Are you a human? Do you like LEGO and kicking round balls? If so, then running (or ruining as the case may be) a Legoland based SuperLeague club may be right up your street. If interested, read below for more details or send me an email. New owners from all nations, or planets, are welcome!

How to go about taking over a Lego football team...

Annoyed at Legoland FC's arrogance? Want to see the Celebs fail again? Think the pigs at Inter Police could be better managed? It's easy to take control of a Lego football team and then manage them throughout the 46 round football season. All that is required is to request (free) a minifig that will represent you in Legoland and then through him or her submit a takeover bid which can be made using either real money or fictional Lego money known as "Lego Pounds". Please see below for more details.

Lego football 101

Players and managers at Legoland football league teams are based on real-life footballers. All have skill ratings based on their perceived attacking and defensive abilities and these, along with other factors such as a team's historical home and away track record, current form, tactics, manager ability are used to simulate a team's score in each of the league's 46 rounds. You can view player ratings and clubs by downloading this Excel file. Download (2,670k)

What clubs are currently up for grabs?

The following Serie A and B clubs are currently available on the market. Estimated asking prices are shown in Lego pounds.

Serie A
Legoland Town (£50m)
Inter ABS (£55m)
Inter Police (£75m)
* Other clubs may be available

Serie B
Archangel (£40m)
Cante (£12m)
Galaxy (£20m)
Rings (£18m)
Satans (£17m)
* Other clubs may be available

To make a bid, express an interest or simply ask a question please email me at editor@minifigtimes.com

Take-over a club

You can buy a Legoland based football club and battle against the nation's football establishment for the SuperLeague title. Ownership of a club allows you to select the team's starting line-up, hire and fire managers, delve into the transfer market, agree sponsorship deals with companies from toy nations, and publicly hit out at other rival clubs, managers and players. Best of all, however, owning a club gives you a team of your own to root for!

Prospective buyers can use Legoland's national currency, the Legoland Pound (L£), to buy a club. Real money is never required as Lego football is just for fun so there's absolutely no risk on the buyer's part. Following the purchase of a club, a buyer can interact as much or as little* they wish with regard to team selection and buying and selling players.

TIP: Upon buying a club, at any time should you wish you to, you may go on a "manager holiday" and temporarily leave the running of the club in the hands of an automatic board of directors. This automatic board will select the weekly starting 11 players from your team and, if you have granted permission, potentially buy and sell players for your team in the transfer market.

Financing the deal

If you are new to the Legoland society you won't have any Lego money but it is not a problem as you can borrow it from the recently bailed-out Legoland banks. If your bid for a club is accepted by the existing board of directors you will immediately be allocated a representative minifig (LEGO person) who will be a resident of Legoland. You will be asked to give this representative minifig a name - you and the representative minifig both may have the same name, if desired - and he or she will in effect be 'controlled' by you. The representative minifig shall be the "minifig owner" of the club, with you being the human owner.

Through the representative minifig you can apply for a loan from one of Legoland's banks. The loan will be taken out in the name of the purchased club and the debts (sum borrowed plus the total interest amount) will be put onto the accounts of the club.

TIP: There is an option to buy a club using real money and avoiding the Legoland banks altogether. This option is available only for those who wish to use it. The official real money to Lego money exchange rate is €1 : L£500,000 or $1 : L£360,000, however, usually club L£ prices are reduced to those paying using real money.

What are the interest rates like?

Not very interesting. Currently Legoland's two main banks (Voluntary Bank of Legoland and the Bank of Legoland) offer 1 year or 2 year loans. For a 1 year loan the borrowed sum + the total interest must be repaid 1 year to the day from when the loan was taken out. Similarly for a 2 year loan the borrowed sum + total interest must be repaid 2 years to the day from when the loan was taken out.

The best 1 year and 2 year rates currently on offer at time of writing are: A 2 year loan at 22.5% interest i.e. for each borrowed £1million you must pay £1,225,000 after 2 years. A 1 year loan at 15% interest. i.e. for each borrowed £1million you must pay £1,150,000 after 1 years. ... but it is best to check the latest rates as these are linked to the Legoland economy.

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