themodelcitizen

Have an entry with "ignore teams" checked, with "get best teams in competition" and the Champions League. You might need "maximum teams" set to however many teams are left at the time your cup is drawn, but probably not in these circumstances. Repeat for the Europa and Conference. Then an entry to call the remaining Premier League teams using "get best teams in competition" (or best teams from division if you want last season's teams instead of the newly promoted teams), no need for "ignore teams" here obviously. Remember it might not be 13 every year if the coefficient changes Might I suggest HFX Wanderers in the CanPL if they can spare the fixtures on their calendar. After all it's Nova Scotia...

Literally two posts up?

working All-Star games in the editor please

Al-Hilal released their new kits today, you can add these (download link) to whatever kit pack you're using (back up the old ones first): I've gone through and added some manager moves as well, all the big names like Luiz Castro, Jorge Jesus, and... Robbie Fowler!!

Is the setup date of the new competition taking place after teams have qualified? Also, looks like they're qualifying from stage 0 as well, but with that "play-in" entry under "get qualified teams from stage" (in the elite cup) may be confusing things, I think that's supposed to be the stage you're getting teams from. You should be able to leave it blank with all that other info filled out

You can search by non-playing history ("contains" "Everton") it just takes ages because the game has to go through everyone's histories and not just their name or whatever. As for loading players, can't you load all players from certain divisions at game start? So just load everyone from the top divisions down there instead of making them playable

They probably used the default USL2 divisions (formerly PDL - a semipro league mostly filled with college players on their summer break), which is hard-coded to have a batch of local newgens in the first season (so the MLS draft has players in the first year). Those clubs then get randomly assigned players from academy teams (not sure if they've changed this) instead of creating their own newgens from the second season onward

Here's the Steam link for the megapack, you should be getting regular updates on some of the files if you're subscribed to the individual files on Steam already: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886706535

You can do that with cup tie mappings and "fixed draw", but the best third place teams in there will throw it off. You could seed by position in previous stage and do a seeded draw, at least group winners would avoid each other in that case

No problem, and wow has he done a video on UE Olot? Have you got the link handy?

Just updated the first post, cheers for the note

That's brilliant, what did you notice as making it work? I think the whole fixed/flexible rules thing threw me off earlier, as soon as I'd change that the whole thing would just disappear

The WAFF U23 was indeed played again in Iraq this month, slipped past me until now. I've updated the Arab Cup/Gulf Cup file to reflect that, and it's annual now instead of biannual. No time to test right now but will double check later to make sure it's working as intended. There's plenty of room on the calendar, especially with the senior WAFF tournament cancelled using my WAFF file above. The U23 teams don't get up to much otherwise, even though it's currently clashing with the senior Asian Cup in 2023 only (incorrectly scheduled in-game) and the U-21 Pan Arab Games (doesn't seem to be an issue for WAFF in real life either).

Honestly it's more of a licensing agreement for a lot of those youth clubs in North America, I think they just buy the rights to the Barca or BVB name (for example) and *might* get some kind of help with like coaching manuals (if even that)

Lenny and his squad:

I couldn't get any of my changes to show up when I was trying to mess with the Gold Cup, might have another go at some point this summer EDIT: Have added Pan Arab Games to the Arab U20 Cup file now that they're taking place again

The SAFF file has been updated with Kuwait and Lebanon guesting the 2023 version to make 8 teams, as is the case with the ongoing tournament in real life. Like with India (and everyone else), if they qualify for the Asian Cup (which SI haven't moved to January 2024, so it overlaps with the SAFF Cup in-game), then their 'B' team will participate instead. Games are also in the correct stadium now. If anyone sees any other tournaments that needs updating as they come to pass IRL, let me know.

I've had similar things happen with changing history records, where clicking or applying changes seems to apply to the wrong entry. Gave up on adding some longer histories earlier in FM23's life when it was happening more often. Thought it was a random editor bug that they fixed, sounds like it might still be happening though Try duplicating an entry, or instead using "add" and see if it makes a difference

You want the second stage (for example) of the Elite Cup to include the Junior Cup teams? Fate actions in the Junior cup should work to qualify them for a specific stage in the Elite Cup, and then under "teams" in the second stage of the Elite Cup you could add the teams who have "qualified for stage" and specify the tournament they're coming from (and which stage, and which stage they're qualifying for). You can post your file or tell us what settings you've got there and we can figure it out

Made some changes to this file as well, @Failproof let me know there was a glitch where some of the cups weren't loading if you only loaded the top division. Fixed that, and added the U21 second division and cup for a more realistic experience

I've also made some slight adjustments for next season's scheduling based on what we know so far (not much), and added some of the new transfers like Koulibaly and Mendy. As above, as soon as there's official confirmation - in this case, a shot of the player holding a jersey with an air conditioner blasting loudly somewhere nearby - I've included it in the file as soon as I'm back on my laptop. EDIT: Pan Arab Games added to the Arab U20 file, they were announced back in March. Even more youth tournaments for Saudi Arabia, who seem to have a bazillion competitions with all of my international files

Have they announced anything like that? You have to imagine it will go up from 8 players. As soon as there's something official I'll implement it for 2023/24. But someone else asked on Steam about the same thing, so I made it so the "with transfers" version has it up to 9 from next season I think. In the meantime, if you go to the pre game editor, load this file, click "advanced rules" under "menu" on the top left, and under the drop-down for "Saudi Arabia" on the bottom left you can click "fixture rules". Under that drop-down, "Rules 0" (the first one) applies to the top league. You could go into "Squad Selection Rules" and change both "foreign players in squad" (applies to registration) and "foreign players in match squad" (applies to gameday squad) to something higher than 8. You can see there the "foreign players in playing 11" was set to 7 but is ending this summer anyway (last year = 2022, i.e. the 2022/23 season). Then go to "Rules" at the top of the screen, "Test Rules" for all divisions, then when it's finished it will be verified and you can save the database again (maybe under a different name) and proceed to play with it instead of my version

Probably not, no, and I'm not sure if there's a way to get it tondo that with the in-game editor (maybe?). You can test with a new game first to make sure it works before restarting your progress

Probably a silly question but does each team have home and away kits enabled in the editor? Even if it's just set with shirt, shorts, socks etc they should then get overwritten with the custom ones. I can see that Young Boys doesn't have any by default in the editor, try adding kits in there ("icon" and "text" can be useful as well, they'll affect how players show up in the 2D camera and the club info colours )

Updated with the reduction to 10 teams occurring for 2024/25, not 2023/24 (as was originally planned). So, the second season will use the new squad rules (as in IRL) but will stay at 12 teams and 22 games for one more year (like IRL. They've said "postponed" so I've kept the change, just one year later, partly to save myself even more work!). I ran a test to make sure everything was working but haven't done a deep dive yet to make sure teams aren't getting bunched up fixtures or long breaks, everything looks good though. As usual, let me know if anyone sees anything off.