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  1. Traditionally, Quebecois football clubs - though this could also very much apply to other sports - have enjoyed the decentralised, region-driven nature of their base in support. This runs somewhat contrary and in line with the nation for Quebec and Shingoryeo, while a large-sized country on both size and population nearing 94 million, is a country that is particularly centralised around its two largest, most significant metropolises of Joongyeong and Songak.
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  3. The decentralisation inherent in Quebecois sports, as seen by the nationwide spread of the clubs and relative struggles of the metropolises's 'second clubs', so to speak, would mean that it runs somewhat differently than what the nation is known for now and then in public memory. Sports clubs, in which many of these sides have made their names known in not only football, but also basketball, hockey or volleyball, can provide significant sense of identity to the people. In the stands you would notice no shortages of memorabilia and banners tied towards the club and their cultural origin, and they alone would indicate you what part of the city or what demographic you would associate with.
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  5. For a vast majority of the Quebecois footballing history, this has been used as a strengthening device, something that is perhaps best reflected in the spread of strength. The Quebecois Premiership, which would eventually brand itself to the Q-League in 1987, was nationwide from its inception in year 1890. By this point, however, the regional leagues have long been in the play for a decade or two prior, and the active role played by the multi-sports clubs, both present and were in the process of creation, have no doubt spurred the league's development. Quickly came the consolidation of local footballing talent into regional powers, who themselves would be able to hold their own fort against the Big Two with advantages in the nationwide recruitment, and this advantage, while somewhat faded since then, continues to exist.
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  7. See below on the list of past champions past those who have won four or more league trophies:
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  9. [pre]Titles
  10. Won
  11. 32 Montreal Koreana 1904-05, 1909-10, 1951-52, 1956-57, 1964-65, 1966-67, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1998-99,
  12. ★★★ 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2007-08, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2023-24,
  13. 2024-25, 2028-29, 2030-31, 2033-34, 2040-41, 2041-42, 2043-44, 2044-45, 2047-48, 2052-53,
  14. 2054-55, 2056-57
  15. 21 CSKA Quebec 1892-93, 1902-03, 1905-06, 1913-14, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1945-46, 1952-53, 1955-56, 1965-66,
  16. ★★ 1975-76, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1982-83, 1984-85, 1986-87, 1989-90, 2020-21, 2036-37, 2037-38,
  17. 2045-46
  18. 14 St. John's Arsenal 1924-25, 1934-35, 1936-37, 1947-48, 1970-71, 1988-89, 1995-96, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2017-18,
  19. ★ 2020-21, 2022-23, 2025-26, 2032-33
  20. 12 Haligonian 1891-92, 1898-99, 1900-01, 1911-12, 1916-17, 1931-32, 1954-55, 1959-60, 1977-78, 1983-84,
  21. ★ 2038-39, 2042-43
  22. 9 Zenit Attawapiskat 1908-09, 1932-33, 1940-41, 1941-42, 1958-59, 1974-75, 1997-98, 2013-14, 2021-22
  23. 8 Heart of Saguenay 1893-94, 1907-08, 1914-15, 1917-18, 1939-40, 1971-72, 1973-74, 1980-81
  24. 7 Olympique de Rimouski 1972-73, 1985-86, 1991-92, 2006-07, 2027-28, 2045-46, 2049-50
  25. 7 Jolbonopolis United 1918-19, 1925-26, 1943-44, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1957-58, 2001-02
  26. 7 Levis Athletic 1912-13, 1920-21, 1929-30, 1942-43, 1960-61, 1969-70, 1987-88
  27. 6 Mipojoseon 1896-97, 1926-27, 2048-49, 2050-51, 2051-52, 2053-54
  28. 6 Kingston FC 1923-24, 1928-29, 1963-64, 1976-77, 2005-06, 2039-40
  29. 5 Swangard Athletic 1981-82, 2004-05, 2031-32, 2034-35, 2035-36
  30. 4 Northandryun Rovers 1930-31, 1937-38, 1962-63, 1994-95
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  32. Notable power sides that have won titles and have consistently secured their stay in the Q-League, but fewer than four: 3 - Wansan Noksaekjeonsa, Forest City Athletic, 2 - Perce Town, Montreal City[/pre]
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  34. Most of the teams you could see here are familiar names, and eleven of the twelve sides that have won four league titles or more, remain in the league. While the historical factors no doubt play into their successes, it is something that very much exists into the modern-era mantra thanks to factors that continue into this day as well. The culmination of strong local talent into these clubs, combined with strong management practices, and intense, exciting fan culture brought municipal and regional identities, have come from the nation's history of diverse but distinct peoples.
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  36. Recent years of internationalisation, one that was followed after a decade of self-limitation imposed by the RQFA and before that a short era of LigAnaia super league, have also factored in nicely for these sides. Those regional powers, while not exactly known for their names, too have explored in various directions, with the likes of Kingston FC, Northandryun Rovers and St. John's Arsenal have made their active stance known in the transfer market, while Olympique de Rimouski, Perce Town and Swangard Athletic have been able to ramp up their low-cost, development-friendly approach through active international market.
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  38. In the end, the combination of these factors have no doubt allowed the regional sides to compete and flourish, and stand as among more distinctive powers in the league. This is by no means a phenomenon, as those familiar with the leagues of similarly stature abroad could confirm. With that said, internationalisation of the game have brought forth challenges to the Q-League sides and their counterparts abroad, with the fear of losing the club identity, while balancing the finances, very much in play.
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  40. We'll have a look at more promising of these clubs below:
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  42. The Tale of Cousins: Perce Town and Montreal City
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  44. - Out of all the owners, it is ironically enough the Sierra-Heo couple from the league's smallest franchise, Perce Town, that happens to be the best known among those in the public. Not often you would see a couple of a basketball Hall of Fame guard, an olympic winner, and a famous pop star turned into a major film producer with his own company, Mulhacén, in Gobion (Krytenia) and
  45. - Sierra-Heo couple prefers not to intervene on team operations, something that Director of Football and minority owner Eidar Salihamidzic handles, and instead prefers to provide 'outward operations' of the club
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  48. - Salary cap drop's perfectly understandable: Substantial amount, but the club too had to retool for the future
  49. - Sold their veterans wisely while possible. Perry Oosterhuis was sold for relatively low sum, but it is the transfers of Marc-Andre Onasi and Emily Bruce, respectively at 2m and 8m, that have drawn some eyes.
  50. - Roch Clairon a very smart signing from Patriotlandia as the jack-of-all-trades midfielder could provide the team on energy and coverage
  51. - Odette Tsioui transfer from Cornwall Clippers, for example, suggest that they aren't going to shy away from getting prospects with 'it-factor' if need be
  52. - The team has also worked dilligently to secure the services of Matt 'The Doctor' Smith from Eastfield Lodge. Undetermined length of contract but the OM comes with low salary, a condition he had suggested to the club front office instead.
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  54. - Montreal City's in an unique situation because their deficits were already approved by the RQFA League Board
  55. - Previous ownership going belly-up had left almost 200m in debt to the club, which had forced the sale to the Tamazghan state fund and the Dreyfus-Millikens
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  57. - Salary cap naturally low, due to them recently being promoted and not exactly producing the revenues in the ways their rival, Montreal Koreana, has been able to do so. Being back up on the top tier after five years away can do that
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  59. - Aggressive with their attempt to play catch-up
  60. - Have been able to make eye-drawing signings - Tessa Maitfield and Rachel Wyman last cycle, this time Kutaaka Muteesa and Jason Þórhallursson. Þórhallursson, in particular, is considered a game-changer due to the calibre of the player he is, even at 35, and the promise of chemistry it would bring when combined with Gavilan Quelabura, arguably the league's best playmaker alongside Alulim and Ganymede Garcia who have also scored 71 in the Quebecois Championship just two years ago.
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  62. - Bringing youths add to the challenge, but is set with Alain Delisle, Hannah Davis and Benjamin Framnes all set to be key pieces of this MCFC side. Kirsten Allen, one of team's few academy-products right now, also projects well and with more time, would become an outstanding winger for the league that always need more of them.
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  64. - MCFC ownership situation is interesting because
  65. - Maisie Dreyfus-Milliken's husband, Ji Gyeong-Wan (age 42), is a close cousin of Perce Town's Heo Myeong-Yoon. While only connected through their respective great-grandmother, Myeong-Yoon's father was known for adoring Ji, who was born from his maternal cousin and her husband, and Ji and Heo siblings share close mentor-mentee relationship
  66. - It is also complicated by Ji's status as Vice-President of National Racing Authority (NRA).
  67. - The RQFA has already ruled that any possible transfer between Montreal City and Perce Town, effective this summer, will be ruled ineligible due to this factor. Understandable in order to prevent nepotism
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  69. St. John's Arsenal
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  71. - Unique example due to its status as the banner of the province of Inteachan
  72. - Consists of Koreano-Gaelic population with clan-based kingdom and signs of Shingoryeoite language use pre-dating the arrival of First Shingoryeoite Fleets on the mainland when they have crossed over from Gyatso-Kai around 1000s-1100s.
  73. - Warmer climate and favourable grass conditions mean that cricket's been primary sport, with football second or third.
  74. - Funnily enough, this has led the Arsenal, whose early-football successes and ability to stay afloat the league, when they remained the last Quebecois squad to have played solely in the top flight of football, to stand out and develop a special status as 'The Football Club' of Inteachan
  75. - Financially this means that the Arsenal is a golden goose laying golden eggs. The team's highly marketable, with a state-of-art Blue Point Stadium, and plays an attractive brand of football dating all the way back to the days of Kurt Hlazek.
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  78. - Slimani-Park family's owned the club for past ten years. Famous for their ownership and operations of Magnus-Calania Motors corp, and a few heavy industries company, they form one of several sporting arms of the Slimani family, while Slimani-Park family, one of three other branches, own Wansan Noksaekjeonsa.
  79. - While their ownership with the club has been stable for most part, with the facilities regularly upgraded and necessary transfers made where Rob Alexander requests, the club's complications appear to be far from over due to factors outside of football.
  80. - Slimanis aren't exactly in the position to buy or sell much unlike in the past years - complicated conglomerate sagas between the members of the family. There is also the matter of Slimani-Park's having to pay attention to its ownership of Wirr Tsi, one of the best clubs in the Multiverse
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  82. - Club bought and sold little over last couple of seasons. Exceptions have existed now and then with signings of Kishan Rees on leftback and Alija Mesic-Mizayaki on the CDM, but they have been carefully planned and so far worked out well for the team
  83. - Transfer rumours still follow the club now and then. During the Kaeja saga they did not shy away by willing to bid as much as 20m on the talismanic Graintfjaller midfielder.
  84. - With that no longer being successful, the club has since quietly. Interestingly enough, one of the biggest rumours appear to direct them towards a 17-year old Brett Sarcav-Jones from Avondale City...
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  86. Swangard Athletic
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  88. - For those familiar with the club itself, this is a lying figure. Swangard Athletic, owned by de Kitemahs who also happen to be the fifth-largest landowner in Quebec & Shingoryeo, do not lack money.
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  90. - That said Swangard find themselves in a tricky situation. The club itself is perfectly fine, one could even argue in their best position in twenty years, but they might be the ones most 'fucked over' by the Q-League salary cap for they are both small-market side with relatively high expense. Partly due to their half-year slate of being on contention
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  92. - While one of the famous 'Yoseo-Sam-Hyeonjae' (Three brothers from Yoseo region, traditionally used to describe the Far West of the nation), Swangard Athletic has small-market challenges not seen by Jolbonopolis United, and relatively lack of draw Northandryun Rovers have brought to their success
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  94. - Coming up short on the IFCF stage for most part didn't help them either. A single ChC group stage appearance where they had come up short of qualification, even if it was by a tiny margin, isn't pretty record for the Thunderbirds' faithful. Then missing out on a couple of qualification opportunities, combined with relative futility on either the League Cup or the Coupe de la Reina, have no doubt limited the team's coffers.
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  96. - People underestimate how frugal the Swangards can be at times with this football club, but that's understandable when you think about how many divisions this club sponsors. In a Prince Eric market of 500k, even with their famed high-income population best repped by 'The Real Housewifes of Prince Eric', it's a tricky problem.
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