No Foreign Signings (All World Leagues) W/Tutorial

No Foreign Signings Transfer Policy

After releasing my No Foreign Signings databases for England and France I've been contacted numerous times by people who would like to make their own version of a file like this that restricts foreign signings.

Since this idea was quite popular I wanted to create a breakdown of how exactly to implement this transfer policy and if people would like to create a version for different leagues around the world we can collectively list them here in this thread.

Around November I was working on creating a version of different leagues with the no foreign signing rules implemented but wasn't able to complete all the leagues.

Nations - DOWNLOAD ALL

Nations - Complete

South America - Complete
Argentina - DOWNLOAD
Brazil - DOWNLOAD
Colombia - DOWNLOAD

Europe - Complete
Belgium  - DOWNLOAD
England  - DOWNLOAD (Welsh teams moved) -→ Use all UK files at once

Wales  - DOWNLOAD (Welsh teams moved to Welsh League) -→ Use all UK files at once

Scotland  - DOWNLOAD (English teams moved) -→ Use all UK files at once
France  - DOWNLOAD
Germany  - DOWNLOAD
Italy  - DOWNLOAD
Northern Ireland  - DOWNLOAD
Norway  - DOWNLOAD
Portugal  - DOWNLOAD
Republic of Ireland  - DOWNLOAD
Russia  - DOWNLOAD

Spain  - DOWNLOAD
Turkey - DOWNLOAD

Netherlands - DOWNLOAD

North America - Complete
N/A
Asia - Complete
Saudi Arabia  - DOWNLOAD
Africa - Complete
N/A
Oceania - Complete
N/A

Nations - Incomplete

South America - Incomplete
Paraguay
Chile
Bolivia
Venezuela
Uruguay
Peru

Europe - Incomplete
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Switzerland
Croatia
Greece
Belarus
Poland
Austria
Hungary
Slovakia
Slovenia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Montenegro
Albania
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Romania
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Malta
Gibraltar
Iceland
Czech Republic
Lithuania
Estonia
Luxembourg
Israel
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Cyprus
Andorra
Serbia
Moldova
Kosovo
Faroe Islands

North America - Incomplete
USA
Jamaica
Canada
Mexico
Panama
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
Guyana

Asia - Incomplete
Thailand
India
UAE
Japan
South Korea
China
Australia
Indonesia
Singapore
Malaysia
Qatar
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Vietnam
Iraq
Syria
Iran

Africa - Incomplete
South Africa
Nigeria
Cameroon
DR Congo
Mali
Senegal
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia
Libya
Algeria
Angola

Oceania - Incomplete
New Zealand

(Different from my initial versions of the NFP (No Foreign Player) databases for England and France, these files just adjust league rules and don't remove players from teams)

Tutorial - No Foreign Players Signing Policy

Step 1: Add Nation Rules

Step 2: Select "Add Lower Divisions and Cups to Existing Structure" and choose a nation from the “Current Nations” tab

Step 3: Convert the rules of the selected nation from Basic to “Advanced Rules”

Step 4: Locate the “Fixture Rules” tab

Step 5: Add these these 4 rules to the “Squad Selection” rules of the first division of the nation you have chosen and set all of them a value of 0

Step 6: Repeat this for all leagues and cups within the “Fixture Rules” tab (for cups only “Match squad” and "Playing 11" rules are needed since there will be no squad registration)

Step 7: Locate -→ "Transfers" tab and then -→ "Transfer Rules" tab within it. 

             -→ Find "Competition Rules" -→Add the first division of the nation -→ Change the rule to “Cannot Sign Foreign Staff”

Step 8:  Repeat this for the rest of the lower leagues or at least the active leagues in the game

Step 9 (Optional): Within the Transfer Rules tab -→  locate “Mandatory Minimum Release Fees” -→Add a Minimum Release Fee and set it to “Domestic Clubs Only”. -→ Change the fee from 0 to -1 (this makes the game create minimum release fees in the contracts of all domestic players)

--This Step is optional but without it you will see the price of all domestic players rise significantly to the point it gets difficult to buy them without astronomical fees

Step 10:  Save the File (My naming convention is NFP_Lite with the name of the nation) -→  Then Test the Rules

Step 11: Save the File after it is verified (the most important part)

Note: Any nations within the “Nations Treated As Non Foreign” tab (located in “relationships” tab) of the nation you have used will still be able to be signed.

if you don't want any nations to be treated as non foreign you can remove all nations from here and the treated as EU section.

Just finished a version for the Netherlands and posted it to the tutorial.

Feel free to make your own versions or utilize the ones I have made here.

You can also copy the steps here and apply them to lower league mods if you would like to do this with leagues that do not exist in FM or for tiers outside the scope of the vanilla game.

Hi Mate, do you do no squad registration requests as well?

Sure. Which nation?

I'm trying to create something similar, but the editor keeps failing the rules test.

I'm trying to create the following rules, specifically for Scotland (all divisions in the pyramid):

• Add Squad Registration - min 25/max 30 (Scotland has no squad registration, only for continental comp)
• Add a rule limiting the club to registering a maximum of 5 Foreign players (non-Scottish)
• Add a rule requiring at least 5 u21 players in the match-day squad

I can get the 5 U21 player rule to work, but everything else fails.  Any chance you'd be willing to help me build this?  I'd be happy to compensate you for your time….

Sure. We can talk in DMs about the project.