Regulament:

1. The chess.com "Balkan Football League" (hereinafter BFL) of 2025 will start in August 2025 and be played between chess.com clubs representing balkan football teams. The final results and winners for the 2025 season will only be determined after all matches have been decided or on May 1, 2026, whichever comes first.

PARTICIPATION

2. Only chess.com clubs consisting of supporters of the balkan football clubs are allowed to play in the BFL.

3. In order to participate, a club should notify the BFL Admin about it's intention.

4. The Public Profile of each club must make it clear that the club is for fans & followers of the said team.

DIVISIONS

5. The BFL will be played in 1 Division (8 teams).

6. New teams for the 2026 season will be entered in the second and lower divisions until the maximum number of teams per division 10 is established.

7. In order to play each Team must be able to provide at least 5 players for each match.

8. BFL will be played in a 7 Round Robin Team Match tournament.

MATCH RESULTS AND SCORING

9. All matches should be started according to the 2025 season schedule.

10. The winner of the match will get 3 /match/ points, the loser will get 0 points. In case of draw both teams will get 1 point.

11. Match challenges should be issued and accepted no later than 5 days before the match is due to start, according to the 2025 season schedule. If a team (or both teams) fail to start a match on time, the team(s) will be declared loser by forfeit.

LEAGUE SCORING, WINNERS

12. The Team that has scored the most points by the end of the season is declared the winner of the Balkan Football League 2025.

13. If two or more teams score equal number of match points, the following tie-break measures are used to determine their final positions (in order of importance):

a) the results of the direct encounter(s) between the teams involved;

b) more game points earned.

RESTRICTIONS, DISCIPLINARY MEASURES AND OTHER RULES

14. During the 2025 season, each player should play for only one of the teams taking part in the BFL tournament.

PENALTIES

15. If a team fails to provide the minimum number of players required for a team match, the team will be declared loser by forfeit 10:0. If both teams fail to provide the minimum number of players will be declared draw 0:0.

16. Under no circumstances shall admins discourage to join their Club low rated players, remove any players from their roster especially low rated, unless these players play for more than one Team or has a time out ratio (for last 90 days) of more than 25%. Under no circumstances should a team lock their roster. If a team breaks this rule, that team could be declared loser by forfeit for the relevant match 10:0.

17. All Teams should start their matches according to the 2025 season schedule at 10:00 AM EET

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Super Admins