RULES 2024: click here for Scottish Electronic Soccer League: Season 56 wiki rules courtesy of Andrew SRA
| Overall | Div 1 | |
| Wins | 693 | 56 |
| Draws | 352 | 39 |
| Losses | 736 | 115 |
| Pct. | 0.488 | 0.360 |
| (S3-3), Neville Voice (S4-15), Nathan Fossey (S16-16), David Blair (S17-23), George Hornby (S20-20), Rene Wilkens (S21-22), Simon Compton (S24-27), Simon Bijker (S28-41), Hoa Duong (S36-37), |
| Name | Pos | Age | SL | EL | PU | |
 | Mark McCallum2 | GK | 4 | 31 | 5 | 10 |
 | Zach Paris | GK | 0 | 17 | 10 | 10 |
| Roberto Nditi | DF | 2 | 28 | 6 | 7 |
| Tomas Brindley | DF | 3 | 21 | 6 | 0 |
 | Adam Hutchinson | DF | 1 | 20 | 8 | 3 |
| Max Gillies | DF | 3 | 18 | 6 | 0 |
| Spencer Moreland | DF | 4 | 14 | 10 | 0 |
| Alan Hansen | DM | 2 | 21 | 5 | 3 |
| Peter Finch | DM | 3 | 14 | 4 | 0 |
| Finn Robson | MF | 0 | 14 | 4 | 7 |
| Scott Brown | MF | 3 | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| Rory MacLeod | MA | 2 | 29 | 6 | 9 |
| Arnaut Danjuma | WG | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 |
| Kenny Dalglish | WG | 4 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Seb Ross | FW | 3 | 31 | 6 | 10 |
| Josh Skelly | FW | 1 | 26 | 6 | 10 |
| Cascarilla Morales | FW | 5 | 25 | 4 | 6 |
| Russell McLean | FW | 1 | 23 | 7 | 9 |
| Ben Armour | FW | 4 | 16 | 7 | 0 |
| Name | Matches |
| Arnaut Danjuma | 2 |
MVP: WLd
Team DPs: 136
FOR are rivals to 2 teams.
Younger players to build a team for the future.
| M | DATE | OPPONENT | COMP | |||
| 32 | May 08 | (n) | Cowdenbeath | SESL CUP | ||
| 33 | May 11 | @ | Peterhead | Division 3 | ||
| 34 | May 11 | Ross County | Division 3 |
| M | DATE | OPPONENT | COMP | |||
| 31 | May 06 | W | 4 - 0 | (n) | Cove Rangers | SESL CUP |
| 30 | May 04 | L | 0 - 3 | (n) | East Fife | SESL CUP |
| 29 | May 01 | D | 1 - 1 | (n) | East Stirlingshire | SESL CUP |
| 28 | May 01 | D | 2 - 2 | (n) | Falkirk | SESL CUP |
| 27 | Apr 27 | D | 2 - 2 | East Stirlingshire | Division 3 | |
| 26 | Apr 27 | W | 3 - 0 | @ | Deveronvale | Division 3 |
| 24 | Apr 20 | W | 6 - 2 | Dunfermline Athletic | Division 3 | |
| 23 | Apr 20 | D | 3 - 3 | @ | Berwick | Division 3 |
| 20 | Apr 13 | W | 2 - 0 | @ | Partick Thistle | Division 3 |
| 19 | Apr 13 | W | 1 - 0 | Stirling | Division 3 |
Season 56 update (Mar 2024)
Forfar Athletic has had a somewhat fair season even if some numbers don't show it. We were contenders to get on the promotion playoffs up until pretty late in the season when we just crumbled and ended up in 9th place.
In the CECIL Cup we had the worst showing since we got at the helm of the team (wonder where that phrase comes from...). And then we did pretty good in the SESL Cup where we ended up in 10th place.
On the players end of things we've got Matthew Aitken, the former captain is going to retire on the first cash-for-oldies window and he will be leaving as the player with the most caps and minutes played; 2nd in all times goals and 3rd in MoMs (and best non-GK at that!).
For this season we look at the roster and see a good team! Not sure that we are going to be promotion contenders though... But we will try!
Season 55 update (Nov 2023)
Forfar Athletic has completed another Div1~Div2~Div3 cycle and this time our fall from Div-1 to Div-3 was heavier than the last time.
FOR's positions were 14th, 14th and 12th in the last 3 seasons in Div 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Not good!
So for this season we really need to look at building more resources, not spending too much on auctions and preparing the team to gain promotion and stay up in the future.
We do not expect to fight for promotion this season, but it would be nice to try for it next season.
In the cups we didn't make it very far, first round elimination from the CECIL Cup and we managed to get through to the second round on the SESL Cup, but then lost on the next match.
We try every season to not go too hard after the cups, but we can't help it. We want to go out there for a win on every match we play... That's FOR!
Season 54 update (Jun 2023)
And we are back in Div-3... There should be a name for this: take a team from Div-3 to Div-1 and then drop all the way down to Div-3 again!
Well, we have done it twice already since taking the helm at FOR.
There is one thing that you can't say about Forfar: we are not a Div-3 team, nor we are a Div-2 team, nor we are a Div-1 team! (well, we haven't been able to stay in Div-1 either time that we made it to the top division...)
So now we are back down. The team looks depleted and we are very low on resources. Lot's of work to do!
(At least we avoided having to play against Steve! ;)
Season 53 update (Jan 2023)
Wow! We have managed Forfar for 10 seasons already!
We took the team in Div-3, made it to Div-1, could not last more than a season and dropped all the way back to Div-3 again. We then managed to do it again! Took the team again to Div-1 and... again we could not avoid relegation and are back in Div-2 now.
So this season we really (really) have to avoid relegation!
The team looks ok even if we are 15th out of 16 in T-11. We have quite a few good youngsters to carry the team.
Back to last season, we have not much to say about the cups. We ended 15th in the CECIL Cup, but we have made it twice to the semis since we've managed FOR. Actually also twice a top-4 show on the SESL Cup, so 37th place is pretty bad too.
This season we have to really focus on avoiding relegation, so we will see about the cups (we have always had a hard time playing matches and just resting the team...).
Season 52 update (Sep 2022) We got promoted again!
Season 51 update (April 2022) ~ We got promoted!
Season 49 update (July 2021) ~ We ended in 7th place, only missing the promotion playoffs on the very last session of the season.
We made it to the semis of the SESL Cup! And taking down some high-flyers in the process!
Season 48 update (Mar 2021) ~ Forfar's free fall continued through the season and we now are back in Div-3.
Season 47 update (Sep 2020) ~ Forfar made it to Div 1 but got there at a high cost and we could not avoid relegation.
Season 46 update (May 2020)
We took the reins of the team when it was already on the way down to Div-3. As Simon pointed out the squad looked pretty good for a bounce back.
But on season 42 we paid too much attention to the Cups and missed on promotion. But we made it to both Cups' semis!
On season 43 we ended in 2nd place and promoted to Div-2!
On season 44 we ended in 5th place and lost the playoff match. That with a poor showing on the Cups made up for a pretty bad season.
So season 45 we looked good all season staying in 4th place for most of the season and losing a lot of points towards the end of the season but still managed to end again in 5th place and this time winning the promotion playoff! All this while making it again to the semis of the Cecil Cup. This season felt much better. But we look spent for this coming season and now we made it to Div-1!
Season 42 updated Oct 2018
Willy takes over Forfar!
History
Forfar Athletic Football Club are a Scottish semi-professional football club from the town of Forfar, Angus. They are members of the Scottish Electronic Football League and currently play in the Second Division. Nicknamed the Loons (a Northern Scots word for a young man), they play their home games at Station Park, in the north end of Forfar.
Station Park
Season 56 update (Mar 2024)
So the Copa America and the next WC are coming to the US (and Mexico and Canada). Excited to have a chance to go to some games! Uruguay plays Bolivia in NYC, so we hope to go to that one at least!
We may be getting old but can still do it! Luis Suarez got 2 goals and 3 assists (I count the first Messi goal as an assist from Suarez!) on a 5-0 win for his new team. Meanwhile in Argentina Cavani scores a hattrick on a 3-2 Boca win! So while Uruguay has some exciting new players coming up (even if Darwin is the starter and Suarez the sub, I still see them the other way around...) we still have our older super-stars in "National Team" shape.
But... I'm actually pretty excited that my daughter got me tickets to see Messi-Suarez and Co this coming April when they come to Foxboro! Funny that the last MLS game I went to see happened to be New England Revolution vs Inter Miami! Tickets to that game were under $50. Now they are 10 times more expensive!!! The Messi effect...
Season 55 update (Nov 2023)
Have to talk about Uruguay again! (Yes, I've lived in the US as many years as in Uruguay by now, but you can't rip the celeste (sky blue) out of me!)
Uruguay is playing already for the qualifiers for the next World Cup to be played in the US, Canada and Mexico in 2026. And we just managed to beat Brazil and Argentina on epic back to back matches (both scores 2-0!). We all were reluctant to accept a foreign coach for our national team, but Bielsa has shut everyone with a play attitude that is really working!
Most Uruguayans are mad however because we realize that under the previous coach (that was always too conservative in the play...) we had the best crop of players in a long time (maybe ever), and our results were not the best as of late. Our 4th place in the 2010 WC and winning the Copa America in 2011 were really great achievements, but granted the coach a stay in the job that went too long...
As far as the 2030 WC I'm sad to see that it didn't go to Uruguay (with Argentina as co-host). Would have been the best fit for the 100th year annyversary of the first WC. But I understand that Spain-Portugal-Morrocco is a more fair pick since Europe has not had a WC in quite some time (I almost don't count Russia's WC as a European host...). Still Uruguay is getting the inaugural match for 2030! (Which also means we've qualified already!). Not sure I follow why they gave Argentina and Paraguay also their opening matches (and automatic qualification).
Season 54 update (Jun 2023)
Have to talk about Uruguay! Even if the U-20 World Cup does not carry as much relevance as the World Cup, winning it is a very big deal.
And Uruguay won it's first U-20 World Cup recently! Have to say that I've enjoyed it very much and that it was very impressive how the youngsters played.
The last 3 matches (including the final) were completely dominated by Uruguay and the low scores did not reflect the way that the matches went.
The only match where we did not dominate was the 2nd match of the group stage, where we were beaten by England 3-2. But after that it was all Uruguay!
Wondering how it is very often that teams that win a World Cup always seem to lose at least one game that "wakes them up"...
Season 53 update (Jan 2023)
Still in Connecticut and slowly (all DIY) updating and remodeling our 1788 house (that's the year that the US Constitution was ratified!).
Enjoying very much being able to work full time remotely. I just could not imagine going to work at an office every day anymore!
Back to Connecticut, here is a bit of it's history:
The word "Connecticut" is a French corruption of the Algonkian word quinetucket, which means "beside the long, tidal river". Reverend Thomas Hooker and the Rev. Samuel Stone led a group of about 100 who, in 1636, founded the settlement of Hartford, named for Stone's place of birth: Hertford, in England.
Connecticut is one of the original 13 colonies that became the US, and was founded as a state in... 1788!
So I'm not sure how much of the house is original anymore, but it has been here since Connecticut became a state.
I know, this is only recent history compared to Scotland... :)
Season 52 update (Sep 2022)
Next thing you know you are writing one of these again! Can't believe that it's been 2 1/2 years since we came back to SESL.
So, trying to not be too repetitive, we've enjoyed the deck this Summer very much!
But there is something else that I've been enjoying a lot and was not expected: Luis Suarez is back at Nacional!!!
...and he just scored a great goal on the main derby match in Uruguay! What a great match (if you are a fan of Nacional!), a great 3-1 win that gives the "Tricolores" a great chance to win the Championship and leaves Peñarol almost with nothing to play for for the rest of the season...
But the joy with football continues: we have the World Cup in just a short 2+ months!!! (Sad to see that Scotland didn't make it...)
One of my boys is spending a semester in Valencia, so will see if I can make it there and catch a Cavani match! (He just joined Valencia CF!)
Cheers!
Season 51 update (April 2022)
Can we finally call this pandemic over?? Life is almost feeling like back to normal, with still lots of people wearing masks, and us still weary about attending crowded events. At home not much changed since the last update, I did finish the deck! Now that Spring will eventually come (this morning it was barely over freezing!) we are hoping to enjoy it a lot!
Plenty more projects to go on our fairly old (built in 1788!) house... :). Lately we are finishing a walk-in closet in a section of the attic that was not even accessible! Hope to have much more by the next update (making a bath out of a half bath and redoing a whole bedroom, then redoing the main bathroom.
I actually, just this last weekend, I made myself a desk with a very (very!) old board that I found in the attic. Very happy with the result and much more comfortable for work (I work full time from home now!).
My next goal is to get in shape to go back to playing some "indoor soccer"! First need to get in running shape, quite the task at my age, but we'll get there. Lost my first 9 pounds in the last month of the many more gained since COVID started...
Season 50 update (December 2021)
So in one year and 9 months I've gone to the office/warehouses 3 times! The nice thing about working in IT is that you barely need to be at your job to do your job. And it's official, I've been allowed to stay working remotely permanently.
This is a good thing because since my last post my office moved 40 minutes away from me (and I already moved an hour away before that!), so commuting would not have been viable anyway...
The college boy is back in school, the youngest is doing great with homeschooling and the oldest is still going to work from home for at least another SESL season!
House renovations still going but slow. Still "almost" done with the new deck, hope to finish it this weekend! (Looks great if I may say so myself...)
Went to my 2nd MLS game after almost 20 years! In 2002 we went to watch a Columbus Crew match in Columbus, Ohio with Mike Morton (SFLSL founder), Ricardo Rio (came from Portugal with his then girlfriend, now wife and mother of their 3 girls!), Nuno Gomes (I think he was living in Philadelphia at the time) and Chris Criswell (a German that lived in Memphis, Tennessee). This time went to see the New England Revolution playing in the New England Patriots stadium outside of Boston. Must say, it was fun!
Season 49 update (July 2021)
How many of these updates are we going to write while the COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting our everyday lives...?
All kids still at home, working, remote-learning and home-schooling...
We now have chickens to tend to and happy to report that we haven't bought an egg since the last update!
Today I finished an outdoors enclosure for the chickens, so they feel like they are out and about. (Can't let them roam free because we have foxes and falcons in the area that prey on chickens!)
House renovation going slower than expected, but I did finish the kitchen!
Season 48 update (Mar 2021)
Six months later and we are still all at home and still loving it. This pandemic has been terrible but we have managed to make the most out of it. Still we got hit really hard with the loss of my mother-in-law back in December. Not directly from the virus but very related, as the lack of going out and exercising and the solitude over such an extended time finally managed to deteriorate her heart to the point of failure. Sad to see a twice-cancer survivor not make it past this new reality. This was unexpected, so it hit us really hard.
Hopeful that we are all finally beating this thing, but these loses are hard.
Still enjoying this game very much. Like Dave often pointed out on his (great!) match commentaries, we always jump on the virtual pitch with a competitive attitude. We often were very close to better results, and got hit quite a few times with late goals against us that dramatically changed our end results.
Busy with (remote) work and renovating our new old house (built in 1788!), so I'm only playing SESL and SFLSL these days...
Season 47 update (Sep 2020)
Aren't we living in a different World this time!
Kids moved back home and we are having a blast! Not missing much of the old "normal" life, just the sports.
Working in IT has allowed me to transition well into a full-time remote kind of work. Have not been to the office since March-13!!!
Like most people that are lucky to be able to keep their jobs and work from home we've adapted well and are not really looking forward to a return to normalcy in the "go to work everyday" sense of it.
To be honest, I've been much more productive since staying at home. (and I haven't wore long pants in 6 months! ;)
Season 46 update (May 2020)
Originally from Uruguay (1967) but living in the USA since 1995. In Louisville, KY for almost 20 years but now going onto 5 years in Connecticut (and liking living again near the coast!)
Married with 3 children that go from 25 to 6!
I'm a systems engineer that worked for a long time using the Uruguayan rapid application development tool called GeneXus.
A big soccer (football, fútbol) fan, mainly Nacional (Uruguay) nicknamed the Tricolores (for white, blue and red) and a pretty big club in terms of history.
Unfortunately Uruguayan football has declined quite a bit since the old glory days. (The 2010 WC being a bit of a resurgence)
Been playing Olmec football games for a very long time (over 20 years) and still is probably the online game that I enjoy the most.
And yes, not much success on it ever. I have played in at least 6 different leagues (most of them discontinued now) and never won a Div-1 title.
Maybe SESL could be the one...?
Season 41 January 2019:-
Willy Krosnyak is caretaker until end of season 41 (***Hoping to get another season~WK)