Vakama2619

More than fine! There's no rush

Yes I definitely would prefer to see the UCL semis get into the Semi Final instead of the finals

Just wanted to let you know that you had it set that the losing team in the prelim stage would qualify for the group

Do you have to re-create the original competitions from scratch when adding new teams to these comps?

Mind if I ask more about this because you wouldn't have had access to continental competitions back then?

They just always qualify

I saw a short about SKA Khabarovsk and Baltika Kaliningrad (who aren't even in mainland Russian but in a territory that borders Poland) set a record for the longest away day.

The calendar year has already taken into affect from the 4th tier down. I felt really confused with how it was working, all I wanted to do was work out how well Chertanovo (who I discovered thanks to FM and follow now) were doing. Was defo better as it was and I don't know why they changed it

For the 23-24 season it's been split into two tiers, however it's being done really weird, they've also stuck Crimean teams in there now and are getting sh*t for it

https://www.fmscout.com/a-australia-and-new-zealand-fm23-database.html This is the original file, I have made a few edits (removed some of the fake feeder teams and added in a few others (e.g. Penrith Nepean, Maitland) and expanded the New Zealand file from 10 teams per league to 16. I'm not going to dispatch of the files with my edits

Considering a short term save with Team Hawaii but this would defo be just as fun! Especially with promotion and relegation possible in the Chilean pyramid

Little irrelevant/off topic but wanted to celebrate somewhere, having a little test run with my edits as well as yours and I noticed that the club based in my city (Ipswich), and who I plan on managing had back to back promotions to the top tier. Albeit on view only mode but good enough for me. Funny part is they didn't win the title once

Yeah I had the same problem with the US DB I used, however that's now been thrown out the window! Nice job tho!

Dropped a follow!

Probably going to have a go at placing a factional Hawaiian club into the USL League One using Masterlgor's database and using your O-League file as Wellington could possibly qualify from the second spot due to being in the cup, it does sound like an interesting save idea as well

I can also see promotion/relegation from the A-League ending up similar to English rugby league where the relegated clubs will just find themselves bouncing straight back up while the promoted clubs drop straight back down

Yeah I can defenitely see that happening, although I did not think of that happening, despite the fact I wouldn't be surprised if the MLS clubs would have same opinion. (And the club you are referring to is called Marconi Stallions btw)

Confirmed to be Auckland + Canberra just a matter of who, the chairman part kinda indicates you pay more attention to soccer in my own country thank I do I did read an article months ago about Football Australia aiming to eventually have promotion and relegation throughout the entire pyramid from top to bottom. It'll definitely be a struggle and the main reason behind it would for sure be money, 100% see most of the NSD clubs moving close to bankruptcy (main reason why we adopt a closed league system in all sporting leagues across the country.) Spoke to my father about the topic and he and I both agreed on that first one quite quickly, I would definitely like to see the end goal of a full pyramid but it does seem nearly impossible, I do remember they were looking to emulate the Japanese pyramid and did have a contingency plan for money apparently. The first major issue is the NSD is planned to be a calendar year format like the other lower leagues while the A League is played over the summer (October-May)

I wasn't aware of the Phoenix talk myself but that is definitely something I'd love to see, if it's automatic qualification, putting them into the Chatham Cup or some other means of qualification. Do keep in mind however Auckland City joining the A-League wasn't offical, just that Auckland is getting an expansion team, may end up being a new franchise created completely but I'd love to see Auckland City joining the competition

I mean aside from noticing most people remove the A League finals which has a 0% chance of happening, apparently theres supposed to have an offical national second tier starting at the start of next year, clubs are currently in the process of being elected and a recent rumor is that Sunshine Coast Fire had been invited, the A-League is supposed to have 2 clubs joining the league in 2024 (based in Canberra and Auckland, would guess Canberra United and Auckland City) although nothing more has been spoken about these changes) with 2 more clubs rumored to join in later seasons based in the state of Tasmania and a second Queensland team, the latter would likely be either Gold Coast Knights/United)

Thats the league I want to have a go at re-doing myself, I probably will have another go at it during FM24

Absolutely nothing, which is why it would qualify the league 1st and 2nd placers initially, thanks for the heads up I'll fix it up later on. I've also noticed the winners of the second tier sometimes qualify for the OFC CL as well, this would defo fix that issue

Thanks! I'll have a look at the NZ editor file at some stage, thanks for pointing this out tho

That would probably be an issue with doing this challenge as you'd have to have an amazing laptop and even that would be an issue, I'd suggest taking part in Lionel Messi's level 10 challenge instead

The AFC CL that year was won by Al-Nassr and the OFC CL was won by Miramar Rangers. The A-League was won by Western Sydney however Christchurch United (added NZ team) somehow finished 4th before going on to get relegated the next season