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Hi all!
This is a file that I've been plugging away at, on and off, dating back to Football Manager 2013. It originally started out as a throwback to the 1999-2003 format of the UEFA Champions League which contained 2 group stages, and has since progressed into a full structure where I've managed to find room to bring back the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Additionally there are now 6 separate files so you can choose whether you'd like to use the UEFA Europa League or revert back to the UEFA Cup, along with the option for the inclusion of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
Additionally, the AFC Champions League has been added as an extra option, and uses the same 2 group stage format as the UEFA Champions League in this file. The AFC Cup is not a part of this file however. That may change in the future though if people would like to see it added.
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**UPDATES**
15/07/2017
- Corrected a name error in the fates regarding the Second Qualifying Round for the AFC Cup
14/07/2017
- AFC Cup now added using the UEFA Cup format
- AFC Super Cup now added
- Added graphics for both competitions
03/07/2017
- Fixed all remaining fixture clashes in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup matches now take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First Round now begins in September, with the following rounds taking place every 2 months
- Thanks to krlenjushka on the SI forums, Squad Registration dates are now working and are now in place for the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup & UEFA Cup Winners' Cup competitions
- Draw dates added for any missing rounds where required in all competitions
- Corrected an error in the rules page in the UEFA Champions League
18/04/2017
- Corrected an error in the UEFA Champions League Third Qualifying Round rules, which states that the winners qualify for the UEFA Cup/Europa League
- Added stage names for the UEFA Intertoto Cup Second Round, and UEFA Europa League First/Second Group Phases
- Adjusted the competition scheduling date for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, which now allows for the First Round draw to take place
- Adjusted the dates for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First Round, in order to avoid a clash with internationals during the 2nd leg
05/04/2017
- Removed the round name "Replay" for the UEFA Super Cup
29/03/2017
- All competition awards are now working for Champions League/Europa League/UEFA Cup/Cup Winners' Cup/Intertoto Cup
- UEFA Europa League Third Qualifying Round renamed to Qualification Playoff Round
- 16 losing teams in the Third Qualifying Round of the UEFA Champions League now drop into the UEFA Cup First Round/Europa League Qualification Playoff Round
- Nation rankings slightly tweaked (Scotland are now ranked in 19th, meaning they have 2 Champions League places instead of 1. Sweden remain 20th, with Belarus now 21st)
- Competition colours updated for all files
- UEFA Cup now has 5 teams in the group stage instead of 4, with each team playing 4 games, and 3 qualifying
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup fixture dates are now spread out more evenly, with the 2nd round played in November, and the Semi-Final in March. Games are now 2-3 months apart
27/03/2017
- Fixed a reported crash relating to a lingering squad selection date in all files
- Increased the prize payouts of the Champions League, Europa League, UEFA Cup, Cup Winners' Cup & Intertoto Cup
- Tweaked any potential problems with the away goals rule in all competitions
22/03/2017
- Europa League (1 Group Stage) no longer crashes at August 9th
- Europa League & UEFA Cup now have 2 legs for 2nd and 3rd Qualifying Rounds in all files
- UEFA Cup & Cup Winners' Cup file now updates history correctly
- UEFA Super Cup competition colours updated
- Squad registration rules removed until further notice
17/03/2017
- The 1 group phase version of the Europa League now contains 12 groups of 4 instead of 8, with the top 2 teams of each group being joined in the First Knockout Round by 8 Champions League 3rd placed teams from the First Group Phase
13/03/2017
- Added the seedings panel to the competition overview for the Champions League, Europa League, and UEFA Cup
- Alternate files are now available, so you can choose whether you want a 1/2 group phase Europa League, or the UEFA Cup. Additionally, these can be played with or without the Cup Winners' Cup
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UEFA / AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FORMAT
- 3 qualifying rounds, each containing 32 teams
- 16 teams enter at the Third Qualifying Round, those being 2 teams from nations 1-6, and 1 team from nations 7-10
- The 16 losing teams in the Third Qualifying Round will drop into the First Round of the UEFA Cup, or the Qualification Playoff Round of the Europa League
- 16 league winners and runners up enter at the First Group Phase, along with the 16 winners of the Third Qualifying Round
- The First Group Phase contains 32 teams
- Depending on the file, 8 third-placed teams will drop out of the First Group Phase and into the Round of 32 (UEFA Cup), First Knockout Round or Second Group Phase (Europa League)
- 16 teams progress to the Second Group Phase
- Knockout Rounds begin at the Quarter Finals, with 2 legs in the Quarters and Semi Finals
- Matches now divided equally between Tuesday and Wednesday
- Competition awards include Goal of the Tournament, Player of the Tournament, Golden Boot & Dream Team
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE FORMAT (2 GROUP STAGES)
- 3 qualifying rounds, with the first 2 containing 24 teams, and the Qualification Playoff Round containing 64 teams
- The Second Qualifying Round adds the most recent winner of the UEFA Intertoto Cup
- Highest seeds enter at the Qualification Playoff Round, with 32 winners progressing to the First Group Phase
- 16 of these teams will be the losing teams from the Third Qualifying Round of the UEFA Champions League
- The First Group Phase contains 32 teams
- 8 teams progress to the Second Group Phase, where they will be joined by 8 third-placed teams from the First Group Phase of the UEFA Champions League
- Knockout Rounds begin at the Quarter Finals, with 2 legs in the Quarters and Semi Finals
- All matches take place on Thursdays at the same time
- Competition awards include Goal of the Tournament, Player of the Tournament, Golden Boot & Dream Team
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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE FORMAT (1 GROUP STAGE)
- 3 qualifying rounds, with the first 2 containing 24 teams, and the Qualification Playoff Round containing 96 teams
- The Second Qualifying Round adds the most recent winner of the UEFA Intertoto Cup
- Highest seeds enter at the Qualification Playoff Round, with 48 winners progressing to the Group Stage
- 16 of these teams will be the losing teams from the Third Qualifying Round of the UEFA Champions League
- The Group Stage contains 48 teams, which are thrown into 12 groups of 4
- 24 teams progress to the First Knockout Round, where they will be joined by 8 third-placed teams from the First Group Phase of the UEFA Champions League
- 32 teams will then compete in 2-legged ties for the First Knockout Round, followed by the Second Knockout Round for the final 16, Quarter Final, Semi- Final, and the Final
- All matches take place on Thursdays at the same time
- Competition awards include Goal of the Tournament, Player of the Tournament, Golden Boot & Dream Team
UEFA / AFC CUP FORMAT
- 2 qualifying rounds, with both containing 24 teams
- The Second Qualifying Round adds the most recent winner of the UEFA Intertoto Cup
- Highest seeds enter at the First Round, which contains 80 teams. 40 winners progress to the Group Stage
- The Group Stage contains 40 teams, which are thrown into 8 groups of 5 with 1 round of games played
- 24 teams progress to the Round of 32, where they will be joined by the 8 third-placed teams from the First Group Phase of the Champions League
- The winning teams will then progress to the Round of 16, and following that, the Quarter Finals through to the Final
- All matches take place on Thursdays at the same time
- Competition awards include Goal of the Tournament, Player of the Tournament, Top Goalscorer & Dream Team
UEFA INTERTOTO CUP FORMAT
- Competition begins in mid-June
- 64 teams will start out in the First Round, which contains 2 legs
- 32 winning teams will progress to a Group Stage, which has 1 round of matches
- From there it is a straight knockout (1 match per round, Extra Time & Penalties if needed) from the Quarter Finals through to the Final
- The UEFA Intertoto Cup (singular) winner will then qualify for the Second Qualifying Round of the UEFA Cup / Europa League
- Matches take place on Thursdays and Sundays
- Competition awards include Goal of the Tournament, Player of the Tournament, Top Goalscorer & Dream Team
UEFA CUP WINNERS' CUP FORMAT
- There are 5 rounds in the tournament (no qualifiers). Therefore 32 teams from the top 32 nations begin in the First Round and are drawn against each other at random
- The tournament is a straight two-legged knockout for each round all the way until the final
- If the cup winner for that Nation is in the Champions League or Europa League, then the runner-up will replace them. Failing that, the spot will then go to the next highest placed team in the league
- Matches take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays
- Just like I have set it in every other competition, the winner is not automatically entered to defend their crown for the following year
- Competition awards include Goal of the Tournament, Player of the Tournament, Top Goalscorer & Dream Team
UEFA / AFC SUPER CUP
- This remains unchanged
**NOTES**
- Only use 1 of these 6 files when starting the game. I've made 6 different files available for download in order to give you an option on which format/competitions you'd like to use in the game. 3 have the Cup Winners' Cup and 3 don't. You also have a choice of the UEFA Cup or Europa League, as well as 1 group phase or 2 group phases in the Europa League. The AFC Champions League file can be used with whichever UEFA file you choose to use however.
- If you are taking control of a team in the first season that is competing in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, you will have to add the top league in Romania as a playable nation, as it allows you to start the game at June 10th
- Something I forgot to mention previously is that the nation rankings are slightly customized, so the top 4 nations will now get 4 teams for the Champions League instead of 3
INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
Simply extract the the editor files into Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 > Editor Data and you're ready to go.
CREDITS
I'd like to give thanks to those who have helped me out when it came to getting this file off the ground, such as KingRobbo, Freddie Sands, krlenjushka and KUBI, as well as anyone else who was kind enough to chip in along the way. Your help is much appreciated, and I couldn't have gotten this project completed without all of you.
Additionally I'd like to give a big thank you, with all credits going to the original creators for the following items which have been provided with this download:
Background Images = UEFA/AFC, and all other original creators
UEFA & AFC Metallic Competition Logos = kremmen, and all other contributors from Sortitoutsi
UEFA & AFC Trophies = DAZS8, and anyone else that may have contributed
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Download the metallic logos megapack by kremmen, and all other contributors from Sortitoutsi here:
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/3/metallic-logos
Download the trophies megapack by DAZS8 here:
http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm17-trophies-megapack.html
Hope you all enjoy this without any major hiccups, and any feedback is appreciated.
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Qooqle1995
Carlito85
Qooqle1995
I'll wait for your answer, because it's very interesting idea, but reputation of national championships also isn't changing. I created many saves to see , how it works, and found , what this update doesn't like another updates ( for example , pre-season pack tournaments from FM Scout, or World Cup Club from same site (I love cup competitions) ). When i combine them, all the tournaments in your update breaking in a few years , Europa League sometimes brokes in Qualification Round on the first season , Group Stage doesn't appear after it)...but Champions League revived after 2 years of inactivity
=D.. Anyway, without another updates it works fine , but would be great to solve the problem described in my previous comment =)
P.S. I'm Russian, my English isn't very well , but i tried.
Carlito85
As for the competitions breaking, it'll be because the fixture dates are clashing with other save files you're trying to use. Unfortunately there's not much I can do with that as I'd have to configure my file to work around the others. If you're wanting to use other competition files at the same time as one of my six files, you'll have to do a test run in your game save to make sure that they can run together. The problem is that with there being up to 5 European competitions (if you decide to run with the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup), you're not left with much more room when you factor in the international breaks, domestic fixtures and the FIFA Club World Cup.
Qooqle1995
Simonsplufz
Qooqle1995
File with UEFA Cup and Cup Winners Cup activates the Intertoto Cup , for example , but in my save it's called EURO Vase
Simonsplufz
Yeah, same here, didn't find it writing "Intertoto"
Carlito85
I'm away this weekend so won't be able to access the editor until Sunday night, but I'll look into this for you and try to get it sorted.
Qooqle1995
I have a competition name fix, but this isn't included there...however, the rest of the competitions is included.
Carlito85
To those of you having problems, are you running any additional editor files alongside mine? If so, there may be some kind of clash occurring in the background that's impacting the Intertoto Cup. That's the only thing left I can think of right now. I would also suggest opening the file up in your editor and checking the name of the competitions in there such as the Intertoto Cup, just to be sure that everything is laid out properly on your side.
Note: If in the editor the competition is named Intertoto Cup, try loading your database on its own with no editor file loaded. It may be called EURO Vase in there by default.
@Qooqle1995 I've also looked into fixing the coefficients and league rankings updating each year, but the only way I could get it to work was by changing the competitions from "Edited Rules" to "Override Rules In Code". This however caused problems with the seeding of teams in each competition (Champions League sides being called into Europa League), as well as the competition format reverting to default. Ultimately I've had to keep it as it was for now until I can find a way to try and line everything up under the override rules conditions (I might have to rebuild it all from scratch but I'm hoping that won't be needed). It may be a case of having to wait until FM18 and hoping they fix the issue of the rankings not working under edited rules. Sorry about that.
Qooqle1995
Never mind, it's not really important for me , I only said about problems which i had found in this update..If you could fix this , it would be great.. Anyway, thanks for your efforts.
holdingms28
Carlito85
I'll make sure to provide those in the next update, which will be coming soon.
Nguyễn Vũ Hoàng Tấn
Carlito85
You'd have to play around with the fates in the Intertoto Cup final, and you'd then have to reconfigure the Cup Winners' Cup seeding so that only 31 teams are called from winning their own domestic cup, and leave one space for Intertoto winner.
I wasn't able to get the co-efficients working unfortunately unless I changed the competitions to Override Rules In Code. This caused a ton of problems and errors though. Hopefully for FM18 they add the co-efficients for Edited Rules.
benedu3095
Carlito85
Thanks a lot. Teams from Kosovo aren't active in the file right now but they will be included in the next update for all competitions. The prize money is mostly along the guidelines of what the real competitions have, give or take a little bit for each round (some may appear more generous though in the latter stages). The Cup Winners' Cup from what I remember is a little more generous though as I wanted to give more incentive for players to try and advance in the competition.
I'm also contemplating giving the Cup Winners' Cup winner a Champions League spot along with Europa and Champions League winners but not fully set on it yet, as I don't want a potential scenario of one nation getting six teams.
QP
Filbert28
Im using my own merged BeNeLiga mod (Combined league of Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg), and changed the name of the competition to "UEFA Intertoto cup" in the editor cause it was called "EURO vase"
Any idea why?
Carlito85
Hi.
I'd imagine that because you have combined 3 nations into 1 that the UEFA competitions can't call teams from each nation individually. As for the Intertoto being called the Euro Vase, have you downloaded the Real Names fix?
Filbert28
I feared as much, have you got any idea how to make this compatible with my own file? (A way of removing Belgium and Lux as countries from the cup?)
I hadnt downloaded the names fix at the time of posting no, but just did.
Carlito85
I think the only way to do it would be to call the teams from whatever nation you've set the merged competition to (if there is one?).
Filbert28
It's the version with the 2 group stage EURO-league and Cup Winners Cup
Crashes every time after Intertoto first round!
Have you heard of this problem before?
Carlito85
I'll look into this asap. Thanks for the heads up.
Vindicta
Thank you so much for taking time to do this awesome UEFA Revival, but I have a couple of questions (they might be plain stupid but I'm new to FM games).
1. The Intertoto cup is called EURO Vase. I downloaded the latest update of your database a month ago and it says that it should have all fixes inside. What's with that?
2. I chose the file with 2 group CL, UEFA Cup, Intertoto and Cup winner's Cup, but the Cup winner's Cup is not working I think. It is not shown in game when I browse the European tournaments. I am using a couple of other files like latest transfers, mega league pack + non-Eu continental championships, realistic media and the FIFA League file which removes Euro and World cups and sorts all nations in a couple of leagues with promotions and relegations + a cup with all nations from all leagues. Could it be the other editor files that are causing problems? I hope not, because the game became so much interesting with both yours and the other files.
Sorry for the long comment and bad English (I'm Bulgarian).
Cheers, mate!
GreenKush
hi,
The link is offline, can anyone upload again?