kasandora	Kasandora	ACK Arena	32,000
AS Virtus 1904	Despina	Estádio dos Arminhos	40,000
CA Oeste	Despina	EON Arena	67,000
CF Thiéry sur-le-mer	Thiéry sur-le-mer	Stade August Deschamps	7,000
Club Defensor	Soria	SW Park Stadium	5,000
Club Sparta	Sirenia	Comunal de Sirenia	9,000 (Temporary)
Dawson FC	Dawson	New Claret Road	38,400
Elysium SC	Soria	URSA Park	33,000
FC Solaris Sirenia	Sirenia	Comunal de Sirenia	5,000
FC Stellar Kasandora	Kasandora	Estádio da Ribeira	10,000
FC Victoria 03 Kasandora	Kasandora	Comunal de Kasandora	5,000
Liath Cuain CP	Porto Gris	Valera Park	18,600
Racing Club de Soria	Soria	Albert II	42,400
RC Naval Sendas-Beaumont	Beaumont	Estádio Beira-Mar	12,000
Shamrocks FC	Porto Gris	Emerald Park	44,120
Soria Union FC	Soria	Nordland Metropolitano	32,000
Sporting Grandeville	Grandeville	Andreas Rozan	18900
Trent United FC	Trent	Community Stadium	14,000
UDTR	Trois Rivières	Vincent Mader Stadium	11,130

History

Premiership

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Third place
1	AS Virtus 1904	CA Oeste	Club Sparta
2	FC Stellar Kasandora	Racing Club de Soria	Dawson FC
3	Dawson FC	Shamrocks FC	Pines Athletic RFC
4	Club Sparta	AC Kasandora	RC Naval
5	Club Sparta	FC Solaris Sirenia	CF Thiéry sur-le-mer
6	AS Virtus 1904	AC Kasandora	Club Sparta
7	SC Grandeville	AS Virtus 1904	Dawson FC
8	AS Virtus 1904	Sporting Grandeville	Club Sparta
9	AC Kasandora	AS Virtus 1904	Liath Cuain CP
10	Racing Club de Soria	AS Virtus 1904	FC Solaris Sirenia

List of Lisanderian football champions

includes National Championship, Liga 1 and !Liga results, before Premiership

Club	Titles (Premierships)	Seasons
★ Club Sparta	19 (2)	1928, 1930, 1934, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2009. Premiership: 4, 5.
★ AS Virtus 1904	15 (3)	1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1982, 1984, 1992, 2001, 2003. Premiership: 1, 6, 8.
★ Racing Club de Soria	16 (1)	1931, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1988, 1989, 1994, 2007, 2013. Premiership: 10.
★ Shamrocks FC	13	1932, 1933, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1973, 1974, 1985, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2011-2012.
★ Liath Cuain CP	10	1963, 1965, 1968, 1983, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2008, 2010.
AC Casterwill	7	1927, 1929, 1935, 1936, 1956, 1962, 1981.
AC Kasandora	6 (1)	1977, 1979, 1996, 1997, 2005. Premiership: 9.
Dawson FC	5 (1)	1938, 1953, 1958, 1983. Premiership: 3.
FC Universitário	3	1924, 1925, 1926.
Pines Athletic	2	1978, 1980.
CA Oeste	1	1976.
FC Stellar Kasandora	1	Premiership: 2.
Sporting Grandeville	1	Premiership: 7.