I know next to nothing about soccer/football, but am enjoying watching Real Bedford rise up the rankings in their leagues and get promoted.
Can someone help me understand how fast Real Bedford could possibly get to the Premier League if they continue winning each league they play in?
I think I heard they are currently in the 8th or 9th division, can they only advance by one division per year?
Are there monetary requirements that could prevent them from advancing or enable them to advance even faster?
Has any other team ever gone from the 10th division to the Premier League?
Are there any other details about promotion and relegation that a newcomer to soccer/football should know?
I'm glad you posted this, because I have the same questions. Maybe some European football(!) fan can help us.
Are you up for a road (plane) trip Siggy?
You know I am
That would be a lot of fun. Pete's recent episode with American Hodl, Harry Sudock, Preston Pysh, Jeff Booth from his conference in Bedford was great.
I don't know if Pete came up with it but really like the marketing framing of Bitcoin as a cheat code.
I'm pretty sure they call football "soccer" over there, Siggy.
haha, no they don't, please don't go over there and start saying soccer, not going to go down too well.
It's football or footy, americanisation is everywhere but we're hanging on to football
and motorways, pavements and most importantly chips
I don't know much about it either but from what I understand they can move up one division per year if they win their league. It will likely take multiple decades though as the leagues will get much more difficult to win.
It appears the lowest tiered team to ever climb the ranks to premier league is from the 4th tier, which has happened a number of times and each time taking a decade or more to jump from 4th tier to the premier league.
Pete has the cheat code so I am not going to count him out but it's going to be a hell of a mountain to climb.
Maybe we will take a Stacker Sports road trip (plane trip in this case) and go see a Real Bedford game someday.
makes sense, it would be quite an incredible story to see them pull it off.
i’m in for a stacker sports trip, good idea!
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The only thing stopping/slowing him down is if the other owners in leagues above him realize the cheat code and start doing it themselves. He probably has at least another epoch before that would happen.
Peter had an episode of WBD talking about him buying the club, back story, and future plans if you're interested.
view on youtu.beBut yea, they just won rank 9 and will be promoted to rank 8 next year. Premier League is rank 1, so if everything goes perfectly, it will be another 8 years to get to the Premier League. But like GR said, it will probably not happen that smoothly and likely take decade(s), because it gets a lot more competitive at the higher ranked leagues.
Such a nice time to live: podcasters buying football clubs.
it will never happen. something else to go from 9 to 8 than from 2 to 1
They play Spartan South Midlands Football League Premier Division. That's Level 9 in the English league system. So, 8 years is a minimum, even if they win their league each year.
With their budget you could create club in, for example, Latvia, and would possibly get into UEFA European competitions in 3 years, starting from bottom.
Anything is possible, depends on how much money they want to throw at it. Climbing up to the third division (fourth tier) is definitely do able, have a look at Wrexham FC (Ryan Renolds team). They've done two leagues in two years and will be in the 2nd divison (3rd tier) next year.
Entering the top 4 professional leagues is when you start to get the regulations. Capacity, facilities, Safety, Lighting
Their ground will need to upgraded or it would be probably easier if they just relocate to a new stadium.
The rules will become even more onerous once you get to the top 2 leagues. i.e all seater stadiums with a minimum capacity of 21,000
That's just the infrastructure, then you get to the players. They will need to start spending on some good players and a good manager, i.e entice quality players from higher divisions to come down and join them. More money. Throwing money at players and managers often doesn't actually work and you go down as fast as you came up. Lets not forget the owners, who can also balls things up.
Wrexham FC is a good example to have a look at with what you can do with a manager who knows what he's doing (and should really be at a team far higher) and players who should also be a better clubs.
One of the hardest things is to hang on to your best players and manager when the big money comes along and tries to lure them away for a shot at playing in the Premier league of first division.