Bloims Premier League

The Bloims Premier League, often referred to as the The League or the BPL, is the primary competition in the Bloims football league system. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates based upon the Official Fantasy Premier League (Official FPL). The League operates on a promotion and relegation system for clubs but all managers compete in a fixed league, where eligibility is based upon membership of The Bloims.

Teams who compete in the BPL also compete against each other in the Subway Cup and Bloims Champions League

The competition was founded as the Bloims Premier League prior to the 2014-15 Premier League Season. This fantasy league was to be comprised of ten managers now known as the Founding Members of the BPL. (Rogers, Alka, Speding, Duke, Aggarwal, Spav, Jalif, Jaspal, Marway, Moss)

Controversially Kent, was not invited to compete in the 2014-15 season despite his club regularly fielding a side in the Official FPL game. He would eventually join the league the following season. He would be joined by Docker in 2016-17, Pow controversially in 2018-19 and Quinn in 2020-21. The inaugural season faced numerous issues such as fixture congestion, a lack of understanding of the game's parameters and general confusion around the league's format. Since the 2014-15 Season the league has undergone significant reform, most recently in the summer of 2020 with the new Subway Cup format and Bloims Champions League qualification process.

The league is a corporation in which the member clubs act as shareholders, and generates €2.2 billion per year in domestic and international rights. The Bloims Premier League is the most-followed fantasy sports league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.

14 managers have competed since the inception of the Bloims Premier League in 2014. Five of them have won the title: Alka (2), Jaspal (1), Speding (1), Pow (1), Moss (1)

Current BPL Clubs
The 2020-21 season saw the largest ever BPL line-up with the addition of a 14th team.

The teams currently competing for the title are:

Athletic Beeboi - Moss

A Job On Your Blaje - Duke

Barcebloima FC - Alka

Blackbloim Rovers - Quinn

Billington Town - Speding

The Builders - Rogers

Thotingham Forest - Kent

Dynamo Pornbots - Docker

Gleeb City FC - Marway

Jasperini's Roquetas - Jaspal

Hold the Line F.C - Aggarwal

Los Coq - Spav

AFC FitF*nnatic - Pow

Shottingham Noshpur - Jalif

Trophy
Managers in the league compete for the BPL Trophy, a gold cup formally named the Omar Parry Kent Gentleman's Invitational Football Challenge Cup.

The BPL Trophy is a gold plated cup, 38cm tall with two ornate handles. It was engraved with the words: Bloims Premier League. The trophy sits atop a black base which is engraved with the names of previous winners.

History
Prior to the 2019-20 season the Bloims Premier League was without a formal trophy. An informal practice of the lowest placed manager purchasing a trophy for the winner was irregularly followed but few of these early trophies have survived. In 2019 Kent lead a campaign of fundraising to commission a permanent trophy for the league, citing the urgent need for a prize befitting a competition of such importance. His campaigned failed with no Bloims willing to provide funds. Undeterred, Kent procured a trophy raising the money by selling a 2014/15 Bloims Premier League Winners Medal given to him by Alka to pay for the cup.

Moss was the first manager to lift the new BPL Trophy.