Description of issue
Hello.
In the game, the cup qualifiers include Super League, First League, and a number of clubs from Serbian (Second) League.
I understand this might be improvised since lower leagues are not playable, but in case anyone wants to fix it, here's how it goes.
In reality this is the case:
16 Super League teams from previous season
16 First League teams from previous season
5 Regional cup winners (in-game should be 4, since there are 4 regions)
https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/Куп_Србије_у_фудбалу_2023/24. (English version of the article does not have the same data unfortunately)
There you can also see this year's participants, next year can be generated through regional cups.
Attached official pdf document from FSS (Serbian FA).
How to fix:
The difference is, in Football Manager Serbia has 4 regions (which is fine, since Western also includes the fifth region), so it should be like this:
-16 Super League teams from PREVIOUS SEASON
-16 First League teams from previous season
-4 regional cup winners
What are the 4 regional cups?
-Kup FSRZS, also known as Kup Zapadne Srbije (Serbian(Second) League and Zone League clubs from the Local Region listed in the editor as Western Central Serbia and CSMKM region) https://fsrzs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Календар-Куп.pdf
-Kup FS Beograda (Serbian(Second) League and Zone League clubs from the Local Region listed in the editor as City of Belgrade region) https://www.fsb.org.rs/takmicenje/kup-fs-beograda-predkolo/
-Kup FSRIS (Serbian(Second) League and Zone League clubs from the Local Region listed in the editor as Eastern Central Serbia region) https://fsris.org.rs/vesti/kup-fsris-2023/
-Kup Vojvodine (Serbian(Second) League and Zone League clubs from the Local Region listed in the editor as Vojvodina region) https://fsv.rs/kup-vojvodine-u-fudbalu/
How easy is it to fix?
Very easy! I've done it myself for my playthroughs in previous years.
For creating relatively realistic regional cups you need Serbian League and Zone League (optionally also Lower League if you wanna be tedious) clubs from their respective regions.
Regional cup winners qualify for next season of Serbian Cup, and this year participants you already have on the wiki page above.
That's it!
What could be an issue with this setup?
The fact that in-game all the regional cups would be unplayable without adding at least one lower divisions in the editor. But, both currently playable leagues already participate in this system, so player would participate in the Serbian Cup either way, so regional cups would just add those 4 bonus regional cup winners to the first pre-round.
Attached:
Official propositions for Serbian Cup
Screenshot of cup composition section of the file
Screenshot from the in-game completely unrealistic first qualifying round
Cheers!
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