UEFA Super Cup & UEFA Alliance League

I recently created a fourth European file to run alongside the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League and it was called the UEFA Alliance League. It doesn't disrupt the other three tournaments and runs alongside. It uses prize money and reputation just below the UEFA Conference League. It uses the same Swiss format as they others the 36 team league. Although it doesn't use a knockout round from 17th-24th place, the top 16 qualifiers go straight into one Knockout Round then Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Final. The knockout round uses correct seeding for teams to play each other. To try and create the 17th-24th place was nearly impossible in the editor.

The tournament uses the losing teams in the play-off qualifying round of the UEFA Conference League [Approx. 18 teams] and the other 18 teams are made up of teams from the top UEFA Coefficient Countries. This can vary over the years as there is now way to fix 18 teams losing qualifiers and 18 teams Coefficients. The maximum teams is two from each Coefficient Country who didn't qualify for Europe in the normal way. So for example for 2025 it would be Brighton and Bournemouth from England, Werder Bremen and RB Leipzig from Germany and so on. It will go down the league table until it finds the two teams that have not qualified for European competition normally. It uses the top 14 Coefficient Countries for use in the competition but it will obviously go for the top nations. I have set the host nations for the final to smaller nations such as Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Hungary etc, to try and match the UEFA Conference League Final venues. The Winner of the tournament doesn't gain access to the EUFA Conference League as it will mess up the Conference League Coefficients. It does however, automatically qualify for the following years tournament. Coefficient points are also gained within this tournament without disrupting the others.

Along with this I was asked to create a new UEFA Super Cup. So in 2025 it's the one game final [PSG v Tottenham] but from 2026 it changes. In 2026 there will be 4 teams competing but roughly using dates as in real life. So in 2026 UEFA Champions League Winners v UEFA Alliance League Winners and UEFA Europa Winners v UEFA Conference League Winners. The two winners play in the final. Again, I have tried to vary the final venues.

Lastly, I have created a file that uses the correct teams for each competition for 2025 for the UEFA Champions League, Uefa Europa League, UEFA Conference League and UEFA Alliance League. I did this by hiding the qualifying rounds for 2025 and adding the real teams for 2025 only. So for example Pafos, Qairat Almaty and Qarabag will all be in the UEFA Champions League etc. For the Alliance League I added the exact losing teams from the Play-Off Qualifying Round of the UEFA Conference League and 18 teams from the top Coefficient Countries for the 24-25 season. All tournaments revert back to the correct formats for 2026 including the qualifying rounds.

I also tried to create the real fixtures for each competition but it breaks the files. I think that because the fixtures are picked dynamically and not set like the Premier League for example you cannot change. So when you load the game if you have a team in any one of these competitions you will see your fixtures in the schedule straight away. Because the UEFA Alliance League is set up slightly differently [Because in the game you are waiting for the losing teams in the UEFA Conference League the draw happens a week later]. This is not only for 2025 but 2026 and onwards also.

The pre-game editor is still broken. You can test rules OK but you cannot test competitions for future years. So I had to forward using custom start dates to clarify these competitions. They all work within the 2026 season. When the editor is fixed I will update even further.

One further issue, the UEFA Alliance League was built on the Mitropa Cup template and name changes were fine in 26.1.1 but since 26.1.3 update it breaks the name change. I have never experienced this before using the pre-game editor, once you override a title of a tournament it changes automatically normally. All I can say is change the name within the game with the in-game editor or FMRTE editor. Other than those options you will have to live with Mitropa Cup as the tournament heading until I can fix properly.

This has been hard work as the pre-game editor is really bugged this year and it's taken a long time to finalise these files. If the editor gets properly fixed I will make further updates to these files.

I believe these are working fine checking the 2026 season. If you enetr any problems after that, please let Me know and I will try to fix where possible.

These files bring the most possible real life to the European Competitions as possible and gives your chosen team to qualify for a European competition not in the normal way.

I have also created a FIFA Club World Cup to run every two years instead of four. So 2025, 2027, 2029 etc. I will upload this shortly. This also has the correct teams, Host nation, venues and groups for 2025 and Coefficient qualifying for 2027. 2029 onwards uses qualifying based on past Winners of the various Champions Leagues.

Have fun and enjoy!!