(FM22) Expanded Olympic Games Men's Football Tournament

[verazmuhammadmasri]

In this file, the Olympic Games has expanded its size from 16 teams only to 32 teams. 

32 teams will be divided into 8 groups of 4

- Host Nation will be automatically placed in Group A.

The host nations for the first 3 editions:

Paris 2024 (France)

LA 2028 (USA)

Brisbane 2032 (Australia)

and so on....

Qualifying paths:

AFC:

46 eligible nations from Asia ( Must be a member of the IOC and FIFA) (45 if a nation from Asia is going to host the finals) will be divided to 10 groups. (5 or 6 groups of 5 and 5 or 4 groups of 4). This round will be played in a neutral venue and will take place in March a year before the finals. The group leaders will proceed to the Second round where 10 teams divided to 2 groups of 5. Second round will be played in a neutral venue in June. Top 2 teams from each group will qualify to the finals. ( Total slots: 4 + 1)

 

UEFA:

All 55 UEFA members except Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, and Faroe Islands won't be competing in this qualifiers. (England will change its name to Great Britain when it comes to U23). 50 nations (49 if a nation from Europe is going to host the finals) will be divided to 10 groups). (5 each if no nations from Europe hosting the finals). Matches will be played in March, June, September, October, and November. Group leaders + best 3 teams from second place qualify to the finals. (Total slots: 13+1)

 

CAF:

All 54 nations from Africa will be divided to 9 groups of 6. (1 group will have only 5 if one nation from Africa is going to host the finals) Group leaders + the best 2nd placed team will proceed to the second round where 10 teams divided to 2 groups of 5. This round will be played in a neutral venue and will take place in March a year before the finals. Second round will be played in a neutral venue in June. Top 2 teams from each group will qualify to the finals. ( Total slots: 4 + 1)

 

CONMEBOL:

10 teams from North America divided to 2 groups of 5. This round will be played in a neutral venue and will take place in June a year before the finals. Top 2 teams from each group will qualify to the finals. Teams that placed 3rd in each group will play in a playoffs to take the final spot in September. (Total slots: 5+1)

 

CONCACAF: 

31 eligible teams from CONCACAF ( Must be a member of the IOC and FIFA) will be divided to 6 groups of 5 (One will be six). Matches of this round will be played in March. 6 teams who finshed first in each group will play in the second round where 6 teams will be divided to 2 groups of 3. Top 2 teams from each group will qualify to the finals. (Total Slots: 4+1)

 

OCEANIA:

8 eligible teams from Oceania will be placed into 2 groups of 4 and it will be played in a neutral venue. Top 2 teams will qualify to the semi finals and the winners will play in a final to secure the spot of representing Oceania. ( Total Slots: 1+1)

 

new olympic games format.fmf

Edited December 13, 2021 by verazmuhammadmasri

[erikeagles]

Great idea!! 

[anitamui]

17 小时前, erikeagles说:

Great idea!! 

Agreed

[vassilispyrgos]

interesting idea

the only thing that i changed was the O23 player limit from 3 to 6

[BarryLarry]

Nice, I've Looking into exactly how the Olympic games work and how teams Qualify recently.

Started a post roughly touching on it
 

 

[anitamui]

I want a 22.4 update for this thing

[verazmasri132]

On 24/05/2022 at 14:16, anitamui said:

I want a 22.4 update for this thing

Here it is

 

OLYMPIC GAMES U23 NEW FORMAT.fmf

[anitamui]

58 分钟前, verazmasri132说:

Here it is

 

OLYMPIC GAMES U23 NEW FORMAT.fmf 96.55 kb · 1 download

Thanks

[vassilispyrgos]

Can this be verified for FM24?