FootballHedgehog

Updated for 23.3. Including a few new files as well, but primarily updating the previous version to 23.3.

I haven't seen anything to doubt that, but the documents for this season on QSL's website are unhelpful, even when translated.

Probably myself, as I released most of the files last year as well. I haven't seen a lot of people mention using them yet, but I've heard the Arab files in particular are fairly popular. Last year when I also posted everything on steam, it was between them and the UEFA competitions for getting the most downloads.

They shouldn't cause any sort of trouble, but I really can't rule it out since I basically had to remake them for 23...

Has no impact.

All of them represent either existing labour law or plans to do so, with some expansions as made sense or are planned. Unfortunately because the FM database doesn't have Greenland, or a number of small islands in the Pacific, they do lack a few members but are otherwise accurate. Unfortunately rules from these leagues, like those in the Gulf for example, have not caught up with the movement ability of every other type of worker, so this remedies it. Although it does make continental competition a bit of a challenge because none of the rules about that changed. If I could figure out how to kill the foreign player quota in the AFC or elsewhere I probably would, but recreating the competitions is a little bit too time-consuming for my taste, and I'm not sure editing it is really possible.

Ever wondered what it'd be like to play in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, or the Panamerican Championship? How about wanting Gulf players to not be counted as foreign in the UAE or the rest of the GCC? All this and much more is available in my mod pack - over 75 different club and national team competitions ranging from the revived to the should-exist (from the Arab Club Champions Cup to the Commonwealth Championship), and 20 non-foreign player agreements reflecting real life free movement or expanded memberships. These files were designed to work with any league or competition file, and designed with playability and realism in mind. Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions (or reasonable requests), and have fun. FootballHedgehog's FM Mods.zip

It was a change on the research side. I don't recall it being 3 years, I think it was 10 when I changed it. Could have been and I forgot. But I went through, in time for 23, every ME country checking citizenship and economic stuff, as a lot of them needed updates. So that's probably why it's 5 years now haha.

USL signed a deal with Konami, so unfortunately that won't be happening anytime soon.

It helps, but isn't essential - at least when dealing with attribute ratings. That's kinda required when dealing with player transfers and finding the right staff though. Assuming the data can be found...

Are you playing Ottawa? It's an error I, and others, have also had when playing with them - and I'm 99% sure it's because they're set as a youth team.

Biggest problem with Middle Eastern leagues at this point is that we frankly need more researchers to rate players. I managed to do quite a bit over the last year, but it is still nowhere near enough.

I will warn you that sometimes the fixtures can make it a little bit difficult to finish a league, if you manage to not crash out in the initial stages of a competition. But most of them are pretty forgiving in that regard, so especially for continent-wide competitions you are pretty guaranteed to get through the group stage if you can beat smaller teams. Obviously this works best the larger of a database you have, the more countries you can pull from to manage in. The money is, depending on where your managing, either game-changing, or hopelessly irrelevant. There really isn't much between the two. That is at least until you get towards the further stages of the competitions and the number of zeros quickly grow higher...

Done! Only the competitions needed updating - the domestic player agreement files seem to work no matter what updates SI makes. I've had the competitions updated for a few weeks, but haven't found the time to update this thread (or, more dreadfully, my steam workshop - updating all 100+ files on there would take ages). Also - here's an extra non-foreign agreement, which updates the UK Overseas Territories act to include the various islands of the Commonwealth (except for Sri Lanka). Expanded Overseas Territories.fmf

Have you ever looked on Wikipedia and realized that there's a competition that nobody has made yet for FM22? Have you ever wanted to manage a team through a competition that no longer exists in real life for one reason or another? Have you ever felt annoyed when you realized a foreign player shouldn't be counted as foreign in a league you're playing in, due to an agreement between the two (or more) countries? Well I have the files for you. They come in two forms - my revived (or reconstituted) competitions, and my non-foreign player agreements. The former covers everything from the Arab Club Champions Cup, a competition in limbo for a few years, to the UEFA Intertoto Cup, which is no more and is unlikely to be revived, and even competitions that don't exist but should, like a British Isles Club Championship, and many many more (70 files, and probably closer to 80 competitions actually). The second is a set of files which make a country's players non-foreign in other countries which have signed an agreement, such as the Eurasian Economic Union, the Central American Integration System, ASEAN, the GCC, or the like. It essentially replicates free movement, or planned free movement, for citizens of member states (and thus footballers) in a way that FM's rules might not. Some of these have been expanded to cover candidates that are likely to join in the next few years. (One particular note - if you use the South American, Central American, or Caribbean files, note that the Latin American and Caribbean file covers all of Latin America and the Caribbean (and therefore cannot be used with any of the South America, Caribbean, or Central American individual files), while the Expanded Caribbean and Central American file cannot be used with any of the individual Caribbean or Central American files, but a separate South American file can be used with it) Have fun! Hedgehog's Non-foreign Agreements.zip Hedgehog's Revived Competitions.zip