The Birds won their final two games in the Trophy of Legends too for a 6-0-2 finish in 441st place out of 6106 clubs, their best record in six seasons. Both were by quite the margin too, beginning with an 8-2 against Swiss V.100 relegatees FC Ljusta. Irish Number Nine Skip O'Rourke will surely be on the radar of quite a few clubs as he claimed a brace despite never quite regaining his prior form, after a serious ankle injury in a cup fixture against UniversidadCV in July. Finnish VI.107 champions tulijalat were then crushed 6-1, as Phua Ming Xin and Orest Tokarz got two each.

Birds boss Tian Yonghang was quietly approving of the results. "It's all coming together at last." he grinned. "This brings me back to the good old days when we were rising through the divisions... and you might well get to experience that all over again in a jiffy!"

Farmer Bunnies went further in achieving their best finish for the last ten seasons - 216th from 1668 teams on 5-1-2 - also ending their last day on a winning note. Swiss VI.407 foes BobbyMoe were downed in the 57th minute by Ho Ah Kian from a corner with a textbook header, and Russian Division Four opponents SMENA-Zenit were then put away 2-1 via Vitaliy Efendiev and Mauro Fau. Their Serbian defender Lazar Jevrić would be sent off five minutes from time for a second yellow, but Turkish wide forward İlhami Saba did still punish the Buns for their complacency afterwards.

Grilled International were a relative disappointment in winding up with a negative 3-1-4 record, for 2102nd out of 3498 participants. Argentine V.1124 representatives El Rey del Fratacho FC smashed them 3-0 with two of them coming late, after Umut Koza missed a sitter. There would be light at the end of the tunnel thanks to a 4-0 whipping of French VI.234 team Orléans SC, with Osertz Indurain showing the way with a brace, starting with a neat 29th minute penalty conversion.