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USA Expansion File


Have you ever played an MLS save and wished that you could see highlights of players that you loan to your USL affiliate? Have you ever wanted to observe your Academy prospects? Have you ever drafted a player from a PDL club like the Mississippi Brilla and wish that it was from an actual NCAA collegiate program like in real life? Have you ever wanted to take control of your local amateur side, like the Knoxville Force, and try to beat your archrivals and win the league?

That’s what this file is for. As much as possible with the limitations of the editor, we have tried to recreate a real life FM experience for the unique structure of the sport in the United States. All-in-all, there are over 600 playable teams in 8 levels of competition.


Major League Soccer - This file adds Los Angeles FC and David Beckham’s Miami franchise (Inter Miami) to the 2017 expansion. Also added are MLS Rivalry competitions for NYRB-NYFC, LA Galaxy v. LAFC, and Orlando City v. Inter Miami. MLS teams will also prepare for the season in one of seven preseason exhibition tournaments (ATX Pro Challenge, Carolina Challenge Cup, Desert Diamond Cup, IMG Suncoast Pro Classic, Las Vegas Pro Soccer Challenge Cup, Simple Invitational, Walt Disney Pro Soccer Classic).
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North American Soccer League - Adds the announced future expansion teams in Orange County, CA (California Athletic FC) and San Diego (San Diego Waves). The league format is at it is in real life, with a Spring and Fall season. The two winners advance to the Championship semifinals, joining the top two qualifiers from the overall table (three if the same team wins both spring and fall).

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United Soccer League - Includes expansion side Nashville SC and Austin Aztex off hiatus. The league is split into two conferences (as in real life), with each conference having an eight-team playoff whose winners compete in the USL Cup. All 24 MLS clubs have affiliates in USL, so this is a chance to keep a better eye on developing players.

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NCAA Division I - 206 NCAA teams have been added. The format is as close as possible to real life. There is a spring season where teams can get a look at their players heading into the fall. The regular season consists of 9-10 non-conference matches to go with their conference schedule. As in real life, 21 of the 24 conferences will have a tournament that is set up to reflect the real life format. Each conference will send its champion, along with 24 at-large qualifiers, to the NCAA Division I Championship tournament to compete the national title. The MLS SuperDraft will draw players from the NCAA, as in real life, so MLS clubs can scout for future talent.

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Premier Development League - The PDL is set up as in real life, with 10 divisions that feed a 22-team championship tournament. The teams play a 14-match schedule during the summer.

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National Premier Soccer League - Also set up as in real life with 4 Regions divided into “conferences”. The four region winners advance to compete for the NPSL Championship. The teams play a 12-match summer schedule.

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United States Soccer Development Academy - The USSDA is divided into 7 Divisions. In all, 32 teams qualify for the USSDA Championship tournament. This is as close to how it functions in real life as possible, with the only difference being the schedule. It is impossible to run the league on a Fall-Spring calendar, so it runs a 30-match schedule on a Spring-Fall calendar. All MLS clubs have academies in the league, so if you manage in MLS you can see potential prospects from you academy.

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USASA Amateur Leagues - Six of the more prominent amateur leagues in the US have been included. The American Soccer League, American Premier Soccer League, Southern Premier Soccer League, Premier League of America, and the United Premier Soccer League are all represented as close to their real life format as possible, competing to earn a spot in the US Open Cup.

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Additional Add-Ons

I have also included downloads for Club and Competition Logos, as well as Club kits. This will give every team logos and kits, and logos for every competition as well. (Included in my file are MLS kits that were originally created by kifla6 and downloaded from here: https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/32059/usa-mls-ss2017-new-070517-not-sskcc-yet. Those kits ARE included in the download below, with permission from the author)

Download Graphics (for version 1.2)

Update - Latest version 1.2


CHANGE LIST

-Bug causing teams in the NCAA and the USSDA to send their players on holiday before the Championship Tournament has been fixed. The USSDA Championship stages will not only be visible in the USSDA Divisions, but the history will be viewable in the USSDA Championship Competition.

-The USSDA Championship is now set up even closer to real life. The Group Stage will take place entirely at the large Grand Park facility in Westfield, Indiana. The Quarterfinal will be played at the club sites, with the Semifinal, Third Place Playoff, and Final played at the StubHub Center practice fields.

-The recently-announced USL Expansion team Fresno FC has been added. Fresno FC and the 2 NASL expansion teams will now enter the US Open Cup in 2018.

-There have been some changes to update some club and competitions graphics. The graphics are now in one file.

Disclaimers

I cannot guarantee that this file will function properly with any other third party DB editor file. I use it with some and it works fine, but I have not tested it with every other file available. If you use a file that includes created competitions and/or clubs, then it will affect the graphics download and they will not work properly. Furthermore, if you use a file that fixes the names of competitions, then you will probably need to manually adjust it so that it doesn’t alter the names of the competitions in this file. I have a file that I fixed, but I cannot post it here because even without looking I’m sure it’s against the rules. I will post the file at other sites where I upload this database.

Comments
Guy Smiley
9 years ago
6 years ago
1
I tried this (USL and above), and about 3 months in EVERY team has 10-15 injured players. Seems very strange...
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I have not had this in my experience.
martotnolnai
8 years ago
6 years ago
1
I don't see LA Fc and Miami in the list of MLS teams at the start of the new career game.
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I don't see LA Fc and Miami in the list of MLS teams at the start of the new career game.

Yes, unfortunately there is no way to make them selectable at the beginning of the game. I tried even putting them into another league but it botched up the game.
Samirah
15 years ago
3 days ago
108
How is the best way to work these things in with what I already have as far as kits, logos and the like? Also with the modified real names fix? I really want to do this as my biggest issue with the MLS saves is lack of interest in what is going on...
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
Yes, downloading all of the files in the original post is a great way to start. If you already have logos that override the ones I've provided, then you'll have to remove them and adjust the config files. That's really not as difficult as you might think at first.
Samirah
15 years ago
3 days ago
108
I did go ahead and download all the files...can I put the kits into a USA folder in my kits folder? Or will that hide it? And as for the logos, I can try to see if I can just replace as needed.

With the modified Real Names fix...that should work for everything and not screw it all up, right?
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I did go ahead and download all the files...can I put the kits into a USA folder in my kits folder? Or will that hide it? And as for the logos, I can try to see if I can just replace as needed.


That should work, that's what I do.

With the modified Real Names fix...that should work for everything and not screw it all up, right?


Yes, the file was built off of the one that is downloadable from this site. It will rename all of the competitions in the game without messing up the competition names in my file.
Samirah
15 years ago
3 days ago
108
Question for you. Is there a way to include some of the transfers that took place early in this season (or mid-season such as Bastian)? How can I create an editor data file that will be guaranteed to work with this for some of those changes? Thanks.
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
The transfer update from this site should work with my update just fine. It's when they mess around clubs and competitions that run the risk of messing up the file.
Mustang13297
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
22,873
@Uncle Sam I can't seem to find the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Any solution?
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
@Uncle Sam I can't seem to find the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Any solution?

You can't find them because they folded in real life, so they were folded in my file.
Mustang13297
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
22,873
You can't find them because they folded in real life, so they were folded in my file.


Thanks
bigmattb28
10 years ago
3 days ago
1,474
Premium
Has this been tested in the long term mate? Only asking as I've been dying to play lower leagues in USA for god knows how long!! Awsome stuff by the way!
bigmattb28
10 years ago
3 days ago
1,474
Premium
Also just noticed that when you start a new game and get to selecting a club a lot of them are predicted to finish 0th. Is that going to be a problem?
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
Also just noticed that when you start a new game and get to selecting a club a lot of them are predicted to finish 0th. Is that going to be a problem?

I haven't seen any issues that could be related to that.
easy mac
10 years ago
2 years ago
2
Amazing work. Ran into an NCAA problem. Playing as Furman and have an NCAA game after friendlies. It won't let me use non-grey players. I have to register my players, but it won't let me register my players.
bigmattb28
10 years ago
3 days ago
1,474
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Just seen the stages in united premier soccer leauge are all names stage_name#1
bigmattb28
10 years ago
3 days ago
1,474
Premium
Amazing work. Ran into an NCAA problem. Playing as Furman and have an NCAA game after friendlies. It won't let me use non-grey players. I have to register my players, but it won't let me register my players.


I'm having the exact same problem!
sargenaldo
10 years ago
1 year ago
1
Would it be possible (permissible to attempt to create a pro\rel system based off this file?
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
You are welcome try. I always make all of add-ons open source. But you're going to have to go to each league and change the way it selects its teams. To make sure the game didn't reshuffle teams into different divisions, I set it up so that each league specifically gets the individual teams.
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
Updated to version 1.2. Corrected issue where players in NCAA and USSDA were going on holiday/vacation before the Championship competitions. Also added the new Fresno FC franchise to the USL. New changes have also been made to the graphics file, which has been re-uploaded.
Sounders 74
10 years ago
5 years ago
8
Anyone else have an issue with not being able to register squats that qualify for the FIFA club world cup. I took the Seattle sounders to the 2018 club world cup but on registration day (Dec 30) no registration screen appears nor does the dropdown under squads.
casc_ella
10 years ago
1 day ago
11
If I choose Atlanta I cannot play MLS, but only the diamond cup. Is it because I use your db with the live data update?
Whomario
15 years ago
3 months ago
5
Could someone please enlighten me which files i can and can not use for this to work properly ? Basically what i have is some the NCAA divisions working (correct logo) and some not so much. I just tried a game with no other DB/Editor Data loaded and still the same issues.

And most of the logos get loaded out of another general logo pack (bunch of logos all across the globe) i have installed. When i remove that, f.e. the rivalry clubs don't get loaded, however the NASL/USL do. Same with the clubs. It loads a few (and only 1 MLS Club, NYCFC), but most it does not load anything for some reason, regardless where i place it (in graphics or logos)

Is the INC file the problem ?

Help ... Cheers in advance
youry gonzalez
7 years ago
4 years ago
1
I haven't seen any issues that could be related to that.
could you email me the file at [email protected] i cant seem to download it
exer
9 years ago
5 years ago
1
Thanks for all the work, the only "patch" for US that works properly and doesn't bug drafts or crash game.
Unfortunately, it adds to existing problem with transfers. Loaning is very problematic and teams like MLS U-23 teams are always(?) outside of transfer window. For my style of playing it's death, since I always go for draft kids with potential and give chances to almost all my academy players. Without loaning it's impossible to play like that. But for small roster style this should work well.
Selling players with CL talent after great season is still impossible, 0 offers even for peanuts price. But that's a game flaw, not the patch. Hoped it could improve, but no. That's a main reason to play weak youth and give talent away to other MLS teams for nothing. But without loaning it's no fun.
Tyler Harvey
6 years ago
6 years ago
1
Hi! Curious if this setup will fit straight into FM18 once the in-game editor is available, or if there will be some wait time for updates before it's playable in the new FM. I stream FM on Twitch and would love to start off the full game release with an MLS save, but it's hard for me to invest in an MLS save without this add-on in place.

Cheers on all the work you put into this!
Mcg3087
6 years ago
3 weeks ago
16
why can't I register players for the season? the season starts before I can register them
Mcg3087
6 years ago
3 weeks ago
16
also I cannot click on the PDL spring season competition even though you play games in it

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