Can your Club become champions of the world?

Can You Become Club World Champion

This is the sign up that will test your created clubs to the limit as we see which South American club can become club world champion. Now i know i promised you all a detailed description of how each league system works but instead of typing everything out ive decided that i will explain as we go along through the season as it is not all very clear in fm. Also before we start i must warn you that updates will come at different times for each country as every countries leagues start at different times with the first being brazil and Chile

Continental Qualification rules

Copa libertadores

Argentina

Winner of the previous seasons opening stage

Winner of the previous seasons closing stage

The three highest from the overall league table (excluding those already qualified)

Brazil

Top 4 in the league

winner of the cup

Chile

Opening winner

Closing winner

Highest in the overall table

Columbia

Opening Winner

Closing Winner

Highest in the overall table

Uruguay

Overall Winner

1st and second in the Liguilla pre Libertadores ( is competed at the end of the season between the top 6 clubs in the league)

Also the winner of last years tournament qualifies giving their league an extra place

For the Copa Sudamericana it works this way:

Brazil:

5th to 12th placed sides in the league

If a team in those places also won the Brazilian Cup, then the 13th placed team will qualify for the Sudamericana instead.

Argentina:

Boca and River have guaranteed spots in the Sudamericana (I don't know if this happens in FM as well)

4 other spots available to the 4 highest placed teams in the overall league table.

Chile:

Top two teams in the overall league table.

Colombia:

2nd placed in overall league table

Winner of Colombian Cup

(both provided they have not qualified for the Libertadores)

Uruguay:

3rd and 4th in the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores

Just like the Libertadores, the nation of the previus winner gets an extra spot in the next year.

do our clubs start in the lowest division?

It's alright Mikey. I'll say this though, it's Chile

As posted in the original thread you start in the second division which for all countries except brazil is the lowest division. As for updates im hoping at least to have the first brazil update and maybe even the chilean update tonight which will be a lot better than the poor opening post

Well as im sure many of you know the brazilian campaign starts off with the state championships where you compete against clubs from your state in a league system. So the day before this is due to begin lets have a look to see what are teams have managed to put together in terms of squads

First up is Southend United (BRA) who are competing in the Portiguar Sate Championship

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So that is their squad which comprises mainly of loan players although there is 3 permanent signings including spending 8k on Baiano. The manager that they decided to hire was 61 year old Aderbal Lana who has been managing since 1997 taking charge of 7 different clubs all of which were brazilian

Next up is Pirates who compete in the Goias Sate Championship

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/Pirates.jpg

As you can see they have also gone down the route of bringing in a lot of loan signings with their only permanent signing being Rafael Sandes on a free transfer. They hired a big name manager in Cuca whos last job was at first division Fluminense

3rd on our list is Euroville who compete in the Sao Paulo State Championship

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At first glance it seemed that they had not strengthened well before there first game with there only being two goalkeepers in there first team squad however they have signed more players but have chosen to put them all in the reserves. The manager is leao whos last job was at Al sadd in quatar.

Finally there is irlande du nord who compete in the Ceara state championship

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/irlandedunord.jpg

They have only signed loan players for the squad with the manager ded=ciding that tempory signings would do them for now. There manager is Paulo Bonamigo who is another one who has spent a lengthy managerial career soley in brazil.

Woohoo its started, lets go Putre Panthers

Hopefully our dabble in Chilean Football can result in a title or THREE

only managed to sign a few players, hoping for the best, expecting the worst. Oh by the way you have the Southend United (BRA) screenshot mixed up with the Cornish Pirates one.

Thats it for tonight. Tomorrow will see the first update for chillie and the end of the state championship for Brazil as well as hopefully a few other updates in other leagues

Guilherme to be to scorer for The Pirates.

The next league to start is in chile, The First Division B opening stage. The league here is split into the opening stage and the closing stage, with the 12 teams playing eachother twice in both stages meaning that for the final league table everyone will have played each other four times. The team who comes top of the final league table will get promoted while second place qualifies for the promotion stage. The bottom team is relegated.

The FCTP

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They have struggled to sign players only having 3 in time for the first league game.The manager they have signed is 57 year old Ubaldo Matildo Fillol who's only previous job was as the argentines national team's goalkeeping coach.

The TA (my team)

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/TheTA.jpg

As you can see from the squad picture they have only signed one player this may be due in somepart to the fact that they have yet to hire a manager.

The RHCP

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/RHCP.jpg

Yet another team who have only signed one player and yet to find a manager

Putre DFC

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/PutreFC.jpg

They are the third of of our chillean teams who have signed one player and no manager

Next up is the beggining of the columbian league

Gotta laugh at the rosters for those Chilean teams. Hope my Columbian team has got itself into gear to hire a manager and more than 1 player!

Guilherme to be to scorer for The Pirates.

Don't think it's the same Guilherme is it? This one plays DM, wouldn't mind if he gets some goals though.

Glad the Pirates got a decent manager too, getting in a first division manager was a good move. Looking forward to seeing how he gets on.

no its not who your thinking of and the brazilian ronaldo striker is not the fat one either

I ama bit dissappointed with our signings, thought we would get some higher profile players with our reputation. But Leao is a top quality coach and can make the difference.

KUTGW Mikey!

Now onto the Columbian league second division this is split into two phases where the 18 teams play each other once during each stage. At the end of the first stage the top 8 teams qualify for the first phase group stage and the same happens in the second phase.

We're Lost

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/WereLost.jpg

They have managed to sign quite a number of players and have hired Fernando Castro as a manager who's only previous job was at a columbian first division side.

Linga Linga

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/LingaLinga.jpg

They are another team that have done well in signing a good number of players and have gone for an inexperianced manager in Pedro Enrique Sarmiento who's only previous job was at a columbian first division side.

FC Ice

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/FCIce.jpg

In what is becoming a repetitive thing for our columbian sides they have signed a decent amount of players but have gone for a fairly inexperienced manager in Jorge Luis Bernal who's has previously had managerial placements at two columbian first division clubs

Santa Gilb

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/santaGilb.jpg

They don't disapoint the columbian tradition as they sign a decent number of players but opt for Hernan Dario Herrara who has previously managed at one club another columbian first division side

next update is our second visit to the brazilian league. I ask all managers from argentina and uruguay to have paitience as your league dosent start till August

Loving the look of Santa Gilb Who is our affiliated clubs?

deprtivo cali

Gotta wonder why I asked that with my lack of knowledge of Columbian clubs!

This update features just one of the Brazilian teams as the other 3 teams are in state championships without openining and closing stages.

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an amazing first opening stage for Irlande du Norde saw them topping the table without defeat at the end of the league part which meant they qualified for the semi final where they played fourth place Icasa from the brazilian third division unfortunately though after drawing the first game 0-0 away from home they suffered a 1-0 defeat in front of there own fans. Icasa went on to lose both legs of the semi final to second division Fortaleza. Unfortunately fo Irlande du Norde the total league table which puts together points from the opening stage and the closing stage it gives an advantage to teams that make it futher with all matches going towards the league so with Fortaleza picking up 6 points in the final they moved above irlande du norde who drop to second in the league

Gotta wonder why I asked that with my lack of knowledge of Columbian clubs!

There a first division club in columbia

Cool so we could get some reasonable players from them.

Well done Irlande du Norde for getting somewhere.

The Ceara State Championship is for "small" teams, Sao Paulo is where the big boys play

its another brazilian update coming up which sees an end to the state championships.

Atleast I got players :D

kutgw mikey

And mate, could you just space out your updates a little from now on ? Big paragraphs are a pain on the eye and you can so easily get lost reading.

Southend United (BRA)

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They were competing in the Portiguar state championship and managed to finish 3rd without defeat meaning they were one of the 8 teams who progressed to the quarter finals. This was just a 1 leg match where they met non-league side Sao Goncalo where they secured a 3-1 win and so progressed to the two legged semi final where they met 2nd division side America (RN) who had finished top of the league table. A 1-1 draw at home meant they still had every chance of progressing when they travelled for the away leg where they secured a 2-1 win. The final is also a two legged affair where they were playing 3rd division Potiguar who had finished second in the league table. A 3-2 win in the home leg set them up well and they came away with a 2-1 win away from home meaning they were state champions remaining unbeaten throughout the entire tournament. So congratulations to the first of our teams who have acheived sucess now lets see if anyone else can follow in there footsteps.

Pirates

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The pirates were competing in the Goias state championship where they managed to acheive 3rd place suffering 3 losses in 22 games. The 3rd place finish meant they qualified for the semi finals where they met 3rd division side Atletico Goianiense unfortunatley they lost the first leg 2-1 and 1-0 in the second leg so they were out of the competition

Euroville

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/eurovillestatechampionship.jpg

These were the worst of our four teams although they were competing in probably the hardest state championship and finishing 10th out of the 20 teams is not the end of the world for them although they will be looking for improvement next year

Irlande Du Nord

closing stage - http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/irlandedunordclosingstagestatechamp.jpg

final overall league table - http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/irlandedunordoverallleaguestatecham.jpg

After having considerable sucssess in the opening season they were hoping to reproduce it in the close season. Yet again they topped the league stage without defeat although they did slip up and draw two games. However this time they overcame Icasa in the semi finals after drawing the first leg 2-2 they won the second away leg 2-1. This set up a final against the opening stage winners Fortaleza. They won the first leg away from home 3-1 before winning the second leg 3-0 to take the closing stage title. However it wasnt enough to claim the overall league title which Fortaleza won by 4 points. They then met Fortaleza again in the champions playoff but lost both legs 2-0 to mean that was another trophy they miss out on

Atleast I got players :D

kutgw mikey

And mate, could you just space out your updates a little from now on ? Big paragraphs are a pain on the eye and you can so easily get lost reading.

Yeah sorry about that. Will try and do it in future

state champions \o/

kutgw mikey

Happy with tenth, it is clear it might take a while to knock that top four offtheir perch!

I am pretty sure we will be able t do well in the Second Division!

Update for the first phase of the columbian league coming up as we see our clubs coming face to face for the first time.

Pirates

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/Piratesstatechampionship.jpg

The pirates were competing in the Goias state championship where they managed to acheive 3rd place suffering 3 losses in 22 games. The 3rd place finish meant they qualified for the semi finals where they met 3rd division side Atletico Goianiense unfortunatley they lost the first leg 2-1 and 1-0 in the second leg so they were out of the competition

Wow what a ridiculous system! Not a clue how it all works but glad we held our own in the league, hopefully can build on this with a bunch of good transfers.

Congrats Paul on getting through the ridiculous play-off system

Great update Mikey, quick updates are always welcome on a boring afternoon. KUTGW mate

COLUMBIA

How the leagueworks

It is split up into two phases The first phase and The Second Phase. In The First Phase there is a league table where each team plays eachother once, the top 8 teams then qualify for the Groups. Here the remaining 8 teams are split into two groups where they play the other 3 teams in their group twice. The winner of each group goes on into the final. All the games played in the phase from the league groups and final are put into an overall phase 1 table so immediately you can see it is a huge advantage to qualify for the groups as you play a minimum of 6 extra games (possibly 8 if you make the final).

The second phase is exactly the same and the two overall phase tables are put together to make a final table.

The First Phase

League table

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The league table brought considerable sucsses for our teams with only We're Lost missing out on the top 8 as they finished 10th. Santa Gilb were the highest place team finishing in second with FC Ice in fourth and Linga Linga in 5th. The results between our teams were

Santa Gilb 2 v 1 FC Ice

Linga Linga 0 v 0 Santa Gilb

Santa Gilb 2 v 2 We're Lost

Linga Linga 1 v 3 FC Ice

FC Ice 2 v 1 We're Lost

Linga Linga 2 v 1 We're Lost

Group Stage

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LInga Linga were drawn in Group A where 2 wins and 2 draws were enough to secure 2nd placce but unfortunately not the first needed to progress to the final. In group B we had two representitives FC Ice were dissapointed to only finish 3rd claiming only one win but Santa Gilb continued their earlier sucess in the league by topping the group and remaining unbeaten.

Final

Santa Gilb were facing Bogota FC in the final. After a 1-0 defeat away it didnt look great and they lost the second leg 3-2 to finish as runners up.

First Phase overall League

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We're Lost didnt make the group stage so stay in 10th place Linga Linga drop down to 7th place and FC Ice remain in fourth place. However the biggest acheivement is by Santa Gilb who despite losing in the final finish up in first place with a 3 point gap.

Wow what a ridiculous system! Not a clue how it all works but glad we held our own in the league, hopefully can build on this with a bunch of good transfers.

Congrats Paul on getting through the ridiculous play-off system

Great update Mikey, quick updates are always welcome on a boring afternoon. KUTGW mate

Thats not the actual league though its just the state championship for which all clubs are int the top division. It would be like us having a county championship with evrton liverpool and tranmere all in the same county championship even though their all in different leagues. The next brazilian update will be the actual league

What a brilliant start Santa Gilb has made. I am really happy with how they are doing.

Good start more than I hoped for, actually

The next update will be from chile before we finally get our first argentine update

What a brilliant start Santa Gilb has made. I am really happy with how they are doing.

If they can keep up there current progress in the second phase then they could be the first team promoted to the first division of a league

So instead of signing players my Chilean Manager decided to get himself a Colombian Drug Dealer with my money and pretend to have hired him as a Goalkeeper. Good idea...

Congrats on the good work Mikey, and Gilb for getting himself set-up for a title hunt.

So instead of signing players my Chilean Manager decided to get himself a Colombian Drug Dealer with my money and pretend to have hired him as a Goalkeeper. Good idea...

Congrats on the good work Mikey, and Gilb for getting himself set-up for a title hunt.

Very small point there Des, but I'm actually female. But thanks.

And yeah great work on this sign-up Mikey. Thoroughly enjoying it so far.

Chilean League - this is fairly simple compared to some of the other leagues, there is an opening stage and a closing stage which gets put together to make a final league table. In each stage you play every club twice so for the final league table you will have played every team four times

Opening Stage

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Well after a dfficult start all four of our clubs managed to hire managers (details abouts squads and managers will come in final league update) although they were all still thin on the ground in terms of the players that they had in their squads. With such small squads it was looking loke our teams would be spending time near the bottom of the division however there was a suprise afoot as the weakest team FCTP finished in 5th place.

The TA were the next team in fourth place mstill a decent effort as they were the last to hire a manager, but the biggest suprise was yet to come as we had two teams in the top two who ran away with the league and left everyone else in their wake. RHCP finished in second and Putre DFC were the champions of the opening stage. It looks like these two teams will both be aiming for promotion with a decent run in the closing stage

Matches between teams

Putre DFC 4 v 2 FCTP

Putre DFC 2 v 0 RHCP

Putre DFC 3 v 0 The TA

FCTP 3 v 2 Putre DFC

RHCP 1 v 1 Putre DFC

The TA 1 v 1 Putre DFC

FCTP 0 v 1 RHCP

The TA 1 v 2 RHCP

RHCP 2 v 1 FCTP

RHCP 2 v 0 The TA

FCTP 1 v 2 The TA

The TA 4 v 0 FCTP

So instead of signing players my Chilean Manager decided to get himself a Colombian Drug Dealer with my money and pretend to have hired him as a Goalkeeper. Good idea...

Congrats on the good work Mikey, and Gilb for getting himself set-up for a title hunt.

Still unhappy about your columbian drug dealer?

Argentine teams your time has come and we will finally see your squad before the season starts

Great Mon Idiotas!

Great updates so far, kicking myself for picking Uraguay with the late season kickoff.

Was interesting reading about the Brazilian leauges, even though you did explain it I was still left a little lost, though I am now tempted to start a career there in my next career game!

KUTGW!

Finally the Argentine league starts in a time that is more recogniseable to us europeans

TFC

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/TFC.jpg

Despite having plenty of time TFC have really not used it wisely as their squad is still small so unless they get a move n they could struggle this season. However we shouldnt rule them out yet as in 55 year old manager Daniel Passarella they have hired a very experianced manager who has managed big clubs such as Parma Corinthians and River as well as the national sides of uruguay and Argentina.

Espastica

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/espastica.jpg

This team have used their time wisely with a huge squad but the manager they have hired is Wilson Graneolattie who has had no previous managerial experiance

Arvet

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/arvet.jpg

Arvet have got an even larger squad with them being now more than well equiped to tackle the league.However yet again hiring manager Jose Romero with no previos managerial experiance could prove to be a very risky gamble

Barag

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o354/mikeytwigge/barag.jpg

Barag have assembled a reasonably sized squad and hired a manager in Hector Rivoira who has had experience managing at 3 other argentine clubs one of which is currently in the premier division.

Great updates so far, kicking myself for picking Uraguay with the late season kickoff.

Was interesting reading about the Brazilian leauges, even though you did explain it I was still left a little lost, though I am now tempted to start a career there in my next career game!

KUTGW!

The brazilian league is hard to explain but when your actually looking at it its fairly easy to understand except the third division so i will be annoyed if anyone gets relegated, doing this also got me wanting to play their so i will probably start a game their soon.

As fo Uruguay your update is coming next. Just got to walk the dog and then i will do it

Good update

Here's hoping the manager can have a good start to his career

The Uruguayan league is the last of our 5 leagues to start and also has the most teams with there being 5 teams in this league.

Santa FCB

They have managed to sign 9 players and have brought in 65 year old Mono Ruiz who has been manager of 20 different teams and assistant manager at another 10

Hotshots

This team have been a huge disapointment signing just 1 player but they do have a fairly experianced manager in Hugo de Leon

San Jose

They have also been a disapointment signing 2 players on loan and making two permanent signings, but they have a very experianced manager in Julio Ribas who's last job was at the Oman national team

Academica

Making 16 signings they have had a decent time in the transfer market, but also have signed an experianced manager in Luis Cubilla

Essendon

Essendon have made just one signing a 32 year old keeper, but in Jorge Fossati they have an experianced manager who has even managed the uruguayan national side.

Very small point there Des, but I'm actually female. But thanks.

And yeah great work on this sign-up Mikey. Thoroughly enjoying it so far.

Sorry Gilbster I never knew that, my apologies.

And you are right this is a very enjoyable sign-up so far

Still unhappy about your columbian drug dealer?

Yeah I actually am, he allowed 26 goals in 22 matches thats just not good enough. Even if we are top of the table. But awesome work from the rest. Go PUTRE!!!