[No Best Eleven/Club History]

Bit of an issue with teams created from scratch and elements of their history - not sure what I have to change. I've created some fictional teams. The leagues and awards work fine but clubs don't record their histories and best eleven's (I'm a sucker for the 'where are they now' function in my non edited games) Not sure what I have to tick in the club section of the database for the game to start putting together best eleven's...

[Simple questions about editing and the editor - just ask in this thread]

Could use some help with the FM18 editor.

So I've created my own little Arctic nation replacing Gibraltar. My country has 48 teams divided into three divisions of 16. All the leagues work fine, but my national cup is a mess. What I want is a preliminary round of the bottom two divisions then a main cup run.

I've split it into two stages a preliminary stage with one round and then the next stage running to the final. The first season it works fine. Divisions 2 &3 play the preliminaries and go through to the next stage where division 1 comes in. Seems the fates are OK. However the cup plays out but the game registers no champion. No team gets anything in their honours. The next season some teams don't play at all in the cup others come in at random times etc. Not sure what I've missed.

I've looked at other cups and many don't use a seperate preliminary stage so does the game automatically know to pick the lowest ranked teams? I've tried this before and the preliminaries were just random teams picked from all three divisions...

Also none of the teams keep their histories. They keep their league championships in their honours but none of the teams have a best eleven and their records seem a bit patchy...

Also for some reason the national team barely selects any players for the national team. I have three leagues of players mostly of the nationality to play and instead the game picks a few players and then it's just greyed out players. My nation is at a level of around Malta and the leagues are full of stiffs but I'm not sure why it won't select them. Finally, my country is predominantly Russian/Norwegian language (loosely based on Svalbard) but a good chunk of my players have names drawn from Spanish/Gibraltar pool. I'm not sure if this is hard coded. I've tried deleting the Spanish language from the editor or changing its root to Slavic East but they still pump out English/Spanish regens. 

Anyway, any help would be much appreciated. I'm still unsure why the editor is so Byzantine when OOTP make a fairly easy to use custom league wizard in their games.