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This mod is part of the FM Expansion Packs Megapack. Check out the complete set here: Click to get all 5 Packs

 

Hello! Welcome to this new mod. There is a lot of information here, so take your time, and read through slowly.

 

Let me ask you: do you want this in your game? (Watch the video)
                             

If the answer is yes, read on!

 

 

Table of Contents:

 Introduction & Features
1st Division Elite | 1st Division B,II,U21s | 1st Division U19s | 2nd Division | 3rd Division
Gothia Cup | IberCup | ICC + ICC Futures | Norway Cup | Other Continents
Download All | How to Use These Files | Logo Packs
  Recommended Mods

 


Introduction:
In FM, youth team management is almost non-existent.
Most youth team schedules are completely empty. For those who have youth divisions, they receive 1 match every week or 2! Generally, you're stuck arranging endless friendlies. And when youth can join your senior squad, use their better facilities, and still play the odd youth match, why have a devoted youth team?

Whether at top division or low divisions, you only have 2 options to develop youth:
1. Loan them out - to a lower division team who will leave them on the bench, use them in a wrong position, or injure them. Even if they do play often, you often still have to pay their wages, which is unfeasible for a lesser club.  
2. Find a way to put them in the first team - Because youth divisions have poor reputation, and matches are few and far between, the only way to keep them is to put them in the first team. A 16yr old regular in the first team may happen once in a while in real life. But do you see Real Madrid, Barcelona, or Manchester City abandoning their 26+ year old players in favor of a teenage first 11? This is not very realistic!

In FM it's also a huge money sink, so 90% of clubs can't afford a youth team. There is no incentive to keep any youth players with less than good CA/PA, have a full 11/22-player youth team, or work hard to make sure they do well in the youth division.

Yet in real life, so many clubs(big or small) realize the importance of loans, but also the value of developing their youth in their own youth teams. They keep them at the club, focusing on intense training, preparing for tournaments and matches, to build their players into ones fit for the first team. World wide, clubs from very low levels have youth teams. Even teams from England's level 8 division have 300+ youth of all ages! They pay for better youth facilities, better coaches, better staff, join youth divisions, organize division cups, hold award ceremonies, and enter their players in any of the 1000's of youth tournaments sponsored by UEFA every year. Amateur teams from Luxembourg, Ghana, and many other very small nations, have the ability
to send their youth to tournaments in Europe, and rely on them to train and grow their players, as they have worse training facilities and setup than the big clubs.

Now, you can be like them!

You can manage a youth team! You can train your players, create tactics, pick starting positions, rotate the squad, and apply all your manager knowledge and strategy to the youth level.
You can let your seniors keep their rightful spots, and take time with youth: gradually molding them into your club's DNA, as they form relationships, perfect their play style, earn reputations, and win against the best, in their quest to become the next wonderkid!

 

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FEATURES:


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Realistic Profiles: Every tournament has realistic host nations, locations, stadium sizes, participants, logos, and color schemes
Real Stadiums & Real Competitions: Playing in real stadiums means 0-3,000 people may attend the matches, based on clubs playing, tournament reputation, and stage
Variety: Participants vary every year, and every competition. You can play against any team, in over 30 nations in Europe and around the world
Winning Matters: Winning brings more experience than dumping out early. Winners of Elite competitions have their names put into the history books, but those in lower caliber tournaments don't.
Nation Reputation: Lower divisions are added based on nation importance/reputation in FM. Nigeria may only receive 1st division matches, but England receives down to the 5th division.
Competition Reputation: Every tournament is given a reputation based on a hierarchy system. 3rd Division tournaments have the least value, Elite have the most.
Elite tournaments may be televised in the later stages.
Most tournaments start with a 4-match group stage. After that, every one of the 4 remaining matches your team must earn!
Battling in the IberCup can give youth teams from "underdog" clubs the chance to play against the big boys and earn a spot in the World Final.
Tournaments are set up so that you can pick which categories you want to use, and not have to use all of them if you don't want to.
Youth teams are always used, unless there is no default youth team. Then the Senior team is used. For example, USA, South Africa, etc.

 

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NEW Manager Strategies - 
Devise a strategy on how to best spend your time between the senior and youth team.
Clubs in the lower divisions or small nations will not necessarily need a full-time youth team. These tournaments will instead give their players more experience, and more chance to develop.
Setting up a team that has players in proper positions, is cohesive, has enough quality, and has a solid tactic is now important.
Because more matches are better, your tactics have to be spot on, so your team can win.
Cups are dynamic. One year, your team may have 5 cups to play, another 2, another 0. You will have to vary your methods each year. Do you loan? Keep them to play the cups? Focus on training?
Big clubs in top divisions may need a full 25-player squad to handle all the fixtures.
Senior division performance, reputation, and youth setup now matter for your youth: Each of the cups allow clubs based on any one of those categories. Investing in youth facilities may
give you a ticket to a tournament. Or, your senior team may earn your youth side a trip to one of the most prestigous ones!
Your player's reputation will increase some, so it will be even harder to keep them from being poached!
More scouting options available. Which youth tournaments do you scout to find the latest wonderkid?
The "can play in reserves" loan clause now has value. If you loan a player, does that club have several cups or high quality ones to play in? Can your player get even more match experience than just a rotation spot for their loan club?
Match Reports for your youth team are now important. Before it was "oh, boy, Jimmy scored a goal in some low division friendly…I care why?" Now it's "OMG Jimmy scored a goal against Real Madrid's B team to make it to the Final! LET'S GO!"
Youth player's performance in youth cups can indicate how they will fare in a senior match. Have they proven themselves ready for first team football?
Balancing training vs matches is a new management issue
All tournaments allow full substitutions, to encourage development of many players, and ease fixture congestion issues. But you will still need a starting 11, how long to play them, and who to give less minutes to.
You now have to decide when to pull them from the youth team. Did you set the correct Player Pathway? Do you bring them as a sub for the first team? Is it better to let them develop in the youth team longer?
The days of mind-numbingly arranging friendlies over and over every year is now...reduced
Club Visions to sign youth for the future, should now be more reasonable and easier to accomplish

Staff - 
Youth staff are more important, and who you hire matters.
Having youth physios and managing injuries is now a thing
If you want to be hands off, hiring a youth team manager is important. With matches to play, a team to manage, and fixture congestion, he needs the ability to man manage, rotate, create a good tactic, and identify talent!

AI - 
Nations and divisions with little opportunities to develop their youth now have many more.
Youth from lesser nations should have better development, so searching for a good squad player in a small nation may be a great strategy!
Youth that leave your club just to rot in an AI club's reserves should be reduced...to an extent…
The poor youth development of AI clubs, compared to a human-managed club, should be improved

etc, etc.

 

NEW UPDATES For FM21

Removed never-ending Suspension issues

Added grant money to cover travel expenses for ALL tournaments

Reworked 90% of tournaments' team selection logic

Improved scheduling

Varied teams to spread tournaments better

and more

 

v1.1 Changelog

Removed never-ending Suspensions for AI players

Fixed ALL Competition Color errors from FM20

Fixed empty cup types

1/9/21 Update

Updated U19 competition file, thanks @SeaCarrot for the feedback!

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1st Division Elite

 


Here only the best clubs can compete in 6 B/II/U21 tournaments.
Travel the world like no other youth team can. Earn your name in places like USA, Japan, South Korea, China, or South Africa.

DOWNLOAD: 1 - Youth Tournaments - 1st Division Elite B,II,U21s,U23s

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 IberCup

 

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160 top teams from all over the world compete in 5 separate Qualifiers. 
Those who win one of the 5 finals earn a ticket to the World Final. 
5 Teams battle each other in a group to win the Final.

Can you beat them all?

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DOWNLOAD: 1 - Youth Tournaments - IberCup

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ICC 

 


The International Champions Cup needs no introduction. The top teams in the world arrive in the USA to compete against each other.
Loaded with prize money for every win and played in some of the world's biggest stadiums, this tournament is unrivaled. Unique in it's
style, 30 teams are divided into 5 groups, playing each other once, and ranked into a league table to find out who performed the best.

Those who win the ICC the previous year, Asian Champions League, North American Champions League, and those who do well in the 
Club World Cup, Champions League, Europa League, Copa Libertadores gain entry. Along with the best teams from Spain, England, Italy,
Germany, France, USA, and a handful of other nations.

***THIS ICC COMPETITION WAS MADE BY BARTEKR***


ICC Futures

ICC Futures Video

 The ICC Futures is a youth version. Teams who have earned the right to play in the ICC also earn their youth sides participation
 in the ICC Futures. 

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 DOWNLOAD:  https://www.mediafire.com/file/yzq7530q2we3nno/1+-+Youth+Tournaments+-+ICC+++ICC+Futures.fmf/file

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How to Use These Files

The more playable leagues you load, the better these tournaments work. 
Of course you can use as many however you wish. But, if you are only going to load 1 or 2 nations' top divisions, 
these tournaments will be unbalanced and full of grey players.

Here is a guide, based on how many playable leagues you want to load:

Will you load ONLY 1st Divisions?:
<6 top nations   =    pick a few standalone tournaments, like the IberCup, Gothia, ICC, etc.
6+ top nations   =    any or all of the 1st Division tournaments + any of the standalone

Will you load 1st Divisions and 2nd Divisions?:
6+ top nations' 1st  AND  <3 2nd   =   any or all of the 1st Division tournaments + any of the standalone
6+ top nations' 1st AND  6+ 2nd   =   any or all of the 1st and 2nd Division tournaments + any of the standalone

Will you load 1st, 2nd and 3rd Divisions?:
all 3 division levels of 6+ top nations    =    any or all tournaments


Using the File in FM: 
Place in C:\Users\*your username*\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\editor data folder. Start a new save. When selecting the database (before Advanced Setup), be sure to select the checkbox to enable this file.

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Customized Logo Packs

In FM, competitions are given IDs based on the order and combination they are loaded. So, every setup will have different IDs.
To combat this, each of the tournament files are named starting with a 1, so they will load FIRST. Then, whatever custom competitions you downloaded elsewhere will come after.

Pick based on your custom setup.

 

**********COMING SOON*******

 

1. Open the folder of the competition you want to use.
2. Also open the Graphics folder: C:\Users\*your username*\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\graphics
3. Drag and drop the logos and/or trophies folders into the graphics folder.
4. Open FM, go to Preferences, and Clear the Cache, then Reload the Skin.

They should be there!

To make your own combinations, download all the "Singles" competitions you want, combine the logos folders. Then use fmXML to create the config.xml for both the "normal" and "small" folders. In fmXMl, select "competition logos"  and "all filenames are IDs"

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OTHER MODS:

RECOMMENDED:  Alternative Youth Ratings by daveincid

Derbies Overhaul

Awards Overhaul

3D Balls Pack for 150+ Competitions

Better Crowd Colors

Media Overhaul

Language Overhaul

Realistic Transfer Preferences + League Reputations 

Realistic Weather

Legendary Wonderkids

Realistic Competition Colors

Realistic Injuries

Agents Facepack for nik33s Agent File

Better-than-Default Transfer Values

 

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@Dai35 @cruyff14 @Fmfan00 @Roga @NumbaNine @Handyfernandy @Motje44

Ok, as you guys have been wanting this, I've worked long and hard, to try and fix them. Alot of work to convert it to FM21, fix the records, fix the issues, add money, fix scheduling, and lots of other things.

One thing noted last year was no season break, as the tournaments were too close to June... I did not find this issue in the saves I played, perhaps it's league-based? Things should schedule better this year.

But please test things and let me know if you find the same issue, and where/how/when.

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21 minutes ago, Fmfan00 said:

Maj quick question for u.... if say u have a main club I’ll just use England for example... and let’s say ur playing as a VNN team... if ur u18 squad is in a tournament can u watch their games in these tournaments or no

Yes, they’re regular tournaments, you can manage them, set tactics, play them, etc. so you can watch too

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@Dai35 @cruyff14 @Fmfan00 @Roga @NumbaNine @Handyfernandy @Motje44

Ok, as you guys have been wanting this, I've worked long and hard, to try and fix them. Alot of work to convert it to FM21, fix the records, fix the issues, add money, fix scheduling, and lots of other things.

One thing noted last year was no season break, as the tournaments were too close to June... I did not find this issue in the saves I played, perhaps it's league-based? Things should schedule better this year.

But please test things and let me know if you find the same issue, and where/how/when.

Wow. Thank you for your hardwork. i will try for test. maybe if i meet the problem i will post here. Salute :applause:

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@majesticeternity fantastic!!! great stuff ... as always. as i am full with other stuff at the moment, i can not help with testing. sorry. but i will be happy to play with the files soon ... :)

 

just missing to great files from you, from last year:

- Friendlies From Around the World (> one of my favorites :) )

- Realistic Transfer Market Values (> not sure if this files makes sense this year, as SI changed a lot due to corona ... )

and i was always hoping to see you doing: continental and international competition files like the ones the legendary claasen was doing in fm 2018 :)

https://www.fmscout.com/a-fm18-leagues-megapack-by-claassen.html

 

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5 minutes ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Strange, I get this when I test it:

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did you go back to basic rules or did you keep it on advanced rules. You dont want to go back to revert to basic rules... u want to keep it on advanced rules and then click on test rules... I have not came across that error yet... One sec i am almost done them so ill rezip up the file and attach it.

 

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did you go back to basic rules or did you keep it on advanced rules. You dont want to go back to revert to basic rules... u want to keep it on advanced rules and then click on test rules... I have not came across that error yet... One sec i am almost done them so ill rezip up the file and attach it.

 

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Still on advanced rules, awesome, thanks!

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Ok, guys, I am not sure what happened, but the links were not working.

You should not be able to download the MIC cup, as it's broken for FM21.

All files should say Date Modified 12-14 and Mediafire links should say uploaded 12-14.

I believe the ones you guys saying aren't verified, are the old versions. So please delete them!

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Ok, guys, I am not sure what happened, but the links were not working.

You should not be able to download the MIC cup, as it's broken for FM21.

All files should say Date Modified 12-14 and Mediafire links should say uploaded 12-14.

I believe the ones you guys saying aren't verified, are the old versions. So please delete them!

the ones i have are all 12-14 as dates

Also Media fire has 

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7 minutes ago, majesticeternity said:

Ok, guys, I am not sure what happened, but the links were not working.

You should not be able to download the MIC cup, as it's broken for FM21.

All files should say Date Modified 12-14 and Mediafire links should say uploaded 12-14.

I believe the ones you guys saying aren't verified, are the old versions. So please delete them!

That explains it! All of mine were from January 2020! Everything works now. :D 

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9 hours ago, Shorno said:

@majesticeternityNot sure if this has been picked up on already, but your links in Post 1 go to the FM20 version of this mod, which is possibly why some people are having difficulty in using it in FM21?

Look forward to using this mod - looks like another worldy from you.

Look up 4 posts from where you posted and he posted the correct files... they should work

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On 15/12/2020 at 00:14, anitamui said:

Can North Korea eventually join the competitions if they are good enough??

No, sorry. I can help show you how to add them to a competition. But in game, they do not have any youth teams, aren't default playable..so they weren't added.

On 15/12/2020 at 09:03, adesmir said:

@majesticeternity fantastic!!! great stuff ... as always. as i am full with other stuff at the moment, i can not help with testing. sorry. but i will be happy to play with the files soon ... :)

 

just missing to great files from you, from last year:

- Friendlies From Around the World (> one of my favorites :) )

- Realistic Transfer Market Values (> not sure if this files makes sense this year, as SI changed a lot due to corona ... )

and i was always hoping to see you doing: continental and international competition files like the ones the legendary claasen was doing in fm 2018 :)

https://www.fmscout.com/a-fm18-leagues-megapack-by-claassen.html

 

I should have Friendlies out soon, and Transfer Market Values, I am not sure who would want them. And International, continental, I know that @zangelmi, @erikeagles, and @CoffeeFueledCurmudgeon are doing things like that. Have you looked through their files?

19 hours ago, Shorno said:

@majesticeternityNot sure if this has been picked up on already, but your links in Post 1 go to the FM20 version of this mod, which is possibly why some people are having difficulty in using it in FM21?

Look forward to using this mod - looks like another worldy from you.

Thank you for the tip! I'd forgot to change those, that explains it. They're fixed now.

18 hours ago, dree434 said:

Depending on what other custom competitions I load, some of the youth tournaments don't show up when I start a save, does this have to do with the ID's of the competitions being the same?

I'm not sure. It shouldn't, as it more matters with the random ID(hidden) than the Unique ID. Competitions will just be added, and take the next unique ID. I'm not sure why they wouldn't show up.... Do you have screenshots or files of the other competitions?

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I'm not sure. It shouldn't, as it more matters with the random ID(hidden) than the Unique ID. Competitions will just be added, and take the next unique ID. I'm not sure why they wouldn't show up.... Do you have screenshots or files of the other competitions?

I tried loading different combinations and found out it was only one file, whenever I load it with your competitions a few don't show up, all others seem to work fine! Its this Korean database: Link

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5 minutes ago, dree434 said:

I tried loading different combinations and found out it was only one file, whenever I load it with your competitions a few don't show up, all others seem to work fine! Its this Korean database: Link

Oh, interesting. I wonder if it changes too many things, and Korea is in the competitions, so maybe that's the issue.

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