Forfeited Match

This thing about match being forfeited due to a team failing to field 11 players and awarding the opponent a 3-0 win is a HUGE problem! Teams which do not have enough players are usually abandoned team which provides a goal fest to others.

i will be facing a team today which concedes an average of 9 goals per game. Unfortunately he has 2 players suspended and 1 injured from the last match. Having only 13 players, i'll definitely be awarded a 3-0 win.

Now, i'm in a race to win the league, and goal difference counts! I might lose the league due because of this...sigh...

just ranting my frustrations over here...something has to be done about this.

Take it up with FIFA, that's literally the rules.

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A team sanctioned with a forfeit is considered to have lost the match by 3-0.

If the goal difference at the end of the match is greater than three, the result on the pitch is upheld

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Originally Posted by LeManiaque

Take it up with FIFA, that's literally the rules.

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Please go & read Law 3 Then you can edit your reply ;)

Support strictly following FIFA law on minimum number of players. Then teams with 11 players only will still be able to normally play for several weeks and all teams will likely normally play till end of the season. When new season begins, all teams will have at least 14 players again.

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Originally Posted by LeManiaque

Take it up with FIFA, that's literally the rules.

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hahaha good one, but too bad this ain't FIFA. I don't think FIFA allows a team to play consecutively for 28 days - or rather 2 or more games a day.

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Originally Posted by naimcyk

I don't think FIFA allows a team to play consecutively for 28 days - or rather 2 or more games a day.

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Well, I've never noticed Barca's entire team aging a full year in the span of a month...

So you think a better rule could be... A team that is unfit to take the field shall take it anyways to allow the challenger 90 minutes of goalscoring.

I once lost a League Title for that same reason. To rub it in, my closest rival had the abandoned team the previous day and beat him 12-0. But 1 player was injured and 3 bookings meaning a couple of suspensions. So I got a 3-0 award the next day. I lost the title by 2 goals.


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Originally Posted by naimcyk

hahaha good one, but too bad this ain't FIFA. I don't think FIFA allows a team to play consecutively for 28 days - or rather 2 or more games a day.

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I don't think FiFA have any rule to disallow this.

You want that the span of a T11 season will extend to a full calendar year, T11 teams will play 2 matches in one calendar week, and managers will have 2 calendar months to build a team?

BTW, I believe that this thread talks about forbeiting matches because one of the team has less the minimum required number of players. No match have been forbeited because any team play consecutively for 28 days.

I keep imagining the opposite:

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I am leading my league by one win and have a better goal difference of 2 goals over my nearest rival. Last game, players took red cards, now I will lose next game for sure. The crap thing is, other team will score tons of goals, because my goalie has red card. Because we don't use FIFA rules like rest of the world, I can't have a proper 3-0 forfeit, so I'm gonna lose my League too this season with BS goal difference!

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Then, I would be behind you.

It's not fair to ask another team to "lose harder" so a fit team gets even more advantage. That one team gets a 3-0 technical win while others get 9-0 is what we call "luck of the draw".

Solution (and in general a much better way to decide these situations) would be to use head-to-head rather than goal difference as the deciding factor. La Liga uses head-to-head. Premier League goal difference. Too lazy to google other leagues.

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One general problem with that is requiring an additional match day at the end of the season. A bit of logistics work for Nordeus, but you may also have noticed managers complaining already of having too many matches to deal with...

An issue specific to our game - The league winner should be the team that did the best over the whole season; but in T11, teams change in quality and composition over the course of a season and end of season might not reflect the rest. Should a team that slumped the first 12 matches then bought in half a team be rewarded at the end of the season? Same reason players on the "best rated" chart have to play a set # of matches.

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Originally Posted by LeManiaque

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One general problem with that is requiring an additional match day at the end of the season. A bit of logistics work for Nordeus, but you may also have noticed managers complaining already of having too many matches to deal with...

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No extra matches, the 2 (or more) teams with equal points have already played twice against each other.

Edit: Premier League, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 uses goal difference. La Liga and Serie A head 2 head.

head to head seems like a good suggestion...

Yeh, I just got shafted there by this.
Top four teams separated by 2 points, the other 3 teams have better goal differences than me of +1,+3 and +7, they have all beaten the bottom team by over 10 goals and I played them today and got a 3-0 forfeit. :(
Plus my whole team dropped moral for some reason, even though they didn't play.

And no ticket sales/merch money.

It's just happened to me again now. Top team in League beat them 14-0 yesterday and bottom team suffered 2 sending offs and one injury. Uh oh! I get a 3-0 win today. Luckily I'm looking good for 4th place regardless with a decent amount of goals over 5th place and a 5 point buffer with 2 games left.


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So i just lost the league by one goal all down to the fact I only got a 3-0 win instead of a 10,11,12 nil win that every one of the other teams got as mentioned in the post above. :(

At least you were expecting it?

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Originally Posted by gogs67

So i just lost the league by one goal all down to the fact I only got a 3-0 win instead of a 10,11,12 nil win that every one of the other teams got as mentioned in the post above. :(

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I share your pain. One goal! Ouch!!


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