If you like to have in-depth club and international competition histories in your Football Manager save, then my Team Competition Histories file might just be for you.
This file gives every national team in FM24 complete histories from various tournaments. Using Wikipedia and RSSSF for reference, I have added data for all the qualifying and final stages of World Cups and continental championships, plus other in-game competitions such as the Confederations Cup. My update is designed to be as CORRECT, COMPLETE, and CONSISTENT as possible.
I have completely erased all national team histories from the database and inserted my own data for every country from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. This means that my file will be compatible with the original and updated FM24 databases.
I have also added competition histories to clubs who have competed in various continental and intercontinental tournaments. TCH adds data for all the qualifying and final stages of every official UEFA club competition since 1955, and every official CONMEBOL and CONCACAF club competition since 1960.
I'm also pleased to announce that, for the first time, my file now includes data for various continental club competitions organised by the AFC, CAF, and the OFC - along with intercontinental competitions such as the FIFA Club World Cup. I have also added data for various youth and age-group competitions, including the Olympic Games and the UEFA Youth League.
All data is present and correct up to and including the 2022/2023 season.
I hope you enjoy using this file as much as I enjoyed creating it. I would also like to thank 'magicmastermind124' from the SI forums, without whose help the creations of my history databases would have taken much longer than they did.
BACKGROUND
I began working on this file in 2014, when I became appalled at the standard of national team history data in the original database. While the histories for some countries like England were fairly accurate, the histories for other countries like Spain were badly lacking, while many did not have any history data at all. For example, some nations that had previously qualified for World Cups were not shown as having done so. This update rectifies such errors and omissions.
I released my first version of ITCH (International Team Competition Histories) on the Steam Workshop for FM15. The first versions of my ETCH (European Team Competition Histories) and ATCH (Americas Team Competition Histories) were released for FM21.
ITCH, ETCH and ATCH got over 3,000 subscriptions between them on the Steam Workshop for FM24. Having now expanded into Africa, Asia and Oceania, I have decided to merge everything into one single file that covers international and club competitions at both senior and youth level.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q. How many changes have you made to the database?
A. Just over 300,000 changes have been made to the default FM24 database.
Q. I have started a new save game with your ITCH update and I cannot find continental competition histories for clubs in certain countries. Why?
A. When Football Manager creates a new save game, it will only load changes for clubs in the nation(s) that you have loaded. For example, if you load just the English leagues, FM will only load full continental histories for English clubs. It also means that you'll need to install custom leagues to see complete histories for clubs based in nations such as Cyprus and Lithuania, which don't have leagues in the original database. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about this.
Q. Will this be compatible with other files?
A. TCH is confirmed to be compatible with one another. I am also confident that it won't clash clash with any other files that DO NOT also edit national team or club history data.
Q. I've noticed a mistake or a discrepancy in your file. What should I do?
A. Feel free to leave a reply in this thread and let me know what's wrong. If I have made any errors, I will look to rectify them in time for the next release.
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ICYP
will this be compatible with your ITCH, ETCH & ATCH ?
FullerFM
No. This is essentially the same as those files, just updated with more data.
If you already have ITCH, ETCH and ATCH, I would advise you delete or unsubscribe from those files, otherwise you will get duplicated histories.
DazS8
FullerFM
Just A little tip my friend, if you name your competitons in the config instead of numbers (which can change) there will be no need to keep changing id numbers etc
I have gone through some of your original config file and changed them, as long as you get the corect spelling etc when you name them in the config all works superbly.
Adding special character as you have done does make it a little harder so would be better not using these if possibe when naming comps in the editor, having said that onlyneeded to copy and paste your original naming so was not a big issue.
I have done this for years myself with pre season comps so did it with your file also, not done all your config only a small part of it (depending on what team is was managing.
Keep up the good work, great project you have here.
Example…..
<record from="Tournoi de Paris" to="graphics/pictures/comp/tournoi de paris/trophy"/>
<record from="Russian Railways Cup" to="graphics/pictures/comp/russian railways cup/trophy"/>
<record from="Amsterdam Tournament" to="graphics/pictures/comp/amsterdam tournament/trophy"/>
<record from="Centenary of Rangers" to="graphics/pictures/comp/centenary of rangers/trophy"/>
<record from="Eusebio Cup" to="graphics/pictures/comp/eusébio cup/trophy"/>
<record from="Algarve Cup" to="graphics/pictures/comp/algarve cup/trophy"/>
<record from="trofeo santiago bernabéu" to="graphics/pictures/comp/trofeo santiago bernabéu/trophy"/>
<record from="Peace Cup" to="graphics/pictures/comp/peace cup/trophy"/>
<record from="Coppa delle Alpi" to="graphics/pictures/comp/coppa delle alpi/trophy"/>
<record from="Fairs Cup" to="graphics/pictures/comp/fairs cup/trophy"/>
<record from="Sheriff of London Charity Shield" to="graphics/pictures/comp/sheriff of london charity shield/trophy"/>
<record from="Audi Cup" to="graphics/pictures/comp/audi cup/trophy"/>
<record from="Joan Gamper Trophy" to="graphics/pictures/comp/joan gamper trophy/trophy"/>
<record from="Emirates Cup" to="graphics/pictures/comp/emirates cup/trophy"/>