Looking forward to this as I often manage in 'obscure' minor nations.

Looks good - DMed you re: re-using my original work elsewhere

There are actually 15,000 stadiums in the database without coordinates set so this might be a bit more challenging than I assumed.

I'm working on the region and city update currently and it's interesting to see how many cities some countries have compared to others in the existing FM database.

Italy has over 8000 cities in the game, Azerbaijan has 2500, Iran has over 1000 and a country that I'd have thought would need a lot of cities to function properly in the game like England only has about 900.

Did someone remove all the download links on the OP?

Still working on adding regions to every nation in the game and wanted to know if anyone had access to an extracted list of cities within the editor and if possible their UIDs as well.

I don't want to add duplicate cities by mistake when I eventually add them each region.

only way to get stuff from the editor is through memory I believe so sadly no. Did have a go but it gets horrible quickly

Adding regions and sorting cities is a very time consuming process but I'm endeavouring to finish this project as I feel it will add a lot of texture to the game as well as making things like sorting regional leagues much simpler. Creating new nations, which usually requires figuring out the bounds of existing regions in the game to make new ones, would also be much easier.

I have an idea to include a couple newly created nations along with the region/city update along with graphics and then that can be a resource to act as a baseline for future FMs but I will also release a version without these nations.

New Nations to Include would probably be something like.

• Catalonia
• Greenland
• Somaliland
• East Turkestan
• Tibet
• Quebec
• Brittany
• Corsica
• Sardinia
• South Tyrol
• Punjab
• Northern Cyprus
• Sahrawi Republic
• Kurdistan
• Silesia
• Isle of Man
• Friesland
• Flanders
• Wallonia
• Azores
• Madeira
• Canary Islands
• Kabylia
• Etc, (I'm open to other ideas)

There are about 20 or so easily replaceable nations in the Database that would be suitable.

I'm always looking for new angles in lower league management and would be very interested in this, and if FM25 excludes international management, I'd do this in FM24. Hopefully these add-ons wouldn't conflict with other add-on leagues/nations I like to use. 

Thanks for the interest. 

For sure it's interesting to make new saves more unique and add an element of localism in you game.

So far I've added 5,000 new regions into the game and I'm working to sort the existing cities in the database into those new regions and then add new cities via script.

England and Ireland have been sorted into counties instead of broader regions for example and I've kept the name of the county on the name of the city so it'll be simple to search a county with a player's place of birth and find all the player's born in that county instead of having to know every city in the county to check.

When I play the game I like to try to sign local players so that helps with that.

Sorting the existing cities in the FM database is the most time consuming because I need to check each one (although for some I will sort them by coordinates only) but fortunately there's not that many for some nations.

When I add more cities I'll directly sort them into their proper region automatically so that should be a bit easier.

I usually source this data using the Wikdata query service so I'll need to collect that data in a spreadsheed and then add the information into the editor.

I've made some interesting saves myself in the past where I wanted to sign player's only from Sudtirol, Catalonia, Azores, Sardinia, Brittany, and some other nations and a lot of the time before I start the save I'll create the nation for that region and then I can search for players of that “nationality".

It makes the team feel more true to the place when you can represent them better in this way with their own flag and everything.

I enjoy making these nations and sometimes it's easy to make them because the regions are already in the game to distinguish their bounds but with some I need to make entirely new regions and find out what the borders of the country/region actually are.

So this update will definitely help me make new nations a lot easier.

There are so many nations that serve no purpose in the game and I have no idea why they were included and SI don't allow you to add a single new one to their database.

Like does Saint Pierre and Miquelon really need a national team?

As a lower league manager, one thing I like to do is give myself the extra restriction of only signing part-time/amateur players from the locality, say a 30-mile radius.  Categorising players by county would be hugely helpful.  I hope you get around to doing Scotland, and specifically the Highlands & Islands, as that's my #1 bias.

I had a geography question regarding Scotland.

When adding the regions for Scotland I wasn't sure which way to subdivide things into that would make the most sense.

Does Scotland have counties like England because when I searched it up it seems that Scotland no longer uses counties.

What way do you thin would make most sense?

https://www.travel-tramp.com/how-many-counties-in-scotland/

Yes, Scotland has 32 'counties;, most of which are in the populated Lowlands/Central Belt. The map in the attached link shows Highland is huge (and includes the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland).

I can't remember how many divisions Scotland is divided into in the vanilla FM editor; I use daveincid's extra files, which add more regions and weather regions to the game.

I think in the vanilla version Scotland has 15 regions (more than England).

This is where I was confused though because there are “council areas” which are more modern and there are historic counties.

I wasn't sure which made more sense to divide Scotland into.

Should I make it in historic counties or the council areas? I don't know which is more commonly used.

As an old duffer myself, I'm nostalgic for the old way, but really it ought to be the modern boundaries ("council areas")