Although ROW covers a large number of nations, not that many have teams with high reputations in comparison to Europe and the Americas, so the teams are spread out a bit more in these leagues. That is a bit of a discrepancy in terms of balance between Europe and the Americas but there is quite a drop off after Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and USA in that region, while Europe has more strength in depth. England has the most teams with 8, Brazil and Mexico have 7. For those who haven’t done the quick maths – this gives a total of 160 teams, from 72 different countries.
Europe has 4 leagues, The Americas and ROW have three each. In terms of structure, each league has 16 teams. But since football is global I wanted the leagues to have representation from a wide ranging choice of nations. I could easily have overloaded the leagues with the big nations, Maribor are the lowest ranked European team, and reputation wise they would have sat in the top league in the Rest of the World (ROW). The largest team to miss out (based on reputation) is Valencia, whilst the lowest reputation team in the leagues is Al-Ittihad from Libya. Countries like Spain, Brazil, and Japan have had teams overlooked whereas some of the smaller nations Slovenia, Costa Rica, and Libya have teams in the league structure. I didn’t want to just overload the leagues with teams from the same nation. This means that there are some big teams missing, mainly European ones. There has been some individual tinkering to get certain teams (Newcastle in particular) into the structure. I have selected teams based, mainly, on reputation and along the lines of continental coefficients. There is Europe, The Americas (North America and South America combined) and The Rest of the World (Asia, Africa, Oceania). I would like to keep all the existing competitions running concurrently too. With a World Club Cup that will encompass all three. And for each of these to have their own league and cup structure. The grand plan it to split the world into 3 areas. So this is what I have taken upon myself this time around! For what it’s worth I will give a quick rundown of the plans and problems encountered. Throughout this time I have regularly had an idea for recreating the footballing world with super leagues. And of course the obligatory World League has been created. In one edition I ended up creating a league structure in Scotland where every country in the world had a club side in the league.
For a few versions I crated a World Club Cup where a club from every nation had a representative. Rangers and Celtic in the Premier League) etc. Adding myself in the game, (and obviously being the greatest player in the world!) changing club reputations, finances, league standings (e.g. I have dabbled in the editor to varying degrees of success on several previous editions of FM.
I am still enjoying the save, but with limited time and resources I can only really progress with one project at a time and currently I am deep in editor mode! cant remember why I started with this but here I am trying to implement a new version of World Football. For the last week I have taken a bit of a break from FC Jerusalem, hoping a break will inspire me.
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