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Our season starts with a 1 week Super Cup followed by the 32 week Platinum League. A League Cup, FA Cup and Champions Cup, all weekly competitions, take place to coincide with real cup finals and there are 4 additional summer tournament qualifying weeks occupying the international breaks where players attempt to reach our summer tournament. Trophies are available for the league and all cup competitions.

Each year the summer tournament is based on both the Men's and Women's World Cup or EUROS with the winner, every year, able to keep the trophy in their home, but tradition maintains they return it each year in preparation for it to be engraved and delivered to the next winner. We also have two breaks at Christmas and Easter with those filled by promo events. This means weekly games all season. We also have a Player of the Month award.

Brad

Just good fun amongst a good group of people

Irwin

Competitiveness to the core

Matt

Am hopeless at it, but love it

Luke

Easy and regular

Robert

It's a good crack

Adam

Just love predicting results and competition

Alison

It is an inherited passion from my Dad

Cameron

Missed playing after the end of the season good to see it’s made a return

Samantha

Engaging and fun

Tom

Fun

The Platinum League is an unlimited player league with positions determined by points gained from predicting 8 weekly game outcomes over 32 weeks. It starts in August at the beginning of the English domestic season and runs until May, usually the last week coinciding with the conclusion of The Premier League. After 31 weeks, all points are reset for the top 10 players, who fight it out on the final day to decide the champion. Other players can still play that week but only the top 10 will be in contention for the title. Those players are also drawn a home team each (determined by Premier League and Platinum League order - i.e. 1st placed in our league as of Week 31 gets the team placed highest in The Premier League playing at home and so forth) and should players be tied on points to decide the champion, the player whose home team wins will become champion. Should that not decide anything, then it goes to the player highest in the league as of Week 31, of all the players who are joint 1st after the final week's points are counted.

Players compete for the league trophy throughout the season, predicting the results of matches from a variety of leagues including The Premier League, The Championship, The WSL and other domestic leagues both in Europe and beyond!

David Burtenshaw is our current defending champion!

This season, we delivered to him The Platinum League Trophy, pictured below and whilst we offered him a multi-pack of the beverage of his choice, he kindly chose to donate the equivalent value to charity.

THE PLATINUM LEAGUE

For our third season the Super Cup opened our season, this 1 week competition being won by Samantha Lane.

We're considering a 2 week Super Cup next season, shortening the Easter Trophy to 1 week. This is to coincide the opening of The Platinum League with the beginning of The Premier League.

The League Cup, FA Cup and Champions Cup will also be 1 week competitions, coinciding with the English League Cup and FA Cup Finals and UEFA Champions League Final.

Our current cup champions are Samantha Lane (pictured), 2025 Super Cup Winner, Michael Clarke (pictured), 2025 League Cup Winner, Bradley Cartwright (pictured), 2025 FA Cup Winner and Ross Arnell-Smith, the 2025 Champions Cup Champion winner (pictured).

Cup competition rules are similar to the league with players being drawn a cup team (usually half of them a home team and the other half an away team) to determine a winner in the event points are tied. Order rules are published for each cup as and when they're played.

Christmas and Easter breaks will each feature 2 week promotional trophy events open to everyone and anyone winning a cup/trophy/voucher can also opt to donate their equivalent prize value to charity. Special mentions most go to Gayle Sawit and John Prescott, our first and second Christmas Trophy winners and Boniswa Kubeka and Tom Barlow-Taylor, our first and second Easter Trophy winners.

SAM

MICHEAL

BRAD

ROSS

CUP COMPETITIONS

Each year a summer tournament concludes the season with the winner lifting our ultimate trophy.

Tradition is this trophy is returned to us each year to be engraved and delivered to the next tournament winner.

2024 Men's Euro Super 7 - Brad Cartwright

2025 Women's Euro Super 7 - Robert McBride (pictured)

2026 Men's World Cup Great 8 - 48 Places Available

2027 Women's World Cup Great 8 - 32 Places Available

For the 2024 and 2025 Summer Tourneys, players competed in Group Stages and Knock Out Stages, predicting game outcomes to progress out of their drawn group with the Knock Out Stages being a winner takes all. For 2026 its all players to the final.

This season's summer tourney is based on the FIFA 2026 World Cup and qualifying starts in September. There are 2 routes to get to this competition and all is explained HERE.

You can still register to play if you don't qualify through either route, but for this summer tourney, qualifying route 1 not only guarantees your place, bar invite, but also means you'll be drawn the favoured team in the final, which could be crucial on a points tie to determine the winner.

SUMMER TOURNEY

The Platinum League winner each season takes home the greater value of prizes although The Summer Tourney trophy is the one they all want to win ; the ultimate season ending prize. Whilst the league attracts The Platinum League Trophy and a multi-pack choice of favourite beverage for the winner, The Summer Tourney Trophy carries the most prestige with the winner returning it the following summer in preparation for engraving and delivery to the next winner.

Meanwhile, the Super Cup, League Cup, FA Cup and Champions Cup all award a trophy for keeps to each winner, with the Christmas and Easter Trophies offering high cash value Amazon Vouchers or equivalent. We also have a Player of the Month award with the winner of that getting a £5 Amazon Voucher or equivalent prize.

PRIZES

CHARITY POT

This game comes with another benefit. A season's end donation to charity. Throughout the season players can opt to donate their equivalent prize value to charity. That pot builds up and at season's end we donate that amount to a designated charity partner. Last season, our first, we raised £280.20. As Daniel Prescott's employer EDF Energy kindly supported us, we supported their charity partner Alzheimer's Society, through one of our players who ran a local charity football match. See more @ https://www.justgiving.com/page/hove-charity-match. After our current season, our second, we supported the same event with that match, held in Lancing on 30th May 2025, West Sussex, and we donated our final second season total of £180.98, with gift aid and tipping raising that to £226.23. Thanks again to all who gave up their prizes for this worthy cause.

That's a stunning £506.43. In Season 3, we'd like to exceed that amount.

Thus far, Season 3 has £36 in its Charity Pot, after we allocated £2 for every player who played in the Super Cup.

Season 3 - NOW

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Super Cup - Won by Samantha Lane

The Platinum League First Week - Started

Christmas Trophy - 27 Dec 2025 to 03 Jan 2026

League Cup Final - 14 Mar 2026 (TBC)

Easter Trophy - 28 Mar 2026 to 04 Apr 2026

FA Cup Final - 16 May 2026

The Platinum League Final Week - 23 May 2026

Champions Cup Final - 30 May 2026

PG8 World Cup Great Eight - 06 Jun 2026 to 18 Jul 2026

Summer Break and Season 4 Launch - 25 Jul 2026

SEASON 3 KEY DATES

PG8 2026 World Cup Great Eight Qualifying

Round 1 - 06 Sep 2025

Round 2 - 11 Oct 2025

Round 3 - 08 Nov 2025

Round 4 - 21 Mar 2026

Play Offs and Inviting - Apr/May 2026

Launch - 03 Jun 2026

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