The Empire Championship - Team Applications

Hello people, I'm new to sortitoutsi but I've been playing FM/CM since CM3. As it's drawing towards the end of the season people, including myself, begin getting a little bit bored of FM. As such I'm going to make a new League, with new teams to offer us all a new challenge!



This will be The Empire Championship (ECC), a multi-national cross continent championship containing new teams from the countries that were past nations of the British Empire, or current member states of the British Commonwealth! This is where you come in, I need ideas for these new teams so I can make them. I've only got ideas for about 7 teams really so your help would be great.

Replacing Gibraltars top flight, and as such a chance of European football, I will be dividing the teams into 3 regional divisions which will then see the top teams competing in a play offs to find the Champions! There will also be a knock out cup for all the teams.

The three divisions shall be roughly based on Geographical location (as if in 3 sections on the map below)

Northern Division (North America, Caribbean and UK)
Central Division (Africa and Middle East)
Southern Division (Asia and Oceania)



The Countries in Red are those which were once members of the Empire. Now for the sake of the challenge we shall say the modern day U.S.A were part of the Empire as well instead of just the east coast. I'll also accept ideas from Commonwealth countries, as I look for a varied teams.

Countries that were in the Empire included the likes of Canada, South Africa, U.S.A, Australia, New Zealand and India. These are the main countries but there are plenty of smaller ones that would offer great teams as well.

Here are full lists of the countries to get your ideas going!

British Empire Nation List

Commonwealth Nations

I'm happy to make new Stadiums for some of the teams if they are needed, and I will edit the fans and team personality according to the City they are from. For example I'm thinking that the teams from India will have initial poor youth facilities but a really loyal and passionate fan base who will stick by the club and sell out their stadium. This means long run if their infrastructure can be updated they will see some amazing youngsters coming through.

I'd really like the team ideas along the line of franchises, these can call upon existing teams in other sports. For example the London Royals, Inverness Highlanders (Could even make a William Wallace stadium), New Delhi Jewels, Washington Minutemen etc.

Teams will be initially full of regens with three Icon players,
these will be players who will be the initial stars of the team. I'll let you choose these but I won't be putting the likes of Zlatan, Messi or Ronaldo in anybody's team, so maybe you could go with players from the country your team will be from. The teams and prize money will also mean soon the clubs will be rich enough, and with a good enough reputation to attract players.

Team Name:
City:
Stadium: New or Exisitng
Colours:
Manager (Pref of nationality of City):
Icon Players (Max 3):

Now I've already got a few ideas of teams and had some ideas from elsewhere but all will be open to changes. Or if you have any ideas of the players who should be at certain clubs please say!

Northern Division: (12 teams)

London Royals (Glenn Hoddle, Gareth Barry, Mark Noble, Steven Taylor)
Inverness Highlanders (Alex McCleish, Icon 1, Scott Brown, Darren Fletcher)
Dublin Celts (Roy Keane, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Kingston Smugglers (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Atlanta Kings (Bruce Arena, Clint Dempsey, Jozy Altidore, Tim Howard)
Boston Minutemen (Sven Goran Eriksson, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Quebec Liberte (Arsene Wenger, William Gallas, Morgan Schneiderlin, Icon 3)
Antiguan Tourists (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 9 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 10 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 11 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 12 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)

Central Division: (10 Teams)

Cape Town United (Manager, Itumeleng Khune, Andile Jali, Thulani Serero)
Johannesburg FC (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Nairobi All-Stars (Manager, Victor Wanyama, Macdonald Mariga, Wellington Nem)
Kuwaiti Oilers (Zico, Romolu, Adriano, Icon 3)
Baghdad FC (Manager, Nashat Akram, Humam Tariq, Ali Adnan Kadhim)
Team 6 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 7 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 8 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 9 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 10 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)

Southern Division (10 Teams)

Indian Warriors (Harry Redknapp, Shinji Kagawa, Raul, Maya Yoshida)
Melbourne Demons (Manager, Tim Cahill, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Hong Kong FC (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Sydney Jailbreaks (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Karachi Steel (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 6 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 7 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 8 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 9 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)
Team 10 (Manager, Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3)