Birmingham Southside Rovers

Birmingham Southside Rovers
	; Southside Rovers
Established	7 November 2008 (Season 1)
Current FA	CFA
Current League	CFA Championship
Position	5th
Manager	Terry Bennett
Stadium	Longbridge ArenA
Capacity	27,955
Location	Birmingham, UK
Highest Senior Ranking	62
Highest Youth Ranking	14

The south side of Birmingham has long been devoid of a professional football club (Aston Villa play north of the city and Birmingham City in the east). On 7th November 2008 Birmingham Southside Rovers were formed to fill this void. Unfortunately, the "Rovers" was omitted from the registration documents; hence the club are officially only Birmingham Southside! From the ashes of the old Rover car works, the Longbridge ArenA was built to host a football team.

Competition[]

Birmingham Southside Rovers compete in the Casual Football Association of the FML game world Saunders, having a previously long heritage in the now defunct CWA. However, the team have never really scaled the heights of the game world and to date have peaked at the rather lowly 62nd ranked club.

The team has had more, albeit limited, success in youth football with a highest ranking of 14 and winning the CWA u19 youth cup. Many of the players who contributed to this success are currently residing in the BSR senior team and its fringes, a product of heavy investment by manager Terry Bennett in the aftermath of the infamous "Stadiums Depression". After a break from youth competitions for a few seasons, BSR have recently recruited a fresh batch of u17 players who will hopefully be supplementing the 1st team in the future.

Players[]

Current Squad:(formation:4-4-2)

from 27th of september 2009 (season 13)

GK Marko Stojanovic (27 years)

DL Vanderson Canela (26 years)

DC Cladio Coria (27 years)

DC Domingo Ojeda (23 years)

DR Daan Powel (27 years)

ML Angel Di María (31 years)

MC Stefan Stojanovic (23 years)

MC Andrea Russotto (31 years)

MR Mikkel Ole Iversen (22 years)

FC Tristan Plummer (30 years)

FC Ched Evans (31 years)

4 of the first 11 players are academy graduates (Stojanovic,Ojeda,Stojanov & Iversen), with Bakulin,Marcelo, Hiukka & the Billaud Twins Currently pushing for a first team place.