/sp/

/sp/
/sp/ found a way
/sp/ - Sports
Founded August 2011 IRL manager Bochumbru  !!vij0cTUzxLY ung  !!dcCUkaYRNLH Team colors Chat color 990000 Maroon Ranking 30 ( 2) Highest rank 1 (January 8, 2012) Lowest rank 32 (March 2, 2015) Top scorer MESSI (27) Top assister N/A (N/A) Captain N/A Website /sp/ - Sports Nickname The GOATs - (the acronym of the commonly-used sporting term "Greatest Of All Time") /sp/artans - (originally used as the collective term for the denizens of the /sp/ board)
Historic performance
W D L TOTAL EFFICIENCY 25 8 13 46 54.35%
GF GA GD 94 64 +30
Biggest win /ck/  0–4  /sp/ January 7, 2012 Biggest defeat /i/  4–2  /sp/ November 2, 2014 First match /fa/  1–2  /sp/ August 6, 2011
Elite Cup Appearances N/A (First in N/A) Best result N/A, N/A Babby Cup Appearances N/A (First in N/A) Best result N/A, N/A
Team music
Anthem NBA on NBC Goal horn Wavin' Flag (Celebration Mix)
Kits
Home kit

The /sp/artans Football Club is a simulated professional football team founded in August 2011, representing /sp/, the 4chan board dedicated to sports. They won the 2013 4chan Winter Cup, and also won the 2012 4chan Summer Cup before the title was revoked due to the Dragongate, making them for a time the first and only team to have won two Elite competitions. They also held the 1st position in the cup rankings from January 2012 to May 2013, the longest time the position was held so far.

The club's popularity among the proud posters of /sp/ has made them susceptible to negative press. Accusations of rigging lead to the Match Fixing Scandal in early January 2012, the team was heavily involved in the Dragongate scandal as well, and their almost systematic shitposting on other boards in the event /sp/ participate in a match is often cited as one of the possible reasons for the global cup ban by the 4chan moderation.

/sp/'s main rivals are without a doubt /a/, who knocked them out twice out of the cup on top of being dirty weeaboos, but they also have minor rivalries with /k/, /toy/, /tg/, /v/, /fit/, and potentially any board who knocks them out of the cup (/gd/ and /i/ we're looking at you) or have a fanbase as rambuctious as theirs.

History

For earlier history: /sp/ History

2015

With another German manager hailing from the /trb/ generals, /sp/ had hopes of at least getting out of the Babbies. As luck would have it, /sp/ was drawn in a hell of a group with /b/, /c/, /cgl/ and none other than /a/, with the derby between /a/ and /sp/ taking place in the first day of the 2015 Spring Babby Cup. The hype was back in /sp/ for said derby, but after wasted opportunities from USA USA USA, and a well conditioned Messi being practically invisible for the entire match, /sp/ started off the cup with a 2-1 loss to /a/. Fans were quick to criticize the defensive tactics and Bochumbru's absence for such a big match. But the /sp/artans didn't falter, and came back on the next day guns blazing to overload the cup with Freedom as USA USA USA opened the scoring immediately. Even after /b/ equalised after a de gay blunder they never lost confidence and an on form Le Cut Inside Man led the GOATs to a 4-1 win.

Disaster would strike again, and this time, it was against a managerless /cgl/. The GOATs looked like individuals rather than a team as they lost 2-1 to the Seagulls. A suspicious number of blowouts and ridiculously good performances from home teams led to some speculation among fans of home abuse: /a/ proceeded to lose 6-1 to /b/ on the same match day, fueling the discussion in the 4chan cup's /vg/ threads. Nevertheless, /sp/ had to push forward and hope to win against /c/ in order to have a small chance of qualifying to the 2015 Summer Cup. /c/ was more or less of a punching bag so far in the cup, but they suddenly came to life against /sp/ and went up 2-0 in the first half. Any hopes of /sp/ qualifying were crushed by this point, but the /sp/artans pushed forward in the last 10 minutes and scored twice. /sp/ almost scored a 3rd, but there wasn't enough time left, and thus, /sp/ was stuck in the Babbies yet again, and the draw kept /c/ down with them.

Colors and Mascot

/sp/ is maroon, orange, black and white.

Maroon: R173 G17 B12
Orange: R200 G85 B5

For the first 4chan World Cup, /sp/ wore an all white kit with a simplistic green logo. Before the 2012 Winter Cup the team wore blue but eventually settled on the current iconic maroon and orange home kit, based on real world Italian divegrass team AS Roma. For away matches, /sp/ wears solid black kit with orange details. To continue the theme that the club's number one goalkeeper is DA BEARS, the uniform for the goalkeeper is a near representation of the uniform of the handegg team, the Chicago Bears.

The mascot of the club is Paul the Goat (named after the legendary Paul the Octopus), who has gained worldwide fame for his alleged psychic powers. When presented with two boxes containing goat food decorated with the club crest of the two teams who are about to play in a game, Paul has successfully picked the winning team 100% of the time from 25 attempts.

Two logos have been used to represent /sp/ Football Club. While one is the official logo and the other pointless, both are alright to use when depicting the /sp/ Club.

Image	Description
	The famous logo of /sp/ Fooball Club and currently the most widely used, it depicts Paul the Goat standing proud on an image of a Spartan soldier. The nickname of the club is the /sp/artans, which is the reason for the Spartan on the logo. The star under the Spartan is a representation of /sp/'s first cup victory in the 4chan summer cup. Football came home that night.
	The lesser used logo. Paul the Goat is given orange colored horns and a shawl with the /sp/ name on it. While a lesser used logo, it is quite a classic among die-hard fans of the club.

Squad

Main article: /sp/ Roster

Updated April 2015

No. Position Player 85   GK DA BURRS 17   CB Lelbron 18   CB 18-1 4   LB >Schalke 23   RB Refball 8   DMF George Costanza 7   CMF BRA7i1 12   CMF TYBSM 10   SS Messi 11   CF Le Cut Inside Man 50   AMF USA USA USA

No. Position Player 1   GK >De Gay 6   CB >el Moyes 28   CB >That Topic >This Flag 43   CMF >He does it for free 21   RB Jagsguy 40   LB KONGS 26   LMF Kornheiser 20   AMF TORRES 91   DMF POWER RANKINGS 13   AMF JAIR 9   LWF >Englel 94   RMF No Era Penal

Tactics

• spring15 export
• summer15 friendlies export
• PES14 Aesthetics

Supporters

/sp/ is known to have some of the most passionate fans in the game. Due to this passion, /sp/artans are often seen as whiners by other boards, especially in the wake of the 2012 SC Bracket Scandal. Due to this, /sp/ was the winner of the Worst Fans Award in that cup. However, /sp/ does boast some of the most supportive fans in all of 4chan, participating in the most watched game of the 2012 4chan Summer Cup. After claiming victory in this cup, /sp/ was flooded with celebratory "MESSIMESSIMESSI" and "THANK YOU BASED TORRES" posts.

Available NOW: /sp/artans FC scarfs. Cost including shipping: 14.50€/17$ further enquiries and orders can be made at sp_scarfs@hotmail.com

design of the aforementioned scarf

PES 2013 In-game Chants

• USA USA USA
• I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN
• MESSI, MESSI, MESSI
• FIGHT AND WIN

Old Chants and Themes

• 1 Goat on the Shirt (To the tune of "3 Lions on the Shirt")
• 10 /a/ Weeaboos in the Air (To the tune of "10 German Bombers")

Rivalries

The Derby of /sp/art/a/ The biggest derby in the game. A battle between GOATs of /sp/orts and the Men of /a/nime to see who is the greater champion. There is a lot of history between these teams, and it's not all pretty, beginning in the 2011 4chan Cup Semi Finals, a moment /a/ refers to as Yamakan saving Anime while /sp/ often refers to it as BasedChoke. The 2 teams did not meet in an official match until the 2013 Spring Babby Cup friendlies, and did not meet in an Official Cup game until the 2014 Winter Cup. Both teams have won Summer cups by this time, and the feud was reignited with /sp/ winning a friendly for the first time ever against /a/. However, /a/ leads /sp/ 3 games to 0 under cup competitions. Tournament matches between /sp/ and /a/ have been dubbed as "El Classico".

1-0-3

The Not-Sports Derby Wherever there's a WWE thread on /sp/, there is sure to be at least one person who will tell WWE fans that pro wrestling is fake and that it belongs on /asp/. Combine that with /asp/'s users being internet tough guys, and you have a nasty rivalry brewing. In the 4chan cup, these teams have completely different mentalities as well, with /sp/ angrily sacking managers if they don't win cups, and /asp/ practicing the concept of patience with their managers. These teams only faced each other once in a friendly that was won by /sp/.

1-0-0

The e-Sports Derby /sp/ and /v/ are intense rivals in a feud that is essentially the alphas vs. the weeaboo gaming nerds, and this rivalry was only made worse after /sp/ sent /v/ to the Loser's Bracket in 2011. /v/ is also jealous of /sp/'s endless creativity and epic maymays, as well as their ability to handle the banter.

1-0-1

Results

Main article: /sp/ Match History

Competition	Win	Loss	Tie	End result	Notes
All friendlies	4	5	6		>implying friendlies count
2011 4chan Summer Cup	3	2	0	Third Place	Double elimination bracket
2012 4chan Winter Cup	5	2	0	Runner up	Double elimination bracket
2012 4chan Summer Cup	6	0	0	Champions	Title vacated due to Dragongate
	0	0	0	Nullified	Record after 2nd correction.
2013 4chan Winter Cup	6	0	0	Champions	One match striken, due to Dragongate.
2013 4chan Summer Cup	1	2	1	Ro16	>tfw almost relegated
2014 4chan Winter Cup	3	1	0	Ro16	>could've been relegated on 6 (six) points
2014 4chan Summer Cup	1	1	1	Relegated	>Moyes
2014 4chan Autumn Babby Cup	2	2	0	Failed to promote	>losing to a shit team and a new team
2015 4chan Spring Babby Cup	1	2	1	Failed to promote	>couldn't even beat any weeb team

Stadium

The pipeline after which /sp/'s stadium is named.

/sp/'s current home is the Transatlantic Semen Pipeline Stadium, named in remembrance of Murrika's selfless donations to impoverished Yurop. Plans for the stadium's re-construction in PES 2015 have been submitted.

Trivia

• Of the six teams to win the 4chan cup, /sp/ is the only one to win with a perfect record of 6-0-0 (/a/ finished 8-0-1 and /k/ finished 5-0-1).
• /sp/ became the first board to have a sticky thread for a 4chan Cup event during the 2012 Winter Cup.

Honors

Official Honors

• 

  2011 4chan Summer Cup: 3rd place

• 

  2012 4chan Winter Cup: Runner-up

• 

  we also won summer 2012 , fuk da h8ers hashtag outlels, Torres McIlroy did nothin wrong

• 

  2013 4chan Winter Cup: Champions

Invitationals

• Trip Cup: 4th place
• Cup Finalists Cup: 3rd place

Vacated Honours

• 2012 4chan Summer Cup: Champions

Video Gallery

• Greatest Comeback Of All Time - Witness the greatest comeback of all time brought to you by George Costanza.
• 2012 Summer Cup Promo
• 2012 Summer Cup: /sp/ vs /toy/
• 2012 Summer Cup: /sp/ vs /int/ and /ro11/
• 2013 Winter Cup Promo
• 2013 Summer Cup: Promo for /sp/ vs /g/
• 2013 Summer Cup: Round of 16 Promo
• 2014 Summer Cup Promo
• 2014 Summer Cup USA Promo
• 2014 Autumn Babby Promo
• 2015 Spring Babby Promo
• 2015 Spring Babby Promo by Edgar
• 2015 SBC /a/ match promo
• 2015 SBC /b/ match promo

2012 4chan Summer Cup (vacated) Champions

Preceded by 2011 Summer Cup Champions  /a/	2012 Summer Cup Champions (no title)	Succeeded by 2013 Summer Cup Champions /wg/

Preceded by 2012 Winter Cup Champions  /k/	2012 Summer Cup Champions (no title)	Succeeded by 2013 Winter Cup Champions /sp/

2013 4chan Winter Cup Champions

Preceded by 2012 Winter Cup Champions  /k/	2013 Winter Cup Champions (1st title)	Succeeded by 2014 Winter Cup Champions /trv/

Preceded by 2012 Summer Cup Champions  /sp/	2013 Winter Cup Champions (1st title)	Succeeded by 2013 Summer Cup Champions /wg/