Football in Lannistter

Football is a popular sport in The UK of Lannistter. The Lannish Football Association is the sport's national governing body. There is a league system with six levels of competition culminating in the LINNEN LFA Premier League whose top-ranked team is the national champion alongside the winner of the Cup of the LFA.

Lannish Football Association

The Lannish Football Association (LFA) is the principle organizing body for Lannish football. The LFA is responsible for administering the league hierarchy and the Team Lann. The body sanctions all professional competitive football in the country. The association has a total of 347 member clubs.

League system

Professional football in Lannistter follows a hierarchical league system with each level of competition promoting and relegating teams to the next higher and lower levels based on their performance. There is a total of 239 clubs playing within the league system in six levels of competition. Each league and division uses a double round-robin system with each club playing every other club twice. Three points are awarded for each win and one point awarded for a tie. Teams are ranked first by total points, then by goal difference, then by total goals scored. The Arkhangelsk Foxes Football Club (AFFC) has the most league championships of any Lannish football club (21).

Level	League(s)/Division(s)
1	LFA Premier League 20 clubs - 4 Places in the Group Stage of the TSSU Champions Cup (1st-4th), 2 Places in the Group Stage of the TSSU Challengers Cup (5th-6th), 3 relegations, 1 repechage (For the 16th Team on the table, so in case of losing this, there would be 4 descents in total)
2	LFA Championship 24 clubs - 3 promotions, 1 repechage (For the 4th Team on the table, so in case of winning this, there would be 4 promotions in total), 4 relegations
3	LFA Third League 24 clubs - 4 promotions, 4 relegations
4	LFA Fourth League 30 clubs - 4 promotions, 6 relegations
5	LFA Fifth League 45 clubs - 6 promotions, 10 relegations
6	LIFA Sixth League Division Lannfield 32 clubs - 4 promotions	IIFA Sixth League Division Istter 32 clubs - 4 promotions		RIFA Sixth League Division Regional 32 clubs - 2 promotions

Cup competitions

The annual Cup of the LFA is open to professional teams of the highest three leagues. The cup is organized as a single elimination knockout tournament. In contrast to the national league system, the Cup of the LFA allows for the possibility of a relatively low-ranked team becoming a national champion. The term "Double Event" is unofficially used when the same team wins both competitions and teams are said to have won the "Double Crown." The Lannistter National Cups are 4 in total, the Premier League Cup (Only the first division competes), the LFA Cup (All teams affiliated to the LFA compete, that is, from the 1st to the 5th division), and the Esperance Cup (played by teams from the 2nd to the 5th Division).

Level	Cup(s) hierarchy
1	LFA Premier Cup Cup of the Lannish Premier League (Only 1st Division)
2	LFA Cup Cup of the LFA (All Official divisions of the LFA/1st-5th Divisions)
3	LFA Esperance Cup Cup of the Low LFA (2nd-5th Divisions)
4	IFAL Cup Cup of the Independent Football Associations of Lannistter (LIFA, IIFA and RIFA, 6th Divisions)

National team

Men

The Lannish national football team represents The UK of Lannistter in international competitions. It is managed by the Lanish Football Association. The team's mascot is the Lannish national animal, the Silver Fox.

Women

The Lannish women's national football team is also run by the LFA.

Women's league system

Women's football in Lannistter has a lower stature than that of men's football with fewer teams and consistently lower average ticket sales per game. The women's league table has only four levels of play with eighty teams. The women's league uses the same team ranking rules as the men's league and has a similar promotion and relegation system.

Level	League(s)/Division(s)
1	LFA Women's Premier League 12 clubs - 2 relegations
2	LFA Women's Championship 18 clubs - 2 promotions, 3 relegations
3	LFA Third Women's League 20 clubs - 3 promotions, 4 relegations
4	LFA Fourth Women's League 30 clubs - 4 promotions