Back in 1938, Joao Queiroz, the owner of a large textile factory in the Brazilian state of Pernambucano, decided to organize football team for their employees. New club was named after the sacred bird of ancient Egypt - "Ibis".
A few years later, Ibis became a professional team, and Vava, the future world football champion, even played for a short time in its composition. But Ibis is known not only for this fact, in the eighties it was recognized as the worst football club in the world, and entered into the Guinness Book of Records. And, absolutely deserved.
For the first 60 years of its existence, Ibis managed to score only 120 goals, on average, it turns out 2 goals per year. But the record-breaking club conceded much more into its own net - 3,700. And in 1980-1984. gave out just a fantastic series, failing to win a single victory for 3 years and 11 months. At the same time, in some meetings, "Ibis" conceded 30-40 goals.
But, even in such a situation, the club's fans managed to remain optimistic. For example, they recognized Mauro Teixeira Torpe, nicknamed "Shampoo", as the best player in the history of the team, who scored only one goal against opponents in 10 years of playing at Ibis. Yes, and that did not bring success to the team: "Ibis" lost the match with a score of 1:8.
Gradually, the team's nasty game became its trademark, because even notoriety is still glory. A couple of years ago, the team's management even made a shocking offer to the legendary Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, with whom London's Chelsea terminated the contract. True, a condition was set before Mourinho: if the team wins two victories in a row, he will immediately be dismissed. And for each defeat, the coach was entitled to a bonus - a puppy or a kitten to choose from. It is difficult to say whether Mourinho found out about such a “flattering” offer, but, of course, he did not appear in the team.
However, over the long years of its existence, even the "Ibis" had some glimpses in the game. For example, in 1999 the club finished second in their state's second division. But it didn’t work out further, there was no money even for the salaries of the players, and the team was again sent to the lower division.
Fans ask Ibis not to win again
Ibis made a real sensation in September 2017, when it won three victories in a row at the start of the tournament and took the lead in Serie 2A of the state of Pernambucano. One more victory and the club will set a record - so often they have not won. The fans even staged a playful picket, demanding from the team… to stop winning immediately.
Reggie Strickland from the USA rightfully bears the title. Over the course of 18 years of his sports career, he lost 276 fights out of 363 and earned the nickname Professional Loser.
Defeats did not stop him (probably because there were already more than 60 victories), and there were days when he fought three fights. Caring US boxing commissions are revoking licenses from athletes who lose too often so that they simply take care of their health. When this happened to Strickland, he used a life hack: he simply began to participate in battles under other names.
Even despite such a performance of fights, Strickland was not left without pants, in the sense of boxing shorts: for each entry into the ring, he received at least $ 500. The Stricklands' complete mediocrity in boxing is a family trait: his brother and wife, who also wave their fists for some reason, have won only two fights in their careers.
Athlete Trevor Misipeka
American, ahem, 132-pound athlete Trevor Misipeka was preparing for the shot put at the World Championships in athletics in 2001, planning to play for Eastern Samoa. And the world would not have known about this amazing person if the rules of the championship had not changed literally on the eve of the starts. Trevor was not allowed to push the core, but pushed him out - there was no one else to put there.
Overcoming shortness of breath and bewilderment, Misipeka literally crawled to the finish line with the worst in history big sport the result is more than 14 seconds. Yes, we all ran better in school! For this anti-record, the athlete received the nickname Turtle.
Need to mark, sports career he did not leave and retrained as a football player. Trevor Turtle, join our football team! You don't even need to know how to run!
Swimmer Eric Moussambani
Small and poor Equatorial Guinea really wanted to make itself known in the world of sports, but she approached this matter extremely irresponsibly. At the 2000 Olympics, the swimmer Eric Moussambani was included in the national team of this country. So how's the swimmer? This 22-year-old boy had been able to swim for only 8 months by that time, training exclusively in a 20-meter hotel pool.
He qualified for the 100-meter freestyle by accident: his rivals rushed into the water before the referee's signal and were removed from the competition. And Eric, who did not understand how everything is arranged here, did not even budge. That was where his luck ended.
In a swim with more experienced athletes, the Guinean quickly became exhausted, almost drowned, but reached the finish line in 1 minute and almost 53 seconds - just a minute and 5 seconds longer than the winner. Then in Sydney, everyone sympathized with Moussambani and patted him on the shoulder in a friendly way, but in his homeland he was declared a disgrace to the nation and deprived of access to that very pool (ungrateful!). Somehow, he found another place for training and even seriously prepared for the Games in Athens, but did not get there due to passport and visa problems. This is how the career of an African swimmer ended ingloriously.
Skier Philip Boyt
Until the age of 25, Kenyan Philip Boyt practiced running on short distances. And then he changed his mind and switched to a more exotic view for Kenyan latitudes -. Even moved to Finland. At the 1998 Games in Nogano, Boyt came last to the finish line of the 10-kilometer ski race. The predictable shame turned into a confession: the winner of that race, the Norwegian Bjorn Delhi (yes, we also thought that this was Bjorndalen's nickname, but no, this is a different person) waited for Boyt to finish to greet him.
A negative experience is also an experience, Boyt decided and took part in the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006. It must be said that in 8 years he has made impressive progress: he came to the finish line already 91st out of 97 participants. Subsequent winter Games Boyt missed.
In his rare interviews, he complains that he cannot find a sponsor at home: few people in Kenya understand the importance skiing. It probably has something to do with the lack of snow, but we're not sure.
Football player Ali Dia
The real one closes this mournful list. sports star- Ali Dia, whose 20 minutes of embarrassment on the football field brought him a lifetime of fame.
The Southampton breeders took the Senegalese boy to the team due to a misunderstanding. In 1996, Dia's agent showed them video footage of a game purporting to be his client, but in fact titled gambler George Weah. No wonder: the Senegalese Ali and the Liberian Weah look like twin brothers.
According to other sources, Dia's agent convinced the club that his client and Weah are relatives and football skill is in their blood. A personnel blunder came to light in Dia's first (and last) Premier League game. The unfortunate athlete, who had previously played in insignificant clubs like the German Lübeck, showed all the shortcomings - from ignorance of the rules to poor reaction and lack of physical training. In the second half, the coach sent the Senegalese off the field, and at the same time from big football. But the name Dia is forever inscribed in the history of sports and pops up annually in lists like this.
The qualifying tournament of the World Cup lasts 3 years. Thirty-two of the 209 countries participating in the intense tournament make it to the World Championship itself, which lasts one month. However, all these difficulties are worth it, because the champions will be remembered for many years, and the teams at the bottom standings forgotten instantly. They are forgotten everywhere, except for this list, which features ten countries that absolutely cannot play football.
Samoa gained independence from New Zealand in 1962. The island nation is known for its rugged sporting tradition - Samoa regularly participates in the World Rugby Championship, and young Samoans often make it to the National football league USA. In non-American football, Samoa has been dragging at the very bottom of the world rankings for 10 years now.
9. Montserrat
Place in FIFA ranking: 176
Montserrat is a beautiful island state, which, unfortunately, had a share of possessing active volcano on its territory. The Soufriere Hills volcano began to erupt in 1995, and the entire island experienced the effects of seismic activity until 2010. It's hard to train a football team when your capital is covered in a layer of mud. Over the past 15 years, more than half of the population has left the country. Forever at the bottom of the rankings, Montserrat shocked the world earlier this year by beating the British Virgin Islands 7-0 to climb to 176th in the FIFA rankings. Hardly for long.
8. Brunei
Place in FIFA ranking: 185
Brunei gained independence from Britain in 1984. This is one of the richest countries in Southeast Asia, with large reserves of oil and natural gas. Brunei, located on the island of Borneo, borders on all sides with Malaysia. Over the past 10 years, Brunei has tried to change its deplorable position in sports by investing large sums in the development of sports, however, after that, their football team even went down in the world rankings.
7. East Timor
Place in FIFA ranking: 185
A small state populated by about a million Catholics, surrounded by 200 million Indonesians, it was very difficult to get its independence - the UN even had to bring in a peacekeeping contingent here. The problem is aggravated by the fact that since the declaration of independence, the violence has not stopped - therefore, the inhabitants are not up to sports.
6. Mauritius
Place in FIFA ranking: 187
Mauritius is the only African state with a "real" democracy, with a little over a million people. Unlike other countries at the bottom of the rankings, Mauritius has an excellent economy and there are plenty of ultra-modern amenities. Mauritius national teams, however, perform poorly on international competitions- most likely due to a small population and a culture that prefers to invest in education over sports.
5. Kyrgyzstan
Place in FIFA ranking: 198
Kyrgyzstan gained independence from the USSR in 1991. Since then, some political upheaval has occurred in Kyrgyzstan almost every year. In 2008, the state was in the top ten countries with the worst level of corruption. Uprisings and rallies impede not only the development of sports, but the whole country as a whole.
4. Andorra
Place in FIFA ranking: 204
Tiny Andorra, nestled between the traditional "giants" of football Spain and France, suffers not only from a small selection of players (the entire country has a population of 85,000), but also from the fact that the entire country is actually located in the Pyrenees. Every year Andorra, with an area of 468 square kilometers, is visited by 10 million tourists who are attracted by the mountains. However football fields at such heights it is quite difficult to maintain.
3. Butane
Place in FIFA ranking: 207
In order to understand what problems Bhutan, which has a population of 750,000 people, is facing, just look at its map. Almost the entire country is located high in the Himalayas. National sport Archery is considered to be Bhutanese, and the country's biggest football victory is described in the documentary "Another Final" released in 2003. The film tells about the worst football team in the world in 2002 - the Montserrat team, which lost the penultimate football team of the world - Bhutan with a score of 4-0.
2. San Marino
Place in FIFA ranking: 207
San Marino is a tiny state, surrounded on all sides by Italy, covering an area of 62 square kilometers, with a population of 30,000 people. San Marino is the oldest state in Europe, but history cannot help it with its tiny size. Poor San Marino has been either in last place in the ranking for the last three years, or shares the last place with some other state.
1. Turks and Caicos Islands
Place in FIFA ranking: 207
The Turks and Caicos are not two islands, but as many as 300 located south of the Bahamas. 45,000 people live here. Cricket is considered the national sport of the islands, and tourism brings the main income to the state. Now, try to answer a simple question. If you lived in a tropical paradise surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, what would you do: swim to your friend's island to kick a ball in the sand, or lie in a hammock and drink delicious drinks on the beach? That's it.
Turks and Caicos this moment shares the last line of the FIFA rankings with San Marino, as they did ten years ago, but they do not need excuses in the form of natural disasters that do not allow organizing a football field.
Anyone who has never been interested in football should know that the World Football Federation (FIFA) includes 205 countries, and the UN only 191. On the eve of the world championship, which will be attended by 32 of the best national teams in the world, we became interested in the fate of the 32 worst, ranked last in the FIFA rankings.
197. Sao Tome and Principe
National team coach: Jose Ferras
Biggest defeat: 11:0
Congo - Sao Tome and Principe
July 7, 1976
On the website of the Football Federation of Sao Tome and Principe, founded back in 1975, only one event is listed in the "achievements" column - the construction of the federation's own office.
198. Anguilla
Team Coach: Vernon Hodge
Biggest defeat: 14:0
Guyana - Anguilla
April 11, 2001
This season, seven teams participate in the Anguilla Championship for the first time. Spartan International, Roaring Lions, Jam Boyz, Attackers and the Island Youth Team were joined by Kicks United and the Ripples Restaurant Club. Restaurateurs stand out from their rivals not only with their white skin color, but also with the bold name Full Monty (in honor of the film by Peter Cattaneo, which was called “Male Striptease” in the Russian box office).
199. Brunei
Team coach:
Hadji Mustafa Mohammed Ali
Biggest defeat: 0:12
Brunei - UAE
April 14, 2001
The Brunei national team has become famous for only two achievements. Firstly, she was coached for some time by the Englishman Mick Lyons - the former captain of Everton, who discovered Wayne Rooney). And secondly, the president of the local football association has perhaps the longest name of all football figures in the history of football. His name is Ib Pehin Orang Kaya Digadong Seri Lela Dato Seri Paduka Dr. Haji Hussain bin Pokdsdlu Haji Maud Yusuf.
200. Aruba
Team coach:
Marcelo Munoz
Biggest defeat: 11:0
Trinidad and Tobago - Aruba
June 1989
The national team of this island regularly hone their skills in games with sailors from American aircraft carriers. However, in Aruba, there are also important matches. For example, in 2003, as part of a charity tournament in support of the Dutch state lottery, 8 players from the Dutch national team played beach soccer against each other.
201. Djibouti
National team coach: Hasan Kamil
Biggest defeat: 10:1
Uganda - Djibouti
March 11, 2005
To increase interest in football in Djibouti - a tiny Muslim state in East Africa - local authorities hold an annual "Football Ramadan". During the holy month for Muslims, amateur football tournaments gathering several thousand participants.
202. Montserrat
National team coach: Ruel Fox
Biggest defeat: 13:0
Bermuda - Montserrat
February 29, 2004
During the World Cup final in Japan, the team of this small Caribbean nation participated in an international match called "Another Final". In the kingdom of Bhutan, at an altitude of 2250 meters above sea level, with a confluence of 20,000 spectators, two of the weakest teams in the world at that time met: the Bhutanese (202nd place in the FIFA ranking) and Montserrat (203rd place). As a result, Montserrat lost with a score of 0:4.
203. Turks and Caicos Islands
Team Coach: Paul Crosby
Biggest defeat: 30:0
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Turks and Caicos Islands
March 18, 2000
Turks and Caicos Islands Football Federation not spoiled good players, daily receives such letters: “Good day to you! My name is Omowaye David and I am a Nigerian soccer midfielder. I would be happy if you could help me get to the screenings in Europe or Asia. I know you can help me and I will send my CV as soon as you ask. In general, I am ready for any viewing, because I know and believe that you can help me. Thank you. Your brother in Sport, David."
204. Guam
Team coach: Norio Tsukitate
Biggest defeat: 21:0
North Korea - Guam
March 11, 2005
IN football school The Crushers club in Guam has a Code of Conduct for Parents of Football Players: “Be kind. Applaud not only your child's team, but also your opponents. Remember: football is fun. Your child plays football, not you. Don't pressure him. Do not try to be a judge and a coach. Coaches and referees volunteer their time for football. The best way help them - don't try to take over their work."
205. American Samoa
National team coach: Ian Crook
Biggest defeat: 31:0
Australia - American Samoa
April 11, 2001
There is no regular season in American Samoa. In its 23-year history, the Samoan national team, which now occupies the last line of the FIFA rankings, has played only 30 matches and lost 29 of them, setting a record of losing in World Cup qualifiers along the way. The Samoans explained their defeat by the fact that they were able to release only the third squad of the national team: the best football players the islands did not have American passports, the second-team players were not released from work, and as a result, only schoolchildren were collected. Parents and coaches begged for a day of release for them, and the teachers let them go on the condition that they do their homework in advance.
174. Dominican Republic
Team coach:
William Burnett
Biggest defeat: 8:0
Trinidad and Tobago - Dominican Republic
June 23, 1996
The failures of the local team are explained by the fact that the indigenous people of the Dominican Republic prefer baseball. Football is played here only by poor Haitians who work on sugar cane plantations and are too poor to buy balls or boots.
175. Nepal
National team coach: Shyam Tapa
Biggest defeat: 16:0
South Korea - Nepal
September 29, 2003
When the West Lindsey Juniors from English Lincolnshire came to Nepal to play with local footballers, they were met with unexpected pomp at the airport in Kathmandu. A huge crowd, an orchestra, a red carpet, a local television crew and the best hotel were waiting for young players. “We are just a village team,” says club founder John Stevenson. - We were invited to a friendly match in Nepal, but they don't have a division into leagues, divisions and ages, so they decided that if a team from England comes, then this is a national team. We said who we are, but we didn't convince them. They played with the England team. And that's it."
176. Seychelles
Team coach:
Michelle Neye
Biggest defeat: 6:0
Madagascar - Seychelles
August 30, 1990
Englishman Adrian Fisher in the 70s was the first coach of the Seychelles. Not only did he teach the players new tactics, but he also told them that the game was 90 minutes long. Prior to Fischer's arrival in the Seychelles, all matches consisted of two halves of 30 minutes.
177. Niger
National team coach: Marshal Yeoh
Biggest defeat: 9:1
Ghana - Niger
September 21, 1969
When in 2002, after a two-year break, the Niger national team was supposed to play the first international match against Ethiopia, the country's government asked each family to donate 100 local francs (about 15 US cents) to the needs of the team. With the support of the population, the players won with a score of 3:1.
178. Mauritania
National team coach: Noel Tosi
Biggest defeat: 8:0
Algiers - Mauritania
May 28, 1976
Main football club Mauritania - FC Nouadhibou. One of the reasons for the success of this team is that its management does not spare money for special reinforced balls that can be played even on sand soaked in sea salt. regular balls used by other teams fall apart quickly here.
179. Mongolia
Team coach:
Ganbaatar Tugsbaer
Biggest defeat: 15:0
Uzbekistan - Mongolia
December 5, 1998
The success of Mongolian football is largely due to the activities of Christian missionaries. The vast majority of Mongols profess shamanism or Buddhism, so missionaries use every opportunity to correct the situation, for example, calling young football players read the Bible after training. "I didn't know anything about Jesus before I started taking classes with Ulaanbaatar United," says one student at a Mongolian football school.
180. Belize
Team coach:
Anthony Adderley
Biggest defeat: 7:0
Costa Rica - Belize
March 17, 1999
“There is no football cult in Belize,” writes local newspaper Amandala. - After another shameful match, our officials, smirking in embarrassment, say that "it was a useful experience, we learned a lot." We must understand that in Central America, among macho Latinos, we are strangers because we speak English. To reach the international level, we first need to learn how to beat our neighbors, like El Salvador, a country that at one time unleashed a war over football. World football is not a sport. This is war."
181. Central African Republic
Team coach:
Etienne Momokoamos
Biggest defeat: 7:1
Cameroon - CAR December 17, 1984
Two years ago, the championship of Bangui - the capital of the Central African Republic - was interrupted due to the prolonged renovation of the stadium. The clubs had nowhere to play, and they demanded compensation from the authorities, estimating the losses at an unprecedented amount of 6,500 euros. As a result, the government paid the clubs 1,000 euros each, and the championship matches resumed at the local airfield.
182. Cayman Islands
Team coach:
Marcos Tinoco
Biggest defeat: 9:2
Trinidad and Tobago - Cayman Islands
July 28, 1995
Numerous Jamaicans living in the Cayman Islands are always passionate about supporting Jamaican teams in matches against locals. After the games they always burn the flag of the Cayman Islands, but the authorities prefer not to notice this, because it is very profitable to play with the Jamaicans: the stands are always crowded at these matches.
183. Samoa
Team coach: David Brand
Biggest defeat: 13:0
Tahiti - Samoa
July 13, 1981
Main football stadium in Samoa it is called Toleafoa JS Blatter Stadium. He received his name in honor of two of the greatest Samoan football figures - the current president of the local federation of Toleafoa Tautulu Roebek, who built the stadium, and FIFA President Joseph Blatter, who gave money for the construction.
184. Somalia
Team coach:
Ali Abdi Farah
Biggest defeat: 7:0
Tanzania - Somalia
December 1, 1995
In the spring of 2005, President of the Football Federation of Somalia Bashir Jamma traveled around Europe, persuading wealthy expatriate compatriots to give money for the development of football in their homeland. "I asked them to help bring Somali football back to life because it's needed to revive the country," Jammah told BBC Sport. - I collected seven thousand dollars - this is not much, but with this money you can buy uniforms and balls. I wrote a lot of letters to FIFA with requests, but no one answered me. However, I understand why they did not answer. Too many of my compatriots wrote to FIFA, and everyone demanded to appoint him as the new president of the football federation.
185. Tonga
Team coach:
Milan Jankovic
Biggest defeat: 22:0
Australia - Tonga
April 9, 2001
According to the traditions of the Kingdom of Tonga, any leading position in the country should be held only by representatives of noble families. For example, the local football federation is led by President Noble Veehala, Senior Vice President Noble Fusitua, and Vice President Noble Moimoi Vaea.
186. Guinea-Bissau
National team coach: Bariko Kande
Biggest defeat: 6:1
Mali - Guinea-Bissau
December 1, 1997
Former CSKA and Spartak striker Sergei Olshansky told Esquire about how he coached a local football club for three years: “When I arrived, they told me that they would not give me an interpreter: I could find a common language with the players - okay, no - goodbye . Some skier from Leningrad trained them before me. He did not succeed with the language, and after a while I already spoke Creole. The hunger was terrible. Before me, the players were fed once a day, rice and fish, but I gave them two meals a day. We went to matches in the Urals - I was in the cockpit, the players were in the back, in 40-degree heat. If it was necessary to cross to another island, they flew by MI-8 helicopter. There is a period when the kazh fruit ripens, from which the national alcoholic drink is distilled. This is the worst time, because the whole country is drinking, including helicopter pilots. Once we flew to the island, played the game, we returned - and the pilot was drunk, some women with goats crowded into the helicopter, we couldn’t push through. I still don't know how I survived then."
187. New Caledonia
Team coach:
Serge Martinengo
Biggest defeat: 8:0
Australia - New Caledonia
February 24, 1980
Like other inhabitants of Oceania, the natives of New Caledonia prefer rugby to football. But one local native became not just famous football player, and the world champion in the French team. Christian Carambe was born on the island of Lifou in 1970, and at the age of 20 he left for France. Gradually, he made his way to the national team, moved to Real Madrid and married fashion model Adriana Sklenarikova. But this great Kanak began playing football in New Caledonia and was brought up in accordance with the traditions of his tribe. For example, only his mother knows the real name of a football player, because for the Kanaks the name is a secret, knowing which, one can harm a person.
188. Cambodia
Team coach:
Scott O'Donell
Biggest defeat: 10:0
Indonesia - Cambodia
September 6, 1995
Hock Sochetra, one of the most talented strikers in all of Southeast Asia, had scored more than 60 goals in the Cambodian league by the age of 17, but preferred a job as a manager at the Samart telephone company to a football career. The fact is that in the national team he received about $ 100 a month, and in Samart he was paid several times more.
189. Afghanistan
Team coach:
Mohammed Yusuf Kargar
Biggest defeat: 11:0
Turkmenistan - Afghanistan
November 19, 2003
Under the Taliban, football in the country was for a long time banned, but in 2000 it was decided to hold the first international match in many years with the national team of Pakistan. This event was supposed to demonstrate how loyal and progressive the country's authorities are. However, shortly after the start of the match, religious police ran out onto the field and began to beat Pakistani players with sticks for wearing sports shorts, contrary to local laws. As a result, the match was stopped, the guests' heads were shaved and they were allowed to go home.
190. Bhutan
Team coach:
Hare B. Basnet
Biggest defeat: 20:0
Kuwait - Bhutan
February 14, 2000
In the Bhutanese city of Pasak, the football field is so small that only 18 players can fit on it, instead of 22. In the final of the last local tournament, which was held at this stadium, the team of the Royal Institute of Technology and the team of the Bhutan Carbide Plant met. Both teams managed to score three goals in regular time, play two additional halves without results and shoot the penalty shootout in exactly the same way. As a result, in order to determine the winner, the organizers had to flip a coin (carbide manufacturers won).
191. Philippines
National team coach: Jose Ferras
Biggest defeat: 15:0
Japan - Philippines
September 27, 1967
In 2005, a young Filipino fan, while playing virtual football using a Sony PlayStation game console, I came across a list of reserve players for the London Chelsea club, among which were two Filipino brothers - 19-year-old James and 18-year-old Philip Younghusband. The fan decided to report this to the Philippine Football Federation. Later, federation officials managed to find out that such players really exist, that both of them were born near London, but their mother is a Filipino, which means they can play for the Philippine national team. A few months later, James and Philip Younghusband accepted an invitation to national team. “I'm very happy to be playing for the Philippines,” Philip said. “We are much more popular here than in England, especially among girls.”
192. Macau
National team coach: Masanaga Kageyama
Biggest defeat: 13:0
North Korea - Macau
November 1, 2005
“I have been in football for many years, but I have never seen a referee hit a player,” coach Casemiro Mior said after the match between Macau and Hong Kong. So he commented on the actions of the referee Choi Kwok Kun from Macau, who severely beat Hong Kong footballer Lee Kin Wo for swearing at him and hitting him with a ball. Despite an unfriendly referee (subsequently disqualified), Hong Kong won 1-0.
193. Bahamas
Team Coach: Gary White
Biggest defeat: 13:0
Mexico - Bahamas | April 28, 1987
“I have a hard job,” admitted in an interview with the BBC Main coach Bahamian national team Gary White. “It’s so good here that most of all I want to spit on work and just enjoy life.”
194. Cook Islands
Team Coach: Tim Jerks
Biggest defeat: 30:0
Tahiti - Cook Islands
September 2, 1971
In 2002, the Cook Islands Football Federation had the misfortune of accepting Pukapuka Atoll, which immediately left a hole in the federation's budget. The fact is that this tiny atoll (it is inhabited by only 600 inhabitants) is located 1150 km from the main island - Rarotonga, and in order to maintain football on this piece of land, football officials have to regularly make expensive helicopter trips.
195. Puerto Rico
Team coach:
Victor Barrios
Biggest defeat: 15:0
Netherlands Antilles - Puerto Rico
January 15, 1959
“From now on, we will fight with machine guns, and not with knives, as before,” said Puerto Rico Football Federation President Joe Serralta recently. - Now that all the strongest players have returned to the national team, we can achieve anything. The Puerto Rico basketball team is ranked eighth in the world. This is our goal in football as well. We strive to get into the top eight of the strongest teams in the world!” However, Puerto Rico is currently ranked tenth from the bottom in the FIFA rankings.
196. Virgin Islands
Team coach:
Carlton Freeman
Biggest defeat: 14:1
Saint Lucia - Virgin Islands
April 14, 2001
Despite bad results, the Virgin Islands team has already made football history thanks to local team player MacDonald Taylor, who played for the national team at the age of 46 and became the oldest player in the history of the World Cup.
In the Premier League, two-thirds of the distance has not yet been covered, and the worst team is already known: Tom will not get out of last place. Soccer.ru remembered the clubs that finished at the bottom.
Season 1998: Tyumen
Points scored: 8; Goal difference: 17 - 89
We start the review with the 1997 season, because before that there were 18 clubs in the top division, or the draw was carried out according to some tricky formula, but here the parameters for comparison are transparent. Outperform "Tyumen" will not succeed even "Tom"! Lifters from the 90s fell into the deepest crisis of finances and ideas, suffered 26 defeats in 30 rounds, and 14 times their opponents smashed them, and Spartak scored seven unanswered goals. The second team that flew out together with Tyumen, Baltika, scored four times more points - 32 against 8. Tom already has one point more, so the anti-record in terms of points scored is not terrible for the Siberians.
Season 1999: "Shinnik" (Yaroslavl)
Points scored: 24; Goal difference: 21 – 45
In the next championship without any obvious failures, although the Sochi "Pearl" and "Shinnik" really looked paler than the rest, so they were lowered to the First Division. At the same time, Sochi residents, who took 15th place, conceded 10 goals more than the worst team in the championship.
Season 2000: Uralan (Elista)
Points scored: 12; Goal difference: 17 - 61
After fourteen rounds, Uralan occupied the penultimate place and lagged behind the nearest saving line, where CSKA is located, by only one point. And then a Serbian specialist Boris Bunyak arrived in Elista and brought with him a bunch of incomprehensible legionnaires. As a result, in the remaining 16 matches, Uralan scored only two points and suffered a crushing defeat from Lokomotiv with a score of 0:9. By the way, this is the biggest victory in the championship of Russia.
Season 2001: Chernomorets (Novorossiysk)
Points scored: 23; Goal difference: 19 - 54
According to the results of the previous draw of the Russian Championship, Chernomorets took sixth place and received the right to represent the country in the UEFA Cup. A couple of months before relegation to the First Division, the "sailors" competed with the formidable Spanish "Valencia", which has just lost two Champions League finals. "Chernomorets" left major league after seven years of playing in the elite division.
Season 2002: Sokol (Saratov)
Points scored: 23; Goal difference: 24 – 45
Even Oleg Veretennikov, who returned from foreign travels to Russia, could not help the Sokol. Saratov from the very beginning of the season settled at the bottom of the table, and after the 8th round, they did not concede the last line to anyone.
Season 2003: Chernomorets (Novorossiysk)
Points scored: 24; Goal difference: 30 – 49
The season in the FNL was enough for Chornomorets to return to the RFPL, however the new coming was short-lived. For the second time in their history, the Novorossiysk team finished last in the strongest class. At that time, the Togliatti Lada owned a similar “achievement”, and Tyumen did this trick three times, although under different names.
Season 2004: Rotor (Volgograd)
Points scored: 22; Goal difference: 29 – 53
One of the strongest clubs in Russia in the 90s faced financial difficulties in the new millennium. Since 2000, Rotor has turned into an average player, and the apotheosis of the Volgograd football disaster came in the middle of the 2004s: according to the results of the 2004 championship, Rotor took the last place in the Premier League, and at the beginning next year lost his professional status.
Season 2005: Terek (Grozny)
Points scored: 20; Goal difference: 20 – 50
In the final table of that championship of Russia in the column "points" at "Terek" the number 14 is indicated, but Grozny lost 6 points due to non-fulfillment of transfer obligations to other clubs. However, even with these six points, Terek was the worst that season.
Season 2006: "Shinnik" (Yaroslavl)
Points scored: 11; Goal difference: 17 - 56
Shinnik entered the sad circle of clubs that have repeatedly occupied the last line in the elite division Russian championship. Yaroslavl performed just awful, having won only one victory in 30 rounds. Wings of the Soviets were not lucky enough to become a victim of a hopeless outsider. And Shinnik also influenced the alignment in the race for the championship by tripping Spartak in the 25th round. The game ended with a score of 1:1, and CSKA managed to break away from the principal opponent by 4 points.
Season 2007: Rostov (Rostov-on-Don)
Points scored: 18; Goal difference: 18 - 44
Ten years ago, Rostov crashed out of the FNL, and now they can afford to beat Bayern and fight on equal terms with Manchester United. Rostovites got two of their victories in matches against Krylya Sovetov and Amkar.
Season 2008: Luch-Energia (Vladivostok)
Points scored: 21; Goal difference: 24 - 53
After the departure of Luch-Energy remaining in RFPL clubs breathed a sigh of relief: no one liked flights to Vladivostok. Together with Luch, then Shinnik flew out, which, along with Kuban, is the main lifter of the Russian championships.
Season 2009: Khimki
Points scored: 10; Goal difference: 20 – 64
At Khimki funding ended half way, but even before the start of the season, the authorities of the Moscow region discussed the prospects for the merger of Saturn and Khimki. Then the money seemed to be found, but quickly ran out. As a result, the club from the Moscow region looked pathetic and did not even fight for survival. Unfortunately, such stories are not uncommon in our championship.
Season 2010: Siberia (Novosibirsk)
Points scored: 20; Goal difference: 34 - 58
"Siberia" looked into the RFPL for only a season and immediately retreated, taking the last line, but the club from Novosibirsk left a vivid impression of itself. Sibir played attacking football, for which they regularly paid with defeats. But the worst team in the Premier League scored as many goals in a season as Lokomotiv, which finished fifth, and three less than the bronze medalist Rubin.
Season 2011/2012: Tomsk (Tomsk)
Points scored: 20; Goal difference: 19 - 58
There were 44 rounds in the transitional season, at the end of the championship Spartak-Nalchik was at the very bottom, and Tom was a line higher, but after the usual two-round tournament, it was the Siberians who closed the table.
Season 2012/2013: Alania (Vladikavkaz)
Points scored: 19; Goal difference: 26 - 53
This departure from the Premier League was the starting point for the collapse of "Alania", which two Gazzaevs managed to train during the season - first the son, and then the father. In the middle of the next season, the Vladikavkaz club withdrew from the Russian Championship in the FNL, and last summer FC Alania was disbanded.
Season 2013/2014: Anji (Makhachkala)
Points scored: 20; Goal difference: 25 – 42
A story that is possible, probably, only in Russia. Before the start of the season, the star Anji was recognized as one of the championship favorites, but the team stalled in the first rounds, and Suleiman Kerimov unexpectedly announced a new course for the development of the club. Eto'o and other prominent players left Makhachkala, and although Anji recruited a normal squad for a comfortable existence in the middle of the table in return, the newcomers did not have time to play and get used to the task of fighting for survival. As a result - the last place.
Season 2014/2015: Arsenal (Tula)
Points scored: 25; Goal difference: 20 – 46
Arsenal under the leadership of Alenichev deliberately was not going to abandon the combinational style of play, for which he was severely punished and exiled to the very bottom of the standings. Despite this, Dmitry Anatolyevich achieved his goal - he got a chance at Spartak, but he could not adequately dispose of it.
Season 2015/2016: Mordovia (Saransk)
Points scored: 24; Goal difference: 20 – 46
And finally, the worst team at the end of last season. Is it true, before the last round there were several contenders for the last line, the struggle for survival was a success. Unfortunately, nothing of the kind can be expected in the current draw of the Russian championship. "Tom" is in last place and will not leave it.
