[FM14] European Super League *V4 Released*

Following on from my FM13 European Super League, I am creating a new one for FM14.

This is based in England and the divisions are as follows:

Leagues

• These will all run with 2 automatic promotion places and 1 promotion place and 3 relegation places.
  
• Clubs have been placed in a league using the reputation set by Sports Interactive (barring few exceptions in post #7) to remove any bias
  
• Where two or more clubs have the same reputation with one remaining space, this is down to my discretion.
  
• Normal leagues such as Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, Serie A, Bundesliga, Eredivise etc will be inactive and unplayable
  
• Prize money should be set for positions 1-20 for Premier League (£50-£40.5m), 1-24 for Championship (£40-£28.5m), League 1 (£28-£16.5m) & League 2 (£16-£4.5m) and position 1 & 2 for Conference Premier, First Division & Second Division.
  

Premier League (20 teams)

Championship (24 teams)

League 1 (24 teams)

League 2 (24 teams)

Conference Premier (24 teams)

Conference First Division (22 teams)

Conference Second Division (22 teams)

Non League (116 teams) - this is non playable league, purely to make up the numbers for the FA Cup

Cups

There are also two cup competitions which should shadow the real life cup dates but have more prize money with it being a Euro Super League.

FA Cup (276 teams) with 3 qualifying rounds for non league & conference second division teams -Winner gets £10m

League Cup (92 teams) - Winner gets £5m

Community Shield (winner of FA Cup & Premier League) - Winner gets £2.5m

Inactive Cups

I have deactivated the following competitions to prevent fixture congestion

UEFA Champions League

UEFA Europa League

UEFA Super Cup

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Please Note: Leagues are based on club reputation set in the official Football Manager editor by the SI Research Team. Where two or more clubs have the same reputation, it is down to my personal choice on what leagues the clubs are in, so please do not be offended if your team is in a lower division.

Premier League (20 teams)

AC Milan

Arsenal

At. Madrid

Barcelona

Benfica

Chelsea

Dortmund

FC Bayern

FC Porto

Inter Milan

Juventus

Liverpool

Man City

Man Utd

Napoli

Paris Saint-Germain

Real Madrid

Schalke

Tottenham

Valencia

Championship (24 teams)

Ajax

AS Monaco

Athletic Bilbao

CSKA Moscow

Dynamo Kiev

Everton

Fiorentina

Galatasary

Hannover

HSV

Lazio

Leverkusen

Lyon

Marseille

PSV Eindhoven

Roma

Sevilla

Shakthar

Spartak Moscow

Sporting Lisbon

Stuttgart

Udinese

Wolfsberg

Zenit

League 1 (24 teams)

Anderlecht

AS Saint-Etienne

Braga

Celtic

Espanyol

Fenerbache

FC Twente

Feyenoord

Girondins Bordeaux

Getafe

Gladbach

Genoa

Lille

Malaga

Metalist

Newcastle

Olympiakos

Osasuana

Parma

Real Betis

Real Sociedad

Steaua

Villarreal

Werder Bremen

League 2 (24 teams)

AZ

Basel

Besiktas

Cagliari

Catania

Celta Vigo

Dinamo Moscow

FC Kobenhaven

Fulham

Granada

Hoffenheim

Levante

Mallorca

Montpellier

Rayo

Rubin Kazan

Sampdoria

Stade Rennais

Sparta Prague

Toulouse

Valladolid

Vitesse

Viktoria Plezn

Zaragoza

Conference Premier Division (24 teams)

Aston Villa

Atalanta

Bologna

CFR Cluj

Chievo

Club Brugge

Deportivo

Dinamo Zagreb

Dnipro

Frankfurt

Grasshoppers

Lokomotiv Moscow

Norwich

Nurnberg

PAOK Salonika

Racing Lens

SC Heerenveen

Slovan Liberec

Southampton

Sunderland

Swansea

Torino

West Brom

West Ham

Conference First Division (22 teams)

Almeria

Anji

AS Nancy

Astra Giurgiu

Elche

Cardiff

FC Lorient

FC Sochaux

Jablonec

Kuban

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Mlada Bolesav

OGC Nice

Palermo

Panathinikos

Panduril

Petrolul

SK Rapid Vienna

Sporting Gijon

Standard Liege

Stoke

Trabzonspor

Conference Second Division

AJ Auxerre

Buraspor

CSKA Sofia

Dinamo Bucharest

FC Groningen

FC Red Bull Salzberg

FK Austria Vienna

Freiberg

Hapoel Tel Aviv

Karpaty

Levski

Ludogorets

Maccabi Haifa

Mainz

Partizan

Rangers

Red Star

Siena

Stade de Reims

Valenciennes

Young Boys

Zurich

Great! I'm working on all the other continens, and I hoped someone would do Europe!

Great initiative Michael.

Any idea when this will be ready for release?

Can't wait to give this great fantasy league a go.

I'm tempted to start out with Shakthar, should be interesting given their great facilities and vast resources.

where do we down load this I cant find a link thanks

to be honest, I am quite dissapointed because I don't see any teams from Poland and you have put Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech and Serbian which league's are at the same level with Polish Ekstraklasa, There are Legia Warszawa, Wisla Krakow or Lech Poznan which have a reputation of over 5500 If I am not mistaken, Wisla Krakow, Legia Warszawa or Lech Poznan, one of those three teams should be at least in League 2 and two other in Conference Premier League.

to be honest, I am quite dissapointed because I don't see any teams from Poland and you have put Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech and Serbian which league's are at the same level with Polish Ekstraklasa, There are Legia Warszawa, Wisla Krakow or Lech Poznan which have a reputation of over 5500 If I am not mistaken, Wisla Krakow, Legia Warszawa or Lech Poznan, one of those three teams should be at least in League 2 and two other in Conference Premier League.

Legia (6000) & Lech (5750) are in the Euro Non League which is non playable and Wisla's reputation (4600) is too low

download link is now in post #1

This isn't working for me I can't select how many leagues I would like to play and then the game only load the first 2 divisions.

will take a look tonight, your not trying to use any other files with it are you?

will take a look tonight, your not trying to use any other files with it are you?

Nope. I opened it with the editor and when I'm trying to verify everything it returns an error with the community shield.

Hello Michael, thanks for you're efforts. I will give this a test run. I have a few questions though.

Did you set up reserve & youth leagues? Is there an u-19 cup in place similar to the nextgen champions league?

Also , since all continental competitions are now disabled, isn't there room for creating new domestic cups to take advantage of these unused match dates? Perhaps a champions league style format for the top 2 divisions could be implemented? Are the lower league cups, such as the auto-windscreen trophy (or whatever it is called) still active?

Hello Michael, thanks for you're efforts. I will give this a test run. I have a few questions though.

Did you set up reserve & youth leagues? Is there an u-19 cup in place similar to the nextgen champions league?

Also , since all continental competitions are now disabled, isn't there room for creating new domestic cups to take advantage of these unused match dates? Perhaps a champions league style format for the top 2 divisions could be implemented? Are the lower league cups, such as the auto-windscreen trophy (or whatever it is called) still active?

Hi,

Yes there's an U21 and U18 league (same as in England)

There is currently the League Cup & FA Cup and I will try to add the conference cups in too for the next release. I think adding a champions league style competition will create huge fixture congestions as players in most divisions will also play for their country.

Allright, u21 & u18 leagues looking good. u21 cup in place but it could be more substantial. u18 cup seems to be in place.

There seems to be an issue with some of the teams not having the correct secondary and third teams. For example Werder Bremen has Werder Bremen II which is completly inactive competition wise and thus Werder Bremen has no u18 team. Some other teams have the same issue Cluj for example.

Real Madrid has a bloated number of secondary and third string teams. In my save their u21 and u19 teams have no players but they are enrolled in competitions. All Real Madrid's developing players are still in Castilla and Real Madrid "C". I imagine this would also be the case for other spanish teams.

Edit: I holidayed through one season and this db is looking quite good, still could do with some tweaks - namely fixing the issues with some clubs u21 and u19 squads. I also noticed that the Champions League and Europa League are still showing up in the game (and for some reason under English competitions) but you have reduced them to one leg final games between some low reputation clubs. So not really an issue there. I take it the CL and EL can't be removed all-together.

All in all, looking quite good, however I just noticed that newgens created for Barcelona and Real Madrid ALL have English nationalities. This is a real shame, hope it can be fixed. Must be related to the issue mentioned above.

Will continue to have a look at this. Thanks again for your work.

I have some more thoughts if you don't mind.

I would like to see the u21 teams changed to the good old reserve squads, if possible. I see a lot of unwanted first team players rotting away in the u21's and not getting any games at all because of age restrictions. Having active reserve squads would see more players getting game time and this would also make for an excellent shopping window where lower league managers could find real bargains by scouting reserve games. In addition, I like to sign aging professionals that have passed their peak but make for excellent tutors for my youngsters. Having no age restrictions in reserve games would help this policy immensely.

In line with this suggestion, I´d change the u18's to u20's, if possible. This way you could continue to groom your youngsters in the youth team a while longer before having to promote them to the first or reserve team.

Finally, I firmly believe you should consider adding new cup competitions as suggested before. Fixture congestion isn't really an issue for English teams playing Continental football in the original version. I personally would much prefer to play 50+ games a season instead of the mere 40 games you are guaranteed to get playing as a Premier League team in the current version.

v2 now in post #1 and fix list in post #3

Finally, I firmly believe you should consider adding new cup competitions as suggested before. Fixture congestion isn't really an issue for English teams playing Continental football in the original version. I personally would much prefer to play 50+ games a season instead of the mere 40 games you are guaranteed to get playing as a Premier League team in the current version.

Premier League Clubs

38 league games

up to 5 League Cup games if you reach the final

up to 6 FA Cup games if you reach the final

Total 49 games

Think that's enough tbf

I just noticed that newgens created for Barcelona and Real Madrid ALL have English nationalities. This is a real shame, hope it can be fixed. Must be related to the issue mentioned above.

I've noticed that a lot of teams (not just Spanish) have their nation set as England so they create English newgens. Is there a reason it's like that? It's a shame as it means a lot of these teams will lose their identity after a few years.

v3 out now, download in post#1, fix list in post #3

I will test your update ......

i've looked around a bit, picked galatasaray in ch'sip. the gate receipts seemed extremely low. the game could be giving those teams RL ch'ship level ticket prices it seems.

Can I share this on Serbian FM?

yes as long as you give me credit

What are people's thoughts about changing the TV times around to get more Euro League 1 & 2 teams on TV

Friday

7.45pm - Euro League 2 TV Game

Saturday

12.30pm - Euro League 1 TV Game

3pm - All Non Televised Games

5.30pm - Euro Championship TV Game

Premier League Super Sunday

12.30pm - Premier League TV Game 1

3pm - Premier League TV Game 2

5.30pm - Premier League TV Game 3

8pm - Premier League TV Game 4

I love the sound of this, I feel that the TV money needs to be heavily boosted from normal premier league and especially from lower leagues, also is the regen being english problem fixed?

Maybe have a second Euro Championship slot on staurday or monday night to give it some boost from league 1/2?