[[FM22] New Zealand League Pyramid]

Just another note about realism - the absolute wackiness of NZ promotion and relegation which is probably nigh on impossible to fully recreate.

Northern Region

The Northern section of the National League (NRFL Premier) relegates two teams directly down to NRFL One, which relegates to NRFL Two. From there it goes to regional leagues from the Northern Federation, Auckland Federation, and WaiBOP Federation.

Central Region

The Central section (Central League) is more complicated. There is only one relegation place, which drops down into the Captial Premier or Central Federation league depending on which Federation the relegated team belongs to. There is a promotion playoff between the winners of the Capital Prem and Central Fed leagues. The Capital league then relegates to Capital 1,2,3 etc. The number of relegations is always impacted by the Federations of the teams promoted and relegated out of the Central League (for example this year the relegated team is from Capital and the promoted team is from Central so the Capital Premier had three relegated teams instead of two), and the fact that clubs cannot have two teams in the same league (so if for example Western Suburbs got relegated from the Central League, their B team would be relegated from the Capital Premier). The Central Fed league has the mechanism for one team to be promoted from a playoff between the winners of the Taranaki, Horizons, and Pacific Premierships, but in actuality often has no promotions and relegations at all.

Southern Region

This one is also tough because the Southern section (Southern League) is actaully itself a champions playoff of the top four teams from the Mainland Premier and top two from the Southern Premier. The Mainland Premier and Southern Premier relegate down within their Federations.

 

Like I said, I doubt this is able to be properly replicated, but the closer you can get to it the more realistic it will be.

[[FM22] New Zealand League Pyramid]

On 14/11/2021 at 08:43, ratio1618 said:

Here is a working file for anyone that wants a 90% accurate NZ file.

The only Issues i am having with the file is trying to find concrete outlines on how promotion and relegation are going to work. For the time being i have made it simple so that 2 go up and down from T1 to each of the regional leagues.

The Regional leagues should organise teams well enough but there may be some cross over.
I will work on finishing the rest of the tiers when i can find how promotion/relegation works or if the leagues currently active are even being used from 2021 onwards as there are murmurings that they are going to make the pyramid more straight forward

Any bugs or suggestions  let me know

NZ National League 2 Tier.fmf 28.36 kB · 34 downloads

I've been playing with this today. Haven't finished a full season yet, but I think you've done a pretty good job. I do have a couple of notes though.

1. Prize money in the national league is probably way too high. There isn't actually prize money at all in NZ competitions, but given the funding mechanism for clubs in NZ doesn't exist in FM, you do need either prize money or TV money. Most national league clubs have income between 300,000 (lower end of the league) and 1,500,000 NZD (OFC CL winners). I would suggest setting TV money around that $300,000 mark for clubs in all the leagues you have created, potentially some national league prize money, and then let the Champions League and Club World Cup money go to the teams that qualify. This would be a lot closer to reality.

2. The league season is way too long. The Northern leagues normally start mid-March and end in late August/early September, while the Central and Southern ones start in early April and end late August/early September. The national league round was going to be early October to early December this year.

3. I don't know if it's possible to set different numbers of qualifiers between the three national league divisions, but it is 4 from Northern, 4 (3+Lower Hutt/Phoenix Reserves) from Central and 2 from Southern.

4. The NZ transfer window is basically January 1 to June 30.

5. B and C Teams do not compete in the Chatham Cup.