Have you wondered what it would be like to play in a champions league where instead of having 8 groups of 4 teams, you have 2 groups of 16 teams? Now you can try this out!

FORMAT ONLY STARTS IN 2021/2022 SEASON, so give one last run in the current format before saying goodbye to the old and hi to the new!

1 round per group (each team plays each other once only). 15 games.

1 - 8 qualify to round of 16. 9 -12 drop down to europa league.

It runs from September through December like the normal champions league group stage.

Any fix/bug reports are welcome, so everything can be tuned to perfection.

Place in Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\editor data and 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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Latrell yard man
6 years ago
7 hours ago
313
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this looks really good great idea
DuarteSaraiva
5 years ago
1 year ago
4
this looks really good great idea


Thank you! It's the first editor file I post! Let me know how it goes and if you find any problems with it 🙂 !!
kingrobbo
15 years ago
29 minutes ago
11,542
Thank you! It's the first editor file I post! Let me know how it goes and if you find any problems with it 🙂 !!


Interesting concept

How are you managing the issue with an extended competition overlapping so many international games?
Cheers
cccchalllijnterista
5 years ago
19 hours ago
6
Good Idea !!
Will there be schedule conflicts? For example, the English Domestic Cup
kingrobbo
15 years ago
29 minutes ago
11,542
could well be but there will be lots of international games+ domestic cups being played when there should be 'free' weeks from UCL games
DuarteSaraiva
5 years ago
1 year ago
4
Interesting concept

How are you managing the issue with an extended competition overlapping so many international games?
Cheers


This is something I am working on for v2. From all the seasons I have simulated I have only gotten 1 or 2 games conflicting with the breaks, which is not ideal, but doable for now. The only big issue is for would cup 2022 during november and december but hopefully some "hardcoded" date breaks for 2022 should fix it.
DuarteSaraiva
5 years ago
1 year ago
4
Good Idea !!
Will there be schedule conflicts? For example, the English Domestic Cup


The scheduling gets a bit hectic but games do get post-postned for some weeks which are free and dont have UCL games like @kingrobbo mentions.

Don´t hesitate commenting here again if you do find that there are issues with this. There is only so much testing I can do by myself.
kingrobbo
15 years ago
29 minutes ago
11,542
This is something I am working on for v2. From all the seasons I have simulated I have only gotten 1 or 2 games conflicting with the breaks, which is not ideal, but doable for now. The only big issue is for would cup 2022 during november and december but hopefully some "hardcoded" date breaks for 2022 should fix it.


DuarteSaraiva yes you are on to it and the more users to test the quicker you can get feedback on where/if anything needs addressing sometimes most files need a bit of tweaking I usually holiday for a good 5 seasons to see what issues arise😉

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