FM 26 CONCACAF Expanded Universe - Work in Progress (8 Tier US, 4 Tier Canada and Mexico, North American Continental Competitions)

Details

Roster Rules

• Limit of 9 foreign players registered per squad for continental cups and most competitions (13 for the US)
  • Several Free Movement Agreements that categorize players as domestic:
    • Island Zone (Unaffiliated Caribbean Nations like Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Curacao.)
    • Central American Zone (Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala)
    • Commonwealth Zone (Nations that are part of the Commonwealth in North America, including Trinidad, Jamaica and Canada)
    • US gets 4 extra foreign player slots for domestic competitions
• 5 homegrown players from nation in squad

4 Continental Cups

• Champions Cup - 20 teams total
  • 2 from Mexico and US, 1 from rest
• Gold Club Cup - 20 teams total
  • 2 from Mexico and US, 1 from rest
• Silver Club Cup - 20 teams total
  • 2 from Mexico and US, 1 from rest
• Bronze Club Cup - 20 teams total
  • Inactive nations in CONCACAF

United States

• 8 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Level 1 is a National tier, levels 2-8 are regional tiers
• 1 National Cup
• 2 Leagues Cups
• 10 Regional Cups before opening and closing stage.
• No (and will never have) NCAA teams

Canada

• Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver in CPL
• 4 Tiers, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
  • CPL roster rules apply to levels 3 and 4
• 2 National tiers, 2 regional tiers
• 1 National Cup
• Part of Commonwealth Zone

Mexico

• 4 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
  • Liga Expansion roster rules apply to tiers 3 and 4
• 2 National tiers, 1 regional tier, 1 lower national tier
• 1 National Cup
• Part of Central American Zone

Belize

• 1 Tier, No promotion/relegation
• Part of Commonwealth Zone

Costa Rica

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Central American Zone

Curacao

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Islands Zone

Dominican Republic

• 2 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Islands Zone

El Salvador

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Central American Zone

Guatemala

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Central American Zone

Haiti

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Islands Zone

Honduras

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Central American Zone

Jamaica

• 3 Tiers, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Commonwealth Zone

Panama

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Central American Zone

Trinidad

• 3 Tiers, Open/Close Structure, Promotion/Relegation between tiers
• Part of Commonwealth Zone

Known Bugs (That are outside my control at the moment.)

• Continental Comps have some limits, including having to register U21 players for them to be a part of the squads. I can’t edit them in advanced mode because the editor doesn’t recognize the created US level 1 division. 
• I can’t have two cups within a division in the same year, so the opening/closing playoffs in a lot of the leagues with opening/closing stage structure don’t exist yet. If it gets fixed it will be an easy enough addition, and I’ll make those adjustments.  
• Some cups don’t show up in the search bar - mostly the continental ones. You will need to search for the North American Champions Cup and navigate from there. 
• Because I can’t edit the continental cup rules in advanced mode, I can’t set up the club world championship qualification, and that tournament is broken. If it gets fixed I’ll release an updated version so you can compete in that competition. 

Amazing work as always I will be testing this in the near future. 

welcome back!

“I can’t have two cups within a division in the same year, so the opening/closing playoffs in a lot of the leagues with opening/closing stage structure don’t exist yet. If it gets fixed it will be an easy enough addition, and I’ll make those adjustments."

Hey, nice work with your file! I didn't quite get what you meant with this part above. I opened the save at it seems the playoffs show up in the rules section and all. You mean they're just there but don't play out at all? So why do they show up at all?

Another question I had is why the design choice of an opening and closing stage, when you could simply do a normal league setup and avoid all that trouble.

Thanks!

Hi Andre! Great question. The opening and closing playoffs weren't a part of my US set-up (as I planned it), but they are a core part of both Mexico and Costa Rica's structure (along with a few others.) So, for those countries, they won't have the structures they would be used to. Thhanks for asking!

Is it possible to just use one country? For example, just using the Mexico file?

Thanks for the answer! Is there any way you could send me a DM so we could chat? You answered one of my posts on the Editors Hideaway but I couldn't find a way to reach out to you!

I have noticed a few glitches:
8th Division US Clubs enter the USOC at the first round proper instead of the first qualifying round
Prize Money for the Overall Stages of the 7th and 6th Division are in the millions instead of the thousands 

Yes! I realized this when I was playing through, but thought I would wait until the editor was less buggy before releasing an update. Alas, a lot of the stuff I was hoping would be fixed hasn't been yet, but I am going to push out some new files for FM 26.2. 

Hey great work here! I do have an edit to make though even though I know its a small thing, but you have the wrong team from Wichita represented here. Sporting Wichita is a youth promotional club not an actual club that competes the way a normal club does. What you want is FC Wichita (Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Wichita).

I went and edited it on my files but in case some other dude from South Central Kansas wants to lead our local club to glory but isn't good with editing FM files it would be dope if you could change this. 

Either way thanks for this mod, was my favorite on FM24.

Hi, there is pro/rel in USA for the MLS ?

There is no MLS, but all of the teams are present, and there is a pro/rel structure. 

Because I can’t edit the continental cup rules in advanced mode, I can’t set up the club world championship qualification, and that tournament is broken. If it gets fixed I’ll release an updated version so you can compete in that competition. 

Eu uso a propria liga dos campeoes como base , pois ela automaticamente ja envia os campeoes pro mundial de clubes ou você pode talhar o caminho indo em ações do destino em regras avancadas