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I’ve created a custom Football Manager 2020 database containing a fully regionalized, four-tier American pyramid complete with promotion and relegation, Open Cup and league cups.
It contains four divisions (Premier, Championship, First and Second) each containing four conferences (Eastern, Central, Southern and Western). Each conference contains eight teams that play four matches each (28 total league games).
Each conference promotes and relegates two teams each into the same region in the higher/lower division (i.e. Eastern to Eastern, Central to Central, etc.). Each division features an eight-team playoff consisting of promoted teams from each conference.
Each division contains a League Cup (Premier Cup, Championship Cup, etc.) consisting of the 32 teams across all conferences, played in a five-round, single-elimination format. The pyramid also features a 128-team Open Cup in a seven-round, single-elimination format.
Overall, teams will have three active competitions each year, plus the opportunity for a fourth via playoffs. The fewest games a team can play is 30 (28 league, one League Cup, one Open Cup) and the most is 43 (28 league, three playoffs, five League Cup, seven Open Cup).
All competitions have prize money relative to their levels that will help teams develop. Each division also features relegation parachute payments to help prevent collapses.
Starting divisions were assigned by real-life league status (i.e. Premier is MLS/top USL Championship, Championship is most USL Championship/top USL League One/NISA, First is most USL League One/NISA and top NPSL/USL League Two, Second is other high-finishing NPSL/USL League Two).
Clubs are easy to replace in the editor if you want a specific club included/removed, but the included clubs already cover the vast majority of U.S. soccer fans.
Download it here, then put it in your folder at Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\Editor Data and you’ll be all set to geek out.
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