The most successful manager in league history, Younis became the first manager to win back-to-back DoBo titles—and was also the first to lead a team from non-league to the top division in consecutive seasons. Cacos’ demotion for ‘financial irregularities’ hangs heavy despite Younis maintaining the money was “just resting” in his account.
REEF YOUNIS
Club: Cacos
Seasons: 9
Honours:
DoBo (x2), DoWo, DoDi, YoBo,
DiKo (x3)
Trophies: 8
One of the league’s most volatile teams, The Bombers have proven they can compete with the best, as demonstrated by becoming only the second team to win back-to-back DoBos in 19/20 & 20/21. But doubts over Penhallurick’s temperament and psychological frailty under pressure have dogged them since their famous collapse to Cacos in 15/16.
WILL PENHALLURICK
Club: The Jager Bombers
Seasons: 7
Trophies: 5
Honours:
DoBo (x2), DoWo, SaKo, YoBo
It’s taken years but Borussia Teeth are gradually shedding a bottom-feeder legacy that once saw them scraping for survival in DoWo. Then the 18/19 season arrived and The Teeth were improbably crowned DoBo champions, picked up a DoDi title in 22/23 and an impressive YoBo and SaKo cup double in 23/24. Whisper it: this is a team capable of consistently winning honours.
WYN WILLIAMS
Club: Borussia Teeth
Seasons: 10
Trophies: 4
Honours:
DoBo, DoDi, YoBo, SaKo
In any other sport, Jon Jolley wouldn’t have been fired, he’d have been arrested. A maverick minus point magnet and a glutton for disrepute fines, aside from a fever dream two weeks in 15/16 where he topped a division, Jolley remains a competitive enigma. At his best, he can spring a few cupsets but he isn’t a manager built for deadlines or the marathon slog of a Fantasy season.
JON JOLLEY
Seasons: 9
Club: Mani United
Trophies: 0
Honours:
-
The league’s pre-eminent cheat, Jones’ mantra is rooted in the idea that your first team isn’t necessarily your best team. Underscored by a parade of 3rd subs and vice captain points, his Fantasy style is ugly but he has an unerring ability to navigate the chaos of the cups and pick up silverware. It seems cheats do prosper after all.
GAVIN JONES
Club: Heisenberg
Seasons: 9
Trophies: 7
Honours:
DoWo (x3), SaKo (x2), YoBo, DiKo
Arthur and the Farts are a club of extremes. They’re capable of dominating a division but have a strong track record of stinking one out. Early on his career, Arthur was the epitome of season-on-season consistency but that sole DoBo title in 16/17 seems a long way away as the Farts continue to yo-yo between divisions in a search for stability.
MARTIN ARTHUR
Club: Farts of Midlothian
Seasons: 10
Trophies: 5
Honours:
DoBo, DoWo, DoDi (x2), SaKo
An enigmatic presence in the league, Daoudi blazed a pretty incredible trail in his 16/17, finishing within the Top 10k in the world en route to his DoWo & SaKo double that same year. After agreeing to join the Cacos Ltd. network, the journeyman Moroccan added a coveted DoBo in 23/24. And if it wasn’t for a few shocking cup final performances, could’ve added a a few more YoBo and SaKo to his list.
MEHDI DAOUDI
Club: Exeter Gently
Seasons: 5
Trophies: 3
Honours:
DoBo, DoWo, SaKo
For all of their failure on the pitch, The Westicles are a masterclass in brand perception off it. Everyone’s second favourite team have rarely bothered anything other than mid-table DoDi for Huxley’s entire career, but with their improbable promotion pushes, second-half of the season resurrections, and oh-so-close cup qualifiers, for all of their faults, no team is as universally loved.
DANIEL PAUL HUXLEY
Club: The Westicles
Seasons: 9
Trophies: 0
Honours:
-
Davies’ style isn’t the flashiest but with five titles in ten years, his strike rate remains solid enough. But the numbers don’t tell the full story with no titles in five seasons undermining the success of those early years. Instead, we’ve seen the decline of a manager who seemed destined for greatness gradually fading into Fantasy obscurity.
MICHAEL DAVIES
Seasons: 10
Club: FC Des
Trophies: 5
Honours:
DoBo, DoDi, YoBo (x2), SaKo
‘The Prince of DoDi’ might not have all the titles in the world but Davies can still take pride in the two he’s won. After the gut-wrenching, Cambiasso-inflicted relegation of 14/15, many thought the club would sink into oblivion. But bouncing back with a coveted DoDi in 16/17 and a surprise YoBo win in 20/21, Davies has proven himself better than most.
STEPHEN DAVIES
Club: DTA
Seasons: 10
Trophies: 2
Honours:
DoDi, YoBo
Perhaps the league’s most polarising manager, McCarthy sensationally silenced his critics in the 22/23 season by winning an unprecedented treble, aided by awful performances in the finals by DTA and Exeter Gently. That success might paper over the cracks as it accounts for over half his title haul but he remains a pest of a competitor in any division.
RORY McCARTHY
Club: The Pain Train
Seasons: 8
Trophies: 5
Honours:
DoBo, DoWo, YoBo, SaKo (x2)
It’s been impossible to ignore Evans’ rise to Fantasy prominence in recent years as he quickly staked his reputation as the “Best Evans” with a flurry of titles. Despite blanking in his first season, a maiden DoBo title arrived in his third, and earmarked him as an annoyingly consistent wunderkind who has made the top division his permanent home.
JAKE EVANS
Club: AZ Minan
Seasons: 6
Trophies: 4
Honours:
DoBo, DoWo (x2), SaKo
Jones and Northern Borras are probably most infamous for the -1 GW score in 15/16 after a bungled wildcard than they are recognised as a league force. But dig into that sole DoDi title in 18/19 and the stats will show you one of the most dominant GW performances in league history. But after a decade in the game, that wonder season feels more lightning in a bottle every year.
MICHAEL JONES
Club: Northern Borras
Seasons: 10
Trophies: 1
Honours:
DoDi
It’s been a couple of seasons for the league’s newest manager, and while it’s still early-ish days, we’ve arguably seen a greater level of performance from his zombie teams than we have from the man himself. In a division where you can bet your house on the bottom and second-bottom teams, James will need to show more ambition and commitment unless he’s content with his DoDi timeshare.
TOM JAMES
Club: Sultans of Ping
Seasons: 4
Trophies: 0
Honours:
-
Back in 16/17, Twigg and Xtal tha Pulsewidth finished with the lowest total in league history—a measly 1527 that even perennial league propper Jon Jolley laughed at. Fast forward a few years, and the DoDi title in 21/22 not only thrust Twigg out of ‘The Nothing Club’ but would’ve helped soothe the brutal SaKo cup final defeat in 14/15 as he picked up his first hard-earned title.
DAVID TWIGG
Club: Xtal tha Pulsewidth
Seasons: 10
Trophies: 1
Honours:
DoDi
A delusional fantastist, a cult-like presence, a failed Fantasy manager. Whatever you call Sean Downs, you can rarely accuse the man of being boring. But after eight seasons of title-less disappointment, the league’s self-proclaimed “most electrifying manager in Fantasy entertainment” faces a ban after being being charged with 115 PSR breaches, perjury and fake titles.
SEAN DOWNS
Club: Downsy’s 15
Seasons: 8
Trophies: 0
Honours:
-
He came, he saw, we still have no idea whether he was real or not. Or what his first name is. But alongside the SaKo exploits of the mighty ‘Average’, he captured the imagination like few others as a silent presence, who not only managed to outghost veterans like Martin Arthur and Gavin Jones, but leave a legacy in the process—even if he didn’t win any titles.
NIGEL NEIL
Trophies: 0
Seasons: 1
Club: ?
Honours:
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