S1 League
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Current season, competition or edition: 2023-24 S1 League season | |
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| Sport | Association football |
|---|---|
| Founded | March 6, 1965 |
| Organising body | Senrian Soccer Association (SSA) |
| No. of teams | 20 |
| Countries |  Senria |
| Headquarters | tbd street Keisi, Senria |
| Confederation | FICF (Coius) |
| Most recent champion(s) | FC Kinkei Listras (7th title) (2022) |
| Most titles | Étroite AC Isikawa (9 titles) |
| TV partner(s) | Senria Broadcast SHK STBS TV Senzou Mercury Sport Live streaming M+ International Live streaming tbd |
| Domestic cup(s) | |
| Related competitions | S2 League S3 League Senrian Women's Soccer Association Senria Futsal League |
| Official website | www |
The S1 League (Senrian: S1리이구, Esu-wan Riigu), officially known as the Leona S1 League (Senrian: 러오나S1리이구, Reona Esu-wan Riigu) for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level of the Senria Soccer League and the the top-level professional association football league in Senria. Founded in 1965 and administered by the Senrian Soccer Association, the league currently consists of 20 teams.
While the Senrian Soccer Association had established the country's men's national team in 1935, Senria's domestic soccer scene remained the purview of several local and regional amateur leagues for the next three decades. In the early 1960s, high turnout for amateur games and viewership numbers for the IFF Coupe du Monde convinced SSA leaders that a professional league would be viable in Senria; the early S1 League struggled to find its footing, however, until the 1970s, when the controversies affecting the All-Senria Baseball League at the time provided an opportunity for the S1 League to establish its position in Senrian sports. Since then, the league has slowly but steadily expanded, becoming one of the most successful soccer leagues in southern Coius.
Each S1 League team plays a standard season of 38 games, facing every other team in the league twice (once at home, once away); the team with the best record at the end of the season is proclaimed the S1 League champion. Every S1 team, alongside every other club team with membership in the Senria Soccer Association, is then eligible to compete for the Senrian National Cup; this is followed in turn by the Senrian Super Cup, in which the winners of the National Cup face the S1 League champions (or the S1 League runners-up, if the champions won the National Cup).
Notably, unlike most other major soccer leagues, the S1 League has a fixed roster of teams and does not utilize the promotion and relegation system; instead, each S1 team has an affiliated farm team in the S2 and S3 leagues, with players being moved between these teams to provide for talent flow.
Since the 1980s, the S1 League has consistently been Senria's second-most prominent sports league, behind only the ASBL in terms of popularity; the National Cup and Super Cup are among the country's most popular televised sporting events, and soccer is the country's second-most popular sport, being the favorite of 20 to 25% of the population. Average match attendance for S1 League games sits at roughly 23,000 as of 2020.
Stance in the Senrian football pyramid
[topmost men's league; players promoted and relegated into lower leagues through farm team system but team roster is fixed]
History
Before the S1 League
[soccer in senria before the S1 league, keeping stuff more and more summarized the further back we go]
Early years
[1965-1972]
Growth in popularity
[1970s-1980s-1990s growth] [70s growth buoyed by ASBL flailing, keeps momentum thru 80s, in the 90s senria hosts CdM which revitalizes]
Recent history
[post-2000 smooth sailing, with a nice bump from the 07 CdM victory]
Teams
Timeline
Season structure
[pretty unremarkable double round-robin system in which each team plays every other team twice (once at home, once away), for a season length of 38 games]
[anything about team structure - number of foreign players allowed, that type of thing]
Champions
All-time league table
Championship history
Most successful clubs
| Club | Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Winning seasons | Runner-up seasons | Third place seasons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Étroite AC Isikawa | 9
|
2
|
6
|
1965-66, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1983-84, 2006-07, 2012-13 | 1967-68, 1968-69 | 1973-74, 1976-77, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1991-92 |
| Keisi Sylvoia Stags | 7
|
7
|
6
|
1967-68, 1972-73, 1979-80, 1988-89, 1994-95, 2009-10, 2010-11 | 1970-71, 1972-73, 1976-77, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1992-93, 2011-12 | 1965-66, 1966-67, 1978-79, 1987-88, 1989-99, 1999-2000 |
| FC Kinkei Listras | 7
|
5
|
5
|
1985-86, 1986-87, 1990-91, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2020-21, 2022-23 | 1980-81, 1984-85, 1989-90, 2010-11, 2013-14 | 1979-80, 1982-83, 2000-01, 2008-09, 2009-10 |
| Ketsubra Tosei | 6
|
4
|
6
|
1971-72, 1975-76, 1984-85, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2001-02 | 1983-84, 1991-92, 1997-98, 2018-19 | 1969-70, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1986-87, 2010-11 |
| Fenrir Nisiyama | 4
|
6
|
3
|
1975-76, 1980-81, 2005-06, 2021-22 | 1975-76, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1986-87, 1998-99, 2003-04 | 1981-82, 2001-02, 2022-23 |
| Tosei Vescora FC | 3
|
5
|
1
|
1996-97, 1997-98, 2016-17 | 1994-95, 1995-96, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2015-16 | 1993-94 |
| Feiring Chrysanty | 3
|
4
|
3
|
1989-90, 1993-94, 2013-14 | 1987-88, 1988-89, 2002-03, 2014-15 | 1984-85, 1994-95, 2011-12 |
| Koriyama Venursa | 3
|
2
|
3
|
1987-88, 2008-09, 2018-19 | 1993-94, 1999-2000 | 1983-84, 1992-93, 2007-08 |
| Nakamura Seahounds | 3
|
2
|
3
|
1978-79, 1992-93, 2015-16 | 1969-70, 2009-10 | 1968-69, 1977-78, 1988-89 |
| Ukyou Nachtuils | 3
|
2
|
1
|
1991-92, 2011-12, 2014-15 | 1977-78, 2012-13 | 1989-90 |
| Tukayama Sivicamo | 2
|
5
|
2
|
1973-74, 2017-18 | 1965-66, 1972-73, 2004-05, 2006-07, 2016-17 | 2003-04, 2005-06 |
| Ubeyama Onkaidou Cyclones | 2
|
3
|
2
|
1968-69, 1995-96 | 1966-67, 1973-74, 1985-86 | 1971-72, 2004-05 |
| Gerossa Yosida | 2
|
1
|
3
|
1981-82, 1999-2000 | 2021-22 | 1967-68, 1975-76, 1997-98 |
| Aoyama Hayabusa SC | 1
|
3
|
3
|
2003-04 | 2000-01, 2001-02, 2019-20 | 2002-03, 2014-15, 2018-19 |
| Nobeoka Dämmerlicht Gyousuu | 1
|
2
|
3
|
2007-08 | 1974-75, 1990-91 | 1995-96, 2012-13, 2013-14 |
| Outramare Kasaoka | 1
|
1
|
2
|
2019-20 | 2022-23 | 2015-16, 2020-21 |
| Sakata Sapphires SC | 1
|
1
|
2
|
1982-83 | 1996-97 | 1980-81, 2017-18 |
| Sagittaria Kitasaki | 0
|
2
|
2
|
2017-18, 2020-21 | 2016-17, 2019-20 | |
| Yorokobu Kanaya | 0
|
1
|
1
|
2007-08 | 2006-07 | |
| Ueda U-Burst | 0
|
0
|
2
|
1996-97, 2021-22 |
Other tournaments and awards
Other tournaments
Awards
Statistics
Players and managers
Players
[player transfer rules, any player unions, etc]
[teams can recruit as many foreign players as desired; however, only five foreign players may be placed on a given matchday squad; HOWEVER however, players from estmere, ansan, nakong, and kuthina are not considered foreign players on account of the "deep cooperation" between these countries' leagues]
Managers
Stadiums
Branding and sponsorship
Media coverage
[mercury sport primary broadcaster, with stbs and tv senzou getting select matches sometimes and shk broadcasting highlights]
[mercury's M+ does livestreaming; S1 also has its own channels on pinpin (both pinpin douga and pinpin tandou) and ihweb's wirvid for uploading highlights]
[radio - mercury sport radio plus NHK highlights]
[international broadcasting & streaming - in estmere NSE holds broadcasting and duhamel on demand streaming, in other countries tbd]