AFC Champions League Elite FM24 Database

• All competitions use real-life formats based on current information.
• The 2023 edition of the Asian Champions League & AFC Cup use real 2023 format and real life teams
• Starting from 2024, Qualification for these cups is based on Official AFC Slot Allocation.
• AFC Champions League Elite (ACLE)
• 13 teams from both West and East according to slot allocation, and last years Winners of ACLE and ACL2 if they are not already qualified through slots
• Losers of preliminary rounds enter the group stage of Champions League 2
• in the League Phase, Teams from East/West play 8 random teams from their region
• Top 8 from West and East enter the KO Round
• Quarter Final, Semi Final and Final are in a central location selected from a participating country
• uses officially communicated schedule and prize money
• AFC Champions League Two (ACL2)
• 16 teams from both West and East according to slot allocation plus losers of preliminary rounds of ACLE and the winner of the ACF Challenge League
• Losers of preliminary rounds enter the group stage of the Challenge League
• 32 teams enter the group stage divided into 4 groups from West and 4 groups from East
• Best 2 teams of each group enter the KO Round
• KO round is home and away, final is in a central location picked from participating countries
• uses officially communicated schedule and prize money
• AFC Challenge League (ACGL)
• 15 teams from West, 12 teams from East according to slot allocation plus losers of preliminary rounds of ACL2
• 20 teams enter the group stage divided into 3 groups from West and 2 groups from East (each group has 4 teams)
• Best teams of each West group enter the KO Round
• Best 2 teams of each East group enter the KO Round
• Best second placed team of West groups enters the KO Round
• KO round is home and away, final is in a central location picked from participating countries
• uses officially communicated schedule and prize money
• Southeast Asian Club Championship (Shopee Cup)
• 16 teams from 13 nations (Australia does not compete) enter the competition
• the top 3 nations have 2 slots, the other nations 1 slot. The slots are allocated to the league winners and cup winners
• the bottom 4 nations start at the preliminary round, the winners advance to the group stage
• 2 groups of 6 teams, the top 2 advance to the semi final
• KO round is home and away
• uses officially communicated schedule and prize money
• this competition does not change coefficients
• Coefficients
• Slot allocation is based on 5 year coefficients
• (!) AFC basically uses a list for West and East, but this is not possible in the editor. So I had to use a few tricks to achieve the East/West separation. Coefficients are very complex in the editor and their behaviour is not always clear. Coefficients correspond to reality for AFC Elite and AFC 2. But The challenge league would not use coefficients like the other two, so I had to implement a trick to get them in. Therefore those are not exactly like real life but a good approach. For the year 2020 all coefficients are 0 (Covid) and the game sets all coefficients in 2022 to 0. This means that in the early years the coefficients are based on 3 years instead of 5 because 2 years are zeroes. From my observations, this can cause some movements in the ranking, but they normalize after a couple of years.
• (!) The slot allocation page for Asia in the game cannot be changed from the old format to the new format. So you should ignore that page and instead focus on the coefficient ranking page: top 6 nations from West and East will enter ACLE, and so on. Slot allocation is based on real AFC (see above).

I did my best to use realistic formats for all the leagues that are included. The rule files contain:

• real divisions and cups with real formats from 2023
• teams from the 2023 season
• all nations have transfer windows, registration periods, tv dates, match rules, prize money - when I was able to find this in my online research

Compatibility

• FM Database 24.3.0 (only)

License

Football Manager rule files for by MasterIgor is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

The rule files are free, but every tip will greatly improve my motivation to provide updates and other federations, because I spent a great deal of free time researching and editing. So if you really enjoy the rule files, then every small contribution is greatly appreciated. Support Me.

Installation Guide

Copy the .fmf files for the nations you want into the folder "<My Documents>\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\editor data\".

The folder can be different if you have changed it in the FM24 preferences. The leagues should then appear the next time you start a new game in FM24 and chose advanced setup.

Make sure you have the checkbox "add players to playable teams" checked. This is recommended, otherwise you may end up with a lot of greyed-out players.

For more help and instructions for Mac, Gamepass, Xbox etc check out this How to install Databases guide

Testing and Research

All rules files have been tested in the editor and in the game as well.

Of course, it is always possible that there are issues and mistakes in the rule files. If you find an issue, you can contact me by E-Mail.

Credits and thank you's

• Daveincid, for his support, advice and testing
• Nuno from Portugal, for research and testing
• Lars for testing