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Keep us posted. I tend to favour using extinct competitions where possible to work across databases like that, although it has its own issues. It looks like you might be able to add multiple nation rules in the same file now though? Haven't tested it out

Updated with the reduction to 10 teams over the next couple of seasons, thanks for pointing me to the correct setting @nasaiain. In my tests, finances didn't seem to be an issue as the clubs are willing to offset any losses. Nice to have the Qatari squad getting game time ahead of the big one later this month.

There's a real lack of "short stage names" filled out in the default stage names, meaning your fixture list looks incredibly cluttered. "UEFA Champions League League Path First Qualifying Round First Leg", anyone?). This file adds a bunch of short stage names (like "First Qual. Round") to correct that, based on conventions seen elsewhere in the game ("Ch'ship" for "Championship", etc). Also updates some nation names based on their FIFA name/3-letter country code, and by popular convention. A couple of other minor fixes of obvious mistakes (nothing added that will clash with other DBs). The competition names file cleans up some sponsors (just "Ligue 1", sorry Uber Eats) and changes others to their official name (the Euro, the Premier League, etc). STAGE NAMES/COUNTRY NAMES / backup | COMPETITION NAMES / backup Please upvote here and rate on Steam if you are enjoying the databases (or not!) TMC MEGAPACK Screenshot:

"You used tae hear a lot more about the Old Firm moving tae the English Premier League," the old man said, ruefully sipping his Irn-Bru. Suddenly, his battered Nokia flip phone buzzed. A text from his auld mate jockstrap. Due to various backroom deals involving dodgy Sheikhs, brown envelopes, and whisky, the plan for the Glaswegian giants to play in the Premier League has been revived. Their reserve teams will take their place in the Scottish Premiership. For two of the three teams who were scheduled for promotion from the English Championship (and down the tiers), they'll have to wait at least another year. Sorry lads, I dinnae ken what tae tell ye. The game has defaulted to the Old Firm playing in the English League and FA Cups now. This is much cleaner for continental qualifying and scheduling, although we do need the Scottish advanced rules to keep them out of the Scottish League Cup (at least in the first season). As much as I wanted to dump both into the Championship (or even level 6) to prove themselves, potential CL group stages in the first season mean that'd be a LOT of fixture congestion. DOWNLOAD Screenshots:

Re: forcing the U23s, I suppose you could just add basic nation rules for each country. For example with Morocco, in the Botola rules where it says "teams", it should currently say "get all teams from division". Enter a new line BEFORE that line, with "get best teams in competition", with "team type" set to first team, with competition set to the Super League, max number of teams 24. Make sure the box at the top of this detail panel is checked for "ignore teams". Then on the second line, which is the existing "get all teams from division", just add "backup team type" as "reserve team" or whatever. As long as the domestic leagues are set up AFTER the Super League has been drawn, obviously, and everyone has a reserve team added (at the top of the reserves panel under the club ID), I *believe* this should work. edit: if the Super League hasn't been drawn for some domestic leagues but the African CL is already down to the final 4 or however many teams qualify for the Super League, you could instead use "ignore teams" with "best teams in comp" and max teams 4 for the African CL. That would just be telling it to ignore anyone left in the African CL and to then use the reserve team as a backup.

Thanks, I'm playing around with it now. There's also the second division cup, I'll figure something out. You've got pro/rel correct, at least based on what's announced - everything else is unclear, other than the 10-team league will have 27 games in 3 separate fixture blocks (gotta imagine some neutral venues/mini-tournaments). There may also be certain promotion criteria like professionalism and stadium condition. Anyway, I realized the "non-Turkic" players rule hasn't been used in Turkey for years, so tested changing the "Turkic" agreement to contain the 22 Arab nations and adding the rule to the Stars League. Doesn't work though, the "non-Turkic" rule seems hardcoded and doesn't correspond to the "Turkic" agreement

Brilliant, not sure how I missed that box. Will release an updated version tonight, league will drop to 10 teams but with 27 games by 2024. There are also standards for professionalism, stadium size etc so I'll see about including them.

Interesting. Of course any work we do now on the issue will likely be rendered moot by whatever they do with Russia in future patches

Arabian Gulf Cup added for international teams. Normally it's in December but in 2023 it will be held in January, in Basra, Iraq. Currently simming several versions into the future to make sure there are no clashes, but I believe December is always free in the int'l calendar. Everything is fresh for FM23, nothing imported. Nothing against importing old DBs mind you, I just haven't had a proper Qatar file since FM14.

Anyone tried deleting/adding nations to see what happens with WCQ, Nations League, etc? The Crown Dependencies, Yugoslavia, East Germany etc fans will be keen to know (looking at you @Wolf_pd, lol)

Looking good. I was thinking of making a database where they were proposing a "split season" format for an all-island league before COVID took away any of its momentum. So, DBs for both countries where they play 22 games or so, then the bottom half of each league splits into a relegation group (like in Scotland). The tricky part would be then using a continental comp (or a cup in one of the countries) to create the all-island competition, where the top half of each country would join up and play a half-season, but with the points then being added to their own country's league table. I think this should be doable by being creative with min/max games to get it to verify. So basically, as if the top half in Scotland didn't have the same type of break as the bottom half, but instead played just as many games but against teams from another country, and they counted towards the standings too. I made an all-island league in FM22 but keeping the countries separate like this is obviously more realistic. EDIT: also wondering if we can use the "all star" function in the editor this year, could possibly set up Munster vs. Leinster all-star type games

No, it's separate, it should show up in your Steam "library" if you're purchased FM23

I've tried to implement the development strategy which will see the league drop to 10 teams. (edit: fixed) As far as I can tell, the Sheikh Jassim (Super) Cup wasn't played in 2022, so I've left it out. Same with the old postseason Qatar Cup (edit: fixed) (although I revived the Arab CL and GCC). The "Qatar FA Cup" also appears to have been a one-off at the end of last season, so it's not included. It gave everyone else something to do while the top 4 teams were in a COVID-rushed ACL group stage. EDIT: In order to address this issue: The main download has an elaborate workaround that uses the extinct nation "Ireland pre-1922" as a secondary Qatar residency/nationality. This allows the extra international slot that's only for Arab/UAFA players. Any suggestions, issues, etc, let me know.

Get ready for the World Cup with life in the Gulf. Try and replicate Xavi's managerial achievements in the Stars League, or go one better and win the AFC Champions League. DOWNLOAD (backup) | PLAYER REP FIX (backup) (details) GRAPHICS | KITS from FM Slovakia (external site) Please upvote here and rate on Steam if you are enjoying the databases (or not!) Arab internationals TMC MEGAPACK This database enables the two top Qatari divisions, with real dates for 2022 including the early start and World Cup break (then back to normal in 2023). I wasn't able to find any hard numbers for sponsorship, government funding. or prize money in the various competitions - let me know if you find this information, particularly any Arabic readers. Unfortunately this is incompatible with any file using the extinct nation Ireland (pre-1922) (including my Island Games), as I've used it to enable the Arab player rule (only Qatar DB for FM23 to do this): Special thanks to @nasaiain @twister @FootballHedgehog @BinAqool @rmpMarko @rusty217 @ajoobah @X0X0 @WatsonFM EDIT: Although it's not as bad as the SPL in FM23, the default transfer AI here doesn't really work with the transfer rules, so teams sell a lot of their best domestic players too quickly and the league is kind of glitched after that DBs for older versions of FM:

You'll also want all players with that second nationality so you can try and recruit them, not self-promote but there's a file in the Editor's Hideaway I worked on with others' feedback that adds a bunch. So, load all players "based in" England when you start the game, and a few more Caribbean minnows should have enough players to manage now, for example, or at least enough potential recruits to make it interesting

Should be in fate actions for that stage. Same way "winners" of a certain round qualify for another round in some default competition rules, "losers" can too. Then just set the round they're qualifying for as the corresponding round from another competition (Europa League), and in the EL stage in question you'll just use "get qualified teams" like normal but you'll be getting them from the CL stage. As long as that stage is drawn after the CL losers are set, it should work fine. That's the cleanest way to do it where it should show up in the rules. There's an alternate way where you could just set the EL to call in "get best teams in competition" from the CL with "max teams" set to 64 and the box for "ignore teams" checked. This is telling it to ignore the current top 64 teams in the CL (which will be the round winners as long as your ranking levels are working). Then repeat the same line, but with the box for "ignore teams" unchecked. This is telling it to get the best 64 teams, but it's already been told to ignore the top 64, so it will go to the next 64 teams in the CL rankings (your 64 losers)

A Scilly "nation" could play the annual friendlies against mainland teams (pretty sure nations can play clubs in tournaments as long as the date's free). I think it could also play against its own U21 team for the annual old men vs. youngsters game

Toronto and Vancouver (and probably the rest of the large and mid-sized cities too) have huge Filipino populations, and as you can see from guys like Pat Metcalfe and David Choiniere (who exactly did you manage to poach for your national team?), they can ball too

Oh sorry about that, I think I changed "Holland" to "the Netherlands" for my own obsessiveness, I can remove that change, should really leave that to the user. Cheers for the feedback! For the Philippines, you might want to load all players based in Canada as well. I don't remember adding many Solomon Islanders, lol, but yes it's a god-send if you do manage lesser-lights in international football (just need SI to fix it in general!). Same goes for playing with a custom Japanese DB and all the Asian countries they allow as domestic.

Oh God, don't Scilly have that league where it's only 2 teams? Just checked, yep, they play each other 18 times. Lol, I always wanted to make it in FM for this reason, maybe now's the perfect time to make an alternate version with Scilly instead of Jersey. Would just need a working All-Star team for the yearly visits of Truro and Newlyn Non Athletico...

This has been subject to the occasional update. It should port over fine to FM23, with the caveat that the occasional player might have a dual nationality show up twice in their information screen (if the researchers added the same second nationality we did). I also made a minor corrections file (alternate link) this will work with. It fixes some high-rep competition and stage names to remove sponsors and add the official names.

Yeah it can happen, just thinking out loud. For now, I prioritized this Irish project, and the Crown Deps. are more of an afterthought - maybe for FM23. I was thinking the same, that the top division would be something like "Regional Level 1" with child competitions like the Priaulx League in Guernsey. Domestic cups can include the Upton Park Trophy and each island's own cups. Could even include other overseas territories that aren't in the OG game like Saint Helena

Just thinking that if we were to prioritize the creation of a nation like "Crown Dependencies", it might be better to use an extinct nation like Ireland pre-1922, or C.I.S., or something like that. That way, there no competitive fixtures but still room to do everything else we want with a new nation, like create a league structure

Well, you know the feeling when a DB works the way you want, can't beat it! You're right that a wider Crown Dependencies might have been a better option, certainly for league structures if we expand this further. Alderney is technically a part of Guernsey so its a way to get past that while still having the Muratti Vase (maybe we can figure out All-Star teams on FM23 and do it that way). Ultimately they might function better as a new country replacing an extinct one, though. For the placeholder we need to replace NI, you want it to be someone who doesn't look jarring when they appear in WCQ and Euro qualifying. Bonus if they have links to the UK in case we can't remove ALL of the England/UK links that are hard-coded. EDIT: tested with @lionel messi's brilliant level 10 database and they look compatible, I used a small database and ticked "add players to playable teams" and Jersey Bulls are full of dual national Jerseyman/English players with Jerseyman as their primary nationality. Also works with Quebec if you want to spice up the international scene even more!

Makes sense. At one point I was telling it to invite whichever of Spain, England, Portugal, Holland, France etc hadn't qualified for the Euros that year, just to spice it up and reflect their historical and current possessions in América. In practice, they all almost always qualified for the Euros and didn't come