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The former USSR top league was called Vysshaya Liga (Высшая лига). Also, avoid mixing in Cyrillic abbreviations even when they look like Latin (USSR not CCCP).

To be fair I expected more variety among winning nations, especially in the CWC. But in like 50 years only one minnow (Bohemians) reached the final. In the days of yore, there used to be big ties as early as the first round - does FM prevent that by some sort of seeding?

Is the berth allocation fixed? Because that's unrealistic in the long run, but apparently changing it dynamically based on coefficients is not possible for custom cups?

Has there ever been an editor to allow extracting match results, tables etc. from FM save files? Or at least view them without launching the game?

In 1988, the Football League celebrated its centenary. Why does the text refer to "one hundred and four years" then? Apparently this snippet was meant for 1992? Selection of clubs for the Bundesliga did not occur by invitation, but by a complicated process that took into account performance in recent seasons and in some cases non-sporting considerations (pushing for members from Saarland and West Berlin, for example).

If association football came from the Americas, it would be as much popular as baseball in Europe, I reckon.

You might want to resort to some alt-history or conworlding forum to build a base to work upon, then come back to us to fill the football history details.

It might happen when a team is resurrected but playing in so low a division that it is unlikely to ever rise back into the playable leagues and is therefore outside SI interest.

If you kept 20 teams in the PL, you had to demote 2 teams from every lower league. Wouldn't it be easier to expand to 22 teams?

I understand your wishes, but FM is a game about the future. History is only there as a prop. Maybe one day someone will write a proper "replay simulator" that will allow to manage any team in any historical season, like in baseball.

Reminds me of the football history snippets we had in CM3, but is that really necessary these days, with a wealth of information all around the net?

Since you went for the league names in Serbian, the third division should be Jugoslovenska, not "Yugoslavenska".

But, but, there were no agents in these days... and players were essentially slaves to clubs until the Bosman ruling.

Poland had an age limit of 30 in the 1970s, later reduced to 28 (that's how Boniek was allowed to go to Italy in 1982). Of course, defections were routine, especially to Germany. Unfortunately FM does not allow to recreate that aspect of history.